Politics & Government - 20 January 2007

this according to an Army Times poll... Army Times, the newspaper put out by the Army?

"Only 35 percent of the military members polled this year said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42 percent said they disapproved. The president’s approval rating among the military is only slight ly higher than for the population as a whole. In 2004, when his popularity peaked, 63 percent of the military approved of Bush’s handling of the war. While ap proval of the president’s war lead ership has slumped, his overall approval remains high among the military.

Just as telling, in this year’s poll only 41 percent of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place, down from 65 percent in 2003."

http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006_main.php

WOW... I'm surprised!

2007-01-20 16:32:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

especially 109 precent

2007-01-20 16:32:16 · 6 answers · asked by JAMES 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

is it possible for any country who has the ability to drop bombs with warplanes over the mainland of the United States and could a country have a successful invasion of the United States mainland? Countries such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea? And why didnt Germany do this during World War 2?

2007-01-20 16:29:06 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Obama, Clinton, Gore, Edwards, Kerry, Biden?

2007-01-20 16:29:05 · 20 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics

Really?

2007-01-20 16:28:18 · 19 answers · asked by stephyrose87 3 in Military

2007-01-20 16:27:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-01-20 16:26:51 · 9 answers · asked by cynder_0 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Hi Folks,
I entered the US on H4 visa while my H1-B was in process. later my H1-B application was approved but without I-94.

Now I need to go out and get stamping to get converted to H1 status.

o Do I have to go to India (chennai) for stamping or Can i go to
Canada (preferably Vancouver)?.

o If i decide to go to Canada then do i need to file I-824 to
notify them before i go there?

Note: Form I-824 is used to request a duplicate approval notice, to request approval notice to another U.S. Consulate.
Can some one please advice
Thanks in advance

2007-01-20 16:23:03 · 2 answers · asked by doubt devil 2 in Embassies & Consulates

2007-01-20 16:22:44 · 24 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics

Sir/Ma,

I am a legal permanent resident . I filed for my wife .I sent the document on 20th dec 2006.

I got a receipt letter on 5th january 2007.My case is at california service center. According to the information on their website as 17th january 2007 , They are presently processing this date: january 1st,2005( For a gal resident processing for spouse /child under 21)

Could you please tell me how long it will take for it to be approved , and when i am going to hear from them again. My wife is heavily pregnant now (7 mths pregnant). I need more information on I-130

Thanks

Regards.

2007-01-20 16:22:43 · 3 answers · asked by yankieby 1 in Embassies & Consulates

Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Al Gore, Edwards, or John Kerry

2007-01-20 16:21:00 · 17 answers · asked by ? 5 in Elections

I need reparation from the money France took from my country Haiti, If it wasnt for them, I am 100% such my country wouldnt be in the shape it is right now, and The UN wouldnt have to pay millions and millions of dollare to fight poverty

Heres the facts: After the revolution in Haiti from slavery, Haiti was force to pay 150 million francs to reconize their independence (that was in 1805 or so, so thats worth a couple billions) I would like to see any country in the world with the same economic volume than Haiti to survive from this lost. We have been raped and I want reparation.

2007-01-20 16:17:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I am from NZ and am very interested in American's (and anybody else for that matter) opinions on whether or not you think she would make a good president. Would you vote for her?

2007-01-20 16:16:09 · 21 answers · asked by sticky 7 in Other - Politics & Government

Answer the following 2 questions:

1. Would you like to see the troops come home? Y or N

2. Do you think we should turn our backs on the Iraqi people? Y or N

These polls would have 2 different results. Which one would the public see? No. 1 of course.

2007-01-20 16:15:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Maybe America should build another America in middle east so they can be rich and also have the middle east dream. I truely dont understand what their problem is. Is there anyway we can ask them what they want? Or as they themselfs say, they want their flag to run ontop of white house...so what do we Americans do?

2007-01-20 16:13:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-01-20 16:11:43 · 15 answers · asked by dstr 6 in Politics

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

2007-01-20 16:06:35 · 6 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7 in Politics

Which one is worse?

2007-01-20 16:06:19 · 28 answers · asked by NYC-BIGCAT 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-01-20 16:05:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-01-20 16:05:08 · 12 answers · asked by purple_queen 2 in Elections

infomation on inmate

2007-01-20 16:04:02 · 3 answers · asked by robobob0238 1 in Law & Ethics

i have applied to a job who was extremely interested in hiring me. i signed a waiver for a full background check to include medical. i had back surgery seven months ago. i think they caught that because they did not call me for the job. how does a hiring company get medical backgrounds? through insurance companys? via social security number?

2007-01-20 16:03:45 · 3 answers · asked by Hello Kitty 3 in Law & Ethics

One such stupid jerk called my neighbor across the street and asked them if they knew me and had them take his stupid PH # and to please forward the mssg to me. Can you believe the balls this A hole has? Is this legal? Can I get him in trouble? This is so embarrasing to me bcz my landlord was notified. This is totally driving me nuts and what am I supposed to do?

2007-01-20 16:03:04 · 9 answers · asked by Felix R 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-01-20 16:02:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It just seems like nowadays there are a lot of people out there who would cower in the face of a large war where young men were needed. I don't wanna sound "uncool" but I love my country. I'm first generation American and I'll fight anywhere they send me if they needed me. Where are all the patriots?

2007-01-20 16:02:20 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

the North American Union? I've heard people argue the opposite, but I am starting to wonder about it.

2007-01-20 16:02:10 · 22 answers · asked by DJ 6 in Immigration

Furniture, paintings, artifacts, classifed documents, etc, etc, etc.

2007-01-20 16:01:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I am looking for a website for preparing my us citizenship application online.

Which site is best site for us citizenship application online? I think these website only help to prepare. Application form and all related docs still have to send out by mail.

Any one has experience to use www.uscitizenship.info for us citizenship application?

2007-01-20 16:00:54 · 2 answers · asked by jimmy 1 in Immigration

I would like my boyfriend to become a citizen but i don't know how to get him to become a citizen. I'm 17 years old and he is 21. Right now he's in jail and he has been in jail in the past maybe like 3 times..i know. But i'm in love with him and i don't care..he's a good person and he loves me too..he's in jail over dumb ****. And i really want him to be here with me when the baby is born..and the baby is going to be born in or around march 3. I don't know how long he's going to be there for..he has court this tuesday coming up and hopefully they decide when he's getting out. So hopefully if they don't deport him, what can i do for him to become a citizen, so we can build a family and live inpeace?

2007-01-20 16:00:27 · 16 answers · asked by ayounglady 2 in Immigration

is the best weapon?

2007-01-20 15:58:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police