Politics & Government - 26 September 2006

O.K. we all know that G.W. invaded Iraq and that we are still over there trying to pick up the pieces. Every day the violence becomes more dangerous for our troops. The Iraqi's are more worried about what religious sect one belongs to Sunni/Shiite than they are about rebuilding their country. You have terrorists infiltrating the police depts, blowing up what we are trying to rebuild. Don't they realize we are going to be over there longer the more they keep destroying everything? There will never be peace in the middle east. There hasn't been peace there since the beginning of time. G.W. can't force other nations to become democratic just to get to the resources. What can we do to get our troops home?

2006-09-26 07:40:51 · 14 answers · asked by sicilia 2 in Politics

i've received a subpoena but i was not my fullname.the subpeona address to arlene salvo tuason but it's not my full name.the first and middle is match to my name but the last name is not.what will i do?

2006-09-26 07:40:49 · 10 answers · asked by judas_gurl 1 in Law & Ethics

if the people in africa are poor, then why are they having kids? they know they cant afford food for their children. Then why do they have kids?. How can someone soo poor have sex in their situation. Come on this is soo stupid. Thats why i dont feel sorry for them. Cause they have sex then get pregnant and the kids suffer after

2006-09-26 07:40:31 · 15 answers · asked by Sandra 1 in Politics

2006-09-26 07:40:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-09-26 07:40:15 · 7 answers · asked by christina k 1 in Law & Ethics

Accurate, up to date answers please.

If you don't know what is said in real life (cos you haven't been arrested recently) but know what they say on The Bill, this will do instead.

UK only

2006-09-26 07:38:45 · 29 answers · asked by rox 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

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Now ink to this question and look at what implosion looks like . http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aovblf3VjBrzapthc1OPI_zzy6IX?qid=20060926110735AAV74ir

2006-09-26 07:38:09 · 9 answers · asked by Tommy G. 5 in Other - Politics & Government

blind eye to such activity

2006-09-26 07:37:35 · 11 answers · asked by HEY boo boo 6 in Civic Participation

2006-09-26 07:36:09 · 4 answers · asked by Triple J 2 in Law & Ethics

I won a court case for $650 in Luzerne County, PA (in the County courthouse). The defendent did not appeal but has yet to pay me. I went to the Prothonotary, and they told me I need to submit a praecipe to enter judgement against the defendent. What does this need to include? I have no idea how to do this, and they couldn't or wouldn't help me at the Prothonotary's office. I have been unable to find anything online.

2006-09-26 07:35:50 · 1 answers · asked by Mary M 2 in Law & Ethics

I want to know whether it's yes or no answers or i have to write sentances

2006-09-26 07:35:09 · 15 answers · asked by Andrea C 1 in Immigration

The reason I ask is; one always needs to look at who had the most to gain by the event. At that time congress was debating cutting off all aid to Isaeral, the UN was debating sanctions against her, for the slaughter of palasintinas who would hurl rocks at tanks. Immeaditly after 911 those issues were drooped and a major amrs deal wioth them by us was made. hummmmmmmm

2006-09-26 07:34:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Lawmakers to spend big on border

Eric Lipton
New York Times
Sept. 26, 2006 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators agreed Monday evening to spend $1.2 billion to install hundreds of miles of fence and vehicle barriers along the Mexican border as part of a $34.8 billion spending plan for the Department of Homeland Security for the coming year.

The border security spending is just one of several major policy initiatives that Congressional leaders decided to insert into the annual appropriations bill. Others include a mandate for anti-terrorism steps at high-risk chemical plants nationwide and the reorganization of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The biggest increase in spending in the bill, on which the House and Senate are expected to take final action on this week, is in the area of border security and immigration enforcement, which would get a total of $21.3 billion, an 11 percent jump over this year. advertisement




This includes money to hire 1,500 new Border Patrol agents, increasing the force to 14,800, and to add 6,700 detention beds. The $1.2 billion for border security is designated for a traditional fence, vehicle barriers and a so-called virtual fence made up of cameras and sensors. That money could also be used to help build 700 miles of physical fence along a specific stretch of the Mexican border, a construction project that the House has already approved and the Senate is still considering.

"It is a major step down the road on border security," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., who is chairman of the Senate panel that oversees the budget bill.

The bill also sets aside $4.34 billion for port security measures, including money for 450 new cargo inspection officers. That is up $600 million over the current year. The bill would also provide $178 million for new radiation screening equipment at domestic ports, among other initiatives.

It's the second major border security development in a week.

Boeing Co. engineers have crafted a plan to line the Mexican border with 1,800 towers equipped with sensors that can spot when illegal immigrants step onto U.S. soil.

Infrared cameras will detect the body heat of intruders, and radar will track vehicles used to smuggle immigrants and drugs into the United States.

On Thursday, Boeing's plan won a key contract, one that could lead to a "virtual fence" along 7,500 miles of the U.S.'s borders with Mexico and Canada.

Department of Homeland Security officials said Thursday that the initial three-year contract was worth $67 million and called for Boeing to build its tower-based system along a 28-mile stretch of the border south of Tucson. But analysts said the project could be expanded and total more than $2.5 billion.

Democrats at the conference committee meeting Monday evening also tried to add about $1 billion in spending for areas including mass transit security, aviation explosives detection research and port security grants.

"I challenge all of us not only to talk the talk on port security but walk the walk," said Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., the minority leader of the appropriations panel, referring to the much-heralded recent action by Congress on a port security bill that called for a larger amount of grants.

But with the Republicans holding a majority, each of the measures that Democrats proposed were defeated, one after the other, in party-line votes.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will continue to exist under the agreement, though some members of Congress had said it was so discredited it should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch.

Under the agreement, the FEMA director would have a higher rank, still reporting to the secretary of homeland security, but serving as the president's chief adviser on emergency management, in a manner similar to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.

FEMA would also now oversee Homeland Security agencies that focus on preparing for a disaster, instead of just responding to them, and it would have an extra $30 million to hire up to 250 permanent disaster relief employees.

Congressional negotiators also added a measure to the bill that would allow Americans to buy as much as a 90-day supply of prescription drugs in Canada, where they are less expensive, and then return home with them.

2006-09-26 07:34:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-09-26 07:33:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Can I still purchase my very own illegal mexican, and have it shipped to me in time for Christmas?

2006-09-26 07:32:51 · 12 answers · asked by devildriver_667 2 in Immigration

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjwZGTIKfPdM.qUL4kPN72zsy6IX?qid=20060710093730AAVux1I

2006-09-26 07:32:48 · 7 answers · asked by Super Shiraz 3 in Politics

2006-09-26 07:32:38 · 3 answers · asked by helen 1 in Government

I live in St. Joseph MO and they are $1.99 per gallon.

2006-09-26 07:31:41 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Iraq has nothing to do with my freedom or lack of freedom. Silly people!!!

2006-09-26 07:28:14 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

i am 41 and have heard you have until you are 48 to enter officer training school if you have a 4 yr degree, is this so

2006-09-26 07:27:42 · 9 answers · asked by tracy_nichols40g 1 in Military

A 23 year old downloaded child pornography. He was arrested, served 4 years in prison and 3 years supervised release. He is a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. When he got out of prison, he got a job, but omitted the fact of his crime. They found out and fired him. He now tells the 100% truth whenever he applies for a job. He was applying for at least 5 jobs a day for about 6 months. NO ONE will hire him. Most of these people say it is for a different reason, but we know it isn’t. He applies for the jobs that nobody else wants and is willing to work for the least amount of money. This “monster” (as I am sure some of you will refer to him as) is my brother. He lives in his old beat up car a couple miles out of town because no one will rent to him because of his past. He unfortunately can’t live with us because our landlord won’t let him even visit us on his property. It has been 9 years since he committed the crime.

2006-09-26 07:27:38 · 25 answers · asked by Not Gonna Tell Ya 1 in Law & Ethics

I am tired of being the youngest person at the poles, on election day," I'm 49". The torch of freedom must be carried by the young. The young people of this country must understand, " there's no eazy way to be free". When I go to vote I see all of these elderly ladies in wheel chairs, with oxygen bottles. They have to have someone drive them to the poles. I always let them ahead of me in line, because even going out at all is a hardship for them. If people who are so old that even leaving their homes is such a struggle, why can't young people show up and vote? The political partys are not even going to bother to put anyone on the ticket, who might do something to help make this country great again, for every one, not just the rich! The political parties on both sides have learned that the old people will vote for anybody who cliams to be a Christian, even if that person will work agents the interest of the elderly. What would it take to wake the young people of America up?

2006-09-26 07:26:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2006-09-26 07:25:17 · 19 answers · asked by schroeder_pacsman 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

the world is **** and needs sorting out properly.religion needs to be put into proper perspective and governments need to be run by the people for the people not for their own means!can we have a revolution,please,to break these chains we are all bound by in the "free" world

2006-09-26 07:24:57 · 39 answers · asked by pescov@btinternet.com 1 in Government

2006-09-26 07:23:37 · 9 answers · asked by Ricky m 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Since he sat on his azz on vacations for months on end and didn't follow up on Clinton Admin warning.

2006-09-26 07:22:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

See Shocking Photo:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/14/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL

2006-09-26 07:22:28 · 4 answers · asked by Balaam's Talking Donkey 3 in Politics

Why should our money be used to take away our rights ? The House is voting on Bill HR2679 today . I called my member of Congress at the Capitol switchboard-did you ?

2006-09-26 07:22:21 · 13 answers · asked by missmayzie 7 in Law & Ethics

are fighting for your freedoms? You ask such stupid, hateful questions because you think that you are making digs at the President. It's direspectful to my nephew and the other men and women that have the guts to go stand up for the rights of ALL American citizens. So remember the next time you make a smart *** remark about the President it's not him you are really cutting down, it's the people who are fighting for your rights.

2006-09-26 07:21:46 · 20 answers · asked by Only hell mama ever raised 6 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-26 07:20:13 · 12 answers · asked by MARK C 1 in Other - Politics & Government