Politics & Government - 15 December 2006

My company rented a local dance hall for a christmas party until 2 am. At 1:30, one of the guys starts mopping the floor without putting up signs or anything (it was also quite dark in there) and without knowing he had mopped where I was walking, I slipped and broke my hand. I don't really want to take this to court, but this surgery is costing me about $2500 cause a guy didn't put a sign up... Is this grounds for compensation?

2006-12-15 15:57:26 · 9 answers · asked by emperordelta 1 in Law & Ethics

they missed his viegn and it took about 11 or so mins for him to die...he was put to death for murdering someone...i say god moves in mysterious ways.......

2006-12-15 15:54:29 · 18 answers · asked by free-spirit 5 in Law & Ethics

considering the opposing alliances there forming. for exampole, china is partnering with iran and sudan, eniemies of america. if you do believe they maybe entering a cold war, why?

2006-12-15 15:54:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

There are over 100 illegals working there but who do I call?

2006-12-15 15:53:31 · 13 answers · asked by Traveler 2 in Immigration

This decision follows an execution in Florida in which the condemned man took 34 minutes to die.
Now Florida wants to examine whether or not the chemicals they are using constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6632111&ft=1&f=1001

2006-12-15 15:51:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Why DOES she stay with that piece of lying white trash anyway? I mean, she's got it ALL going for her and she's with the perfect bum - rich, white, over 21, lying, cheating, abusive, and a congenital liar.

Can any of you Hillary-lovers explain the paradox? How can an uber-feminina hang with a low-life like White Trash Billy?

2006-12-15 15:50:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

So far every responder does npt know of they went toa state school, or believe that what they pay the state school is the full cost of attending it.

Students at state schools are getting subsidized educations. Don't you get it?

2006-12-15 15:48:47 · 11 answers · asked by bettysdad 5 in Politics

It used to be one of our duties as low ranking enlisted men(persons; sorry); we had to take our turns, and I thanked the first sergeant from the bottom of my heart each and every time that I pulled KP duty. A lot of people think that KP was used as punishment; no it was one of the things a soldier had to do, too often. By the way the 'P' in KP stood for 'police' as I remember. Thanks for this oppotunity to ask another silly question.

2006-12-15 15:47:13 · 9 answers · asked by TRAF 4 in Military

Remember there is no law that states we must pay taxes and our tax dollars only go to pay the interest on the national debt.

2006-12-15 15:46:20 · 16 answers · asked by jessie_goines 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-12-15 15:45:30 · 13 answers · asked by jj318 1 in Politics

2006-12-15 15:43:31 · 10 answers · asked by Jaylynne 1 in Government

(a) If you are in favor of the death penalty, does this mishap change your mind about the topic?

(b)Should the person that incorrectly placed the needle into the prisoners arm be charged with a crime? lose his/her job?

(c)Should lethal injection be banned?

(d) any other pain-free alternatives you can think of?

2006-12-15 15:43:26 · 14 answers · asked by f1avor_f1av 3 in Law & Ethics

Uusally i talk to him every night on the internet or get emails from him! And three calls a week from him!

2006-12-15 15:43:25 · 17 answers · asked by Janie L 2 in Military

How do you feel about our government secretly torturing innocent people? I mean they look for people because they might have the same skin color as a suspect, but have no proof of them threating our country. I heard they said that they don't consider this torture: Pouring water into your mouth non-stop while your lying down. It's so wrong. Why does it seem that our government can't live up to their own democracy?

2006-12-15 15:35:55 · 22 answers · asked by ab_ova_here 2 in Government

2006-12-15 15:34:31 · 8 answers · asked by Dr.O 5 in Other - Politics & Government

I mean, SRSLY.

2006-12-15 15:32:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

How do you reconcile having taxpayers being forced to pay for the bulk of your education with your belief in low taxes, small government, and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps?

2006-12-15 15:32:10 · 14 answers · asked by bettysdad 5 in Politics

2006-12-15 15:31:03 · 10 answers · asked by m c 1 in Military

is it illegal to have a pen knife in CT,?

a switchblade/auto out of the front knife?

iv seen sites online with pen knives and stuff is it ok to buy them? isnt this illegal?

ooo and brass knuckles too.

2006-12-15 15:30:55 · 2 answers · asked by str8_def+jam 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-12-15 15:29:26 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-12-15 15:28:46 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

They are so opposed to the plan that FDR built for them, perhaps they should stop feeding at the troth they hate so much, show a little civil disobedience and send them checks back to Uncle Sam. How many can I count on?

2006-12-15 15:27:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona?

2006-12-15 15:22:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

and what is the role of George W Bush now that he is in a political straight jacket (just like his prisoners in Guantanamo bay)? You have a lot to answer for America. And this will get at least 8 thumbs down.

2006-12-15 15:21:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Come on Jimmy, you are not above reproach!

2006-12-15 15:18:31 · 19 answers · asked by MoltarRocks 7 in Politics

My friend is a very good man, but has a horrible time dealing with his emotions (anger, above all). A guy made him very angry talking badly about his mother and he broke his jaw. My friend was charged with assault and put on probation. His wife then left him and now trying to take full custody of his child. In a nutshell, my friend is charged with assault and about to be violated on 12/22/2006 and need to contend with child support payments, paternity rights, and child custody. He's a very loving father and would do anything for his child. He has no money, and is literally busting his butt trying to make due with $3,600 probation cost due and $1,200 child support payments. I was thinking about purchasing him prepaid legal plan. But, I don't know what to do to help my friend. Any suggestions would greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance as I greatly appreciate your advice on this imperative matter.

2006-12-15 15:16:13 · 8 answers · asked by Maria Gallercia 4 in Law & Ethics

2006-12-15 15:15:26 · 1 answers · asked by Kaymusic 1 in Government

First off, 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB! I'm sick and tired of this patriotic, nationalistic and fascist crap. I stood through a memorial service today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April. During this memorial a number of people spoke about the guy and about his sacrifice for the country. How do you justify 'sacrificing' your life for a war which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power, and his ego. A recent Marine Corps intelligence report that was leaked said that the war in the al-Anbar province is unwinnable. It said that there was nothing we could do to win the hearts and minds, or the military operations in that area. So I wonder, why are we still there? Democracy is not forced upon people at gunpoint. It's the result of forward thinking individuals who take the initiative and risks to give their fellow countrymen a better way of life.

When I joined I took an oath. In that oath I swore to protect the Constitution of the United States. I didn't swear to build democracies in countries on the other side of the world under the guise of "national security." I didn't join the military to be part of an Orwellian ("1984") war machine that is in an obligatory war against whoever the state deems the enemy to be so that the populace can be controlled and riled up in a pro-nationalistic frenzy to support any new and oppressive law that will be the key to destroying the enemy. Example given – the Patriot Act. So aptly named, and totally against all that the constitution stands for. President Bush used the reactionary nature of our society to bring our country together and to infuse into the national psyche a need to give up their little-used rights in the hope to make our nation a little safer. The same scare tactics he used to win elections. He drones on and on about how America and the world would be a less safe place if we weren't killing Iraqis, and that we'd have to fight the terrorists at home if we weren't abroad. In our modern day emotive society this strategy (or strategery?) works, or had worked, up until last month's elections.

My point in this; to show that America was never nationalistic. If anything they were Statalistic (giving their allegiance to the state of their residence). This is shown in the fact that the founders created states with fully capable and independent governments and not provinces that were just a division of the federal government. These men believed that America was a place where imperialistic values would be non-existent. Where the people trying to make their lives better by working hard, thinking, inventing and using the free market would tie up so much of normal life that imperialistic colonization and the fighting of wars thousands of miles away for interests that are not our own would be avoided. They believed this expansion of power could be left to the European nations, the England, France and Spain of their time. However this recent, and current influx of nationalistic feeling has created an environment where giving up your rights, going to a foreign country to fight a people who did not ask for us to be there, nor did their leader do anything to warrant us being there, and dying would be considered honorable and heroic. I don't believe it anymore. I don't believe it's right for any American to go along with it anymore. Yes I know that we in the military are bound by the UCMJ and somehow don't fall under the Constitution (the very thing we're suppose to be defending) but sooner or later there is a decision that every American soldier, marine, airmen and seamen makes to allow themselves to be sent to a war that is against every fiber this country was founded on. I know that when April rolls around I will be thinking long and hard on that decision. Even though we in the military are just doing as we're told we still have the moral and ethical obligation to choose to do as we're told, or to say, "No, that isn't right." I believe that if more troopers like me and the professional military, the officers and commanders, start standing up and saying that they won't let themselves or their troops go to this illegal war people will start standing up and realizing what the heck is going on over there.

The sad fact of the matter is that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq. We are fighting the Iraqi people who feel like a conquered and occupied people. Personally I have a hard time believing that if I was an Iraqi that I wouldn't be doing everything in my power to kill and maim as many Americans as possible. I know that the vast majority of Americans would not be happy with the Canadian government, or any other foreign government, liberating us from the clutches of George W. Bush, even though a large number of us would like that, and forcing us to accept their system of government. Would not millions of Americans rise up and fight back? Would you not rise up to protect and defend your house and your neighborhood if someone invaded your country? But we send thousands of troops to a foreign country to do just that. How is it moral to fight a people who are just trying to defend their homes and families? I think next time I go to Iraq perhaps I should wear a bright red coat and carry a Brown Bess instead of my digitalized utilities and M16.

Notice I never once used the word homeland in any of this. I have a secondary point I want to bring up now. Never once was the term homeland ever used to describe the country of America until Mr. Bush began the department of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks. Taking a 20th century history class will teach us that the most notable countries in the last century that referred to their country in this way were Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Hitler used the term fatherland to drum up support, nationalistic support, for his growing war machine. He used the nationalism he created in the minds of the Germans to justify the sacrifice of their livelihood to build the war machine to get back their power from the oppressive restrictions the English and French had put on them at Versailles. This is the same feeling that has been virulently infecting the American psyche in the last hundred years. This is the same feeling that consoles a mother after her son is killed in an attempt to prosecute an aggressor's war 10,000 miles away. It's also known as Patriotism these days, but I say, "No more." No more nationalistic inanity, no more passing it off as patriotism. Patriotism is learning, and educating oneself to understand what their country really stands for.

I heard a lot during the memorial service about how the dead Marine did so much good for others and how his helping others was like a little microcosm of America helping because we have the power to do so. Well if we have the power to help people why aren't we helping in Darfur where hundreds of thousands of people have died in the last 10 years. Saddam was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 143 Shiites who conspired to assassinate him. (I know all you "patriotic" Americans would be calling for the heads of anyone who conspired to assassinate supreme leader Bush). And yet we spend upwards of 1 trillion dollars and nearing 3,000 lives to help these Iraqis when they don't even want us there. Not to mention we don't have the legal justification to be there. I guess we should wait around for the omnipotent W Bush to decide who we should use our superpowerdom to help next. It's about time to throw him and the rest of the fascists out. Moreover it's about time to start educating Americans about their past and history, and letting them know that imperialistic leaders are not what the founders of this great country wanted.

December 8, 2006

2006-12-15 15:15:22 · 18 answers · asked by NAVY SEAL 1 in Military

2006-12-15 15:14:09 · 26 answers · asked by howard v 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

They finger printed him and did his mug shots on the courthouse sidewalk in the middle of the day. Aren't minors to be protected from this kind of exsposure ?

2006-12-15 15:13:49 · 10 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Law Enforcement & Police