Politics & Government - 15 July 2007

I don't wholeheartedly believe that they planned 9/11, but I do have my suspicions because it was downtown Manhattan that was bombed. They probably were deciding between NYC or San Fran. I don't think they would have let Dallas or Houston be hit.
I've also read that the per capita security budget for Wyoming is higher than for NYC. Not surprised here.

2007-07-15 05:10:47 · 11 answers · asked by topink 6 in Other - Politics & Government

Why are those who are going to be executed allowed a last meal of their choice?

If the public thinks a convict deserves both death and the horrible mental suffering of sitting in death row for years knowing he will be killed, how come the public wants to alleviate that convict's suffering ever so slightly by giving him a potentially fantastic last meal of his choice? Isn't that pretty inconsistent?

Either the convict is a worthless human being, or he is not. If the convict is a worthless human being, he should have nothing, not life, and not even a last meal. If he is not a worthless human being, on the other hand, why is he executed?

If being dead is worth 0, and a average life in freedom is worth 10^100 or has infitie value, suppose having a last meal is worth 0.005 on that scale (just a random guess). Then why assume that all those convicts deserve exactly 0.005 worth of pleasure, no more, no less? Isn't that unlikely, expecially considering time in death row varies a lot?

2007-07-15 05:07:16 · 10 answers · asked by Justin Case 1 in Law & Ethics

if they are smoking around children or yourself? i think so, i do not want emphysema so they shouldnt be allowed to give it to me. unless they will pay my medical bills and carry the oxygen tank...

2007-07-15 05:02:47 · 23 answers · asked by CATWOMAN 6 in Law & Ethics

More info:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8DAFF74FF9201F89

2007-07-15 05:02:02 · 11 answers · asked by Fluffy Wisdom 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-07-15 04:59:41 · 6 answers · asked by thebodab 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-15 04:57:07 · 13 answers · asked by Calvin James Hammer 6 in Elections

John Nichols and Bruce Fein on Bill Moyers' Journal discussed impeachment as a constitutionally prescribed response to President Bush's recent claims of exuctive privilege (for example). This was mind altering. Did the Speaker of the House -- and all members of the House and Senate watch this broadcast?

2007-07-15 04:56:51 · 10 answers · asked by murphy 5 in Politics

when it comes to terrorism, yet have no problem buying into Al Gore's "fear mongering" tactics when it comes to the highly suspect and controversial theory of global warming?

2007-07-15 04:52:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

2007-07-15 04:45:45 · 14 answers · asked by ceej 2 in Government

2007-07-15 04:43:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-15 04:42:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Okey.. recently, i got pulled over for speeding only 81 on 65 limit highway.. well as i prepared my self with an ID before the cop stood next to me, he asked me why i reached down and i said for ID, after getting a ticket, he decided to check the car to see if he can find anything illegal.. even when i told him i didnt have anything.. my question is Does my reach for ID a "reasonable doubt" for the cop to search my car?? i mean seriously it was embarassing standing outside at 2:00am in the middle of the road with two troopers... also, He checked both of the passangers ID.. i mean foreal.. can they really do that or can i argue that he was looking for an illegal immigrant or something??? you know cuz it was 3 asain female in the car.. I dont know if i was treated fairly so i wanna ask.. if anyone has treated the same way or not??? let me know...

2007-07-15 04:41:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

My boyfriend is in Police Detention Holdings and he has to stay there until tomorrow. I am in his house right now where we live together. I have my condo at Myrtle Beach - SC but I cannot drive right now because I have a very bad black eye and other minor injuries. I want to leave this house but I have a lot of things here that I do not want to leave behind . Do I have to stay in Charlotte to go to court? what happens next? I am willing to leave this house but I need time to pack my stuff and don't feel like I can do much right now, my business are based here also. Do I need to get a lawyer? if so , who pays the lawyer? he is in a great financial situation but he is very tight with money and I never even asking money for my chewing gum , we pay everything half / half . I need to go to the doctor, who pays that? Last time this happened , I paid thousands and he did not help with a penny, I even pay the phsicologyst alone to get counceling

2007-07-15 04:38:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Crime, immigration,fear of being taken over by the leftwing fascists.

2007-07-15 04:36:56 · 23 answers · asked by John O 1 in Immigration

Are there other voters who dislike Hillary's stand on abortion rights? There are those who think folks like me hate Hillary...but the truth is we do not hate her, we hate the stand she has taken on abortion. When is it ever right to kill an unborn baby? What would be next, mercy killings of the elderly and infirm? What do YOU think?
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05011202.html
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/statements/clinton/html
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Hillary_Clinton.htm

2007-07-15 04:33:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Last night my stepson his son and his biological father were injured in a car accident. A wrecker carrying a car on a flatbed had not secured the vehical correctly. Just as my stepson saw that it was about to come loose , it did!
The car came off the truck and slammed into the passenger side of my stepson's pickup. This sent him into the guardrail. The truck is a total loss. He and his dad were shanken up and are pretty sore but my grandson hit his head, yes he had a seatbelt on, and had to have 12 stitches and stay in the hospital until 2am this morning.
My daughter works part time for a lawyer, who came down to the hospital last night. He said he will handle it. Im sure he will, for a fee.
What is fair? IF the wrecker company broke more than one law is there more than one lawsuit?
I can think of a few. Failure to secure his load. Wreckless endangerment. Bodily injury. Mental anxiety [my wife]. etc

2007-07-15 04:31:27 · 5 answers · asked by Colt 4 in Law & Ethics

to Islam?

funny thing! i was reading Bin Laden's profile on wikipedia the other day and noticed something.
the reason he declared war on the US civilians and military personnels is ALL political.

"bin Laden issued two fatwas—in 1996 and then again in 1998—that Muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the United States and allied countries UNTIL they withdraw support for Israel and withdraw military forces from Islamic countries."

seems to me that he's not interested in our freedom or our spiritual choices.

2007-07-15 04:30:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Does that mean the law can't touch his administration or his cronies?

2007-07-15 04:28:36 · 5 answers · asked by WOMBAT, Manliness Expert 7 in Law & Ethics

And will he also get to make Time's man of the year for no apparent reason except for the fact he got to run around the streets like a chicken with his head cut off?

2007-07-15 04:25:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

don't want it passed

http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2472

2007-07-15 04:22:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

We call this "Selective amnesia, Typical for these folks who cant recollect but can write books on the memoirs

http://www.gop.com/flexpage.aspx?area=Hillarydoublespeak

So Typical for her and Wild Bill

http://www.gop.com/flexpage.aspx?area=Hillarydoublespeak

2007-07-15 04:20:23 · 10 answers · asked by Sylvan T 2 in Elections

There in Ukraine occur such bad things as corruption at every level of state authority, politicians think only about their portfolios and powers. They concern themselves mostly in looting and plundering the state treasury using their privileges of parliaments as a cover. I understand that this process is inevitable, but how much time will it take for Ukraine to become truly democratic nation like other countries in Western Europe and USA?

2007-07-15 04:18:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

when Bush's mismanagement of the war has been the most incompetent thing he has ever done?

2007-07-15 04:17:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

allowing terminally ill patients to use prescription medications that have not yet been approved by the FDA if, according to some reputable doctors, those medicines may help?

2007-07-15 04:15:18 · 5 answers · asked by John Tiggity 2 in Law & Ethics

Would you do it to have health insurance? A small percentage of your pay check instead of high insurance premiums.

Keeping in mind the additional tax could be deducted from your earned income.

Wisconsin is trying, read below...

http://www.progressivestates.org/content/629/nations-most-comprehensive-health-plan-approved-in-wisconsin-senate#1

2007-07-15 04:09:30 · 10 answers · asked by From Yours Trully 4 in Government

.
..have a new breed of potential killers in our midst...not THERE, but here!

A DEAD IRAQI IS JUST ANOTHER DEAD IRAQI’
By Neil Mackay
HOW AMERICAN TROOPS VIEW THE WAR
Specialist Jeff Englehart, A 26-year-old American soldier from Grand Junction in Colorado, could not be more blunt. "I guess," he said, "while I was there, the general attitude was: a dead Iraqi is just another dead Iraqi."
His brutally honest assessment of how GIs view Iraqi civilians is a standard attitude in the US army held by many of Englehart's comrades.
Englehart was just one of 50 US veterans of the Iraq conflict interviewed by The Nation magazine, an American political weekly. It is a unique study which focuses on military attitudes towards the most vulnerable group of people caught up in the campaign: ordinary men, women and children.

Englehart explained matter-of-factly why American soldiers really don't care if civilians live or die: " <<>>>

2007-07-15 04:09:17 · 3 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

... not being protected?

2007-07-15 04:07:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This would be different then trying to figure out whether a person is illegal or not. All the citizen would have to prove is that the person had an outstanding order of deportation.

ICE could publish the names, photos, and other info on those who do have the orders of deportation.

Also should deportation information be made a matter of public record? Like traffic or criminal convictions?

2007-07-15 04:05:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I see from asking questions here and the American answers that just maybe I suspect a literacy problem. Now go ahead and attack my grammar but I can read.

2007-07-15 04:04:13 · 7 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Politics

2007-07-15 04:03:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government