Politics & Government - 17 November 2007

2007-11-17 04:42:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If they are going to heaven, wouldn't they want to die? It has to be better than the life they lead. Why all the worry about their deaths? Why does Shock and Awe collateral damage even matter?

2007-11-17 04:41:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I work at a grocery store and have a ucfw union, here is the thing i want to file a aggrevment however its spelled can someone explain to me what happens after i file it. im filing it because my manager scheduled someone below me in sinority to be off on a sunday and scheduled me to work when i have more sinority. and also can someone show me what a aggrevment looks like.

2007-11-17 04:41:15 · 4 answers · asked by Jen C 1 in Law & Ethics

This a funny thing voters of the time are not the smartest becuase they tend to vote the other way because they think that it is the time to change something that is not bad. For example a lot of the people are going to the polls in 2008 to vote for a Democrat because they feel it is time to change.

Well they are not smart because when that democrat comes into office they are going to turn their backs on the people. Then when they stop this war there will be another terrorist attack. Then people are going to ask "why did Congress and the President take us out of the war?" Then these people will blame the government when it was the medias fault and their fault for not seeing the true reason behind this war.

And the true reason for this war was to give Iraqi people freedom. Also Saddam said that he would like to take over the US. When the decision to have this war or not it was asked "will we have any freedoms in the future if we do not have this war?"

2007-11-17 04:41:07 · 10 answers · asked by bee bee boo 3 in Government

... rights abuses then we would simply stop doing business with them.

The suggestion of an Olympic boycott is a sad reflection of the fact that we won't put our money where our mouths are. An Olympic boycott doesn't cost us anything and politicizes an event that is meant as an apolitical sporting event (not that anything is ever completely apolitical but we're supposed to be trying)

It saddens me that we want ethics only when it doesn't hurt us financially - and thats not really ethical.

Your thoughts?

2007-11-17 04:39:38 · 5 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7 in Politics

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/110807.html

2007-11-17 04:37:49 · 25 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics

If I remember correctly, a "divinely inspired" movement and a secular, "earthly" corporate-state authoritarian government aren't exactly compatible with one another.

Sounds contradictory, does it not?

2007-11-17 04:33:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=11920

2007-11-17 04:31:27 · 17 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics

The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has used fascist-like, McCarthyite tactics and suspended fundamental liberties at home, including the nearly millennium-old Right of Habeas Corpus.

When President George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to proceed with warrantless domestic wiretapping, he knew he was establishing an illegal wiretapping program to spy on Americans, and that he was placing himself in a situation of illegality. If this had not been illegal, his attorney general would not have felt obliged to cover up the entire affair in order to protect the administration. In fact, under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the U.S. department of Justice has lost its long-held tradition of independence, and embarked upon a long list of politicized operations.

Once a politician embraces illegality, there are no limits. For instance, George W. Bush has paved the way for exercising martial law powers, first by de-facto repealing the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that forbids the deployment of soldiers on American soil for domestic law enforcement, and, second, by signing last October (2006) the Military Commissions Act of 2006(MCA: HR 6166). Under this act, the president has granted himself almost-dictatorial powers to arrest and detain indefinitely any American citizen, without constitutional protections.

To top things off, President George W. Bush has relied on signing statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws in a manner that no previous president would have ever thought of doing.

2007-11-17 04:19:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

my sister and her husband do all they can, but they barely get by. Their daughter has a congenital bone disease and it requires my sister to be home providing around the clock care. Her husband works sixty hours a week, but they barely get their bills paid. They are going through a rent to own place to purchase my niece's bed because they couldn't afford one outright and they pay every 2 weeks. They were late with their payment last time but did get the payment in on Tuesday. On Friday, the repo guy showed up because of a misunderstanding, but he called the office from their home and realized he wasn't supposed to take the bed. He then told them their next payment was due Monday and asked for a check to hold for the next payment. They don't have a checking account, but told him they'd be in Monday with cash. He lectured them about their payments and left. Later on, my sister had to run to the store to get some depends for my niece and he was in there- off the clock- and (continued)

2007-11-17 04:19:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-17 04:18:45 · 5 answers · asked by Edmund S 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-17 04:16:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The more money I make the more money they take.

Making you second guess on taking that higher position being offered at your job.

2007-11-17 04:16:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-17 04:15:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

you know, the seperation of church and state clause that the Bush administration has ignored?

The first amendment to the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" The two parts, known as the "establishment clause" and the "free exercise clause" respectively, form the textual basis for the Supreme Court's interpretations of the "separation of church and state" doctrine.

2007-11-17 04:14:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-17 04:12:03 · 13 answers · asked by jammey h 2 in Politics

why doesn't Ann Coulter just keep her hateful yap shut and stay home and bake cookies. If it weren't for libs she wouldn't have the rights that she abuses.

2007-11-17 04:10:38 · 14 answers · asked by Jim T 2 in Politics

hey i ' ve got a session wid d judge (court judge) i ' ve 2 ask him sum questions ....... any suggestion or tips u guys would like 2 gimme??or ny gud question dat i could ask him??plz answer!!!

2007-11-17 04:10:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

I am up to date with the payments and have never missed a payment. Today I recieved a Bailliff's letter claiming the whole original amount. Fees for the letter have been added and the letter threatens to add on huge costs if the Bailliff's have to come out to enforce it.

I have proof that there is an agreement with the CSA for me to pay a set amount by standing order and I have bank statements showing that the money has been paid to the CSA every month as per the agreement.

I cannot afford a solicitor. I am very worried about all these extra charges that the Bailliffs are adding. What do I do?

2007-11-17 04:09:44 · 4 answers · asked by Wunout O 1 in Law & Ethics

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2886538.ece

2007-11-17 04:08:18 · 24 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics

...a conflict of interest because he did it while in office and is using the military to fortify it...?

2007-11-17 04:07:26 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

With the help of her terrorist friends would she surrender to radical Islam and cause all Americans to convert?

2007-11-17 04:04:26 · 22 answers · asked by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5 in Politics

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2878525.ece

2007-11-17 04:02:10 · 21 answers · asked by Page 4 in Politics

Why do all Ministers need such high salaries and lavish lifestyles (minus legitmate job expenses of course). What a welcome shock it would be to us hard-pressed taxpayers if suddenly along came a Prime Minister who insisted in living in a council house, and driving around in a mini.
He`d probably get voted out for being such a crackpot eccentric!

2007-11-17 04:02:00 · 12 answers · asked by B0uncingMoonman@aol.com 7 in Government

what would they be?

2007-11-17 04:01:26 · 6 answers · asked by Scrappy52 6 in Elections

A voter initiative to do that started recently and this may be in response to that. He says that being one of 7 places people can get illicit licenses is turning Oregon into a haven for that, and he wants that to stop.

What do you think?

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1195187161242570.xml&coll=7

2007-11-17 03:59:19 · 10 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/15/wounded.marine/index.html

2007-11-17 03:57:31 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-11-17 03:57:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

bottom line, either make medical socialized like the police and fire protection...or make all three a business.

I mean come on can't we be "good capitalists" and just make police and fire protection a business? you know so next time oyu get robbed or have a fire you get asked if you have insurance first?

come on what do you say? let's just be capitalist pigs. come on.


wait i have a novel idea- lets just implement national health. WOW! what a thought. you mean we can let people get healthcare as they do police and fire? naa too crazy.

too bad that the cons want it both ways. a business when it suits them, and socialism when it suits them.

oh- if you republicans hate taxes so much feel free to move to Iraq. You can send the military home, keep blackwater and keep W as your master. Amazing deal huh?

just leave patriotic Americans alone and let us invest in America and take care of our own. Not Iraq and Haliburton.

2007-11-17 03:53:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

an illegal immigrant in the US, is facing deportation?

if you were in this situation? what's right and wrong?

thank you

(i personally think it is absolutely absurd that the government would even think of deportating a soldier's wife, regardless of what the situation is. it is just really outrageous and mind boggling.)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/20/national/main2956093.shtml

read the story....this guy is even captured and held hostage, possibly dead.

2007-11-17 03:50:22 · 12 answers · asked by Moore55 4 in Immigration