Politics & Government - 12 July 2007

in 2004 a main sewer backed up and our home was surrounded by 10 inches of sewer water, dampcourse breached etc and severe damp/ moisture problems within house, we lost everything, our insurance complany would not admit liability claiming the problems were due to 'furniture being too close to the walls' and 'warm air hitting a cold wall'. We have a 7 year old daughter who was 5 at the time of the incident (10.08.04) temporarily rehoused 16.12.05, we slept on contaminated beds wrapped in sheets & muslin and lived in & breathed in damp for 16 months . I suffered from OCD which worsened & haven't had treatment as my fears/ actions were 'justified' and released back to my gp & I suffered 3 chest infections, 2 pleurisy, 2 kidney infections, an ear infection and skin problems, and since developed We received payment for some of our belongings and also 'goodwill' payments towards essential property repairs, we still don't have a kitchen, we ran out of funds after paying £22k for repair work

2007-07-12 23:57:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Wouldn't this solve a lot of problems?

Cigarettes and other tabacco products are truly deadly. Should the legislature be protecting its citizens from deadly things?

Lots of chemicals are totally banned. So why not tabacco products.

Yes, it seems a bit harsh, and indeed it would suddenly kill an entire industry. But it would still eliminate a group of products that are proven to kill people.

2007-07-12 23:56:35 · 15 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Civic Participation

As an Englishman who has just returned from a business trip to the USA i feel must ask this question.
Most Americans who i have met seem to be covered in what one could only describe as spots or dare i say it boils.
Is this due to the diet and lack of salad?

2007-07-12 23:48:14 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If so, think again. Now they're attaching parts of it to other bills.

http://www3.capwiz.com/caps/issues/alert/?alertid=10009191

2007-07-12 23:40:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Yesterday, in the UK, the Liberal Democrats released details of their new tax plan. They would decrease income tax, and introduce new 'green' taxes on fuel and flights.

These new taxes would pay for the reduction in income tax, but surely this would require people to keep poluting and paying the taxes. If people stopped using their cars, and flying then there would be no money in the pot, and our income tax would go back up!

So the Liberal Democrats have given us a decision to make. Do we want a country paid for by pollution? I say no!

2007-07-12 23:39:27 · 9 answers · asked by mark 7 in Politics

WOW is this true?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=372_1184282274

2007-07-12 23:38:59 · 6 answers · asked by Mercury 2010 7 in Military

Think that white people are racist?? And if so why? what did this generation of white people do thats so bad?(if you're racist against white people because of slavery you might want to reread the question before you answer...)

2007-07-12 23:38:20 · 1 answers · asked by diablonekokiller 2 in Politics

Isn't "terrorism" the most self defeating phrase/label imaginable?

Doesn't its use - intill terror without anyone actually having to do anything?

If you are fighting lions who want to scare you, with their vocablury -why would you use it?


Why don't we just call it "wankerism"?

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2007-07-12 23:36:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If you don't know the name and address of the person who committed the crime. The police might come round, take a statement (only if you saw them doing it, not if you heard them doing it, and saw them run away), give you a crime report leaflet, and about a week later send you a letter saying they have finished their investigation.
I know they give you a crime report number, which can be useful if you claim on insurance, but if you claim , the insurance goes up, so there is no purpose for claiming, because you pay it all back with increases premiums.

2007-07-12 23:32:32 · 10 answers · asked by Sprinkle 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

I know the UN was going to vote to place more sanctions on Iran for their non-compliance with previous UN Sanctions regarding their illegal Nuclear Program. . . . . . . but I haven't heard anything in recent weeks .

What is going on ?

2007-07-12 23:31:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

would it not be more sensible for laws to be passed on a public reforemdom now that we are actually adept at useing the technology

why cant we use it for something more useful

2007-07-12 23:28:43 · 3 answers · asked by goosebumpsandgiggles 4 in Politics

We see the police allowing these yobs to carry on with yob behaviour on the street.

2007-07-12 23:26:58 · 18 answers · asked by Jill B 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-12 23:25:16 · 1 answers · asked by ernest t 1 in Immigration

How different would things have been if the US had stayed focused on the enemy in Afghanistan and not diverted resources into the Iraq "war"?

2007-07-12 23:24:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Should Bush talk the talk and walk the walk ?

2007-07-12 23:21:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Are the great family loving and christian Republicans being revealed to be what they really are?
Would you be really mean if you said maybe, just maybe that the right wing of the Republican Party was made up of chicken hawks, Vice President Cheney, 5 college deferments to avoid going to war in Viet Nam and George W Bush, 3 months in the Air National Guard in Texas guarding the air over Texas and another 3 months in the jungles of Alabama. Would it be mean to say they might, just might be hypocrits?

2007-07-12 23:21:05 · 13 answers · asked by telwidit 5 in Politics

According to U.S. intelligence agencies, they're alive, well and figuring out ways how to get into our country.

Meanwhile, our borders are wide open, thousands of undetected illegal immigrants are still arriving daily.

Is this not complete insanity? How tough will it be for them to "sneak" in?

2007-07-12 23:19:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Have you police on the beat in your area?

2007-07-12 23:17:14 · 25 answers · asked by Jill B 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

In my state there are many sex criminals and rape. So many women are being scared to men. Every time I see men walking at the stree, and I see woman they will get scared and walk fast even I didnt do anything wrong. They would do thing just because sex crime is very high. Some women would think men is the rapist. Is this called discrimination?

2007-07-12 23:14:23 · 3 answers · asked by powerpuff girls 1 in Law & Ethics

I am in austria now, and fixing to get married to my fiancee she is from here and I am an american, My question is do I have the right to live and work here after we get married?

2007-07-12 23:12:59 · 1 answers · asked by William K 1 in Immigration

Many people think that the police are useless.

2007-07-12 23:08:11 · 19 answers · asked by Jill B 1 in Law & Ethics

Many corporations--the very thing that environmentalists and those with socialist and communist agendas hate--are making big dollars by "going green." Heck, Dell Computers will even plant a tree for you to offset the carbon used in making your computer!

My point is, people have bought into this craze and companies are cashing in and making even more money. I think it's ironic, because the folks who are against big business are not against them because of pollution (that's just a smokescreen) but because big businesses make big dollars in a free market.

2007-07-12 23:06:19 · 9 answers · asked by Truth B. Told ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID 6 in Politics

Is the British National Party a Freedom Movement?

2007-07-12 23:02:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I believe that the effect of this Republican Administration led by George W Bush and Dick Cheney put the countries defenses in jeopardy. Does the support of old war horses like Senators John McCain and John Warner make the administration's stance and strategy of 'banging your head against a brick wall' seem like a good strategy.

2007-07-12 22:59:05 · 9 answers · asked by telwidit 5 in Politics

2007-07-12 22:31:33 · 4 answers · asked by INDRAN 1 in Law & Ethics

I saw in youtube.com, in a past democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton said she does NOT want English to be the official language of the US so that the Government will finance language translators in hospitals in the US.
If English is not the official language, then would the Government finance translators for schools and institutions as well?
By the way, Obama said that an official language does not matter.

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmngww_Go-Q


Sure. Put translators for each language (hundreds) in each of the thousands of hospitals in the US.

Sure. Put translators for each language (hundreds) in each of the thousands of schools and insitutions in the US.
That means in each classroom.

Do you think Hillary Clinton and Obama has COMMON SENSE?

2007-07-12 22:29:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

i got hurt at work and im now 100% disable from the injurie and i had to get a lawer to helpme because they had stop a trail inplant that could have stop me from being in a wheel chair but because they waited so long it didnt work and now the lawer told me that the law is the ones writen in the 20's and states all they have to do is pay you 60% of your pay til age 65 and pay medical and that there is no pain & suffering and that they can settle for what ever they want to but dont have to settle at all they only pay what they think is medicly nesasary whitch most of the time you have to file motions to get it done and the comition gos with the company so now that i had just started i am supose to live on 325 aweek for the rest of my life and they want even buy a handicap van hospital bed the lift to get in the bed or a lot of stuff that are medicle nesary to help me live life oh did i menchen you never get a pay increase for cost of liven so with what i get i cant even afford a house

2007-07-12 22:26:59 · 5 answers · asked by derrick t 1 in Law & Ethics

http://www.seminolesheriff.org/images/Stojinowski_Bozena.jpg

her is a slouch

2007-07-12 22:21:36 · 13 answers · asked by candle_wax 1 in Immigration

I'm voting Hillary...
How 'bout some support for me, here...or...

Some angry Republican, insulting, Rush Limbaugh Goom=Bah, brainwashed, yes-men retorts...

2007-07-12 22:19:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2007-07-12 22:19:05 · 4 answers · asked by sirdouglas527 5 in Other - Politics & Government