Politics & Government - 3 October 2006

Flicking through the channels, I accidentally caught a glimpse of the Conservative Party Conference. Will I now be able to resist voting for them at the next General Election?

2006-10-03 10:52:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

A lot of similarities, a lot of differences. If we apply history to the future we can prevent disasters. I'm curious to know what you guys think and why.

2006-10-03 10:50:57 · 28 answers · asked by The Savage Jaw 3 in Politics

criminals, junkies, etc.

2006-10-03 10:50:38 · 9 answers · asked by tjyf j 1 in Law & Ethics

hint:
Elderly and dead love Eileen

2006-10-03 10:50:29 · 3 answers · asked by Gone Rogue 7 in Civic Participation

Is this a police matter or ice problem?

2006-10-03 10:50:00 · 7 answers · asked by Mendia69 1 in Immigration

Simply because many Indigenous Americans choose to live just South of the border where rents are cheaper, and the cost of living is much more affordable, their children, who are American Citizens, are being denied the right to attend schools on reservations on this side of the border by the Bush administration.

Why can't Cuban Americans visit their homeland?

Is this what Bush calls securing our borders?

Locking Americans either in our out?

Are we witnessing the Nazification of America?

2006-10-03 10:48:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2006-10-03 10:45:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-03 10:44:21 · 7 answers · asked by Paka 2 in Elections

Of their ideas , etc. Is there a quick intro online to the candidates and all the things we're supposed to vote for? Something that's fun and interesting. i hate reaading long things that don't make sense to me. This is for the 2006 elections USA

2006-10-03 10:42:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I feel like this country is the ugly sister that got left at home to watch all the bratty kids of the family because she can't get a date on a Friday night........vamanos illegals.....or this ugly *****(USA) will get into a fat girl suppressed rage fit. People who are too nice always get taken advantage of....this issue is a total joke. If the next president gets rid of all these illegal leeches...we should have a month holiday in his name and an instant memorial in DC

The mentality of pro-amnesty illegal aliens is like the mentality of a spoiled kid that was told he is the best and given everything he wants...it's delusional, cowardly, and pathetic

2006-10-03 10:41:40 · 12 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1 in Immigration

2006-10-03 10:41:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

plz tell me who s th number 1 lier in the whole world

2006-10-03 10:41:30 · 11 answers · asked by alamgeer 2 in Government

Fidel is our master he wants to retire in FL. Give him documentation right the way ,please he is a good old man, and love Riky Martin performances..

2006-10-03 10:40:31 · 6 answers · asked by Alfred 1 in Immigration

Remember when.
Gregory`s naked body was found with the note "I will always love U, XOXOX, Sin Angel"

2006-10-03 10:40:17 · 2 answers · asked by Gone Rogue 7 in Civic Participation

Abandoning multilateralism, have we abandoned diplomacy as well? Is war no longer a last resort, taken in self-defense, but a routine method of getting our way, since no one can stop us? Has the time come for us to reverse the National Security Act of 1947 and go back to calling the ''Defense Department'' the ''War Department?''

2006-10-03 10:39:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-10-03 10:39:30 · 11 answers · asked by politicallypuzzeled 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-03 10:36:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

the teason laws said no englishmen can be dictated to by any foreign power on own english soil,This law was repealed by the traitor tony blair to cover the backs of all traitors, who have enslaved brits under EURO OCCUPATION they did it for the gravy train

2006-10-03 10:36:24 · 9 answers · asked by trucker 5 in Military

im looking where i can purchase 1:50,000 military maps

2006-10-03 10:36:19 · 3 answers · asked by ftgokie 2 in Military

At the beginning of every school year, bad news comes from Mexican heartland states such as Zacatecas and Querétaro: Local authorities are closing hundreds of schools because so many families have moved north to the U.S. heartland.

Mexicans feel helpless before the migrant exodus, and talk about it the same way they talk about the weather. Everyone complains about it, but there´s not much you can do about it.

On Friday night, the U.S. Senate approved a 700-mile high-tech border barrier in a bid to stop the immigrant flow. The decision, a seminal event in the two neighbors´ relations, has left many Mexicans wondering if the open door to the north is closing.

Some Mexicans saw the vote as a collective slap in the face that highlighted the failure of their country´s leaders to give Mexicans a reason to stay home.

"Our politicians have not lived up to their responsibilities toward the people who migrate," said Homero Aridjis, a poet, activist and onetime Mexican diplomat. "Our government has failed before the economic and social plight of the poor."

"I´m from Michoacán," said Aridjis. "When I go there, I see fertile farmland and orchards that have been abandoned."

Few observers here expect the new barriers to stop people from Mexico and Central America from seeking a better life in the United States. New smuggling routes are expected to open through ever-more-remote stretches of desert, or over the waters of the river that Mexicans call the Rio Bravo del Norte.

WAVE OF MIGRATION

But the bill approved by both houses of U.S. Congress, and soon to be signed by U.S. President George W. Bush, might signal the end of an era that has seen dramatic cultural and demographic changes in both countries.

The wave of Latin American migration that began in the 1980s helped make Hispanics the largest minority in the United States and the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles and many other U.S. cities. The beginning of the 21st century saw Hispanic immigration spread to almost every corner of the United States, with Spanish-speaking communities booming in states such as Tennessee and Ohio.

Latin Americans see the initiative as a rejection of the cultural changes brought forth by Hispanic in the United States. In angry editorials and speeches, Mexican writers and politicians have compared the project to the Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China.

"The exploitation of fear among the citizens of the United States has been at the center of the debate," the newspaper EL UNIVERSAL said in an editorial Saturday. "This wall, like all those built with xenophobic aims, will be far from effective."

President Vicente Fox and President-elect Felipe Calderón have denounced the new fence, as have a host of Mexican political leaders.

´SAFETY VALVE´

For decades, social scientists here have seen migration to the north as a "safety valve" that keeps Mexico from exploding into social conflict. Now, a small number of voices are saying the brain and muscle drain to the U.S. cannot continue indefinitely.

When the head of the Central Bank, the Banco de México, told a Texas newspaper last week that a new wall between the United States and his country might not be such a bad thing, his remarks were front-page news here. Surprisingly, there were few public expressions of disagreement.

"It would be best to keep its people in Mexico, and it would give incentives for Mexico to create jobs that are needed," Guillermo Ortiz, the bank official, said in an interview with the editorial board of The Dallas Morning News.

Rather than return to Mexico, many immigrants are sending for their families, accelerating the declining enrollment in rural Mexican schools, analysts say. In Zacatecas, state education officials said last month they were closing 269 schools because of declining enrollments.

CLOSING THE BORDER

Before 1929, Mexicans were not required to obtain a visa to enter the United States. Ever since, "The history of the border has been a history of closing the border," said Tony Payan, a professor at the University of Texas, El Paso and author of "The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security."

The new measures approved Friday will seal off most of the Arizona-Mexico border. Immigrant smugglers probably will move farther east, to remote crossing points on the Rio Grande upriver from the Texas cities of Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Payan said.

Wayne Cornelius of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego, told the Judiciary Committee that even if the entire land border were sealed off, immigrant smuggling probably would move to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Lorenzo Meyer, one of Mexico´s leading historians, argued that the Senate vote had revealed an essential hypocrisy in U.S.-Mexico relations.

"In 1993 we signed the North American Free Trade agreement," Meyer said. "It was supposed to be the beginning of a period of cooperation and friendship." Now the U.S. government has "unilaterally" announced the construction of a wall, he said, despite Mexico´s strenuous objections.

"We see now that the idea of a united ´North America´ is fiction," Meyer said. "The reality is the wall."

2006-10-03 10:36:05 · 3 answers · asked by ShoeShine 1 in Immigration

He is seeking to blame the Democrats for leaking internet e-mails between Mark Foley and the 16 year old male. C'mon, is blaming the Democrats for Foley's actions more important than finding the truth about the scandal and bringing this pedophiliac down.

2006-10-03 10:34:53 · 7 answers · asked by Enterrador 4 in Politics

If I want to bring charges against someone in court, do I need a lawyer or can I represent myself?

2006-10-03 10:34:38 · 2 answers · asked by Oguz Z 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-03 10:32:49 · 4 answers · asked by tiffany 1 in Politics

Broke into a illegal supporters house, raped the supporter and the supporters kid(s), murdered family member(s), stole from the supporter and burned down what the supporter owned and worked so hard to build all their life.........etc etc etc.......and went back to mexico without being caught or going to trail or just disappeared beween the 20 million illegals here and there was no way to find them because they are undocemented and thus never brought to trail........................

QUESTION:
Do you think that the illegal Mexican supporter would FORGIVE the illegal and continue to support the illegal Mexicans who are already here and the new ones entering illegally daily........

Illegal Mexicans supports please tell us the truth of how you would handle this.......Please

2006-10-03 10:30:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Suppose a computer program was invented that could run the country. It would have advanced programs that would bring down the deficit, not run the country on its emotions but intellect, and wouldn't cheat on its wife. It wouldn't be corrupted by greed or power. Would you vote for it?

2006-10-03 10:28:49 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-03 10:28:37 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

i was just wondering if u get any time after bootcamp to like see your family and stuff before being sent to A school? i got into the aef stg program but i havent gone to bootcamp yet

2006-10-03 10:28:04 · 13 answers · asked by frankv213 1 in Military

2006-10-03 10:27:03 · 6 answers · asked by chiquitabananapr 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

why are so many republicans proud to mention this? is this where the pedophilia starts?

2006-10-03 10:25:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-10-03 10:24:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police