Politics & Government - 14 July 2007

I am a US citizen, and my English is fluent, but it is not my native tongue an when I am tired, my foreign accent comes out. It is actually quite slight, but still audible.
Often, when I would apply for jobs over the phone, I would notice the interviewer would become tense and ask me the " Where are you from originally?" question. When I would answer, there would be a mood of grave concern on the other end and they would never call me back. Mostly business jobs and all.
I also got called a "foreigner" on one job and told to "get out".
Once I was applying for a job as a teacher and the school asked me to fill out an application form. They had a "Place of Birth" box" which is illegal". I brought it to their attention and they said that the parents in the school were mainly Chinese and they would ask "where the teacher is from" before allowing that person teach their kids. What are legal recourses for foreign-born US citizens to combat such discrimination?

2007-07-14 23:58:13 · 3 answers · asked by MumbaJumba 2 in Law & Ethics

How does a person or a party pay for the law suit when they are found guilty of a crime if the amount of money is something they do not have? For example, the Roman Catholic Church of Los Angeles may be paying over $600 million dollars to people who are effected by the sexual abuse scandel. How would the church pay that much money??? Or anyone???

2007-07-14 23:48:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

hairstylist?

2007-07-14 23:47:09 · 2 answers · asked by eric t 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-14 23:43:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

True story.
Rodham-Clinton was a:
Nixon campaigner
vote-fraud investigator in 1960
to Goldwater Girl and President of Young Republicans at Wellesley
internship for Gerald Ford
campaigner for Nelson Rockefeller.
Her reaction to the student protests at Yale and the demonstrations at Grant Park during the Democratic Convention in 1968?
How she and Bill vowed to 'remake' the Democrat party?

All very true. http://www.counterpunch.org/
Why does she sweep these embarrassing facts under the mat today?

2007-07-14 23:40:10 · 10 answers · asked by B.o.B 2 in Other - Politics & Government

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1274983,00.html?f=rss

Boris & Natasha to recieve medals

2007-07-14 23:32:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

missle defense everywere,etc,,,

2007-07-14 23:30:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Communities lost in the madness of mass immigration? is you comunity being taken over by immigrants?

2007-07-14 23:12:32 · 31 answers · asked by John O 1 in Immigration

Russia buy oil from Iran - in fact there is a pipeline from one nation to the other

Russia has sold a billion dollars in arms and defence to Iran

Iran has had problem paying for all of this -


If the US starts a war or destabizes Iran - the oil and the money for the defence contracts might stop or flow in at a trickle

The US has upset Russia with plans to put missles on it's doorstep -

The US would like to go after Iran -


Has Iran just become monkey in the middle ?

2007-07-14 23:07:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Who is the Prime Minister of India ?

2007-07-14 23:04:37 · 25 answers · asked by Vijay M 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Will the financiers and supporters of Israel's numerous War Crimes including widespread Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes on the High Seas (USS Liberty and numerous acts of Piracy) and failure to respect Internal Aid Organisations (including firing on UN personnel, Red Cross and Medicine sans Frontiers)?

Don't the victims, Christians, Arabs, atheists and Hindus alike deserve some justice?
What excuse could there be for not bringing Israel to answer for its crimes?

2007-07-14 22:50:35 · 22 answers · asked by B.o.B 2 in Other - Politics & Government

They do a great job protecting people?

2007-07-14 22:46:29 · 24 answers · asked by Jill B 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-14 22:32:44 · 18 answers · asked by Mua Dib 1 in Government

1. Would you continue working?
2. Would you buy expensive cars?
3. Would you travel around the world?
4. Would you buy a new house?
5. Would you drink, drugs and make big bets in casinos?
6. Would you continue your simple lifestyle and just save the money in the bank?
HELP ME??????

2007-07-14 22:18:41 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

some people are just mean and won't hesitate stabbing you at the back and front. they seem to get away w/ it. but does being evil really pay?

2007-07-14 22:15:58 · 9 answers · asked by ac 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-14 22:05:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Bush wanted a missle shield on Russia's door step -

They warmed him they asked him not to do this or they would pull out of agreements from way back -

Now they have pulled out

A re-start to the cold war - ?

2007-07-14 21:59:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-14 21:45:06 · 22 answers · asked by fair 1 in Politics

2007-07-14 21:30:47 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-14 21:29:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

mine used to be the no-spin-zone w/ Bill O'Reilley, but lately i'd have to say Michael Savage. because he's 100% straight-forward in his opinions. he's (in no small way) responsible for getting the am. ppl to stop that nightmare Dubai Ports deal, and w/other hosts stopping that travesty-amnesty bill from going forward. not only his views of politics, but he has a real genuinely kind side in his affinity for animals and nature. just MHO. so.. who do you like?

2007-07-14 21:28:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Apart from money and power, what have they got to claim that statement?

2007-07-14 21:27:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

If you were shown on national television in a negative light that was later proven to be false, how much do you think your reputation in the community is worth in dollars? Could you even put a dollar amount on it?

2007-07-14 21:23:59 · 11 answers · asked by Michael B 1 in Law & Ethics

why doesnt the great gawd of all things conspiracy driven, (you know, the invisible ufo aliens named cheney and bush who have al powers both seen and imagined), just drop down from the heavens and put a serious smiting on all of ya'll? you know, just to shut you up before word gets out and everybody catches on to the "big fix"? i mean, these conspirators can do any and everything so why let ya'll exist? THANX!

2007-07-14 21:19:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Abou the War, Immigration, Health care, Fairness Doctrine... I don't care I would just like to know there are some well thought out points of veiw besides Bush lied kids died. Or that I am just an evil conservative hatmonger.

Please conservatives don't bash liberals in this question.

I may not agree with you but I would genuinely like to hear some of the other side.

2007-07-14 21:15:27 · 7 answers · asked by WCSteel 5 in Politics

Is the Washington is an independent federal territory? Do the citizen of Washington DC have voting rights? Who sees the municipal & administrative affairs of the city and who selects/elects him/her?

2007-07-14 21:08:18 · 5 answers · asked by aftabirfan 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Honestly speaking.

2007-07-14 21:07:13 · 21 answers · asked by Adam K 5 in Politics

There seems to be an all-out push for this nonsense lately. Michael Moore's latest propaganda is focused entirely on this objective. This Universal Healthcare push is festering like a swollen boil in politics today, and it is threatening to burst and ooze a fetid puss all over the 2008 presidential election.

It is not very difficult to envision a US government-administered system of socialist medicine: health care with the efficiency of the Postal Service and the compassion of the IRS? No thanks!

Didn't they learn their lesson the first time Hillary tried that rubbish in 1993? She got smacked down, hard. Socialist healthcare is not something that the American people are prepared to tolerate; do you hear us, leftwingers? Not on OUR watch!


The shame of it all is that: trial lawyers like John Edwards and his ilk are responsible for most of the problems plaguing our current health system. Any common-sense attempts at tort-reform is met with furious resistance by the Left.

2007-07-14 20:56:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

So if I write a book and mention brands like McDonalds or Walgreens, are their legal repercussions?

2007-07-14 20:56:07 · 6 answers · asked by mirrorinthesky 3 in Law & Ethics

because the Vice Presidents office is not part of the Executive branch!!

2007-07-14 20:55:57 · 7 answers · asked by Gettin_by 3 in Politics