Politics & Government - 5 July 2007

Tell me about ethnic and cultural diversity in U.K...
I will tell you later about the USA.( I am Mexicano )
My question was directed to you British Citizens.
But if you are Scotish or Irish, or Celt... your answer will be very welcome, as well.

2007-07-05 12:30:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I was reading a magazine article about that pregnant lady who had gone missing about a month ago. They had found her and her unborn baby, and the boyfriend was convicted. He was charged with murder of both his girlfriend AND her unborn baby.

How is it that he was charged with murder of the unborn baby? Isn't it the same concept of abortion (especially Partial-Birth Abortion)? If abortion is not murder, then how come ending the life of a fetus IS?

P.S. I'm a pro-lifer. I'm not sticking up for this guy. I just want you opinions (especially legal opinions)!

2007-07-05 12:30:24 · 19 answers · asked by cve5190 4 in Law & Ethics

German Americans make a great amount of the American people. In ww2, were they allowed to fight in the army? If so, how much could they have been, and how did they feel?
Sergeant Aderholt, Private Sammy Schwarzer and Corporal Mahler shooting on Johann Mueller and Franz Schmidt sounds kinda awkward...

2007-07-05 12:29:01 · 5 answers · asked by Pink Floyd The Wall 3 in Military

2007-07-05 12:28:41 · 8 answers · asked by Liz 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-05 12:25:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Why do people pick one side or the other over the Iraq War? Some say pull everyone out and come home now. Others say keep at it....status quo. Those seem to be the options we must choose from, yet I believe they are the WORST two options. Your thoughts?

2007-07-05 12:24:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=2271

The Associated Press reports from Keokuk, Iowa, that Mrs. Clinton "drew a distinction" between the Libby commutation--"which she has harshly criticized--and her husband's 140 pardons in his closing hours in office":

Her husband's pardons, issued in the closing hours of his presidency, were simply routine exercise in the use of the pardon power, and none were aimed at protecting the Clinton presidency or legacy, she said.


I would have thought her to at least remain quiet on the issue but apparently she likes the taste of her own foot.

2007-07-05 12:23:42 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-05 12:21:16 · 4 answers · asked by Brian W 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-05 12:18:52 · 15 answers · asked by Brian W 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

I think if you voted for Bush you should be sent to Iraq to clean up his mess.

2007-07-05 12:17:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I hurt myself at my job a few weeks ago and the company made me go on workmans comp. Ive been on light duty for 2 weeks waiting for an MRI to be done. They gave me my last paycheck today and let me go. I dont even have a doctors note releasing me yet. Is that legal and what can I do about it.

2007-07-05 12:14:58 · 5 answers · asked by treeman 2 in Law & Ethics

Insults never persuade anyone to change his or her mind. Are some of us in a contest to see which side can express the most rage?

2007-07-05 12:14:05 · 13 answers · asked by Buffy Summers 6 in Government

2007-07-05 12:11:45 · 5 answers · asked by rhonda b 1 in Military

My husband and I were married in April. We got our BAH and BAS within a few weeks. He is now in Japan and I am in the states in San Diego. I moved here after he left. The Navy required that we send in a lease and proof of my new residence by the 15th of June or they would pretty much say that I dont need my unaccompanied BAH. We sent it in on the 14th of June just to be safe. Then we got a paycheck on the 1st of July that was only three hundred dollars. Our old BAH rate was around eight hundred dollars and our normal pay was around 1100 a check. Since no one would give us a straight answer on where the money went I am guessing that the money they took was the money that they would have paid us for BAH. What I am asking is...will we get backpay for all of last month since our pay was off? Also I am under the impression that most of the time backpay is paid on the first. So was wondering if it may not come until the 1st of august. Opinions and expertise welcome.

2007-07-05 12:11:33 · 3 answers · asked by notquiteabutterfly 4 in Military

There's no way he got a Prius to go 100 mph!

2007-07-05 12:08:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I have been charged with 2 felonies , intimidation and filing a false police report against a police officer . I have been having trouble with this officer for a long time . In pretrial the judge read the police report and said he saw no evidence of the charges and ordered them to itemize the charges . Another pretrial was set and they never itemized the charges so the judge dismissed without prejudice . Immediately the prosecutor appealled . When I went to arraighnment they used the same exact police report word for word and all they did for itemization was write felony A with a date and felony B with a date .The police officer is gunning for me and and I am sure he is pushing the prosecutor . Is this itemization , I am sure what the judge wants to see is the actual wrongdoing the dates are plain to see in the police report . My lawyer set a date for a motion to dismiss the charges because the prosecutor did not do what the judge ordered them too.

2007-07-05 12:07:55 · 3 answers · asked by michael d 2 in Law & Ethics

I have a question for the media and the democratic party: I grew up poor. We had a big floor tv with rabbit ears that recieved 3 channels, ABC CBS and NBC. Luckily for me they were not biased back then. Now, after alot of hard work and not being told how much help I should be getting from the government, I have internet, cable and satellite. I have other outlets to get "news" from now.
My question is : A large portion of your voting base which you pander to is the poor. When all broadcast goes digital in a few years, and all broadcast requires a digital tv, how will you get your message out to your voting base? Will the democrats get digital tv's to the poor? Al Gore tried to wire all poor schools to the internet? I think a great alternative would be free AM radios for the poor. Call it the Free Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck social program.

2007-07-05 12:06:55 · 2 answers · asked by sixpackokc 1 in Elections

I was wondering after my father was brought in on Jury duty to a rape trial. How does a jury decide. The case concerned a man and a woman. The woman said the man raped her three months prior, when asked wy she didnt report it sooner, she said she was too ashamed. The man said he did have sex with this woman, that it was consentual.
My father was the chairman of the jury, it concluded that the man was innocent.
But why do you think? How would you decide who is telling the truth. Is there any hard evidence to prove convicted rapist's committed their crime? Random question but it makes you think...

2007-07-05 12:05:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I was sworn in at the DA office, The DA was writing my statement...I never read it, sign it, and I didn't write it. I never receaved a copy of that statement. The Detective from the case was also putting words in my mouth! I am a witness and I made a statement on the accusor that is in Jail, Can they use that statement aginst me? What is my rights?

2007-07-05 12:04:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

This has to be a conspiracy theory. But why is it on CNN and the White House transcripts?!

QUESTION: ... how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?

BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Jordan (ph).

Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida.

And my chief of staff, Andy Card – actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works.

And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower – the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."

But I was whisked off there – I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower. America's under attack."


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html

2007-07-05 12:03:53 · 15 answers · asked by Sangria 4 in Other - Politics & Government

if i have a small safe in the car and im a convicted felon and they want to search my car?(the safe is locked)

2007-07-05 12:02:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-05 12:01:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Many of the accused "terrorists" are doctors and educated people. They think logically. So what is the logic of their grand plan?

I think the focus is Muslim on Muslim. Those speaking of a pure Islam see moderate and secular Muslims as being influenced by the West. The radical Muslims believes that pure Islam is incompatible with Western values. These Muslims see their own governments as being polluted with Western values. They would like to make their own countries into pure Islamic states but they cannot because they are only a tiny minority in a vast sea of moderate Muslims. So these radicals then attack the Western powers and symbols of their oppressors. When the west strikes back then the radicals call upon all Muslims to join the struggle. They accuse the West of having a war against Islam. The harder the West strikes back then the more righteous the radicals appear. Their hope is to stir all Muslims against those who attack them. This is how they plan to win.

2007-07-05 12:01:16 · 8 answers · asked by Dr. D 7 in Government

That's right, we couldn't.

Anyone who is anti-gun is also anti-intelligence.

2007-07-05 11:58:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Cuz one of my friends is getting deployed...and I wanted to know how long he'll be in the war zone for.
And he just went off to training for 2 weeks...so I'll have to wait to ask him.
Please let me know

2007-07-05 11:58:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-07-05 11:55:59 · 21 answers · asked by Buffy Summers 6 in Politics

He was saying things like "Corporations can do whatever they want."

"Republicans never have to follow any law that they don't want to."

"The Constitution is just a G##D##N piece of paper!"

So I punched him.

Now will Bush pardon me?

2007-07-05 11:53:58 · 13 answers · asked by easy_game_101 2 in Politics

i am confused...i have been aproached by homicide and they said that they would sapena me in Aug/07. i have not herd from him since do you think he really will? and waht does this mean for me? i should not be in this postition, pls help, i really believe this is bogus! do u think this is y i have gotten beat up by police 10 months ago?

2007-07-05 11:49:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Within days of an NBC Dateline story hinting at a possible run for the Senate seat currently assumed to be the property of Hillary Clinton, JFK Jr. and his wife and sister-in-law died when the Piper Saratoga II TC JFK Jr. was piloting crashed in to the ocean just short of Martha's Vineyard. The NEWSWEEK issue for the following Monday, which NBC Dateline had reported would announce JFK Jr's candidacy, was yanked from distributors and destroyed.

Even before the wreckage of the plane had been found, the media was saturated with news stories declaring the weather to have been very hazy (the weather was VFR conditions, and 8 mile visibility, plus weather radar and witnesses on Martha's Vineyard all reported clear skies) making it impossible for JFK Jr. to know which way was up (he also had working instruments in the aircraft).

As was the case when TWA 800 was shot down, the United States Navy took control of the crash site, ordering an unprecidented 5 mile wide no-fly zone.

2007-07-05 11:48:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-07-05 11:47:14 · 23 answers · asked by Buffy Summers 6 in Politics