Politics & Government - 15 February 2007

when Chinese, Irish, European immigrant came in around 1890-1943 did they experience better life in America?

2007-02-15 12:06:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-02-15 12:04:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Gore Lied, Critical Thinking Died.

If you disagree with the idea of Man-made global warming you are fired and the left labels you "stupid."

Is this far from when you disagree with Islam and the muslims label you "Infidel" ?

Man-made global warming is not a self evident truth, so how can people be convinced so easily and on such flimsy evidence? Is it because they WANT to believe?

Wake Up People.

When Gore Lied, Critical Thinking Died.

2007-02-15 12:04:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-02-15 12:04:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Would like to send thank you card and note to them for encouragement.

2007-02-15 12:04:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

The President’s 2008 Budget:

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Provides $481.4 billion for the Department of Defense’s base budget—a 62-percent increase over 2001—to ensure a high level of military readiness as the Department develops capabilities to meet future threats, defends the homeland, and supports the all-volunteer force and their families;
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Supports operations in the Global War on Terror by providing an additional $93.4 billion in supplemental funds for 2007 and $141.7 billion for 2008, including funds to accelerate efforts to train and equip Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces;
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Continues ground force modernization and the expansion of Special Operations Forces;
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Enhances missile defense capabilities by adding additional interceptor missiles and sites to expand coverage against new threats;
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Provides a 3.0-percent increase in basic military and civilian pay; and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/defense.html

2007-02-15 12:03:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-02-15 12:01:22 · 8 answers · asked by jimmymae2000 7 in Other - Politics & Government

it relates to a mock court trial

2007-02-15 12:00:42 · 5 answers · asked by Kassy 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-02-15 12:00:27 · 9 answers · asked by answer man 3 in Law & Ethics

i am a month behind right now and have plenty of credit card debt and was hit with child support for a child for which the judge wont allow a dna test for.what can i do?please help.

2007-02-15 11:59:58 · 5 answers · asked by jam.three 1 in Law & Ethics

Sure seems that way.

Clinton said that Kyoto would hurt America and Americans. Bush says the same thing. Oh well, if Clinton says it, we ignore it. If Bush says it, we bash him. We Dems are wackos.

2007-02-15 11:59:49 · 6 answers · asked by junglejoe 2 in Politics

Recently became interested in geneology and was just wondering how long some of you/your families have been in the US. Do you know where they came from?

2007-02-15 11:57:23 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

i mean what are the laws and what you think are good things about it or bad things????????

2007-02-15 11:56:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I made the mistake of signing up for a "TRIAL" on stamps. com. Because of work hours I was unable to cancel before my free trial was up.

I finally reached them, and they told me I owed $15.99. OK. I hadn't reached them in a timely way even though I never even installed the software ... don't even ask me why I signed up for the trial. You can guess that one.

In any event, I finally reached a live person and we argued for a few minutes bout the $15.99. NOW they are saying I owe $47.something because they have no record of that phone call and it went into another month, plus a whole day before they accepted an email cancellation (which charges for yet another whole month).

I need to prove I made that phone call before the extra 2 months were charged, but I have a prepaid cell phone plan from US cellular and they won't release the record of the numbers that you called unless you have a court-ordered subpoena.

Can I get this without going through some serious legal action?

2007-02-15 11:56:11 · 4 answers · asked by laurie888 3 in Law & Ethics

He alone put more smoke in the athmosphere than all the cars together... Isn't it time he start paying the price?

2007-02-15 11:55:59 · 32 answers · asked by Rona9 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Antarctic temperatures disagree with climate model predictions
COLUMBUS , Ohio – A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models.

This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a whole is warming, largely due to human activity.

It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.

David Bromwich, professor of professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported on this work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at San Francisco.

"It's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now," he said. "Part of the reason is that there is a lot of variability there. It's very hard in these polar latitudes to demonstrate a global warming signal. This is in marked contrast to the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth."

Bromwich says that the problem rises from several complications. The continent is vast, as large as the United States and Mexico combined. Only a small amount of detailed data is available – there are perhaps only 100 weather stations on that continent compared to the thousands spread across the U.S. and Europe . And the records that we have only date back a half-century.

"The best we can say right now is that the climate models are somewhat inconsistent with the evidence that we have for the last 50 years from continental Antarctica .

"We're looking for a small signal that represents the impact of human activity and it is hard to find it at the moment," he said.

Last year, Bromwich's research group reported in the journal Science that Antarctic snowfall hadn't increased in the last 50 years. "What we see now is that the temperature regime is broadly similar to what we saw before with snowfall. In the last decade or so, both have gone down," he said.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/osu-atd021207.php

2007-02-15 11:51:46 · 16 answers · asked by aiminhigh24u2 6 in Politics

Whenever we see or hear of people wielding guns and killing innocent victims, there is an outrage. Is there a need to improve and make the individuals who threaten and kill other people with guns, more responsible?

From a school in Colombine to a subway in New York City to a shopping mall in Utah, innocent people have been killed by angry and disillusionioned individuals. Would outylawing guns serve any purpose and make the streets/schools safer?

Your thoughts on gun control and those who shoot innocent people...

2007-02-15 11:51:44 · 18 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Law & Ethics

there is a court case going on here in wisconsin about a man who killed a photographer. there was a witness who testified new detales, but never told the police about his story. so the case may end up a mistrial.

so would the killer go free even if he is guity of the crime?

2007-02-15 11:51:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-02-15 11:51:27 · 34 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics

Who would win and which side would you be on?

2007-02-15 11:50:36 · 22 answers · asked by lynchmob.justice 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-02-15 11:50:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

i live in a little hick town and i think these idiots are making there own laws.i also found that i was the fourth man to be accused of being the father of this same child ,[WHEN SHE WAS 19!!]

2007-02-15 11:49:16 · 13 answers · asked by jam.three 1 in Law & Ethics

I can give negative or positive ratings to all posts except the ones that either support Bush or down Clinton or Obama. For example, I am unable to give a plus to someone who says Bush is a killer or give a negative to someone who says Clinton and Obama are a joke. Are you being censored too? At least it appears I'm being censored.

2007-02-15 11:49:10 · 4 answers · asked by sirdoctorfine 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Are you proud that your party thought it was a great idea to stop kids from being taught about Veterans Day and Memorial Day?

Or, do you think it was a royal screwup?

Even your own democratic Gov, who is a vet., had to veto the dumb idea.

(use google news ---> corzine veterans memorial teach

2007-02-15 11:49:05 · 4 answers · asked by junglejoe 2 in Politics

Go on, look in the mirror,think back; can you be honest? are you really proud?

2007-02-15 11:48:55 · 19 answers · asked by P S 1 in Politics

Bush failed in business and so did Chaney, and they never fought in a war, So we have bad business men and non military people running this country.

2007-02-15 11:48:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I've been going to my doctors in the UK for 10 years with the same complaint and nothing was done, just fobbed off with painkillers etc. I have recently moved to another country and obviously the problem still exists and I had to go to the hospital. There, they ran tests and I had scans and it turns out that I need to have surgery. I feel so angry that the doctors in the UK didn't offer me any tests/scans and I've suffered for so long. Is there anything I can do, bearing in mind I'm not in the UK to see peoplelike the CAB etc.

2007-02-15 11:48:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

and your thoughts on this?

2007-02-15 11:47:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It is a proven fact in Canada that only 55 % of eligible voters in the population gets out to vote at the best of times. Then only about 50% of the votes cast are for the winning party with the other 50 % being divided between the other 3 or 4 political parties. Who end up losing and therefore do not get any representation in parliament at all. Once in office the leader of the winning party called the Prime Minister is picked before the election by his political party who have a convention and select him or her from about 5 or 6 others. Only about 1000 people as part of the party can attend the convention and they do not all end up in favour of who eventually wins out as they had their own man or woman as their favourite. Now is it any reason that democracy is in question here? What can you suggest to change this so democracy is more of the heroine that we portray her to be to other countries throughout the world?

2007-02-15 11:46:20 · 3 answers · asked by Mr. PDQ 4 in Law & Ethics

I mean possession without intent to sell (hypothetically; obviously this is tough to prove in real life). This is also assuming a person harms no-one by exposing them to the smoke or driving and operating machinery while intoxicated. Selling could definitely be considered harming someone else but how could using it yourself be unconstitutional then if you harm on-one but yourself? The cost incurred when NHS has to pay for your lung cancer treatment or psychosis? (these conditions are definitely cannabis induced in many cases
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2007-02-15 11:46:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics