Politics & Government - 20 November 2006

Dui was in PA. Went to jail for 3 weeks. Completed safe driving classes and D/A evaluation. Was accepted into ARD program but never reported to court because I moved to GA. Dont know what to do. Never been in trouble or even drove while intoxicated. Dont reply with you remarks about DUI unless you are qualified to do so. I am a professional myself and would never give out advice if I didnt know it was true by fact. Can charges be switched to GA? What would I have to do? Will I still qualify for ARD?
Please save your judging for someone else cause GOD is my only judge. Dont act like you lived a life like CHRIST.

2006-11-20 07:26:55 · 8 answers · asked by LYSA L 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

In too many elections (like the one just passed) I find myself looking at ballots where I don't want ANY of the candidates elected. But there's no way to vote, "None of the Above" (NOTA)

Would you favor a Constitutional Amendment that all elections include a choice of NOTA, and that if NOTA won an election, a NEW elections would be held in which none of the candidates in the prior election could run?

2006-11-20 07:24:56 · 2 answers · asked by A_Patriot 2 in Government

This morning I was watching the news. I heard there is a possibility of military draft in the near future. What is the likelyhood of this happening? Will women be drafted or just men?

2006-11-20 07:24:53 · 11 answers · asked by ImOuThEreUdigg!! 3 in Military

2006-11-20 07:24:51 · 8 answers · asked by Wendy M 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-11-20 07:23:46 · 24 answers · asked by dewar1963 1 in Military

I was wondering b/c i've just got done seeing the Discovery channel's: Iran: the most dangerous nation, and pretty much (not all) of its citizens HATE the U.S.A.!!! on top of that they support the shiiite, and have nuclear ambitions....so my question to you is should we invade them? and could we defeat Iran?

2006-11-20 07:23:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I am an American Veteran of the Iraq war. I told my coalition friends as I was leaving thanks.(Had some British officers on my ship for awhile) i believe it is high time for Americans to recogonize it is Not just an American War. We do to hard stuff, Yes, but any soldier lost from any nation deserves just reward.

What do you think??

List of troops and country lost to them.
http://icasualties.org/oif/PieCountry.aspx
http://icasualties.org/oif/

2006-11-20 07:20:52 · 13 answers · asked by devilduck74 3 in Military

but they Required 50% of the whole anglo/white population to vote YES but just from the "Anglos and white background". (people from hispanic Background are not allowed to vote)

Now would you vote (yes) or (no)

2006-11-20 07:20:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I know I'D feel a whole lot safer!

2006-11-20 07:17:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Personally I believe old enough for legal responsibilities-old enough for booze. I'd like to know what other people think.

2006-11-20 07:15:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I love that lib so damn much but still, I don't wanna go. As a liberal, I have plenty of options. Queer, druggie, traitor. Which is best?

2006-11-20 07:14:26 · 14 answers · asked by blood for oil 1 in Politics

If I took my neighbors cat, who is illegally being kept outside 'un-neutered' and went and had the cat fixed, paid for costs, etc. and then returned the cat?

2006-11-20 07:14:07 · 3 answers · asked by Psychedelic Worm 3 in Law & Ethics

I am starting the Denver County Sheriff's Training Academy on the 27th. What should I expect the first week I'm there? Serious answers please!

2006-11-20 07:14:00 · 6 answers · asked by Angie 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

My mate has got a speeding ticket through but we are not sure who was driving out of three of us insured on his car... who gets the points if we dont know who was drinving as it was back in July? please help... darn cameras

2006-11-20 07:10:58 · 21 answers · asked by 2 good 2 miss 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

I deal with children in the school district and I see them being very disrespectful to themselves and to adults. I hear them using profanity as if it is okay, towards adults. But when you deal with it, in a professional manner the parents want to come up in the school and make a bigger scene then the students. What exactly do that show?

2006-11-20 07:07:37 · 17 answers · asked by ressie re 2 in Law & Ethics

if my father was in the army and my brother is in the army and my father is decesed now am i able to get a scholarship for my college

2006-11-20 07:06:41 · 5 answers · asked by eddie 1 in Military

my fianc'e is charged with simple assault but all he did was curse someone out is that really simple assault?

2006-11-20 07:05:45 · 10 answers · asked by jenn jenn 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

So charlie is mearly trying to prove a point. about the draft. Ok fair enough. He knows it won't pass but he is proceeding anyway. In the events of the day does this not seem a little childish? Aren't there more pressing things than proving a point. I mean we all get it right? Is this the way we want our taxes to support our elected officials? I mean who is suppose to be keeping these people in line? and who is responsible for the money spent on trying to pass bogus laws? When does someone take responsibility? No matter what side of the isle. Who should have to pay for the time and money being spent on this?

2006-11-20 07:05:06 · 5 answers · asked by Stand 4 somthing Please! 6 in Law & Ethics

Neither party seems to stand for anything. Both burn your tax money like it was firewood. Both limit your freedoms. Never has it been more true that, "If Government is the answer - it must be a pretty stupid question."

So why don't Americans wake up and realize that for every dollar they pay in taxes, they get maybe 10 cents in benefits? Why don't they figure out that every new law just adds to the cost of government? Government is the biggest employer in the country - but it doesn't produce anything but misery.

Followup question: Is it time for a second revolution?

2006-11-20 07:04:31 · 10 answers · asked by A_Patriot 2 in Government

Say it was USA versus China.

What defences would there be against such bombs.
Every bomb used on both sides would destroy hold cities.

So how would it be fought? With what weapons?

2006-11-20 07:04:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Jeb Bush is a stud.

When he dismantled affirmative action in Florida eight years ago, he was politically and legally adept enough to do so in a manner that avoided Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's accusations of racism.

In fact, his program, One Florida, boasted a record $761.2 million dollars spent by the state with legally certified minority-and-female owned contractors .

This past fiscal year, Florida was very good to minority-business people.

Should other states examine Florida's example?

2006-11-20 07:02:27 · 5 answers · asked by why? 1 in Government

An exfriend of my son has used my son's name for a few traffic situations, and the boy has done it before. Now we have to go to court three hours away. Is there anything we can do? I do have police reports & newspaper aricles show where the ex-friend has used my son's name. Please help!! We really do not want this on his record. The wild thing, when I called the court the lady that I talked to said that we can make it all go away for $210.00, or we should bring the boy that was speeding with us.

2006-11-20 07:01:14 · 8 answers · asked by just me 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

BRAZIL
Brazilian town is losing its young to American dreamBrazilians, clamoring for the American dream, are the fastest-growing group to cross the U.S. border with Mexico illegally.
BY MONTE REEL
Washington Post Service
GOVERNADOR VALADARES, Brazil - Maria Lierje was at the kitchen table the other day, wearing a shirt with the image of a saint she believes helps her cope with lost causes. Next to her was one such case, eating sponge cake and wiping milk from the dusky adolescent shadow on his upper lip.

Guilherme, her son, is 14, so he probably has another few years before he sets off on a daredevil journey to the United States. In the meantime, she tries to remind him of the five months her oldest son spent in a Texas jail after trying to cross the Rio Grande, and of his uncle, who nearly died of hunger while trying to cross the border.

''What can I do?'' she asked. ``I tell him he can make a good life here, that it's not that bad. But he's a man. I can't change his mind.''

TRADITION

Getting to the United States is a coming-of-age tradition for the men of this family, and for many others in this country, apparently: U.S. immigration officials believe Brazilians were the fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border between 2000 and 2005. Last year, only Mexicans and Hondurans are believed to have crossed in greater numbers.

Brazil's distance from the United States makes emigrating a complicated process that requires both resources and familiarity with a business sector that helps coordinate border-crossing attempts. The process became more complicated last year when, with encouragement from the United States, Mexico began requiring tourist visas of Brazilians. The result, according to U.S. Border Patrol officials, has been a dramatic decrease in apprehensions at the border -- from more than 31,000 in fiscal 2005 to an estimated 1,500 in the most recent fiscal year.

But that doesn't mean people aren't still trying. Now many travel agencies here fly customers to Guatemala, where they can enter Mexico with less risk of getting caught, or try their luck on a boat. Some even go to Portugal, from where it is said to be easier to get into the United States with false documents.

''If I could, I'd go tomorrow,'' Guilherme said. ``All the men in the family except my father are there -- two brothers, all four of my uncles. It must be fun there.''

Guilherme's image of the United States is a collage of snapshots sent from his brothers in Florida and Massachusetts; tales of local legends, like the man who emigrated to the Boston area and now owns a $6 million house; stories of newborn children with U.S. citizenship.

Almost all Brazilians go to the United States in search of economic opportunity, but they aren't the poorest of the poor. Guilherme's family, for instance, lives in a modestly comfortable home. If he stayed in this city, he would probably work in his parents' market, supplementing a modest income with occasional gifts from relatives abroad. The prospect holds no charm for him.

In America, he believes, even the disasters are beautiful.

''I got this picture once, from my brother, of a hurricane that hit near where he lives in Florida,'' he said. ``It was so cool.''

REMITTANCES

Across the railroad tracks on the outskirts of the city, armies of yellow construction machines crawl over denuded fields. Workers dig ditches in 90-degree heat. A total of 416 lots have been offered for sale in this subdivision, and all have been pre-sold. Nearly every one was bought with money sent home from the United States, according to local officials.

The site manager is considering naming the development ``The Neighborhood of Immigrants.''

Such a name wouldn't exactly be bracingly original here. A local newspaper, for example, is called the Immigrant and has correspondents in Massachusetts, Florida and Connecticut. The city itself has been referred to as ''Little America'' and ''Governador Vala-dolares'' -- a reference to all the dollars sent home by stateside relatives.

Between 40,000 and 50,000 people from Governador Valadares are estimated to be living in the United States, most of them illegally. About 60 percent of the money flowing through the city is directly or indirectly linked to those relatives, city officials estimate.

''There are a lot of neighborhoods here built solely with the money sent back from the U.S.,'' said Raimundo Santana, editor of the Immigrant, who recently returned after living legally in Massachusetts for eight years. ``You see a lot of homes with additions and parts that have been remodeled, all from their relatives.''

Brazil received about $6.4 billion last year from its citizens who live abroad, second only to Mexico among the countries of Latin America. A University of Sao Paulo study estimated that about 14 percent of the dollars sent from the estimated 1.5 million Brazilians living in the United States end up in this city of about 230,000 residents.

2006-11-20 07:00:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Slow day in the cube

2006-11-20 06:59:07 · 7 answers · asked by Sweet and Lo 2 in Politics

ok so a teacher at my school its taking out hings when we accidently leave them in the classroom and i was looking for some kind of rule or law that i can show her any ideas?

2006-11-20 06:58:22 · 16 answers · asked by amy h 1 in Law & Ethics

I think that If it is not fair/repressive to females than it should be banned/illegal

2006-11-20 06:58:06 · 6 answers · asked by Buda B 3 in Law & Ethics

ok so a teacher at my school its taking out hings when we accidently leave them in the classroom and i was looking for some kind of rule or law that i can show her any ideas?

2006-11-20 06:58:00 · 7 answers · asked by amy h 1 in Law & Ethics

When every study shows that liberals have on average higher education, the viewers of the Daily Show are MUCH more educated than those who watch O'Reilly, and George W. Bush is the face of their party.

P.S. the odds that those bashing me being more intelligent than I are about 1 in 467,000 per psycological texts, so please, tread lightly.

2006-11-20 06:53:26 · 20 answers · asked by Derek M 1 in Law & Ethics

It was all cut and paste and logical fallicies and idiots swore it was true when all the arguements used to strenghten Moore's comments wer not factaul or not even possibly provable?

Why are people that stupid that is the question?

2006-11-20 06:52:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Question: Why do liberals promote?
promiscuity, abortion and immoral behavior

Answer:
I find it interesting that under Bill Clinton, the number of abortions went down every year, but since W came in, the number has gone up.

So it is now Bushs fault more people got abortions? How many people are going to have a kid and then go "wait bush is in office, lets kill our kid"

Is there anything you wont blame Bush for?

2006-11-20 06:50:02 · 16 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7 in Politics