Politics & Government - 31 August 2007

I was passing on info to my Aussie mates "here" in Australia,
why do you get so upset about mates helping mates. I apologise if it infuriates you so much that you must report a "spam".....But you're Wrong.

In fact we had a few US Marines at our last ANZAC parades "here" in Australia, so impressed that they want to lobby for a similar parade day in the US.

2007-08-31 02:56:52 · 1 answers · asked by MEDAL 1 in Military

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a child? or maybe I should ask, did he touch an adult? The most I heard was that his shoe clad foot touched another shoe clad foot in a bathroom.
In all seriousness, a few years ago, a girl in my dorm was standing next to me at a mirror. She kept smiling at me and finally she said I "looked nice"...and then she reached over and tried to touch me on the breast. So I socked the sht out of her - so hard she fell to the floor. First and only time a girl tried to touch me again.
She never bothered me again.
End of story.
Oh and yeah, I didn't call the friggen police. Sometimes there are 'situations' you can take care of yourself.
And another addition. I'd have done the same thing to a guy.

SO, EXACTLY WHAT DID CRAIG DO?????

2007-08-31 02:55:22 · 6 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

Coleman, McCain and Romney have all come out against Craig. Is this political exigency? Do you believe they really care about Senator Craig's behavior or do they care more about what Senator Craig's behavior will do to their own political aspirations?

2007-08-31 02:54:56 · 16 answers · asked by El Duderino 4 in Politics

in the U.S.A.? Well good luck,according to the Center for Responsive Politics, the top recipients of campaign donations so far from the pharmaceutical and health care industries is Republican Mitt Romney-$228,260
Democrat Barack Obama-$161,124
Democrat Hillary Clinton-$146,000
Tell me that they aren't getting paid off to keep health care private!

2007-08-31 02:53:35 · 31 answers · asked by jacquie 6 in Politics

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/we-dont-want-migrants-coming-here-with-their-rich-culture/2007/08/28/1188067108372.html

2007-08-31 02:52:42 · 7 answers · asked by cutsie_dread 5 in Politics

Bill Clinton again, GWB again? Arnold?

I tell you a few names I want to see run that I want to vote for,

George Mitchell, Sam Nunn,

2007-08-31 02:50:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-31 02:49:18 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-31 02:47:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-31 02:43:26 · 7 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5 in Politics

I know that Rudy is the one I allign with politically but I don't trust his judgement as much as I would like to.

McCain is good but I hear people say he is too old.

I see Romney briefly but haven't heard him speak as much. Is he intelligent?

2007-08-31 02:39:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

1. Andrew Johnson
2. Andrew Jackson
3. John Tyler
4. Zachary Taylor

2007-08-31 02:37:21 · 5 answers · asked by howtosavealifecm 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Was this an adequate response? Are the 5 lucky askers happy with the responses they got? Was there a point to the whole exercise?

2007-08-31 02:36:17 · 3 answers · asked by cutsie_dread 5 in Elections

My husband has some leave before he goes to Iraq--this is his first time. I'm in college, so I'm gone for a couple hours a day, and he was glad to have some time to himself. Which was fine. But he went on for hours last night about how it was going to be like binge drinking, how he wouldn't care about anyone but himself, how he was so happy to be away from me. I was glad to give him time alone, but the way he kept going on about it made me so upset. I asked him to stop and he wouldn't for another hour. I had to leave the room.

This morning he was being fine, and I mentioned I might not go to my biology class this afternoon, because the subject is one I've already covered. He paused and didn't recognize it. He admitted he was angry that I would be coming home.

I know he needs time alone, but why can't he be a little bit kind to me? I'm stuck here at college, crying, because I can't even go home to make the bed. He's mad at me for being upset. Am I wrong?

2007-08-31 02:35:34 · 19 answers · asked by Aia S 3 in Military

www.prophecyinthenews.com

2007-08-31 02:32:01 · 2 answers · asked by Jeancommunicates 7 in Politics

2007-08-31 02:29:34 · 11 answers · asked by Jeancommunicates 7 in Government

2007-08-31 02:27:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

... learned anything from Reagan's resounding defeat of Carter?

I've heard many people say that they think Hillary is mean.

Reagan focused on the issues --- not on Carter. And, it gave him a huge victory even though Carter tried to assail Reagan personally.

""Our polls show if you hit too hard even people who are angered at Carter say, 'Wait a minute. He has faults, but he's not that bad.' They become defensive. There's an enormous sense of fair play in this country and you've got to be very careful." Reagan and Dailey were proven right. By the campaign's end, Reagan was seen as genial and Carter as mean--a perception that contributed to Reagan's victory."

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=judis090304

Should Hillary pay attention to this?

2007-08-31 02:23:43 · 5 answers · asked by Duminos 2 in Politics

http://newsbusters.org/static/2007/08/2007-08-30MSNBCHBMatthews.wmv

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/08/30/matthews-sometimes-case-can-be-made-media-incredibly-biased-agains

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE:

TOM DELAY: If [Craig] has been found guilty of what he's been accused of, then yeah. But I do know that the Republicans will do something about it. I do know that if he were a Democrat they would rally around him and they would not do something about it. I do know that the national media is incredibly biased against Republicans that find themselves [in trouble] --

CHRIS MATTHEWS: That's a charge which I've heard before and I can understand why you make it. You make it a lot. Sometimes you have a case to make. Sometimes.

2007-08-31 02:18:38 · 17 answers · asked by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 in Politics

- They don't got no moral values.
- They teach our kids that we evolved from monkeys.
- They're always trying to persecute us Christians.
- They think we should be a communist country like France & Russia.
- They hate George W Bush, who is our democratically elected President.

Any doubts that liberals hate America? Not from me....

2007-08-31 02:18:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

a. Bill would run for a 3rd term if he could
b. He thought of being her VP
c. She gutted a salmon in 1996
d. She'd ask for directions if she was lost


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_letterman;_ylt=AvnsIBJ_4yz8DqVkH8HrvNes0NUE

2007-08-31 02:14:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-08-31 02:12:01 · 16 answers · asked by sexyjay1962 1 in Military

What is your source?

2007-08-31 02:11:35 · 3 answers · asked by Red N 2 in Military

Over and over again, I'm seeing these Democratic pundits say that the Craig issue: "Is not about being gay; it's about hypocrisy". Hmmmm....Well I thought Craig was apprehended attempting to solicit homosexual sex in a public restroom? I thought gay meant homosexual in today's vernacular?
I don't know about the rest of you, but the vision that I got, when I heard this story, was one of a nasty SOB hanging out in a place that most people only frequent when they have to and trying to fulfill the desires of his greatest evils with a member of the same sex.

And to my knowledge hypocrisy isn't illegal, but perverted sexual acts in public places are.

2007-08-31 02:10:30 · 9 answers · asked by GeauxJoe 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Banks are made up of working people just like you. Corporations are made up of workers and people who put there money at risk but you want to tax them (even at a loss) You even want to burden small businesses by raising the minium wage which doesn't do the poor anygood. It just raises prices and creates more tax revenue for the govenment to raise their own salarys.

2007-08-31 02:01:09 · 14 answers · asked by wisemancumth 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it illegal to install a web cam in your cubicle to record what is going on in California ?

2007-08-31 01:59:07 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

After all Liberals reward deviant behavior Clinton, Clinton, Kennedy, Jefferson....

2007-08-31 01:58:41 · 20 answers · asked by ken 6 in Politics

At least three of the answerers (including myself) checked the list of VC recipients and the name Alex Macgregor doesn't appear. So, if this is some kind of senseless scam for sympather from strangers, what will YA do about it?

2007-08-31 01:57:39 · 5 answers · asked by captbullshot 5 in Military

This is unfair and is not ethical. so what can Florida do at this point. I told you this would happen!!!!When the process is tampered with do the people honor the system? Should we not respect the law as well? This needs to be addressed!!!

2007-08-31 01:56:20 · 8 answers · asked by nsprdwmn 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Aren't people with ARM mortgages just like borrow & spend Republicans ?

2007-08-31 01:54:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Hello, I live in the state of TN. A former landlord has served us with papers referencing back rent and damages, as well as lawyer fees. I have a few questions because I am not at all familiar with the court procedure or what to do.

1. Is it legal for him to include his lawyer fees in the amount he is seeking in the state of TN? I had read something that stated it wasn't, but that may have been inaccurate or referring to another state.

2. If we owed him appx $100.00 dollars when we moved out, but he kept our entire deposit which was $650.00, how can he be suing us for "back rent"?

3. The house was incredibly damaged when we moved in, including light fixtures being torn from the ceiling and an incredible roach infestation that we had to deal with until we moved once the lease was up. Unfortunately we did not take pictures due to our inexperience in these matters. The point being that any damage done to the house was far before we moved in, and I don't think he can have "proof" that we caused any of it. We had asked him multiple times to fix certain things, such as our back door coming completely away from the frame of the house and having to be pushed back in every time we used that door, which he never did fix. Can we be charged for these "damages" with no proof?

4. The papers filed against us gave no specific dollar amount or damages he is claiming. I thought that any papers served had to have the specific amount and damages that he is seeking. Is that correct? The total just says "less than $25,000.00", which I am assuming is the small claims limit.

5. I also read in several documents that he is required to mail us notification of any damages he asseses as well as the amount he estimates will be necessary to fix them before taking us to court, which he never did. These papers are the first we have heard of him since we moved out over a month ago. He also never sent us any documentation about what our deposit was specifically used for, since we did not receive any of it back. He also never provided the location of his seperate deposit account in which he keeps tenant's deposit money (as I read he is supposed to in the Landlord/Tenant act). Can I bring this information up in defense?

6. Despite having our phone numbers as well as the last known mailing address, we never heard from this man. I also read that he is supposed to make an effort to collect anything he feels he is owed, a "demand", before pursuing legal action. As I said before, this is the first we have heard from him. Is this also something I can bring up in defense?

I know this was an incredibly long post, but in short this guy is basically a slum lord. With the papers being so vague, I almost get the impression he tries this with most of his tenants when they leave. I really hate to give this guy anything whatsoever after living in complete misery for over a year. Is it not enough that he kept our whole deposit? I don't understand what damages and fees he could have assessed that would have amounted to more than $650.00 that he could find us responsible for. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

2007-08-31 01:42:39 · 10 answers · asked by oohtalknerdytome 1 in Law & Ethics