Politics & Government - 6 July 2007

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

What is this? like 48 months of straight job growth?



Only total losers are not doing good in this economy.

2007-07-06 12:31:27 · 10 answers · asked by hugahugababy 2 in Politics

How do you request to suspend someone's drivers license in Oklahoma.
We were in an accident in on private property (shopping center) with an uninsured driver with a suspended license. The report that was provided by the police officer showed that it was not our fault and suggested that we request to have their license suspended until they pay the deductable for our insurance.

2007-07-06 12:29:34 · 6 answers · asked by okc_merchant_trader 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I hear a lot of talk from US right-wingers about how liberals are to blame for all of the problems the USA has. However, the Republican Party has been in the White House since 2000 and for most of that time it has also had control of both Houses. Anyone who might be described as a liberal barely got a look-in at all.

So why do such people blame liberals? Have they aligned themselves with one particular party and are apologists for its inadequacies (or rather the inadequacies of the people currently leading it)? Or is there something else going on?

I am not criticizing the USA, a country I have respect for. I am merely trying to understand a political phenomenon that baffles me. In my own country (UK) the Conservative party's been out of power for ten years, yet no-one in the present Government, contemptible though they often are, or the present Government's supporters, blame the Conservatives for Britain's problems.

Your comments?

2007-07-06 12:29:10 · 24 answers · asked by Citizen Justin 7 in Politics

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.

2007-07-06 12:27:28 · 15 answers · asked by 0919510 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-06 12:25:02 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

If the husband is just a rent a cop at WalMarts am I in the clear?

2007-07-06 12:22:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-06 12:22:13 · 8 answers · asked by jgmr29 2 in International Organizations

It's Terrorist Surveillance, Not Domestic Spying

"A federal appeals court today ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program..." It wasn't a domestic spying program! "The two-to-one ruling by the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the program itself. What the ruling did was vacate an order by a lower court in Detroit last August that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity was unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech. The ACLU led the suit on behalf of other groups, including lawyers, journalists, and scholars, it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitor." It was not "domestic spying," and the AP knows it by virtue of how they write it up in the third paragraph.

2007-07-06 12:18:58 · 14 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

Wow have I've done a 180 degree turn. Six years ago if ya bad mouth the president I would punch you in the mouth. Now when I see G.W I just wanna spit.

2007-07-06 12:13:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

with issues like iraq, immigration, out-sourcing jobs, the war on terror, george bush's screw ups, and and a bunch of leadership democrats and repubilcans who are too scared to do the the right thing for the better of the country. with all this it seems like people are still more interested in paris hilton than voting.

2007-07-06 12:11:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

so far nothing has stopped illegal immigrants cause they climb, they swim, they dig,(they're gonna learn to fly next watch) so how would you secure the border?

2007-07-06 12:11:15 · 15 answers · asked by Jesus 2 in Immigration

If not, why is China refusing to discuss their undeclared nuclear missile and military power growth? The USA has asked them to sit down and discuss the matter but we are met by silence.

Should we be suspect that China has ill intent?

2007-07-06 12:08:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Or moreso than normal people?

2007-07-06 12:08:14 · 17 answers · asked by Frank 2 in Military

I just want to take care & fix the probs in our country. I could careless about anyone else.

2007-07-06 12:03:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070628/ts_alt_afp/usjusticejuries

The death penalty assumes an infallibility of judgement within any system that has it and I want to know if we are compfortable with a certain percentage of people wrongly convicted facing some of the horrors of our penal system. Compared to developing nations we have good prisons etc. but by a higher standard of effectiveness, humanity and deterence to which the rest of the devoloped world holds itself we may rightly be seen as barbaric and authoritarian.
There may be some flaws in the methodology with the approach detailed in the article submitted but the question it raises should be more thoroughly researched. Given the lower violent crime rate in EU and other developed countries we need to re-examine the whole "tough on crime" approach that seems to have bloated our prisons, created whole sub-classes of gangs and institutionalized recidivists on a whole sale basis while raising taxes with lower returns in human terms

2007-07-06 12:02:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Here's the original Amendment II from the Bill of rights; keep in mind it was ratified in 1791:

"Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I do not know what this means. I am going to ask a few ridiculous sounding questions to get people to think. I'm not pretending to know; times are different, I am not clear what the founding fathers imagined.

Do we have a "tightly controlled" militia? What is a militia?

Why did they use a comma after the word 'State'. It seems like two different unrelated sentences. 1) tightly controlled militia 2) the right to keep and bear Arms. Was punctuation (commas) used differently in 1791? Are these supposed to be related ideas; how?

Does the right to bear arms guarantee every citizen the right to walk down 5th avenue in Manhattan with a rocket launcher or machine gun? "regulated"?

http://www.archives.gov/national-archiv

2007-07-06 12:00:06 · 19 answers · asked by RogerDodger 1 in Law & Ethics

Both can't stand America and embrace nutty conspiracy theories. Al Qaida beleives Holocaust never happened and the socialist anti-american blogs think Diebold stole the election and Bush pulled off 9/11.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Whether they are defending the terrorists or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant!

2007-07-06 11:53:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

they never really do anything about these things are arent even that important in the first place . I think that real issues like immigration that have the ability to change the country forever or even destroy the country if we are not careful.

2007-07-06 11:47:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The top 10

2007-07-06 11:46:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Do you know anyone who is? Can you tell me what the job is like and how you got into it? thanks so much! your help means a lot to me.

2007-07-06 11:45:40 · 8 answers · asked by C Deezy McCain 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-06 11:40:55 · 4 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2 in Government

It's time now, folks, for another installment in the monthly "Better Than Expected" series from the Drive-By Media. This time, it's job growth. Headline from Jeannine Aversa, AP economics writer: "Job Growth Is Better-Than-Expected." What is this, the sixth or seventh straight month where all the experts have been stunned by economic news? "Employers boosted payrolls by a better than expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low..." Relatively low! It's record low! (You just have to love these people. Everybody's being exposed to the way they do things and they don't get it! They continue. They refuse to adapt. "...better than expected 132,000 jobs...relatively low unemployment rate at 4.5%. It was another sign that the economy is snapping out of a nearly year-long sluggish spell." A nearly year-long sluggish spell? I love this part of the article, too. It says, "Despite the healthy jobs market and the budding rebound the public is giving President Bush low marks for his economic stewardship." Oh! Well, I'm so surprised. The media spend 30 days a month reporting how bad everything is going, then on the 31st day of the month they write the CYA, the "economy's getting better than expected" story, and it's on to the next four straight weeks of hand-wringing. It's all about creating a perception of disaster, imminent doom, and crisis.

They follow up that with copious polling to see how well they're doing at creating that perception. You know, polls are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they're "managing the news," and "managing the news" is exactly what they do. That phrase comes from this guy in the Buffalo News. He had a newspaper column the other day that we read to you about the immigration bill and how the old media got trampled here, and the new media ran away with it, and they gotta figure out now -- the old Drive-Bys have to figure out -- how they're going to "manage the news of the presidential race." Whether it was unwittingly done or not, that's one of the best eye-openers as to how people in the Drive-By Media view their jobs that I've ever seen: "manage the news." So all polls are, for the most part, are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they're managing the news. "Let's say they spend 30 days just beating the garbage out of the economy, just ripping it to shreds. Then they go out and do a poll: 'How's Bush doing on the economy?'" and the poll says, "Bush sucks on the economy," and the Drive-Bys say, "See? We've been managing the news well. We're doing a damn good job of creating a negative perception where none exists." That's exactly how it works.

2007-07-06 11:36:51 · 22 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

A copy of the constitution and the bill of rights?

2007-07-06 11:32:51 · 23 answers · asked by jeb black 5 in Politics

1. Lincoln - Kept the country together/ Freed the Slaves.

2. Washington - Could have been King. Chose Democracy

3. Reagan – The Great Communicator Brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. Created 20 million new jobs.

4. Teddy Roosevelt - the first real free trader and environmentalist.

5. GWB – The Great Liberator Kept America safe from Terrorists Attacks after 9/11. Liberated 50 million hopeless Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq (Soon to be Iran). Smoking Hot economy & Brought Honor & Dignity back to the White House after the Impeached Clinton.


Bottom 5

1. Woodrow Wilson - WWI was a horrible choice.

2. Andrew Johnson - Impeached

3. Carter – Soviets marching everywhere, hostages being taken, long gas lines, high interest rates and unemployment. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.

4. Clinton – The Great Fornicator Brought a 19 year old Chubby Intern to her knees, lied about it and was IMPEACHED. Then he was disbarred.

5. Millard Fillmore!

2007-07-06 11:30:34 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.zombietime.com/anti-july_4th_sf/

2007-07-06 11:28:43 · 18 answers · asked by ☆Bombastic☆ 5 in Politics

Which do you think is the most /least important?Are they all necessraly?

2007-07-06 11:25:56 · 2 answers · asked by peaches 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

From Y! News: "Police said Bilal Abdullah is to appear in a London court on Saturday charged with conspiracy to cause explosions."

Are you English people fu**ing crazy? The man built a bomb with the intent to kill; that is to destroy human life, make dead, slaughter, butcher, decapitate, splatter london streets with human blood, dismember people, etc.. And you are just going to charge him with "Conspiracy to cause explosions"?

What kind of prison sentance does that hold? You are just going to charge this man with the same crime as you would a person who makes his own fireworks and sets them off in the countryside. Why are you not outraged? Why are you not stomping this guys chest in? Why are you not petitioning your government to hang this nut and his co-conspirators by the neck until dead? Are you all just a bunch of faggoty fruitcakes?

2007-07-06 11:23:57 · 9 answers · asked by Voice of Liberty 5 in Law & Ethics

i was just wondering if anyone knows of a template for a good sponsor letter for my husband.

I am British Citizen and my hubby is Singaporean. I want him to come here asap and feel my writing skills are not up2 scratch.

I know i need to send bank statements, my career dets and also copy of passport, is there anything else? Anybody know how i can get him to UK any quicker? Miss him terribly.....

Pls help, Thanx to all in advance!!

2007-07-06 11:23:27 · 14 answers · asked by "THE GOLDEN NUGGET!!" 1 in Immigration

I live in a place where there a sign that clearly says "No Solicitation."
They keep leaving their booklets and knock on my door when it's inconveient .

I'm very tired of this, and I want to complain to someone. I tried calling the local Kingdom Hall and I only get a Bible Study message and never a live person. Who can I complain to ?

2007-07-06 11:20:39 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I was sexually abused from the age of 4-6 by my moms boyfriend. Things were good with dad, but I was at moms most of the time. The molester beat the crap out of me with belts and tortured me. He used to handcuff me, flush my head in the toilet, make me eat my own vomit, make me do oral, torture me with knifes- though he never cut me, made me do disgusting things. He made me watch my mom & him have sex, and threatened my life constantly.
I grew up fantasising about finding him as an adult, seducing him somewhere private and hurting him somehow like with scissors....

So now I am an adult, I have three children, I am married and most of the time happy. BUT my biological mother just gave me all the info I need to find my molester, its been too many years to prosecute him. But I want him to pay, and I hate imagining him doing this to someone else. What do I do?

2007-07-06 11:20:12 · 10 answers · asked by SandLady 2 in Law & Ethics