Politics & Government - 18 September 2007

I moved into my landladys flat 6 months ago, at first she gave me a three month tenancy agreement when the three months were up she then gave me a lodgers agreement with out telling me it was changing. What is the difference? I pay £400 a month inclusive of bills, but i heard that as a lodger she can only take £350 a months plus should provide me with meals, (which she hasnt provided) is this true? If so what can i do to get my money back?

2007-09-18 10:30:42 · 3 answers · asked by Stitch 4 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-18 10:29:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This does not say I am for or against gay marriage. This is just a QUESTION.

2007-09-18 10:28:20 · 14 answers · asked by Liberal Populist Democrat 1 in Law & Ethics

Every other election, the canidate with the most votes wins. The excuses that I have heard on this ,almost surpasses the excuses for our country being in Iraq.

2007-09-18 10:28:19 · 13 answers · asked by doug young 2 in Elections

American employers are already feeling squeezed enough as it is from global market pressures.

Since when it is an employers' responsibility to fund health care for its workers above what is mandated under workers compensation?

American companies are having an escalating problem of trying to compete against overseas factories located in countries with government-controlled "deflated" currencies.

And her husband's backroom trade deals with China has made the situation for worse for employers. Her husband deals with China has caused losses of entire manufacturing sectors and has increased the U.S.'s national debt due to slower wage growth. Also his deals increased worldwide oil costs due to China's growth. ( oil is need for asphalt, road building emulsions, diesel building equipment, gasoline, plastics, etc.)

Pressures on U.S. businesses will only grow as more 3rd world countries come online by copying China's government-controlled "currency deflation" and "pegging".

2007-09-18 10:27:58 · 13 answers · asked by a bush family member 7 in Politics

With us paying so much in oil, perhaps the war wasn't to lower the cost of oil, but to increase the profits for those who grease the most hands in Washington, Republican and Democratic.

2007-09-18 10:27:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

The following is not my opinion, but FACT:

She [Hillary Clinton] said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.

And to think that liberals call republicans Nazis!

2007-09-18 10:27:20 · 21 answers · asked by ? 5 in Politics

2007-09-18 10:25:40 · 1 answers · asked by ken s 5 in Other - Politics & Government

First of all, I am a veteran, I served in the First Gulf War and I love my country dearly. My wife is from Colombia, she loves our country and our new family but misses her home as well as most of us would. One day at the flea marked she casually noticed a Colombian flag and had a little sad look and so as a loving husband who tries to empathise with my wife whenever I can, I offered to buy it and fly it occasionaly at our house alongside our American flag that I most days fly proudly. I see it as a piece of colored cloth that makes my wife happy and doesn't cost anything. My neighbors know her for who she is and care about her and not what kind of flag is outside our house whether it says spring or summer or whatever type of flag it is. I follow etiquite at all times and fly the flags according to that. My problem is that my father has said I am unamerican, that what I am doing should be illegal and she and I are a discrase to our family and the neighborhood. Any opinions??

2007-09-18 10:24:04 · 21 answers · asked by george 2 in Immigration

2007-09-18 10:23:16 · 14 answers · asked by labken1817 6 in Politics

But still we all have godlike abilities and can do things that will blow your mind like cure ourselves of any disease teleport anywhere anytime, deflect a incoming comet, stop the river of blood in armageddon from ever forming, how you say well first you have to know that it's not crazy and apply that 90+ percent of your brain that you're not now. Really only need about 20 percent more.Teleportaion is as easy as reverse astral travel first you astral travel then instead of going back to your body you call your body to yourself, curing disease is as simple as concentrating on getting better and having many many people concentate with you the more the better. Ending the violence will be alot easier if people realize they have these powers because then they will become enlightened and be able to pull away from the hate and see that we all are so much more than just warring little maggots. We are divine creatures with an eternal soul, if we come together we stand a chance what do you say ?

2007-09-18 10:20:58 · 4 answers · asked by tony p 1 in Civic Participation

"Who pays the piper calls the tune", goes the old saying.
With "cash for honours" in the UK etc. and Bush and co. in the pockets of the oil industry and other special interest groups, there must be a better way for political parties to be funded.
In Germany the parties get x Euros for every vote cast for them. This seems fairer but how then did the Greens ever get started?
There's got to be a better way than just a few people feeding the jukebox, calling the tune.

2007-09-18 10:20:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

"His Strategy of finding the enemy and hitting them with everything caused many lives on both sides, but eventually brought an end to the war".

If you can answer the war as well as the person you are super.

2007-09-18 10:19:51 · 8 answers · asked by Thomas B 5 in Military

University of Florida police tasered a student asking a question at a John Kerry event.

2007-09-18 10:19:51 · 24 answers · asked by Sarah 5 in Other - Politics & Government

A 26-year-old driver who registered four times the legal limit for driving while intoxicated on a breath test pleaded guilty in Howard County Circuit Court this afternoon to causing a crash that killed a Marine corporal and his date at a Columbia intersection on Thanksgiving night last year.

Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano of Laurel pleaded guilty to two counts of negligent manslaughter in the deaths of Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia, and Jennifer Bower, 24, of Montgomery Village.

He will be sentenced Nov. 29. Prosecutors said they will ask Judge Lenore Gelfman to impose a term of eight years in prison, the maximum under state sentencing guidelines
After he completes his sentence, Morales-Soriano is expected to be deported, said State's Attorney Timothy J. McCrone. Authorities believe he entered the country illegally from Mexico, McCrone said.

Morales-Soriano, who worked as a landscaper in Montgomery County, slammed his Nissan Sentra into the rear of a Toyota Corolla driven by Bower that had stopped at a red light on Route 175 at Route 108.

He had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.32, according to a Breathalyzer test administered by police. Under state law, a motorist is considered to be driving while intoxicated with a level of 0.08 or higher.

Mathews, a 2003 Howard High School graduate based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., had come home for the holidays and was on his second date with Bower when the crash occurred. He had finished serving eight months of duty in Iraq in 2005 and was due to leave the military this year.

Prior to last year's fatal crash, Morales-Soriano was charged in Prince George's County with negligent driving, speeding and driving the wrong way on a one-way street after being stopped in Riverdale in July 2006. He was found not guilty, according to court records.

In February 2006, he was given four citations after an auto accident in a Columbia parking lot in which he refused to take a Breathalyzer test. No one was injured and prosecutors later dropped the charges, citing weak evidence.

He used a driver's license issued in North Carolina in 2004 to legally obtain a Maryland driver's license in 2005.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-driver0918,0,5302749.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout

2007-09-18 10:18:06 · 6 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2 in Immigration

i would like an extra grand on my returns... what are your thoughts on this matter. Will he really be able to follow through??

2007-09-18 10:16:43 · 5 answers · asked by ♥Grown Woman♥ 4 in Elections

My answer: twice.

2007-09-18 10:16:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus' report to Congress and President Bush's nationally televised address have had little impact on Americans' distaste for the Iraq war and their desire to withdraw U.S. troops, polls show.

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Fifty-four percent still favor bringing the troops home as soon as possible, a measurement that has not changed in months, according to a poll released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. And despite slight improvements in peoples' views of military progress, more said the U.S. will likely fail in Iraq than succeed by 47 percent to 42 percent, about the same margin as in July.

Nearly half, or 49 percent, said Bush should remove more troops than he announced he would last week, when he said he would withdraw some forces but leave at least 130,000 in Iraq at least until next summer. Thirty-eight percent said Bush's plan goes far enough.

Overall, two out of three said their views on the war had not been changed by presentations last week by Bush and Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

In a separate survey by CBS News, fewer than a third said the roughly 30,000 additional troops Bush sent to the war zone this year have made things better, while the rest said they have had no impact or made things worse. That was similar to the findings of a CBS News-New York Times poll taken days before the remarks by Petraeus and Bush.

Only 22 percent said they are willing to keep large numbers of U.S. troops in Iraq longer than two more years, largely unchanged from the previous survey. Nearly half, or 49 percent, said they should stay less than a year while 23 percent said they should remain for a year or two.

2007-09-18 10:15:55 · 13 answers · asked by soperson 4 in Politics

In recent speeches, Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama has attempted to use the fact that STATES require drivers to purchase LIABILITY INSURANCE as a precondition for driving as some form of president for his claim to force the American people to pay into a FEDERAL SOCILIZED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.

Putting aside the fact that the government is not know for its efficiency or domestic problem solving ability (Liberals, you do remember that your “War on Poverty”, run by the government, lead to skyrocketing taxes which subsequently drove small businesses out of business and caused poverty to worsen, right???), doesn’t Hussein Obama realize that there is a difference between LIABILITY INSURANCE and Socialized Hillarycare???

The liability insurance that most states require drivers to obtain does not protect the driver themselves, but anyone that driver might accidentally injure in an auto accident.

2007-09-18 10:15:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My LORD!

What's with their staunch opposition to defending the Holy Land?

If it weren't for the great United States, there would be no Israel now.

What a pity.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ISRAEL!

2007-09-18 10:14:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Liberalism, Socialism, and communism would you support it?
Q- for the right
Would you still support it?
Q- for the left

2007-09-18 10:14:12 · 21 answers · asked by KittyCatFishApe 3 in Politics

-To cover their vtracks in unconstitutionally mixing church and state?
"Your tax dollars our bibles your throats" argument.

In other words, its about money. Yes there will be 1 or 2 "examples" that dont apply to most.

reference:
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlOAva1vbKTHtIAseuN.Ny_YPhV.;_ylv=3?qid=20070918140341AAUgOXD

Please. Most "liberals" are intelligent agnostics disinterent with montheism on the basis of sound psychological science. Most know that Islam and christianity has stark and pervese similarities in their histories.

2007-09-18 10:13:21 · 14 answers · asked by Jim W 3 in Politics

Which candidate makes you quiver at the thought of them getting elected?

2007-09-18 10:11:51 · 17 answers · asked by Lite 1 in Politics

I signed a non-compete clause with my employer almost 30 years ago. They then let me go about a week ago for unkown reasons. I want to start my own buisness in the same field of work because that is the only thing i know. I would also be bidding on jobs against them. Can they really stop me from working? The clause says that i have to wait 2 years and can't compete within 100 miles. If it matters i live in Missouri.

2007-09-18 10:10:42 · 2 answers · asked by RUSS W 1 in Law & Ethics

much hatred toward the Jews. History tells us that Jews have always been hated and persecuted. Before the Bush family. Before Hitler.

2007-09-18 10:04:15 · 10 answers · asked by Lynn G 4 in Politics

We live in iowa and I found out about this from someone else. When I asked him about it he told me it was a lie, so I did some investigating. He is driving my kids around all the time, I have reason to care. Sure enough he did get an OWI last month but he still has his license, how can this be possible??

2007-09-18 10:03:48 · 5 answers · asked by hthr_1974 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

The office psychopath can if he so chooses call off all the system integrator work.
Can then argue that we don't need our inhouse people because they didn't do anything.
This might increase the office psychopath's stranglehold on the organisation.
You might come back in 5,10,15, or 20 years, and find the office psychopath still on the job.

2007-09-18 10:01:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Is the system in the US, if it's truly a government by and for the people etc a bit antiquated? In centuries past it was necessary to send delgates to a central location, D.C., so that the elected could speak and vote for the people. In this day, however, communication is instantaneous. Practically anyone with access to a computer could vote on issues for themselves. Are the issues that complex that we need full-time representatives? They have after all, put the cooutnry some 7 trillion dollars in debt, continue the Iraq fiasco and on.
Any ideas?

2007-09-18 10:00:35 · 2 answers · asked by esha26 1 in Government

http://www.news4jax.com/news/14142999/detail.html

A university student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was hit with a Taser gun by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.

Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release Tuesday morning. His attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.

2007-09-18 09:59:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Ken Fuller, the agent in charge of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Mobile, said today that 202 illegal immigrants were arrested in Mobile County during the two-week Operation Uniforce III campaign that ended Friday.

The operation was a full-blown success, Fuller said. Fuller said the number of people arrested isn't as important as the information they gathered from the immigrants.

That information, which included when, how and where they crossed from Mexico into Texas, will help Border Patrol agents seal up the border and stop others from entering Texas.

Fuller said Uniforce III and previous Uniforce operations have been successful in producing numerous arrests, not just of people suspected of being illegal aliens, but of wanted fugitives and alien smugglers. Large amounts of narcotics also have been seized, he said.

The Border Patrol, in partnership with other law enforcement agencies, will continue these operations in the future.

http://blog.al.com/live/2007/09/202_suspected_illegals_arreste.html

2007-09-18 09:58:52 · 5 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2 in Immigration