Politics & Government - 9 October 2007

Which of these issues is more worth talking about to you, healthcare accesibility for sick children or the mega-rich losing their tax cut?

2007-10-09 08:23:22 · 12 answers · asked by Earl Grey 5 in Politics

2007-10-09 08:22:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am Due in Dec and the father is a looser( yes I know... why get prego by him) but that is not the question... He has two other kids that he does not support and he has been in jail for a hit and run on his kids grandfather, he has told me that he will take my son and leave and I will never see him again as soon as he get the chance, his house is nasty and he does not pay his bills, had no drivers license(drives anyway) and no car insurance. What can I do to get it to where he does not get any custody of the baby... he is not willing to give it up! he wants joint custody so that he wont have to pay support. In my state KS you can not give up rights....it is a no bastard law!! Please Help...only serious answers please... as I realize that I am in a bad situation and have learned my lesson.

2007-10-09 08:20:55 · 21 answers · asked by younglady215 4 in Law & Ethics

My friend got raped by a man who is in the marines. He told her she wouldn't get an STD because he gets routinely checked and tested because he's in the military. Is this true or was he just feeding her a line? And if it is true, how often do they get tested? Thank you.

2007-10-09 08:15:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

A new neighbor in the apartment complex was waking me up every morning at 5 AM. After 2 weeks I decided to write him a note (very polite and not finger pointing). Because I never see him due to different schedules, I decided to put the note in the mailbox. He said that was a federal felony. Any other oppinions? Thank you.

2007-10-09 08:14:54 · 11 answers · asked by Andrew 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-09 08:12:52 · 23 answers · asked by Mel C 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

Tom’s mother Mary passed away several years ago. One day, during a conversation between Tom and his friend Zeke it was learned that the Social Security Administration (SSA) was never informed of Mary’s death. Apparently, Tom convinced the funeral director not to notify the SSA. Zeke decided it was his civic duty to tell the SSA.

Tom was required to repay the SSA the total amount they deposited into a joint account held between Tom and his mother. This account remained active until the SSA advised the bank. In addition, Tom had to pay the SSA interest and a penalty. This angered Tom to a point where he needed psychiatric help and he sees the doctor usually twice per week.

Tom is suing his friend Zeke for five million dollars claiming mental anguish, insomnia, weight loss, chronic headaches, and general deteriorating health.

Note: All names have been changed to protect those involved. Any connection with persons of the same name or names is strictly unintentional.

2007-10-09 08:10:45 · 13 answers · asked by ajaxxx 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-09 08:10:08 · 26 answers · asked by blackpool lass 7 in Immigration

2007-10-09 08:09:39 · 6 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Government

Since congress is hell bent on legalizing law breakers into our nation, I say lets go with the flow and make it work in our favor. Fight it and one of the sides are going to win and since they have the advantage in numbers, I suggest going with the flow and both parties will remain intact.

My ideas:

Start a business that carters to this group of people only. Give them credit cards with high interest rates, nice cars that are offered at low prices but come attached with high hidden fees.
Offer them investing accounts with promises of making money for them when in reality the fees end up draining them dry. You know, make money off them at their expense, and do it with our best service with a smile. Treat them the way the current middle American class is being treated.

Get a mate. Start hooking up those who are not citizens. This way you get to teach your kids both English and Spanish and in the process will create a truly unique American culture. Eventually this will eliminate racism

2007-10-09 08:09:05 · 11 answers · asked by PeguinBackPacker 5 in Immigration

There have been a number of articles recently that portray President Bush as someone who strayed from the path of true conservatism. Republicans, these articles say, need to return to their roots.

Well, I don't know what true conservatism is, but while doing research for my forthcoming book I spent a lot of time studying the history of the American political movement that calls itself conservatism - and Mr. Bush hasn't strayed from the path at all. On the contrary, he's the very model of a modern movement conservative.

For example, people claim to be shocked that Mr. Bush cut taxes while waging an expensive war. But Ronald Reagan also cut taxes while embarking on a huge military buildup.

People claim to be shocked by Mr. Bush's general fiscal irresponsibility. But conservative intellectuals, by their own account, abandoned fiscal responsibility 30 years ago. Here's how Irving Kristol, then the editor of The Public Interest, explained his embrace of supply-side economics in the 1970s: He had a "rather cavalier attitude toward the budget deficit and other monetary or fiscal problems" because "the task, as I saw it, was to create a new majority, which evidently would mean a conservative majority, which came to mean, in turn, a Republican majority - so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government."

People claim to be shocked by the way the Bush administration outsourced key government functions to private contractors yet refused to exert effective oversight over these contractors, a process exemplified by the failed reconstruction of Iraq and the Blackwater affair.

But back in 1993, Jonathan Cohn, writing in The American Prospect, explained that "under Reagan and Bush, the ranks of public officials necessary to supervise contractors have been so thinned that the putative gains of contracting out have evaporated. Agencies have been left with the worst of both worlds - demoralized and disorganized public officials and unaccountable private contractors."

People claim to be shocked by the Bush administration's general incompetence. But disinterest in good government has long been a principle of modern conservatism. In "The Conscience of a Conservative," published in 1960, Barry Goldwater wrote that "I have little interest in streamlining government or making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size."

People claim to be shocked that the Bush Justice Department, making a mockery of the Constitution, issued a secret opinion authorizing torture despite instructions by Congress and the courts that the practice should stop. But remember Iran-Contra? The Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran, violating a legal embargo, and used the proceeds to support the Nicaraguan contras, defying an explicit Congressional ban on such support.

Oh, and if you think Iran-Contra was a rogue operation, rather than something done with the full knowledge and approval of people at the top - who were then protected by a careful cover-up, including convenient presidential pardons - I've got a letter from Niger you might want to buy.

People claim to be shocked at the Bush administration's efforts to disenfranchise minority groups, under the pretense of combating voting fraud. But Reagan opposed the Voting Rights Act, and as late as 1980 he described it as "humiliating to the South."

People claim to be shocked at the Bush administration's attempts - which, for a time, were all too successful - to intimidate the press. But this administration's media tactics, and to a large extent the people implementing those tactics, come straight out of the Nixon administration. Dick Cheney wanted to search Seymour Hersh's apartment, not last week, but in 1975. Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, was Nixon's media adviser.

People claim to be shocked at the Bush administration's attempts to equate dissent with treason. But Goldwater - who, like Reagan, has been reinvented as an icon of conservative purity but was a much less attractive figure in real life - staunchly supported Joseph McCarthy, and was one of only 22 senators who voted against a motion censuring the demagogue.

Above all, people claim to be shocked by the Bush administration's authoritarianism, its disdain for the rule of law. But a full half-century has passed since The National Review proclaimed that "the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail," and dismissed as irrelevant objections that might be raised after "consulting a catalogue of the rights of American citizens, born Equal" - presumably a reference to the document known as the Constitution of the United States.

Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: "Well, how did we get here?" They may tell themselves: "This is not my beautiful Right." They may ask themselves: "My God, what have we done?"

But their movement is the same as it ever was. And Mr. Bush is movement conservatism's true, loyal heir.

2007-10-09 08:07:44 · 15 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4 in Politics

There was a big hole in our deck, for more than a year and I got hurt on it (there was a railing but it did not block the entire opening. Should my landlord (in NYC) be required to reimburse me for my medical bill? She doesn't think she should; but because it was caused on her property from construction being done I think she should. Who is right?

2007-10-09 07:59:03 · 5 answers · asked by k80_k 2 in Law & Ethics

My family can't go a couple of days without food on 'em

2007-10-09 07:56:29 · 15 answers · asked by scottanthonydavis 4 in Politics

2007-10-09 07:56:05 · 5 answers · asked by rockstarnomad 2 in Politics

Good afternoon, I am a little aunxious not nervous, at least not yet, But i was wondering if you could help me give me some advice on what i should expect once i get there.. and what i should or shouldn't do. I paln to study at the US.. i'm from south america. Thank you very much for your answers.


Have a beautiful day!
Maria

2007-10-09 07:55:04 · 2 answers · asked by Latina Hottie! W.Chocolate 2 in Embassies & Consulates

http://www.yahoo.com/s/701633

Why can't they control their leaks ?...What's worse is they keep denying it ! Then when the leak is proven, they just stonewall some more... It is getting seriously ridiculous now.

It's almost like they don't want to capture Bin Laden...

2007-10-09 07:55:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

A. Establish individual standards based on abilities of each individual subordinate.
B. Heavily consider personality when appraising performance.
C. Accompany subordinated in the field periodically to see how well they're doing.
D. Develop various standards for each jov so that individuality can be rated.

2007-10-09 07:54:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-10-09 07:53:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

does anybody know?

2007-10-09 07:52:17 · 7 answers · asked by Misses 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

CA (residing ) NJ ( License)

I got a speeding ticket at 97 mph in 65 mph Zone , i understood that its too fast , but i did it now i got a fine of $391.00 . I am ready to pay that fine as i agree that i did mistake so i should pay that , but the court has not given me option to do a class to take the remark out of my license, when i called upon court they said i was driving fast and not eligible for the class and i explained them that its my first traffic offense then the clerk asked me to come to court and request the Judge .

My questions : Will CA state be able to Put Points on My NJ License ?
Once i go to Court , how should i talk to judge so that he will allow me for
class?
please advice me as i had never been in this situation, and very new to court.


Suresh

2007-10-09 07:52:09 · 4 answers · asked by venkatasuresh_g 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-10-09 07:51:32 · 1 answers · asked by Megan C 2 in Law & Ethics

I believe it goes something like this:

"With great power comes great responsibility"

Any Ideas?

2007-10-09 07:51:10 · 12 answers · asked by skullpicker 3 in Other - Politics & Government

i was arrested last new years eve for dwi. i'm pretty sure i passed brthlzr at jail but i never asked because the next day the judge dismissed the case due to contradictory info in the report: officer said i refused to takeblood test, but there was a form that i signed which gave them my consent to take said test. so case was dismissed. 3 months later the d.a. refiled charges and i just found out because a state trooper pulled me over for inspection and told me of the warrant. when i asked why charges were refiled, the d.a. said he thought there was enough evidence to pursue a conviction. he then mentioned the part where i "refused a blood test" and i told him that was why the case was dropped to begin with--because that statement was not true. the only other "evidence" he cited was "poor results on the f.s. test: shaky when on one leg (disregarding that i told the officers my knee was injured). also, the report says i admitted taking vicodin that night, which is a blatant lie

2007-10-09 07:50:56 · 4 answers · asked by twitching_green_grasshopper 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

Karl Marx is like the Nostradomus of political predictions.

In laymen's terms, Marx believed that a capitalistic society would eventually corrupt and move towards socialism with the end result being communism.

The middle class is dwindling -- few go to the rich side while majority go to the poor side.
Billary "knows" what's best for each individual of a free society.
She wants to make everyone have healthcare and 401k's.

How are the Democrats not seeing this? How does a supporter of Billary not see this?

2007-10-09 07:50:28 · 22 answers · asked by Glen B 6 in Politics

How many times how we heard the headline, "violence in Iraq increases..." or "American deaths increase for the four straight week..."
Now we see that the violence in Iraq is decreasing the body count dropping and the media in nowhere. I watch NBC nightly news and they have to set aside a special time each week for the "lighter side of the news."

How can we make decisions on anything if we only see the fantastic and the outrageous? Should the good news continue to be underground? I understand that there will be people that will ignore good news when it doesn't fit their agenda but at least we all would hear about it.

We really need to get the whole picture and our media has failed us.

2007-10-09 07:44:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-10-09 07:43:42 · 17 answers · asked by Tyrie E 1 in Law & Ethics

Meanwhile Iraqi officials have accused the U.S. of killing at least 17 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in multiple helicopter air strikes near Baquba on Friday. At least four houses were destroyed. One Iraqi army official said many of the civilians were killed when they rushed out to help those hurt in the initial bombing.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/1340244

Is this what the empire stands for?

2007-10-09 07:41:17 · 5 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3 in Government

First she wants to FORCE everyone to have medical insurance, now, she wants all of us to get a 401K plan. Will she be the first USA dictator?

2007-10-09 07:40:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I rent a small 2 bedroom house. The bathroom doesn't have a vent system and is spotted really bad of mold. Is there a law that will allow me to withhold my rent if nothing is done? I've made 2 written and 1 verbal request of my landlord! Thanks for your time.

2007-10-09 07:39:49 · 3 answers · asked by Amadis 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-09 07:39:47 · 7 answers · asked by Lisa M 5 in Politics