Politics & Government - 5 July 2007

Just found out that my husband took a line of credit against our home to buy land in the country without disclosing our marriage to the lender.

Even though my name is not on the title to the house (he bought it before we married), it has accrued significant value/equity since our marriage. Also he has of course not put my name on the title to the land he recently purchased.

On the "affadavit of borrower" there is a part that says that he is single (if married spouse must also sign).

He signed this affadavit and other papers pertaining to the loan in front of a notary to get this line of credit/loan.

Is it then considered perjury?

Anyone have any idea's or thoughts on this whole subject?

2007-07-05 09:29:18 · 9 answers · asked by Chikadee 2 in Law & Ethics

Well seeing as it is an offence now, and 'harming' to public health and safety. Answer seriously. How are we supposed to react to someone smoking iside a pub or club?

2007-07-05 09:29:08 · 15 answers · asked by Illuminattiness 4 in Law & Ethics

A woman in a Wichita, Kansas convenience store was stabbed and left to die. Five customers stepped over her to make their purchases and one even took out a camera phone and took a picture of the dying woman. It took a full two minutes before anyone called the police. The victim died.

Why do you think people would do this? Would you? What punishment, if any, do you think they should receive for what they've done?

Read the full story here: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19586738

2007-07-05 09:25:56 · 15 answers · asked by Kristi 3 in Law & Ethics

Believe it or not. Your answers will reveal a lot about your personal philosophy. This question is more about 'you' understanding 'you'

2007-07-05 09:25:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-05 09:24:04 · 32 answers · asked by takemeoffthis 2 in Politics

2007-07-05 09:23:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

What Amendment is the right to fundamental fairness in treatment
also what is the concept of what is required to assure fundamental fairness in US justice system

2007-07-05 09:19:55 · 4 answers · asked by jennisea04 3 in Law & Ethics

I suspect it will have more appeal among Blacks and other minorities if they see Mr. Hussein Obama in power.

2007-07-05 09:19:09 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
"I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it," presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has scheduled hearings on Bush's commutation of Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.

"Well, fine, knock himself out," Snow said of Conyers. "I mean, perfectly happy. And while he's at it, why doesn't he look at January 20th, 2001?"
In the closing hours of his presidency, Clinton pardoned 140 people, including fugitive financier Marc Rich.

2007-07-05 09:15:44 · 23 answers · asked by 2008 matters 3 in Politics

One of the questions I had was...

You pull over a car for speeding, when you approach you realize it is a friend and he may have been drinking.

How would you handle the situation?

I don't really care what you would do in real life, but what would the best answer be in an interview setting?

2007-07-05 09:15:16 · 20 answers · asked by anthrotistic 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

The immigration issue is more than the mexican border. Isn't it about the law and upholding it?

2007-07-05 09:14:38 · 21 answers · asked by polity 2 in Immigration

I live in Texas and i would like to challenge a citation I recieved for leaving my 7 and 2 year old in the vehicle while i ran into the bank, I was in there less than 5 minutes. When I returned to the vehicle there was an officer at my vehicle and he gave me a citation. What are my legal rights?

2007-07-05 09:13:56 · 9 answers · asked by Ronald S 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-05 09:13:12 · 12 answers · asked by james w 1 in Immigration

agree w/ universal health care why don't politicians WHO CAN AFORD ALL THE HEALTH CARE THEY WANT ON THEIR SALARIES recind it chime in pro or con.
god bless

2007-07-05 09:12:45 · 5 answers · asked by windyctlvr 2 in Politics

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, since 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, since 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.

You should also check out LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION at

www.Leap.cc

2007-07-05 09:12:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-05 09:04:38 · 11 answers · asked by Pica K 1 in Government

If I adopt a child, at any age, say, over the age of 4-14, how
much of that Child's Life, do I really own? Do I have a Right to
Boss His Side of the Bloodline, that connects to the Child?
Do I have Right to Force the Child, to Neglect His Bloodline?
Do I prevent Him from Knowing, His Bloodline?
HOW MUCH OF THE CHILD, DO I GET FOR THE MONEY
I PAID FOR THE CHILD?
I want the child to be OF MY FAMILY, IN MY FAMILY...BUT...
does his bloodline, keep him from that?
Can I ever own the Child...Wholely?
These are some frequent questions which People have
asked me, an Advocate, and it has brought me to take an
interest in Adoption, & the process of Adoption & studying
the laws on Adoption.
There is so many questions about Adoption, and The
Rights of the Adoptive Parents / the Child(ren), that I'm be-
ginning to wonder, if the Foster/Adopt Parents (substitute
parents), come to Violate the Rights of the Child(ren), in
many ways...
BECAUSE NO ONE, CAN ''PUT ASUNDER'', BLOODLIN

2007-07-05 09:04:30 · 6 answers · asked by Too Funny 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-05 09:03:29 · 17 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

Thanks again, I knew I could count on you to refresh me with FOX News info.

2007-07-05 08:59:37 · 5 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3 in Politics

The government pays the member 95 percent of what it would have cost the government to move the property up to the member’s maximum authorized weight allowance. How can I find out what 95% of cost would be for a 2LT?

2007-07-05 08:58:39 · 4 answers · asked by Dr. Dwayne M. WIliams Sr. 2 in Military

political ,race, immigration,
chime in
god bless

2007-07-05 08:54:58 · 18 answers · asked by windyctlvr 2 in Politics

2007-07-05 08:54:31 · 5 answers · asked by lalala 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

The Latino culture & electoral vote , our Hispanic language, and our growing Mexican economic and political Power, has become a pivotal factor for polticians of both parties.
Our population is changing.... America is growing and progressing aproaching new markets and new frontiers.
It is nothing you can do about it!
You and me, they and us, are part of it.
God bless Democracy!

2007-07-05 08:54:26 · 24 answers · asked by Aztlantevich 2 in Immigration

2007-07-05 08:54:15 · 7 answers · asked by PRINCE 1 in Politics

I'm not saying all righties do this, and yes I'm sure some lefties do this as well... but instead of addressing a political figure for his stand on the issues..they attack them at a personal level. For instance... John Edwards and his hair, Michael Moore and his weight, Al Gore and his son's issues... or even more appaling, Barack Obama and his name. Is the net average age on Y! Answers 11?

2007-07-05 08:47:36 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-05 08:47:12 · 15 answers · asked by Gabby Hayes 2 in Government

If other countries had treated POW's in the way that these people have been treated we would have been outraged by the lack of justice being served. i think of our Military all over the world and think that if other countries see how we treat the POW's in our care that maybe they will take it out on our soldiers

2007-07-05 08:44:30 · 23 answers · asked by doopfour 1 in Military

2007-07-05 08:44:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2007-07-05 08:42:53 · 6 answers · asked by Stealth 2 in Elections

He will carry the South. He is a fresh face on the Presidential scene. He is charasmatic.He has the bal*ls to get the job done.
And, Obama and Hill-Billy pale in all aspects when it comes to voter appeal.

2007-07-05 08:38:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics