Politics & Government - 21 February 2007

2007-02-21 16:03:17 · 25 answers · asked by North Dakota baseball player 2 in Elections

What are the requirements to get into the military?

And whats E-9, E-4, O-1, and all that mean? what does it have to do with the rank? Why isn't just like 'Private' or 'Sergent'

And whats a 'Staff Sergent" what makes it different from a Sergent"

and what does '2d' mean for example '2d Lieutenant Rice'

2007-02-21 16:03:06 · 8 answers · asked by gocougars1992 2 in Military

2007-02-21 16:02:34 · 11 answers · asked by big guy01 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I don't get it. I'm trying to write a persuasive essay on why we should stop the war.
but i don't really know the reason why the war is still going on right now..
bush said it was because of weapons of mass destruction right?
but what's his excuse now?
sunnis and shiites?

2007-02-21 16:01:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Came across this in a survey....would like to know opinions!


http://www.blogthings.com/howliberalorconservativeareyouquiz/

2007-02-21 16:01:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

After all, if I wrote them, aren't my words my own property?

2007-02-21 16:00:29 · 5 answers · asked by dan_scurek 1 in Law & Ethics

Here is the latest copy/paste article from the liberal campaign front. Will Obama and Miss Hillary actually make it to the poll times or will one get sidetracked by slurring the other?

WASHINGTON - The rival presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) traded accusations of nasty politics Wednesday over Hollywood donor David Geffen, who once backed Bill Clinton but now supports his wife's top rival.

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The Clinton campaign demanded that Obama denounce comments made by the DreamWorks movie studio founder, who told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in Wednesday's editions that while "everybody in politics lies," the former president and his wife "do it with such ease, it's troubling."

The Clinton camp also called on Obama to give back Geffen's $2,300 contribution.

Campaigning in Iowa, Obama refused.

"It's not clear to me why I'd be apologizing for someone else's remark," the Illinois senator said.

For her part, New York Sen. Clinton sidestepped questions, leaving the issue to her aides to discuss.

"I'm just going to stay focused on my campaign and I'm going to run a positive campaign about the issues that affect the people in our country," she told The Associated Press in an interview in Nevada. She was participating a candidate forum in Carson City.

The Clinton team seemed eager to continue the attack. With Obama in Iowa, aides arranged for former Iowa attorney general Bonnie Campbell to criticize him in a conference call with reporters.

In the newspaper interview, Geffen also said Bill Clinton is "a reckless guy" and he does not think Hillary Clinton can bring the country together during a time of war, no matter how smart or ambitious she is.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs added another criticism of Clinton.

"It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina state Sen. Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because 'he's black,'" Gibbs' statement said.

Ford later apologized. The Clinton campaign said it disagreed with Ford, but the senator has embraced his support.

Another Democratic presidential candidate, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, said at the candidate forum that Obama should denounce Geffen's comments. "We Democrats should all sign a pledge that we all be positive," Richardson said.

2007-02-21 15:59:20 · 9 answers · asked by chole_24 5 in Elections

17. Why did Hitler claim the Sudetenland should be annexed by Germany?
a. 3.5 million Germans lived there
b. the region was rich in iron and coal
c. He wanted to curb the expansion of communism.
d. A formal union with Germany would raise its inhabitants out of poverty.

2007-02-21 15:58:23 · 8 answers · asked by Rod Stewart 1 in Politics

It has become so popular to outsource jobs lately. Why not outsource our prisons to third world countries. I'm sure we could reduce the cost of housing and feeding inmates dramatically by putting them somewhere in the middle of Mexico. We couold still have prisons for the petty criminals, but those facing 10 or more years could take a nice little vacation to a foreign prison. This might even be a little incentive to stay on the straight and narrow.

2007-02-21 15:57:44 · 5 answers · asked by songndance1999 4 in Government

.. you didn't see so many questions that arent questions but statments with a ? on the end solely designed to provoke people?

Would you like to see honest questions? Is your motivation to inform and to learn? ... Is your mind still open or is it closed and your just here to prove a point?

2007-02-21 15:56:43 · 11 answers · asked by sociald 7 in Politics

2007-02-21 15:56:34 · 1 answers · asked by GERRYNK 1 in Military

I am pretending to be a lawyer for a class at school.I need info on this.

2007-02-21 15:55:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

power and control over Iranians? As I said I am Iranian and. I think America neocons are pretty well aware of the fact that by any kind of attacks on Iran , they would unite now pro American Iranian people to become hostile towards America and start supporting their leaders that they have fought against them with passion sometime ago . That is why my leaders are not afraid of triggering America to initiate war with Iran because they certainly know that their losted popularity will come back and that they might get a chance to prolong their dominancy over Iranians once more .
I am interested to know that if American government is that foolish that does not know what would be the consequences of an American attack on Iran would be or they just intend to break Iran apart form within by supporting terrorist insurgencies within Iran and not for weakening Iranian regime but for the wrecking Iranian unity and turning Iran to their another private only use gas station?

2007-02-21 15:52:47 · 28 answers · asked by shadab a 2 in Politics

So, what are your views here. Do you think it is a must thing to put your children through. Or, do to think it's too harsh for kids to experience. Is boot camp the right was to punish unruly kids? What do you think?

2007-02-21 15:49:53 · 19 answers · asked by Kitty Lucy 4 in Military

2007-02-21 15:49:11 · 6 answers · asked by Haven17 5 in Government

2007-02-21 15:48:15 · 6 answers · asked by zorozco88 1 in Government

2007-02-21 15:48:14 · 4 answers · asked by tallthatsme 4 in Law & Ethics

I would think that both sides would be able to agree that we're all Amercans, but alas some, from both sides, think that isn't true.
Whatever happened to the unity that this country had on 9/12/01?

2007-02-21 15:47:43 · 16 answers · asked by GeauxJoe 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-02-21 15:46:10 · 4 answers · asked by niccoconuts332 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-02-21 15:45:59 · 9 answers · asked by jongcr 1 in Military

2007-02-21 15:42:59 · 6 answers · asked by ben_ev0lent 1 in Law & Ethics

Meaning the time it took them to draft and pass that law...

2007-02-21 15:42:18 · 6 answers · asked by Sofia Aleka 2 in Law & Ethics

18. What might be the lesson of “appeasement at Munich”?
a. Minor reforms are the best way to pre-empt insurgencies.
b. Huge political rallies develop political legitimacy and shore up domestic support.
c. Compromise only emboldens the enemy and gives him additional time to train and fortify his troops.
d. Diplomatic chivalry lowers the lethality of any given war.

2007-02-21 15:40:42 · 9 answers · asked by Rod Stewart 1 in Politics

16. Hitler identified each of these objectives in Mein Kampf EXCEPT
a. the unification of all German-speaking peoples
b. the expansion of German living space (liebenscraum)
c. the purification of the German race
d. the redistribution of private property and ownership of the factories and means of production

2007-02-21 15:40:00 · 11 answers · asked by Rod Stewart 1 in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Cheney says that when Democrats want our troops to come home, we are Al Qaeda.

In almost the same breath, the fact that the UK is pulling out troops is "a good sign that the strategy is working."

Which is it? Either we pull out because the strategy is working or the British are carrying out Al Qaeda strategy. Even the dark VP of the Sith can't have it both ways.

2007-02-21 15:39:45 · 11 answers · asked by Schmorgen 6 in Politics

You are an on-duty police officer for the town of Anywhere.

Your community has been struggling with a violence problem (mostly drug-related shootings & murders) for decades. More than 98% of the perpetrators are Caucasian males who wear polo shirts & khakis, drive European sedans, and play classical music on the car stereo. The crimes typically happen in the early evening near bookstores.

It is 7:00pm and you are only two blocks from a Barnes & Noble. You spot a 4-door BMW headed in the direction of the store and decide to follow. Upon approach, you see several Caucasian males inside the car. They are wearing polo shirts. Pachabel's Canon is clearly audible through the open sun-roof.

They have not commited a voilation of the law you have observed.

Is it racial profiling if you stop them?

2007-02-21 15:39:44 · 15 answers · asked by James J 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

13. Why was Ho Chi Minh disappointed after the Versailles Peace Treaties of 1919-1920?
a. Korea was divided at the 38th parallel.
b. Great Britain got the port of Hong Kong.
c. Indochina remained a French colony.
d. The Philippines was designated a “protectorate” of the United States.

2007-02-21 15:39:21 · 6 answers · asked by Rod Stewart 1 in Politics

are we still involved?..why or why not, etc.

2007-02-21 15:38:43 · 3 answers · asked by muggie 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I've heard it said that the point of prison is for criminal rehabilitation. If this is so, why do we sentence people to life sentences without parole? Doesn't that mean they can't be rehabilitated?

If prison is NOT for rehabilitation, then is it just a criminal detainment center? What purpose should it have and why?

2007-02-21 15:38:40 · 10 answers · asked by Atgmelv 2 in Law & Ethics

I support the idea of armchair soldiers going over to Iraq and go support or troops.

2007-02-21 15:37:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military