Politics & Government - 4 December 2006

2006-12-04 06:01:06 · 12 answers · asked by Lou 6 in Politics

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.

State troopers found 10 bundles of pot totaling 214 pounds hidden in Leticia Villareal Garcia’s car trunk last year when they stopped her outside Bisbee, in far southeastern Arizona.

Villareal, 61, told jurors before they convicted her Thursday that her only regular income was a $275 monthly welfare check, but she frequently played bingo and occasionally won thousands of dollars.

Prosecutor Doyle Johnstun said the game was Villareal’s undoing.

‘She’s got a bingo problem’
“People who play bingo almost every night of the week end up losing in the long run,” Johnstun told jurors. “The underlying issue is that she’s got a bingo problem, which explains why an otherwise nice person might get sucked into something like this.”

Jurors rejected Villareal’s argument that she’d been tricked into carrying the dr

2006-12-04 06:01:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

On hearing a Birmingham council changed its mind & let a muslim women have her pic on her drivers licence with a full face veil.
...after hearing a primary school in brum where a boy was told that for PE he could wear a football shirt of any kind but NOT an England shirt as it may offend others!
Take it or leave it. I am tired of this nation (UK) worrying wheather we are offending some individual or their culture.
I am not against immigration, nor do i hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to the UK.
However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to the Uk, and apparently some born here, need to understand. As Britons we have our own culture, society, language and our own lifestyle. Our culture has been developed over cenruries of war & struggle.
You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.
IMMIGRANTS. NOT BRITONS MUST ADAPT.
Stop moaning and dont forget we have something in England called "The right to leave"

2006-12-04 06:00:57 · 20 answers · asked by spidermike 2 in Immigration

2006-12-04 06:00:19 · 12 answers · asked by area52 6 in Military

anything you hear or read you can find someone with the exact opposite view with so called facts... so why do you believe what you believe? Is it an enharant belief system or something you learned through pressure or exposer..

2006-12-04 05:59:55 · 12 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7 in Politics

I'm late to the game and not up on the lingo.

What the heck is with trying to insult liberals by calling us koolaid drinkers?

Isn't koolaid a yummy flavored sugar-water loved by all?

2006-12-04 05:54:51 · 9 answers · asked by sparky52881 5 in Politics

michael monti is the inmate i'm looking for

2006-12-04 05:52:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-12-04 05:52:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

so do you think theodore roosevelt was a good or bad president?please state why. my opinion is that he was both.

2006-12-04 05:51:09 · 12 answers · asked by tweedledee 3 in Other - Politics & Government

I'm thinking we were better off in the cold war, with covert actions and assainations

Plus we got 30 years of Spy movies out of it. What will Iraq produce 30 years of movies about a Army not allowed to win.

2006-12-04 05:50:12 · 5 answers · asked by 43 3 in Politics

2006-12-04 05:50:12 · 5 answers · asked by Sweetcheeks 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-12-04 05:47:11 · 3 answers · asked by reedeeboyd 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

an electric engine that was equal to a combustible engine but it was cleaner, cost less to maintain, 200% cheaper fuel costs, had the same range and speed as a combustible engine..etc. just assume all these things.....

or would they do everything in their power to eliminate it?

2006-12-04 05:47:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Some of these people who responded were from Bajrangbali group and they were uncivil and like Nazi's.My Question to you is and I can see from the percentage of answers IS INDIA AGAIN GOING TO DOGS?????????

2006-12-04 05:44:32 · 8 answers · asked by Dr.O 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-12-04 05:43:26 · 23 answers · asked by steph 1 in Military

My daughter, who is 5, lives with me and her stepfather. Her biological father lives across the country, pays child support, but rarely sees her. My mother has been part of my daughter's life since she was born. Should something happen to me, it is obviously in the best interest of my daughter to be with either my husband, who is her "daddy", or my mother. Is there an easy way to make it so that she stays with one of them, or will her biological father have to sign over his parental responsibilities so that my husband can legally adopt her? Do courts look at situations like this and determine the child's best interest outside of biological parents?

2006-12-04 05:42:23 · 22 answers · asked by Leah B 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-12-04 05:41:33 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What's the difference. If this is a question that everyone knows the answer to, I apologise!

2006-12-04 05:40:55 · 7 answers · asked by The Claw is my master 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Isn't a defeat spread out over many years even more humiliating? You can be certain more innocent Iraqi's will die, and therefore more terrorists will be created, and sworn to revenge. Not to mention the increasing number of dead and maimed American soldiers.

2006-12-04 05:40:28 · 25 answers · asked by Ringo G. 4 in Politics

When this individual:
Planned to invade Iraq - even conquer the Middle East - without a Congressional Declaration of War as required by the Constitution, in violation of the UN charter
Allowed September 11 terrorist attack to succeed by ignoring numerous warnings and failing to take precautions against hijackings

2006-12-04 05:40:05 · 7 answers · asked by Sean 4 in Politics

12 immigrants got caught this week in the city that I live in. Immigration went to a construction site and caught all of them. The immigrants, 8 from Mexico and 4 from Brazil were working for as little as 20.00 a day. Whos the bad guy, they for being illegal or the Contractor for paying them that little? Please give me your opinion. Do you feel bad they are getting paid that little? Or are you mad that the contractor is paying them so little? Or send them back?

2006-12-04 05:38:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

If you could buy any country ( dictator of it) what would it be?

Uganda. Those gorillas need saving!

2006-12-04 05:37:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

There Are Hardworking, Taxpaying, Established ILLEGAL ALIENS
With Good Family Values
And No Criminal Record
(Except Of Coarse, That Little BORDER JUMPING Incident)

Lets Say That 25 Percent Of 20 Million ILLEGAL ALIENS
( 5 Million )
Are Respectable And "Law Abiding"

The Other 15 Million Are NOT Paying Taxes
Are Using False And Stolen Credentials
And Sucking Our Social Services DRY

Should We IGNORE The 15 Million CRIMINALS
On Behalf Of The Decent 5 Million ??

Should An Amnesty Be Granted To 20 Million
Because A Handful Of Them Do Not Deserve Deportation ??

The Question :

Can We SELECTIVELY Enforce Our Laws ??
Or
Should ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS Be Deported Upon Discovery ??

The Established Churchgoers
Can Apply For LEGAL Entry From Their Home Nation
AFTER They've ALL Been Deported

Keep In Mind
1/2 Of All ILLEGAL ALIENS In The USA
Have Arrived Since Bush Took Office In 2000
There Are 10 Million ILLEGAL ALIENS That Have Been Here
For 6 Years Or LESS

2006-12-04 05:37:21 · 14 answers · asked by JD 2 in Immigration

i think i need to know this because,it's like this country is under England but with different impression by the scotish.

2006-12-04 05:36:40 · 6 answers · asked by olanrewaju o 1 in Government

Kofi Annan apparently thinks so.

2006-12-04 05:36:31 · 11 answers · asked by luperith 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-12-04 05:35:30 · 10 answers · asked by Andre H 1 in Immigration

The Democrats and Republicans are of the same mind; elected officials hardly represent people's interests; any type of extreme opinion, especially that of the "left", is marginalized; voting has became a farce with rigged elections and the rest; and civil liberties are chipped away at every corner.

2006-12-04 05:35:08 · 18 answers · asked by rakasin 2 in Politics

So I have a Court orderd 10 hours of communtiy service just wondering what other people have done or what i can do

2006-12-04 05:34:20 · 4 answers · asked by Lab Runner 5 in Law & Ethics

i was told i needed a letter of testamentary to show rightful ownership of an account.

2006-12-04 05:33:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

John kerry is dead last as far as policticians Americans have faith in?

I can't remember where I saw the article however.

It's really no big surprise is it?

2006-12-04 05:33:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government