Politics & Government - 17 September 2006

I was in San Antonio this weekend where there were lots of Air Force members walking around. They were all wearing the same clothes and I noticed all of them who wore glasses were wearing the same ones. They were big and round and thick and tortise-shell like. Does anyone know why they all wear the same glasses and why they're so odd looking?

2006-09-17 16:16:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-09-17 16:16:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I work at this fast food store(the one with the W), as a cashier taking orders from customers and because of my good English skills(I'm an inmigrant) I was promoted to the drive thru call center of the company, everything went well for a couple of weeks, I had no complaints(all of those would be documented). Then one day they added a new store for the call center to take it's drive thru orders, and for what I think were technical problems(everything it's done through internet phones); because of the first day we were operating for that store, customers "supposedly" could't understand my words through the speaker, but the co-owner of the franchise was complaing that he wanted all operators to speak "English"(I did spoke clear English to every customer) so he wanted me to leave right at that moment, his reaction felt so wrong and discriminatory, also there was always someone on the other end of the phone interfering with the call(maybe him), and to finish I never got my salary raised.

2006-09-17 16:15:39 · 17 answers · asked by tavikano 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-09-17 16:14:35 · 3 answers · asked by jfrazier0012 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-09-17 16:13:27 · 10 answers · asked by me 6 in Other - Politics & Government

My friend is from peru .you know how they have those dumpsters for only newspaper recyling. Well you are not supposed to put reg garbage in the recycle you can get fined for that . but you ARE aloud to put the newspapers in the reg garbage right?? By the way I am in lee county .FLORIDA,.

2006-09-17 16:11:36 · 23 answers · asked by jodeefla1979 3 in Law & Ethics

i live in a quadplex and one of my neighbors hooked evrybody in the building up to free cable. if i watch the cable and i stealing it even though i didnt do the initial hook up?

2006-09-17 16:10:58 · 24 answers · asked by guitar_lady81 4 in Law & Ethics

Tell me what you believe happened to our president and how it had an affect on our nation.

2006-09-17 16:09:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am not denying it or advocating it, but do we actually have any control over it?
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/hansen_02/

2006-09-17 16:08:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

How would I go about getting his business mailing address or E-mail? Is that even possible?

2006-09-17 16:08:48 · 3 answers · asked by Victoria 2 in Military

2006-09-17 16:08:46 · 23 answers · asked by me 6 in Other - Politics & Government

I finished this early this morning. All I will tell you is it is based on a character from a novel I read years ago called ‘Catch-22.’ Contrary to some peoples' belief the novel was not an anti-war book. It’s underlying message was that the right war can be fought the wrong way because of personal egos, greed and stupidity.

By the way, the painting is still untitled. Come up with a good title and I'll use it.

This painting may nothing to do with politics. It all depends on your perceptions. So, what do you think?

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/00027tbr/g21

Click on the image to enlarge it.

2006-09-17 16:08:16 · 7 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Politics

2006-09-17 16:07:35 · 13 answers · asked by Tao H 1 in Immigration

Smoke shot out of the building when it collapsed because of explosion holes.

Steel melts at 3,000 F. degrees, and weakens at 2,200 degrees F.
Jet fuel, burns at 1,800 degrees F.

In 2000, a building in Madrid, Spain was burning for 23 hours. The top 18 floors were completey burnt, yet the whole building still stood.

The two main towers took about 10 seconds to collapse. If one of the floors were weakened, then it should have taken at least a minute to fall.

Security was reduced leading up to the days of the attack, and bomb sniffing dogs were taken out of the building 3 days before the attack.

2006-09-17 16:06:57 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2006-09-17 16:06:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

i think that it would hurry things up to get criminals in jail alot faster. cause i havent heard of anyone being able to .fool it. have you?

2006-09-17 16:05:26 · 22 answers · asked by plum 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-09-17 16:05:20 · 5 answers · asked by Mariah M 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Why did we stop at 50 states? It has been a long time since we admitted Alaska and Hawaii into the union, how about we open it up and start expanding the empire once again. I believe that Puerto Rico, Somoa, and Great Britain are already close. It would decrease the amount of "foreign aid" we shelled out if we could incorperate a few of these (Israel) and get the tax base to be had. Heck most of these little countries are smaller than the average U.S. state anyway so why do they get a say in how the world is run anyway (France).

2006-09-17 16:05:13 · 6 answers · asked by medic 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Enter in www.ndp.ca and sign the petition:
"Support our troops, bring'em home.

2006-09-17 16:02:00 · 15 answers · asked by milan t 1 in Civic Participation

In your opinion

2006-09-17 16:01:18 · 1 answers · asked by Sarah 4 in Government

2006-09-17 16:01:11 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

US citizens, why don't you start by cleaning your own house first?
Before you start criticizing other countries for their terrorism or human rights records, shouldn't the US government clean their own house first?
For example, over the past 50 years, the United States government:

1-Supported and actively organized coups d'etat against numerous third world countries, just to defend US bussiness interests and selfish geopolitical aims.
This includes many democratically-elected governments.
Some examples are Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973, Argentina 1976, Iran (Persia) 1953, Haiti 1957, Brazil 1964, Zaire (congo) 1965, S.Korea 1979, Grenada 1983, Venezuela 2002 (failed attempt), and many more.
In my country, Argentina, 'black lists' with dissidents to be killed were actually written and given to our local death squads by the CIA, during the 1976-83 dictatorship.

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2- Is known to practice 'low-intensity warfare', a set of war strategies that are actually very similar to terrorism itself in practice. This can be seen in the recent 1990's Sudan bombings, in recent bombings of civilian populations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the support you gave to the Nicaraguan Contras to fight the gov. of said country, during the late 1980's. The 'contras' were an illegal guerrilla group, and were properly qualified as "terrorist" by the International Court of Justice.

3- Engaged in unfair economic blockades against countries that didn't bow to US bussiness interests. (example: Iraq, Cuba)
The excuse for doing this was 'dictatorship', but it's an hypocritical excuse, since other dictatorships enjoyed active US support during the same time frame.

4- Still supports numerous dictatorships around the world, specially if they are free-market and let themselves be puppeted by US policy.
Thsi includes S. Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar, Ethiopia, among others.

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5- Mantains illegal "black prisions" with no right to trial and mild forms of torture, in many places in Europe and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

6- Has engaged in active industrial espionage over the past years, thanks to the Cold-war era Echelon network.

7- Has, as a country, poor democratic credentials itself, with only two parties that look very similar and a media that's comprised of mostly large corporations that usually don't dare to damage the interest of their partners.

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My country, of course, is not perfect either... but we are not trying to be world policemen.
We are all in this together, we should try to change things to make them more fair. I'm criticizing the US gov. simply because it's the world's only superpower, and with that comes a large responsability.
Other countries have their crimes too (The UK, France, China and Russia come to mind), and we should not forget about those either.

It just sickens me to my stomatch when I hear the US president talk about "democracy" and "promoting human rights", when they haven't even apologized for what they have done and are still doing, and people like Kissinger are allowed to walk the streets freely when they should be on trial for crimes against humanity.

2006-09-17 16:00:35 · 16 answers · asked by me 6 in Politics

2006-09-17 15:59:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anita F 1 in Immigration

2006-09-17 15:57:47 · 8 answers · asked by shortyluvsphil23 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Republicans have had long enough to ruin the reputation of this great nation. We call a truce, Vote Democrat or Independent and we can stall rebuilding all those bridges, metaphorically and real, that they have destroyed.

2006-09-17 15:56:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

plz inform if there is or isnt

2006-09-17 15:55:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I just saw on CNN that the U.S Federal and NY state government has leased 1.1 million sq ft. of office space for the new World Trade Center buildings. I have also read before that the first 60 or so floors in the new Freedom Tower will be leased for office space. What about the next 40 or so floors? Will the top floors be for the government?

2006-09-17 15:55:14 · 3 answers · asked by lvillejj 4 in Politics

Bush has admitted global warming is real, and is affected by human activity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2023835.stm
http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=43896

When these two politicians agree on something, I think it's time all of us on this site stopped debating it's existence and began to discuss solutions.

Now - how do we fix the problem? Personally, I like the global cap & trade method. Any other ideas?

2006-09-17 15:54:21 · 21 answers · asked by Steve 6 in Politics

2006-09-17 15:53:57 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

As usual all the bleading hearts are up in arms and the ethic leaders are calling the goverment racist i think its about time i personally am sick of every day hearing everbody talking a different language except English

2006-09-17 15:53:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration