HI.My I-20 has been cancelled what shall I do?My visa will expire in 2009.Will I need a new visa to come back.Please help.Thank you
2007-11-21 10:27:17 · 4 answers · asked by KAB 1 in Embassies & Consulates
Is it possible to get a bachelors in 3 years while serving in the military? I don't see how anyone could have the time.
How is it that you aquire college money for post military? I heard they take it out of your paycheck.
2007-11-21 10:26:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
Again we hear the muslim whine that anti-terror laws are unfair to "moderate" muslims. Well how pray tell are we supposed to tell the moderates from the radicals? The moderates haven't exactly distinguished themselves by being outspoken against terrorism. Oh, they have an excuse. They say they're too scared to speak out. Seems like there are only two kinds of muslims. Those who are too scared to speak and those who are brave enough to blow themselves up. And us infidels are just supposed to "wait and see" to find out which is which. In the meantime we should give all of them the benefit of the doubt. But wouldn't it be more prudent under these circumstances to *distrust* all muslims until they prove themselves otherwise? And if that hurts the feeling of these so-called moderates, maybe that will be the incentive for them to find their lost courage.
2007-11-21 10:25:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
im worried that if the (Russian, and anywhere else i guess) Nazi group and other groups like the klu klux clan get control will there be killing and war?
2007-11-21 10:24:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
I am not. I feel its an invasion of privacy. And realistically it will not stop the people we are being told its to stop. Terrorists and illigal immigrants. Its just another 'big brother' facade from the government, to monitor our every move, brought in on the back of a 'terrorist attack', to justify it.
quoted from enlightened godess "...The government has now proved itself to be incapable of protecting the details of the citizens of this country, should we now also launch a country wide campaign against the introduction of Identity cards?" I say YES we should.
2007-11-21 10:23:00 · 38 answers · asked by technochick 2 in Civic Participation
if not then how to explain the desire of our founding fathers, to convey the threat that a government that does not respond to the people is a threat ot the people?
If so, Why are there so many people willing to trust everything politicians say?
2007-11-21 10:21:36 · 11 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7 in Politics
The dollar is radically diminished in the world since Bush took office. Today the Euro closed at 1.48 - it was approx 0.92 before he took office(?) - The Australian Dollar was approx 0.48 and now it's 0.87 - and the dollar keeps falling and falling. The Dollar used to be viewed as the standard that the world based their currency on, and now the Euro is the standard... I've had places tell me they only want Euros and they don't accept dollars. that's pretty terrible. The Bush Administration hasn't even addressed this issue, and they haven't even mentioned it.
much if at all.
2007-11-21 10:17:20 · 13 answers · asked by art_flood 4 in Politics
We have a lot to be thankful for in this country, particularly that we live here, particularly that as human beings on this planet, we live and make up and comprise the United States of America. The gratitude of that alone, if people could just harness that, then the root of optimism could be found there. Because if you have, as I do, a profound appreciation for what this country is and how rare and unique -- remember, not long ago I asked you, you ever wondered why, throughout the history of human civilization, less than 300 million people, in less than 250 years, have created the world's greatest empire? We're all human beings on this planet, just like everybody else. Nothing special about us, in terms of the way we're made. There's nothing really special about where we live. It's how we have organized ourselves and conducted ourselves. That question alone, and its answer, creates awe in me.
I have a vast appreciation for what this population of people since our founding has created, and therein lies a foundation of gratitude. When you have an appreciation and an understanding of what this country is and what's possible here, well, then you have the ability to be optimistic about the future, if you think about it this way. But, if my friend's right, if you take it for granted because you've either never thought about it, or because it's never really been taught to you in the proper perspective, and, of course, these days there's a lot of anti-Americanism being taught in the schools via the multicultural curriculum and so forth, if you expect that being an American simply means you're entitled to low gasoline prices, if you think that being an American means you're entitled to somebody taking care of your health, and then when things go wrong and you haven't learned how to provide them for yourselves, you are going to get mad and think your country is going to hell in a handbasket because it's not doing anything for you. Does New Orleans and Katrina strike a bell?
2007-11-21 10:12:34 · 8 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics
I was riding home along the motorway, and saw blue lights behind me. I pulled to the side to allow him to pass, and continued riding well within the speed limit. After a while I checked my mirror as the patrol car had still not passed and saw it was actualy me he was signaling to pull over, which I then promptly did so. It was just a routine check, and being completely legal was allowed to proceed, but he said if I had continued without yielding, he would have knocked me off of my motorcycle with his car. Is he legally allowed to do this? would he be held responsible for any injury or death as a result of crashing his car into my bike?
2007-11-21 10:07:42 · 35 answers · asked by mokiemagic 3 in Law Enforcement & Police
A top UN official reported to the UN Security Council that recent developments in Iraq have opened an opportunity for progress. UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, B. Lynn Pascoe, briefed the UN Security Council that sectarian tensions are still problematic, but that recent trends including recently released figures that show September having the lowest number of casualties in 2006 are reason to believe there is opportunity for progress." In fact, ladies and gentlemen, front page above the fold with pictures today, the New York Times, the security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Twenty-thousand so far have returned to their homes in Baghdad. "Iraqis sound uncertain about the future, but defiantly optimistic. Many Baghdad residents seem to be willing themselves to normalcy, ignoring risks and suppressing fears to reclaim their lives. Pushing past boundaries of sect and neighborhood..." Front page, above the fold. New York Times. This story has just got to make the Democrats livid, particularly Hillary, particularly Reid and Pelosi.
In a related story from the Daily Star -- don't know where that's from because the top half of the page with the web link is clipped, can't read it, only half of each letter showing. "Iraqi army raid Shi'ite militia strongholds, finds cache of Iranian-made weapons." These were from Mookie's boys, the Mahdi army of Muqtada al-Sadr. And from Mosul, "Abu Nawall, a captured al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, said he didn't join the Sunni insurgent group here to kill Americans or to form a Muslim caliphate. He signed up for the cash. 'I was out of work and needed the money,' said Abu Nawall, the nom de guerre of an unemployed metal worker who was paid as much as $1,300 a month as an insurgent." Well, now, wait, folks, Abu Nawall and his captors agreed that the Iraqis were joining the insurgency out of economic necessity. Well, wait a minute. I thought all along we were creating all these terrorists. I thought Bush was so wrong and so bad and so horrible, John Kerry and the whole Democrat Party elite, they were running out saying, "These people are a proud Muslim bunch, and we're attacking Islam, and they're joining up, we're creating more terrorists." No. They were mercenaries. It was also a way to stay alive. Of course, we hate the Americans, they say here, but we needed the money. As one general referred to them, sounds like they're the Iraq branch of The Sopranos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/middleeast/20surge.html?ei=5065&en=7e7d43064c067b63&ex=1196226000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=86909
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2007/11/19/un_official_says_iraq_showing_progress/7541/
2007-11-21 10:06:52 · 19 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics
what caliber and type would you want and why!...revolver or pistol...9mm...38....45 cal 50cal!!
just asking cause i am seriously considering one.
2007-11-21 10:05:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police
i think america will soon join the eu this should be possible because we already are englands
2007-11-21 10:04:24 · 7 answers · asked by DAVID A. V. MCMAHON 1 in Politics
Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. He's a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google.
Gore has pledged to hand over his KP "salary" to Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit he chairs. But the gift is more symbolic than material. Gore's salary-his cut of the 2 percent "management fee" that KP partners get on all investments-is typically a sliver of the total compensation that VCs receive. If Gore's profit-sharing deal is anything like the firm's other 23 partners, he's also in line to collect tens of millions of dollars a year. That's because partners carve up 30 percent of the profits if and when the alternative-energy start-ups that KP supports go public or are sold. (Kleiner Perkins declined to comment on Gore's compensation, but his communications director, Kalee Kreider, confirmed that he plans to donate only his "guaranteed income" to charity.) Should Gore's prospecting unearth a clean-energy gold mine the size of Google-which earned billions for KP partners-his share of the loot could make him U.S. history's richest ex-veep.
2007-11-21 10:03:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government
http://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal
2007-11-21 10:02:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
President Mugabe unleashed a devastating new blow to Zimbabwe’s mortally wounded economy yesterday, announcing a new law giving the state a controlling stake in mines operating in the country.
Under the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, the Government can take over 51 per cent of companies mining strategic fuels and minerals, taking 25 per cent without paying.
The balance of 26 per cent it needs for a majority shareholding will be paid for, it said. However, the Bill brazenly asserts that payment will come from dividends earned from the state’s shares in the companies it takes without having to pay. It gives the state seven years in which to do it.
See link - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2910110.ece
Question - What are your thoughts ?
2007-11-21 10:02:15 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government
2007-11-21 09:59:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.
Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.
One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills.
See link - http://kdka.com/local/military.signing.bonuses.2.571660.html
Question - What are your thoughts ?
2007-11-21 09:59:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
Criminals, Clintons, Campaigns
What do these three Americans have in common?
John Deutch, the CIA director between May 1995 and December 1996, faced criminal charges for storing state secrets on his home computer.
David Herdlinger, a former Arkansas prosecutor and judge, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1986, having accepted bribes to waive charges against those accused of drunk driving.
Alfredo Luna Pharr Regalado failed to mention to a Customs official that he was smuggling into America more than the $10,000 permitted.
If your answer is "They are all free as a bird, having been given a last-minute pardon by President Clinton," you are right, though that is not the answer the examiners are looking for.
The correct answer is that all three, who were indeed pardoned at the last minute by Mr. Clinton, have made recent financial contributions to the presidential campaign coffers of Senator Clinton. Mr. Deutch, now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave the maximum of $2,300. Mr. Herdlinger, who has relocated to Georgia and now describes himself as "a coach, catalyst, and facilitator helping people and companies discover and develop their potential," gave $1,000. And Mr. Regalado, an "insurance agent," gave $2,000.
The news that Mrs. Clinton has accepted money from three criminals who were pardoned by Mr. Clinton in highly contentious circumstances — or, more accurately, two criminals and Mr. Deutch, who was on the point of being charged by the Justice Department when he was let off the hook — is sure to prove hugely embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
It revives a deeply damaging controversy about the ethics of the Clintons at a time when Mrs. Clinton is already fending off accusations that a member of her campaign has been smearing her principal rival, Senator Obama, by suggesting to a top Democrat, according to the columnist Robert Novak, that they are sitting on scandalous information about the Illinois lawmaker that is so damaging, it would stop his campaign in its tracks.
It throws into doubt whether Mr. Clinton is a clear political asset to his wife's campaign, or whether the prospect of his return to the White House in an as yet unspecified senior capacity might not bring with it a return of the procession of scurrilous accusations that severely hampered his ability to govern.
And it casts doubt on what has thus far been the pre-eminent efficiency of the Clinton campaign. Mrs. Clinton's defense when she found out that a major donor, Norman Hsu, was still on the run, having failed to appear in court after pleading no contest to a charge of grand theft 15 years ago, was that it was difficult to keep track of the back stories of all those who gave her money.
But surely the Clinton campaign, which is credited with being the most disciplined and determined in modern history, might have foreseen that if someone granted a pardon by Mr. Clinton were to give even a cent to his wife, the fact would become a major political story?
You don't have to be part of Mrs. Clinton's "vast right wing conspiracy" to realize that such a donation, never mind three of them in a row, might be considered by even those without dirty minds as likely evidence of a quid pro quo. It is not as if the list of Clinton pardonees is hard to remember. After all, Mr. Clinton pardoned only 140 criminals and issued commutations to the sentences of 36 others on his last day in office, each one of whom attracted maximum publicity.
Now the whole "Pardongate" affair, which attracted its own independent special counsel, can be revived as a legitimate concern. Which grateful recipients of Mr. Clinton's beneficence have given money to his wife? It is what Mrs. Clinton might call a "gotcha question."
Which of the 15 pardoned cocaine dealers, including Mr. Clinton's self-confessed coke dealer brother, Roger, has given? Has she received cash from the newspaper heiress-turned-anarchist terrorist and bank robber Patricia Hearst? Or the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, who misled the FBI during his appointment hearings about payments made to a mistress?
Just three checks and $5,300 later, immense damage has been done. Not that you could tell it from the official nonapology of Mrs. Clinton's campaign.
"We have raised over $65 million from over 200,000 people," her campaign manager, Howard Wolfson told the suitably named Jake Tapper, the ABC News reporter who first broke the story. "I appreciate your bringing the instance of this $5,300 and these three people to our attention."
There is nothing to suggest that anything illegal has taken place. Pardoned felons have had all their rights as a citizen restored, including the right to give money to the campaign of their choice. But the whole affair calls into question the motivation behind such donations — and whether gratitude played any part.
As Mr. Clinton argued in a spirited defense of his actions in the New York Times just a month after he left office, presidents are free to pardon whom they wish. "There is only one prohibition: there can be no quid pro quo. And there certainly was not in this or any of the other pardons and commutations I granted," he wrote.
2007-11-21 09:57:46 · 8 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics
Congresswoman Iris Varela stormed onto the set of Gustavo Azocar's morning program on Tachira Regional Television, shouting: "I'm demanding a right of reply from this man who has offended me all the time on this program."
The on-air confrontation, in which Varela slapped Azocar several times and then hit him with the microphone, grabbed national attention in Venezuela and is likely to generate a wider debate in the country about free speech issues and the news media.
Azocar is an outspoken critic of leftist President Hugo Chavez, and Varela is one of Chavez's close allies in the National Assembly.
See link - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312391,00.html
Question - What are your thoughts ?
2007-11-21 09:57:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government
Lots of people answered Al-Maghrebi's question, but then he took it off the the Yahoo Answers board. So I'm re-posting it for further discussion. By the way, Al-Maghrebi means "the Maghrebian" in Arabic -- it's an adjective. The writer is saying that he is from the Maghreb region, which includes Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
I'll post my answer to his question below and then all you kids can chime in.
2007-11-21 09:57:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
IF the parents are from India and they are in US for a period of one year, and a baby is born during this period, what is the procedure of getting citizenship and travel passport for the baby?
2007-11-21 09:55:07 · 8 answers · asked by Vikky Randhawa 1 in Immigration
The Left Exaggerated AIDS (Global Warming, Anybody?)
From the Washington Post Foreign Service today, a new report to show UN overestimated AIDS epidemic. Now, why would they do that? Why would the UN overestimate the AIDS epidemic? Can anybody say money? Same reason Ted Danson overestimated the death of the oceans. Can anybody ask the same question about global warming? Why would the UN be overestimating the destruction from global warming? "The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade, according to U.N. documents prepared for the announcement. AIDS remains a devastating public health crisis in the most heavily affected areas of sub-Saharan Africa. But the far-reaching revisions amount to at least a partial acknowledgment of criticisms long leveled by outside researchers who disputed the U.N. portrayal of an ever-expanding global epidemic."
Just take the AIDS epidemic outta here and put global warming in it and you've got an identical story in about ten years. "The latest estimates, due to be released publicly Tuesday, put the number of annual new HIV infections at 2.5 million, a cut of more than 40 percent from last year's estimate, documents show. ... Having millions fewer people with a lethal contagious disease is good news..." However, as is the case with the Drive-By Media, there is always a "however" after the good news. "Some researchers, however, contend that persistent overestimates in the widely quoted U.N. reports have long skewed funding decisions and obscured potential lessons about how to slow the spread of HIV. Critics have also said that U.N. officials overstated the extent of the epidemic to help gather political and financial support for combating AIDS." Oooh, okay, so they did it strategically. They were smart. They lied on purpose to get our attention, to make sure we knew just how rotten it was going to be, and to make sure that governments around the world and individuals threw money at AIDS programs all over the world, administered by the United Nations.
Can anybody say, global warming overestimated? Same bunch of people. In fact, this last line, last paragraph, I never thought that I would see this in the Washington Post: "Beyond Africa, AIDS is more likely to be concentrated among high-risk groups, such as users of injectable drugs, sex workers and gay men. More precise measurements of infection rates should allow for better targeting of prevention measures, researchers say." I don't want to rehash a bunch of history, but I'm sure you all remember back in the eighties when Ronaldus Magnus was president and the AIDS epidemic was spreading because Reagan didn't care, and he had never uttered the word, and if we weren't careful this was going to spread to the heterosexual population in a geometric fashion and it was going to be devastating. So then we started teaching kids how to use condoms, you know, using bananas and cucumbers in school. The condom craze started because it was going to spread to the heterosexual community and so forth. There was never any evidence that it was spreading to the heterosexual community, not sexually anyway, and if you said that, then you were guilty of a hate crime and profiling and discrimination, and all of that.
Now, remember what is fundamentally involved in all this: science. Science told us it was going to spread; it was going to spread to the heterosexual community. Science told us it was going to spread at geometric rates. It was a consensus of scientists. Scientists, scientists, scientists told us that this was all going to be one of the most devastating things around the world. It was time to cough up money for education, and condoms, and cucumbers and all that, and we had rock stars like Bono establish philanthropic careers on the basis of all this, all based on science. I think I read the other day -- correct me if I'm wrong down the road -- but I think somebody's discovered the original case of AIDS in this country was brought in by a Haitian immigrant; is that right? In the fifties? Whatever, it wasn't the eighties. Reagan had nothing to do with it. The left politicizes virtually everything.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900978_pf.html
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071120082258.pmvwp8f9&show_article=1
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071120/D8T14OD80.html
2007-11-21 09:54:24 · 8 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics
2007-11-21 09:52:33 · 11 answers · asked by GJfromfla 3 in Politics
the cops comed by yesterday n they tell me that i haves 2 many cars in my yard that not registered n i needs to get reded of thems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i tell them it my yard n i do what i wants but they tell i violate some STUPId code n i can only have 4 cars in yard!!!!!!! i lauph @ them n they tell me they gona comes back n checks in coupled week!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think neibor calls them cause he not likes me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i not movin no cars cause they fine rights were they R n sometime i take part off them n cat live in couple of them!!!!!!!!!! what shood i dose????????????????
2007-11-21 09:51:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics
Someone started a profitable business selling tumbleweeds. The Left's worst nightmare: Profit
Will they also have the EPA make the tumbleweed (also known as Salsola or Saltwort) a protected species to head off this obscene exploitation?
http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/55334/rolling-in-cash
2007-11-21 09:48:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
Last time I celebrated Thanksgiving I was 8 , then found out the true history of the Holiday and never celebrated it again . For some reason the slaughtering of American Indians does not make me hungry . I really don't understand the purpose of this Holiday at all . I understand family's getting together and all but not how people can celebrate the holiday knowing it's based on the slaughtering of thousands of people !
Question - What are your thoughts ? and Why do you celebrate Thanksgiving
2007-11-21 09:42:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government
They commited the same crime.
2007-11-21 09:42:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
i feel India is having highest crime rate like U.S
2007-11-21 09:41:40 · 4 answers · asked by Heyy!!! 1 in Law & Ethics
2007-11-21 09:40:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics
The letter starts out formally. and goes on to state the my adherence to my set schedule is below par or whatever. It lists every occurrence (late arrrivals, unscheduled absences, leaving early, and my maternity leave. Should my maternity leave be listed with the occurrences that resulted in my termination? I was late numerous times because I did not have adequate daycare arrangements to meet my schedule. my schedule change request was denied
2007-11-21 09:39:06 · 11 answers · asked by Me 2 in Law & Ethics
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