Politics & Government - 16 June 2007

My friend is 16 years old, she wants to be emancipated. How will she come about this?

2007-06-16 19:19:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-06-16 19:18:48 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I know its 18, but do a lot of stores, etc. really check ID? I'm 17, by the way. And I know its bad for me, so please save it. Thanks! :-)

2007-06-16 19:09:23 · 1 answers · asked by AwesomeErik 1 in Law & Ethics

Yes, I think they are.

2007-06-16 18:48:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-06-16 18:25:32 · 20 answers · asked by Anjelino 4 in Military

2007-06-16 18:25:20 · 1 answers · asked by dhara m 1 in Government

right now I want to atleast spend the summer, my last free time, before I enlist
i previously graduated highschool and if i can, i want to go to bootcamp (leave home, i dont know what the first procedure to being AF is) on September

when should I visit the recruiter?

2007-06-16 18:21:34 · 14 answers · asked by bounz 1 in Military

seriously

2007-06-16 18:05:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I wanted to know what questions I may be asked in an upcoming interview for a job as a police officer.

2007-06-16 18:04:30 · 4 answers · asked by ezdoughboy 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Particularly if the correspondence takes places via webmail, in other words is hosted on University servers.

2007-06-16 18:02:56 · 14 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Law & Ethics

I had a adopted son LEND me his pellet==BB gun and quite innocentely I didn't think nothing of it because he said it was like a toy and anyone can have it..for safety reasons--taking his word for it I have had it in my home for couple weeks..now I got a form asking me to insure it or maybe to register it not sure--I will check the papers tommorrow..I will also phone the people that sent it to me to fill out and find out why they sent it to me as I never gave them my address as I didn't know I had to..could I get into troyuble by having it in my home although I don't know the first thing about it..

2007-06-16 18:02:36 · 5 answers · asked by lorr1941 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-06-16 17:52:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Last year North Korea launched missiles at us but they didn't reach us.
So I was wondering if it's possible they or someone else might try to do it again this year.
The 4th is an excellent time to attack us because we're already making a bunch of noise with fireworks celebrations.
And it would be a direct display of disrespect for celebrating our independance.

2007-06-16 17:44:48 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_size_of_armed_forces

This is a link to the size of the world's military forces.

2007-06-16 17:36:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Dear God:
Why didn't you save the school children at?

Virginia Tech

Amish Country, PA

Columbine High School

Moses Lake , Washington 2/2/96

Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97

Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97

West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97

Stam P, Arkansas 12/15/97

Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98

Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98

Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98

Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98

Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98

Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99

Taber, Alberta , Canada 5/28/99

Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99

Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99

Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99

Santee, California 3/ 5/01 and

El Cajon, California 3/22/01

Sincerely,

Concerned Student

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Reply:

Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

>Sincerely,
>
>God
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>
>How did this get started?...
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>-----------------
>
>Let's see,
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>I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained
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>She didn't want any prayer in our schools.
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>And we said, OK...
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>------------------
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>Then,
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>Someone said you better not read the Bible in school,
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>The Bible that says
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>"Thou shalt! Not kill,
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>Thou shalt not steal,
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>And love your neighbors as yourself,"
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>And we said, OK...
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>-----------------
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>Dr. Benjamin Spock said
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>We shouldn't spank our children
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>when they misbehaved
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>because their little personalities
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>would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.
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>And we said,
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>An expert should know what he's talking about.
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>So we won't spank them anymore...
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>------------------
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>Then someone said
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>Teachers and principals better not
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>Discipline our children when they misbehave.
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>And the school administrators said
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>No faculty member in this school
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>Better touch a student when they misbehave
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>Because we don't want any bad publicity,
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>And we surely don't want to be sued.
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>And we accepted their
>Reasoning...
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>And the entertainment industry said,
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>let's make TV shows and movies that promote
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>Profanity, violence and illicit sex...
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>And let's record music that encourages
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>Rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...
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>And we said,
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>it's just entertainment
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>And it has no adverse effect
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>And nobody takes it seriously anyway,
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>So go right ahead.
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>------------------
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>Now we're asking ourselves
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>Why our children have no conscience,
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>Why they don't know right from wrong,
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> And why it doesn't bother them to
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>Kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
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>------------------
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>Undoubtedly,
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>If we thought about it long and hard enough,
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>We could figure it out.
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>I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
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>"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW,"

2007-06-16 17:31:41 · 17 answers · asked by austinblnd 4 in Politics

Are Marines in the Military who have low-combat seeing jobs, (clerical jobs, etc) allowed to have weapons for leisure? If not, why?

2007-06-16 17:25:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Is it exactly half way through or whenever the miltiary decides?

2007-06-16 17:18:02 · 10 answers · asked by lavender 1 in Military

after he graduates from basic training does that mean that he can stay with me, or does he have to go back to base at curfew?

2007-06-16 17:17:42 · 6 answers · asked by LoLa 2 in Military

how long does it generally take and have anyone had any problems with not receiveng theirs. i dont know if this matters but im in the army national guard!

2007-06-16 17:13:57 · 8 answers · asked by whatitis 1 in Military

2007-06-16 17:13:51 · 26 answers · asked by rockonforeverman 1 in Politics

Republican, Conservative Bush supporter that will admit that I am upset with OUR beloved PResident over this Immagration Bill?

I do still love our president!
I still have faith that he can make this right...
but i am very upset at him .. for the first time in 6+ years OUR president has really upset me!

Am I alone?

2007-06-16 17:13:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-16 17:06:02 · 2 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Politics

I really feel that i want and need to do this for my country.
Also the terrorists just destroyed the twin towers out of jealousy.
Even though i am in 10th grade i really want 2 get bak at them it seems right and ill feel better and happier. I really enjoy thinking of going into the army and navy 2 die for my country!!!!!! Wat do u think?? I know that somw ppl wont agree but i dont care!!!!!!

2007-06-16 17:05:39 · 24 answers · asked by BellaCullen~<3~ 3 in Military

ie whether it was a.suicide, homicide, or other, or is he referring to the actual cause of death such as massive coronary.?

2007-06-16 17:05:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Ive wanted to be a Marine since I was little and still would like to be a Marine. I love the brotherhood of the Corps and the life long membership when you join the Corps, I also love the intensity and pride of being a Marine. But I would like to be a Corpsman in the Navy and serve with the Marines as a combat medic. I know the Navy life because my father spent 21 years in the active Navy. The Navy is good life and they treat well, but the advancement is the hardest out of all the branches (most retire at E-6) and now you have to have an associates degree to become an E-7. I just don't know which one to join. It really is 50/50 right now.

2007-06-16 17:02:35 · 14 answers · asked by Brandon D 1 in Military

I've just started the process of signing up to the Royal Navy, so it's not even guaranteed that I'm gonna get in, but every time I tell people I'm signing up as a pilot they all tell me I'm gonna end up killing people, dropping bombs and such - I'm not politically minded at all so it's hard for me to argue back at these people when they talk about Iraq and Gaza and the rest. The reason I'm signing up is to lead a more fulfilling life, to experience things that no other career could afford me - I need to get up to speed on world politics and form my own opinion, and I need help with that.

2007-06-16 16:54:18 · 7 answers · asked by Scotty 2 in Military

Hard working, tax-paying Americans are being marginalized by our government when it comes to immigration. The people have spoken, yet the government ignores us. Where was the President when it came to Social Security reform? At the first sign of trouble, he backed off. Now I am supposed to lay down and wait for more social program recipients to flood my country and turn it into a third world cess pool like their own country? I think not. When are we as Americans going to do something about our government?

2007-06-16 16:48:48 · 10 answers · asked by The Patrioteer 4 in Immigration

i need to know as much as possible about him. what are his stances on different issuses. where was he born what is his background??

2007-06-16 16:47:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

My husband is currently in the Army and i've always wanted to join but i have a 2 year old daughter from a previous relationship and we share joined custody and i want to know if i do join can he get full custody of my daughter because i really don't want him to get it i was wondering if i do join can my mom have joined custody while i'm gone for basic training????

2007-06-16 16:44:53 · 7 answers · asked by Armywife818 2 in Military

Why the state goes to war is not a mystery – at least the general reasons are not mysterious. War is an excuse for spending money on its friends. It can punish enemies that are not going with the program. It intimidates other states tempted to go their own way. It can pave the way for commercial interests linked to the state. The regime that makes and wins a war gets written up in the history books. So the reasons are the same now as in the ancient world: power, money, glory.
Why the bourgeoisie back war is another matter. It is self-evidently not in their interest. The government gains power at their expense. It spends their money and runs up debt that is paid out of taxes and inflation. It fosters the creation of permanent enemies abroad who then work to diminish our security at home. It leads to the violation of privacy and civil liberty.
War is incompatible with a government that leaves people alone to develop their lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Nonetheless, war with moral themes – we are the good guys working for God and they are the bad guys doing the devil's work – tends to attract a massive amount of middle class support. People believe the lies, and, once exposed, they defend the right of the state to lie. People who are otherwise outraged by murder find themselves celebrating the same on a mass industrial scale. People who harbor no hatred toward foreigners find themselves attaching ghastly monikers to whole classes of foreign peoples. Regular middle class people, who otherwise struggle to eke out a flourishing life in this vale of tears, feel hatred well up within them and confuse it for honor, bravery, courage, and valor.
Why? Nationalism is one answer. To be at war is to feel at one with something much larger than oneself, to be a part of a grand historical project. They have absorbed the civic religion from childhood – Boston tea, cherry trees, log cabins, Chevrolet – but it mostly has no living presence in their minds until the state pushes the war button, and then all the nationalist emotions well up within them.
Nationalism is usually associated with attachment to a particular set of state managers that you think can somehow lead the country in a particular direction of which you approve. So the nationalism of the Iraq war was mostly a Republican Party phenomenon. All Democrats are suspected as being insufficiently loyal, of feeling sympathy for The Enemy, or defending such ideas as civil liberty at a time when the nation needs unity more than ever.
You could tell a Republican nationalist during this last war because the words peace and liberty were always said with a sneer, as if they didn't matter at all. Even the Constitution came in for a pounding from these people. Bush did all he could to consolidate decision-making power unto himself, and even strongly suggested that he was acting on God's orders as Commander in Chief, and his religious constitutionalist supporters went right along with it. They were willing to break as many eggs as necessary to make the war omelet. I've got an archive of a thousand hate mails to prove it.
But nationalism is not the only basis for bourgeois support for war. Long-time war correspondent Chris Hedges, in his great book War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (First Anchor, 2003) argues that war operates as a kind of canvas on which every member of the middle and working class can paint his or her own picture. Whatever personal frustrations exist in your life, however powerless you feel, war works as a kind of narcotic. It provides a means for people to feel temporarily powerful and important, as if they are part of some big episode in history. War then becomes for people a kind of lurching attempt to taste immortality. War gives their lives meaning.
War is the devil's sacrament. It promises to bind us not with God but with the nation state. It grants not life but death. It provides not liberty but slavery. It lives not on truth but on lies, and these lies are themselves said to be worthy of defense. It exalts evil and puts down the good. It is promiscuous in encouraging an orgy of sin, not self-restraint and thought. It is irrational and bloody and vicious and appalling. And it claims to be the highest achievement of man.
It is worse than mass insanity. It is mass wallowing in evil.
And then it is over. People oddly forget what took place. The rose wilts and the thorns grow but people go on with their lives. War no longer inspires. War news becomes uninteresting. All those arguments with friends and family – what were they about anyway? All that killing and expense and death – let's just avert our eyes from it all. Maybe in a few years, once the war is out of the news forever and the country we smashed recovers some modicum of civilization, we can revisit the event and proclaim it glorious. But for now, let's just say it never happened.
That seems to be just about where people stand these days with the Iraq War. Iraq is a mess, hundreds of thousands are killed and maimed, billions of dollars are missing, the debt is astronomical, and the world seethes in hatred toward the conquering empire. And what does the warmongering middle class have to say for itself? Pretty much what you might expect: nothing.
People have long accused the great liberal tradition of a dogmatic attachment to peace. It would appear that this is precisely what is necessary in order to preserve the freedom necessary for all of us to find true meaning in our lives.
Do we reject war and all its works? We do reject them.
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Lew Rockwell
Mises.com

2007-06-16 16:42:16 · 6 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1 in Other - Politics & Government