Politics & Government - 30 October 2007

2007-10-30 12:40:59 · 20 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

2007-10-30 12:39:13 · 15 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

As more and more country are drying up there's a struggle between countries to control water. It is afterall the "most necessary ingredient of LIFE." without it we're all died. However, people seem to not be aware of the destructions that we are doing to our water, instead we are building more dams and hydroelectricity which takes up so much water. So why does not no one care that it might run out someday?

Read: "Every drop for sale" by Jeffrey Rothfeder

2007-10-30 12:39:02 · 6 answers · asked by Cook 1 in Military

Say he/she pulled you over and you swore to yourself (not at them) like "This is bull****" can they arrest you?

2007-10-30 12:37:32 · 11 answers · asked by •◘☼GO○○PHILS☼◘• 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

my mom is being tried for shoplifting and she told me that she was going out to pay her public defender. i am skeptical because she has been using cocaine and i think that that might be what she is going out for. i did not think that you had to pay for your public defender

2007-10-30 12:34:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-10-30 12:33:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2007-10-30 12:32:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

And also what sides do these different parties take on these issues?

2007-10-30 12:31:32 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Many of the illegal immigrants come to make money so they can send it home to their family, and then someday return to them when they have saved enough. The others are tryng very hard to gain legality. If the US didn't make it so hard in the first place to enter then we wouldn't have the problem of so many illegals now.
I am a US citizen, born and raised here, and I am proud of it - but I am sorry to say, sometimes I am so ashamed of our seeming inability to sympathize with those poorer than ourselves. Should we spend only ten days in their shoes we would be panting at the borders begging to be allowed to come back.
Illegally immigrating is against the law, but most of them don't know any other way. Let's try to help them understand rather than hating them. Only when they see we care will they stop to listen. I am not condoning illegal actions, I just wish we could try to be more helpful. God wants us to help those weaker than ourselves, and Mexico's economy is obviously weaker than

2007-10-30 12:30:07 · 21 answers · asked by Roger V 2 in Immigration

If a legal adult solicited a youth aged 16 or older that was emancipated, is it legal for them to have sex?

If it is legal, what makes it alright for a 16 emancipated child to have sex with a legal adult over 18 then just a regular 16 year old? Cause either way, they are both technically have the same brain capablitity.

2007-10-30 12:29:13 · 7 answers · asked by Tainteddeceptions 3 in Law & Ethics

Ive been having big problems with my landlord. I share a duplex with him. I live on oneside of the house and he lives on the other. But we have different entrances, driveways, ect. The house is completely cut off so we dont see each other.

Since I moved in (about a year ago) I keep on either catching him IN my side or theres evdience that hes been inside. With out asking. He just comes in whenever he likes. And who knows what he is doing.

Twice I've caught him in the act. I came home and he was inside. One excuse was "your cat was about to jumpout the window" (I didnt have any open windows) the other "your toilet was making a funny noise"

Other times he would come in and turn off lights.. heat/air condtioner/tv. I pay for my eletric bill and all of that.

Ive asked him to stop and he doesnt. My sister is convinced that hes going through my underwear or something like that.

Can I change the lock.. or what can I do??

2007-10-30 12:26:48 · 16 answers · asked by nicoℓe 4 in Law & Ethics

what is the difference between local law enforcement and federal law?

2007-10-30 12:26:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Or would the world be better off with a declining pop, till we get back to 2-3B.

2007-10-30 12:24:52 · 13 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4 in Politics

Unfortunately, my mom didn't care enough to take the time to write out a will before she passed away this summer. She lived in Louisiana and owned some property there. There are 6 children and no one was named as her beneficiary. How do we deal with this without paying a fortune? And 4 of us live out of state.

2007-10-30 12:24:33 · 2 answers · asked by marie 4 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-30 12:24:25 · 14 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

2007-10-30 12:24:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

umm yeah if you know if any other state has a different age for drinking... i need it!

some websites of where you found it would be nice too!
thanks!

2007-10-30 12:24:11 · 5 answers · asked by Mecca M 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-30 12:23:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush's mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.

"I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board on Tuesday. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."

2007-10-30 12:23:26 · 12 answers · asked by oohhbother 7 in Politics

i have a case coming up at the end of november for a robbery that took place 2 years ago.


i was working as a clerk in a gas station while attending college and towards the end of november i was robbed 2 times within 3 nights by the same person. there was no physical harm done, i did have a slight panic attack the second time however. none of my money was taken and i voluntarily left my job and was not going to be fired. i did have nightmares for a month or two after the situation.

this is being brought up now because there was a spree of robberies by these two guys in west virginia and pennsylvania and i suppose they are getting off on parole in wv so they are attempting to try them in pittsburgh at the end of the month.

i was curious if for any reason i could file a civil suit against any specific party.

thanks

2007-10-30 12:21:36 · 5 answers · asked by tom t 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

If a boy doesn't register 30 days after his 18th b-day, what is the penalty? In California only. Can he still get a driver's license?

2007-10-30 12:20:13 · 3 answers · asked by kalamibe 2 in Military

2007-10-30 12:18:57 · 24 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics

I remember 9/11, seeing the first plane hit. It was certainly shocking. I was at work and we had a TV in the cafeteria. We wondered what went wrong in the cockpit. Of course, when the second plane hit, it occurred to us that it was a terrorist group, but hypothetically, what if it wasn't? Are we truly upset by the magnitude of the attack, or are we angry that it was deliberately done by foreigners? Are Americans angry or scared? It just seems that 9/11 is represented as an event that has Americans scared to death. I wonder if people are scared or mainly angry. Personally, I hate bin Laden and I'm mad as hell that he's still alive. Iraq and Iran have nothing to do with it.

2007-10-30 12:18:56 · 7 answers · asked by CaesarLives 5 in Politics

Now Bush wants to grant Blackwater immunity, basically he is saying a private company is above international law and our troops are world cops free to kill who they please.

2007-10-30 12:15:04 · 18 answers · asked by The President 3 in Politics

I saw a picture with mr O and three other with the caption of his middle name and wanted to check on the correctness of the picture.

2007-10-30 12:14:23 · 16 answers · asked by MONEYMAN 3 1 in Politics

What are the chances of an illegal immigrant being deported when he is charged with rape and lewd acts on a child under 14?The sentence is 25years-Life.And hes only been here for 6 years.This is the only thing I want to know-it is NOT me(obviously).

2007-10-30 12:14:03 · 3 answers · asked by Amanda 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

What’s Wrong with America?

I sure hope you like C-SPAN, reruns, and reality shows, because if we the Hollywood proletariat have our way, every writer in town is going on strike, perhaps as soon as this Thursday. If you ask me, it’s not a moment too soon.
Technically, we’re striking against the producers, the studios, and the networks — the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers — who have been trying to screw us out of our fair share of VHS and DVD residuals for years, and whose initial offer was to screw us even harder. With a brave new world of iPhone technology on its way, we want to make sure we don’t get fooled again.

But everyone knows we’re really striking against you, the ungrateful, reactionary, and probably crypto-fascist audience. You’ve let us all down by not going to see our movies.

The Kingdom? A disappointment at $46 million. Rendition? A huge antiwar belly flop for Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, and the guy from Brokeback Mountain playing in 2,250 theaters that hasn’t yet managed $8 million. Elizabeth: The Golden Age? The Catholic-bashing costume party with Cate Blanchett in high dudgeon and higher drag is a flopola at $14 million. In the Valley of Elah, from scribe du jour Paul Haggis? It’ll be lucky to make $7 million. At this rate, you probably won’t even go to see Brian De Palma’s Redacted.

Frankly, we’re tired of throwing our pearls before you swine. So we’re firing you.

I mean, come on: the fourth installment of a torture-porn series, a Steve Carell laugher, a vampire movie set in Alaska and a comedy aimed at the, ahem, “urban audience” are opening up cans of cinematic whup-*** on the finest, most passionate anti-American movies our smartest, snarkiest Harvard grads can think up. And Lions for Lambs hasn’t even opened yet! Heck, The Rock’s family-values comedy The Game Plan has made $77 million, more than all the antiwar movies put together.

It’s so sad: Here we were, on a roll, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in command of Congress, the Clinton Restoration practically a fait accompli, and Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize to use as a doorstop alongside his Oscar — and this is the thanks we get.

Well, I just don’t get it. It’s not like our patriotism is questionable or anything. Like Bonosera the undertaker in The Godfather, we love U.S.-America, we believe in U.S.-America, just not U.S.-America the way she is now: a racist, sexist, homophobic bastion of white male privilege, built on the backs of Africans and Native Americans and exploited immigrants, seeking to export its murderous rage to the Middle East and beyond. And all right-thinking people — by which I mean “left-thinking” people, of course — agree with us. You certainly won’t get any argument on the west side of Los Angeles, and wherever I travel in this great land of ours — to places as diverse as San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and the Upper West Side — it’s unanimous. America stinks!



So we want to change this country into something new and beautiful and socialist, a liberated America in which we middle-class Hollywood people (for so we like to think of ourselves; we’re not really rich) can live safely in our patrolled communities and send our kids to private schools while making sure your tax money goes to pacify the howling mob beyond the gates. An America, in other words, that looks more like South America or South Africa than Bedford Falls, condemned to eternal punishment for its moral turpitude. Who could possibly object to that?

Another reason we’re striking is that there’s just too much competition these days from journalists. Who does this clown Scott Thomas Beauchamp think he is, pitching anti-war movies in the guise of writing a “Baghdad Diary” for The New Republic? He might have fooled his editors into thinking he was doing straight reporting, but anyone who lives within 50 miles of the intersection of Fairfax and Melrose can smell a scenario when he steps in it. It’s hard enough to make your bones and get into the Writers Guild of America, a closed-shop union that civilians can’t join, without worrying about a bunch of hacks making stuff up that makes America look bad and passing it off as truth in the hopes that some producer will come calling. That’s our job!

So as the days dwindle down to a precious few, it’s looking more and more like we’re going out. The studios have stockpiled all the bad scripts they can get their hands on, the writers’ rooms are going 24/7 to churn out enough episodes to get the networks through Festivus, and nobody’s taking any pitches until this thing is over.

It may be a while. Last Thursday, the producers have told us to forget about upgrading the DVD residuals, or any other residuals. For our part, the Guild membership has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike — the last one was in 1988, and lasted five months — and all over town, people are consulting their accountants and business managers over how they’re going to make their $20,000 a month mortgage nut if they’re not working.

Both sides have called in a federal mediator when negotiations resume tomorrow. But unless this stooge of the Bush Administration waterboards us, it’s on to the picket lines at Paramount, ABC, and Warner Bros. We’re going to hit the AMPTP where it hurts, right in the pocketbook, and make ‘em remember that it all starts with the writer and if you think actors can invent stories and ad-lib dialogue, you’re a die-hard Robert Altman fan.

But, even more, we’re going to hit you where you live: on your sofas.

No more Letterman. No more Leno. No more Lost. No more great movies like Rendition to alert you to the evils of the Chimp-in-Chief and the Grand Vizier and their Illegal War in Iraq. The hell with you. We’ve knocked ourselves out for you, and this is how you repay us. Serves you right

2007-10-30 12:13:45 · 10 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

2007-10-30 12:11:53 · 17 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

What gives " International Joe " such a bad rap ?

2007-10-30 12:10:10 · 16 answers · asked by Godzilla Gal 4 in Military

Do you know anyone who was murdered by their abusive partner for leaving the abusive relationship?
Has this ever happened to you? Were there any RED FLAGS in the begining of the relationship.What were the warning signs that the relationship was going to become abusive.

2007-10-30 12:09:15 · 6 answers · asked by KISS ME♥*´`*•.¸★ 2 in Law Enforcement & Police