Politics & Government - 7 November 2007

I bought a t.v. on craigslist that was listed as brand new never open factory sealed.
Anyhow, I paid $1200 cash for it, and hauled it home. I didn't open it because it did look new, and it was sealed so I didn't want to pull it out of the box and put it back together again, because it was a pretty large t.v.
Well, I drove it home, plugged it in and it won't turn on!! I called the guy back, and he told me that the t.v was being sold "as is," and now he won't give me my money back. I drove back to his house, and he doesn't open the door for me anymore. what can I do?? Is this considered scamming me? Can I take him to court, or file a police report or something??? Please help, I'm very desperate!!!

2007-11-07 06:43:20 · 6 answers · asked by misstherapiss 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 06:40:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

They call it "The War on Drugs". Lou Dobbs (CNN) calls it the "Culture War" with this flood of illegal immigration into the U.S., stressing our society, hospitals, schools, tax dollars, and allowing so much infiltration of crime to take hold. If you've never lived in this area and haven't seen it for yourself and how the drug lords and even corrupt Mexican military are escalating with so many guns and armored vehicles, don't say this isn't a war and that's just an over-used word. Soldiers returning from active duty overseas will report what they have seen happen to countries over-run by illegals from neighboring territories, and how the active mining of borderlands is common practice. Some suggest we do the same within the immediate area of the border fence being built with Mexico. Do you think that would be an effective deterrant to help stop this flood which has yet to be dammed? Or would that be so cruel as to be un-American/inhumane? Maybe you don't think this is a real war?

2007-11-07 06:39:56 · 13 answers · asked by John S. 5 in Immigration

Do I call the other candidate who won? Or, is it like in tennis where the winner jumps the net to extend a hand to the loser? Any advice?

2007-11-07 06:37:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Isn't it breaking the constitution Freedom of Religion? Unfair, right?

2007-11-07 06:36:10 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

If I was sexually abused by my mother and the police didn't believe me. And returned me home several times after running away. Then I ended up in prison for a few years for trying to murder her. Then I run into my prosecutor at a Church. How can I move forward when I've got this conviction to remind me that my mom sexually abused me? It wasn't anything physical. It was showing me porn, ripping off my clothes so she could force me into nude photos, saying that she owned my body and could look at it anytime she wanted because she gave birth to it, tapping my but sexually when I was an older teen. I was held in a juvy for 2 years where I was beaten up verbally by the staff everyday for trying to kill her.

2007-11-07 06:35:47 · 9 answers · asked by openupfresh 1 in Law & Ethics

Where in the Constitution or Bill of Rights does it say "the government is responsible for making up for individuals' short comings"?

I must have missed that part while memorizing it for my criminal law classes.

2007-11-07 06:34:47 · 13 answers · asked by TJ815 4 in Government

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=3821432&page=4

2007-11-07 06:34:45 · 11 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6 in Elections

Aren't thumbs up, or down sufficient enough to show your disagreement, or dislike of another user's answer? If you give a thumbs down, the answer you don't like is automatically hidden, so one doesn't have to see it, unless they wish to by clicking "show".
Isn't it abuse by reporters of a question, or answer, if they're merely reporting it to hurt an asker, or answerer?
Even more so, isn't it abuse by YA to remove a question or answer just because it was reported, WITHOUT having investigted the report FIRST?

I ask this in Politics, since most of you will understand the reasoning in asking this.

What say you all?

2007-11-07 06:34:28 · 23 answers · asked by xenypoo 7 in Politics

Some people ask such stupid questions, and get answers; but others ask serious questions, and no one wants to answer them...how come?

2007-11-07 06:33:59 · 9 answers · asked by Sarah Brown 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Who's next? This is Wayne in eastern Virginia. Hi, Wayne. It's nice to have you with us on the EIB Network.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you today?

RUSH: Good, sir. Thank you.

CALLER: Sorry I missed your blue funk, but I may add to it a little bit. The Blue Ridge Mountains stretch all the way from Maine to Georgia.

RUSH: Yup.

CALLER: They get their name, the Blue Ridge Mountains, because -- I'm a Ph.D. chemist -- and pine trees exude a compound called "pinene" that is all carbon and hydrogen.

RUSH: Wait. How do you spell that, pinene?

CALLER: P-i-n-e-n-e.

RUSH: Pinene, and it's all carbon and all hydrogen?

CALLER: Yes. It's also got a double bond which makes it reactive.

RUSH: So what's the point? We gotta cut down pine trees?

CALLER: That's right. The point is, every pine tree in the country should be cut down to reduce the carbon we put into the atmosphere.

RUSH: But then what would happen to the Blue Ridge range?

CALLER: It would disappear. You'd cut down all the pine trees.

RUSH: Well, we can't cut down trees. The environmentalists won't let us cut down trees, but they'll burn the next time a fire breaks out.

CALLER: (laughing) I know that. But they're just being so idiotic about the whole thing.

RUSH: So you are not a member of the "consensus" of scientists who believes in this man-made global warming hoax?

CALLER: No, I believe that there may be some climatic change going on, but I don't believe it's global warming, and I don't believe that we have enough data to predict what's going to happen in the next 50 years.

RUSH: Of course not. That's why they say 50 years, instead of next year. Because 50 years, "Oh, we can't afford to wait! We've got time to fix it: raise taxes, roll back your lifestyles, make some sacrifices, vote Democrat, and go socialist."

CALLER: That's right. I've done enough modeling, computer modeling to know that I can tweak the parameters on the model and make it say anything I want to.

RUSH: Well, of course. Exactly. The models do not factor in all the relevant data anyway, such as precipitation, because we can't even measure every drop of precipitation that happens on the planet every day. We simply don't have the ability. We don't have the systems. We don't have the equipment, and when you leave precipitation out of these models, it renders them worthless. You know, you, as someone who doesn't believe in the man-made aspect of the warming that is going on -- according to Algore, you, Wayne -- are an "outlier."

CALLER: Yes, I know. In scientific data, I would be called an outlier in statistics and just chopped off at the ankles.

RUSH: Now, you know, but I want to make sure everybody else knows. Outlier is spelled o-u-t-l-i-e-r, and it's not that you're lying. It means that you are on the fringes.

CALLER: That's right.

RUSH: You're way outside the "mainstream of accepted science" on this bogus hoax.

CALLER: That's right -- and in science, outliers are ignored.

RUSH: In fact, they are totally ignored.

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: That's why they're called outliers. All right, thanks, Wayne. I appreciate that. Well, so what? We're going to have to cut down every pine tree to eliminate... Well, that's sacrifice. Sacrifice. Bye-bye Christmas trees! Cut down all the pine trees. A Christmas tree is a relative of the pine tree. By the way, the Brits, some stupid government agency in the UK has warned Santa Claus to lose weight because he's setting a bad example for British kids. I kid you not. I have that and more coming up on the program in the stacks of stuff.

2007-11-07 06:33:52 · 8 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

or bedroom when they proclaim the right for homosexuals to marry, yet liberals want to regulate home schooling, especially those children who are being raised by conservative God fearing parents. Isnt this hypocritical? Shouldnt parents have a right to teach and raise their kids the way they see fit?

2007-11-07 06:32:17 · 9 answers · asked by aCeRBic 4 in Law & Ethics

It has come to my attention that the NEO-CON boogeymen have been trolling this forum.

Also with the recent removals of many top posters has me wondering if the Neo-Con Boogeymen are actually Social Progressives?

I am independent so don't blame me.

2007-11-07 06:31:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Every cop in my city smokes.
Is it the stress from the job?
If it is, I totally understand.

I do not like smoking by the way.

2007-11-07 06:29:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

This question stems from something my father told me about when Bill Clinton was either running for his first term or had just won it and was being asked questions from the audience. An aging hippie stood up to the microphone and uttered the question "So will you be like our Father?"

It's like democrats want government to be the daddy they never had or should have had to love and take care of them. They want 'daddy' to pay for them to go to the doctor, go to college, pay for their groceries, and then take any money they do earn because they're too child-like to make their own decisions with it.

If I wanted that I'd find the nearest trailer park and find a controlling and abusive husband.

I know this is normally referred to as a "Nanny state" where people want the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, but I think its more like wanting a father figure.

2007-11-07 06:29:49 · 19 answers · asked by TJ815 4 in Politics

a number of years ago, when I worked a poll as clerk, there was a gentleman who brought all the residents of his group home to vote. The home was for the mentally and physically challenged and he had completed the forms that gave him the right to 'assist' them in voting. Now I understand that cerebral palsy affects the body and not the mind, so people with this are more than competent to vote. But my question is this, for the ones who have limited mental capacity and may not even understand the process, should they be allowed to vote? Does his 'assisting them' to vote give him more than his 'one man one vote' status? Would like opinions on this.

2007-11-07 06:28:01 · 5 answers · asked by momatad 4 in Elections

2007-11-07 06:27:54 · 33 answers · asked by random mentalist. 3 in Law & Ethics

just two years ago fifteen workers was blew to bits (sorry for the explicit decription) it was a special done on discovery channel. when i go out in my car i see BP stations all over the place. how do you survive as a company from this level accident? did the people who sue get paid yet?

2007-11-07 06:26:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 06:26:20 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

my father was kind of getting on my nerves so I sent him to a nursing home. He was still competent but it was a pain in the *** taking care of him. So after he went away to the nursing home I knew I wasn't going to leave in that crappy old cabin he was living in. So i decided to sell it. I made a nice profit and bought a exsquiset persian rug. However people keep thinking that I am a scumbag. How should I respond to these false aqusations?

2007-11-07 06:25:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Ok so is there a smoking age in New York State? On wiki pedia it says you have to be 16 to smoke legally? But you can only buy cigarettes at 18?whats the smoking age is us?

2007-11-07 06:25:09 · 8 answers · asked by syd. 4 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 06:25:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Embassies & Consulates

what are you a runner up for. Explain this to me.

2007-11-07 06:25:06 · 1 answers · asked by Steve H 1 in International Organizations

Do you think you should pay more or less in taxes? If the government needs more money, should they just increase taxes to raise it, even if it is just a select group of people that have to pay more, or should they look for frivolous spendings and/or obsolete programs to cut first? And finally, if you were wealthy (or if you are), would you voluntarily pay more in taxes?

2007-11-07 06:25:04 · 16 answers · asked by Mutt 7 in Politics

My Nephew likes his Marine uniform but his friends don't want him to wear it. Why?

2007-11-07 06:24:23 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-11-07 06:24:00 · 24 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Politics

This was the top headline of the newspaper for today. So does this news come as surprise for you or you were expecting this? I was expecting this, because Bush and iraq war are very unpopular. Also does this mean that VA. is becoming blue because in last 2 to 3 elections, GOP lost US senate and governorship seats? And does this also mean that next year Hillary would win VA?

2007-11-07 06:22:57 · 3 answers · asked by Math 7 in Elections

would you prefer to live in if you had the choice? If you would prefer to remain in a capitalist country, while disliking capitalism - Why?

2007-11-07 06:22:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Iam just wondering is it a required procedure for a judge to use the gavel? Or is it just a tradition and not a legal thing?

2007-11-07 06:20:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 06:19:26 · 29 answers · asked by Scott 1 in Politics