Politics & Government - 28 August 2006

This principal seems to work so well for Iran in using the United Nations against us why cant we do it too?

2006-08-28 12:51:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I know this sounds like a crazy question but let me tell you the USPS is not helpful. Was wondering if anyone else shipped something to a base and it took forever to get there? I'm in CA and the package is going to MS. I shipped it Priority/Airmail Insured. Post office says I have to wait 21 days to put in an inquiry. Thanks for any help, I was trying to send him a piece of home but the darn postal service is not cooperating. Thanks!!!! (Didn't know what other category to put this in)

2006-08-28 12:50:13 · 6 answers · asked by tpurtygrl 5 in Military

i know that thailand used to be part of china and then it seperated but i thought that china still owned thailand, kind of like how the U.S. owns Puerto Rico even though its still its own country.

2006-08-28 12:49:30 · 12 answers · asked by Brandon P 1 in Government

A VOTE FOR A 3RD PARTY CANDIDATE LIKE RALPH NADER IS A VOTE FOR GEORGE DUMBYA BY PROXY. RALPH NADER PUT DUMBYA IN THE WHITEHOUSE.

DO NOT VOTE FOR 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES!! IT'S A RUSE!!

2006-08-28 12:49:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Making a long story short, I recently had a sleep over at one of my "so called" friend’s house and 4 other peers. I am 13 years old. They shoved a bean bag chair on me and punched me like every 15 minutes the whole night long. I have bruises all over my body and it hurts badly. Then they talked all this trash about me. They stole my cell phone so I couldn't call my parents to get me out. They pantsed me (underwear was still on) and they mooned me and sometimes even sat on my head with their butt whale they were mooning me. I tried to fight back but when its 5-1 it is impossible. They threw food (macaroni and cheese to be exact) at me and some noodles almost hit my eye. They made prank calls at 2:00 in the morning to random numbers and they gave a guy my cell phone number so that I would get into trouble. Is any of this illegal in the United States??? (I live in Texas). Should I get the police involved???

2006-08-28 12:48:51 · 18 answers · asked by Daniel 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-28 12:48:21 · 15 answers · asked by DeShaun 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Living in the UK, I've always wondered why I've heard some mean comments about the USA. I've wondered why other countries hate them.

2006-08-28 12:48:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I mean wake up to whats really going on! I can still vote, go to any state I wish, anytime I wish, I can talk on the phone to anyone I wish, I can still go to the church of my choice and worship the way i wish. I can still leave the country any time i wish. If I have the money i can eat wherever I wish and with the right money i can live anywhere in the country i wish. I can still watch what i want on tv, I can still a write a letter to any govt leader I wish without fear of retalitation. (obviously refering to non threatening speech). I also can still own a firearm if i wish so basically what "personal liberties" have been lost? No i think its a little left wing rhetoric trying to prevent the capture of terrorists because it will make them look bad and the republicans good so it will hurt their votes wake up you havent lost any liberties!

2006-08-28 12:45:46 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

If you can't tell the difference, do they excist?

2006-08-28 12:44:35 · 20 answers · asked by tripledigit 2 in Immigration

does anyone know

2006-08-28 12:43:13 · 8 answers · asked by Exclusive [♥] 6 in Government

My folks always taught me that first impressions count...

2006-08-28 12:42:52 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

????

2006-08-28 12:42:10 · 8 answers · asked by Exclusive [♥] 6 in Government

2006-08-28 12:42:04 · 5 answers · asked by Toni M 2 in Law & Ethics

The Indian people are the true rulers of this land everyone else are aleins go home to Africa Jamcia where ever you are from !

2006-08-28 12:39:50 · 25 answers · asked by unreal250 2 in Immigration

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/15357800.htm?source=rss&channel=belleville_local

2006-08-28 12:38:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I am looking for help in paying my light bill because I am disable and have a fixed income. My light bill is $500 and I only recieves $668.

2006-08-28 12:38:21 · 11 answers · asked by Christine R 1 in Government

Dubya lovers.........you must be out of your mind!!!!!! Dubya only supports those that are wealthy, wealthy, and wealthy . I worked for a company that was very wealthy. I saw their "tax" dollars go out the front door!!! But guess what??????? With a little help from their "friend" Dubya,, that money came right back to the company through the back door (with our tax dollars!!!) . It's a scam!!!!! And if you wealthy bas TURDS think us middle class people are that stupid to not know what is going on,then you are the stupid and ignorant one's!!!

2006-08-28 12:35:55 · 10 answers · asked by my2cents 4 in Politics

i really value these oils and want them with me
thanks
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2006-08-28 12:35:47 · 15 answers · asked by carolthec4 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

If you're an attorney and decide to move to a state you're unlicensed in, do you have to pass the bar in the new state? (specifically, if you move to CA) Thanks

2006-08-28 12:34:39 · 7 answers · asked by shrinkydinkheart 4 in Law & Ethics

We receive a lot of criticism yet we help a lot of countries. What does the world expect us to do about people of other countries being wronged?

Should we keep our hands off and let them suffer ?

When people are being ravaged and murdered by their leaders, should we say "To hell with them" and turn our backs?

Remember, Americans want to have peace also, we don't want to send our young men and women to die for some other country's benefit.

As the world's super power, if we don't do it who will?. I hope you notice that we don't keep the lands that we free up, we give the free lands back to their people.

What do you want from us?

I'm not crying, I'm asking you. What do you expect us to do?

2006-08-28 12:34:22 · 9 answers · asked by Mr.Been there 3 in Other - Politics & Government

I don't know if I should have asked the question ("Why do so many people think our government attacked us?" ) but I got so many nasty notes for answers that I have to move to the next level. It seems to me, if I thought the government that I rely on were directly responsible for killiing thousands of Americans I would no longer call them my government and would want to join and be a part of a revolution to overthrow the bums. However, when I hear someone groan over the fact that they beleive in the conspiracy theory and our government are murderers, it's usually on our way to the corner market to pick up some goodies for the beerfest we are at or we are on our way to enjoy something very American. Get it? You hate here but you love it here. I cannot understand why anyone would live here and believe there government would kill on such a mass scale and then believe that the secret is out but no one is printing it! To the idiots who think I'm a jackass or dumb. Go to work or go away!

2006-08-28 12:32:33 · 5 answers · asked by ggraves1724 7 in Government

is it on the first tuesday after the frist monday in November?????

2006-08-28 12:31:13 · 2 answers · asked by Exclusive [♥] 6 in Government

I thought he lived in Texas?

2006-08-28 12:29:33 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-28 12:28:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Put it out there and we will listen.......If you have factual proof as to why, then we will take it in to consideration.

2006-08-28 12:27:31 · 19 answers · asked by tripledigit 2 in Immigration

I think alot of the reason's he is hated so much is the way he has chosen to run things regarding the war in Iraq. Alot of people believe that they should just pack it up and bring our troops home, partly beacuse it has been such a long time since 9/11.

You take a dollar and bury it, you dig it up ten years later. It's still a dollar right? YES. You take a man that organized a attack on the United States, blowing up the twin towers, killing thousands of people. People that NEVER got to tell there family's bye. They just thought they were going to work. a few years pass, and what it doesn't matter anymore? Of course it matters, and President Bush knows that. That's why the war won't end until Osama is caught or killed.

People that say Bill Clinton did a wonderful job when he was in office are full of sh*t. First off, there was no war & he didn't have as big a problem as there is now with illegal immigrants. The president before Clinton is the one that set everything up so nice so Clinton would have time to Cheat on his wife and stick cigar's up her uknowwhere.
So tell me, if you hate Bush... WHY? and give me a legitamate reason, not "just because" or "he's stupid" *PROVE YOUR FACTS, and you'll get 10 points.

2006-08-28 12:26:41 · 13 answers · asked by lost_carolina 3 in Government

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Pa. soldiers return from border patrol
By Barbara Barrett
CDT Washington correspondent
LOS ALGODONES, Mexico -- Not five minutes after the boatload of migrants slipped across the Colorado River at dusk, the "dogcatchers" arrived.

First, U.S. Border Patrol trucks -- the ones migrants call dogcatchers -- tore down a dirt road and cut their headlights. Then a helicopter dipped and circled with deafening blades, its spotlights probing 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 has been waiting. Three times he almost crossed.

"They're here day and night," said Lopez, 42, who traveled from the state of Michoacán, Mexico, hoping to reach New York.

The show of force now includes about 6,000 National Guard troops.

Almost 70 soldiers from Pennsylvania returned this month after two weeks in the Arizona desert. There, they set up observation points on a levee within sight of the border. They used binoculars and night vision goggles to spot movement. They helped catch at least 10 migrants.

"It made you think, 'Yeah, you're here helping people out,'" said Capt. Brad Pierson, a State College resident and commander of the 28th Military Police Company, based in Johnstown and Greensburg.

The Pennsylvanians saw tragedy among their own, too. Spc. Kirsten Fike, 36, of Warren, collapsed in her first hours working in the 104-degree heat. She died a day later at a Yuma, Ariz., hospital. An autopsy on the cause of her death was inconclusive.

The deployment of guard troops is part of President Bush's Operation Jump Start, a project meant to discourage migrants from risking the dash into the United States.

It's having results: The increased security is pushing migrants into the harsh desert and mountains, forcing more to use smugglers and leading those who are caught to make repeated attempts that sap their strength and savings each time. Many walk for days with little food or water.

In July, an 11-year-old girl was found in cardiac arrest on a 108-degree day in the remote Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. The girl, Olivia Nogueda, wearing pink sneakers and traveling with her older sister, was declared dead at the reservation hospital. In the following week, in two counties in eastern Arizona, seven other migrants died, including two women and a 12-year-old boy.

Last year, as the Border Patrol increased enforcement around urban areas, more than 460 migrants died trying to cross the border, nearly half in Arizona.

"The more difficult you make it for people to cross, the more people will die," said Joseph Nevins, spokesman for Tucson-based No More Deaths, a coalition of humanitarian border groups.

In eastern Arizona, Pima County medical examiner Bruce Parks holds onto the bodies. He has more than 200 dating back to 2004.

"It's obviously a terrible tragedy for relatively young people to be dying under these circumstances," Parks said, hours after an autopsy on 11-year-old Olivia. "This may be the year we see a downturn. It would be nice."

In Pennsylvania, Pierson occasionally deals with illegal immigrants in his work as a state trooper. He said he knows little about the politics of immigration, but standing guard in Arizona made him wonder what drives migrants to take such risks.

"Obviously they're crossing for a reason," Pierson said. "To me, it seems dangerous. They're crossing in the heat, in the desert. I think, how bad can it be in Mexico to even go through this, take these chances?"

Word spread quickly throughout Mexico after Bush made his announcement this spring.

"I read the newspapers," said Hector Encinas, 29, who lives in the Mexican town of San Luis Rio Colorado, just south of San Luis, Ariz.

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

Guadalupe Murrieta, 45, washing dishes in her home nearby, said she never liked the migrants who wander through at night, making her fearful for her children and grandchildren. Now, she said, it's quieter.

What sends migrants into the distance are the images of the National Guard standing watch.

In San Luis, the Pennsylvania soldiers worked under camouflage nets, setting up observation points every half-mile on a levee near the Colorado River, above stretches of dirt and fields of tall, swaying grasses.

It was maybe the third day on watch for the Pennsylvanians when, about 3 a.m., one of Pierson's soldiers spotted movement at the levee.

Four people -- three women and a man -- had crawled through the grasses and were trying to dash across the levee and into a nearby neighborhood. The troops called Border Patrol. All four migrants were caught.

A few nights later, another soldier spotted six more.

"It's nice to see the results, to see that you're making a difference," Pierson said. "It was good for morale."

Mostly, Pierson thinks the Pennsylvanians were a deterrent, frightening migrants from even making the attempt.

In Mexico, some residents aren't so sure.

Migrants pass through the cotton and alfalfa fields around Rebeca Moreno's store near Los Algodones, a quarter-mile from the Colorado River, ignoring the signs warning "Peligroso!" -- danger.

Moreno walked though the back of her store to an open window. 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.

She pointed to a spot in the road. A man died right there, she said.

On the dirt road in San Luis Rio Colorado, behind the border wall, men were checking their chances recently as evening drew near.

They lit trash fires, hoping to obscure the heat of their bodies. One man shinnied up a wire to peek above the wall toward the levee; a few others pretended to fish in the canal.

Nearby stood Ricardo Mann, 47, the heat of the flames at his back, considering the soldiers standing watch.

"It's like another wall," Mann said. "A human wall."

2006-08-28 12:26:22 · 9 answers · asked by Renegade. 3 in Immigration

2006-08-28 12:26:15 · 5 answers · asked by ? 5 in Military

2006-08-28 12:24:39 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 in Law & Ethics

Im asking this because from what I understand the situation doesnt seem to be getting any better.

2006-08-28 12:23:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics