Politics & Government - 21 March 2007

They apparently can't see anything wrong with 100s of thousand deaths in the Middle East.

Katrina was a 'by the way' and people should have saved themselves.

Less fortunate, old and sick Americans should fend for themselves.

They only seem to care about their stock accumulation.

2007-03-21 06:07:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Article Most Popular Change Type Size Judges who ignore no-bail law may as well give you the finger
Laurie Roberts
Republic columnist
Mar. 21, 2007 12:00 AM

It's now been 17 days since Jocabed Dominguez-Torres was arrested and accused of getting drunk, running a red light and killing a 20-year-old Peoria man. Seventeen days since the courts were notified that she's in this country illegally and thus can't be released from jail under a new law approved by voters.

So what, you might ask, have our judges and commissioners done to comply with the overwhelming will of the people?

They set bail. Then they reconsidered. And lowered her bail. advertisement




In judicial speak, I think they just gave Arizona voters the finger.

It's been just over two weeks since Scott and Patty Miller lost their only son, Chris, and were ushered into the court system. Their reaction thus far?

"Complete dismay and total loss of confidence," Scott told me Tuesday. "For us to have gone through the last two weeks trying to deal with the grieving process all the while having to fight the legal system just to do what the voters said was the right thing to do to me is just unconscionable."

Chris Miller was killed just after 2 a.m. on March 4 when Peoria police say Dominguez-Torres, 22, ran a red light and crashed into the car in which he was riding. Her blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent, 2 1/2 times the legal limit.

Peoria police notified court officials that she's here illegally and that she admitted to buying forged resident and Social Security cards on the streets of Phoenix.

Yet Commissioner Kathleen Mead set her bond at $150,000. This, despite Proposition 100.

You remember Prop. 100. It's a new law that denies bond in cases such as this to people here illegally.

It passed last November in every county of the state. It passed by the widest margin of any proposition on the ballot. It passed because 78 percent of this state's voters decreed that it shall be the law of the land.

Just not, apparently, in Maricopa County Superior Court.

After Mead set Dominguez-Torres' bond, a court spokeswoman explained to me that commissioners can't deny bond on the say-so of the police or even the suspect. They must get word from an official source, she said, which is tough given that bail must be set within 24 hours of an arrest and the people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement who could give the high sign don't work weekends.

Mead had to set Dominguez-Torres' bond on a Sunday.

The next day, March 5, the courts got that official word from ICE when they put an immigration hold on Dominguez-Torres.

"I don't know how much more official we can get," ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack told me.

Yet five days later, Commissioner Michael Barth lowered the bond to $50,000.

On Monday, a Maricopa County prosecutor asked the court's presiding criminal judge, James Keppel, to change Domiguez-Torres' status to non-bondable, pointing out that our state Constitution now requires it. Keppel's response: "I'm not the Court of Appeals."

He's holding a hearing Thursday morning to decide whether he has the authority to overturn Barth's bond.

No word on whether anyone in the court system is worried about whether they have the authority to overturn voters.

Neither Keppel nor the court's presiding judge, Barbara Mundell, returned calls to explain how the arbiters of law can just ignore it.

However, courts spokeswoman J.W. Brown e-mailed me to let me know that judges are sworn to follow the law.

"Several times each week, they order individuals charged with serious felonies be held without bond," she wrote, "when information presented to the court shows the proof is evident or the presumption is great that the person committed the alleged offense and is in the U.S. illegally."

And yet Dominguez-Torres remains in jail on that $50,000 bond. If her family puts up $5,000, she'll be taken by ICE to a detention center, and if she doesn't fight deportation, she could be back in Mexico by April Fools' Day.

Fitting, don't you think?

2007-03-21 06:06:34 · 18 answers · asked by illegals_r_whiners 2 in Immigration

is it right postage will be 41cents starting April 1?

2007-03-21 06:06:05 · 4 answers · asked by ? 1 in Government

What is the age of consent in Louisiana? What does it really mean? Why do people get age of majority and age of consent mixed up?

2007-03-21 06:04:50 · 2 answers · asked by msgianniclassof08 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-21 06:03:43 · 17 answers · asked by somebody_8 1 in Government

2007-03-21 06:03:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more. . NO

Masquerading as a man with a rea-son
My charade is the event of the sea-son
And if I claimed to be a wise man
It surely means I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about, I'm like a ship on the o-cean
I set a course for the Winds of Fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more. . NO

More and More Scientists across the World are disputing his notions that mankind is responsible for Global Warming. . .. . Hundreds of them !!!

Is Al Living an Illusion ??

2007-03-21 06:02:29 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If Hitler considered 1940's Germany to be the 3td reich. What were the other two reich?

2007-03-21 06:02:25 · 4 answers · asked by Joe 2 in Military

http://www.harpers.org/SuicideBombing.html and lets not forget how generous Muslims are to eachother look at the Muslim countrys contributions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response_to_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#List_of_Donors

2007-03-21 06:02:05 · 17 answers · asked by matt 2 in Politics

2007-03-21 06:01:09 · 2 answers · asked by blonde_woman_00 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

What do you think the chances are that the Dems are waiting Bush's term out so once they have the White House, the Congress and the Senate they can then prosecute Bush and his thugs for 9/11, and misleading us all into Afghanistan and Iraq?

Or is it going to just be more of the same?

2007-03-21 05:59:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I WS TOL DTHAT I WAS GONA RECIEVE 20 MILLION DOLLARS , ALL IN 100 DOLLAR BILLS. THIS GUYS HASENT ASKD FOR NAYHTING SUCH AS CHECK ACCOUNT CREDIT CARD OR ANYTHING , HE SAID HE WANTS FOR EM TO TAKE THE MONEY TO A SAFE BOX DEPOSIT IT AND THEN SEND HIM A KEY . . THATS IT AND I KEEP 30%. IM WONDEING IF THIS IS A MONEY LAUNDER SCAM. OR WHAT.. THE GUYS AS I SAID DOESNT WANT ANY OF MY INFORMATION JUST WANTS TO SEND ME THIS MONEY ME DEPOSIT IT INTO A SAFE BOX, AND FOR ME TO SEND HIM A KEY. WHATS IT SOUND LIKE

2007-03-21 05:58:41 · 10 answers · asked by torque_740 1 in Law & Ethics

Let me ask all of my "respectful" anwerers something. Everyone is quick to jump on and talk badly about illegals and mexicans, completely confusing the two. Illegals does not immediately mean "Mexican", it just so happens that the border to Mexico is right next to the US. If it were China next to the US we'd be ranting about the Chinese, right? Are you more upset that OUR US government makes it easy for illegal immigrants to buy homes and get health care or that they are Mexican?

2007-03-21 05:58:09 · 20 answers · asked by -Bibee- 3 in Immigration

I want to join the military but I can't decide a branch. my brain says I can join the army and go airborne and do all sorts of cool stuff and get an elistment bonus and the MOS I want. Also I wouldn't have to be based on the coasts. Also basic is sorter and id really like to be done with basic by my 19th birthday in august and I know the army is understaffed so I could probably go to basic son. not to mention its somewhat easier so I won't have to spend so long preping for it



My heart says the marines. take the challenge. be one of the few and the proud. but I don't know. if I join the corps ill probably be in boot during my bday ill have no bonus and the college benefits are a lot less. but I still think they are some of the best fighters and I'd like to be an excellent infantryman.

What do you all think I should choose?

I plan on applying to west point through the enlisted to west point program. marines have something similar. but armys is more structured.

2007-03-21 05:57:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

The Los Angeles Times: Richard A. Serrano
As printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer 3/21/07

U.S. Attorney Carol Lam of San Diego: Not prosecuting more firearms and border smuggling cases, and for repeatedly missing deadlines.

U.S. Attorney David Iglesias of Alburquerque: Traveled so much he was an "absentee landlord".

U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan of San Francisco: "The office has become the most fractured office in the nation, morale has fallen to the point that it is harming our prosecutorial efforts and he has lost confidence of many of the career prosecutors who are leaving the office."

U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton of Phoenix: Repeated instances of insubordination, actions taken contrary to instructions, and actions that are clearly unauthorized.

U.S. Attorney Margaret Chiara of Grand Rapids: Morale in her office was very low and that Chiara has lost the support of her staff.

Improper?

Looks like more partisan political theater starring the Dem's!

2007-03-21 05:57:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

With the latest flap about the firing of 8 US attorney, Clinton fired 93 some of them investigating him and his friends no fanfair no big deal by the media, typical liberals will say Clinton did not do it during the middle of his term pleeease! (Irrelavant) they can be fired at the whim of the president.

If democrats say there is no media bias I think I will hurl. I think this a testament to the fallacy of appeasement. Here we have a president that is polite and will not say bad things about democrats and gets attack on a daily basis there is a lesson to be learn here.

2007-03-21 05:56:50 · 16 answers · asked by Ynot! 6 in Other - Politics & Government

Please name some reasons for it to be legal... and please use Facts and opinions......
Please also add why you feel it should be illegal agan please use facts and opinions, distiguish between the 2 ....

please use both sides of your mind,
and if possible add links to the proof you may have
thank you

2007-03-21 05:55:19 · 17 answers · asked by ? 3 in Politics

They might feel more love toward them if he looked like their Dear Leader...

2007-03-21 05:54:22 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

After all, that is how governments enforce things. Men with guns show up at your door when you do not comply.

Why does Hillary think she can take "excessive" profits and do *anything* with them...Who will do that...someone else? A Hillary group?

2007-03-21 05:53:56 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics

the judges have so many ways avoiding the doctrine of binding precedent that it is only a fiction in our own law...

2007-03-21 05:53:48 · 1 answers · asked by roobeng.indahouse 3 in Law & Ethics

I have only seen her and McCain, where are Guliani, Obama, Edwards, Romney? She has already asked one question.

2007-03-21 05:51:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Why do you think it is or isn't? Do you think it is fine the way it is or should it be more or less ethical? And do you think it has become more ethical over the years or not?
If you are not from America and are not familiar with it's legal system I would love you hear what you have to say about your own countries legal system.
I have always felt that it was not very ethical, but I would love to hear how others feel on this issue. Thanks.

2007-03-21 05:49:52 · 8 answers · asked by haiku_katie 4 in Law & Ethics

Try to make a post with supporting facts that Hillary Clinton used racist slurs again Bill Clinton's Campaign Manager in 1976 it gets blocked. The fact is Hillary has some real baggage and its going to come to the front of the line come primaries and election time. Good luck Dems and Libs.

2007-03-21 05:49:44 · 6 answers · asked by Barack O Bankrupt 4 in Politics

Yes, there would be chaos and a breakdown of civil organization. And isn't that exactly what is going on while our troops remain there? So why should our people stay around to get caught in the crossfire? What debt do we owe to the Iraqis?

There's no evidence that any significant number of Iraqis want US troops to remain in their country. Why, then, should the US expend lives and wealth in the effort to force Iraq to become what it has never been, a "democracy" fitting the US definition of what it should be?

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the British tried to build a state called "Iraq" on the lines of a pattern chosen by them. They used British military power to prop up their chosen puppet leader in Baghdad. Who authorized the US to inherit the colonialist policy of the British?

2007-03-21 05:49:36 · 7 answers · asked by fra59e 4 in Military

If i come across a question that I think is dumb or ridiculous, I don't even bother opening it, and wasting my time. I ust go on to the next question that I believe I can answer. But that is just me. A mature 28 year old. I am not 14, to send out childish remarks...but again that is just me..If u don't like it, move on to the next question. It works!!

2007-03-21 05:49:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Don't look now folks, but Fred just may run for the Presidency !!


This guy is as 'clean and articulate' as they come . . . . . so what do the Democratic Voters think about him ?

And my brethren Republican Voters are welcome to chime in as well !!!

2007-03-21 05:48:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-03-21 05:48:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-03-21 05:47:08 · 35 answers · asked by Kendra 2 in Elections

I browse Yahoo, MSN, Fox, CNN, USA Today and several local sites for news.

The report of U.S. Forces destroying a bomb factory in Iraq is found in Yahoo, Fox, and USA Today but not on CNN or MSN.

It doesn't make sense. It's news. News people would like to hear. Yet it doesn't appear in the news sites.

Guess there wasn't enough death or it was too Pro-American or something...who knows.

2007-03-21 05:46:58 · 9 answers · asked by Q-burt 5 in Politics

2007-03-21 05:46:18 · 2 answers · asked by Cindy M 1 in Law & Ethics