Politics & Government - 28 June 2007

2007-06-28 03:38:05 · 17 answers · asked by LIAR-KILLER 2 in International Organizations

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_go_co/congress_pay_raise_7;_ylt=ApM0agM9Nnb24FPu3m_GU48E1vAI
write your congressman and say NO

WASHINGTON - Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.

2007-06-28 03:37:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

LOL

2007-06-28 03:36:35 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics

Why else refuse to hand over the documents subpoenaed by Congress?
Now the Supreme Court will force them to do it. And with the information revealed, hopefully everyone will be ready for the impeachment and imprisonment of the criminals.

2007-06-28 03:33:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Seriously, what IS the difference, OTHER than the vocal Cubano community in the US? Vietnam is every bit as communist as Cuba, is it not?

2007-06-28 03:31:58 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6 in Other - Politics & Government

Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, doctors and law enforcement to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful.
This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect.
There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.)
That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition, dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry,
the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.

This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.

If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.

The petroleum industry would also be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough bio fuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells).

So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at

2007-06-28 03:22:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Our neighbor just shot my dog at point blank range in the face because he wandered into his yard!!! Is this legal? Please help me get him!

2007-06-28 03:20:46 · 10 answers · asked by addisonsmom17 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-06-28 03:19:29 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I am in the army and for the soccer team I play on the weekends we want to do mohawks. I wasn't sure if it was a regulation haircut

2007-06-28 03:17:51 · 16 answers · asked by drsilva08 2 in Military

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_subpoenas

If there is nothing to hide,...then why try to hide it ?

2007-06-28 03:15:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Anyone know where I can find a contract for my fiance and I? We are buying a home (but are not yet married and do not know what that will be), and would like a contract stating that if we were to break up, we would either:

a. Come to an agreement for one person to keep the home. The person keeping the home will "buy out" the other and giving them 1/2 the profit of equity in the home.

b. If no agreement can be made, we sell the property and split the profit.

2007-06-28 03:15:35 · 1 answers · asked by iheartnjdevils 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-28 03:15:26 · 3 answers · asked by Tim 6 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-06-28 03:15:05 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

What say ye now, republican?

2007-06-28 03:14:57 · 21 answers · asked by Brotherhood 7 in Elections

A nice base compared to an older base...

2007-06-28 03:14:28 · 9 answers · asked by Techno Cowboy 2 in Military

Is it for the same reasons they watch Fox news, and believe in massive governmental secrecy?

2007-06-28 03:08:00 · 20 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics

it makes them look really ignorant and uneducated

2007-06-28 03:07:09 · 19 answers · asked by fourthy27 2 in Politics

he admitted to it. my father lived long enough to tell who did it. the shooter showed the police where he hid the gun he used. please help me find anwers.

2007-06-28 03:05:20 · 14 answers · asked by wonder 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

About 1 year ago I came home and caught a burglar inside. At first I was just going to go back to my car, get my gun, and shoot the SOB. Instead I called 911 on my cell phone. Sheriffs were there before the guy exited. But I thought- what if the guy leaves? Should I shoot him?
Still don't know. Would it be legal (in Florida)? Would I have to shoot him INSIDE, or OUTSIDE?
Nobody seems to know this answer. Do YOU?
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2007-06-28 03:04:44 · 12 answers · asked by FL inventor 2 in Law & Ethics

Is it because they work harder and strive to be self reliant? Why are they more productive than democrats?

VOTE BY INCOME……………….BUSH…KERRY………NADER

Under $15,000 (8%)…………..….36%……….63%……………..0%

$15-30,000 (15%)……………...….42%…….57%……………..0%

$30-50,000 (22%)……………...….49%………50%……………..0%

$50-75,000 (23%)……………….…56%………43%……………..0%

$75-100,000 (14%)…………….….55%………45%……………..0%

$100-150,000 (11%))………….….57%……….42%……………..0%

$150-200,000 (4%)…………....….58%……….42%……………..0%

$200,000 or More (3%)…….….…63%……….35%……………..0%

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

2007-06-28 03:01:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Not at all

he deregulated buisness, financed and trained Osama Bin Laden, put us in debt to the tune ob trillions, traded weapons with Iran, and cut taxes for the richest 10%

try FDR and Ike if you want great presidents

2007-06-28 02:56:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Don't give them any documents. And if they are forced to testify at any Congressional panel to plead the fifth. Over and over.

I would so love to see that; Democrats on these panel blowing a gasket because all they can get out of people is "I plead the fifth."

"What is your name?"

"I plead the fifth."

Where do you work?"

"I plead the fifth."

2007-06-28 02:56:46 · 3 answers · asked by Philip McCrevice 7 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-28 02:56:36 · 7 answers · asked by jck_kerouac 2 in Immigration

$2.6 trillion !

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/white_house_spin_masks_the_rea.html

2007-06-28 02:53:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-06-28 02:49:33 · 17 answers · asked by alexandredz 3 in Immigration

2007-06-28 02:48:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

14 year old Hmong boys enlisted under the US flag in Laos during the Vietnam war so Cheney could stay home.

Now, lock up their leaders because he wanted to help his people in Laos because the US is doing nothing about the killing and turtors there. They are being turtor because they supported the US

2007-06-28 02:44:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

First Amnesty for illegal aliens, then they want another amnesty for illegal aliens, now the white house refuses to obey legal supoenas!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_subpoenas

2007-06-28 02:42:59 · 6 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

Shouldn't I GET MORE instead of LESS from a Government I pay higher taxes to?

How come I pay 100% for illegals and lazy people's children to go to college, and THEN, I pay 100% for my own kids? Shouldn't I get a volume discount on mine?

2007-06-28 02:42:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

They have no right to see the Executive branches private papers.

Go get em Georgie!!

2007-06-28 02:41:40 · 13 answers · asked by fourthy27 2 in Politics