Politics & Government - 13 September 2007

Ok, I'm 99% sure this is a scam so I'm not going to do it anyway, but I just received a letter from Universal Worldwide Lotto that says I won some lottery blah blah blah. Here's the kicker though: it included a check for 3,375.00 to help me clear a fee of 3,245.00. Like, what the hell?

2007-09-13 12:40:06 · 8 answers · asked by Mark4505 2 in Law & Ethics

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. We want to seriously reduce his capacity to threaten his neighbors".

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/

2007-09-13 12:39:23 · 17 answers · asked by Curtis 6 in Politics

I personally believe that you don't run for prez, unless you really do have good intentions. I mean lets be honest the job cant be fun, you always have half the nation hating you, you get paid crap, and your stuck with S.S. for the rest of your life, and no one in your family will ever have a normal life. Yet people believe that the prez ...what wants all the oil..why... so when his term is over he can make sure there is enough gas to fill up the family ecslade?

2007-09-13 12:38:55 · 5 answers · asked by Ellis! 2 in Politics

2007-09-13 12:37:06 · 19 answers · asked by I'm a monster 2 in Law & Ethics

without a license but i have my learners permit and im not with an adult 21 or older???i live in Florida but heres my situation= i am a very good driver and i have been doing this only to get to and from school because now i have trasferred to a private catholic school and there is no public bus or anything and my mom works and everyone else and the school is about 15 miles away so walking is out of the question so really i have no other transportation to get to school..i am going to this school to get my grades up and have a better life becuase i would always get in trouble in my other school and i had a 1.4 gpa but now i have a 2.5 and my attitude is changing and i am becoming a good kid again..i am now 16 so in Florida you can legally drive at age 16 but i havent had my permit for one year so i cant get my license until next summer i doubt i will ever get pulled ove but i know that things happen..so can anyone help me with this situation please??

2007-09-13 12:35:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-09-13 12:33:21 · 9 answers · asked by Ted 7 in Military

i was told i was adopted in 1973 but the date filed is 1970 how is that possible that i was legally adopted in 1973 when it shows it was on file in 1970?? how does it have my adoptive parents name on the paper legally if i wasnt adopted until1973? how did they file it 10--25--1970? i was born 10-18-1970? my adoptive parents told me i was 3 when they adopted me? wouldnt the birth certificate say 10-18-1973> not 10-26-1970??????????they would have had to adopt me first to be able to add their names to the birth certificate. so they had me at 9 days old and legally adopted. not like the 3 years like they said. it took to adopt me. doesnt it take time to adopt a baby. how were they able to adopt me in 9 days????????? does this makes sense???????/

2007-09-13 12:30:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-09-13 12:29:42 · 20 answers · asked by skipozzzz 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I said slavery was the ultimate cause of the Civil War. I then provided Civil War era documents proving southern states left the union because of slavery. They even stated so in their "Declaration of Secession" documents.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai_4v9xhy_ByrvBDkjzwA3_Y7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20070913160244AApBKAp

Had the southern pro-slavery candidate won the election of 1860, the South would not have seceeded.

"State-rights" is just an excuse southerners use when they are out of national power. Once they have it, they go about destroying it. Modern example: Bush ran on state rights in 2000, but has since used the power of the federal government to oppose California's medical marijuana laws, Oregon's right to die laws, and Massachusetts gay marriage laws.

2007-09-13 12:29:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

or is being a patriot not what you wear and show on the outside but rather the content of your character and how you feel about what the United States of American really stands for?

2007-09-13 12:28:11 · 16 answers · asked by ballerb j 1 in Politics

Just wondering, if I join the army and wish to become a doctor will they teach me like a college and give me a degree or only pay for the education, like can I serve and study at the same time or differently?

2007-09-13 12:27:20 · 6 answers · asked by Joey 1 in Military

Would staying in the navy or getting out of the navy be a better choice... If i get out i plan on going to school... but yet i will be 24 when i get out and older than all the people at school.. If i stay in i can retire at 40... the only downfall to that is retirement pay is not nearly enough to live on.... what should i do?? please help!

2007-09-13 12:26:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-09-13 12:26:01 · 16 answers · asked by GOD'S IN HEAVEN'S FAV 1 in Politics

1º Is normal Kate McCann's first call to be to sky news and ONLY later to the Portuguese police?

2º If really exists a abductor, it was a good option, the parents had exposed the case to the media?
I think is good to their own defense in public and justice field, the first step when the abductor has one famous kid is to kill her. It's obvious! As all world know Madeleine, the abductor or kill the little girl or the police in any part of the world would go to arrest him.

3º And it's strange to have bilogical fluids or hair under the carpet in baggage!

In Portugal disappear 8 kids... in England disappear more than 80! Portuguese criminal rate is better in% than England. Portuguese police is so bad?

Extra information:The first family spokesman work now for Gordon Brown.

2007-09-13 12:24:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

Other than Hitler...I mean.

2007-09-13 12:23:42 · 15 answers · asked by ballerb j 1 in Politics

If it is either, can I get the source of the information? I have checked the Constitution and the is tenth amendment which discusses states' rights applicable to this?

2007-09-13 12:21:02 · 7 answers · asked by lolasdaddy03 2 in Government

2007-09-13 12:20:35 · 19 answers · asked by Silver Spoon 4 in Politics

I was in Amsterdam and felt safer than I did back home in the Philadelphia area. I have seen many slide pictures and videos of your lands where every day it is easier for people to obtain opium (heroine) then it is to obtain clean drinking water. Why don't Americans see a population of heroine addicts and expensive drug addicted babies there when 93% of the world’s heroine comes from Afghanistan? Why are these drug addicted individuals and babies found in EVERY town threw out this United States of America?

Please answer this question; your answer can help the world economy and the very future of affordable healthcare worldwide. Thank you very much.

2007-09-13 12:18:31 · 7 answers · asked by pacer 5 in Embassies & Consulates

I think it happened when Bush refused to do anything diplomatic to help end the war in victory.

2007-09-13 12:14:50 · 29 answers · asked by easy_game_101 2 in Politics

While you guys have opinions from revisionist confederate historians, I have civil war era documents stating otherwise.

The South seceeded from the Union because they wanted to keep their slaves. That was the ultimate cause of the Civil War.

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DECLARATION OF SECESSION, MISSISSIPPI
"In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course."

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/missec.htm

2007-09-13 12:02:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

We all love our troops, no matter what party we hail from. What we have is a difference of opinion on how those troops are being used by our government.

For the conservatives: Give the troops a little credit. They are smart enough to realize that dissent at home about our mission doesn't mean we don't care about them or the fine work they do as asked. Stop accusing liberals of not supporting or caring about the troops - they do, just as much as you do.

For liberals: The conservatives love the troops too. They believe in Bush's mission so not bringing them home en masse doesn't reflect on how they feel about the troops personally. Most of them aren't facists intent on destroying our country, they are just convinced we're doing the right thing.

I wish we could all talk more civilly about it. Without all the condemnation/mud slinging/name calling. I'm tired of seeing the troops being used like a push pull toy. Who cares the most? It's not a contest, we ALL care.

2007-09-13 12:00:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I read comments every single day from liberals and democrats who say that Bush is an idiot, a chump, a chimp, a moron, and a dumbasss. And that's just the tip of the ice berg!

BUT THEN you same people accuse him stealing the 2000 elections, stealing the 2004 election, planning the 911 attacks, tricking the entire US government into funding an illegal war in Iraq, and all to make money off of Haliburton kickbacks! Sounds pretty elaborate for somebody who's supposed to be such an idiot!

So which is it liberals? Is Bush the idiot you accuse him of being? Or is he the greatest genius in the world for pulling off the biggest conspiracy in the history of mankind?

(I realize some of you will insist that Bush is dumb, and that he simply surrounded himself with smart people. Okay. Let's suppose he did. Does that sound dumb to you?)

2007-09-13 11:58:14 · 30 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics

$20,000, tax free to be there, Would you feel confident with a "paid for" soldier next to your reg service uniform, in a regular service uniform?

2007-09-13 11:56:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Hillary Clinton goes to a primary school in New York to talk about the world. After her talk she offers a question time.

One little boy puts up his hand. The Senator asks him what his name is.

"Kenneth."

"And what is your question, Kenneth?"

"I have three questions:

First - whatever happened to the medical health care plan you were
paid to develop during your husband's eight years in the office as President?

Second - why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?

Third - whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?"

Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary Clinton informs the kids that they will continue after recess.

When they resume, Hillary says, "Okay, where were we? Oh, that's right, question time.
Who has a question?"

A different little boy puts his hand up. Hillary pointed him out and asks him what his name is.

"Larry."

"And what is your question, Larry?"

"I have five questions:

First - Whatever happened to the medical health care plan you were paid to develop during your husband's eight years in the office as President?

Second - Why would you run for President after your husband shamed the office?

Third - Whatever happened to all those things you took when you left the White House?

Fourth - Why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?

Fifth - What the hell happened to Kenneth?"

2007-09-13 11:56:01 · 14 answers · asked by Hot Coco Puff 7 in Government

If Gen. David H. Petraeus, Four-Star General, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, he who earned a Master of Public Administration (1985) and a Ph.D. (1987) in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, is not qualified to evaluate what is going on in Iraq, why don't the geniuses writing the Op-Eds take over?

"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the cause by writing editorials — after the fact." - Robert E. Lee

2007-09-13 11:55:37 · 4 answers · asked by thealligator414 3 in Other - Politics & Government

Bush sucks and I hate our government. I say yes.

2007-09-13 11:53:58 · 9 answers · asked by Geary 3 in Government

well, long story short, i made a mistake by joining the army and now i realize that i would rather be a marine. so i tell my recruiter this, he gets pissed, and then tells me that the paperwork is gonna take about 6-7 months at the fastest. i talked to a marine recruiter later that day and he tells me that its all bullshit. so, does any1 know if it really will take that long?

2007-09-13 11:49:24 · 10 answers · asked by Brett H 1 in Military

I'm just curious. What is it that Democrats hope to achieve? What are their values? What would the perfect world look like for the average Democrat?

2007-09-13 11:47:42 · 20 answers · asked by thealligator414 3 in Politics

The title is pretty self-explanatory :/ But your help is greatly appreciated =3

2007-09-13 11:45:49 · 2 answers · asked by Kristyn 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-13 11:42:32 · 27 answers · asked by Anti theist 5 in Politics