Politics & Government - 19 June 2007

it seems like an awfully popular theme...

2007-06-19 12:40:02 · 8 answers · asked by brian 4 in Law & Ethics

Today, the treasurer of South Carolina was suspended from his office because he was indicted by a grand jury for cocaine distribution. How can you be suspended or fired before you have a trial? I thought that we are innocent until proven guilty. Can someone explain this action to me? Thanks...

2007-06-19 12:39:29 · 5 answers · asked by roofergirl30 1 in Law & Ethics

I am interested in going to Flight School, but I am currently 32 and have heard that the Military will not accept you after this age..... is this true? Thanks for your answers! :)

2007-06-19 12:37:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

i went to the beach with some friends and i had on flip-flops.....but they had sand it them and were really uncomfortable so i just took them off and my friend was like, "you shouldn't do that...if we get stopped you could get arrested and get your license taken away..."

is this true or is my friend on crack? lol! j/k ♥ ya stacy!!

thanks! ♥katie

2007-06-19 12:36:40 · 14 answers · asked by ♥femme fatale♥ 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

We missed with Ross, but maybe Mike can make a real run! A 3rd party is what is really needed in American Politics. Let the house be democratic, the Senate be Rebublican and the President be an independent. It is a very bright aspect and with his platform we could do allot worse than President Micheal Bloomberg!

2007-06-19 12:32:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Just find it interesting that while Hollywood has a very big reputation for being liberal and there are always liberal actors being mentioned as candidates, it always for some reason seems to be the conservative actors/performers who actually run.
Regan, Arnold, Sonny Bono, possibly Thompson, even the guy from Dukes of Hazard, cooter, ran and Gopher from Love boat, all, I think, as Republicans.

Not really a question but just something I've always found interesting and don't really know why it happens that way.

2007-06-19 12:30:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I brought my boat in last week for an estimate. I signed a work order and it lists all kinds of things like total parts and total labor and other charges etc. All say 0.00. I signed this that I agreed to no charges. I got a call today saying he wants $210.00 for the estimate. I went and tried to get my boat and he says he wants $210.00 cash or he won't give me my boat back. This is in Ingleside, Illinois. I'm filing a claim with Illinois Atty. General. but what would you do? I know if I give him $210.00 cash then he'll make me sign something saying I approved or he'll later say that he never got the cash and probably won't give me a receipt for it. I'm also thinking that if I don't pick it up and pay that he'll end up charging me a storage fee. I'm totally between a rock and a hard place and soooo tired of being taken because they know it would cost too much for a lawyer and so most people just pay. Please help.

2007-06-19 12:29:40 · 3 answers · asked by tyblossom 2 in Law & Ethics

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2007-06-19 12:28:16 · 12 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

Heard on NBC tonight that Hillary's numbers with women include 33% who think she's not electable. Over 50% thinks she'll bring the same baggage to office as Bill Clinton did when he was in office. Her numbers with men are even worse.
If she does win the Democratic nomination (remember a lot less people vote in primaries than in general elections and a lot of them are diehards) will she be electable in 2008 or will anybody the Republican run be a shoo-in?

2007-06-19 12:27:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Why? How would he do it?

2007-06-19 12:24:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

told the court it was consential i dont know if i spelled that right but if i told the court that how mich time would be knocked off? we live in pa if that helps any

2007-06-19 12:22:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

POLICYMAKERS and legislators often fail to consider the law of unintended consequences. The latest example is their attempt to reduce the United States' dependence on imported oil by shifting a big share of the nation's largest crop, corn, to the production of ethanol for fueling automobiles.

Good goal, bad policy. In fact, ethanol will do little to reduce the large percentage of our fuel that is imported (more than 60%), and the ethanol policy will have widespread and profound ripple effects on other markets. Corn farmers and ethanol refiners are ecstatic about the ethanol boom and are enjoying the windfall of artificially enhanced demand. But it will be an expensive and dangerous experiment for the rest of us.

On Capitol Hill, the Senate is debating legislation that would further expand corn ethanol production. A 2005 law already mandates production of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012, about 5% of the projected gasoline use at that time. These biofuel goals are propped up by a generous federal subsidy of 51 cents a gallon for blending ethanol into gasoline, and a tariff of 54 cents a gallon on most imported ethanol to help keep out cheap imports from Brazil. The proposed legislation is a prime example of throwing good money after a bad idea.

President Bush has set a target of replacing 15% of domestic gasoline use with biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) over the next 10 years, which would require almost a fivefold increase in mandatory biofuel use, to about 35 billion gallons. With current technology, almost all of this biofuel would have to come from corn because there is no feasible alternative. However, achieving the 15% goal would require the entire current U.S. corn crop, which represents a whopping 40% of the world's corn supply. This would do more than create mere market distortions; the irresistible pressure to divert corn from food to fuel would create unprecedented turmoil.

Thus, it is no surprise that the price of corn has doubled in the last year — from $2 to $4 a bushel. We are already seeing upward pressure on food prices as the demand for ethanol boosts the demand for corn. Until the recent ethanol boom, more than 60% of the annual U.S. corn harvest was fed domestically to cattle, hogs and chickens or used in food or beverages. Thousands of food items contain corn or corn byproducts. In Mexico, where corn is a staple food, the price of tortillas has skyrocketed because U.S. corn has been diverted to ethanol production.

And any sort of shock to corn yields, such as drought, unseasonably hot weather, pests or disease could send food prices into the stratosphere. Such concerns are more than theoretical. In 1970, a widespread outbreak of a fungus called southern corn leaf blight destroyed 15% of the U.S. corn crop.

Politicians like to say that ethanol is environmentally friendly, but these claims must be put into perspective. Although corn is a renewable resource, it has a far lower yield relative to the energy used to produce it than either biodiesel (such as soybean oil) or ethanol from other plants. Moreover, ethanol yields about 30% less energy per gallon than gasoline, so mileage drops off significantly. Finally, adding ethanol raises the price of blended fuel because it is more expensive to transport and handle.

Lower-cost biomass ethanol — for example, from rice straw (a byproduct of harvesting rice) or switchgrass — would make far more economic sense, but large volumes of ethanol from biomass will not be commercially viable for many years. (And production will be delayed by government policies that specifically encourage corn-based ethanol by employing subsidies.)

American legislators and policymakers seem oblivious to the scientific and economic realities of ethanol production. Brazil and other major sugar cane-producing nations enjoy significant advantages over the U.S. in producing ethanol, including ample agricultural land, warm climates amenable to vast plantations and on-site distilleries that can process cane immediately after harvest.

Thus, in the absence of cost-effective, domestically available sources for producing ethanol, rather than using corn, it would make far more sense to import ethanol from Brazil and other countries that can produce it efficiently — and also to remove the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on Brazilian ethanol imports.

Our politicians may be drunk with the prospect of corn-derived ethanol, but if we don't adopt policies based on science and sound economics, it is consumers around the world who will suffer the hangover.
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2007-06-19 12:22:10 · 5 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

Ambassador's Memo Asks for 'Best People'
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 19, 2007; A01
Ryan C. Crocker, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, bluntly told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a cable dated May 31 that the embassy in Baghdad -- the largest and most expensive U.S. embassy -- lacks enough well-qualified staff members and that its security rules are too restrictive for Foreign Service officers to do their jobs.

"Simply put, we cannot do the nation's most important work if we do not have the Department's best people," Crocker said in the memo.

The unclassified cable underscores the State Department's struggle to find its role in the turmoil in Iraq. With a 2007 budget of more than $1 billion and a staff that has expanded to more than 1,000 Americans and 4,000 third-country nationals, the embassy has become the center of a bureaucratic battle between Crocker, who wants to strengthen the staff, and some members of Congress.

humm.

2007-06-19 12:21:52 · 4 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

The Army is again considering extending the deployment time of our Troops.

My question is would you enlist to shorten the time our Troops have to spend in the sandbox?

I would today even with my previous service time taken off, I'm over the age limit.

2007-06-19 12:21:49 · 6 answers · asked by ฉันรักเบ้า 7 in Military

Is it the same for a man/woman?

A friend of mine told me he wasn't allowed to enroll in the army because he is an only child, is this true?

2007-06-19 12:20:17 · 15 answers · asked by bonita_itzel 2 in Military

I recently moved and lost two boxes full of stuff including papers. Most of it I didn't need anyways but I want to make sure I do have everything I do need. So, my question is what are the most important documents we need to have, for example - Birth Certificate, Social Security Card, Vaccines, ID, etc...

Thanks in Advance

2007-06-19 12:19:06 · 4 answers · asked by R21 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-19 12:17:32 · 9 answers · asked by El Alakran Mexican'O'Ian 2 in Immigration

Is it true in Germany,you are not allowed to even speak about Nazi Germany? Is this correct?

2007-06-19 12:13:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I tried to make a joke.
I tried to make them laugh.
I even tried some Irony
but then I made a gaff.

The gaff I made was very small
But Yahoo! would not flinch
In there enforcement of there laws
would not give me an inch

My question was removed
The public's answers too
I thought this was not possible
I thought this was not true

And so I did reply
to this error they had made
only for them to respond
with another very bad grade

This time it was an answer
an honest answer too
but it did not please the censors
Only they know what is true.

The keepers of all goodness
and of all knowledge too
caging up all dangerous ones
Like the keepers in a zoo

And so what will become
of Yahoo Answers now.
That they have crowned themselves
The heirs of Chairman Mao.

Perhaps they'll carry on forever
playing a political game
or perhaps one day they will look back
with embarrassment and shame.

2007-06-19 12:13:04 · 2 answers · asked by David Blumpy 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I find this "question" and the subsequent "answers" amusing:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070619154713AAUaZsF&r=w#RsR4WTC1UGLXAOZlOfd26Pr22G__DAD6hVJeJW5TpX.ayPFJ4ZHX

Guy discusses (half of) an article in which the so-called "Father of Climatology" (no explanation of how he got that title or who gave it to him) claims that global warming isn't caused by humans. He just gives his opinion, providing no evidence. Guy fails to mention that the second half of the article was devoted to scientists providing evidence to support their arguments that the current global warming is primarily caused by humans. Answerers eat it up with a spoon.

So now that you know the truth of the article, which would you be more likely to believe?

87-year-old scientist who somehow got the title "Father of Climatology" who gives his opinion that global warming isn't caused by humans.

Other scientists who provide evidence to support their argument that it is.

Evidence or Label?

2007-06-19 12:12:05 · 16 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Politics

2007-06-19 12:11:03 · 10 answers · asked by south_pole_elf 1 in Military

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

2007-06-19 12:10:45 · 5 answers · asked by mY LoVe iS LiKe wHoa! 1 in Law & Ethics

i am trying to establish paternity for my 4 year old daughter, and the only way i know how to do that without having to pay hundrends of dollars is to file child support. the state picks it up and establishes paternity for free if there is question by the father or mother.however, I do not want to take money out of his inmate trustfund if infact h is the father. I have many reasons as to why i don't. The reasons are not the father's best intrest (i couldn't care less about him). My reasons are for my daughter as well as myself's safety.

2007-06-19 12:10:03 · 3 answers · asked by lalainya b 1 in Law & Ethics

maybe you want to show the Muslim world that you do not hate them,so you want to give them territory which is Serbian.give them part of America if you like them so much.i do not hate Muslims,but I'm pi...d off when they want to steal something which is not theirs.

2007-06-19 12:07:34 · 3 answers · asked by Vlad 2 in Politics

Can it be that he wants to distance himself from corporate corruption?

2007-06-19 12:05:08 · 19 answers · asked by Who Else? 7 in Politics

2007-06-19 12:04:58 · 11 answers · asked by nicko6569 1 in Military

People can sue you for almost nothing and kill you .payng high lawyer eees

2007-06-19 12:02:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-06-19 12:01:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

the word CHRISTIAN sound so dirty?

2007-06-19 12:00:58 · 12 answers · asked by Your Teeth or Mine? 5 in Politics

"Vietnam generation was blamed for losing their war because of politicians in Washington who wouldn't let the generals be generals."
"Reid and some Senators would have us repeat history again and have America known for the rest of the 21st century as a nation that can't finish what it starts. They would have this new generation of warriors come home to the nation defeated , regardless of all the 'Support the Troops' decals and political speeches, nation only loves winners. They would have us quit on our troops, even though they haven't quit on us or their mission in Iraq."

2007-06-19 11:59:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military