Politics & Government - 21 December 2006

Are lanlords allowed to treat you biasly? We have a Phd who lives above us and is always doing stupid things. He broke the door in by kicking after being drunk one night and always is fighting with his wife wee hours of the morning (we called 311 several times). Ironically, the landlord believes his lies when he says he is not doing any of this or that its not as bad a we make it sound. He sides with him under the logic that he is a Phd and smarter-as if Phds have some higher morality to them. It is ridiculous and I'm sick of him ignoring our pleas when they are objective. Is there anyway to take legal measures for this kind of stuff?

2006-12-21 12:13:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Should he be fighting with Rosie or should he concentrating on a bid for President?

2006-12-21 12:12:38 · 25 answers · asked by SICKO 2 4 in Politics

for his diesel trucks to deport democrats to mars

2006-12-21 12:10:12 · 12 answers · asked by Chunky & Lumpy 1 in Politics

"An evil exists that threatons every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland".

2006-12-21 12:07:33 · 10 answers · asked by Billy M 4 in Politics

I sued my former employer and raised some Constitutional issues. My employer made a "notice of removal" and had the case moved from New York State Court to Federal Court (US District Court). What do I have to do to the complaint to file it in Federal Court. I have multiple causes of action including a Section 1983 action, breach of contract, tortious interference and I am asking for specific performance of my contract. PLease help

2006-12-21 12:03:53 · 4 answers · asked by answer? 2 in Law & Ethics

There is a download site allofmp3.com that I want to use but the terms states that if it is legal issue in your country that we should not subcribe to their site. I notice that they are being sued by music groups. Is it illegal to use here in the US?

2006-12-21 12:02:42 · 9 answers · asked by itsme 1 in Law & Ethics

My 19 yr old female cousin Tori just enlisted with the WI National Guard. Her recruiter told her that she needs to drop 10...more like 30 if you ask me... (her 2 days at Great Lakes begins Dec 29)

Are there any secrets out there for her? She doesn't want to end up in fat class right off the bat....

Oh..and I truley think her recruiter is full of **** when he says she can school first and will never see Iraq .....they do not even have her chosen MOS here in WI...how can he get another state to "pick her up"?

Thanks guys! Been so long since my hubby was a newbie!

2006-12-21 12:01:26 · 4 answers · asked by Smiling Belle 2 in Military

2006-12-21 12:00:48 · 9 answers · asked by peteydidit 1 in Military

We will supposedly have one currency the "amero." Our american constitution and bill of rights will no longer exist since the US won't exist either.

2006-12-21 12:00:18 · 7 answers · asked by freethinker 2 in Politics

Six of the federal offenses were drug crimes, while others included bank fraud, mail fraud, the acceptance of a kickback, a false statement on a loan application and conspiracy to defraud the government over taxes.

Seven of the 16 received no prison or jail time, instead getting probation or small fines. The longest sentence was nine years, for aiding cocaine distribution, followed by a six-year term for conspiracy to possess marijuana.

Is Bush having a doble standandar in War on drug..?

Justice Department Pardon Attorney: http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/

2006-12-21 12:00:11 · 6 answers · asked by PATY.P 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Is there a website that I can go to learn more about this?.. I would like to report a neighbor stealing my mail and a mail man that is being paid off by him to deliver my mail to his address.

Thanks for your help!

2006-12-21 11:57:01 · 17 answers · asked by ABC 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

My son is in the National Gaurd.His unit has served in Iraq and are going again in early 2007. Why?? We are there to train there Police and Army.You can take a college course and become a Police Officer.You go to basic training in the milatary for 12 weeks then your a soldier.They have been there long enough to train the whole country of Iraq.Don't you think its time to come home?

2006-12-21 11:53:59 · 19 answers · asked by Grayrocker 1 in Military

We deserve to have the most talented ones defining our laws and running the province, so whats with all the whining?

2006-12-21 11:52:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Think about it. America is pretty much divided 50/50. If there was one Democrat and one Republican each serving as president at the same time, wouldn't more issues be resolved through negotiations instead of years of arguing who is really right?

2006-12-21 11:52:16 · 15 answers · asked by P W 2 in Politics

2006-12-21 11:52:09 · 13 answers · asked by rduck2003 1 in Government

2006-12-21 11:51:53 · 26 answers · asked by chica 1 in Military

There are 2 people involved. Pandi has very good credit with equity, collateral, etc. Bob was friends with her for 5 years borrowing money all the way. Last April Pandi let Bob put $$ on her credit card in the sum of $5000.00 to get he and his family out of a jam. He has only paid back $300.00 of it. She is such a good kind person that she believes him when he says he'll pay her next week....for the last 8 months. Pandi took out a loan when she noticed her bill was up to approx $15,000.00. She just had thought she misspent some where along the way. She did not use her card for 2 months and then gets a statement today and ta-da! there were $500.00 more charges. She called who charged her and they traced it back to Bob! She went further back (to April) and $11,000 is Bob!
What can she do to get reimbursed? Can she be? Can she sue? (no, there was not a written contract for the first $5,000....only a verbal agreement) Pandi is so gullable....now what?

2006-12-21 11:49:59 · 4 answers · asked by Smiling Belle 2 in Law & Ethics

RUSH: Let's look at the latest news here on the illegal immigration front and these recent raids at Swift & Company. "Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired to replace meat packing workers arrested at Swift & Company plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Greeley, Colorado, during last week's immigration raid, according to union officials." Fewer Hispanic immigrants are being hired. "Local 22 union president Dan Hoppes said Tuesday that 40 to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids, and he said the lion's share of those people were Caucasian." Now, as you remember, ICE people "arrested 1300 people, mostly Hispanic, at six Swift & Company plants in the sweep, and some experts say that the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers and thus higher wages, and thus higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants.

"Several union officials said that Swift, which has denied knowingly hiring illegal workers and has not been charged, improved its wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids." Now, let's look at this. "Experts say the raids could lead to a shortage of meat packers, higher wages, and higher prices for the beef in homes and restaurants." Now, why is this? Well, a shortage of meat packers. That's right, because the illegal immigrants will only do jobs that Americans won't do, and so when you go in there and raid the place, and you throw out a bunch of illegals, well! You're short of workers because Americans refuse to do it! So you gotta pay more, and the higher wages thus lead to higher prices so you people at home are going to get blamed for this.

Well, you're not going to get blamed but you're gonna face the tell you the responsibility for it. But wait. "Before the raids, roughly 90% of the Greeley plant workers were Hispanic. In Greeley, where Swift is headquartered, union local president Ernie Duran said about 75 new workers have been hired, including about 30 Caucasians, 15 Somali immigrants and seven Hispanic immigrants with the rest being US-born Hispanics, but the raid has not dissuaded Hispanic immigrants from seeking work at the plant." So let me see now if I understand this. Illegals don't exactly take "the jobs Americans won't do;" it seems like illegals take the jobs American companies won't offer to Americans. Now when ICE goes in and removes a percentage of the workforce because they're illegal, then Caucasians get the gig, then Americans get the jobs. Am I interpreting this right? (interruption)

Well, I don't know if it's indelicate or not, it seems to me we hear that Americans won't do these jobs, ergo we need this uneducated, low-wage workforce in order to fill these jobs because Americans just won't do it. When you remove some of the uneducated, low-wage workforce, why, 30 Caucasians were hired, which means they will do the work. They will. I know they hired some Somalis, but they will do the work, but we're told they won't, but they do. So if they'll do the work and aren't doing it, then whose fault is it? Is it maybe they're not being given the jobs or offered the jobs. A companion story here. This is from NebraskaStatePaper.com: "Guess who's hiring Americans who happen to be white? Some of the jobs Americans purportedly won't do have apparently been getting more popular among the white people who are doing them these days but for better money than the illegal immigrants they replaced. Union officials say that Swift & Company meat packing plants have been hiring more Caucasians since the feds raided their plants last week looking for workers who were in the country illegally.
"Up to 50 new workers have been hired at the Grand Island plant since the raids that snagged 261 workers there. Hoppes told reporters the lion's share of those people were Caucasian." Now, it didn't say white people because that could be subject to classification as a politically incorrect, so they're "Caucasian." Now, this is a story by a guy named Ed Howard at this website. He says: "Here's the interesting thing about the new hires. Union officials also said that Swift began improving wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, not after. Was this a reflection of the holiday spirit? If so, it also reflected the fact that Swift & Company knew well in advance the raids were coming and that replacements would be needed if illegal workers were hauled off. The company apparently was just being cautious since it never knowingly hires illegal workers but understands that such things can obviously happen.

"The recent hires at Swift might indicate some Americans will do these jobs for better wages and benefits," and of course who would have thought that? Well, it seems that the meat packing industry knew it. If they knew the raid was coming and they raised wages and benefits and bonuses before the raids, they knew that they were going to have to replace these workers. So Americans will do the work if the pay is above what you will pay your uneducated, low-wage illegal immigrant workforce, and this from the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A married couple who embodied the American dream were sentenced yesterday for hiring illegal immigrants to work at their Jumbo Buffet Restaurant in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Juan Bin Yeung, 34, received three months of home incarceration, and her husband, Hau Yeung, 34, was sentenced to three months of prison after they had admitted to hiring 13 illegal immigrants between February of '05 and February of '06.

"'These are hard-working people who in many respects embody the American dream,'" talking about the Yeungs, "Chief U.S. District Judge John Heyburn II said before imposing punishment. He opted for a punishment that he said wouldn't destroy the Yeungs' family or business, while sending a message that the nation's immigration laws must be respected. In a similar case pending in Louisville, Heyburn yesterday accepted a guilty plea from Jian Chai Lin, 35, to a charge of knowingly hiring 10 illegal immigrants over the past year to work at his Radcliff restaurant, Golden China Buffet. As part of a plea agreement, Lin forfeited $42,788 from a restaurant bank account." Well, this is a story that talks about all kinds of penalties that are being meted out for the hiring of illegals. They're just trying to pursue the American dream. So the romance, the romancing: "Well, I know they're illegal, but these people, they were immigrants themselves, just trying for the American dream." This is, "Oh, how can we dare pass judgment? Well, just so poor people. They're just trying to do the right thing, and none of us ever succeed all the time in doing the right thing so how can we hold them accountable?" and so begins the snowball. Here is John in Logan, Utah. John, welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: From a native Sacramentan. I'm in Logan. We are about five minutes from one of the plants that was -- that was raided, and a couple things. Add to that list of newspaper articles, one from the Rocky Mountain News, where apparently there are lines of people waiting to get these jobs and all of them of course aware that their status is going to be in question, so I'm assuming these people are citizens. The interesting thing of course is I'm waiting to see articles like this because I've never bought the tripe that only illegal immigrants will do this kind of labor, so it was posed as though these people are kind of like cannibals, coming in to clean up afterward and then, you know, live off the dead bodies --

RUSH: Vultures, yeah, vultures.

CALLER: Yeah, exactly.

RUSH: Cannibals eat live people. Vultures wait for you to die.

CALLER: Well, one of the guys was a roommate of one of the illegals that was sent off, and he was left with all of his goods in his apartment; he took his animals and gave them to people that could take care of them. So it was really kind of an interesting article. But there are lines of people. Now, I don't know if you saw this, here in Logan, the newspaper that there are 16 indictments that have come down, all related to various forms of fraud and --

RUSH: Oh, come on.

CALLER: -- identity.

RUSH: This is excessive! We're talking about human beings here.

CALLER: I know.

RUSH: They're called citizens and they're human beings, and everybody has to eat.

CALLER: I know, I know, and it's really sad, and one of the editorials led off in our local newspaper saying this was appalling. "We are not first and foremost a country founded upon laws. We are a country founded on compassion," and so I am obviously out of line.

RUSH: (Laughing.) Yes, you are, because you cold-hearted extremist SOB you. Here you -- (laughing.)

CALLER: (Laughing.) And I appreciate you giving voice to the things that I have always felt and believed. So thank you, Rush.

RUSH: Thank you. I'm glad you called. I appreciate that. Thanks very much. Americans will do the work, but I there's always something left out of that equation. The jobs Americans no longer will do, the jobs Americans refuse to do -- at the wages being paid to an uneducated workforce here illegally. That's what's left out.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
(AP: Unions: Fewer Hispanic immigrants hired since Swift & Co. raids)
(NebraskaStatePaper.com: Guess Who Is Hiring Americans Who Happen To Be White?)
(Rocky Mountain News: Loss for one is another's gain)

2006-12-21 11:49:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

He's MINE!
Elisabeth Hasselbeck needs help on the View. They have 3 liberal hags and her.
Elisabeth is my hero too!

2006-12-21 11:47:33 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What Was In Documents Sandy Burglar Stole, Hid Under a Trailer, and Destroyed?

Hillary Clinton ought to be asked about these documents
at every speaking engagement, every campaign stop, every press event."

2006-12-21 11:46:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

The Marines in Haditha were doing what they were trained to do, and now they are being Prosecuted for performing their sworn duty, should all of our Military refuse to fight ? Is this the result of Liberals taking over congress? Would this be happening if it wasn't for Political correctness gone stupid?

2006-12-21 11:42:12 · 11 answers · asked by SICKO 2 4 in Politics

2006-12-21 11:42:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I can't believe I just saw this documentary called "In Plane Sight" and it so looks like Bush was behind the whole thing. What do you think?

2006-12-21 11:41:44 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-12-21 11:41:11 · 7 answers · asked by Scott 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

my old landlord has accused me of stealing a dishwasher when we moved out, the thing is we moved out in mid september and she only just filed a complaint with the police this month. the police have spoken to us and searched our new place as i know they have to do, but can i be charged with no actual proof or evidence that i did it? (and just for the record i didnt take it)

2006-12-21 11:38:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-12-21 11:37:17 · 1 answers · asked by LITTLE GREEN GOD 3 in Government

where are they supposed to get the money to go to college? Is this another way to say phuck off you losers?

2006-12-21 11:36:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

U.S. military prosecutors have charged four American marines with
murder and four with related charges in connection with the 2005
massacre of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, lawyers
announced Thursday.If convected what could their punishment be?

2006-12-21 11:34:49 · 9 answers · asked by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 in Military

....for the average combat soldier? Make no mistake, there is no clear cut answer, just maybe a majority opinion.

My vote goes to World War 1. Probably the most apalling of weaponry in what had to be the most apalling of enviorment. And it seems that the returning soldiers of that war came back with a disposition of the world as only they saw it now far more callous of anyone else. Out of those trenches came Hitler, and those willing to execute his orders. There are more examples, but it's not necessary.

2006-12-21 11:32:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Or is that only in the movies?

2006-12-21 11:32:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military