Politics & Government - 8 October 2007

2007-10-08 14:16:48 · 20 answers · asked by daff73 5 in Elections

There was a chemistry professor in a large college
>> that had some
>> Exchange students in the class. One day while the
>> class was in the lab
>> the Prof noticed one of the exchange students, a
>> young man, kept rubbing
>> his back and stretching as if it hurt. The professor
>> asked the young man
>> what was the matter. The student told him he had a
>> bullet lodged in his
>> back. He had been shot while fighting the communists
>> in his native
>> country who were trying to overthrow his country's
>> government and
>> install a new communist government.
>>
>> In the midst of his story he looked at the professor
>> and asked a strange
>> question, "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The
>> professor thought it
>> was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young
>> man said this was no
>> joke, "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable
>> place in the woods and
>> putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and
>> begin to come everyday
>> to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming
>> every day, you put a
>> fence down one side of the place where they are used
>> to coming. When
>> they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the
>> corn again and you put
>> up another side of the fence. They get used to that
>> and start to eat
>> again. You continue until you have all four sides of
>> the fence up with a
>> gate in the last side. When the pigs, who are used
>> to the free corn and
>> walls, start to come through the gate to eat, you
>> slam the gate on them
>> and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs
>> have lost their
>> freedom. They run around and around inside the
>> fence, but they are
>> caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn.
>> They are so used to
>> it that they have forgotten how to forage in the
>> woods for themselves,
>> so they accept their captivity."
>>
>> The young man then told the professor that is
>> exactly what he sees
>> happening to America. The government keeps pushing
>> us toward
>> Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free
>> corn out in the form of
>> programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for
>> unearned income,
>> tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to
>> plant crops (CRP),
>> welfare, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually
>> lose our freedoms
>> -- just a little at a time.
>>
>> One should always remember there is no such thing as
>> a free Lunch!

2007-10-08 14:16:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

- She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.

- She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.

- She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a "duck hunter."

- She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.

2007-10-08 14:13:11 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

is there any duty that does not involve the use of weapons?

2007-10-08 14:11:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I have to do a speech about why I'm against the death penalty. I need about four strong points, and facts that support my point Thanks.(:

2007-10-08 14:11:02 · 11 answers · asked by Staceyy 1 in Law & Ethics

whats my rights it is beibg osld

2007-10-08 14:10:48 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-10-08 14:06:42 · 2 answers · asked by danny g 1 in Elections

2007-10-08 14:03:24 · 12 answers · asked by lucifer a 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-10-08 14:03:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

This guy stole classified documents, and now Hillary is using him as an adviser. Has she no shame? Is this a reward for his stealing documents that showed how lax Bill Clinton was on terrorists?

2007-10-08 14:01:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

There is a local pastor who chases homeless people away with a shotgun (yes really a shotgun) i believe that the shotgun is actually his and is registered but he chased homeless people who only sat under the roof when it either got too windy, it was snowing or raining. they done no harm they were hidden from the public (backdoor) and they didnt do really anything or even urinate or anything. does the pastor have the right to chase homeless people away like that? what can be done?

2007-10-08 13:54:39 · 7 answers · asked by djmixah7 3 in Law & Ethics

If we invaded Iraq to help the people of Iraq (free them from Saddam) then how come we aren't in Darfur? The clearly need more help then the Iraqis do.

2007-10-08 13:51:40 · 18 answers · asked by Mr. Dog 4 in Politics

I have a "no contact" order with the "victim" (a family member I've been living with my entire life.)
So I have to move out because living with them is obviously a violation of "no contact."
My problem is the ONLY place I could possibly move is with some family in New Jersey...I live in Florida.

So when they tell me I can't have contact with the victim anymore, they're going to say "You need to move out." But I know the rules of probation...you can't LEAVE the state..let alone MOVE OUT of it. If I move to NJ before they kick me out of my house, I'll have to come back to FL for the rest of my court dates, and then I might be stuck here with all my belongings there once they tell me I'm on probation.

Any help?

2007-10-08 13:47:24 · 3 answers · asked by andweridingsoslow 1 in Law & Ethics

Not sure what to do! I just had a minor accident with a pedestrian who walked out in front of my car. I bumped the man and he fell on the road. I asked if I should call the police or an ambulance and he said he could tell he was fine and if I could just drive him home. We exchanged details at his house where his wife, the man and I left on good terms, recognising it was both our faults this happened. He said not to worry - he had been in far worse situations and was fine. What else should I do? I wrote out the details of what happened and emailed them to myself so that there is a record of the time and details of the incident. I said to the man who was hit I would call him later today to see if he was ok.

2007-10-08 13:47:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-10-08 13:46:54 · 4 answers · asked by brich2001aman@sbcglobal.net 1 in Law & Ethics

In states where stun guns are legal,
Can you go into a gun store and just buy a stun gun?
without any license?
Do they put your name in a database?

2007-10-08 13:44:00 · 5 answers · asked by Philip Augustus 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

This happend to two friends of mine the other day. They were not loud or abusive not breaking any smoking law,it was only their second drink when he refused,. when they asked why the owner said he didnt have to give a reason is this so ?

2007-10-08 13:42:30 · 7 answers · asked by whonose 1 in Law & Ethics

I am actually going in on their shifts to baby-sit.

2007-10-08 13:38:44 · 4 answers · asked by nil_queen 3 in Law & Ethics

But why can't we bear to hear a word against them from a foreigner!

2007-10-08 13:35:51 · 4 answers · asked by Yellowstonedogs 7 in Other - Politics & Government

Dad and I were talking earlier today and he brought up a point that I didnt know what to say...He said America should build a 10 foot high wall on the border and line it with snipers to keep the Mexicans from crossing the border. What are your views on this, personally I had a problem with the snipers but I think the wall is a pretty good idea.

2007-10-08 13:32:59 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Will other nations in the future, when they become powerful enough, inevitably attempt to follow in the United States' footsteps and invoke their own precedent for unilateral military action against any sovereign nation they choose, and for any reason they choose?

2007-10-08 13:29:14 · 8 answers · asked by steve h 2 in Other - Politics & Government

what actions can you take as an employee when the negligence of an employer endangers your life? if you were forced to quit because of this dangerous working situation would you still qualify for unemployment?

2007-10-08 13:27:24 · 3 answers · asked by curvy_chick000 4 in Law & Ethics

The New World of International Relations

2007-10-08 13:21:41 · 6 answers · asked by JAY5 2 in Politics

This man was part of the administration that decided the U.S. would invade Iraq because it was necessary to control the travel routes of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz before Saddam could manipulate this control for himself and hold the world hostage essentially by controlling the oil markets.

I don't get it.....why do people still choose to deny that this is FACT!
Iraq was ALWAYS about oil since even before GW Bush's Presidency!

2007-10-08 13:21:37 · 17 answers · asked by Kelly B 4 in Politics

It was used in the past like maybe the vietnam era?
its flat not round. I am looking for a certain kind, my dog training club has a long line made out of the stuff and its the best we have EVER seen. I am trying to find were to buy more of it. Ive check army suplus stores around here and noone has it.

thanks

2007-10-08 13:18:01 · 8 answers · asked by GSDBrisko 2 in Military

Is it illegal if i use a minor (underaged teenage boy) for self defense, including practices with grabs, kicks, knees, punches, elbows to the groin of a young boy that agrees to allow this practice this to happen on him.

2007-10-08 13:14:23 · 6 answers · asked by Miss B 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-10-08 13:13:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-10-08 13:12:14 · 7 answers · asked by oryboy37 1 in Military

She had another near-meltdown over the weekend, yet another indication of serious anger management problems. We all know she is an habitual liar and has delusions that she is somehow above the law. Is it not time that a serious mental evaluation of this person is done and made public?

2007-10-08 13:10:15 · 7 answers · asked by Dee B 4 in Law & Ethics

[ A report by the Oxford Research Group (ORG) said a "fundamental re-think is required" if the global terrorist network is to be rendered ineffective....Paul Rogers, the report's author and professor of global peace studies at Bradford University in northern England...described the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "disastrous mistake" which had helped establish a "most valued jihadist combat training zone" for al Qaeda supporters. ]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071008/ts_nm/britain_iraq_afghanistan_dc;_ylt=AoyKB8Lv7Di3hEW3MyzSQ5qs0NUE

2007-10-08 13:09:05 · 13 answers · asked by ideogenetic 7 in Politics