Politics & Government - 2 December 2006

2006-12-02 05:50:49 · 8 answers · asked by alicia a 1 in Other - Politics & Government

What exactly is the law and what does it state?

2006-12-02 05:47:04 · 5 answers · asked by FlamingBananasplit 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-12-02 05:43:09 · 16 answers · asked by pachangero69 2 in Other - Politics & Government

which was seized from an aggressor enemy in a war?

What nation owns Alsace-Lorraine today? How about the Sudetenland? Gdansk?

2006-12-02 05:38:55 · 15 answers · asked by Rick N 3 in Politics

is it just clever technique by the churchies to make it look like everyone "faints at the touch" of a psychologist .....really......cmon you guys youre stirring the muslims up

2006-12-02 05:36:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Speaking on the immigration issue as an American. I came here in 1983 as a Palestinian student from Kuwait. I believe that both sides goal should be to limit immigration around the world. No one wants to leave his life is his homeland to start a new one some where else. I am here because I had no country to go to. I am a Palestinian who was born in Kuwait so after high school my student visa was expired. I believe we should improve the condition in their home country so he\she don’t have to leave home. Not all of us left for money.

2006-12-02 05:34:43 · 12 answers · asked by vv 2 in Immigration

2006-12-02 05:34:18 · 5 answers · asked by tropicalstormkeith 1 in Law & Ethics

with their paper work backed up and it taking months to get it straightened out ?
Why wasn't money put aside for the care of these wounded returning ?

2006-12-02 05:33:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

rank and the reponsibilities?

2006-12-02 05:31:44 · 4 answers · asked by Beaujock 1 in Military

2006-12-02 05:30:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

when ,say a loved one, like a family member or someone realy close to you that's back home dies, does it make you cry? im asking since most people in the military are involved in killing other people so they are used to deaths, but i want to know if they have sensitive feelings or even cry when someone close dies back at home., like say mum or dad, or brother or sister or even your own child,etc? pls help me out, i know it's a difficult question but it's summit i have allways been curious off?

2006-12-02 05:29:31 · 28 answers · asked by w.m.d's_bro 3 in Military

What kind of government do we have? Is it a fascist empire? Is it a corporate state? What do we call it!?

2006-12-02 05:29:21 · 8 answers · asked by hey_finny 3 in Government

Are you political beliefs dogmatic or do they change over time as new facts emerge?

2006-12-02 05:28:55 · 3 answers · asked by You have 23 characters to work 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-12-02 05:26:08 · 10 answers · asked by cooper 2 in Military

Is it because he want to hide this fact from the Democratic Congress: The GOP Congress ignored the fact that Cheney's office was involved in securing a $7 billion no-bid contract for Halliburton, which Cheney headed before becoming VP. The Republicans ignored Cheney's refusal to provide information about his energy task force, which developed policy for the Administration in secret while working with energy company executives?

2006-12-02 05:25:37 · 17 answers · asked by Sean 4 in Politics

ok, according to this graph (link below) the areas highlighted in sky blue are decriminalized areas for marijuana...is this inlcuding recreational use of the drug, medical, or both. someone help cuz i really didnt know this.

2006-12-02 05:25:20 · 7 answers · asked by mzsouthernprincess 3 in Law & Ethics

the other night someone was being noisy with driving a quad in my apartment yard at 1am! i couldn't sleep, could i have phoned the police to get him to stop being noisy?

2006-12-02 05:24:16 · 8 answers · asked by US 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

who thinks that all the polish ect are taking over britain as i do

2006-12-02 05:23:11 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-12-02 05:23:06 · 2 answers · asked by tropicalstormkeith 1 in Law & Ethics

im thinking of becoming the next kerry packer but john howard says that because of winging from the labour voters about champion statisticalbalance thinkers making heaps

systems are in place to make sure i dont happen

2006-12-02 05:22:11 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court confronts whether race can be used in deciding where students to go to school on Monday, testing the willingness of President George W. Bush's two newest court appointees to overturn programs to foster racial diversity.

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In a pair of cases that could affect millions of students nationwide, the high court will consider whether the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equality allows public elementary, middle and high schools to use race as a factor in admissions.

A sharply divided Supreme Court voted 5-4 in 2003 when it last addressed similar issues and ruled that racial preferences can be used in university admission decisions.

Oral arguments on Monday should offer insights into the views on this hot-button social issue from the court's newest members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, conservatives who joined the nine-member court last term.

Alito replaced the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, author of the 2003 ruling that left unresolved whether race also can be used as a factor in deciding admissions to elementary and high schools.

As U.S. Justice Department lawyers in the early 1980s during Ronald Reagan's presidency, both Roberts and Alito strongly opposed quotas and some affirmative action programs designed to benefit minorities.

In one case before the high court, Seattle used race as a tie-breaking factor in deciding who gets into which of the city's public high schools when too many students seek admission to the same school.

School officials there aim for each school to have about 40 percent white students and 60 percent racial minorities, reflecting the city's overall racial composition.

In the other case, the Louisville, Kentucky-area school district used racial guidelines to keep black student enrollment at most elementary, middle and high schools at between 15 percent and 50 percent to maintain diversity.

A group of parents in Seattle and the parent of a white student in Louisville who had been denied entry into his neighborhood school challenged the use of race.

Their lawyers said the Supreme Court has yet to decide a case involving a school district's voluntary use of race-based pupil assignments for a purpose other than to remedy the effects of past segregation.

Both supporters and opponents of the programs cited the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 that outlawed racial segregation in the nation's public schools.

'PRESERVE DESEGREGATED EDUCATION'

Theodore Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., a civil rights group in New York, urged the court to "preserve and pursue the soul of desegregated education enshrined in Brown and its progeny."

"The Orwellian arguments that voluntary integration efforts constitute racial discrimination in violation of the ... (Constitution), if validated by this court, would be an unwarranted and tragic reversal of historic proportions," he said in written arguments.

The Bush administration's top courtroom lawyer, Solicitor General Paul Clement, also invoked the 1954 ruling in urging the court to strike down both programs.

Clement argued the two race-based student assignment plans are just as unconstitutional as the school segregation policy struck down in 1954.

"The promise of this court's landmark decision in Brown and its progeny was to effectuate a transition to a racially nondiscriminatory school system and thus achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis," he said.

Clement and lawyers for the parents will argue against the plans. Attorneys for the two school districts will defend the programs as constitutional

2006-12-02 05:21:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

This could be any election, but presumably a national election for the political leader of your country.

Do you get swayed by the personality of someone? Would you rather have someone who looks nice and talks like a friend over someone who gets the job done, who makes improvements in your country, even if they might be ugly and seem to be someone that could never be your friend?

It's not like you need to be friends with the leader anyway.

2006-12-02 05:20:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

It is a terrbile situation in the Middle East and our troops and American public are being fed a bunch of BS propoganda from the Bush administration. I guess their will always be some crazy loons in the US who support the Bush administration. Those people are clueless. I know my stuff and you don't.

2006-12-02 05:19:04 · 21 answers · asked by Pooper 1 in Military

I have another question regarding child support, just so I understand how everything works. I live in Citrus Heights, California and just finished court orders for my son. The father and I are to pay 50% of all necessary medical, dental, or vision expense, etc. I have sole physical and legal custody of my son and father has 0% timeshare. Judge ordered support to be paid by wage assignment and to pay $486 per month commencing on 9/1/06 and arrearage in the sum of $25.00 per month till paid in full commencing on 1/1/07. Just trying to plan for my son's future, because his support will go in a trust fund for him towards high school, college, etc. NOW, What if he doesn't pay at all? What if he only provided one employment and he has 4? Will the courts go after him and put him in jail? I don't want anything like that. I just want him to act responsible for our son, but I can't make him do anything. His parents are disappointed in him and aren't helping him out.

2006-12-02 05:18:05 · 5 answers · asked by hollyramage3 1 in Law & Ethics

In the cristianity religion its says if you commit adultree then you should be stoned ( be hit by stones till death ) so i dont know how many of the islamic people actually believe this.

2006-12-02 05:17:57 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-12-02 05:17:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2006-12-02 05:15:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-12-02 05:13:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I have a bill from a builder for work to my house that I did not instruct him to do. The builder was instructed by the person who caused the damage.
I feel if the builder makes a mistake why should I have to run around with letters ect to tell him. If he takes me to court at his great expence then he will be more careful next time.
Question is could the court fine me for not telling him of his mistake. I welcome a court case with full publicity of how incompetent the builder is

2006-12-02 05:11:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

What age do you need to be, so you can have a tanslator with you for a US citizenship? Before I found it but I cant find it now.

2006-12-02 05:10:22 · 2 answers · asked by yinh21 2 in Immigration