Politics & Government - 27 March 2007

2007-03-27 08:29:15 · 15 answers · asked by Robert T 1 in Government

While checking my credit yesterday through a credit report I purchased on line I realized I was a victim of identity theft. it turns out it was my own brother. I went to the police department and filled out a police report. They tricking thing is I live in NJ and my brother (who commited the crime) lives in NC. I have all the necessary paperwork to prove that he is the one who did it. I have also contacted the law enforcement in NC. They said to have the police report faxed to them as soon as the NJ police officer is done. I want to press criminal charges. Will my brother be charged according to NC laws or NJ laws? How can I press criminal charges? Do I need a lawyer?

2007-03-27 08:29:12 · 7 answers · asked by mjmtmr1 1 in Law & Ethics

I thought I would send him a bobblehead muhamad (sp? Oh who cares) for christmas...does the punishment fit the crime?

2007-03-27 08:28:59 · 14 answers · asked by Steelhead 5 in Politics

2007-03-27 08:28:05 · 15 answers · asked by suseq 1 in Law & Ethics

When my husband was married to his ex wife, they accumulated credit card debt. In the divorce, my husband's ex wife was ordered to pay the credit card debt but she committed suicide a few months later so my husband is now back to having to pay it. We tried to set up a payment plan with them but the payments they are demanding are more than we are able to afford in a month and they refuse to take a lower payment than what they are asking for. They keep calling us and harrassing us and are threatening to get the sherrif to take our personal items away and called last night demanding our bank account numbers. We refused to give them to them and they asked what bank we went through and said they didn't need the account number just the name of the bank. Can they take money from our account without us consenting to it?

2007-03-27 08:27:56 · 9 answers · asked by i_just_wondering 1 in Law & Ethics

1. Make a law that requires the lowest gas mileage of cars SOLD in the USA have at least 20 MPG
2. Promote an act that would get US companies manufacturing plants into less economically powerful areas than China, or just in the US itself.
3. Promote charitable and/or righteous organizations such as Teach For America and Pump the Pump
4.Take a pay cut of $10,000 a year for each member of it permanently. They get all types of perks and a lot of money
5. Let Iraq form itself. We have no success there.
6. Lower property taxes and raise income taxes, to tax the rich without taxing the middle class farmer.
7. Work to outlaw incandescent light bulbs
8. RESTORE OUR RIGHTS
**I'll take suggestions to add to this list.

2007-03-27 08:26:01 · 5 answers · asked by myaspan 2 in Government

Does anyone else have a serious issue with the fact that US prisoners have rights not afforded to law abiding citizens? Ofr instance free cable, 3 squares a day, CHEAP access to an education (if not free), state of the art weights, etc etc. Can't we bring back chain gangs or make them earn their keep by producing something- I know some prisons make furniture, but what else?

2007-03-27 08:25:50 · 9 answers · asked by Mark B 3 in Other - Politics & Government

We have all heard about how CO2 is causing the earth to become warmer and humans are being blamed for it.

Since 1980, scientists have monitored geologic unrest in Long Valley Caldera and at adjacent Mammoth Mountain, California. After a persistent swarm of earthquakes beneath Mammoth Mountain in 1989, earth scientists discovered that large volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas were seeping from beneath this volcano. This gas is killing trees on the mountain and also can be a danger to people. The USGS continues to study the CO2 emissions to help protect the public from this invisible potential hazard.

A preliminary estimate of the current rate of CO2 gas emission at Mammoth Mountain is 1,300 tons per day. Similar rates of CO2 emission have been measured from the craters of Mt. St. Helens (Washington) and Kilauea (Hawaii) volcanoes during periods of low-level eruptive activity.

With sun spots, volcanos, etc. why is man being blamed?

2007-03-27 08:25:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

A plea bargain was made where 1 case would be dropped if guilty plea to a 2nd case was made. I agreed abd waived rights to prelim, and it was schedulaled for DCA hearing. But without myself or attorney present, revoked plea agreement.Won't this give impression that i am guilty due to me agreeing to do so? And held against me that i was willing to plea guilty? can they do this?

2007-03-27 08:24:35 · 7 answers · asked by rick s 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-27 08:23:34 · 20 answers · asked by John H 1 in Government

2007-03-27 08:23:24 · 41 answers · asked by carmania 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

What will it be called the rebels or the -------------

2007-03-27 08:23:10 · 9 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Politics

A six year old boy touched a 4 or 5 year old girl in the genital area. The school notifed the parents of the girl. The girls parents now want to press charges against the parents of the boy for child molestation.
I really think this has gone to far. Yes the child should be talked to about right and wrong. However, I feel this may have been a case of pure curiosity. What are your opinions?

2007-03-27 08:23:07 · 6 answers · asked by vivib 6 in Law & Ethics

One could argue that they say whatever would best fit their agenda at the time. One good example, Hillary Clinton was the biggest Democratic supporter of the war and now she is saying, "This was should never have been authorized."

2007-03-27 08:22:55 · 15 answers · asked by tanisomega 2 in Other - Politics & Government

These guys have a lot of bad records (refer to the state department's human right report of the year) killing, prisoning, torturing civilience all is done using US tax payers money! why?

2007-03-27 08:22:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-03-27 08:21:05 · 5 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Military

organizations no more pork - 401k for all new govt employees
add a penny to stamps to pay for war as well as 10 cents a gal.
gas. remove all lobbyists return the govt back to the people and away from corp. america. place a strong cap on election
funding. reduce all benifets for federal employee (retired) 10 %
and give them a co-pay on health insurance. states and counties need a good cleaning and reduction.

2007-03-27 08:20:40 · 3 answers · asked by REAL change 1 in Civic Participation

My Roommate owes me $ 1800.00 Dollars for rent for the past 3 1/2 months I had to evict him this month because I’m not letting him stay and not pay. Im trying to work out a payment plan to get the money from him. He is just blowing it off. I went so far as to tell him that I would take $ 200.00 a month for the next 9 Month because I know that he does not have it right now. But I think that I just might have to go to court to get the money. How does small claims court work? And is it worth it or should I just keep pestering him and try to get the money myself.

2007-03-27 08:19:57 · 7 answers · asked by temper2482 1 in Law & Ethics

they're all getting their candidates to post questions on yahoo. it seems they need to ask people what they need because they don't know any better. the citizens of any country are too dumb and inexperienced to run a country, thats why poll politics sucks, and thats why we have a democratic *republic*. meanwhile, they pander to minorities and illegal aliens. they get the ACLU to sue whenever an illegal cant vote, and protest when ID is required and make excuses for why a person's shouldn't be checked. good place for bin laden to vote.
the republicans don't pander to anyone, only to a few religious who are being abandoned now, and they STILL get half the votes. republicans don't need 13 million illegals to get votes :-).
is the DNC this desperate?

2007-03-27 08:19:38 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-03-27 08:19:33 · 9 answers · asked by OM 1 in Government

ex: the Patriot Act
while stripping away the rights of due process for ordinary, law-abiding Americans one obviously becomes a "Patriot" in supporting the Patriot Act, otherwise, why would it be named that?

What are some other Constitutional rights we can remove in the name of Patriotism?

2007-03-27 08:19:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What a sad commentery.

2007-03-27 08:18:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I just want to know people's opinion about this article.
http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/52906.html

Looks like ICE is coercing people to accept deportation without getting a lawyer or seeing a judge to find out if they have a right to stay legally. Does that sound right to you?

2007-03-27 08:17:41 · 1 answers · asked by grdnoviz 4 in Immigration

In what circumstances would you expect official restraints to be placed upon the press as regards the reporting of an important disaster?

2007-03-27 08:16:45 · 11 answers · asked by polol 2 in Law & Ethics

We need people from around the country to focus on that senator from another state and if he or she is corrupt or lazy, get rid of them immediately. Use the recall petition or just flat out kick them out of office by acclimation and refuse to continue to pay them. It could be a very good tool to straighten out this MESS they have made

2007-03-27 08:16:19 · 8 answers · asked by lbsaints06@sbcglobal.net 1 in Elections

I mean, aren't the politicians supposed to listen to all of us and not a "sampling" of voters? I've been voting since I turned 18 and I still don't get it. I really don't think that anyone up there gets the Constutition, not really. We elect them, they listen to us, isn't that how it's suppossed to work? All of this sniping, backbiting and personal attacks are what turn people OFF to the process. Come on, Guys! Clean it up or we're all in trouble here..

2007-03-27 08:15:42 · 12 answers · asked by SabriaWolfe 2 in Elections

how do i go about speaking to someone at the military desk for the norwegian star cruise ship?

2007-03-27 08:15:39 · 1 answers · asked by brenda s 1 in Military

2007-03-27 08:15:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Alright, here's what's going on: a couple of us have started taking pictures to create a yearbook for our co-workers. A lot of people are very excited about it and the project seems to be succeeding so far. This is the first time anyone has done a yearbook. It will not be sold to the public. The question here is: do we need everyone's permission to put their names and pictures into the yearbook? Do we need permission to put group photos in? Copyright laws say that the photographer, not the subject, owns the rights to the picture. Are we just being courteous asking everyone's permission? i'm curious about the laws surrounding this....anything will help...thanks!

2007-03-27 08:15:07 · 2 answers · asked by JaneDoe 6 in Other - Politics & Government

they can own property and so forth; what is your stance/reasonings?

2007-03-27 08:14:54 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics