Politics & Government - 11 July 2007

they have nothing else on you not even license, name, or anything. How long do the cops work on a shoplifting case until they just quit the case?

2007-07-11 09:59:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

No it's not. This behaviour you see in the media happens every four years.
Our "BIG2" will begin trying to discredit eachother trying to get their candidate elected.
Remember, Todays politicians in the DNC and RNC care about only ONE THING. Getting their candidate elected into office. They don't care about the country or it's people.
All this said, I'm happy to see more people on here speaking out for unity among all rather that jumping on the partisan bandwagon

2007-07-11 09:59:05 · 15 answers · asked by The prophet of DOOM 5 in Politics

Check out this formerly posted question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070711134739AAX5mJB&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiTBUWPhp70SK0mLDnYPY3UfFxvCTBQ8TxnfDmueVY9i7c_KDh3baiXNuXFmNjxgijw--&paid=answered#Q8MrUmPvVGVrx27V_l3WL7_e10J86YpEALEY_vDGQe.qBK0ITLM6

Did you notice those describing themselves as liberal, more independant, or, in any case, not likely to buy much into the present government's agenda were also less likely to get their news from the television? And that those describing themselves as conservatives regularly watched TV News?

So are conservatives more likely to watch TV, or does TV make you a conservative in the long run?

2007-07-11 09:58:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_go_co/fired_prosecutors

Are they going to try the old "national security" ploy on this one?

2007-07-11 09:57:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I mean sure there are alot of pissed off Arabs now who would gladly attack us, but isn't it obvious now that terror is just bush saber rattling and lying to the American people?

2007-07-11 09:52:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Hillary and Al
or
Ron Paul and Fred T
or on the Green Party ticket
McCain and Romney
Whom do you choose?

2007-07-11 09:52:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

From Mexico...for simplicity of the question.
How much money does it take to come to America ?
How long does it take ?
What else if anything has to be done ?

The reason i'm posting this question, is because I constantly see people ranting about illegal immigrants...how much they hate them because they didn't use the "front door" of America. What I would like to know....how many of you actually understand what it takes to come through the front door. Do you think the front door of America is accessible to immigrants from poor countries seeking freedom ? Why or why not ?

It seems to me, people have an ill conceived notion that it's just a matter of filling out a couple forms at the US Embassy or border crossing.....

Let's get some good responses here...this is a serious question.

Bear in mind that many immigrants come from very poor areas...they live in mud huts, they do not have computers, they do not electricity, uneducated, they don't even have birth certificates

2007-07-11 09:49:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-07-11 09:49:33 · 3 answers · asked by A BOY 3 in Military

between African Americans and Jewish Americans?

Statistics:
Jewish Americans 1% of Americans, 13% of Senate Seats
African Americans 13% of Americans, 1% of Senate Seats

2 Jewish representatives are Republican, 9 are Democrat, Sanders is a declared Socialist and Lieberman is a declared Independent / Neocon.

Barack Hussein Obama is of course a Democrat.

Source CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

I would think both groups of Americans (Jewish and African) would have a relative same level of acceptance among the general population with a majority (perhaps 2/3, maybe more) of Americans accepting candidates of either persuasion.

Will African American representation in the US Senate ever catch up to their population? And what role does AIPAC play as far as Jewish representation in the Senate is concerned?

This is a serious question - serious answers only.

2007-07-11 09:48:41 · 9 answers · asked by Jason A 3 in Politics

In the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird", a prosecutor says "The State rests, Judge." Japanese translation says it means "I have no more questions." What is the original meanings?

2007-07-11 09:43:18 · 10 answers · asked by Taro K 1 in Law & Ethics

The smart ones know what conservatism stands for today and what it stood for in the past and just deal with it.

The dumb ones think it was pro-diversity liberals who were the slave owners and traditional conservatives who freed the slaves because they assume the Republican Party was always conservative and southern. They confuse party with ideology.

Let me ask you this: You guys claim to be for state rights but then proudly claim Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and the northeastern Republicans who voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964.

HOWEVER, these guys used the power of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to fix problems. How can you logically claim to be for state rights, but support radical, progressive, and liberal Republicans like Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Rockeller?

2007-07-11 09:42:08 · 9 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

What do you think? Should radio talk shows give equal time to both sides of an issue?

I know this would wreak havoc on Rush Limbaugh. I'm sure there are others as well, so give me what your thoughts are on this issue.

The White House is against the fairness doctrine. Anytime the White House is against something, it makes me wonder.

2007-07-11 09:41:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Scientific explanations with evidence please. "Natural cycles" does not cut it - those are caused by specific factors like the sun.

The sun and cosmic rays have been proven not to be causing the current acceleration in global warming:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm

Nor do volcanoes, which contribute just 1% the greenhouse gas emissions that humans do annually:

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html

Atmospheric water vapor concentration is dependent on global temperatures. It will amplify global warming, but it won't initiate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#The_role_of_water_vapor

Please don't deny that global warming is happening, because it's been directly measured:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/

So if it's not humans, as most scientists have concluded:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

not the sun, cosmic rays, volcanoes, or water vapor...what's causing it?

2007-07-11 09:39:01 · 17 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Politics

and what is the worst that can happen? i'm so scared to tell my mom and dad because when i first got my license they said dont get any tickets cuz it will raise my insurance and i just got one i was going 20 over. this was really my first time speeding and i really regret it. the officer told me not to pay the ticket until i go to court since i only have a class D license and i'm so young, i talked to the lady that worked in the police office and she said that she was talking to the judge to get him to lower the points on my license to where it won't even show up on my record, does this mean if it doesn't show up on there then it won't show up to my insurance company? and i need advice on how to tell my parents, they are gonna be pissed and i know this is going to mean i won't be gettin a car for along time and not being able to drive to the places i want to go, it happened yesterday i dont want to wait too long and make them even angrier. any advice?

2007-07-11 09:37:15 · 21 answers · asked by t0xic_n_addictiv3 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

To all the dittohead cons who think it's because of abortion or gay marriage, go read about the election of 1964. These were not the issues back then.

In 1964, the Republican Party could have nominated pro-civil rights liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller for president. Instead, they nominated conservative Republican Barry Goldwater who was against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Democrats ran liberal Democrat LBJ.

Guess which side the South voted for?

Ever since then, the CONFEDERATE South has become increasingly more Republican while the yankee Northeast has become more Democrat.

2007-07-11 09:32:59 · 16 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

Hi.. I am going to apply to change status from an J1 to an F1.. I dont know if I ha ve to sign the I-20 to send my appliucation to the USCIS.. please help me...
thanks

2007-07-11 09:29:17 · 2 answers · asked by Lulu 2 in Immigration

If we are going to allow 12 million people who entered the country illegally to stay, essentially rewarding them for breaking the law, what should be the price they have to pay? I am not for deporting people, but I feel bad for people who are trying to get in here by following the law. What is the appropriate punishment for those 12 million?

2007-07-11 09:27:18 · 17 answers · asked by Blade_III 4 in Immigration

Terrorists kill people. That makes them terrorists. Also the fact that terrorist use terror to get what they want. What if those terrorist, from let's say Iraq, come to USA and create a health insurance company. And they intentionally deny insurance to 50 millions of American and at the same time they intentionally, fro the simple fact of making more profits, let's 18,000 of those insured Americans die by rejecting to give them the prescriptions that terrorists, now health insurance company owners, promised to give to Americans.

By doing that terrorists, pass from killing around or more of 1,000 American soldiers a year, to killing around 18,000 civilians and probably soldiers every year.

That is how insurance company work in here. Even Costa Rica, a poor country, has better insurance system than here.

Would you considerer terrorists those insurance companies' owners and CEOs? Why or why not?

2007-07-11 09:27:18 · 15 answers · asked by geeks_gadgets 2 in Other - Politics & Government

So many things about political parties, issues and so on.
I think people should ask themselves what would I do if I where President?

2007-07-11 09:26:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

With satelites watching us, our cell phones and home phones can be traced, our vechiles have devices that aloud people to monitor everywhere we travel, we no longer can speak our minds freely about our country, countrymen or government without reprecussions, it makes a person wonder, "are we really free?"

2007-07-11 09:26:10 · 13 answers · asked by TED H 1 in Civic Participation

2007-07-11 09:25:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

As an AMERICAN, not a liberal or democrat or conservative, or neocon or republican, but as an AMERICAN, I believe the time for impeachment is NOW! I ask those who call themselves the latter of those names to take a long hard look at their party and their policies and ask themselves: Are these policies in the BEST Interests of the AMERICAN people? Are you and is the COUNTRY better off now than we were six years ago? Unfortunately, I don't believe you can count "safety" or "feeling safe," due to it's relativity and the possibility that it could change in a moment. I'm asking ALL Republicans to take a look within and answer these questions HONESTLY. I think you'll surprise yourself when you reach an answer. I ask Democrats to do the same thing for the sake of putting the Country before politics. And I ask both sides not to dismiss the other right off the bat as righty or lefty extremists, but to listen openly to one another. Don't just find fault, find REMEDY!
Truce?

2007-07-11 09:25:30 · 8 answers · asked by R H 2 in Other - Politics & Government

shipped out to Viet Nam? I know he did some Sea Duty but it wasn't much. He could have at least went to the Philippines or somthing

2007-07-11 09:24:27 · 7 answers · asked by dr strangelove 6 in Military

They are for "state rights" and "traditional" southern values just like the Dixiecrat Party of the past.

I recently asked them if they were for "state rights" or centralized federal power. They all jumped in and proudly claimed to stand for state rights. But when I ask them how can they be for "state rights" and yet claim heritage to northeasten radical / progressive / liberal Republicans like Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, they were speechless.

They all tripped over themselves answering my first question but avoided the second one like the plague.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070711112351AA5tw37&r=w

2007-07-11 09:21:54 · 11 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3 in Politics

I have been watching my brothers kids for about three years his youngest i hae raising since birth, the mother was on drugs when she had him she lost all her rights with both kids my brother has full custody. I moved out of state with brothers permission but he is currently using drugs and is waiting to go to jail , he does not want to give me gaurdianship for reasons i do not know is there anything i can do to get gaurdianship without his permission before anything happens to the kids

2007-07-11 09:21:18 · 10 answers · asked by carbajalrosy 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-11 09:20:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

How many can you name?

2007-07-11 09:17:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

We have a group site with us immigrants in UK,Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Hong Kong and everywhere. Non US all attack Americans and its foreign policy and Bush and Iraq war. They watch BBC, Aljazeera and canada TV and they all have nothing to say about their countries but America. Most of them are on democrat side and most of them like Michael More film. Is US media killing its own image in the world?

2007-07-11 09:15:02 · 18 answers · asked by fedup 3 in Politics

If an individual has a flawless record at a company can he/she be fired legally for generic reasons and nothing specific?

2007-07-11 09:12:01 · 6 answers · asked by Shawn P 3 in Law & Ethics

My son who has severe special needs and is non verbal rides the bus to school and is in a wheelchair. Today the bus driver tells me that on monday (yes 2 days ago) that my son completely tipped over in his chair and that the tie downs came out from the van floor. They checked him over and held his chair for the rest of the way in place (totally illegal) even though it was just a few minutes. He tipped right in schools parking lot they should have took him to school to be checked by a nurse. He has a seizure disorder and we think he hit his head. We now found out today they were not going to notify myself or the school but the other child on the bus was going to tell so they had to tell me and the school. They then gave there bus company a falsified report of what happend. They told them that when this happened that they returned my son to school to have him checked and had the problem fixed immediately when they did not. They risked my sons life. What would you do? Legal Rights? Help!!

2007-07-11 09:10:47 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2 in Law & Ethics