Politics & Government - 10 August 2006

2006-08-10 08:58:49 · 20 answers · asked by cognito44 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Has any ones property taxes gone down.?
I keep hearing taxes has gone down, but my property taxes have doubled in the last 5 years and most government fees have doubled, ,this mean we are paying more taxes, than ever.
Do the republicans really thing Taxes or lower?

2006-08-10 08:56:39 · 11 answers · asked by sam s 2 in Civic Participation

For example, you may wish the gluttonous element of society to be sterilised, and would do this by putting in a sterlising agent in big macs. any others?

2006-08-10 08:56:05 · 12 answers · asked by bantergreg 1 in Politics

2006-08-10 08:55:01 · 19 answers · asked by your mom 2 in Politics

So-called airport security in US airports scare me anymore and most can't speak english & no they aren't speaking spanish either.

2006-08-10 08:54:44 · 12 answers · asked by COblonde 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Federal Deficit down due to increasing revenues.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060810/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/federal_deficit

2006-08-10 08:54:20 · 7 answers · asked by juicetke 4 in Politics

source: http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1415147
cutting programs while the rich get richer off tax cuts and corporate tax breaks.

2006-08-10 08:53:34 · 4 answers · asked by david c 4 in Politics

SEE... Lebanon is not fighting. Israelis are bombarding the Lebanese civilians and children, because they can not face the brave Hezbulla fighters on the ground.

So: instead of Israel fight Hezbulla, it is attacking a third party. The Israelis want to achieve victory by saying they have now destroyed 150 bridges in Lebanon, killed 1050 civilians (600 of them infants) ...and about 45 Hezbula fighters in the battlefield.

SEE: about 85 Israeli soldiers were killed in the REAL battlefield (while they were fleeing) and about 30 civilians when the Hezbulla retaliated to the Israeli shelling.

SIMPLY: (A) is fighting (B) .... and (B) is fighting (C) instead of fighting (A).

The Israelis think that other peoples are ignorant, and are trying to gain sympathy for their calamities inflicted upon them by the Europeans some 60-70 years ago. They are using the so-called "Holocaust" where they lost some ten thousand Jews, blackmailing the Europeans and foolining the fool Americans.

2006-08-10 08:53:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

CON RICE: FAILED AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM 9/11. KEEPS FAILING AS SECRETARY OF STATE TO BRING PEACE TO MIDDLE EAST.

HILLARY: 2 TERM SENATOR FROM NY; FORMER WIFE OF PRESIDENT

2006-08-10 08:51:40 · 19 answers · asked by Laff 1 in Government

his policys are for the millionares club. he has not passed any policy for the average americans lets take a look: tax cuts for rich, 3 dollars a gallon, higher interst rates, bankruptcy act, estate tax, the list goes on......................................................................

2006-08-10 08:49:57 · 28 answers · asked by david c 4 in Politics

2006-08-10 08:49:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Like if you try to pay your dept to someone with legal tender as defined in the Coinage Act, and the person you owe the money to refuses to take it for payment of the debt, do you still have to pay? In Canada.

2006-08-10 08:49:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-08-10 08:49:08 · 7 answers · asked by Purple Rain 4 in Government

Is that unpatriotic?

Or do you have to support the leadership in order to love OUR country?

I just want every person in America to think critically.

For those of you who don't understand what critically means in the context of what I am saying:

Characterized by careful, exact evaluation and judgment.

Refer if you like to my questions on politics. Maybe I come across the wrong way...not my intention.

If there is something wrong with our system of government (refer to my question on Katrina)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap.k2rkpZEaSjx6KLoLhdRLsy6IX?qid=20060810115950AAfFW80

People say, oh, well, so what. You can't compare the US and China. I say that is a load of bull. You can compare. One country did a heck of a lot better job when it came to protecting their people.

And what gets me, is this: Many responses to my questions say "I feel so much safer with Bush". I just don't get it.

Think CRITICALLY people.

2006-08-10 08:48:44 · 20 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Government

2006-08-10 08:48:19 · 13 answers · asked by cognito44 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Go to http://mediamatters.org/items/200608030007 to read the transcript or listen to the following by Radio Host Boortz:

"Most of the people who aren't teenagers that have a minimum-wage job, it lasts about three to four months, and they're off making more money. I want you to think for think for a moment of how incompetent and stupid and worthless, how -- that's right, I used those words -- how incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can't earn more than the minimum wage? You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than the human wage. Uh -- human, the minimum wage."

2006-08-10 08:48:02 · 16 answers · asked by Daniel C 2 in Politics

I just thought this was kinda funny but go to google and type in the search "failure" and look at what the first entry is. To all the extremist on both sides of the aisle...lets keep the comments light hearted...again I just thought this was funny.

2006-08-10 08:47:46 · 10 answers · asked by Charlooch 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-10 08:47:23 · 12 answers · asked by your mom 2 in Politics

Someone out there really must know the true answer to this surely?. I think it's time we put this baby to bed don't you?...lol.

2006-08-10 08:47:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-10 08:44:45 · 5 answers · asked by your mom 2 in Politics

2006-08-10 08:41:38 · 21 answers · asked by Lil Jon 2 in Government

Just curious as to how many people REALLY, TRULY think that GW is an intelligent man who is doing a good job? Try and keep your political party out of it and answer HONESTLY!!!

2006-08-10 08:41:22 · 16 answers · asked by Mandy G 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Four members of a Latino gang in Highland Park were found guilty Tuesday of unleashing a barrage of assaults and killings to push African Americans out of the predominantly Latino community in northeast Los Angeles.

The verdicts in a downtown federal courtroom marked the first time a street gang had been convicted of breaking federal hate crime laws, traditionally employed against white supremacist groups like skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan.

"I'm glad the truth is out," said Luisa Prudhomme, whose 21-year-old son, Anthony, was killed when Avenues members allegedly kicked open his door and shot him in the head as he lay on a futon.

Among crimes committed by the defendants from 1995 to 2001, according to testimony, were shooting a 15-year-old boy riding a bike; hitting a jogger in the head with a pistol; drawing outlines of human bodies in chalk on a family's driveway, along with a racial slur; and knocking a woman off her bike, threatening her husband with a box cutter, and saying, "You ******* have been here long enough."

...Martinez asked if anyone wanted to kill a black man, three of them jumped out, ran up to Wilson's windows and opened fire, witnesses said. A shot to the head killed him before the car had even rolled to a stop.

Another black man, Christopher Bowser, was harassed and beaten up by the defendants for years. In December 2000, he filed a police report saying Martinez had assaulted and robbed him at a bus stop near his house. A week later, Bowser was shot to death at the same bus stop on Figueroa Street.

[...]prosecutors said they had a witness who would testify that the Mexican Mafia, which controls many local Latino gangs, ordered the Avenues to carry out the attacks on African Americans.

Five days later, Avila told a fellow gang member, in a taped phone call from jail, that he and Martinez had been beating up mayates for weeks, using a Spanish-language epithet for blacks. After mentioning Bowser, he added, "That fool is gone." Avila was convicted in state court of the murder.

Throughout the nearly monthlong trial, defense attorneys tried to discredit the prosecutors' key witnesses — two imprisoned members of the Avenues who testified against their brethren — as well as two police officers who took the case to the FBI and U.S. attorney. The lawyers introduced black witnesses who said they had never had any problems in Highland Park.

And in a bid to show there was no gang policy of racism, they brought in two black women — the girlfriend of defendant Saldana when he lived in Arizona and the wife of an Avenues member who had nothing to do with the conspiracy and only vaguely knew the defendants.

As evidenced by the verdict, the jury did not buy the defense's line.

The defendants sat casually throughout the testimony, wearing shirts, ties, sweaters and reading glasses, hair neatly combed.

But prosecutors tarnished their junior executive image by displaying photos showing their hidden tattoos on a screen directly above their heads. Jurors studied the large chest tattoos of the gang's logo — a bullet-pierced skull wearing a fedora and a fur collar. More damaging: the slogan "43 Kills for Thrills" etched on Martinez's shaved head.

2006-08-10 08:41:02 · 21 answers · asked by Nacho Libre 2 in Immigration

It would be called Existential Pragmatism. Definitions: Existential...based on experience; empirical. Pragmatism: a doctrine that the meaning of an idea or proposition lies in its observable practical consequences. No ideologies...just practicality.

2006-08-10 08:40:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I WANT TO KNOW ON THE NAZTIERS POSTER WHAT
DEUTSCHLAND SIEGT AN ALLEN FRONTEN MEANS

2006-08-10 08:38:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Hiche, I don't give a damn what your name means, or how you want it spelled. I'm sure you are busy aborting babies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207776,00.html

Yes, I know that it's from Bill O'Reilly, that evil man exposing how liberals are always on the side of those that wish to harm innocent children.

2006-08-10 08:37:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

They arrested suspects.
But why ground/cancel flights inbound.
They say it was outbound flights being targeted......

They are not tlling all.

Surely we have a right to know. Why is the media not asking these questions.

Why only London airports.

Do they realy think we are dumb sheep.

2006-08-10 08:37:13 · 13 answers · asked by David T 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Dont act like you wouldnt.

2006-08-10 08:35:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

By page 52 you know how the hysteria to attack Iraq got going and what Bush and Company actually knew about Iraq and the WMD's.
Thomas E. Ricks was there in person when Cheney making a speech to the Veteran of Foriegn Wars Convention got the hysteria going on August 26th of 2003 by declaring that "There is no doubt" that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, or WMD.
Cheney flatly called for war, proclaiming that Iraq was a clear and persent danger to the United States.

2006-08-10 08:35:42 · 2 answers · asked by zclifton2 6 in Law & Ethics

My mentally unstable son was taken from home at 19, by a older woman who was a professional hooker at the time and who denied us the chace to treat him, even after he had been hospitalized. She took him away to miami even though she was warned about his mental situation and we beged her to leave him alone.. Now after 3 years of not seing my son I find out that he is awaiting trial for Battery with 4 felony charges and a misdemeanor. How long can he stay if found guilty and what could i do?

2006-08-10 08:35:26 · 3 answers · asked by lvsshanom 1 in Law Enforcement & Police