Politics & Government - 31 July 2007

I know Marines deserve alot of respect but why do most INFANTRY Marines think they're better than INFANTRY soldiers?

Yeah they're alot of screw ups in the army but there are ALOT of hardcore soldiers too who just didn't want to join the Marines. Also, after looking at Marine forums there seems to be as much screw ups in the Marines as there are in the army.

My grandfather served in the Army as an infantry man in the Phillipines. He is by far one of the best men I've ever known. Just because he was in the army infantry does that mean he's not as strong (physically and mentally) as a Marine?

Matter of fact, during his tour he was doing exactly what the Marines where doing. He did an amphibious landing underfire, and was on the front line doing recon missions most of his time there, much like the Marines.

I'm not bashing Marines. Everybody in the military, expecially combat arms MOS's deserve alot of respect. Hopefully I'll be able to follow their foots steps once I get older

2007-07-31 20:17:14 · 13 answers · asked by The_Bourbonator 2 in Military

are they too worried about the answers they must give to their political masters to make sound tactical and strategic decisions ?

2007-07-31 20:16:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Several private US military contractors have been accused of having been involved in committing war crimes such as the deaths of Iraqis during interrogation. There is no method of formally trying such people for war crimes--- from wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_military_company)

This means these guys just walk away with what they have done? IS THIS OK FOR HUMANITY? NOONE HAS ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS?

More than 5% of US military is private contractors, someone has to do smth about this!!

2007-07-31 20:15:54 · 7 answers · asked by CAN T 2 in Military

Suppose a convicted rapist is due for release. Let's say that psychologists who have evaluated him are concerned he may commit a crime if he walks free.
Should he be released?

2007-07-31 19:56:57 · 33 answers · asked by robbob 5 in Law & Ethics

Its really quite interesting how the British talk **** about the US and Iraq but at the same time they are there too killing and bombing and doing all sorts of stuff our troops our doing too. So isn't it a contradiction of everything they trash the US involvement in Iraq for? So they say we do it for Oil okay then that means we are in it for something so basically they are there just for the heck or it to kill stuff since they claim to have no agenda?

2007-07-31 19:46:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Could this be done without actually having a physical land base ?

2007-07-31 19:42:37 · 5 answers · asked by John S2005 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Smoking is banned in pubs and clubs throughout Queensland. But smoking is permitted in the high rollers section of casino's. This shows that if you have money the rules don't apply to you. What do you think?

2007-07-31 19:37:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Hi all !!

Is possessing a Khukri (a Nepali knife) of 10.5 inch blade against Indian Arms Act if the possessor is not a defense personnel ? If so what are the penalties?

2007-07-31 19:32:26 · 1 answers · asked by Partha B 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I'm sure someone has asked this question in the past but I wasn't there for it so I am asking again.

What do you think the punishment should be if abortion was illegal and a woman got one anyways?

2007-07-31 19:30:42 · 16 answers · asked by just some chick 6 in Law & Ethics

For all the advocates squaking about amnesty...

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_illegalsandcrime

Still want them here?

2007-07-31 19:30:29 · 5 answers · asked by Glen B 6 in Immigration

2007-07-31 19:25:18 · 2 answers · asked by lanzd 1 in Government

He is America's best presidential candidate. Check him out at www.ronpaul2008.com

Take a second of your time to see the truth

2007-07-31 19:24:39 · 14 answers · asked by BEEFSHIELD 3 in Elections

I live in CA and I've been at my current job for approx. 60 days. Upon being hired, I was offered $8 an hour which is $.50 above minimum wage where I live. My pay days are the 5th and 20th of every month.

2 weeks ago, I was told that I would now be receiving "salary pay" at the rate of $1350.00 a month which breaks down to $675.00 for each pay period. He said he calculated this number by taking $16200.00 as my annual pay and dividing it further from there.

To me, this seems completely unfair. His version of annual pay isn't even $8 an hour x 40 hours a week x 52 weeks a year... It's $440.00 less :(

**Plus** I am REQUIRED to be there a MINIMUM of 90 hours per pay period depending on the month. This particular pay period, I worked a total of 100 REQUIRED hours, not including overtime. Is this fair? More importantly, is this legal?

I don't understand how I can be required to work but then not be compensated for it in my salary pay.

Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks!

2007-07-31 19:24:20 · 3 answers · asked by justine3204 2 in Law & Ethics

With respect to state and federal cases that cannot be attained merely through a Google search, what is the best way to find the original opinions of the court for historical cases in the US?

2007-07-31 19:24:05 · 4 answers · asked by whitehorse456 5 in Law & Ethics

out to destroy free speech in America?

2007-07-31 19:18:46 · 7 answers · asked by Sloan R 5 in Politics

i know we have the best army in the world but are our citizens strong enogh? we have been weakened by the left wing media and thus we want world peace. wont happen some one will have some beef with some else and that will result in gunshots. no peace is everlasting until you close your eyes forever

2007-07-31 19:17:36 · 11 answers · asked by evilmonk66 2 in Politics

Does he go home with the officer he is assigned with? or do they have a place in the police station making them available at any time with or without its trainer?

2007-07-31 19:12:58 · 13 answers · asked by Aiea Joe 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-07-31 19:10:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

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2007-07-31 18:58:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

would you vote for him?

2007-07-31 18:57:06 · 30 answers · asked by Nika 4 in Elections

Because Israel has nuclear weapons and all their corrupt officials terms are almost over, should the U.S. attack Israel?
YES!

Israeli Mossad Killers Loose in the USA

http://www.libertyforum.org/ showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_i...

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Israeli Snipers Killing US Troops In Iraq
http://www.rense.com/general74/ssno.htm...

Israeli Thermonuclear Blackmail Of America Is A Fact

Israel's 'Use' Of Its Nuclear Weapons Against US
http://www.rense.com/general35/isrnuk.ht...

Likud Criminal Gang Behind 911 & The 'War On Terror'
http://www.rense.com/general74/lik.htm...

Ehud Olmert and the criminal gang behind the Likud party in Israel are directly implicated in 9/11 and the subsequent so-called "war on terror”.

This is not an opinion - this is what the evidence reveals:

See "The Israeli Prime Minister's Connection to 9/11"
http://www.iamthewitness.com/bollyn-olme...

Three of the five "dancing Israelis" appeared on an Israeli television show to explain that they were sent to document the event. Here is an excerpt of them:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/video/forbo... 2.4 mb

The Zionists justify their knowledge of the attack by claiming they had followed the Arab terrorists and discovered their dastardly plans.

The Zionists claim to have warned a few government employees of the upcoming attack, but they never bothered to tell their friends in the news organizations.

The far right Likud party of Israel grew out of the Zionist terrorist gang known as the IRGUN - a fascist organization created by Vladimir Jabotinsky of Odessa. This is the same terror gang that blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and committed terrorist acts across Palestine and beyond in the 1930s and 40s.

Terrorism, particularly "false-flag" terror in which the blame for a terror attack is wrongly assigned to the enemy, is a strategy and tactic developed and perfected by the Zionists.

Israel Admits to Attacking USS Liberty

LBJ, Israel & the USS Liberty Massacre
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/v...

Israel Attacked USS Cole

Did Israel Bomb the U.S.S. Cole? It Looks Like It
http://www.todaysalternativenews.com/col...

Israeli Espionage Against the US - A Long History

http://www.counterpunch.org/husseini0830...

2007-07-31 18:54:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Before divorce, my wife used out community money to pay for taxes and insurance on her inherited house. My attorney says I can't claim "comingling" because family court won't go that way. Best answer would be for Alameda County, but any other California or US family court info is also welcome.

2007-07-31 18:44:16 · 1 answers · asked by going_for_baroque 7 in Law & Ethics

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2009241082464871782&q=The+Maple+leaf+forever&total=19&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

2007-07-31 18:44:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Stories of them hanging dead Australian Soldiers by the ankles from trees, cutting away the flesh from their legs to eat ! They really must have been, cruel, disgusting and sub-human, every island Nation who helped along the way, prior and during the US involvement seem to beleive so as well ! So were they sub human ?

2007-07-31 18:42:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

This is a recent (and brilliant) "Schoolhouse Rock" style cartoon about US.

Please watch and enjoy AND leave your thoughts about it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3zBV44vggM

2007-07-31 18:38:03 · 2 answers · asked by Perry L 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Estimates put the number killed at OVER 200,000 in genocide and probably MANY MORE yet the US just ignores the problem.
And Al Qaeda is starting to get a foothold in that area again so it should have been in the US interests to keep that region secure.
I don't get it at all.
Finally the UN does something but ITS TOO LATE.
What a bunch of stupid morons.
I bet a bunch of mercenaries could do better.

2007-07-31 18:35:49 · 10 answers · asked by David K 4 in Military

During the youtube debate when Biden was asked if he flew there on a private jet, he hesitated, put his hand partly up, partly down, then back up again (slowly), and Anderson Cooper asked him if he wasn't sure how he got there. Hilarious! Bill Richardson waffled also.

2007-07-31 18:33:14 · 4 answers · asked by doubt_is_freedom 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-31 18:28:58 · 6 answers · asked by Urrka N Da CLuB 1 in Law & Ethics

I've never heard a single peep from any major news network before the campaigning began for '08. He seems to have sprung out from nowhere, all because the media decided to "push" him into the spotlight.

First of all, I don't think he's black. He's from Indonesia or some damn place like that where Asian folks live. His dad is some kind of Indian, and his mom never gets mentioned because no one knows who she is. I've never known a black man who acts like that. Never.

If the media's intention is to show someone other than a typical middle aged, balding white man, I can see where they are coming from. I don't like or vote for these reptilian shape-shifters either. I might vote for Obama actually. I just want to know if the media bigwigs got together at the Bilderberger meeting and planned this, just like how they planned Clinton in the 90s.

2007-07-31 18:22:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

What are the pros and cons?? Yes, I know we ahve the right to bear arms but America has so many gun-related crimes compared any other country. How does this justify our right to own guns when clearly it puts the country through turmoil?

2007-07-31 18:18:32 · 24 answers · asked by layla 3 in Law Enforcement & Police