Politics & Government - 29 October 2006

they lie to the public to win elections, lie about forghn policies, lie th the public that global warming don,t exist,lie about the iraq war, i mean these lies are enough for anyone to be sent to hell.the sooner the better i say!!! wot do u all think?

2006-10-29 04:22:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Should you get life inprison for murdering humans AND animals?

I mean Murder is Murder.

But they class it as slaughter.

What is the difference between Man slaughter and Murder?

And since when are we more important than any other living creature on this earth?

We are not the most intelligent, nor the fastest nor the strongest.

So when did they start making human life more valuable than everything else?

2006-10-29 04:20:36 · 14 answers · asked by Elite117 3 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-29 04:20:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I realise that global warming is a reality and we all must concentrate on doing something to reduce atmospheric pollution. I wonder whether the situation has been hi-jacked by this British Goverment into a way of more taxation,now they want even more tax on car fuels and on aircraft fuel which is virtually untaxed at the moment. Aircraft fuel tax would only have an effect if every country did it and of course they won't.Of course automobiles,aircraft etc cause pollution but the worst polluting countries in the world like America,India and China to name a few are doing virtually nothing to combat the problem.Too many world leaders are in thrall to the oil industry (Bush for one) and big business to allow real change to take place. Yes,I know a journey begins with the first step but let all of us step off to-gether.

2006-10-29 04:17:58 · 9 answers · asked by Rob Roy 6 in Other - Politics & Government

they say no human being is illegal,,,i like to try that in Mexico, should we apologize for hurting their feelings,,,,if I break in and rob my neighbors house,,,and he dare calls me a criminal I'm calling the aclu,,,lol,,,,,these pro-illegals are straight from the looney bin

2006-10-29 04:16:41 · 17 answers · asked by justsayin 1 in Immigration

is there a law to say how close a sign about parking restrictions must be to the bit of road that it governs?

2006-10-29 04:16:16 · 4 answers · asked by PinkPoss 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

every question on the uk site is either anti uk or usa...or a question to do with muslims wearing veils.....this site is a breath of fresh air

2006-10-29 04:15:04 · 9 answers · asked by michael b 5 in Immigration

2006-10-29 04:11:55 · 5 answers · asked by love_jack_russells 1 in Military

I have 2 boxes of "Meals Ready-To-Eat's... the boxes have "DATE PKD/LOT: 1306" and "INSP/TEST: 11/04 0442"

So I'm thinking that they were supposed to be reinspected in November '04, correct? If thats true, how long can that date be extended after a proper "inspection"?

2006-10-29 04:09:36 · 17 answers · asked by jccjr1982 2 in Military

Axis of Evil.

Do you think those three words instigated the current behavior of Iran and South Korea?

I'm the Decider.

Do you think those three word angered the American people i.e You are not the decider, WE are the deciders.

2006-10-29 04:09:21 · 10 answers · asked by reslstancelsfutlle 4 in Politics

2006-10-29 04:08:17 · 15 answers · asked by Snowshoe 3 in Politics

2006-10-29 04:07:45 · 4 answers · asked by pamela 1 in Elections

What if we put a 200 yard warning by the mexican border that says if you cross this you will be shot because you are considered an intruder. Wouldn't this make less people attempt to cross the border? I mean i don't want a nucular bomb being smuggled in and i think that this would be the most effective way of handling things. I mean there was a recent survey about how may drugs come from mexico. They said that nearly all marijuana comes from mexico and almost 90% of cocaine and 60% of cocaine! That is outragous. I think if we put the 200 yard regulation into act.. I think that it would make the US a whole lot safer.

2006-10-29 04:03:23 · 9 answers · asked by cagurlsrule212121 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-29 04:03:05 · 14 answers · asked by pixie007 4 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-29 04:02:44 · 4 answers · asked by I mustache you a question 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-29 04:01:32 · 3 answers · asked by vyecoppendale 1 in Law & Ethics

Nobody believes their worn out tripe - yet they just keep plugging away for hours? Paid hacks trying to jam the site for real discussion?

2006-10-29 04:01:03 · 10 answers · asked by oohhbother 7 in Politics

2006-10-29 03:58:43 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

this is a toughie people.. do you think they should take responsibility for the death of the two children., or should the guy that did the work do the time? whatever, someone has to take the rap. what do you think guys?

2006-10-29 03:57:32 · 6 answers · asked by Spurs17 4 in Law & Ethics

An employee at my credit union has been gossiping about my financial transactions. Who can I file a complaint with? Would it be the board members or is there somewhere higher I can go? Thanks.

2006-10-29 03:54:40 · 8 answers · asked by MissDanielle 3 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-29 03:53:55 · 22 answers · asked by ChaliQ 4 in Politics

Now this is already the cause of several disputes between me and the neighbours (we were ok before they bought the dog) but now I am reaching the point that my patience is wearing thin.

The dog (a huge and extremely loud German Shephard) is always kept outdoors in their garden and just constantly barks. If I want to relax in the garden I am constantly disturbed by the barking and the occasional snarls. I have tried reporting to the council but they won't do anything. Even during the nights it would bark. I even tried to visit the neighbours to meet the dog but I was attacked!

It is costing me sleep and I found it extremely difficult to study with the constant racket. What should I do? Should I pursue a legal case against the neighbours?

PS: I would appreciate answers from anyone with a good knowledge of laws and/or council regulations in the UK!

2006-10-29 03:52:40 · 5 answers · asked by Jimmy 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-29 03:52:02 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-10-29 03:50:03 · 20 answers · asked by guitarjas 2 in Politics

2006-10-29 03:49:35 · 13 answers · asked by Gary 2 in Politics

2006-10-29 03:48:18 · 13 answers · asked by Idonta Feelwell M.D. 1 in Politics

I have met someone I really love from china and want her to come so we can be married, but I do not know the imigration laws. I am a convicted felon and do not know if that will stop the plan to get married.

2006-10-29 03:46:45 · 6 answers · asked by donaldshippy49 1 in Immigration

Or do they burn them in protest?

2006-10-29 03:45:20 · 10 answers · asked by . 4 in Politics

Philistinism is used to describe a particular attitude or set of values. When a person is called a Philistine (in the relevant sense), he is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, and/or spiritual values. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal.

Philistinism affords a contrast to Bohemianism, as the character of a smugly conventional bourgeois social group perceived to lack all the desirably soulful 'bohemian' characteristics, especially an artistic temperament and a broad cultural horizon open to the avant-garde. To the chosen few, the 'Philistines' embodied a smug, anti-intellectual threatening majority, in the 'culture wars' of the 19th century.

Reference: www.wikipedia.org

2006-10-29 03:45:02 · 6 answers · asked by Tom Celica 1 in Elections

By Thomas Keyes
June 28, 2005

After reading 8 books in English and Russian on the Second World War, including William L. Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, I have concluded that the role of the USSR was what decided the victory of the Allies over the Axis. It may be the case that even without the USSR, the Allies would have triumphed ultimately, but, of course, this is something that can never be tested.

The only problem is that if you ask the average American who won the war, he will probably say, “The US and its Allies did”, as if the great defender in the war had been the US. Even at useless-knowledge.com, a former contributor railed at someone from the Netherlands for not showing sufficient gratitude for American sacrifices in WWII on behalf of the Dutch, but I imagine that the same contributor (Hughes) would never berate Americans for not showing sufficient gratitude for the sacrifice made by millions upon millions of Russians and other Soviets. It may well be the case that those millions of dead were what kept Hitler too busy to win in the Western Europe and made the invasion of the US impossible for him. There’s no doubt that the US was the victor in the Pacific, however.

Even if someone should disagree that the Soviet effort was the keystone in the arch of triumph, from a strategic point of view, he certainly has no grounds to dispute the observation that the number of Soviet dead far exceeded that of any other nation.

According to Wikipedia, the total toll of war dead on both sides, Allied and Axis, including military and civilians, was 62,536,500. Of this number, 23,200,000 were Soviet citizens. This comes to 37% of the total. The Russian historian, Dmitri Volkogonov, in his 4-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, puts the figure even higher, with an estimate of 27,000,000, not counting the 8,000,000 or so who were shot or sent to their deaths in Arctic labor camps. The US suffered the loss of 418,500. So Soviet deaths outnumbered American deaths 55 to 1.

The object of the war, though, was to kill, not to die, and it may be that America’s contributions of weapons, planes, ships and tanks was a factor of paramount importance. I’m not trying to belittle America’s role.

In the same article, Wikipedia, lists the Holocaust dead as numbering 5,754,000. How many times in a week are we reminded to remember the Holocaust? And surely we should. Even if the figure was somewhat less, as some authorities maintain, the Holocaust was still an abhorrent deed. We should definitely commiserate with the victims.

But why are we never asked to remember the Russians who died for us? Of course, they weren’t thinking of us when they died. Nonetheless, it surely wouldn’t hurt to commemorate their sacrifice too. Then, of course, 10,000,000 Chinese died in the conflict too, but everyone knows that Chinese don’t matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_casualties_by_country

Illustrative of my experience with people was a conversation I had about three years ago with a Hispanic American of around 30. Actually we were arguing about religion, and he was an inerrantist, so I mentioned the WWII dead as evidence that the Beatitudes are bunk. Two minutes later, he said that I was the one who had mentioned the Jews. I hadn’t said a word about Jews. This is the way many Americans would summarize WWII: Hitler was killing Jews and therefore the US intervened and conquered Hitler, and that’s the whole story.

2006-10-29 03:44:23 · 10 answers · asked by ! 1 in Military