Politics & Government - 16 June 2007

X won't call his son since Christmas! Can the courts make him call or make arrangements for visitation? X won't talk about it or answer his phone. He won't give me his new address. He says to call the courts. The courts don't have it. I am sick of his behavior. I have to get to pay some medical bills. What do I do? Will the courts act on this? I called his Attorney, she says I don't represent him anymore which is bull, she always says this until an issue comes up, she is there in court. Doesn't she have to give me his address? My son keeps asking when can he see his Dad. This is horrible! The Dad also left his 20 yrs. old daughter but he communicates w/ her all the time. Should I file for full custody & demand he looses his rights as a parent? Urgent Care just called me & said they have been billing him for his co-pays & he hasn't been paying.

2007-06-16 02:33:44 · 8 answers · asked by pinky 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-16 02:30:51 · 5 answers · asked by caribbaby 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-16 02:27:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

The Republican party has hired 2 gentlemen to run the California Republican headquarters. The job pays over $100.000 a year. One of these men was brought in from Canada, and the other from Austrailia.
Was there really no one here that could do that job? Or was there no one left to want a job with the Republicans?

2007-06-16 02:26:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

"...prominent immigrant-bashers forget their own personal reliance on immigrant labor..Nevada's Governor Jim Gibbons, ...once employed an undocumented nanny; the Boston Globe revealed late last year, Mitt Romney's lawn in suburban Boston was maintained by illegal immigrants from Guatemala."
"Undocumented immigrants annually pay an estimated $7 billion more than they take out into Social Security, and $1.5 billion more into Medicare.... A study by the National Academy of Sciences also found that tax payments generated by immigrants outweighed any costs associated with services used by immigrants."
for wages withheld by unscrupulous employers; The homeowner who tells the domestic worker the wage is actually several hundred dollars less;the landscaping service that stiffs its undocumented workers for their labor. Who's the "illegal" here?
"there's the massive compensation owed to undocumented immigrants for preventable injuries on the job"
www.thenation.com/doc/20070625/ehrenreich

2007-06-16 02:25:48 · 9 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Immigration

I would love to hear all of your stories about what you remember of that day....especially how you reacted when you heard the news, and how other people around you reacted.

2007-06-16 02:19:36 · 22 answers · asked by LadyZania 7 in Politics

Immoral- Is it immoral to Kill people?
Upholding Justice- Isn't this the right thing to do?
Safer Society- By Killing murderers, Do we deter other criminals?
Rehabilitation- Can we expect Murderers to change?

2007-06-16 02:18:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-06-16 02:13:06 · 16 answers · asked by ifhusain 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Following the link below will take you to a page which will show you Indiana's newest license plate design, "In God We Trust".

There seems to be a muted controversy (only hear about it once in a while) about whether this violates Church and State.

The reason being that, while ALL other plates Indiana offers with a special slogan/design (for Indiana U., Purdue, Riley's Children's Hospital, etc) cost an extra fee to get, this one is available at no extra charge. Part or all of the extra fee does go to the relevant organization as a fundraiser, by the way.

Additionally, the license branch reps make a point of mentioning this particular plate as an option.

I think I've given you the essential facts. What do you think? Is this particular plate a problem, does it walk the middle ground, or is it a good thing?

http://www.in.gov/bmv/plates/regular.htm

2007-06-16 02:08:00 · 9 answers · asked by apocalypso blues 5 in Law & Ethics

".....Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony........."

2007-06-16 02:07:17 · 4 answers · asked by Cookies Anyone? 5 in Politics

I really don't think it is any of our business.I f they have an open Marriage good for them, if it works for them. Look at 90% of the Republicans running they are on their second or thrid wife. Rudy's first wife was his cousin.

By the way never voted for a Clinton and I live in New York.

2007-06-16 02:06:02 · 13 answers · asked by G O 5 in Elections

Specifically, would the applications be processed longer if the applicant choose to settle in Ontario, a more popular destination, than those choosing Yukon, Newfoundland or Saskatchewan?

2007-06-16 01:56:39 · 2 answers · asked by I love Levi's jeans 1 in Immigration

And who do I turn them over to?

2007-06-16 01:54:37 · 2 answers · asked by sonofmary 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

Is that because they are all immigrants or their descendants, so some of them feel unsettled and endangered by newcomers?
Similar thing goes about Americans.

2007-06-16 01:53:10 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-06-16 01:53:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

"rule by private interests was ascendant, and they enforced that rule by law and arms. If you didn’t actually walk out the door, you could imagine that the United States resembled Italy under Mussolini."
It’s true that the U.S. may be a police state – as anyone who protests against the WTO will find in out in short, ugly order – but it is not, for most people, a totalitarian state. People tolerate, or actively embrace, corporate rule not primarily because they’re cowed by the police, but because they aspire to the promised gifts of the program."

2007-06-16 01:52:46 · 4 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Law & Ethics

Face it, most of the illegal immigrants in the USA would make great American citizens if given the chance. They are generally nice, hard-working, family-oriented people.

What if we gave all the illegals amnesty, but we deported an equivalent number of American residents who don't deserve to live here?

We could start with the Liberals. In light of the war on terror, they've shown their true colors as the traitors that they are. They could be sent to Venezuela or Cuba, so they can see what their beloved Socialism really looks like (and live alongside their fellow America-haters.)

Next we could send all our criminals to war-torn Afghanistan. Instead of preying, and bringing suffering down upon their fellow human beings, they'd be forced to contribute to society.

Anyone who is able-bodied and on welfare would be given the opportunity to work. If they refuse, they'd be sent to Mexico to learn how.

So what's everyone think of my illustrious plan?

2007-06-16 01:50:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

For Us Religious People To believe In God...
Why Does the Tolerant Left give us such a hard time about it.?

Why Is it that my Faith is absurd to them
yet It their theory is absurd to me and thats not tolerated by them!

Shouldn't they just feel happy that theirs is allowed to be taught in Public schools and mine is not...

2007-06-16 01:50:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-16 01:39:51 · 13 answers · asked by .... . .-.. .-.. --- 4 in Politics

With the privatization of water supplies to cities and the phenomenal rise in bottled water and the media's implied distrust of the "tap", water is becoming a corporate commodity...and water IS our right, I am sure.
And before anyone tells me, yes the "details" was an editorial.

2007-06-16 01:39:35 · 6 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Law & Ethics

A friend of mine has a medal in shape of Maltese cross, with a circular center. 2 swords, hilt up, make an "x" thru the circle. Left & right cross arms say "1871." Circle has "Ringen" engraved. Top cross arm says "Kr.V." Rear say "Heinr Ernst Piriete, Dreden A 16 inscribed. Any ideas? Thanks, A

2007-06-16 01:39:31 · 4 answers · asked by Ammianus 3 in Military

"Xenu (sometimes Xemu) is introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. Scientologists believe the alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans"
WTF? Who believes this crap you might ask...well, liberals do. Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey, Matt Lauer, etc...Prominent liberals actually buy into this crap, and yet expect Americans to trust what they say on issues of importance.

And they actually reject proven economic facts like capitalism and free markets. No wonder they struggle to identify with normal people. They are so far out in Left feild.

2007-06-16 01:30:35 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

what do u say,can she become prez insted of pramoting others.can she do the job.

2007-06-16 01:27:21 · 12 answers · asked by toploser 5 in Elections

2007-06-16 01:19:53 · 9 answers · asked by Paul M 1 in Military

Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign.
The blind trust held stock in pharmaceutical companies, including $250,000-$500,000 in Biogen Idec and Johnson & Johnson and $100,000-$250,000 in Amgen, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. It also invested in General Electric and Raytheon, two leading defense contractors. The trust had a varied portfolio, with investments in numerous other companies, including Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Walt Disney and eBay.

Hmmm...Defense (WEAPONS) contractors, Drug Companies and Big oil.............

They should have bought stock in Hypocrisy Inc.

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/99848.html

2007-06-16 01:15:23 · 16 answers · asked by Cookies Anyone? 5 in Politics

I am looking for a list of 5 capitalist, socialist countries and countries with a mixed economy

2007-06-16 01:14:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

While evolution is a scientific theory , it has facts supporting it from a broad range of life science disciplines. There are absolutely NO COMPETING THEORIES with which to doubt evolution.
Republicans are full of other false beliefs like it's possible to defeat terrorism, capitalism is the only best system for everything ect., taxes are always too high ect. Of course, Hard core Republicans are proof if you tell a lie often enough, such as we are right to had conquered Iraq, regardless of reason, they'll believe it because their leaders tell them what to believe.

It's funny how Republican bozos want creationism to be taught in a science class, but do you think they would ever want it taught where socialism had succeeded? Of course not. They are so rigid in their beliefs that to even attempt to reason with them is futile, their ability to compromise comes only where they lack the power to ram their system down everyone's throat.

Source: http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=2784

2007-06-16 01:13:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I work with illegals and most of them are saying that its only right that they be legalized since actually the southwestern US is part of Mexico and that they plan to retake it politically by sheer numbers.

2007-06-16 01:10:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Ever notice how nice they are when they come to visit us how polite they are ! Do you think when they go home some thing happens to them?

2007-06-16 01:07:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

im doing a modern history assignment and have a few sources already. but my question is do you have any useful internet sources containing information on if the us government caused 9/11 as an excuse to invade iraqs and afghanistans oil.

much help appreciated. (btw im neutral to the whole situation, so no abusing me its for my assignment)

2007-06-16 01:06:00 · 11 answers · asked by john c 2 in Government