Politics & Government - 30 May 2007

I mean, who would want to leave in such a HORRID country like the United States. Isn't Canada a better place for them?

2007-05-30 09:20:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-05-30 09:18:52 · 9 answers · asked by nanalynnminn 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-05-30 09:18:51 · 8 answers · asked by s g 1 in Law & Ethics

Is intangible "Support the Troops" rhetoric a way to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Does it really support the troops? Why not do something tangible like a pay raise for enlisted ranks (E1 through E9)? Why don't you demand of our elected officials they provide the veterans benefits as promised or better yet increase veterans benefits across the board. Moral support is all fine and dandy, however it requires no effort whatsoever... why is it that talking is all many seem willing to do?

Special Note: to all the religious zealots why are you abusing God's name for your social agenda as a facade for supporting the troops?

If all the Republican and Democrat politicians are so gung-ho in their "support the troops" rhetoric, why has not one member of Congress objected or even commented on the Bush administration's cut of more than SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS from the Veterans' Administration annual budget?

2007-05-30 09:17:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

So, does this mean that women who have never given birth but have had one or more abortions have no business taking a stand on abortion?

2007-05-30 09:16:45 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

And Saddam had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11?

2007-05-30 09:14:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My husband and I are buying a house. Originally the sellers said they wanted to do a lease back. (Where they rent there house back from us after we buy for a month) Both sides have signed all the contracts and it is supposed to be final. Now they say they don't want to do it and want to move out at the close of Escrow. We want them to stay for the month they leased they are trying to get out of the contract by saying the wording does not obligate them to stay. It's a Coldwell banker contract. Can they really get out of it? My real estate agent says no but it could go to Arbitration....Only answer if you know about this stuff...

2007-05-30 09:10:54 · 2 answers · asked by Nicolleta 2 in Law & Ethics

Of course they did, Donald Rumsfeld still had the receipt. Oh, maybe they didn't use that to gas the Kurds?

2007-05-30 09:10:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-05-30 09:10:21 · 9 answers · asked by Curt 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Why do Dems think they are smart when they agree with abortion? I can't understand why they think it's not the KILLING of innocent life. Is their any reason to think that an unborn is not LIFE?
Why do ems vote for a war then later when it's not Popular say they don't want it.
Can't people see the transparentness and flat out greed for power that Dems are?

2007-05-30 09:08:22 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Im interested in some present day example of how it is followed, or how it cannot be followed.

thanks.

2007-05-30 09:06:23 · 9 answers · asked by Pilar B 2 in Other - Politics & Government

and they get hacked off at you and rage at you with a pipe or nothing in their hand and you shot them can you get in trouble or do you have a right to defend you and your possessions?

2007-05-30 09:05:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

... but you'd be okay with that because, hey, i have my rights too.

2007-05-30 09:04:05 · 7 answers · asked by patzky99 6 in Law & Ethics

2007-05-30 09:02:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What is your stance on this contreversial issue? Are you for or against? Please explain your reasoning behind your view? Please throughly and civily.

2007-05-30 09:02:38 · 28 answers · asked by -entropy! 3 in Law & Ethics

The next administration is going to assume responsibility for the Iraq occupation. Given that 3/4 of the population is no longer in favor of this situation and the cost is billions of borrowed dollars every month, not to mention five to nine hundred lives per year plus the wounded....where is the natural stopping place?

2007-05-30 09:01:47 · 11 answers · asked by Noah H 7 in Politics

like all conservatives and moderates and even some liberals homophobes! they are just scared of themselves being gays na d project it onto me but if they wood just embrace their gay side and put their meat into my rear they'd understand and not be homophobe

2007-05-30 09:00:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Why is it ok for the government to tax and spend $512 billion on millitary but whenever a Democrat proposes something you automatically get deffensive about your tax dollars?

By the $512 billion is more than the next 14 other leading millitary budgets in the world, combined. And that's without the so-called supplementals for war.

2007-05-30 09:00:25 · 12 answers · asked by Incognito 5 in Politics

George H.W. Bush had this to say in a 1998 Time article, when asked why US/UN forces didn't go after Saddam Hussein after Iraqi forces were pushed out of Kuwait in the Gulf War.

"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome."

Seems like besides running the CIA and being a one term president, Bush Sr. was a a fortune teller, for his own kid.

2007-05-30 08:59:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-05-30 08:59:08 · 7 answers · asked by Kiaspecter 1 in Politics

2007-05-30 08:58:18 · 2 answers · asked by Kiaspecter 1 in Politics

2007-05-30 08:55:52 · 8 answers · asked by Kiaspecter 1 in Military

I'm keen on hearin' what it was like for you in the army. I'm a medic in the army.

I also have a question: Should I sleep with my chain in command (he's married!)? Honestly, he keeps on pressuring me to. I said no for quite a while, and I have not been promoted at ALL, and have been kinda ostracized.

And please don't say "Yeah, if he's good looking" or other answers like that.

Has anyone ever had experienced this? It's really annoying!

2007-05-30 08:54:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-05-30 08:53:55 · 12 answers · asked by brandon 1 in Military

We dated 5 years, married in July'06, and I became pregnant during the honeymoon. Aug'06 he left me for another woman. She became pregnant Oct'06. In Nov'06, he went to bootcamp. Two weeks later, our divorce was finalized. They married in Feb'07. Our child was born April'07.

In the divorce, he was required to pay child support ($224 a month), and as additional support 1/2 of daycare, all of medical, and he has to get $150,000 in life support. There was no alimony.

The child support was based of me making $2000 a month, and him at no income, which in oregon meant they based it off minimum wage. (He had no job the last 2 1/2 years before the military)

I have a new job, which pays less but has more opportunity ($11 hourly vs $13 before). He is now pfc, and told me he makes $2500 a month. I wish to raise the child support (cs), but he claims his income that can be counted towards cs is only $800 a month. How do I determine if this is true? What else should I be looking into?

2007-05-30 08:52:45 · 8 answers · asked by all_the_answers 2 in Military

2007-05-30 08:51:34 · 3 answers · asked by brittany020990 1 in Military

2007-05-30 08:51:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i could never decide "yes" or "no" or abortion in regards to rape, but think about it. do you want that child to be born? do you want that child to have the same genes of a rapist? can you imagine once the child grows up and looks the mother in the eye and the child looks EXACTLY like the man that raped her? many people say put it up for adoption, but there are millions of kids who are put up for adoption and never adopted.......they are forced to live in horrible foster homes and orphanages........do you think the women can go to the pain of rape, much less abortion, much less delivering the child in the same area she was raped nine months before? (and that "area" might still bear physical pain from the rape)

and the most horrible part of all, what happens if the child finds out he is the product of the rapist? he would in utter fustration kill himself, or other people, or even may rape another women in total despair.........

i am not saying yes or no, i want to know your views

2007-05-30 08:51:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I can tell you what wasn't the best part for them. I ran into a group of Libs who were burning an American flag. One dirty looking Lib, wearing an old Clinton-Gore t-shirt, walked near me and, although I'm only 5'6, 117, I slapped the taste out of his mouth. When the police saw what happened, they came over, and I simply said that I had "fear and apprehension for my physical safety" because the Lib was coming toward me. Guess what happened? The police said it was self-defense on my part and arrested/charged the Lib with assault against me.

NOW, THAT'S AMERICA--right?

2007-05-30 08:51:06 · 27 answers · asked by Kim 1 in Politics

In 2003 I got a speeding ticket and failed to pay it. I am now re-located back to the state in which I got it and am needing to find out how to get it taken care of, but I was told after 3 years your record is wiped totally clean. Can someone help me out with this? I've tried contacting my local DPS office only to get tons of busy signals. Thanks!

2007-05-30 08:50:24 · 9 answers · asked by joshandashleydorn 4 in Law Enforcement & Police