Politics & Government - 30 November 2007

This happened in early august, I was driving at around 10pm at the speed of 80km/h.. I was going to overtake the car in front and i turned out.. I didn't see a motorcycle from the other side till we were quite close (approx. 100-150metres) and i couldn't turn back into my lane because a car was also speeding and already took the lane. I tried to swerve to the right bank then. but the motorcyclist, in an effort to stop, skidded on the road and i just hit him from my left wing. clipping the bike, the rider and the pillion rider with my wheel and dragging them for about 50metres. The rider died on the spot and the pillion rider had severe injuries.

Just the day before, i received a letter requesting compensation by the family of the injured rider totalling up to 15k. And i also have to wait for a court order from the police or government regarding the accident and the deceased. So any advice on what i should do?? I haven't tried a lawyer yet, very frustrated..

I'm form Malaysia btw.

2007-11-30 19:16:14 · 5 answers · asked by TortoiseKid 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 18:44:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

A few good men.

But some would argue that there function requires more discipline, and anyone who would be a marine has that certain ego quality that the marines feed into.

I say any soldier, be they cook, truck driver, NBC, Pac Clerk, seaman airman marine or army soldier equally deserve respect.

Each have a different function, an the chip on a marines soldier doesnt come from them truly being the best soldier, but just an ego and discipline that is created out of necessity for front line combat.

As far as the best soldiers, some would argue that one pilot who could destroy and entire batallion with the depression of a few buttons is a better soldier for his training and amount of damage he can dish out.

Some would argue tht the sniper who could take out a general from 1 1/2 miles away is a better soldier because his one shot one kill can inflict almost as much damage as a pilot.

Or the tank operator who takes out platoons at a time with his power.

2007-11-30 18:36:59 · 17 answers · asked by writersbIock2006 5 in Other - Politics & Government

If YA is represenative of America, why is Hillary doing so well in the polls?

2007-11-30 18:36:57 · 12 answers · asked by truthsayer 6 in Elections

Searching for the legal definition of this. Thanks

2007-11-30 18:28:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i got pulled over last night for forgetting to turn my headlights on.. I received no ticket. Is there a chance they will still send me one in the mail, and will my insurence go up even if i get no ticket?

2007-11-30 18:22:40 · 22 answers · asked by mnikolai24 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

In the U.S. a person caught with only 5 grams of crack-cocaine is automatically sentenced to 5 years in state prison. I don't know who came up with these ridiculous laws but not even child molesters and robbers get 5 years!

2007-11-30 18:18:02 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

If someone were to bring a baby (who had been abandoned) from Mexico and give it to us could we keep it? What kind of paperwork would we have to have? The baby would probably die if it wasn't given to someone.

2007-11-30 18:09:03 · 2 answers · asked by XENA 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 18:08:18 · 4 answers · asked by kitty s 1 in Law & Ethics

First drop bombs split the army up...
next take over the govt and disband the army
doesnt this just send everyone home and create the problem we have now?
then spend 10 years fighting insurgents?


not to mention all of the pissed of husbands and fathers that will fight because we accidentally killed their family dropping bombs

is my logic incorrect?

2007-11-30 18:04:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-11-30 18:02:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Here is a good one, but not very complete

"Most neoconservative defense intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right. They are products of the influential Jewish-American sector of the Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, which morphed into anti-communist liberalism between the 1950s and 1970s and finally into a kind of militaristic and imperial right with no precedents in American culture or political history. Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party's tactics, including preventive warfare such as Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for "democracy." They call their revolutionary ideology "Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism. Genuine American Wilsonians believe in self-determination for people such as the Palestinians. "

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lind1.html

2007-11-30 17:54:13 · 7 answers · asked by vox_of_reason2 3 in Politics

can you? shouldnt they seek to whip the butts of the students parents? sudan, isnt that the country with all the starving little kids with the fly covered distended bellies? where do they get off whipping a grown womans a$$? they should be out planting food or something.

2007-11-30 17:54:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Currently a man is under arrest because his ex girlfriend was pregnant and he wanted an abortion but she refused to have it. The man began putting the abortion pill into her food and drinks causing her to abort. Is it not his right to decide if his "clump of cells" matasticises.

also note it is liberals that are always complaining that women are not considered equal to men.

So should he be convicted

2007-11-30 17:51:35 · 16 answers · asked by CaptainObvious 7 in Politics

2007-11-30 17:50:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Either legal, illegal or both. I really just wish everyone would leave the Mexicans alone. They haven't done anything wrong. Whats the big deal??

2007-11-30 17:50:17 · 33 answers · asked by Hugo P. 1 in Immigration

2007-11-30 17:49:57 · 5 answers · asked by kitty s 1 in Law & Ethics

Guliani was found to have Tax payers money used in charges for his mistress AS WELL AS used rest areas for 9/11 workers for his affairing rendez vous"Because the police department took time in paying off the charges"

The Police Commissionaer says otherwise.
The Comptroller says they investigated and questioned Guliani and were "sTONEWALLED"

Everyone but Guliani and his Ex Police commissioner friend whos indicted for fraud are pretty much the only ones that are saying this is normal practice now...

Former mayors before Guliani say its not normal to charge the way he did.

DOES ALL THIS SUCCESSFULLY SCRAMBLE THE FACT of how the charges were made, Versus the fact that WHY the charges were made in the first place?

Tax payers dollars were used on his affair...isnt that the real issue here??

2007-11-30 17:47:24 · 3 answers · asked by writersbIock2006 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Okay, a friend of mine is currently in jail because he's getting charges pressed against him for having sex with 3 minors.

One of the girls he had sex with was his g/f when they had the sexual relations and she got pregnant. Well, they broke up shortly after she had the baby and I'm pretty sure they remained friends.

I was just wondering...can that be counted against him since they were in a relationship at the time and she gave him consent (I guess it wouldn't be considered legal consent since she was only 16....) and her parents are not pressing charges?

2007-11-30 17:46:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 17:39:46 · 0 answers · asked by star87 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 17:39:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Friend who is 17 has recently gotten more sexual with his 16 YO girlfriend. Not actual intercourse but just fingering her. Its in texas and the consenting age is 17 in Texas. But is masterbation of a 16 YO from a 17 YO against the law? Can the parents press charges? Anything else. Just want my bro to be safe with this. Thanks.

2007-11-30 17:38:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 17:37:38 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Today, my friend was wrongfully punished at school for using self-defense, so she would not get hurt. She threw one punch, strong enough to knock the assaultant off of her and give her time to run for it, and she got suspended for it. I plan to present an online petition to the school administrators to oppose their decisions to suspend her.

However, I believe that I cannot present the petition or even start the petition with no solid proof that people have the right to self-defense. Anything, even if it is null and void, it was still permitable, and we people constantly look to the past to start the future.

The link to my petition will be on this Q&A when I am able to start it. If you truly care about my friend, or even better, care about this topic, then please support me and my friends and sign the petition when it comes on. Thank you.

2007-11-30 17:36:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Or do you have to be warned first? Like, can someone sue you before asking you to take it off your site?

2007-11-30 17:35:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I purchased a 2nd hand washing machine back in July this year, and it was all good until the first one played up so the guy replaced it then a few weeks later that one started leaking so he replaced it again this time it was on the 15th September. We started noticing grease marks on our clothes, by the time we realised it was from the machine the 2 months warranty was out of date, however he told me he would get someone out to look at it for me and now hes saying that he didnt say that at all. What I want to know is this; does anyone know what amount of warranty is correct, i was told that most 2nd hand places give 3 months warranty, I have looked on the consumer affair and office of fair trading and cant seem to work their website out, i cant find anything on warranties. Any help either from personal experience or someone who may know where in the website i can find this particular information would be appreiated.Thanks
Deb

2007-11-30 17:33:21 · 3 answers · asked by Debbie M 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 17:32:19 · 9 answers · asked by Put on your boxing gloves boys! 4 in Politics

I recently arrived in California to visit my mother, I noticed that I had lost my driver's license from my native country. Would it be possible if I did get pulled over to just use my international passport as a valid form of ID/license while I am in the country.

2007-11-30 17:29:15 · 9 answers · asked by pgunz36 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-30 17:27:59 · 14 answers · asked by firerookie 5 in Law & Ethics

the FBI confiscated tapes of the Sheridan hotel and the gas station and the department of Virginia surviellance tapes
that would show what hit the Pentagon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgyq2H7PpO0
And should they be made public?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CQvMBB-_w&feature=related
CNN reporter live -- Explains how theres no Airplane fragments...any bigger than one can carry--which means if they were so small..they could have been handplaced

And photographed after the fact.

The american people deserve to see these surviallance tapes that were confiscated.

Write your congressman, and pressure them to ask for these tapes!!!

All should be made aware that Bush did not authorize a formal 9/11 investigation until 4 years after the fact.

grueably time enough to dispose of all the evidence.

And the department responsible was underfunded and understaffed and head by a Bushy.

Shuold the american people call on their representatives to demand the tapes and real investigation?

2007-11-30 17:25:11 · 2 answers · asked by writersbIock2006 5 in Other - Politics & Government