Politics & Government - 20 June 2007

ok if ya have to wear seatbelts while you are in your own car, how come kids don't have to wear them on schoolbuses? And what about the people riding in the back of pickup trucks? Can't tell me they have their seatbelts on. And do you feel it is right for anyone to tell you that you have to wear a helmet when you are on a motorcycle? Yes it is safer, but it is just you that is gonna get all mangled up if you wreck? It isn't gonna hurt anyone else. What happened to freedom of choice. But I do believe lil' kids should be buckeled up, they move around to much an it distractes the driver and kids always should come first. I just worry about the belts locking and not being able to get the lose if I need to.

2007-06-20 16:19:45 · 15 answers · asked by yankabilliechic 3 in Law & Ethics

Elect one of the current Presidential candidates, or a can of Spaghettios?

http://www.campbellsoup.com/spaghettios.asp

2007-06-20 16:17:44 · 7 answers · asked by Dull Jon 6 in Politics

i hav just graduated in electrical engineering here in india. My next plan is to go study abroad either in canada or usa and hav a master in electrical engineering. Then i want to get permanent resident over there. what is best option? i want to do all this legally

2007-06-20 16:15:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

the other night a friend and I were in Walmart at about 2AM killing time waiting for our friendto get off work. As we wre leaving the night manager yelled at us from across the parking lot to come back towards the enterance. I handed my bag to my friend because it had the car keys in it and told her to get in the car while I figured out what the lady wanted. I walked over to the lady and she told me to give her my bag. I asked her why, since no alarms had gone off, i don't shoplift. She screamed for security, at which point I finally I said , fine here you go, showed her what was in my bag and did not let her go through the items and she started yelling that my friend had dumped things out of it into the car when she took the bag with her to get my keys out of it. At which point another employee ran up to the car and started staring in all the windows.I want to know, what are my rights in a situation like that. Can a store demand to go through your things with virtualy no reason?

2007-06-20 16:10:07 · 2 answers · asked by ? 2 in Law & Ethics

This June I had planned to go to Spain for a graduation present through Explorica. In March, in preparation for my trip, I applied for a passport on the 9th. At the time they told me it would take 6-8 weeks to recieve it. 8 weeks came and went so I called the nat'l passport info center to inquire: they changed the process time to 10-12 weeks. As my trip approached requests were put on my passport to expediate the process. Time moved forward so I called my congessman, who also submitted expedition requests(b/w the NPIC and my congressman 5 requests were submitted total).We reached theThursday before my flight( we concluded that had we not recieved it by Thurs we'd go to Chicago to the regional centeron Fri) on that Thurs we were told that it was finished and would be sent out that night (b/c of this, we didn't go to Chi) We called the NPIC to check it and we were told it wasn't even finished. Long story short I missed my trip. Is there anything I can do to get my $ back from any party?

2007-06-20 16:08:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Is everyone trying to get out of NY and move to DC?

2007-06-20 16:08:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I'm unsure which paryt is for the middle class
Need help

2007-06-20 16:06:59 · 12 answers · asked by G O 5 in Elections

It directs the NIH to pursue alternate forms of research. But...

Sean Tipton, president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, expressed anger and disgust at the veto and Bush's order.

"His executive order directing NIH to continue pursing
alternate forms of research is nothing new since NIH has already been conducting this research for the past 20 years," Tipton said.


(((moron)))

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_stem_cells


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2007-06-20 16:04:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Based on the nature of the parole violation that she's guilty of, most people would have only received 2 or 3 days in jail. They gave her 45, and they kept bouncing her in and out of jail, which must have been very dificult for her. Was her sentence and her treatment unduly harsh?

2007-06-20 16:03:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Today, for the second straight times, the president vetoed the stem cell research bill. The detail of the information could be located at: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/287553/bush_to_veto_stem_cell_bill_for_the.html

2007-06-20 15:59:23 · 34 answers · asked by TOBBY 1 in Other - Politics & Government

i saw a really bad accident today and i just wanted to know if there was a place i can go to, to see if they actually survived just to clear my conscience. and no i didnt actually witness the event just the aftermath.

2007-06-20 15:55:55 · 1 answers · asked by amon2365 1 in Other - Politics & Government

we're talking about bottom-dwellers here.

2007-06-20 15:51:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-20 15:50:49 · 14 answers · asked by Steven J 3 in Military

For the American tax payer.

2007-06-20 15:49:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-06-20 15:44:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

The Patriot Act has all but eliminated the need for judges to sign warrents - The police now decide what where when and who -

There are laws now (Patriot Act) that allow for arrest without charge and without trial -

Torture has been defended by the President and the CIA is now retroactively absolved from criminal charges in reguard to what used to be crimes against humanity

The Presdential directive twined with the Homeland security directive goives the President the power to suspend elections and run all 3 branch's of government throught the secratary of the Homeland security

A camp has been set up off shore because the government wishes to avoid existing laws in the the US - They have and are consistantly working twords abolishing those laws

Free Speech zones have been set up Where one can no longer be seen protesting the President or seaking of certain things within so many yards -
No free speech here - but say what you like over there - Is that ok with you?

2007-06-20 15:42:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i am indian and asked question about immigration and i want to come legally, not illegally...but negative answers came, what wrong ? is it too bad there?

2007-06-20 15:41:32 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Earlier in the evening, she gave the crowd her take on her View
experience. "I got to tell you, I've been hanging around with those
heteros for a full year and it's not fun," she said. "Turn around one
minute and they'll stab you in the back with a high heel. They will."

2007-06-20 15:40:52 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.

This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.

Democrats are destroying our country

2007-06-20 15:37:57 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

i don't yet fully understand passportss and visa's. i just want to move out of america and never come back, europe and canada aren't options.

2007-06-20 15:37:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I was at a party where most of the people were 21. Me and a few others were under 21. The cops busted the party and as people were leaving they had to show ids. Mine was in an apartment across the hall, and the police saw I was underage. I got all my information written down. However, they did not breathalize me or even see me holding alcohol of any kind. They said they would send a citation to my house, but they did not say what it was. I am not a minor, but I am underage. Can they give me an underage just for being somewhere that of age people were drinking?

2007-06-20 15:37:17 · 2 answers · asked by kelsey757 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-20 15:36:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Did you know that Hilary Clinton voted against the ban on partial-birth abortions ?

I was just reading about the Bill that congress passed to ban partial birth abortions in 2003. I can't believe that anyone would think that this procedure is a good idea, or could actually advocate this procedure.

In this procedure, the baby is killed while it is in the birth canal while it is being born.

According to congressional testimony that I read, this procedure is never needed to protect the health of the mother.

If you are in favor of partial birth abortions, tell me when an abortion is not acceptable to you. How about if the baby's toe is the only thing still inside the birth canal, is it ok to kill the baby then? How about 10 minutes before that, or the day before that, or a month before that ?

Will some abortion advocate please tell me when it is not OK to have an abortion? I haven't heard the answer to that yet.

2007-06-20 15:36:05 · 10 answers · asked by h m 2 in Politics

While we're busy paying attention to the attempted egregious abuse of power with shamnesty, what's going on that's just as bad, or worse, that we don't hear too much about? In other words, who's getting Rich? Powerful? Over?

2007-06-20 15:34:49 · 2 answers · asked by MIKE F. 3 in Politics

2007-06-20 15:31:22 · 3 answers · asked by angel 1 in Law & Ethics

Can anyone confirm that he got arrested for drugs?

2007-06-20 15:30:43 · 2 answers · asked by i_am_not_a_french 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

Having won the election on a platform of no amnesty, John Kyl helps to author the immigration bill to grant just that to illegals. He said he supported the bill because we were going to have to accept some sort of immigration bill, so the smart thing to do was to work to make the bill as good as possible through compromise. But the bill was beaten in the senate, so it ought to be clear that we don't really "HAVE" to accept some sort of immigration bill. As a matter of fact, if he'd just stop supporting it, it would probably die right now. So now what's his excuse for supporting the bill?

Should we trust this man when he tells us this time the government really will enforce border security if we'll just grant amnesty?

2007-06-20 15:28:17 · 14 answers · asked by kscottmccormick 6 in Immigration

My husband and I would like to change our last name to assume his mother's maiden name (since otherwise there are no sons in the family to carry the name). I understand the name-change process for marriage reasons, as I have already been through that. But this isn't for marriage reasons anymore. Is it possible to change our last name for our own purposes? And how do we do it? What legal hoops do we have to jump?

2007-06-20 15:19:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

The Republican occupation of Iraq will cost working class tax payers $2 trillion over 10 years. In Iraq now they have 2 million homeless, over half are children. Over 100,000 Iraqis are also dead.
250,000 Iraqis fled to Jordan to avoid the civil war in Iraq.

2007-06-20 15:19:20 · 30 answers · asked by jl_jack09 6 in Politics

how long take the whole immigration process?

2007-06-20 15:16:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration