Politics & Government - 8 December 2007

My husband works for a large company that assembles computers, televisions, and other assorted small electronics. They also do repair work.
Anyway, my hubby's job is to run their Ebay account. He puts things in for auctions and deals with the customers.
Last week, he put a brand new T.V. up for auction that costs about $1,300. He was going to put it in for $1 starting bid. They do this often and the auction usually rakes in around $800 - $900. Well, there was a glitch in Ebay's system and it put the T.V. in for $1 BUY NOW option instead. Obviously a bidder snapped it up immediately. My husband tried calling Ebay to resolve it and got nowhere. Fortunately, he was able to speak to the bidder and explain what happened and the man said he understood and it was not a problem.
On Friday, my husband had to put in 3 more T.V.s of the same price. Again the Ebay system glitched and put all 3 T.V.s for the $1 BUY NOW option. One lady bidder snapped up all 3 T.V.s for $3! Continued...

2007-12-08 03:26:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

wire-tapping, torture, etc

2007-12-08 03:26:06 · 16 answers · asked by Lina 2 in Politics

2007-12-08 03:22:57 · 20 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics

worrying about the NFL network.

With the real possibility that the New England Patriots (who play in Kerry's state, Massachusetts) could complete the first 16-0 season in NFL history on a channel most people don't get, Kerry sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and National Cable & Telecommunications Association President and CEO Kyle McSlarrow.

What say you?

2007-12-08 03:22:20 · 10 answers · asked by Bubba 6 in Politics

2007-12-08 03:20:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

i have a question. My phone was broken by a someone while I was at school (my phone is about 2 months old). He took it without asking and slammed it on concrete. So now, he doesn't want to pay for a new phone and says that he has the same phone at home but its 2 years old. So I want to take him to the small claims court and make him pay for another one. He says that he talked to 9 lawyers and all of them said that I can't do anything about this because he didn't do anything wrong. I believe that, first, since he took my phone without asking, that that's theft and then he broke it. So I can take him to court right?

2007-12-08 03:19:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I was just wondering.

Did you know there was a website called badgebunnydivas.com?

2007-12-08 03:17:05 · 11 answers · asked by jennyღ 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

i am planning go to go to the U.S. after i am done college and work as a police officer. Is it possible? i just need some information on how i could become a u.s. citezen so i can do this.

2007-12-08 03:16:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-12-08 03:16:15 · 14 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics

All of a sudden the righties are screaming that the CEO at NBC or GE (I'm confused who they blame) has the power to influence the network's messaging.

Yet all this time they deny that Rupert Murdoch has the power to create conservative bias at Fox and that bias REALLY originates with all those reporters who are registered Democrats.

Oh yeah and in the journalism schools with those wacky liberal professors.

So righties - which is it? Careful, you may end up with some discomfort caused by the cognitive dissonance of your delusions shattering.

2007-12-08 03:16:06 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

i currently have full custody of my grandsons due to my daughter having a mental break down and attempting suiside, social work department have not had any envolvment with the kids up untill now but socil work department brought the kids to my care, i am financial broke and to accomadat the kids i have had to cut my working hours by more than half therefor im in a worse financial state then before, i have tryed on numerious occassions to get funding from socilks work department but no luck, the children were brought to me in only the clothes they were standing in i had to go out and buy beds clothing etc etc and yet still no help, after talking with duty socail worker she advised me the only way i woulkd get financial help would be if i said i could not take care of the children and for social workers to uplift them for them to be placed with foster carers for a few nights then get them back but i cant do it to the boys they have been threw so much do u know any1 who can help

2007-12-08 03:15:38 · 11 answers · asked by chevonneharper 2 in Law & Ethics

like someone you worked with or someone u know that is in the military??





my mans daughter that is 4 and I (22) put make up on my man (her dad) when he was asleep and panted his nails and toe nails and took pictures and sent them to all the men he works with in the army lol (his friends) he was a good sport about it i am just waiting on him to get me back lol

2007-12-08 03:15:16 · 14 answers · asked by ~*Strips aka Peanut*~ 4 in Military

There is a thief in my neighborhood who has knocked off several houses in the past few weeks. If this person enters my house, am I held responsible if I injure the thief to get him arrested and prevent him from stealing my things? Could I be charged with a crime?

2007-12-08 03:15:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-12-08 03:12:35 · 14 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

In the past, waves of immigrants into the USA provided the labor force for many lower paying jobs in the USA. With limits of immigration, those jobs are being filled today by illegals crossing the border from Mexico.
What is the solution to the need of low skilled labor in an expanding economy? Do we just continue to let illegals to cross the border? Do we start some sort of guest worker program as Bush suggested? Do we try to annex or purchase the northern provinces of Mexico and create new states?

What do you see as the solution to this problem?

2007-12-08 03:11:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-08 03:10:15 · 7 answers · asked by d 3 in Military

ok, i am doing a report on child soldiers around the world like countries such as africa, middle east etc. but i was thinking the way things are going for us here in the united states do u really think its possible for us to have something like that here in the future? that someone will make an army to go against the government, plz, can ya'll tell me your opinions

2007-12-08 03:10:03 · 12 answers · asked by LaDy B 1 in Military

2007-12-08 03:08:26 · 18 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

If so is it only for the flag of the country you are in, or for any flag? Say if someone burnt an Italian flag in Britian what would happen?

2007-12-08 03:07:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Which man is the better president ? Place your best answer
here. And you win. ~~~

2007-12-08 03:06:50 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I've always heard the Germany didn't have one after cause both world wars, but I just wanted to find out from someone who actually knew

2007-12-08 03:05:44 · 14 answers · asked by Thagenesis 2 in Military

Same as VT. Don't they get it? Your advertising to the criminals that the people are unarmed. Should we do away with "gun Free" zones so that law abiding legal concelled gun carriers can protect themselfs and others?

2007-12-08 02:57:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

The CEO, Jeff Zucker is the one calling the shots, and lays out the platform.

2007-12-08 02:55:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

How many here are disgusted by Oprah's support of Obama? I think her brains would outweigh her prejudice - is it pretty obvious to me that Oprah is for blacks, in spite of the fact that whites and blacks who made who she is today. But, whenever she invests time/money into a project or a cause, it only benefits the black community.

Her school for girls serves blacks, her support for Obama appears to be only because he is black. When she made a film, The Color Purple, it was about blacks...

I have always liked Oprah, but the more she does this, the more she loses me as a fan.

Anyone who supports Obama is risking a loss in 2008 and we badly, BADLY need a Dem pres to win, and he is too inexperienced to deal with the huge job of fixing the disasters made by Bush.

Wake up, Oprah, this is not the time and place for games about race.

2007-12-08 02:54:59 · 17 answers · asked by Crystal S 4 in Politics

NBC has rejected a TV ad by Freedom's Watch, that asks viewers to remember and thank U.S. troops during the holiday season.
NBC said it declined to air the ad because it refers to the group's Web site"Anybody in the world who would look at this ad would come away with nothing other than we should thankful for their service," Freedom's Watch president Brad Blakeman said.
The spot was to be part of a seven-figure campaign that includes newspaper ads and television commercials. The ads are to run on CNN and Fox News Channel and are running in various newspapers. The New York Times ran a full-page Freedom's Watch ad Friday that said "Thank You!" and depicted a soldier reading a letter. The newspaper ad also contained the Web site address.





http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/GE

2007-12-08 02:53:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

A Soldier's last words, 22 Oct 2007 8:52 pm



SGT. Edmund John Jeffer's last few words were some of the most touching, inspiring and most truthful words spoken since the tragedy of 9/11 - and since our nation went to war.



SGT. Jeffers was a strong soldier and talented writer. He died in Iraq on September 19, 2007. He was a loving husband, brother and son. His service was more than this country could ever grasp - but the least you can do for the man who sacrificed his life for you ... is listen to what he had to say.
Compare his observations two the cynicism of the Cindy Sheehans and Al Frankens, Chris Mathews, Keith Olberman, MSNBC, CNN, NBC and CBS who presume to call themselves 'patriots'.....



Hope Rides Alone





By Eddie Jeffers



I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; my hands are steady on a device that has been given to me from my government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.



I sweat, and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again...and yet, I too, am just a boy....my age not but a few years more than that of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid...because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.



There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own...but that are necessary for survival. I've made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets...who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not.



And to think, I volunteered for this... And I am ignorant to the rest of the world...or so I thought.



But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi , Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America , and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.



I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.



People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward's war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists t o Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it.



But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.



Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam . In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam . Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war.



Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the Internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.



It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq ? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.



America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It's not like World War Two, where people rationed food, and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a service member, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.



But it affects us. And when it is over, and the troops come home, and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.



We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped, and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause, and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.



Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't. Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news, and let's stand and fight!



Eddie's father, David Jeffers, writes:



I'm not sure how many letters or articles you've ever read from the genre of "News from the Front," but this is one of the best I've ever read, including all of America's wars. As I was reading this, I forgot that it was my son who had written it. My emotions range from great pride to great sorrow, knowing that my little boy (22 years old) has become this man. He is my hero. Thank all of you for your prayers for him; he needs them now more than ever. God bless. Though Eddie is no longer with us, you can help to let his voice be heard. God Bless and have a good day!

2007-12-08 02:53:48 · 14 answers · asked by FREE4ALL8 3 in Military

How old are you?

What is your country of residence?

Do you believe it deters crime?

What kind of offences would make it acceptable?

Do you think it's cruel and if so are you sympathetic of the convicted?

Do you think the death penalty should be legalized unanimously?

What safeguards would you implement to protect the innocent?

Do you believe it is racially or discriminantly handed down?

What methods do you think should be used to kill the convicted?

Do you think the death penalty puts police officers in greater danger and leads to more gruesomn crimes?

2007-12-08 02:51:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I just want to take the time to express my "THANKS" & "APPRECIATION" to all our American servicemen & women who have served and are serving still all over the world; especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am a Vietnam vet. I wasn't welcomed home when I returned. But my heart goes out to all the Iraqi and Afghan U.S. military who have and are serving for our country & the sacifices you have made. While you all may not agree with the reasons you are serving in the Middle East the fact remains YOU ARE in harms way. We Americans ought to go OUT OF WAY to thank our servicemen & servicewomen as they return - at the airports, bus terminals or wherever.

You all do us proud!!!

You sacrificed an awful lot for us. You are appreciated and loved.

2007-12-08 02:47:34 · 16 answers · asked by Scott 1 in Military

How can they ban a commercial asking people to remember the troops on the holidays?!?!

And before you Libs write about how they are a private company and can do whatever they want, we know that, we are just asking people to exercise their own right to do the same thing.

2007-12-08 02:46:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Yep, I don't Mind using the Oil to Save My Family from a Major accident Sorry saving that way is Not a choice...... Little light bulbs and a few degrees less on the thermostat is OK Not this though Give me Detroit Steel baby!

2007-12-08 02:45:55 · 8 answers · asked by word UP!! 2 in Politics