Politics & Government - 16 September 2007

Even though I am anti-war, I don't see how keeping our forces pegged down in a quagmire--without sufficient rest periods in between tours--is all that beneficial or even logical to begin with.

Not to mention trying to start something with Iran.

What are your thoughts?

2007-09-16 13:59:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I am in AZ and how late can i keep her at work?

2007-09-16 13:58:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

If I am attacked while pregnant and in result of the attack lose my child, the attacker cannot be charged for murder because the child was unborn, no matter how far along I am. Along the same lines, If I am murdered while pregnant, the murderer can only be charged with one murder instead of two because the baby was unborn. This is how the rulings have been in a few cases I have studied, and they were within the past few recent years, whereas 15 years ago, the attacker or murderer would be charged with the baby's death. And the result of these new rulings have been explained as the fault of pro-choice believers wanting this type of ruling so that there is no indication in any law that gives an unborn baby any rights, therefore seeing it as a "growth" or "tumor". So have I studied correctly? Am I losing my rights for receiving justice for my dead baby?

2007-09-16 13:50:23 · 6 answers · asked by #1 Buckeye Fan!!!! 4 in Law & Ethics

About 3 weeks ago a friend of mine had an AOL convo and the person he was talkin to said they were gonna gove his IP adress to the police. Nothing happened to my buddy for 3 weeks. But thursday afternoon, in front of his neighboors house their was an investigater from the PD. My neighboor asked the investigator why he was in front of his house and he said he couldn't tell (i'd assume thats normal). This raises the question to me, is this a coincidence or should he be worried. I don't know what to tell em. On one hand why would it take 3 weeks for this and why would teh investigator stay in the car for an online/computer type of issue and not come back the next day at a different time when he maybe home? But on the other hand there aren't too many bad happenings in his neighboorhood so maybe they are looking for him. What do you guys think?

2007-09-16 13:49:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Would the world be a better place?

2007-09-16 13:44:57 · 17 answers · asked by Alan B 2 in Politics

is there a difference between having a permit for a gun and having the gun registered?

2007-09-16 13:43:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Is crime within races,or against majority races/ethnicities performed out of love? And why should the criminal in a hate crime be punished anymore than a criminal in a non hate crime? Why should the punishment be based upon the victim instead of the crime?

2007-09-16 13:43:37 · 7 answers · asked by #1 Buckeye Fan!!!! 4 in Law & Ethics

I purchased an investment property in Baltimore, MD. Once the tenants moved out, it was discovered that they were stealing electricity. There was a meter on the house either. Should I report the previous owner? If so, how and to who? Or should I simply deal with it?

2007-09-16 13:42:00 · 13 answers · asked by Zoila 6 in Law & Ethics

it isn't uncommon to see anti-immigrants claiming that if we started making pay every employer for hiring the undocumented then most undocumented would go back to their countries . however even if that was true i do not see how would that fix anything when it comes to those undocumented who do not pay taxes and their suggestion makes me think that they believe most undocumented actually pay taxes ( are on the books ) ( i would agree with the second most do ) ...

so my question would be do u agree or not that it only would affect those undocumented who pay taxes and whether or not u believe than most actually do pay taxes therefor most would leave ????

note : those who do not work at all would not be affected either .... would enforcement only be the best solution????

2007-09-16 13:40:37 · 11 answers · asked by game over 5 in Immigration

2007-09-16 13:33:39 · 5 answers · asked by Alan B 2 in Other - Politics & Government

what kind of message are we leaving for future americans and the world?

2007-09-16 13:33:07 · 15 answers · asked by Bern_CH 5 in Military

4 out of my of the last 7 question posted have been removed for violations, none contained profanity or racial slurs, 2 were for stating the dictionary definition of " La Raza" in my post. I was for state (ing) that Mexican Americans Have earned 39 Medal of Honor more that any other Identifilable group,( with attached sources,) and one for posting a study (good Math-Bad math) disproving undocumentented committed almost a million sex crimes, as stated in a Anti,study with documented sources, I also have noticed that answer (ers) that agreed with my post have been removed at an alarming rate.
Anti "racist" attackers with 100 points and a week on the forum with outright Racist attacks take days to finally get removed just to re appear under a different name days later. My Mexican" Medal of Honor" post was removed in less than 7 hours.
I may not be a participant on answers very much longer, As I will not take Yahoo's Bias for Anti's and remain Silent any longer.

2007-09-16 13:32:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

i have mexican blood, but was born in compton. there are random people at skewl that pick on me cuz im mexican theyll say comments and racial slurs. wats a good way of gettin back at them?/ i dont want to tell any teacher or nuthin, i just want some comebacks or suggestions as to wat to do when someone tells me dat i need a green card to be here

2007-09-16 13:29:05 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

That CIA was created just after the end of World War II, by President Harry Truman, despite it being opposed by the military establishment and the State Department at the time. “After World War II, many scientists who had worked in Nazi Germany were extracted from Germany in order to aid the U.S.; their recruitment was under the aegis of Operation Paperclip. The CIA had also been aware of the location of some high-profile Nazi war criminals, including the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann two years before he was captured by Israeli agents, but the agency did not publicize this information, as it did not have a policy of pursuing Nazi war criminals at the time.[25] Several former Nazi operational agents were recruited as U.S. secret agents, yet formed just a minor portion of the agents at that time; they were induced financially and promised exemption from criminal prosecution and trial for war crimes committed during World War II.[26] Some claim that these agents had a long-term corrosive effect on American intelligence agencies.[27] There were extensive relationships between former Nazi war criminals and American and West German intelligence organizations, including the CIA. For example, current records show that at least five associates of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA, 23 other Nazis were approached by the CIA for recruitment, and at least 100 officers within the Gehlen organization were former SD or Gestapo officers.
During the Cold War, the CIA supported many dictators, including General Augusto Pinochet of Chile; dictators in Central America, African Dictators like Mobutu Sese Seko and Jonas Savimbi, the Shah of Iran, and the religious despots in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Kuwait and Indonesia,

John Stockwell, formerly a high-level CIA operative, claims that six million people have been killed by the United States in the Third World countries. This claim includes the deaths in the Korea and Vietnam wars that Stockwell feels should be blamed on the United States government.[28]

Numerous accusations have been made that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking to fund illegal operations in Nicaragua during their civil war, Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, and in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. According to a personal account by Everett Ellis Briggs, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama and Honduras, CIA undermined efforts to put a stop to the drug smuggling

Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia had some opium fields. It was widely alleged among various soldiers-turned-antiwar protesters that the CIA was involved in smuggling this opium to heroin producers in the United States at considerable profit. The book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia written by Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims to provide evidence of the drug trafficking. The book discusses the alleged use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam. According to Dr. McCoy, the agency also intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published, citing national security concerns.”

• During the Vietnam war the CIA conducted Operation Phoenix, an assassination program. The goal was not only to eliminate those Vietnamese who might oppose the U.S. (which in practice meant most of the population of Vietnam) but also to terrorize the entire population of South Vietnam and to suppress opposition to the occupying U.S. forces. Over 20,000 Vietnamese were murdered, often at random.
• The CIA also recruited a mercenary army in Vietnam (financed by profits from the CIA's heroin smuggling), particularly from among the Hmong villagers, which was used to terrorize the civilian population and to prevent them from assisting the Viet Cong.
• The CIA organized and financed (with the profits from its cocaine smuggling) the activities of the Contras in Nicaragua, who murdered tens of thousands of civilians, and tried to disrupt the economy, in an attempt to destabilize the legitimate Sandinista government. (For this the U.S. was condemned in the World Court for engaging in international terrorism, and it rejected a U.N. security council resolution calling upon it to observe international law.)
• The CIA planned and organized the military coup d'etat in 1973 in Chile which overthrew the legitimately elected government of Salvador Allende (because he would not implement economic policies designed in Washington to favor American corporations doing business in Chile) and brought to power the regime of General Augusto Pinochet; this regime abducted, tortured and killed thousands of Chilean citizens in an attempt to suppress opposition.
• The CIA organized and supported the Turkish government's persecution of its Kurdish minority during the 1990s, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and millions of refuges; the aim being the suppression of Kurdish culture and the elimination of Kurdish demands for a separate state.

Not to mention the many assainations, illegal and domestic spying on US citizens, Nazis, drugs, but I this is all supposed to be for the benefit of the American Public? Right…….

2007-09-16 13:29:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

going to die, no offense to the military wives out there, but i hate to worry. honest answers please.

2007-09-16 13:25:48 · 6 answers · asked by oneandonlyness 4 in Military

2007-09-16 13:24:41 · 23 answers · asked by toughguy2 7 in Politics

Different people have said he could join the military instead of being convicted. Some people say that isn't available anymore and some have said it has been re-instated....Does anyone know for sure, has anyone heard of this???

2007-09-16 13:24:38 · 11 answers · asked by mistyeveduncan 2 in Military

2007-09-16 13:24:26 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-09-16 13:24:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-09-16 13:22:44 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i went to court the first time and i got a tpo, but i dont want to continue with all this i just want for him to get some counseling and thats it, but i wonder if i dont go to court will i be in trouble? will they just drop the charges?

2007-09-16 13:22:24 · 5 answers · asked by leydi t 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-09-16 13:20:36 · 3 answers · asked by hwjone 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-09-16 13:17:40 · 10 answers · asked by Bill W 【ツ】 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

Will he still be in government? What will be his next job?

2007-09-16 13:17:14 · 18 answers · asked by Kim D 2 in Elections

When my father-in-law died, the stepmother-in-law came up with a quit claim deed claiming that everything was now hers, and she did not have to probate his estate. Is this true? We are in Texas

2007-09-16 13:17:00 · 2 answers · asked by PcCowboy 2 in Law & Ethics

Having just arrived back from Florida, I cannot help but feel great concern on the issues 'bothering' David Cameron, ie, (amongst many) his concern about 4x4 trucks being driven in the UK, and how he would penalise the drivers of such vehicles, if he comes into 'power'. If I know, as a mere holidaymaker in America, then surely he will know, that 4x4 trucks are literally 'two-a-penny' in the States; (oh my, the horror for Mr Cameron). Okay, two wrongs don't make a right, but I would say to David Cameron, and in fact, all politicians in the UK, we are only a small island. Therefore, why do we have to take up arms against any situation in the World, to the detriment of UK citizens? For example, the huge expenditure laid on the UK tax payer for the war?

2007-09-16 13:14:39 · 8 answers · asked by smiley 2 in Politics

According to Gallup and Zogby polls

2007-09-16 13:10:08 · 21 answers · asked by charbatch 3 in Politics

Read my most recent post:

http://www.yankeecommentary.blogspot.com

2007-09-16 13:08:03 · 4 answers · asked by RICARDVS VII 3 in Politics

When you are at work,would you try not to mess up the orders so often.And remember,if we wanted an apple pie to go with that we would have asked. Thank You and have a great day.

2007-09-16 13:06:12 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-09-16 13:05:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police