Politics & Government - 19 July 2007

I have noticed lately that a lot of unfriendliness has been going on between the Brits and the Russians. If Britain goes to war with Russia, would the US help britain???/

2007-07-19 04:56:59 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I have a 15 almost 16 year old son who has a father that lives in California... I live in North Carolina. His father called last night to ask to have a 2 week visitation with my son, and his half sister, (who is visiting us, her mother also has custody). Now, I don't want to keep him from visiting his son or daughter, but, he had a terrible drinking problem when I was married to him in '92, and was ordered to go to AA meetings (this order is withdrawn). Can I go to court for some kind of order requiring he be tested for alcohol during the period our children are with him? Is there a test that can detect alcohol in his system if it was a day or two before?
We had a 15 year custody battle, and it scares me that he called me of all people drunk. He told my son he has his blessing to steal a boat and go joy riding... called me (myname) -baby, which is like Hitler calling Churchill "Winnie". Most frightening that his judgement has slipped this badly. What next?

2007-07-19 04:55:14 · 7 answers · asked by Peggy G 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

I mean, why keep anything, right?

2007-07-19 04:51:21 · 22 answers · asked by jdfehrenbach 1 in Military

Ok so i got scammed on Craigslist, looking for a roommate, and got f*cked out of about 8,000 dollars. I'm 20 and live on my own and pay for my own college. Is there anyway i can get my money back?! The company is based in Nigeria. I have already talked to my bank (bank of america) and they cannot help me, they do not cover that "TYPE" of fraud. Is there any companies or anything that can help me get back on my feet or help me pay off the debt i have accuired?! The police officer i talked to when i filed the report for fraud, said that if that company ever got caught i could possibly get my money back, how will i know if they got caught?!

2007-07-19 04:49:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-07-19 04:49:03 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

just close school at 1:00
Instead of building schools all the time, we could just have
larger schools to begin with, and we could have
city activity centers for parents that work all day, which is most people.

In other words, have the DISD school, teaching 3 MEANINGFUL classes a day, and save all this useless study hall and extra cariculum BS for the activity centers, which would run from 1:00 - 7:00 pm.

You would still have football and cheerleading, it would just be
EXAMPLE: Yellowjacket football team
REPRESENTING: The DISD ACTIVITY CENTER
(rather than the actual school)

YELLOW JACKET CHEERLEADERS
Representing: THE YELLOW JACKET ACTIVITY CENTER

It would be free, since it is part of DISD, and optional.

2007-07-19 04:48:57 · 11 answers · asked by tinabadina 3 in Politics

ask a pschycatrist

2007-07-19 04:48:04 · 8 answers · asked by albatross i 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-19 04:48:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Is he lacking in judgment? Will Al Sharpton be in his cabinet if he is elected?

2007-07-19 04:47:21 · 19 answers · asked by Eyota Zen 3 in Politics

accordind to the center for immigration studies as written in the las vegas journel, that just in nevada (illegal mexicans)50.9% get atleast one program,43.8% get food assistance 30.8% get madicaid 1.4% get cash, (illegal latinos) 47.7% get atleast one program, 38.6% get food assistance,28.3% get medical. 1.6% get cash aid, considering this is just nevada, this is a ton of money that could go torwards feeding our legal citizens instead,, there are poor legal citizens going hungry because of not enough money and if these illegals were not here there would be ample,, and to those who support illegals you can get a 2nd job to pay out of your own pockets to offset the cost,and dont use the racist word because not wanting illegals here does not make someone a racist it only makes you name callers look like like fools because you resort to name calling because you have no well grounded argument, and the bottom line is this, they broke the law, they are criminals,

2007-07-19 04:47:08 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

they're calling it a hate crime? What crime though, how is preaching something from the bible a crime against anyone? When Native Americans use peyote for their religious acts i dont see anyone arresting them for drug use, whats the difference. What i'm really asking here is this, if a preacher is arrested for this doesnt that go against the freedom of religion at all?

2007-07-19 04:47:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I have heard people who are against anti-hate crime legislation argue that ALL crimes are hate crimes. I disagree. After all, there are PLENTY of people who commit crimes that aren't necessarily motivated by hate. For example, a crack addict who robs a convenience store and kills the clerk just to feed his addiction isn't committing a hate crime. After all, the murder of the clerk wasn't motivated by hatred, but by fear and profit. Not only that, but hit men don't commit hate crimes, because the murders they commit are motivated by profit, not hate. Don't you think there's a huge difference between these instances and, say, murdering someone on the basis of sexual orientation, race, and religion?

2007-07-19 04:46:03 · 26 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Politics

Pleas give me only con oppinions; that is, oppinions that don;t support the banning of trans fat from food restaurants

2007-07-19 04:43:17 · 15 answers · asked by leoncita 2 in Law & Ethics

I was actually sitting here and thinking this out.

Maybe I am wrong to suggest that liberals hate America.

Maybe I just disagree with them in which direction America should be heading.

This is not sarcasm or a joke.

I'll have to think on this some more...

2007-07-19 04:42:23 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If every where is so much better than here

2007-07-19 04:41:59 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster.
here ism a link to the full article...
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/reich.html

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Adolf Hitler

2007-07-19 04:41:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Really, I'm astounded at how much hate there is for capitalism out there. All other economic systems have been largely discredited... and capitalism has been able to create the greatest amount of wealth for the greatest number of people the world has ever known... Capitalism has allowed the average person to live a decent life in places like the USA, UK, Australia, New Zeland, Hong Kong, Chile, Japan, Germany, and other capitalist nations... Socialism has made it so there is a small class of elites with great wealth, and the vast majority of the populas is destitute... look at North Korea, the Soviet Union, Zimbabwe, China, India (both are moving toward capitalism and thus improving, yet look at their history)... In nearly every case you'll find the more government intervention in economics there is, the less well off the average people are, yet everywhere I go people hate capitalism! Why is this?

2007-07-19 04:41:50 · 16 answers · asked by Schaufel 3 in Politics

Do the democrats even care? It seems to me that if she can't control her husbund how can she control the United States? While Bill was busy lying to the US other events were going on in the world that we should have attended to. Is it good for our country to have a personally scandalous president?
It seems that where ever the Clintoons go scandal follows. Adultery, Forgery, Lying, Homosexuality, Murder, Evasion, Blackmail. Why do these terms always linger in the background when it comes to the Clintoons?

2007-07-19 04:40:37 · 17 answers · asked by Hoptoad City 4 in Government

Ok guys and gals.. My husband is being deployed for 15months.. I need suggestions for coping! Do not say FRG or drinking and I have already decided not to watch the news...

2007-07-19 04:38:16 · 26 answers · asked by ? 2 in Military

Popping into a Christian church every once and a while for a photo shot does NOT make anyone a believer. So why do the obamanites get all worked up when someone reports the facts that as a child obama attended a Wahabi school in Jakarta Indonesia? For you who do not know, Wahabism is the branch of Islam that promotes terrorism, murder, butchery etc to get their way. If you doubt it, just wikipedia the word and you will see. So why do they get so upset over the truth? Or is it that they know that no sane democracy would elect a man who was trained and reared to hate and despise all that, that democracy stands for.

2007-07-19 04:37:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Why?

2007-07-19 04:36:49 · 14 answers · asked by Hothman 2 in Politics

"You dems are personally responsible for this problem . Nothing anyone says to you can even possibly be REAL . You have made your bed , now go sleep in that disgusting rat-infested hell ."-Earnest P phd/THC.

Thats wrong coming from anyone. And not very neighborly!

2007-07-19 04:36:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What proceedures would I have to go through? What papers do I need to have/get in order to be eligible?

2007-07-19 04:35:48 · 2 answers · asked by sweet_as_sugar_cane 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-19 04:35:08 · 34 answers · asked by Dastardly 6 in Politics

A respected member of the Answers community asked if the "dumbing down of America" is due to our not paying teachers more.

It made me wonder.

Are teachers intentionally teaching inadequately in protest of their wages...are they on strike?

Will they mend their ways when we increase their pay
... or do we increase teachers salaries to attract more competent teachers and then can the ones we have now?

2007-07-19 04:31:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-07-19 04:31:22 · 4 answers · asked by sweet_as_sugar_cane 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-19 04:30:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/19/iraq.main/index.html

what do you think?

2007-07-19 04:28:57 · 4 answers · asked by Sean 2 in Military

A.greater dependence on regressive taxes than on progressive taxes
B.deficit financing
C.low interest rates
D.longer fiscal years

2007-07-19 04:28:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

it seems to me he is very very vague when he talks about interfering with the war in Iraq. Couldn't he technically include simple protests if he wanted. This is way to vague when it is concerning the freedom of americans. Please read and let me know what you think of this.

2007-07-19 04:25:40 · 31 answers · asked by Gregg L (JPA) 4 in Politics