Politics & Government - 14 July 2007

I see whenever oil companies hit a home run and make a lot of money off of their risky investments, the left always wails for the wonderful "windfall profits tax" to make it all better. Yet curiously, when oil prices are in the dumper and oil companies are struggling, there is no call to help the poor oil companies out. This is just one example.

2007-07-14 11:24:26 · 11 answers · asked by RP McMurphy 4 in Other - Politics & Government

I keep hearing conservatives refrence this point over and over again, especailly in refrence to Edwards?

so does that mean every rich Republican hates the poor? if they cared, they would just give all their money away... right?

or are you a special situation?

2007-07-14 11:24:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

-- before performing it in order to prevent someone from hearing it and then playing it as if it were your own? If so, how would you go about doing this and where can you send the song to. Also, how do you write the song out (ie; tab, chord charts, etc.)

2007-07-14 11:23:30 · 7 answers · asked by skull_on_concrete;-P 3 in Law & Ethics

I don't think so, since I hear so many ramble on about this person or that person's free speech rights being violated. People, the right to free speech describes only your relationship to the state. It does not mean your speech is free of consequences. For example, you can walk up to your boss and call him an ******, and the state will not arrest you for it. However, you may get fired for it.

Hopefully that clears it up for the whiners who wail about rights being violated when in fact none have.

No charge, and you are welcome.

2007-07-14 11:21:11 · 14 answers · asked by RP McMurphy 4 in Law & Ethics

1. The fighting stops, everyone puts down their guns, while the gov't runs a fair and efficient country, and spends their oil revenues responsibly on the betterment of Iraq.

2. The extremist groups fight until one gains the military advantage to suppress the rest (majority) of the country. The oil revenues are soon controlled by a group who is bent on destroying parts of the world who do not bow down to them, creating another, larger problem/threat for the U.S. and the world.

3. The elected gov't in Iraq is somehow able to put a stop to the fighting between the extremist groups, without the help of the U.S. gov't.

2007-07-14 11:20:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Imagine being anchored to your computer for 18 hours day for 30 days as punishment..

2007-07-14 11:20:17 · 6 answers · asked by InTROLLigent 3 in Law & Ethics

It appears that the "hidden-agenda" of the non-profit organization that I have worked for the past 17 years is adding workload to the 55 age year old employees. I have gotten outstanding yearly evals, won several awards at the highest levels, been promoted several times, etc. They recently doubled my work area and client load to cover the increasing demands of our organization and have not hired additional help for over 10 years in my profession. If I get "laid-off" because I cannot keep up with the often 12 hour work-shifts that this job is now requiring plus the 24 hour on-call required do I have any recourse? My younger colleagues have not had an increase in their workload assigned. PLEASE HELP!!

2007-07-14 11:19:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

My son bike was hit by a car, about a hour or so ago, while he was trying to cross the street, he is fine, I called the ambulance and we just left the emergency room, and I am home now, and he is trying to fix the front tire, he's 7 what should be my next move? and My neighbor turned against me, and sided with the drivers family, my son, and his friends say the lady was driveing fast down a one way street, and he had looked, both ways, there were 5 of them, plus his 9 year old brother, but my neighbor say's he was in the street, and told the police that as well, plus was talking with the drivers family It's not money that I was after because I myself went to the driver after I saw my son was ok because she was so frayed, but now I am angry, and my son say's who is extremely smart, and gets all A's in school, and can read as good as any adult, say's I did not make a mistake the driver did.

2007-07-14 11:19:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I'm talking about those of us willing to work and don't whine about everything? where is this bad horrible economy??

BTW....More people are employed than ever before, stock market is making record after record, low inflation (even with gas prices) low interest rates, home ownership at all time records in USA, corporations making record profits, small businesses booming!.....Come on, this is the best economy in the history of USA...In the 90s that was mostly fluff from the DOTCOM crap , so don't even compare that to this! BUSH ROCKS!

2007-07-14 11:19:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I forgot the number, but I heard this in my psychology class. I can understand not having sex with children- obviously who are virgins, but that's a diferent matter- child molestation. Thats severe. But what about people who are of legal age and are virgins. How do they have sex, should we go down to Oregon and do it and than come back?

2007-07-14 11:18:32 · 4 answers · asked by skull_on_concrete;-P 3 in Law & Ethics

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/428/story/88430.html

2007-07-14 11:16:59 · 2 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2 in Politics

property. I was at a pool party thrown by the Condo. Asso. where I live. I drank a beer. I was not drunk, unruly in any way, as a matter of fact had a nice peaceful time. I have nothing legally or otherwise that prevents me from drinking a beer. The party was funded by the dues that each of us to live here. Un-beknown to me, one of my neighbors apparently already knew ABOUT me even though I had never met half of the people at this party. This neighbor, (still not positive which one it was as again these people were all new to me), went to the DFCS worker, who does not live here nor was at this party, and told her she saw me drinking a beer. This DFCS worker went to my attorney 5 days after the party and told him she's coming after me as I had been "spotted" drinking a beer at a party this past weekend. I know I have recourse against the DFCS worker and am pursueing that. Do I have recourse against the Asso./neighbor this as this was done with the intent to harm me and my son

2007-07-14 11:12:33 · 7 answers · asked by Nancy E 2 in Law & Ethics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AsjkQXDovbqNhmopj0LvQkqs0NUE

2007-07-14 11:12:23 · 23 answers · asked by Ringo G. 4 in Politics

At least with Armageddon we could blame the Bible for the outcome.

2007-07-14 11:10:05 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics

2007-07-14 11:09:36 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Yet the Shiites and Sunni's kill each other without remorse or law.

While the Christians in the past haven't been much better, at least now they realize it is the year 2007, not 1007.

I think it is time for Islam to join us in the twenty-first century.

I claim no preference of religion :-)

2007-07-14 11:07:29 · 16 answers · asked by Cable Dude 3 in Politics

At some point in a future conflict will the losing side turn to nukes in order to try to win ?

2007-07-14 11:06:13 · 15 answers · asked by dave777 4 in Other - Politics & Government

I'm against hatred and intolerance. I requested some information from this organization and they sent me a package but didn't tell me how to join. Does anyone know how much it costs to join this organization? What are the yearly dues? Any information on this would be appreciated. Thankyou

2007-07-14 11:06:08 · 3 answers · asked by skull_on_concrete;-P 3 in Law & Ethics

If they want to help so much, and they are so concerned, why don't they give away every dime they have or make over the national average?

2007-07-14 11:03:17 · 29 answers · asked by joby10095 4 in Politics

2007-07-14 11:03:01 · 7 answers · asked by bravesox1092 1 in Government

At some point in a future conflict will the losing side turn to nukes in order to try to win ?

2007-07-14 11:01:50 · 16 answers · asked by dave777 4 in Military

Don't worry, this isn't me. I'm just curious. If someone tapes you having sex can they be prosecuted if the other person finds out and did not consent to the recording?

2007-07-14 10:59:42 · 10 answers · asked by CMDS 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-14 10:57:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

When he says we will stay the course?
Maybe just want to go down in history as being tough......?

2007-07-14 10:57:07 · 13 answers · asked by Sugar 7 in Military

Are most of the individuals Airborne and Air Assault capable? In comparison, is the MEF like the 101st/82nd in the Army?

2007-07-14 10:56:25 · 7 answers · asked by extreme82 2 in Military

I know not all conservatives can be as erudite as say, William F. Buckley, but why does George W. Bush always come off sounding so unsophisticated? He rarely speaks in anything beyond vague generalities and when asked a difficult question he falls back on empty rhetoric to cover for his lack of specifics.

But beyond that, he seems to have a great deal of difficulty with basic English grammar.

Yes, yes, we all know the Democratic party is also full of empty-rhetoric spewing, status-quo supporting politicians.

But I want to know what your opinion is regarding Bush's apparent speech problem.

Some people have suggested it is typical of individuals with a history of alcohol and/or drug abuse. Others (including myself) have posited that the man is simply incurious.

What do you think (not feel, but THINK)?

2007-07-14 10:55:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

When I posed this question to a liberal friend she said' "I work hard for my money".

2007-07-14 10:54:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If you divide the US into three classes by income, upper, middle, lower, and you draw the lines so as to divide the population into thirds, the middle group's income has been increasing steadily for the last quarter century.

If you divide the US into three classes by income and set the bars as a function of income levels (e.g., some economists use 2X and 5X the poverty level as the boundaries of the 'middle class' but the below is true regardless of where you draw the lines):

The upper class is growing in proportion to the whole

The middle class is shrinking in proportion to the whole

The lower class is about the same size relative to the whole

Given that most immigration is from poor countries and we've had an explosion of immigration in the last quarter century, that means:

The once rich are still rich

Many in the middle class have moved up

The lower class is moving up too but being replaced at the bottom by new immigrants

Why is that bad????

2007-07-14 10:53:07 · 18 answers · asked by truthisback 3 in Politics

Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.

It restates key sections of a 2000 document the pope wrote when he was prefect of the congregation, “Dominus Iesus,” which set off a firestorm of criticism among Protestant and other Christian denominations because it said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the “means of salvation.”

This seems a good example of the need for separation of church and state.

2007-07-14 10:52:36 · 24 answers · asked by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 in Other - Politics & Government

I don't care for the guy but if this is true, he's not the one we want to run this country. Does anyone know for sure?

2007-07-14 10:52:30 · 7 answers · asked by Classic96 4 in Other - Politics & Government