Politics & Government - 12 September 2007

Don't ask for a link. Any half-brained human who has modicum of knowledge about politics knows that most who smear America are considered 'enlightened.'

Google it.

2007-09-12 03:12:37 · 15 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3 in Politics

no matter how you twist it the bottom line is if there was no existance of guns 90% of the things that happened wouldnt happen

there'd be no robberies of any sort except maybe break ins when no bodys home

there would be like a 95% cut back on wars

think about it what was the person who invented guns thinking when he created it "ill create a weapon to use againts the people who dont have one" yes there are still other weapons but none more effective and easy to get than a gun

hell i never saw a person walking around with a missile launcher on his back thats for damn sure

2007-09-12 03:11:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is it not potentially dangerous for democracy?

2007-09-12 03:09:59 · 9 answers · asked by Barbara Doll to you 7 in Politics

What are your opinions regarding the 22nd amendment?

2007-09-12 03:09:34 · 6 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Other - Politics & Government

for wanting a draft when the Republicans are the party that resists the draft?
Please be honest about such a serious issue. No quick, down and dirty answers please!

2007-09-12 03:08:56 · 18 answers · asked by Philip H 7 in Politics

Iraq would be a disaster? Isn't a TOTAL disaster now? More civilians are killed, more American soldiers are killed, less oil revenues, less electricity, less water .... How can it get worse?

2007-09-12 03:06:48 · 14 answers · asked by MarkyMarkC 3 in Politics

Offer of Employment
SHARATON HOTEL AND RESORT
Address: SHARATON HOTEL AND RESORT Bonny Island No 56 Ladi Kwali Way.
P.M.B 8974,
FCT Abuja, Nigeria.
Web site: www.sharaton.net

JOB REF: ARI 67/21563 Date: 11 / 09/ 2007

DEAR DEEPAK PORE
We are pleased to offer you a position with SHARATON HOTEL AND RESORT. Your start date, compensation, benefits, and other terms of employment will be as set forth below and on EXHIBIT A.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
1. Position and Duties. HOTEL shall employ you, and you agree to competently and professionally perform such duties as are customarily the responsibility of the position as set forth in the job description.
2. Outside Business Activities. During your employment with HOTEL, you shall devote competent energies, interests, and abilities to the performance of your duties under this Agreement. During the term of this Agreement, you shall not, without HOTEL prior written consent, render any services to others for compensation or engage or participate, actively or passively, in any other business activities that would interfere with the performance of your duties hereunder or compete with HOTEL business.

3. Employment Classification. You shall be a contract Employee and shall be entitled to benefits as specifically outlined herein.
4. Benefits. You will also receive HOTEL standard employee benefits package (including health insurance), and will be subject to HOTEL vacation policy as such package and policy are in effect from time to time.
4.1 Death Benefit. Should Employee die during the term of employment, the HOTEL shall pay to Employee's estate any compensation due through the end of the month in which death occurred.
5. Authorization to work. Due to the second ministerial meeting between European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on terrorism which was held in Brussels on 12 October 2001. Where regulations adopted on Immigration Reform and Control Act, you will need to present documentation demonstrating that you have authorization to work in West Africa. This documents which include work permit and Resident permit will be obtain from the Nigerian Immigration Service in Nigerian
6. Severability. If any of the provisions of this Agreement are determined to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, such provisions shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make such provisions enforceable, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect to the extent the economic benefits conferred upon the parties by this Agreement remain substantially unimpaired.

DESIGNATION: DEMI CHEF DE PARTY
SALARY: USD: 18,150.00 per month (or Euros equivalent depending on home country and currency preference)
JOB LOCATION: FCT ABUJA NIGERIA.
RESUME WORK DAY: 31st October 2007
WORKING PERIOD: The Contract period is for one year and it can be renewed after one year contract period, and you will be working from Monday till Friday From 9am – 4pm.
JOB PROCEEDING/REQUIREMENT:
New employed and recruited for SHARATON HOTEL AND RESORT (And not presently possessing a valid ECOWAS Residence and Work Permits/Identification card) shall be expected to personally incur all expenses as shall be related to the processing, procurement and acquisition of their necessary permits clearance papers with the Nigerian Immigration Services and shall be duly reimbursed and will be substantiated with receipts and the employer will reimburse the employee not later than Five (5) working days after submission of employee’s expense report and receipts.
You shall be required to furnish us with your valid ECOWAS residence, work permits and identification card on or before the 22TH of SEPTEMBER, 2007 as a proof of readiness to join the SHARATON project team in the due time as stipulated above for your job resumption with the SHARATON in Nigeria and also to enable you receive your first monthly salary including your due entitlements/emoluments prior to your departure for services with the HOTEL in Nigeria.

However, for expatriate services employees who do not presently posses their valid Nigeria residence and Work Permits papers, they are to make contact with the address given below for directives and assistance on the acquisition and procurement of their Nigerian valid residence and work permits papers with the Nigerian Immigration Services here in Nigeria.

Nigeria Immigration Services,
2nd Floor, Fed. Secretariat Complex,
F.C.T ABUJA, NIGERIA.
Our Ref: Str/Twp-nisng05-07
E-Mail: workpermit@ng-immigrationservice-gov.org
Contact Person: Comptroller Dr Mike A. Ademola
Designation: VISA / African Affairs/ Aliens Registration
Phone: (+234) 70-3534-6199
Note: All Nigerian based employees' are to report personally to our office with identification materials for signing and collection of hard copy of their contract documents. This is in line with the expatriate statuary law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in compliance with the U.N. Terrorism Act. Find attached for other necessary related details of job.
Congratulations on your success and we look forward to your arrival and we hope be the start of mutually satisfying work relationship.

MRS. RACHAEL EZINNE ONWUKA
HEAD, EXP. EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
SHARATON HOTEL AND RESORT
CC: General Manager,
Expatriate Technical Support Services,
SHARATON, Nigeria


Sign:………….………

2007-09-12 03:06:27 · 16 answers · asked by deepak p 2 in Immigration

Or at least amend one? I would like to get the smog laws in my state changed to allow older cars to be exempt. It used to be this way and then the ******* changed it, now I will have to smog my car forever!!!! I'm sure other people with older classics would like things changed too so how can I get things started?

2007-09-12 03:05:18 · 5 answers · asked by DialM4Speed 6 in Law & Ethics

Now that it looks like the US military, of some size, will stay in Iraq permanently to fight the war on terror & more importantly to make sure that Iraq's civil war doesn't spill into the entire Mideast isn't Iraq starting to look a lot like Israel's West Bank? Another Mideast conflict, that has been raging for 40+ years, with no end in sight and no solutions to stop it?

So now on top of a disasterous Israeli-Palestianian conflict that will never end (& has been the root cause of the majority of all of Americas problems in the Mideast) we're going to have a disasterous US-Iraq conflict that will never end. What a great future Bush has created for the world?

2007-09-12 03:05:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Is your Dad rich or politacally connected ? Better hope so. The war in Iraq has no end in sight and people are needed.

2007-09-12 03:05:02 · 7 answers · asked by oneiloilojeepney 5 in Military

2007-09-12 03:01:32 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This is in Masschusetts, Suffolk County. I have proof that he cashed my money orders within two weeks of receiving them, therefore never intending to deliver the car. Is this a civil court issue? Small claims doesn't cover the total amount.

2007-09-12 03:00:13 · 10 answers · asked by GIL M 2 in Law & Ethics

and liberals are "free thinkers" when they repeat what Olbermann says?

2007-09-12 02:59:27 · 26 answers · asked by Abu#2 4 in Politics

He informed them over a month ago of the standing court order and I have seen nothing..Last time he switched jobs it was processed in 1 week..Thanks in advance..

2007-09-12 02:59:11 · 9 answers · asked by Brat25 4 in Law & Ethics

Someone, operating under a special chain of command within the United States Air Force, just stole a nuclear weapon.


I hope this is just a rumor.

2007-09-12 02:59:02 · 17 answers · asked by tyler durden 5 in Military

Mass Health? Is it a real health plan, can you go to whatever doctor you want to, or do you have to go to their doctors? How is it working? Appreciate any comments, thanks!

2007-09-12 02:57:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-09-12 02:52:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I have just visited my friend who has told me that one of her family members has touched her daughters in a unappropriate way. She states that the daughters aged 11 and 17 were interviewed by the police (woman) without anyone there to support the child
I thought a adult had to be there to support, comfort and witness the interview

2007-09-12 02:50:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

I am told by the British High Commission here that I needed to show evidence that he was a British subject after independence of my country.

I don't have that evidence and am asking anyone who can help, to help me through contacts in the Home Service in the UK to search for his name and advise if he retained British Subject status after Independence.
For privacy reasons I will respond to anyone who would like to email me privately and are serious in helpng me out.

I have a photocopy of the first four crucial pages of his passport which shows the passport number and the renewal number. He got it in 1945.

I have been told by the Consular department here of the Britsh High Commission that having his pre-independence passport does not give me any rights but that IMUST prove that he was still and did maintain a Britsh Passport after Indpendence.

So if anyone can give me an email for a person who I can request directly / or request my private email address.

2007-09-12 02:41:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I've also seen signs for 'The Year of the City,' which doesn't mean anything.

The Year of the Woman is about yesterdays election results.
Mayor Sheila Dixon and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings Blake, 2 black women, are now in charge of Charm City.

2007-09-12 02:40:41 · 5 answers · asked by ? 6 in Government

2007-09-12 02:40:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Embassies & Consulates

I just moved to Texas better jobs than in Seattle. I have to pay 8 tolls a day just for work and more for personal trips, I buy a house but taxes are crazy high 3 times what they are in other places easily and usually you get tax assessed at least 100K more than the real worth by far which means 200 or 300 more a month in taxes. Fees for police tickets just raised $100 across the board and the police have a reputation for abusive behavior I hear. Other states charge less and offer the same services and roadways etc...

So there is some background, here is my question again.
What am I paying for, why do I need to pay the state government $1000 a month if I want a house, or even a couple hundred if I want to rent. Where is all this money going??? I wish the comproller would answer, I would like to know if she feels she is a crook?

2007-09-12 02:39:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I learned that in some countries, the prime minister is the one who really runs the country while the president is for diplomatic roles or for PR only. but how come in russia it seems like President Putin is the powerful guy although they have a prime minister?

2007-09-12 02:38:36 · 6 answers · asked by ginebra fan 2 in Government

I'm proud to be indian, i want to some how dedicate myself for my country, i'm not physically fit (but not a handicap) to join army,navy etc..............
i have to earn for my family, but simultaneoulsy i want to help my country to be true developed nation, since from my child hood i have learned "India is a Developing Nation" but when it will become a developed nation?
according to our great hero Mr.Abdul Kalam india will be a demanding nation by 2020 but what the things goin on to make that happen? pls suggest me, should i do social service, should i start business or company and employ poor n jobless people, should i start a helping organisation, should i join politics, should i join Indian Administartive services...
what the best i can do for my country????

2007-09-12 02:35:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Sorry, I know this is a sensitive issue but when a look at the pictures, tough it's hard for me to belive that someone could do that (to simulate a terror attack that awfull) it's just too difficult to believe that those buildings falled that way just like someone demolished them.
Please tell me your nacionality when you answer.

And no, I'm not a conspiracy theories fan. But that's a bit hard to believe. People died, that's for sure, but those pictures of the buidings falling...I just can help thinking that wy
And I'm sorry if hurt anyones feelings.

2007-09-12 02:35:23 · 16 answers · asked by joão b 2 in Military

2007-09-12 02:30:53 · 8 answers · asked by lundstroms2004 6 in Government

So I can live in MY house, drive MY car, work my MY butt off so I can buy food and clothes that he gets a cut of too, pay for a war I don't approve of, pay hospital and medical bills for people I don't even know, furnish housing for people from God knows where, while my own people sleep in cardboard boxes in alleys? Can someone give me a feasible amswer that I can accept and understand?

2007-09-12 02:28:58 · 18 answers · asked by Ladybug II 6 in Law & Ethics

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-11-giuliani-911_N.htm

EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE:
A slim majority of Americans say the Sept. 11 attacks six years ago make former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani qualified to handle terrorist threats against the nation, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
Giuliani has made his experience during and after the 9/11 attacks the centerpiece of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

That experience, he argues, has made him best prepared of all the candidates in either party to deal with terrorist threats facing the nation.

**This article is a day old, but a small majority of Americans think that Rudy could handle terrorism because of his deeds after 9/11. I am not a basher, but what EXACTLY did he do besides walk around and say soothing words?

2007-09-12 02:25:46 · 15 answers · asked by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 in Politics

On one hand it has its obvious benefits. People from minority groups who otherwise may not have had the opportunity to get into certain schools ect. can get a great education and become productive in society, adding to their social status. All of which is a good thing.

On the other hand, you get people who abuse the system. You get privledged and rich minorities who get scholarships and preferential entrance based on the fact that they are minorities and based on the fact that they are disadvantaged.

I've always thought that it would be better to means test these things rather than automatically assume someone is disadvantaged because they are a minority.

What do you think?

2007-09-12 02:24:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-09-12 02:21:51 · 10 answers · asked by Karz 7 in Law Enforcement & Police