Politics & Government - 5 August 2006

I'm a democrat so I'm not a big fan but I wanna know why other people like/dislike him

2006-08-05 13:31:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

i cant staying home and listning to how much pain is happening. i dont like feeling helpless to not help. i really wanna get out there and do something to help those people. and the only thing i can think if is the army. but are there other options? i meen, i just might want to join when i am old enough. a bad thin?

2006-08-05 13:31:47 · 22 answers · asked by sesso*E 4 in Military

2006-08-05 13:30:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-08-05 13:29:43 · 8 answers · asked by outremer7 1 in Military

2006-08-05 13:28:39 · 7 answers · asked by t.d.jenkins 1 in Government

I tried the marines.com website but the only have a dvd for the parents. I plan on joining and my friend got a hat,poster and stuff like that. Where can I order that for free?

2006-08-05 13:28:22 · 3 answers · asked by Nano 1 in Military

They love terrorists!

2006-08-05 13:27:17 · 13 answers · asked by Ah Ha 3 in Politics

The US has the undisputed best bunch of guns on the planet and they are giving them to Israel. They hit targets within 3' (1 meter) . The weapons the US is supplying can almost turn corners while making coffe and giving directions to a lost family - while on route to it's target.

Israel is hitting a lot of unintended targets and saying opps later . One or two sure okay it happens but what are they up to now 50 boo boo's 100 .

Isn;t it a little hard to believe ? What the Americans sent them bombs with no instruction manual or for some strange reason they only got the French/Spanish version?

The last statistic that I read on the news was a week ago 600 Lebonese one third (200) of which were children and only a handfull of soldiers Where Israel's losses were 50 mostly soldiers. Reporting sourse was CBC (Canadian broadcasting coperation) The numbers have changed but the ratio remains the same.

So why do we even listen when they say opps - why are we buying it? The UN isn't

2006-08-05 13:26:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-05 13:24:22 · 11 answers · asked by ReDWiNe 4 in Politics

i kept hearing about them during the whole immigration thing and i still dont know who they are

2006-08-05 13:23:46 · 17 answers · asked by pink_latina 3 in Immigration

My husband and I are looking to name one of our children after a war vet. We would like to know the first and middle name. We would like to be able to tell our child the story of how they got their name one day. I know this may sound strange but we feel it is a good way to honor a vet. My husband is currently on his second deployment with the national guard so we are familiar with some people and their stories. Thanks.

2006-08-05 13:23:14 · 6 answers · asked by SSG wife 3 in Military

They are 1/20 of the world population and consume 75% of the worldwide resources, menace each country who has oil or nuclear weapon.Why do they don't beggin within their country?

2006-08-05 13:22:42 · 10 answers · asked by Gabrio 7 in Other - Politics & Government

My faith will bring me back to life in my child's soul.

Destroy my little warm house.
I'll collect its broken blocks and build it again.

Burn my lovely farm.
I'll plant my seeds inside the black ash and harvest its crops again.

Destroy that bridge I pass on each day.
I'll fix the smashed wires together and pass on it every day again.

Blow my mosque and my church.
I have them both inside my heart.

Kill my little daughter with your illegal bombs.
I'll bury her body.
But her beautiful innocence will remain alive in every dust soaked with her blood.

My home; Lebanon; that piece of paradise, ruin it.
Our blood will bring this paradise back again.

Do whatever your barbarity necessitates.
I don't care.
Because Lebanon and I will come back again.

And by the way, my question is:
Do you think that the Israeli and the American government should share the top of the list of terrorism or does Israel come in the first place before the USA?

2006-08-05 13:21:47 · 28 answers · asked by Heba 2 in Military

Here's a typical scenario in Mexico. A building partially burns down. Typically in the U.S. the building is raised rather promptly. However, in Mexico that building will remain in the same condition 10 years later. Mexicans as a culture have have a relatively low amount of drive and ambition compared to Americans.
Want an example? Just drive down to towns in Baja such as Rosarito and Puerto Nuevo - commercial buildings that have been damaged remain in that state for years.

2006-08-05 13:18:43 · 31 answers · asked by JMY1998 1 in Immigration

2006-08-05 13:15:54 · 19 answers · asked by ReDWiNe 4 in Politics

Guard makes border breachings tougherBy BARBARA BARRETT
McClatchy Newspapers

LAS CRUCES SUN-NEWS/NORM DETTLAFF VIA AP
Army National Guard Spc. Gustavo Gutierrez, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., scans the U.S./Mexico border from the top of Radar Hill, near Columbus in southwestern New Mexico. He is part of Operation Jump Start.
More photosLOS ALGODONES, Mexico -- Not five minutes after the boatload of migrants slipped across the Colorado River at dusk, the "dogcatchers" arrived.

First came U.S. Border Patrol trucks, tearing down a dirt road and cutting their headlights. Then the helicopter with its deafening blades, dipping and circling, casting spotlights across the water and the mountainside, again and again and again.

On the Mexican side, above the town of Los Algodones, Francisco Lopez watched and listened. For a month, he said, he's been waiting. He sleeps under the shade of trees, scrounges food. Three times he almost crossed.

"They're here day and night," said Lopez, 42, who traveled from the state of Michoacan, hoping to reach New York. "When I got here, I was surprised to see so much force on the other side."

The show of force now includes Operation Jump Start, which President Bush announced in May. About 6,000 National Guard troops are coming to the border, to reinforce the Border Patrol "perreras": dogcatchers.

The deployment is meant to discourage migrants from risking the dash into the United States. The increased security is pushing them into remote areas -- including harsh desert and mountains -- forcing more to use smugglers and leading those who are caught to make repeated attempts that sap their strength and money. Many walk for days with little food or water.

"Short term, you might see more deaths, because they think they can beat the system," said Lt. Col. Randy Powell, the commander of the North Carolina National Guard's 252nd Combined Arms Battalion. Over time, he said, the death toll should drop.

The Guard is coming

Word has spread throughout Mexico: The Guard is coming.

"I read the newspapers," said Hector Encinas, 29, who lives in San Luis Rio Colorado, just south of San Luis, Ariz. He used to cross routinely to work in the United States, paying $300 a trip. Now the price is $1,500. He used to help others, but no more.

"It's more hard right now," Encinas said, standing in the shade near an opening in the border wall where three Border Patrol trucks were parked. "They got a fence, more soldiers, more Border Patrol."

Of the Guard, he said, "They're cool. They're cool." He knows the troops aren't allowed to make apprehensions, just to call in border agents.

Still, in the more urban Mexican crossing points south of Arizona, something has changed.

In Los Algodones, tucked into the crook of the border with California and Yuma, Ariz., the travelers who hope to sneak across the border -- known as "pollos," or chickens -- gather at dusk in the park.

Fabiola Salazar, 25, figures the smugglers the locals call "polleros" -- chicken herders -- make up 30 percent of the summer business at her family's grocery. Every morning, the smugglers buy water and food for the journey.

Lately, she said, business is way down.

Dangerous detours

What sends migrants farther out are the images of the National Guard standing watch. The North Carolina Guard troops are scattered in strategic spots along the western half of the Arizona border, including some posts so distant they're best reached by helicopter.

Near San Luis, Ariz., the troops work under camouflage nets, setting up observation points every quarter-mile on a levee near the Colorado River, above stretches of dirt and fields of tall, swaying grasses.

The scrutiny is pushing migrants toward a land so vast that travelers can walk three days before crossing a paved road. During heat like last week's, with temperatures climbing toward 115 degrees, the migrants can't carry enough water.

The Sonoran Desert is littered with their castoffs: empty water bottles, shoes, jackets. The daytime heat is blistering, and only a very brave man would walk the rugged landscape at night, said the Rev. Robin Hoover, the founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders Inc.

Yet people get through. About 60 miles north of the border lay evidence that Hoover thought came from a recent smugglers' pickup: Two dozen backpacks were discarded among the cactuses. Some held deodorant or unopened tuna cans; Hoover unfolded a scrap of paper with a Florida hotel phone number scrawled across it.

Because more men are staying in the United States, more are sending for their families. More women and children are crossing.

Migrants pass through the cotton and alfalfa fields around Rebeca Moreno's store, a quarter-mile from the Colorado River, ignoring the signs warning "Peligroso!" -- danger. Pointing across the cotton field, she said in Spanish: "There is the river. The migrants try to swim across."

They're caught, sent home and try again.

A man died right there, she said, pointing to a spot in the dirt road.

2006-08-05 13:15:36 · 8 answers · asked by Renegade. 3 in Immigration

In Georgia if served a misdemeanor bad check warrant and full restitution is made at that time and you do not go to court -- what is that outcome? Are you guilty by plea or judgment?

2006-08-05 13:13:10 · 4 answers · asked by KCJones 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I have a high school diploma, 3 years of JROTC, an associates degree with 123 credits in telecom, and i lack 3 credits in a bach. in Info tech, so i have almost 200 credit hours. I was over awarded in student loans which meant that the day before my last class for a bach( a writing class) i was told that i had to pay 3000 dollars before i could take the class. i would, but it is hard to come by 3000 dollars with a new born. my question is what is the highest rank i can go in as? i had one recruiter tell me an e3 then after i learn my job (hopefully air traffic controller) i could go to osc(officer school). then i had another recruiter tell me that i can go in as an e4 and go to officer school right off the bat. which one is correct? and why would they tell me this?

2006-08-05 13:12:34 · 16 answers · asked by daniel e 3 in Military

Her son in Heaven has got to be looking down on her angry. She has betrayed him by brutallity attacking the US Army.

2006-08-05 13:10:17 · 20 answers · asked by Ah Ha 3 in Politics

She is in my same school and i found out she is a illegal alien.My reasons is that she stinks alot.I can't study with such a bad smell.My education comes first.

2006-08-05 13:09:16 · 16 answers · asked by Ashlee 1 in Immigration

2006-08-05 13:08:02 · 30 answers · asked by Yakuza 7 in Immigration

2006-08-05 13:07:31 · 12 answers · asked by ReDWiNe 4 in Politics

2006-08-05 13:06:49 · 10 answers · asked by 19935624 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I was shopping today and the clerk would not sell a 6-pack of beer to a guy (who was 25 years old) because he was shopping with a guy (his step brother) who is less than 21 years of age. I heard the clerk say it was a Michigan State law but I have serious doubts. Where can I see the Michigan law that either debunks or confirms the clerks assertion.

2006-08-05 13:03:09 · 10 answers · asked by Big Brother 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

i personally think it needs to be stopped if it can be.

2006-08-05 13:02:18 · 19 answers · asked by terf_art 2 in Other - Politics & Government

is it special treatment ,to be protected from such?

2006-08-05 13:01:01 · 18 answers · asked by CIVILIAN 4 in Politics

George Bush could be mildly retarded????????????

2006-08-05 13:00:50 · 14 answers · asked by bhcky79 3 in Other - Politics & Government

It's always the old who lead us into war, it's always the young who fall. Now look at what you've won with a sabre and a gun, tell me is it worth it at all?

2006-08-05 12:58:50 · 17 answers · asked by Victor C 3 in Military

The USA used to be the leading nation in the world with advancements in all directions. Now because of some insatiable desire to become involved in every other countries activities around the globe to squash terrrorism they have lost the leading edge, the frontier is no longer, it is lost in the quagmire of supporting a war machine that gets larger everyday.

2006-08-05 12:55:59 · 17 answers · asked by Mr. PDQ 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-05 12:54:27 · 4 answers · asked by EqualLiberty 2 in Civic Participation