Politics & Government - 6 December 2007

If so, why? What is there to be fearful of?
You would think from the sound of some posts that it was the end of the world and a religious President would turn us all to stone. Isn't it just a basic insecuirty they have?
Since when is being a person of faith a negative? What kind of value is that?

2007-12-06 08:32:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I've been getting harassed by email over the past few weeks. Juat insults, but no serious threats. The sender was anonymous. I threatened to call the cops and press charges.

Now they apologized and promised to stop, but they refuse to identify themselves.

Can I still press charges or get them in trouble?

2007-12-06 08:29:46 · 6 answers · asked by Eva L 2 in Law & Ethics

1. I carry a screwdrive with me. Is that considered a weapon?

2.Also I am a minor and I carry a lighter. I don't think that is a problem, but places like walmart don't let minors buy them.

3.Lastly, I have a litle bag of bobbie pins. (you can use them to pick certain locks) Is that okay? I know it's legal, but people say that you could be arrested under suspicion.

2007-12-06 08:28:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

The Tsar,The Kaiser,and George Sax Coberg(Windsor)all the same family.

2007-12-06 08:28:41 · 15 answers · asked by Francis7 4 in Military

http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7bD0C3FE06-345B-47FE-9DEA-AD01026BB428%7d&CATEGORYNAME=NATL

What do you think?

(Mind you, assuming they do what they say they will, unlike our government here.)

2007-12-06 08:25:44 · 5 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

I am trying to understand different forms of government and right now I am reading on democracy and communism. So, why did the U.S. consider communism to be so bad?

2007-12-06 08:22:51 · 15 answers · asked by Ruthy 1 in Politics

If someone tests positive for drugs (marijuana) and they have custody over a child, do they have to give up rights to the child immediately? If the other parent is not a drug user, and not the custodial parent, will the courts reconsider? Or does it depend on the evidence given in the initial hearing?

2007-12-06 08:20:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

She makes some good points.

2007-12-06 08:20:01 · 19 answers · asked by MrOrph 6 in Politics

I've always wondered this. Is it strictly people from the military that the government handpicks or do they approach common citizens that meet a certain criterion? I would love to become a spy and rat out some Al-Queda or whatever.

2007-12-06 08:18:36 · 7 answers · asked by Xerandiam 4 in Government

My dog is VERY protective of me. I live in a shared house with one of my friends and 2 other males. One of the males has been very aggressive and threatened me more than once. He's also been violent.

Normally my dogs the most placid thing you'll ever come across but when this guy threatens me he's a totally different dog.

IF he ever bit this guy it would be in my defence and would be in our house, so not on public land. I can also prove he's been threatening and I have police reports against him.

Where would I stand?

2007-12-06 08:18:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Common that is all we heard from liberals and democrats that Kerry was better than Bush because he served in Vietnam and same for Al Gore.

Well McCain is running and there are no vets on the DNC side so you guys all must be behind him right?

Or have the rules now change yet again?

2007-12-06 08:17:30 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I'm sorry if people think Pres. Bush is a good Pres. But I think 16yrs of Clinton would have been much better...he made have had personal issues with sex. But he wasn't a greedy oil tirant. You know he is filling his pockets from money we have to spend on gas. And he just sounds ignorant anytime he opens his mouth.

2007-12-06 08:13:35 · 34 answers · asked by plg19632000 3 in Politics

It's easy to just blame it on the individual but I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks that it's no one elses fault. I place the blame on american society as a whole. Public schools in particular. They are a breeding ground for hate and often push teens to the limit. I also blame society for giving uo on people. If you get arrested when your 18 and go to jail for even say 2 years, your done. Why don't people wake up? The things done now to stop bullying in schools and to "help" convicts" I think actually make things worse.

2007-12-06 08:12:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

That is, there was an oral agreement between two people about the loan of sum of money. One person broke the agreement and did not pay the debt back. The other party took the matter to court and recovered the money when the case was won.

2007-12-06 08:10:47 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

If so, what freedoms and/or rights and how have you lost them?Have you actually experienced you loss? If so, how?

2007-12-06 08:10:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new
constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor
at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of
the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as
a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters
discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public
treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who
promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result
that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the
following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;

2. from spiritual faith to great courage;

3. from coura ge to liberty;

4. from liberty to abundance;

5. from abundance to complacency;

6. from complacency to apathy;

7. from apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage."

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul,
Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000
Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush
won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great
country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere
between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population
already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to
the USA in fewer than five years.

Everyone should realize that our freedom is truly at stake.

2007-12-06 08:08:49 · 12 answers · asked by Change... 1 in Politics

Are people really aware of what the Nazis did? Do they really think some in the Republican party are as bad or worse? Isn't it a huge insult to the millions of people who died at the hands of and defeating the Nazis in WWII. Does it not make their sacrafices trivial?

2007-12-06 08:07:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

are taken seriously by certain parts of the public.
Anyone else hearing voices is labeled Crazy.
Why is this?

2007-12-06 08:07:27 · 17 answers · asked by Your Teeth or Mine? 5 in Politics

Rape (1) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a) he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person (B) with his penis,
(b) B does not consent to the penetration, and
(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
...
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.

I do not believe women have penises, at least not for the purposes of this law, perhaps.

However:

Assault by penetration (1) A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a) he intentionally penetrates the vagina or anus of another person (B) with a part of his body or anything else, ...

This may mean that a woman can assault a man in such a way that would be "commonly" called "rape", but not just by having sex with him.

I do allow for the possibility, however, that "female rape" offence may exist in common law (created by judges) Is there any evidence?

2007-12-06 08:05:24 · 18 answers · asked by Jansi 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-12-06 08:05:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

for the healthcare can you go to any base? hes going into the marines and we are thinking about moving the wedding up when he comes back from boot camp. The closest place is fort rucker though and that is an army base.will i still be able to go there for medical insurance?

2007-12-06 08:05:02 · 10 answers · asked by cowgirl 3 in Military

At my church for Veterans Day, we honoured veterans. The veterans from Vietnam and WW2 just lacked the whole politically wcorrect attitude and it was refreshing. Even this current war in Iraq, just puzzles me becuase my husband gets briefed(he's in the army)on how to adapt to the iraqi's culture and religion. They give them manuals on how they act over there, so we do not offend them. But these WW2 and Vietnam vets when they stood up and said their little say about their experience, they said things like: I joined the day the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor,or.. I was about to be deployed to Japan when we got news that they nuked the japs and we all got to go home..now, it is not very popular to act like that,oh and to people who will say we killed lots of innocent people that day, well, if we would have went into Japan on foot, thousands more of American lives would have been lost, as well as Japanese, ..i guess i just wonder what happened to that America??

2007-12-06 08:04:10 · 13 answers · asked by blakesgal 3 in Military

My ex and I have joint custody and I have full placement (my son resides with me). In the divorce papers it states that my ex is to come to get my son for winter break not meet in a certain spot, but now ex is bitching saying he shouldn't have to and the spot we chose for pick-up and drop off is still not fair to him. Am I in my rights not to meet him for X-mas since it states it in the paper-work? Same thing for summer break, he wants full month with son, it states on paper work 30 days with respondent, ( no dates or months given) I break it up two week here and two weeks there since he's not around anyway and someone else watches my son. Am I in my rights for this? Thanks to all and sorry it was so long!

2007-12-06 08:03:07 · 15 answers · asked by Nikki 6 in Government

2007-12-06 08:01:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Russia and China have both said that now a US inteligence report states there is no proof of a nuclear weapons program


No sanctions and no military action is needed - Iran believes they have won a battle and the US will back down -

Bush and Israel are still vocal about Iran being a threat

China and Russia are veto wielding nations within the UN There will be no more UN sanctions as long as they are there and that has been made plain for all to see both in the past and in their current responses

In a deal according to AsiaTimesonline.com and other papers Putin has said "an attack on Iran equals an attack on Russia"

Russian bomber planes now patrol as a response and the Russian Navy has begun patrols in the middle east - Putin has compared Bush to Hitler and repeatedly warned against attacks
Will Bush back down or be forever frustrated by the UN or attack and risk all out world war

Which way he jumps will determine a lot in a short time

2007-12-06 08:00:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Alcohol is one of the most deadly drugs and yet it is legal. Is this because the upper/middle classes prefer this drug to others? How can less dangerous marijuana be illegal then? Because it is used by younger and lower class people? How can the justice system even pretend to be blind or ethical under these conditions?

2007-12-06 07:57:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-06 07:56:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

I have his army Serial number #38297460.I looked it up but only gave me basic info can anyone help with better info?I know hw got a few medals like the bronze star and such but want to find out more.

2007-12-06 07:56:44 · 5 answers · asked by mark d 2 in Military

2007-12-06 07:54:36 · 13 answers · asked by Oscar C 1 in Military

2007-12-06 07:54:26 · 16 answers · asked by labken1817 6 in Elections