Politics & Government - 15 July 2007

Ok, so I've heard about that wonderful officer dying after being shot in the face. Only 23 years old and it was just a traffic stop. My heart just broke.

However, while I do not, under any circumstances, take away from this tragic event, why is a person who kills an officer is automatically subject to be penalized to the highest extent of the law, but a person who stomps a 17 month baby to death makes his $5,000 bond and walks the same day?

I just don't get it. Someone please explain to me why both of these men should not be penalized to the highest extent of the law?

My heart is aching.............

2007-07-15 17:50:16 · 12 answers · asked by Harley Chick 2 in Law & Ethics

The defintion of discrimination is, denying a group the same rights or benifits as all the other groups simply because they are of that group. So why is not allowing gays to legally marry (out side of a church, because they can make their own rules) not discrimination?

2007-07-15 17:50:14 · 15 answers · asked by nicholas b 3 in Law & Ethics

Typical censorship from the "FREE-SPEECH" crowd !! Their hypocrasy knows no limits !

2007-07-15 17:49:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Maybe they should declare themselves failures.

2007-07-15 17:49:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-15 17:46:42 · 7 answers · asked by timotito_11964 2 in Other - Politics & Government

The government limited outsourcing of jobs and created a program that gets unemployed Amercians a job (like a compiled list of unemployed and their skills/degree that all businesses would recieve).

Would this be good or bad?

2007-07-15 17:46:27 · 5 answers · asked by austinblnd 4 in Government

..Im scared...0__0

2007-07-15 17:45:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

This was an answer to one of my other questions given in defense of our European ancestors who immigrated here. It's priceless. Enjoy:

"Please name ONE country in the world which wasn't invaded and changed by forigners at some time in history.
The past is the past and the winners make the rules.
We WON the right to decide who can come here and under what terms.
If we had lost, then it would be different.
That is the way the world has always worked."

Based on this logic, since we are being "invaded" by "foreignors" who are arriving here, living here, working here & staying here then they are the "winners" & we follow their rules? Or do they not count because they choose to do so peacefully instead of declaring a war & killing everyone?

"After all, that's the way the world has always worked." Right?

2007-07-15 17:42:39 · 17 answers · asked by Pamela 5 in Immigration

2007-07-15 17:40:18 · 9 answers · asked by penance 1 in Military

do you have to be physically fit before you join the police acedemy

2007-07-15 17:39:12 · 14 answers · asked by yahoo questions 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Titusville police say they have arrested Florida State Rep. Robert "Bob" Allen, of Merrit Island for soliciation for prostiution.

Allen, 48, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Veteran's Memorial Park on East Broad St. in Titusville.

Officers say they noticed Allen acting suspicious as he went in and out of the men's restroom 3 times. Minutes later, he solicited an undercover male officer inside the restroom, offering to perform oral sex for $20. Officers realized he was a public figure after the arrest.

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/...

2007-07-15 17:34:35 · 15 answers · asked by ToYou,Too! 5 in Government

not the exact questions, but similar....

2007-07-15 17:31:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

This is from the RealClearPolitics website - republicans will recognize them as the poll sidebar from the Fox News website on all of the political stories.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

2007-07-15 17:31:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

believe her? I mean, that's basically what Bush did when he invaded Iraq. Would you believe Hillary or would you side with Satan and disagree?

2007-07-15 17:30:23 · 10 answers · asked by Gemini 5 in Politics

How do you have a personal attachment to this war, are affected by it, and how have you handled this with family, friends, etc.,?

2007-07-15 17:28:08 · 14 answers · asked by lithuim 3 in Military

It doesn't matter what senator.

Would it be:

Senator Doe
141 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510

Or do I need to include the state they represent?

2007-07-15 17:27:57 · 4 answers · asked by Mandar 3 in Government

2007-07-15 17:27:30 · 6 answers · asked by JAMES 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

Signed,

Concerned

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2834706832539784696&q=9%2F11&total=34181&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2834706832539784696&q=9%2F11&total=34181&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

2007-07-15 17:25:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-07-15 17:24:08 · 38 answers · asked by Paperdoll 1 in Politics

Just wondering. I mean, lately you hear all these bad things surrounding cops, how many of them use the fact that they have a badge to inflict sexual assaults and stuff. What does that say? Where's the fine line between the criminals and the cops? Quite scary, right. And then we wonder how crime rates have increased so much over the years...

But, I'm not saying all cops are bad. I have family members that are cops, but there are still those bad apples out there. Share you opinions, folk.

Thanks.

2007-07-15 17:22:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

By Howie Klein, "Down With Tyranny!"

North Carolina Rep. David Almond resigned almost as soon as word of his inappropriate behavior came out. The North Carolina House Republicans are trying to keep his transgression a secret.

An insurance agent, Almond was serving his second term in the House. Sources say he exposed himself in front of a female employee and chased her around the room yelling "Suck it, baby, suck it." It is unclear whether or not there was physical contact. She filed a personnel complaint.

In a one-sentence letter to House Speaker Joe Hackney, the two-term Republican lawmaker from Stanly County immediately resigned his seat representing the 67th House District.

2007-07-15 17:21:57 · 10 answers · asked by ToYou,Too! 5 in Government

I got fined for "stealing" a doll from the local thrift store for my child. The thrift store was closed, and we were dropping things off in their outside donation box, when my daughter spotted this doll, so I tossed it in the car to her, and an officer followed me out and cited me for theft. I waited the 3 years and then had the charge expunged from my record. I am applying for a job that does background checks, and even though it was expunged, I still have to let them know. ( job is in law enforcement)

2007-07-15 17:20:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Do you think we make our choices are judged when we die

OR

Does God have a sort of punishment here on earth?

The punishment to ME seems that other people's FREE WILL and bad choices have the power to affect good people in negative ways.

2007-07-15 17:17:49 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

how i can get legal custody ( i already have physical) custody of my daughter if i don't have the $$ for a lawyer???
*i've been told by a police officer that because i don't have "legal" custody of her- if she went to visit him & he decided not to bring her back, there would be nothing i could do

2007-07-15 17:16:34 · 4 answers · asked by mommyrayne 3 in Law & Ethics

If you don't like the comments made by others, are you quick to report it and get it removed?
If you find a disagreeable question or answer do you provide counter arguments?
If it's radically wrong, do you let their stupidity define their argument themselves?

2007-07-15 17:10:32 · 13 answers · asked by John T 6 in Civic Participation

We already have:

Alcoholic Beverage Tax
Cigarette and Tobacco tax
Contamination Tax
Controlled substance tax
Corporate Frachise Tax
Deed Tax
Estate and Trust tax
Fur tax
Luxury Tax
Individual income tax
Insurance Tax
Gambling Tax
Mineral Tax
Property Tax
Gas Guzzler Tax
Gasoline Tax
S Corp Tax
Sales and Use Tax
Water tax
Withholding Tax
Use Tax
Inheritence Tax
Poll Tax
Toll bridge and road tax (tolls)
Retirement Tax



Now we need another Carbon Tax? Here's the lube... I'll just bend over the chair FARTHER so Uncle Sam and the State can really pound away. No thanks. If I want to be taxed more, I'll move to a Socialist country where at least they say "thank you" after over some tea.

The carbon tax on a big car is already taxed a few ways: Gas Guzzler Tax (as usually those cars are larger and more powerful with bigger engines - then, those cars are sometimes "luxury" items and get hit with a "luxury" tax. Each time the car gets fueled up, at least in my state, we pay a Gasoline tax. It's the Karma Sutra of taxation... how many ways can you screw the tax payer over and tax them on the same thing. Whoever supports this is an outright idiot.

2007-07-15 17:09:01 · 11 answers · asked by PRGfUSMC 5 in Politics

for all elections..not just presidential? I'm not sure I like pres canidates ever. But in my state, there are many libertarians surprisingly, or not surprisingly as many are from all over nation and end up here.

I just agree with the libertarian way and wish our country would change.

2007-07-15 17:08:58 · 6 answers · asked by 4kkz 3 in Elections

I would LOVE it if we sent in more of these robot planes instead of our troops.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070715/D8QD61V80.html
BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles.

The Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a video console 7,000 miles away in Nevada.

The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones, in aviation history's first robot attack squadron, will be a watershed moment even in an Iraq that has seen too many innovative ways to hunt and kill.

2007-07-15 17:08:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Could he serve in her cabinet? Or, is he prohibited by the Constitution from doing this. He is already working behind the scenes in a powerful way in her fundraising and doing a very good job of it. She has stated she would use Bill as an "ambassador" to rebuild the U.S. reputation so badly hurt under the Bush administration.

2007-07-15 17:05:43 · 10 answers · asked by Gemini 5 in Politics

2007-07-15 17:01:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics