Politics & Government - 4 October 2006

In conventional warfare, victory conditions are usually easily defined: the leaders of the defeated nation state are forced to sign articles of surrender and command their forces to cease hostilities. Even in the Cold War there was the clear goal of causing the fall of the Soviet Union.

Apparently the War on Terror is a new kind of war. What exactly are our goals and how will we know when they have been achieved?

2006-10-04 16:15:34 · 9 answers · asked by That Marvelous Ape 3 in Military

how do you feel about this?

2006-10-04 16:15:13 · 11 answers · asked by Jamie C 2 in Law & Ethics

Like posterboard companies and magic marker companies with all the protest signs...we libelsa nd independents need.

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2418&Itemid=232&_event=14

See you at the big one tomorrow --185 cities --wow..that's a lot of posters and it's just one...of so many protests since this administration took over and ruined so many things.

Maybe you republicans should invest on the posterboard/market companies. Stock must be going through the roof and we know how much you love your money.

For those sending your typical mean responses..you are just mad...so many people don't like your picks...mad we still have the constitutional rights to peaceably assemble...

2006-10-04 16:14:47 · 6 answers · asked by alternative 2 in Civic Participation

2006-10-04 16:14:14 · 14 answers · asked by john p 3 in Politics

They'll NEVER EVER REGAIN POWER!!

HA HA HA HA HA! Bring it on whiners!!!!

2006-10-04 16:13:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Do people who are breaking the law WHINE and CRY when they get caught?? And then act all offended and b**** and complain about the police when they are just doing their jobs. Here's a thought , maybe just maybe if you stop breaking the law you wouldn't be such haters.

2006-10-04 16:09:43 · 15 answers · asked by ~♥Aimee♥~ 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

I am ending my lease early on an apartment in washington state to buy a condo - the management gave me the option of paying $3200 to get out of the remaining 5 months of the lease (rent being $1325) however I know I can vacate the unit continuing to pay rent until it is re-rented at which time I will not be responsible for the payment. My question is how is it enforced that the rental company actively works to re-rent the unit - is it something that we have to check on and if so how do we know they are being aboveboard with us about their efforts. I calculate that the buyout option makes them 2.5 months worth of rent and therefore a good business deal for them seeing as how unlikely a rental unit will remain open for that length of time in a upscale, newer community complex. Any advice would be helpful.

2006-10-04 16:07:43 · 4 answers · asked by fakepurseninjas 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-04 16:05:55 · 10 answers · asked by john p 3 in Politics

while I do have concern for the 7-year old whose mother wants to stay in this country; I cannot honestly say she is on the right track; she is continuing to break the laws & and that is a poor example she is setting for her son.If it is okay for her to stay here; that law would have to be changed immediately to accommodate other immigrants who are here illeglely. (I don't think illeglely is spelled right and I did use the Spell Check)!

2006-10-04 16:05:52 · 6 answers · asked by Pooks 6 in Immigration

can someone give me some details. and perhaps some of your personal input and comments on the situation. thanks. also back when clinton was president do you think you were better off (finacially) back then or now with bush?

2006-10-04 16:05:41 · 4 answers · asked by bunty 3 in Politics

More and more Mexico drugs are coming here is this because with more and more illegals aliens this also brings increases in drugs,crimes.Is EL PASO THE GATEWAY FOR DRUGS?
EL Paso set's the tone.Bridge inspectors seize 1,667 pounds of pot (5:18 p.m.)
By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
El Paso bridge inspectors made their second-largest drug bust of the year Tuesday at the Bridge of the Americas commercial cargo facility when they found 1,677 pounds of marijuana in a shipment of light fixtures, Customs and Border Protection officials said.

The estimated street value of the drugs is $1.7 million. No arrests were made.
Drug smugglers are increasingly attempting to cross narcotics strapped to the bodies of passengers in vehicles at the international bridges in El Paso, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.
The latest reported seizure occurred about 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Paso del Norte Bridge when two Juárez women were found with a total of 32 pounds of cocaine hidden in girdles they were wearing, federal officials said. The women were passengers in a 1993 Buick Century.

"It used to be very rare, almost never seen, that someone would have dope strapped to their body when they were in a vehicle. It used to be mostly pedestrians coming in the (pedestrian) line" with contraband on their bodies, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Roger Maier said.

Maier said border inspectors in the past 12 months have seen an upward trend in similar smuggling attempts. An exact number of cases was not immediately available.

The girdle cases have involved both men and women. The drug is usually cocaine, which has a higher dollar value than marijuana."It's another thing the officers have to focus on, another threat," Maier said.

In the Tuesday incident, an officer at an inspection booth at the Paso del Norte Bridge became suspicious when some of the occupants in the car were nervous and had a bulky appearance, officials said.

The Buick was sent to secondary inspection.

An officer spotted a bundle in the waistband of one of the women as she got out of the car. A drug-sniffing dog reacted to that woman's seat in the car. A subsequent pat-down search of the women led to the discovery of the cocaine.

Photos provided by Customs and Border Protection showed that both women had large builds.

Martha Alicia Rincon Marquez, 36, was allegedly wearing a girdle with five bundles weighing a total of 13.1 pounds of cocaine. Maria Del Carmen Castro Lucero, also 36, allegedly had five bundles totaling 18.9 pounds of cocaine, Customs and Border Protection officials said. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $640,000.

"This important and sizeable seizure was the direct result of a diligent and focused CBP officer performing a thorough primary inspection," CBP El Paso Port Director David Longoria said in a news release. An investigation continues.

2006-10-04 16:03:44 · 13 answers · asked by Zoe 4 in Immigration

Of the $320 Billion Total Cost So Far:

All the $ pay to the soldiers is sent back to their families in the USA, families who then spend that paycheck in their local towns or cities. If the Average Yearly Paycheck is 30K (which is a fair average for the differing ranks that compose the US forces), and there is 150,000 soldiers in Iraq and 20,000 in Afghanistan (170,000 total) drawing such pay, the yearly cost to pay the Soldiers is $5.1 Billion USD. Which would be about $25.5 Billion since the start of the war.

All the equipment to replace damaged vehicles is bought from US corporations, which means that money comes back to the US factories that make the stuff in the form of pay for the workers who produce it. Thats $275 Billion that went into replacing equipment, buying body armor and protecting soldiers.

Only $18.4 Billion is slated to be spent locally in Iraq and Afghanistan on reconstruction projects.

So if all this money comes back, why complain about the cost?

2006-10-04 16:01:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

The nypd or the new jersey state troopers?Which looks better on a resume when applying for a federal agent postion?

2006-10-04 16:01:56 · 6 answers · asked by bruce 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Hello all :) - I live in NJ & had my son 4 months ago. 2 day was the 1st day in court (Im going for custody/child support). I have'nt spoken to my ex. Boy Friend since Jan. (He would not return e-mails or calls). My ? is ... Up until 2 weeks ago he was working 2 jobs. 1 full time (for years now) & 1 part time (for the summer). He no longer has his part time job (I believe he might of been laid off for the fall/winter). It will be several weeks before they figure out an amount he has to pay in child support (paternity has to be done first). Will the court only ask him for his last few pay stubs - Or does he HAVE to show ALL he's made? Im not sure if they only go back a couple of weeks - because by the time they figure the amount out, his second job will no longer be in the time frame within the last few weeks (instead it will be about a month or 2 later). AND am I able to "mention" to the court that he did have this job "months ago" **or it will be months ago once all is calculated.

2006-10-04 16:01:24 · 4 answers · asked by nocrapps 1 in Law & Ethics

I can remember when if you undermined the efforts of the country to fight an enemy, especcially during time of war, that you risk being tried for treason. It used to be punishable by death (which might be extreme), but even if the sentence were only a stretch in prison, it should still be done. We are in an extremely dangerous time in history and national security is most important now more than ever. We are fighting a dangerous enemy that could destroy us and the entire free world as well. Why are there so many idiots out there doing everything they can to undermine the war in Iraq? Even some polititioans are selling out to the enemy. Don't they understand that we as a country are in grave danger to be annialated ? If we don't defend ouselves overseas we will have a bigger mess than we had on 911 right here in America and even more Americans will be killed than are being killed in Iraq.

2006-10-04 16:01:16 · 8 answers · asked by reba m 1 in Government

Even in our last major fiasco/insurgent war in Vietnam there were major battles but there aren't any in Iraq so how will we know if we've won (or lost) for that matter?

2006-10-04 16:00:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I would like to ask for opinions. If anyone who is European, please do express your opinions. The politics in Switzerland, as some know that has very stable one. So what do you think of its position then?

2006-10-04 16:00:11 · 3 answers · asked by ning59 1 in Politics

At work someone mentioned that there was a bill trying to be passed in Massachusetts which states that children up to age 26 who dont have health insurrance can be covered under their parents. Does anyone have any more info on this? It would be awesome bc it is so hard to find a job with benefits in massage.

2006-10-04 15:59:25 · 1 answers · asked by sugarpie 3 in Politics

2006-10-04 15:59:18 · 1 answers · asked by HEY boo boo 6 in Civic Participation

twice and has been deported (all this has happened before i met him) He is now in U.S. (where i met him and started dating). Right when we started going out he found a job with a construction contractor who has taken him under his wing and given him a job as a laborer, helping to build condos in San Francisco. Since i've only known him for a short time, i proposed i wanted to get to know him more, but when i think that this can become a serious relationship and maybe marriage in the future, what chances are there for me to help him get legal. Or should i let him figure it out on his own and suggest his boss sponsor him? Remember he has two deportations, i don't know the immigration laws that well.

2006-10-04 15:58:21 · 9 answers · asked by rosie71gue 2 in Immigration

Since conservative catholic Priests like molesting little alter boys, and another Republican was caught trying to lure a boy into his love shack, wouldn't Bush have known about these baby rapers?

Since Bush and his boys are listening in on our phone calls and reading our e-mails then you'd think this BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING wannabe would have known about Foley and the others, right? I mean look at all the weird e-mails he was sending to boys. Bush and his network of secret police would have intercepted something, right?

You'd think with all this spying on Americans,that he would have known about the huge number of Republicans taking bribes and kickbacks from Jack Abramoff, right?

And are their any other child molesting, religous conservative inbreds out their?

When the Republicans say "no child left behind they weren't kidding"

Let's play a drinking game. Everytime some goof tries to divert attention away from Republican pediphiles on to Bill Clinton take one shot.

2006-10-04 15:58:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-04 15:56:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The LA Times was trying to predict the 300,000,000th American to be here October 16th, and some say it will be a Latino in LA (because they have a higher birth rate) and some pointing to sheer numbers point out that more babies are still born to non-Latinos than to Latinos so it might be a white mid-west baby. Then the LA Times said:

"There's also a two in five chance that it won't be a baby at all but an immigrant, either arriving legally at an airport or illegally crossing the Arizona desert."

Me, I think that is too much immigration.

What do you think?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-popclock4oct04,1,6768974.story

2006-10-04 15:55:30 · 7 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

2006-10-04 15:54:49 · 8 answers · asked by Polity 1 in Politics

is that the best excuse he can come up with?

2006-10-04 15:54:05 · 10 answers · asked by bush deathgrip 2 in Politics

only the united nations could vote to make war on a country.unless four fives of congress decided to make war.

2006-10-04 15:53:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

http://www.democrats.com/node/10221
Forget personal responsibility that they bathered on about during the Clinton scandal, oh yeah and Packwood who?......It's all the gays fault.

2006-10-04 15:53:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

why cant we all just get along? all i see on this yahoo answers is a bunch of people bitchin at some other people. I see rep. vs. dem. in a name calling contest and i woner? is this really helping at all? i dont see that it is and i wonder how can one american be so pissed at another just over their beliefs. I think its time we all come to our senses and recognize the true enemy. the corporations and the sinister people who run them. capitalism will eventualy turn into a dictatorship. you will see. once the NWO takes over.

2006-10-04 15:53:00 · 10 answers · asked by one glove 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-04 15:52:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

First letter "I"

2006-10-04 15:51:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government