Politics & Government - 21 September 2006

if you were a dictator what would be the first thing you would do as dictator. New laws or something else i want to know

2006-09-21 12:33:12 · 9 answers · asked by Loved 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-21 12:29:36 · 15 answers · asked by whereRyou? 6 in Politics

In the first stop, agents searched a Dodge Durango with a Border Patrol dog after the driver and passenger appeared nervous. They found five people, including a woman and 5-year-old in a zipped duffel bag.

The driver, a 39-year-old U.S. citizen, and the passenger, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, were arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

Agents then searched the next vehicle after seeing a foot move under the back seat. Agents found four illegal immigrants, one concealed in a duffel bag.

The driver, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested and charged with alien smuggling.

The immigrants were returned to Mexico

http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=5442238&nav=0w0v

2006-09-21 12:29:00 · 12 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

we are all paying the price for the ignorant vote

2006-09-21 12:28:44 · 18 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics

well my mom has a court date comming up soon and it is either i move back to my moms or move to my dads and switch schools. i want to move back to my moms house but the judge might not let me. this is her first mark on her record in a long long period of time. i was wondering if i had a chance to move back with her... we have a no contact order, do i have a say when she goes to court. she hit me but she was drunk. i dont know what is going to happen!!!! HELP

2006-09-21 12:28:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Here's the problem. My (ex) boyfriend lived with me for over a year. His phone bill comes to my house. Now thet we're not together, his phone bill still comes here. How do I change it?

2006-09-21 12:28:02 · 9 answers · asked by beweird22 4 in Law & Ethics

well folks who thinks these isalaists are just taking the piss,the want their own laws in our land and we have to abide by them,they can protest and burn british flags and u.s flags and then when a natural disaster happens they want food,water,medicine.Are the ******* mad look folks i am not inciteing racial hatred but i wish they would stay in thier own country with the laws that they want.do what ever they want and leave us alone.who thinks that if the arab states hate the west so much that should negate them all help due to natural disasters see how long they last.what the arabs forget is that we are here to (evolution)take heed and live a happy non violent life and stay away from the sleeping giant which is the u.k.

2006-09-21 12:27:18 · 13 answers · asked by bigfred1690 1 in Politics

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190737825&path=!news!today
Is the will of "We the people" finally going to to hold sway on immigration into America?

WASHINGTON

The House and the Senate moved yesterday toward a piecemeal crackdown on illegal immigration, pushing forward separate bills to require photo identification to vote, build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border and speed the deportation of undocumented workers. The bills would take the place of President Bush's far broader rewrite of the nation's immigration laws.

Voting almost completely along party lines, the House voted 228-196 for a bill that would require all who register to vote in federal elections to show photo identification that proves that they are U.S. citizens.

The Senate, meanwhile, voted 94-0 to take up a bill passed by the House last week to build 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, with a final vote to come as early as Monday.

Today, the House is scheduled to take up bills to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, ratchet up penalties for immigrant gang members and human smugglers, end an exemption for Salvadoran illegal immigrants from rapid deportation, make it a crime to tunnel under the border, and overtly deputize state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

In an interview on CNN, Bush said he would sign the legislation, even though it does not embrace a more comprehensive approach - including a guest-worker program - that he has backed.

"Yes, I'll sign it into law," he said. "I would view this as an interim step. I don't view this as a final product."

Passage of the legislation - should it occur - would permit leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress to claim they have taken steps to deal with the flood of illegal immigrants. It is an issue that has rent the party, spawned demonstrations in many cities last spring, and called into question the Republicans' ability to face tough issues.

"Border security is national security," said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Rules Committee, with House GOP leaders by his side. "We're going to try our daggonest to enact as many of these bills as we can."

With little more than a week left before the Sept. 29 start of Congress's scheduled recess, GOP leaders are considering appending some or all of the bills to a must-pass spending bill before they leave town. But Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the Appropriations Committee chairman, appeared to close off that avenue last night, saying he will not add any legislative language onto the spending bills that could slow their progress in the final days before the coming recess.

The sudden rush of activity startled immigrant and civil-rights groups, which had largely thought a legislative response on illegal immigration was dead for the year. The National Immigration Law Center sent out an "urgent" notice to allies to prod them into action, saying, "In recent days, there has been a serious deterioration of the position of pro-immigrant forces in Congress."

The legislators' embrace of a piecemeal approach came as members of a private task force on immigration repeated its belief that a comprehensive solution is necessary to solve the nation's problems with illegal immigration. The task force's plan includes strong border enforcement and a program that allows illegal immigrants already in the country to stay by paying a stiff fine.

But it also proposes that the president and Congress establish two federal organizations that would regulate the flow of immigrants and help them assimilate into society. Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who was a co-chairman of the Migration Policy Institute task force with former Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., said that the House's approach is too draconian against illegal immigrants, and a Senate bill approved in May is too complex.

Most of the provisions in the bills the legislators are now considering were plucked from the House's border-security and anti-illegal-immigration bill that passed in December, then prompted protests this spring that brought millions of illegal immigrants into the streets. But Republicans say that the politics of illegal immigration have shifted in favor of their get-tough approach. Even some Republicans who have backed Bush's approach, such as Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., said yesterday that the shift among voters in favor of "enforcement first" is palpable.

"While I've made it clear that I prefer a comprehensive solution, I have always said we need an enforcement-first approach to immigration reform," said Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the majority leader, who surprised many immigration-rights activists when he took up the House border-fencing bill.

Cecilia Munoz, the vice president of the National Council of La Raza, said that Republicans "are politically playing with fire" with Hispanic voters, who gave 40 percent of their vote to Bush in 2004.

The rhetoric in the House yesterday was particularly heated, with a stream of black and Hispanic Democrats taking to the floor to denounce a voter-ID bill that they called a "modern-day poll tax" intended to disenfranchise minority, elderly and disabled voters who lean Democratic.

2006-09-21 12:27:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I thought that was his grandfather not him. They also call him rascist. Since Democrats like to live in the past so much then why don't we go back to the Civil War. Who were the majority of slave holders? Oh that's right I remember it was the Democrats! So who are you calling rascist? Since Democrats like to live in the past and call Republicans Nazi's then is it ok for us to call them slave owners?

2006-09-21 12:25:59 · 26 answers · asked by Luekas 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-21 12:25:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Please check the answers below first, and post a different answer than the ones that are already there.

2006-09-21 12:24:35 · 31 answers · asked by cruachanmusic 3 in Politics

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5695
http://www.davidstuff.com/political/wmdquotes.htm

2006-09-21 12:23:33 · 18 answers · asked by Tommy G. 5 in Politics

Employer is government entity (county) and refuses to consider payment at time and one half in cash. Does give time and one half in compensatory hours off

2006-09-21 12:22:54 · 6 answers · asked by paslane 1 in Other - Politics & Government

It looks as if the US is initiating electronic border monitoring at the US / Canada border. No longer can we say, "we have the world's longest undefended border."

What's next, barbed wire, guard towers?

See more at:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/21/border-towers.html

2006-09-21 12:22:35 · 12 answers · asked by fergy_1967 3 in Immigration

2006-09-21 12:20:56 · 10 answers · asked by mandie 2 in Law & Ethics

Students in my class asked whether or not a judge has ever sentenced a convicted felon to a life in prison and ordered that when the felon dies he is to buried standing up.

2006-09-21 12:20:29 · 2 answers · asked by lady-P 1 in Law & Ethics

I'm not totally sure, but I heard that his IQ is about 90. The average is about 100 to about 110. This certainly doesn't shock me, the man is a total idiot. However, I was thinking that is is closer to 85 or so.

2006-09-21 12:20:29 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Heres mine: I hate President Bush because of his laugh. Sounds like a partially inflated blow up doll being run over by a set of fat kids on trycicles.

2006-09-21 12:19:27 · 16 answers · asked by cruachanmusic 3 in Government

some people said that we should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities
but would this not just cause a lot of radioactive crap to spread everywere. I would like to know from someone who knows

2006-09-21 12:18:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

What would it take to get you to transfer your allegience to an international government for the planet Earth?

2006-09-21 12:18:09 · 8 answers · asked by Isis 7 in Government

i heard there are some in germany, they don't do anything like they don't kidnap or hurt, but they treat others rudely.

2006-09-21 12:17:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-21 12:16:20 · 8 answers · asked by Villain 6 in Politics

http://www.uuforum.org/deficit.htm

ill understand if you are crying into your beer

2006-09-21 12:15:17 · 12 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics

2006-09-21 12:13:57 · 3 answers · asked by horny 1 in Law & Ethics

I live in a secular society but the politicians all seem to be against it

2006-09-21 12:13:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Does he?

2006-09-21 12:12:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

OR IS THE FART WORTH MORE?

2006-09-21 12:08:59 · 9 answers · asked by INBRED TOOTHLESS NEOCONS 1 in Politics

RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

2006-09-21 12:08:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-09-21 12:07:31 · 1 answers · asked by Neea_Gastino 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-09-21 12:06:32 · 3 answers · asked by kmankman4321 4 in Other - Politics & Government