Politics & Government - 12 August 2006

2006-08-12 10:14:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Do you believe this? If you do, please do some simple research and educate yourself about the realities. This same 57% also believe that Saadam and Osama are buddies! They are and always have been bitter enemies. Sadaam is Sunni and Osama is Shiite and if you've been watching the news, you know that they are really not compatible to say the least!

If your answer is "yes" please explain why when even the President and VP have said publically that there was no connection at all. I know some will accuse me of using this forum to state my point of view, but I am truly wondering how so many Americans can possibly not know that there was never any connection. Thank you.

2006-08-12 10:10:28 · 15 answers · asked by Ava 2 in Other - Politics & Government

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BRUNSWICK COUNTY -- Federal agents went into one of the most exclusive communities in the area and arrested more than two dozen illegal immigrants.

Those immigrants, and some of the people who hired them, are facing possible criminal charges.

Bald Head Island stands apart from most of our area, only accessible by boat. But like most local communities it's seeing rapid growth, and construction on the island is a big business.

Tuesday the Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents busted 29 illegal immigrants working on some of multi-million dollars homes.

A spokesperson said the worksite enforcement operation was intended to target illegal workers and the employers who hire them.

Contractors who work on the island say the loads of workers coming onto the island Wednesday was much lower than before, and they say it's because of the people who were arrested Tuesday.

During off-camera interviews contractors on the island say before the bust hundreds of workers would come across on the ferry or sometimes in privately owned boats.

One contractor who saw the bust says the Coast Guard checked boats. They say some employers were fined in the thousands and their boats taken because of their involvement.

No law enforcement officials would elaborate on those claims, only that people are facing charges and some deportation.

In late July the Coast Guard stopped two boats full of illegal immigrants in Southport, also without documentation.

But sources say they let the immigrants go when federal agents would not assist in the case.

2006-08-12 10:08:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-08-12 10:06:33 · 13 answers · asked by Blue-Eyed Soul Jim 1 in Other - Politics & Government

What brand of broom does this witch fly around on.

2006-08-12 10:05:13 · 10 answers · asked by sam s 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-12 10:02:20 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Okay so I was noticing that here in America people have this pasttime of bashing President Bush. I think he's okay, but I couldnt help but notice. So I was thinking, Does anyone else believe that the answer to these conflicts in the middle east is a UN stipulation that every person in every middle eastern country gets to punch President Bush in the stomach one time?

2006-08-12 10:00:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Embassies & Consulates

I once heard about a bar fight between a big oafish bar bully and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Jewish sailor.
All evening the bully had been trying to pick a fight with anyone, and had finally set his sights on this diminutive Jewish sailor ... figuring him for a safe target.
When the Jew refused to be goaded into a fight the moron sucker punched him from behind on the side of the head so hard that blood instantly started to pour from this poor man's mutilated ear.
Everyone present was horrified and was prepared to absolutely murder this guy, but the Jewish sailor quickly turned on him and began to single-handed
back him towards a corner with a series of stinging jabs and upper cuts that gave more than a hint to a youth spent boxing in a small gym in the Bronx.
Each punch opened a cut on the bully's startled face and by the time he had been backed completely into the corner he was blubbering for someone to stop the fight. He invoked his split lips and chipped teeth as reasons to stop the fight. He begged us to stop the fight because he could barely see through the river of blood that was pouring out of his split and swollen brows.
Nobody moved. Not one person.
The only sound was the sickening staccato sound of this sailor's lightning fast fists making contact with new areas of the guy's head. The only sound I have heard since that was remotely similar was from the first Rocky film when Sylvester Stallone was punching sides of beef in the meat locker.
Finally the bully's pleading turned to screams.... a high, almost womanly shriek. And still the punches continued relentlessly.
Several people in the bar took a few tentative steps as though they wanted to try to break it up at that point, but hands reached out from the crowd and held them tight. I'm not ashamed to say that mine were two of the hands that held someone back.
You see, in between each blow the sailor had begun chanting a soft cadence: "Say[punch]you [punch]give [punch]up[punch]... say [punch]you [punch]were [punch]wrong [punch]".
He had been repeating it to the bully almost from the start but we only became aware of it when the typical barroom cheers had died down and we began to be sickened by the sight and sound of the carnage.
This coward stood there shrieking in the corner of the bar trying futilely to block the carefully timed punches that were cutting his head to tatters.. right down to the skull in places. But he refused to say that he gave up... or that he was wrong.
Even in the delirium of his beating he believed in his heart that someone would stop the fight before he had to admit defeat. I'm sure this strategy had served him well in the past and had allowed him to continue on his career as a barroom bully.
Finally, in a wail of agony the coward shrieked "I give up", and Jewish sailor gently backed away from him.
I'm sure you can guess why I have shared this story today. I'm not particularly proud to have heard of such a bloody spectacle, and the sound of that bully's woman-like shrieks will haunt me to my grave. But I learned something that evening that Israel had better learn for itself if it is to finally be rid of at least one of its tormentors:
This is one time an Arab aggressor must be allowed to be beaten so badly that every civilized nation will stand in horror, wanting desperately to step in and stop the carnage... but knowing that the fight will only truly be over when one side gives up and finally admits defeat.
Just as every person who had ever rescued that bully from admitting defeat helped create the cowardly brute of that evening in the bar, every well-intentioned power that has ever stepped in and negotiated a cease-fire for an Arab aggressor has helped create the monsters we see around us today.
President Lahoud of Lebanon, a big Hezbollah supporter and a close ally of Syria, has been shrieking non-stop to the UN Security Council for the past two days to get them to force Israel into a cease fire.
Clearly he has been reading his autographed copy of 'Military Success for Dummies Arab Despots' by the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Ever since
Nasser accidentally discovered the trick in '56, every subsequent Arab leader has stuck to his tried and true formula for military success: Instigate a war.
Once the war is well underway and you are in the process of having your *** handed to you... get a few world powers to force your western opponent into a cease fire. Whatever you do, don't surrender or submit to any terms dictated by your enemy. That would ruin everything! All you have to do is wait it out and eventually the world will become sickened at what is being done to your soldiers and civilian population... and will force a truce. Once a truce has been called you can resume your intransigence (which probably caused the conflict in the first place), and even declare victory as your opponent leaves the field of battle. This tactic has never failed. Not once.
In fact it worked so will for the Egyptians in 1973, that to this day they celebrate the Yom Kippur War - a crushing defeat at the hands of Israel - as a military victory! No kidding... it's a national holiday over there!
President Lahoud has already begun to shriek like a school girl to the UN Security Council to "Stop the violence and arrange a cease-fire, and then after that we'll be ready to discuss all matters."
Uh huh. Forgive me if I find that a tad hard to swallow. He allowed Hezbollah to take over his country. He allowed the regular Lebanese army to provide radar targeting data for the Hezbollah missile that struck the Israeli destroyer He has turned a blind eye while Iranian and Syrian weapons, advisers and money have poured into his country. And now that his country is in ruins he wants to call it a draw.
As much as it may sicken the world to stand by and watch it happen, strong hands need to hold back the weak-hearted and let the fight continue until one side finally admits unambiguous defeat

2006-08-12 09:59:32 · 12 answers · asked by davydd1 1 in Other - Politics & Government

They are also responsible for 100,000 foriegn deaths,world wide...tom science

2006-08-12 09:57:37 · 36 answers · asked by tom science 4 in Politics

Should the Legislative Branch outlaw them or the Judical Branch find them Unconstitutional? Our checks and balances that can't be used.

2006-08-12 09:55:47 · 8 answers · asked by S P 1 in Government

2006-08-12 09:54:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I may need to relocate soon

2006-08-12 09:54:04 · 4 answers · asked by hadji from des moines 3 in Military

If a person trying to kill himself but fail and taken to the hospital.Is there legal charge on him ?

2006-08-12 09:53:55 · 12 answers · asked by jemalali1 1 in Law & Ethics

and saw the best and worst the city had to offer.... in the midst of all the damage from Katrina I found myself wondering.... how much does Ray Nagin, New Orleans Mayor, get paid?

2006-08-12 09:52:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Lets get off the nipple of foreign oil? Reduce consumption, ride a bike, take a bus, buy cars that consume less fuel, car pool! Not to mention it will also reduce our waistline....Lets stop using so much fossil fuels, lets find alternatives....

2006-08-12 09:52:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Heres some news out of California's Bay area. Do you think any progress is being made or are the elected officials blowing smoke up our butts?http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=Immigration+laws/v=2/SID=e/l=NSR/R=10/;_ylt=A9htfMOhPd5EKxMBxibQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBkYTNuNGk0BHBvcwMxMARzZWMDc3I-/SIG=126m023ga/EXP=1155501857/*-http%3A//www.insidebayarea.com/ci_4166955?source=rss

2006-08-12 09:51:39 · 9 answers · asked by Renegade. 3 in Immigration

I recently rewatched the movie Monster's Ball, and the main characters had family graves on their property.

Can people do that?

If my parents died, and I owned land, could I bury them on my property? (not that I'd want to)

2006-08-12 09:51:34 · 4 answers · asked by Joy_Brigade 3 in Law & Ethics

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001?

Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from our nation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania?

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don't. I don't care at all.

I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.

I'll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.

I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraqcome out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.

I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.

I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.

In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.

When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured that I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don't care.

When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don't care.

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and ---- you guessed it - - - I don't care ! ! ! ! !

2006-08-12 09:51:28 · 16 answers · asked by davydd1 1 in Other - Politics & Government

(cut and pasted) John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11488.htm

The Bush admin seems to think you can do whatever you want in order to get information from a suspect.

If you doubt the veracity of the link or quote please prove me wrong. You are also able to listen to the exchange between Cassel and Yoo if you click the link found in the story.

2006-08-12 09:50:21 · 13 answers · asked by S P 1 in Law & Ethics

If I was president of the United States, I would stop the war in Iraq. I do not believe in war. I would have a week of heavy duty attacks on solely Al-Qaeda targets. I would have the Army and Marines work all night long for that week, and then, I would order the removal of 98% of the forces.(Other two percent would guard the military prisons). I would keep our forces in Afghanistan. I am a very diplomatic person who would work to the bone establishling better relations with China and Russia. I would work hard to keep Iran from attacking other countries. I would work with Arab countries to establish a Muslim state like the state of Israel. I can gurantee that would stop the violence. I would stop supplying Israel with our weapons, but I would still support them with food. I would try to keep the U.S. out of Mideast politics as much as possible. I would support stem cell research also.

2006-08-12 09:49:54 · 13 answers · asked by Noah J 1 in Government

2006-08-12 09:49:20 · 16 answers · asked by Ah Ha 3 in Politics

I'm 35 years old and have 3 years left until I can retire from the military. I am not a military cop, but I have performed military police augmentee duties in the past. I currently have an A.S. in Information Systems Management and I should finish up my B.S. in Criminal Justice in the next 2-3 years.

Due to the length of the Police Academy, it isn't something I can do while I'm still on active duty.

Is there anything else I can do to improve my chances of getting hired or preparing myself for the job of a Police Officer? My ultimate goal is to be a Detective, but I know I have to put my time in first... Any help, especially from those already in Law Enforcement, would be greatly appreciated.

2006-08-12 09:48:29 · 8 answers · asked by Physh 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-12 09:47:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

In a classroom, the teacher asks :
In the past 60 years, who was the worst president of US who leaded US in the past 6 years?

2006-08-12 09:45:21 · 12 answers · asked by y_alrooby 2 in Government

2006-08-12 09:45:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

and yet there are Legistrations.. like the UN Convention of the rights of the child and the 1989 Children Act, which are supposed to protect children.

2006-08-12 09:41:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

In a classroom, the teacher asks :
In the past 60 years, who was the worst president of US who leaded US in the past 6 years?

2006-08-12 09:41:28 · 13 answers · asked by y_alrooby 2 in Politics

in the american population?

2006-08-12 09:41:10 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-08-12 09:40:43 · 13 answers · asked by Joe Royal 1 in Military

Maybe because U.S is in the middle they got the best land by luck.

They would probably migrate to Canada then.

Go ahead, make me laugh.

2006-08-12 09:39:36 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration