Politics & Government - 21 July 2006

U know like how they helped you, or came to your rescue when in need, there has to be good things said about law enforcement.

2006-07-21 07:37:27 · 11 answers · asked by ))-->rOXY 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

What do you think President George W Bush would do if one or both of his twin daughters turned out to be bisexual?

He has pushed the marriage between only a man and woman law through out terms, not allowing marriage between two souls who truely love each other under law in most states. So now he has a problem, his daughter is bisexual. Will he only support her if she falls in love and marries a man, or will he still support her if she falls in love and wants to marry another girl? Will he change his mind now that it deals with his own family? Will he want equal rights for all people now? It would make me laugh if one of his daughters was truely bi.

If you do not know much about being bi check out the link to know the truth from the myths:
http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Coming_Out_as_Bi&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=32351

Oh and please no religion know-it-alls, God loves all his children and love is love. I want real answers & opinions.

2006-07-21 07:34:55 · 25 answers · asked by MindStorm 6 in Politics

2006-07-21 07:34:22 · 12 answers · asked by play dough 3 in Politics

What should I say to the judge? Are there any "hot buttons" or anything that could help to reduce my sentance? It is for a DUI. Does anyone have a lot of experience with DUI cases and what to say to judges when asked "Do you have anything to say to the court?"

It really was a dumb mistake. I have not driven drunk since I was a teenager. Does any of that matter to the judge? Thanks.

2006-07-21 07:32:16 · 17 answers · asked by hondacivicex92 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

my girl is her in the states on a tourist visa, i was wondering if we need to change her visa to a k-1 before we get married....please help

2006-07-21 07:31:18 · 9 answers · asked by TJ 1 in Immigration

i have tried to do some searches and you have to pay...please help if you know a site where i can find court records, warrant searches, etc...

2006-07-21 07:30:33 · 6 answers · asked by stephaniech24 3 in Government

I was given a "Judicial Notice" as requested from the court in a County of California's jurisdiction, at the same time the court granted the defense its' request for a " change of venue"

Does the court have to recognize the finding in one county and proceed in the matter at hand from there...?...it has been since 3/27/06 and a court date has yet to be set...any ideas about what's up or what I should do ?......Thanks

2006-07-21 07:29:38 · 3 answers · asked by JRev 3 in Law & Ethics

HOPE you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating its
>reservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required to hold
>their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people take a
>big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called up...
>
>Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and maintaining
>all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs, for all
>called up reservist employees for up to 60 months. I submit that Sears
>is an exemplary corporate citizen and should be recognized for its
>contribution.
>
>Could we each buy at least one thing at Sears this year? Suggest we all
>shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are
>there so the company gets the positive reinforcement it well deserves.
>
>Pass it on.
>
>I decided to check this before I sent it fo rward. I sent the following
>email to the Sears Customer Service Department: I received this email
>and would like to know

2006-07-21 07:29:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

My husband is all excited to join the navy, but he wants to wait until he fininshes his BA in three years. He will be 23 at that time, but he really wants to fly. he saiys he'll try to get to Florida for Officer Flight school so I know he'll talk to a recruter, but I was wanting some "real" input, not just their sale. What are his chances of being deployed? Are the men on the aircraft ships safe? If he's deployed, where would I live?

Any information or real life experinces would be helpful. I've heard of people signing up and then things really change and they end up feeling like they were misled.

2006-07-21 07:28:26 · 12 answers · asked by I can see you... 6 in Military

2006-07-21 07:27:21 · 21 answers · asked by david c 4 in Politics

Bush's tax cuts overwhelmingly favor the wealthy. The top 1% will save more than $30,000 per year while 31% save nothing at all. Source: Citizens for Tax Justice and AFL/CIO
The nation faces a record $500 billion deficit. The biggest cause of the deficit is Bush's tax cuts. Source: www.govexec.com
The Bush Administration is systematically turning back 30 years of environmental progress. Source: Sierra Club
President Bush is under-funding education with the smallest percentage increase in funding in eight years. Source: Committee on Education and the Workforce
2.9 million jobs have been lost under the Bush Administration. Source: New York Times
Bush misled the public about the reasons for going to war with Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction have been found. Source: The Guardian
Bush's Medicare bill helps corporations, not the elderly. 43.6 million U.S. citizens do not have health care. Source: www.misleader.org
Halliburton, the company where Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO, was given multi-billion dollar contracts in Iraq without competitive bidding. Source: New York Review of Books
Pentagon officials found that Halliburton overcharged the U.S. government by $61 million for gasoline in Iraq. Source: Associated Press
Bush has tried to roll back more than 200 of America 's environmental laws. The United States emits more greenhouse gases than any other country. Source: Rolling Stone
Click on the categories below for more Bush facts:

The Warrior
Money Manager
Has Lots of Friends
The Environment
More Like the French Than He Would Care to Admit
Loves to Travel
Tough On Crime
Employment Record
Helping the Rich
Helping the Poor
Foreign Relationships
Public Opinion
Bush: The Warrior

2 – Number of nations George W. Bush has attacked and taken over since coming into office.
130 – Approximate number of countries (out of a total of 191 recognized by the United Nations) with a U.S. military presence.
10 million – Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq , setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest.
$266,465,373,339 – Estimated cost of the war in Iraq to U.S. citizens. Source: http://costofwar.com.
104 – Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 (when Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared an end to the open conflict and the middle of October 2003.
1007 – Number of U.S. deaths in Iraq as of September 11, 2004. Source: http://icasualties.org/oif/.
37 – Percentage of Americans who approve of Bush's handling of the situation with Iraq. Source: NY Times
95 - Percentage of Army Reserve Soldiers in Iraq and other Middle East bases experiencing significant pay problems. Source: GAO report.
36%: Increase in the number of desertions from the US army since 1999 (as of January 20, 2004). Source: The Independent, UK, reprinted: here.
What the bipartisan 9/11 commission said on the link between Iraq and Al Qaeda: "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and Al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States."
Bush: Money Manager

$28 billion - Amount of proposed cuts to veterans' benefits in the congressional Republicans' budget resolution for fiscal year 2004.
$127 billion - Amount of U.S. budget surplus in fiscal year 2001, the last year Clinton was president.
$374 billion - Amount of U.S. budget deficit in fiscal year 2003.
#1 - This year's deficit will be the biggest in U.S. history.
$7.29 trillion - Current national debt.
$1.98 billion - Amount on average the national debt increases each day.
$23,396 – Amount of each citizen's share of the national debt as of October 21, 2003.
#1 – Record for most bankruptcies filed in a single year (1.57 million) set in 2002.
#1 – Set record in 2003, for most residential real-estate foreclosures in a one-quarter period.
1.6 – Percentage increase in economic growth since Bush took office, the slowest rate of increase over an equivalent period for any administration in 50 years.
Bush: Has Lots of Friends

$11.5 million – Amount of hard money Bush raised through the controversial “Pioneer” program. Pioneers pledged to raise at least $100,000 by bundling together checks from friends and family.
212 – Total number of Pioneers identified by the Bush 2000 campaign.
524 – Total number of Pioneers later revealed through court documents.
61 – Number of Pioneers subsequently named to government posts.
19 – Number of Pioneers subsequently appointed as U.S. ambassadors.
2 – Number of Pioneers subsequently appointed to the Cabinet .
$5.3 million – Amount Bush raised this past September 30 toward his re-election campaign, breaking the one-day record he himself set.
Bush: The Environment

58 million- Number of acres of public lands Bush has opened to road building, logging, and drilling.
200 - Number of public-health and environmental laws Bush has worked to downgrade or weaken since taking office.
#1: Rank of the US worldwide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per capita. Source: The Independent, UK, reprinted: here.
Bush: More Like the French Than He Would Care to Admit

28 - Number of vacation days Bush took in August this year, the second-longest vacation of any president in U.S. history (Record holder: Richard M. Nixon.)
13 - Number of vacation days the average American receives each year.
Bush: Loves to Travel

65 – Approximate number of fund-raisers attended in 2002.
0 – Number of trips taken to Afghanistan before waging war against that country.
0 – Number of trips taken to Iraq before waging war against that country.
0 – Number of funerals or memorials Bush has attended for soldiers killed in Iraq.
Bush: Tough On Crime

#1 – First president to execute a federal prisoner in the last 40 years.
8 – Number of days after that first execution that a second federal prisoner was executed.
#1 – As governor of Texas , executed more prisoners (152) than any governor in modern U.S. history.
Bush: Employment Record

2.4 million – Number of Americans who lost their jobs during the first two and half years of the Bush administration.
9 million – Number of workers unemployed as of September 2003.
#1 – The administration is well on its way to being the first since Herbert Hoover's to preside over an overall loss of jobs during its complete term in office.
+6%: Percentage change since 2001 in the number of US families in poverty (as of January 20, 2004). Source: The Independent, UK, reprinted: here.
Bush: Helping the Rich

#1 – Has assembled the wealthiest Cabinet in U.S. history.
$10.9 million – Average wealth of the members of Bush's original 16-person Cabinet.
75 – Percentage of Americans unaffected by Bush's 2003 cuts in the capital-gains and dividend taxes.
$42,000 – Average savings members of Bush's Cabinet are expected to receive this year as a result of cuts in capital-gains and dividends taxes.
$42,228 – Median household income in the U.S. in 2001.
$116,000 – Amount Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to save each year in taxes.
9 – Number of members of Bush's Defense Policy Board who also sit on the corporate board of, or advise, at least one defense contractor.
Bush: Helping the Poor

43.6 million – Number of Americans without health insurance as of 2002.
$300 million – Amount cut in December 2002 from the federal program that provides subsidies to poor families so they can heat their homes during the winter.
Bush: Foreign Relationships

35 – Number of countries to which U.S. has suspended military assistance after they failed to sign agreements giving Americans immunity from prosecution before the International Criminal Court.
#1 – First American president to ignore the Geneva Convention on warfare (by refusing to allow inspectors access to U.S.-held prisoners of war).
Bush: Public Opinion

90 – Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president on September 26th , 2001.
67 – Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president on September 26th , 2002.
54 – Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president on September 30th , 2003.
50 – Percentage of Americans who approved of the way Bush was handling his job as president on October 15th , 2003.
10 million: Estimated number of people worldwide who took to the streets in opposition to the invasion of Iraq, setting an all-time record for simultaneous protest. Source: The Independent, UK, reprinted: here.

2006-07-21 07:24:22 · 20 answers · asked by tough as hell 3 in Government

Is it because Syria and iran are too strong that Israel launches her war on Lebanon for the second time once in 1982 and now in 2006? does it have a complicit agreement with Syria to wage their wars on Lebanon's grounds?

2006-07-21 07:23:37 · 19 answers · asked by kitty 2 in Politics

2006-07-21 07:22:04 · 19 answers · asked by Bee 3 in Politics

Alright, I'm not exactly coining a phrase there.

But seriously. What's the major source of strife, and why do we resort to violence? I've come to the realization that mutual exclusivity is inherently divisive, and by extension the source of most conflicts. It's also at the core religious faith and national pride... making fairly prevalent, to say the least.

Other arguments for the source of military conflicts? Economics? Power? Righteous faith?

And perhaps more importantly - are we doomed to carry on as such violent creatures indefinitely?

2006-07-21 07:21:46 · 20 answers · asked by JStrat 6 in Military

Opponents of stem cell research say using human embryos is wrong because life begins a conception. An embryo, having already been concieved, is human life. Therefore using human embryo is tantamount to experimenting on people like you and me.
They also say adult stem cell research (which doesn't destroy life) has already yeilded some treatments or cures, while embryonic stem cell research has not.

Supporters of embryonic stem cell research say it holds enormous promise for curing or treating all kinds of deseases and ailments.

Back to the original question. Since it's RESEARCH right now, why not use stem cells from chimpanzee (or other animal) embryos? If it works, then we can worry about the ethics of using human embryos.

This seems like such an obvious compromise....am I missing something? Or is the whole ESCR debate purely politics?

2006-07-21 07:21:29 · 10 answers · asked by Chapin 3 in Law & Ethics

2006-07-21 07:19:45 · 13 answers · asked by smithelliott 3 in Politics

2006-07-21 07:19:16 · 16 answers · asked by ICE-T 2 in Politics

Come on, we all know.

2006-07-21 07:16:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-21 07:16:35 · 6 answers · asked by Bonethuggg 2 in Military

2006-07-21 07:13:46 · 19 answers · asked by Perfect Specimen 2 in Politics

I fill up park the car don't drive for a week and 3 gallons have evaporated.

So I'm thinking this is a Blue conspiracy from Al Gore to blame the Redpublicans on the fuel problems.

Only thing is I out smarted Gore and bought stock in Exon Mobile. Oh yeah every drop of gas the blues use going back and forth to their looser job, I'm making money.

Now get out there and drive.

Go big Red Go

2006-07-21 07:13:14 · 3 answers · asked by 43 5 in Politics

2006-07-21 07:12:05 · 6 answers · asked by nenahk 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Currently there are at least three causes advocating Red Friday. They want people to wear red every friday in order to advocate their cause. This is likely to create confusion on friday when people see other people wearing red and assume they are supporting their cause. Your cause?

2006-07-21 07:12:03 · 10 answers · asked by Bear Naked 6 in Military

I was sitting in a lounge on a cruise ship to Alaska. I remember everything around me clearly. It was history being made at that moment.

2006-07-21 07:11:15 · 12 answers · asked by Crooks Gap 5 in Politics

It seems like the only thing this is going to stop this is if Isreal apologizes for stealing the land for their country and moves OR the arabs forgive isreal.
I don't imagine that isreal is going to move their whole country. Afterall the US supports Isreal and feels bad because of what Hitler did.
Iran, syria, former Iraq, some of russia and some of Europe support the Palistinians because they were invaded.
What strategy has the best chance of bringing peace?

2006-07-21 07:10:53 · 27 answers · asked by Adam H 2 in Politics

2006-07-21 07:07:43 · 20 answers · asked by rodmod 3 in Politics

Was it really all worth it?
Why not renewable energy and save lives now?

2006-07-21 07:05:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-21 07:05:30 · 73 answers · asked by my brain hurts 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Why do people want US army to come back from Iraq? Isn't it a good combat experience for them to be there? Why Americans whine so much when a soldier is supposed to fight and willing to die for its army? You can die from car accident in homeland and isn't it honorable to die in combat? Or do they join army for free money and education only? and not for the love of the army and your country? How can they make good soldiers if they do not like combats?

2006-07-21 07:05:20 · 16 answers · asked by fedup 3 in Military

has puffed by his own admission. So is GWB too ashamed to admit it?

Personally I can see the guy sitting down 20 years ago doing lines the size of Texas off of some whores ***. How about you?

2006-07-21 07:04:36 · 6 answers · asked by JDINFLA 3 in Politics