Politics & Government - 21 August 2006

2006-08-21 05:39:23 · 6 answers · asked by askance 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Well i am in Iraq making a little over a $100,000. back home i am a fireman, and my city is 4 million in the whole. Unlike the Pro-sports stars, i don't make enough to keep my family head above water with out drouning my self.

2006-08-21 05:35:34 · 10 answers · asked by Dark Angel 2 in Civic Participation

America has aproximately 1000 people that control 98% of the Nations wealth.

Should we take back America? Or let them have it.

2006-08-21 05:33:41 · 12 answers · asked by 43 5 in Politics

Between the guy I'm dating (who's a Marine and totally against me joining) and all the hype the recruiter gives you, I am beginning to find myself at a loss. I get, "it's hard," "it's the best," "depends on who you are," "you can do it." I need to know more! I need to know more than tid bits about basic, I need to know what it's like when you get out. No one will tell me! HELP!

2006-08-21 05:33:05 · 12 answers · asked by Rae 2 in Military

what do all of u think about the law that was passed about smoking in your own ride with your kids in the car. it says if u get caught in your car smoking while kids are in it u get a ticket. it was bad enough that the smokers could not smoke outside of a public place now they passed this one. if u do not like this law just get 3000 people to sign a putishon and get it were the people can vote for the law that was passed. I am with the smokers on this one. tell me your thoughts about this matter. thank you

2006-08-21 05:32:55 · 47 answers · asked by darkknight e 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Iran's leaders are refusing to comply with the dates previously agreed upon for UN inspections.

Wonderfuly enough, the white house has mentioned that in a hope for diplomatic resolution, they might consider allowing them public nuclear programs (such as power plants).

Sounds like North Korea a few decades ago to me.

2006-08-21 05:32:23 · 13 answers · asked by amosunknown 7 in Other - Politics & Government

Check http://www.whitehouse.gov - menu bar on the left! 10 points to first person with *another* amazing fact from this website.

2006-08-21 05:29:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

For me it was 1981. I was the radical left back then. In my own arrogance I thought I knew all the answers back then. I really thought that if I could sit down with President Nixon for 10 minutes he'd see my wisdom and end the war. All the wisdom of a college kid. All my old friends have changed as well...some I would have never thought would. We've experienced life and the realities...geeezz it's a little embarrassing now...but we were stupid kids then.

2006-08-21 05:29:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I'm really dissapointed in the direction America is going right now. Ever since Bush got into office, we've been sliding down the hill.

The American dollar has weakened against every other currency, EVEN THE F*CKIN CHINESE YUAN. That's ridiculous. Their money used to be an 8th of ours - now its getting nearer to a 7th.

America still has plenty of people starving and families LOSING THEIR HOMES because of the unemployment rate.
What's worse than the unemployment is UNDEREMPLOYMENT. America's jobs are going to Asia and everywhere else and our people don't have the money to retrain themselves.

Housing prices, energy prices and food prices have hit ridiculous highs and the middle class and poor are suffering everyday.
Unlike the rich class, the rest can't adjust and are only falling further behind.

The war in Iraq has brought America to near 9 Trillion dollars in debt and if we continue this way, I see a very possible 10 Trillion before Bush's term ends.

2006-08-21 05:28:34 · 16 answers · asked by neoconbush 1 in Government

Israel uses artillery and planes to fire shells and drop bombs on it's neighbor and now America is going to pay to rebuild what the Israelis destroyed? Why are we giving them weapons? Why are we giving them money? And why are we paying for their wars? Shouldn’t that money at least be deducted from the hundreds of millions we send them every year in foreign aid?

PS: Go ahead and call me and “anti-semite.” I know anytime anyone questions anything regarding Israel he or she is immediately labeled a bigot. Funny how that works. Anyone can say anything they like about me and they are simply labeled “a person with an opinion.”

And sense I’m spending five points, how about this: Why isn’t there Free Speech in Europe? Did you know that if you question anything about the Holocaust in some European countries you can be sent to prison?

It’s no joke. Read the news........

BBC World News: “British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4733820.stm

Actually he didn’t deny the holocaust happened; he argued that some of the numbers might have been exaggerated. And I don’t know if he’s right, wrong or indifferent. I’m just saying that you can “deny” that I exist. That the world is flat. You can even proclaim that there is no God, and nothing bad happens to you. But say a disparaging word about Holocaust; and your a criminal. Ask a question about Israel and your a bigot. Why is that?

2006-08-21 05:26:49 · 9 answers · asked by perfecttiming1 4 in Government

Will they just send him home, or can he just leave if he decides its not for him? What is the protocol? Also, does anyone know over how long a period of time they pay him the 'sign up bonus'? They said it's 30k..is that true? Does he get it all upfront or over a period of time. Thanks--He's leaving this Thursday!!

2006-08-21 05:26:13 · 14 answers · asked by tmp326 2 in Military

we need our boys and girls home. they are not needed there. i say let them take care of thier own problems. why are we sending our air forces there, i think its Bush's fantasy about winning a war we can't win.

2006-08-21 05:25:53 · 8 answers · asked by dave_chizzie 1 in Military

I would vote off the president of Iran. Who would you chose?

2006-08-21 05:23:12 · 24 answers · asked by King of Babylon 3 in Government

. Bruce Parks, chief medical examiner
TUCSON - The medical examiner in southern Arizona's Pima County can tally the costs of illegal immigration differently than other county officials.
Like the others, he can look at budgets and see how much it costs for his staff to deal with the waves of people who cross each year through Arizona, the busiest illegal entry point on the U.S.-Mexico border.

But he can also look at the bodies that have forced this county to expand its morgue and get a much more vivid picture of the toll border crossings take on people.

"We have had to work harder and pay some overtime costs," said chief medical examiner Dr. Bruce Parks. "Over time we're increasing staffing, which in some ways is related" to border crossers' deaths.

Despite the efforts of federal officials and humanitarian groups to prevent them, deaths in Arizona have been mounting in recent years as migrants have tried crossing through more remote and dangerous desert areas to avoid increased enforcement.

Arizona accounted for more than half of the deaths of migrants who died in the last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, while trying to enter the United States.

Of the total 473 deaths nationally, 216 occurred within the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, which covers all but the westernmost portion of the Arizona-Mexico border, including Pima County. Factor in the 51 deaths in the patrol's Yuma sector, including a handful of deaths in easternmost California, and more than half the migrants dying perished in Arizona.

In July 2005, Tucson sector agents recovered the bodies or remains of 72 illegal immigrants who died in the desert - most ever in one month, spokesman Gustavo Soto said. Nearly all of those died from heat exposure, according to Parks.

This July, thanks in part to robust summer rains, the Tucson sector recorded only 19 deaths. However, 10 deaths have been reported during the first nine days in August, versus two for the same period a year earlier.

Nationwide, at least 291 illegal immigrants died during border crossing attempts from Oct. 1 through Aug. 6, including 75 deaths due to heat exposure, 45 drownings, and 42 motor vehicle incidents.

The migrant deaths have forced the medical examiner's office in Pima County to devote more resources to handling them. That has included requiring overtime to moving to hire a sixth medical examiner to doubling the morgue's capacity so it can now hold 240 bodies.

Before the expansion, the medical examiner's morgue held approximately 120 bodies and was nearly always at capacity. The new $237,000 stainless steel refrigeration unit, built to accommodate another 120 bodies, was readied earlier in the summer.

Jennifer Allen, director of the Border Action Network, an immigrant rights organization, lamented "the fact that government agencies have to end up investing resources in dealing with migrants' dead bodies, as opposed to developing means and policies that will stop the deaths and provide for the economic and social realities in the country."

The nation, she said, needs to find policies and solutions that help immigrants.

Once Pima County's new morgue unit is in operation, it will allow the office to mothball a refrigerated truck tractor-trailer unit that the county first rented, then bought, to store an overflow of some 60 to 80 bodies and skeletal remains.

The trailer has been in constant use, said Deputy Medical Examiner Eric Peters. "We knew it was only a stopgap measure," he said. "We realized the problem would remain and having a full sized tractor-trailer in our driveway literally was an obstruction. We needed to build something more permanent."

Pima County's medical examiners performed about 1,400 autopsies in all last year.

They examined 197 bodies of deceased border crossers, Parks said.

"The great majority of them were autopsies," he said, "though we actually had to alter that process for a couple of months because we were so overwhelmed."

In those cases they conducted external examinations to make sure there was nothing suspicious or unexpected for the conditions under which the deaths occurred.

Parks said his office examined 146 dead border crossers in 2002, 156 in 2003 and 171 in 2004; the overall number of autopsies performed by his office ranged roughly from 1,350 to 1,450 per year.

Figures are much lower in two other Arizona border counties. Pima County handles autopsies for the fourth.

Janice Fields, business manager for United Pathology, which handles medical examiner's duties under contract with Cochise County, said there have been six migrant deaths since January, versus 12 as of Aug. 10 last year. There were 17 migrant deaths in Cochise County in 2005, she said.

Officials at the Yuma Regional Medical Center's pathology department, which handles medical examiner's duties in Yuma County, didn't provide figures on migrant deaths.

But the Border Patrol's Yuma sector reported 35 deaths of illegal immigrants so far during the current fiscal year, ahead of last year's pace.

Parks said the migrant workload in his office represents a "moderate strain."

"And we're still trying to get some of the work done that's left over from last year and still trying to identify bodies from 2005 and get people home," he said.

In general, if a dead person has no identification, "we will not be able to identify them. Sometimes we are able to look at them and compare the body to a picture." Other times, a relative or another person who survived the desert trek is able to make an identification.

Tattoos, scars and fingerprints help. So, often, does the Mexican government.

"Thankfully, we have a very strong relationship with the consulate of Mexico, and one or two days a week they're down here," Peters said.

Consular officials photograph personal effects and incorporate that and other information, such as tattoos and scars, into a computer database, Peters said.

But delays in identification typically stem from language barriers, inability to find relatives or the difficulties next of kin may encounter in trying to arrange for the return of remains, he said.

About 30 percent of the bodies or remains can't be identified.

2006-08-21 05:23:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

John Karr is the alleged killer of JonBenet Ramsey.

2006-08-21 05:22:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Why are we having such a hard time finding terrorist training camps? Didn't Bush say we were looking for them and other terrorist operating sites? I mean during the cold war we didn't have too much trouble finding nuclear sites. Now we have even more advanced technology like high powered satilites and crazy spy planes. So why haven't we found what we're looking for? We should also be able to find Bin Ladin. Is it because they are hiding in caves? What do you think?

2006-08-21 05:17:50 · 10 answers · asked by one glove 3 in Military

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2006-08-21 05:17:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

U.S. vs. THEM
America's solution to EVERYTHING is to "BOMB THEM"

I think this is because America is isolated on the globe and needs to resort to Air Power and naval bombardment to "get her point across".

For example, America bombed Serbs for 70 f*ckin days !
We dropped so many bombs we had to go back to the factory to make more !!!
And we used the good sh!t on them too!!!

I don't mean to sound unpatriotic because I love America. However, I feel that with Neocons and right wing retards in power who are WARHAWKS - actively supporting and perpetuating wars that kill MORE INNOCENTS than TERRORISTS that something is seriously wrong with America's government right now.

America's war in Iraq has resulted in over 230,000 people
dead (FAR MORE than SADDAM KILLED - He's on trial for around 10,000 deaths)

When does America's unprovoked militarism end?

We "accidentally" kill lots of people. Does that make us better or worse than terorists?

2006-08-21 05:13:57 · 16 answers · asked by neoconbush 1 in Military

Why does this "country/nation" deserve that such of privilege? To make the other countries lose their sovereignity to this ONE country?

PS: That means, there will be only ONE country in this world... all united under its flag!

2006-08-21 05:12:40 · 18 answers · asked by Professor Franklin 4 in Other - Politics & Government

that Pres. Bush said they "found no weapons of mass destructiun" in Iraq? Why would the Pres. lie to the public about this? For those who have followed this issue closely, you know Saddam had the bulk of his WMD flown to Syria shortly before the invasion took place. The documents to prove this were handed over by the former Gen. in charge of the Iraqi air force. The info can be verified by satalite tracking data from N.O.R.A.D.
Is it possable that Iran now has some, if not all, of this material in thier possesion? Wouldn't that explain why Iran has become a greater blip on the N.S.A threat radar?

2006-08-21 05:10:31 · 9 answers · asked by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 in Military

2006-08-21 05:09:36 · 19 answers · asked by ? 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it time for public lynching in the streets cause the voting/polling/political system has long been a sham!

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2006-08-21 05:08:53 · 3 answers · asked by cvxcv x 1 in Other - Politics & Government

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2006-08-21 05:08:35 · 14 answers · asked by J.C. 4 in Politics

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2006-08-21 05:08:28 · 1 answers · asked by mishnbong 6 in Government

Was he trying to alienate, offend and confuse at the same time? I think he succeed at something for once…

2006-08-21 05:07:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is it that much different from the mob? I'm just curious since two members from parliement (in Canada) want to take them off our banned terror list...

2006-08-21 05:07:21 · 10 answers · asked by sabbat 2 in Politics

why the TSA let enter student pilots in the USA, to fly big eavy simulator like during the 9/11.
do you think that terrorists are already taking lessons, for a new plot against our freedom.
Do you think it is right that the TSA did nothing after the 9/11, and for 5 years they continue to bullshit families who have lost a family member (s) in the 9/11.
do you think it is right that US schools say to foreigners to come as a tourist and dont say anything at the custom, or they risk to go back home if the custom know the real purpose of the trip.
I called your government, and I made it clear. You may face new attacks by people being train in USA and buying aircraft to get them down!!!the US gov dont really care, they prefer to continue to lie and put you at risk.
So what will you do after being warned?

2006-08-21 05:07:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I think Hillary will be a better leader because she's more intelligent, and has more experience. But, that's just me. What do you think?

2006-08-21 05:06:59 · 12 answers · asked by conservativeguyfromnc 2 in Politics