I found out recently that my Great Aunt, who is 82 years old, had given money to this local man who told her he would buid her a carport for her truck, well, 6 months have passed by & stiil no carport. My first thought was to go to his place of work & kick his *** all over south Texas. But then my cousin told me we can help her get her money back & then some in court.
So what is the Legal term? I'd appericiate it.
2007-01-19 09:22:55 · 11 answers · asked by Lorenzo A 2 in Law & Ethics
Think about it. If you just want the budget balanced (who doesn't), that doesn't really make you a fiscal conservative. The socialist governments of Scandinavia probably have lower deficits than ours, but I can't apply the label "conservative" to them.
Back to the US. 100 years ago, many today would describe the "sexual" climate as repressive. Divorce was shameful, and rare! Much less unwed parenthood! Sex (in principle) was for marriage, period. In practice, I'm sure it wasn't - plenty of shotgun weddings!
But if you're a TRUE fiscal conservative, you don't want to pay for welfare! A social liberal would have to say "do what you want, just don't bug me!" But with no guidance, we'd have tons of poor, unwanted kids. This sounds like Scrooge to me, not some enlightened person!
No, I don't want the government telling me what to do. But I think there are limits. Used to be, CHURCHES helped the poor. And there was no welfare. But there were RULES.
Thoughts?
2007-01-19 09:22:43 · 14 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics
positive thing for them to hear isn't asking a lot?
The media covers all the negative to get everyone mad and fighting amongst ourselves , rise above that ...
Put party politics aside - snide remarks on hold and put the collective resources on the internet to the test.
No the pat answer of supporting the troops but not the war won't cut it....
It is one (1) positive thing about IRAQ said by Nancy Pelosi.
Prove yourself above the rest and find me an answer. See it as patriotism or troop support or just a good old pat yourself on the back.
2007-01-19 09:22:11 · 12 answers · asked by Akkita 6 in Military
2007-01-19 09:19:10 · 22 answers · asked by John16 5 in Elections
Why do they seem to think that? Why are all the Mexicans who are willing to risk life and limb confronting the United States government instead of their own?
2007-01-19 09:18:03 · 22 answers · asked by Bill Clinton 1 in Immigration
2007-01-19 09:18:03 · 10 answers · asked by LOUIE 1 in Immigration
Texas has been the biggest executioner since the death penalty was reinstated! As most of us know, those who have been executed can never be returned from the dead! That being the case, would you consider this before your final judgement on killing a person who may, very likely, be innocent?
By JEFF CARLTON, Associated Press Writer
46 minutes ago
DALLAS - In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared by DNA evidence.
That is more DNA exonerations than in all of California, and more than in Florida, too. In fact, Dallas County alone has more such cases than all but three states — a situation one Texas lawmaker calls an "international embarrassment."
2007-01-19 09:18:01 · 16 answers · asked by cantcu 7 in Law & Ethics
2007-01-19 09:16:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
2007-01-19 09:15:12 · 9 answers · asked by justagirl33552 4 in Other - Politics & Government
It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
—Ret. Capt. Bill Pries, JAGC, Navy
2007-01-19 09:14:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
2007-01-19 09:14:47 · 14 answers · asked by I think... 6 in Elections
To tell you the truth I strongly dislike George W. Bush. Tell me what you think??
2007-01-19 09:14:02 · 8 answers · asked by Deesha 2 in Government
Low grades in school ,cheer leader for a losing team , more comfortable hanging with Sodomites in sheiks outfits and slapping butts in locker rooms ,He bankrupted several , hundred million dollar companies , wasting all the assets . Now he has done the same thing to the nation .
Name one positive thing he has done and do not for a minute try and tell me the economy . Take out the billions paid in wages to those people who's only purpose is to kill and destroy others and the economy is down . Gdp /minus weapons and those salaries paid to workers is down . The only jobs he created are bomb making and street sweeping .
2007-01-19 09:11:31 · 26 answers · asked by -----JAFO---- 4 in Politics
if i drive to canada from the u.s. do i need a passport now
2007-01-19 09:08:15 · 7 answers · asked by jaybavet 2 in Immigration
The argument against AA seems to be the same.. reverse discrimination, yet why aren't people fighting just as hard to make sure that there are no injustices in America at all or is it the old staple "if it don't affect me then its not my problem? Why not try to change it to insure that all American's are truly treated fair? better yet lets do away with nepotism, grandfathering, legacy admission and "The hook up" all these things possibly reward the less qualified. Then we can truly have a even playing field, the fact that these are not official laws don't make them any less unfair and every one knows about them and at some point benefited. AA has helped not only people of color but women as well, they were and still is classified as an minority. I'm not a bleeding liberal and i'm not trying to save the world but I do feel that this argument of reverse discrimination is an excuse, because no where does it say give peference to to the least qualified and most of the time there not.
2007-01-19 09:07:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
If an innocent person is convicted and sent to jail, he may lose years of his life before he is found innocent of the charges, IF he is ever found innocent.
However, if someone guilty of murder is found innocent, he is walking the streets and there is a high probability of him killing another innocent person.
So either way, there is a risk of an innocent person in danger. On one hand, you have an innocent person in jail; on the other hand, an innocent person may be murdered.
Which do you think is worse?
2007-01-19 09:06:57 · 13 answers · asked by I STILL hate hippies 2 in Law & Ethics
A couple of months ago my husband and I dropped off his daughter at her house. As soon as we were leaving the premises where she lives (job corp housing), we were approached by about 7 sheriffs, guns pointed at us, both my husband and I were handcuffed and my mom and my newborn were in the car with us. They say it was an anonymous report but we know if was my husband's ex and her boyfriend who made it. They said that the previous Friday that we picked up his daughter, that my husband had a gun and point it at them. They didn't find nothing that Sunday that they searched the car (because he never had nothing on him) and they still arrested him and took him in, handcuffed me and to my belief put both my mother and newborn in danger. I understand it's their job and respect that, but if they never found nothing on him then why did they arrest him and why does he know have to go to court in a couple of weeks and get a lawyer to get this straight? Can we put charges on her?
2007-01-19 09:06:43 · 8 answers · asked by chiklatin_03 1 in Law Enforcement & Police
What was it like. I don't mean to be insensitive but I know someone who is going there for a serious crime with fairly long sentence, and need to have some insight so I know how to deal with the situation. Any insight would be helpful, either form inmates or visitors or family, ect. Much apreciated.
2007-01-19 09:06:22 · 7 answers · asked by helloha06 1 in Law Enforcement & Police
I thought Republicans stood for family values. If massive overdrinking and Wild Sex parties represent moral values, I guess I must have misunderstood my Sunday School teacher when I was a boy.
2007-01-19 09:05:48 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
If it happened more than 10-20 or more years ago?? I work for Dept of Corrections and I see a LOT of ticked off clients who have to do this and their crime for that particular reason (sex offense) was YEARS ago. They have come back in due to drugs or robbery, etc.
2007-01-19 09:05:43 · 12 answers · asked by curiousgeorgette 4 in Law Enforcement & Police
Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman, and here we are in our third week of 100 hours, and that is not east Tennessee math. I represent the beautiful area of northeast Tennessee and the 1st Congressional District and am very honored to do so.
One thing I recall when we went through the elections last year, being a freshman legislator here in Washington, I remember the talk about we need change, and I think the American people actually voted for change, Mr. Speaker. But I am not so sure the American people are going to be happy with the change that is taking place here on the Hill.
One of the things that has happened as we have moved forward in this first 100 hours, one of the very first things that we did under the new Democrat majority is, we took a vote to not require recorded votes in the Rules Committee. Now, remember, back in the elections during the talk of change, this was going to be the most open Congress that had ever been known on Capitol Hill. Well, when you go into a committee and you take a vote and that vote is not open and recorded for the people back home, you are not opening up sunshine, you are actually pulling the blinds down on government.
I don't think that is exactly what the American people wanted to do. I don't think that is the change the American people wanted.
I was known as a Tennessee legislator that actually worked to open up government in Tennessee. When I went there, I found out in Nashville, Tennessee, that they were doing the very same thing. They were going into committees and subcommittees and people were taking votes, and you could go to the speaker of the house and say, Mr. Speaker, I am with you; don't worry about that, I will vote with you on that issue. And then you could go back home and say, don't worry about me, I am with you on that issue, and you would be telling two completely different stories.
Well, after 8 years of working in Tennessee, we finally changed that. And so I was looking forward to coming to Washington where we were going to have the most open Congress that had ever been known on Capitol Hill. Well, here I come, and the first week of the 100 hours, 3 weeks ago, I find one of the first things the majority party did was to actually stop recording votes. That is not the change the American people wanted, Mr. Speaker.
On another issue, Mr. Speaker, when the Republicans had the majority, if they wanted to raise taxes, if there was a need to balance the budget with taxes, it took a super majority to raise those taxes. It took three-fifths of the Members of this august body to raise those taxes.
Well, the American people voted for change. Not sure they got the change they wanted, though, because one of the very first things that took place here on Capitol Hill was, they lowered that super majority to raise your taxes down to a simple majority. So now taxes can be raised without one Republican vote.
I don't think they would have done that if that was not something they are looking at as a possibility in the future. I am not sure that is the change the American people voted for. I think they ought to be concerned. I think it can lead to bigger government, and it is going to lead to a bigger bureaucracy. We are seeing that in some of the votes.
Not sure that is the change the American people voted for.
One of the votes we voted for the second week of the 100 hours was to threaten life.
[Time: 19:00] What a tragedy when you don't protect the life of the unborn. We were talking about stem cells. And I am a big supporter of actually using adult stem cells. There is new research that has come out that says you can use amniotic fluid. And if you look at the science, the science tells you that there are about 72 diseases that have been treated with adult stem cells. There is zero diseases that have been treated with the embryonic. And that debate was not really about can you do it or can't you do it. It has already been legal. And I can tell you, being a businessperson, if there had been a lot of scientific possibilities for that there would be some business somewhere that would have invested capital, risked that capital because there is a potential for success in the future.
Well, under the Democrat control, under the majority control, unfortunately, they decided to pass the piece of legislation to allow embryos to be destroyed; in other words, allow life to be destroyed. I am not sure that is the change the American people wanted, Mr. Speaker.
Then, again, in the second week of the first 100 hours, a bill actually passed here on the floor to allow our national security to be controlled by the United Nations.
Now, living in the mountains of East Tennessee, I don't know many east Tennesseeans that would want the U.N. to be in charge of our security. We are a sovereign Nation, and I honestly believe Americans across the Nation are just like most east Tennesseeans, we don't feel like we have to go ask the U.N. if we can protect ourselves. I can't think of anything that is more important than a government that is willing to protect its citizens. That is our number one responsibility is the security of our citizens. So putting us under the auspices of the U.N. is, I don't think, the change the American people wanted.
Then there is going to be a bill coming up tomorrow on energy taxes, and there is a lot of talk about big oil and what are we going to do with this issue. And we are giving special interest. Well, the reality is the special interest that I want to protect is the person that turns on his light switch back in east Tennessee tonight, or has to turn their heat on because it has gotten colder outside, or the family back in east Tennessee that is having to stop and fill up their automobile with gas tonight. That is the special interest that I want to protect. And raising taxes during this 100 hours is not the change that the American people wanted, Mr. Speaker. That is not what I hear from east Tennessee, and that is not what I hear from Americans.
Big government simply isn't the answer all the time. Oftentimes, I find, as I talk to the good commonsense folks back in east Tennessee, is sometimes the government is the problem. And bigger government leads to bigger bureaucracy. I think the way we solve these problems is not look to big government, but look back to our families, back across America. Families can make good decisions for their children and for their grandchildren. Then look to the States. States have a good handle on what is going on back across the United States and look to local governments. Look to businesses. Big government's not always the answer. I don't think that is a change that the American people wanted, Mr. Speaker.
2007-01-19 09:02:55 · 5 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7 in Politics
12% of the population??NO WAY could that be right.
2007-01-19 09:02:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police
Some mosques in Britain, while publicly agreeing to cross-cultural tolerance, in fact sometimes host preachers from both Britain and abroad who rail with hatred against "kafirs" (infidels), against homosexuals, against democracy and even against women.
Read the full story and then tell me what you think.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/17/warwithin.amanpour/index.html
I am waiting to hear the so-called peaceful imam's come out and speak against this vial attack on humanity.
At least in America we have voices that are with and voices that are against. Where are the peaceful Islamic voices? I have yet to hear them. Does the silence mean that they condone this type of aggression?
2007-01-19 09:01:23 · 15 answers · asked by strike_eagle29 6 in Politics
I used to tend phones and drive for an agency that provided those sort of girls, and most lived in upscale apartments or condos, and nearly all were either stacking their earnings aside, going to college, very few putting it up their nose in coke.
2007-01-19 09:01:02 · 8 answers · asked by 21FRANK D 1 in Law & Ethics
said today that the Democrats will not block funding for the President to carry on the war. Now she says it was a monumental blunder and the President has dug us into a hole. Now my question is this: Does she have a platform on anything or does she just wing it day to day?
2007-01-19 09:00:22 · 8 answers · asked by Jim R 4 in Government
I'm a college students majoring in Criminal Justice looking forward to a position as a Juvenile Probation Officer. One of our assignments was to find two words that we would use frequently in our careers/daily life.
2007-01-19 08:59:47 · 8 answers · asked by chiklatin_03 1 in Law Enforcement & Police
What are "Chavez Blame America First" Libs in America going to do to change the fact that Republican Senator John McCain is crushing both Hillary and B. Hussein Obama in every nationwide poll, let alone using an electoral college analysis?
2007-01-19 08:58:36 · 17 answers · asked by rex_razor69 2 in Politics
2007-01-19 08:56:46 · 2 answers · asked by faridrahbar@sbcglobal.net 1 in Immigration
The evidence would ruin this persons career, life and possibly land him in jail. I'm so scared i cant sleep at nite.
2007-01-19 08:56:16 · 7 answers · asked by Lucy Lu 4 in Law & Ethics
I want someone to attest some photocopies of originals. I have heard that a graduate can also attest. Is that right?
2007-01-19 08:55:31 · 2 answers · asked by enjoy 2 in Law & Ethics
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