Politics & Government - 18 December 2007

2007-12-18 05:48:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

He can keep up the fight on terror.
He can keep the nation together.
He can keep our economy strong like he has been doing the past 7 years.

2007-12-18 05:47:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I attended public schools in St. Louis in the 50"s and 60's. Every year the elementary school kids put on a Christmas pageant, complete with Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. There were shepards, a manger, 3 wise men, angels and assorted other characters. We sang "Silent Night" (holy night) and other carols. No one complained! In fact, they really liked it. Was this wrong?? Or, has political correctness today gone overboard?

2007-12-18 05:44:25 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-18 05:44:15 · 7 answers · asked by kitty 1 in Immigration

MPs have been issued with a 10-point guide on what to do if they find a broken light bulb in Parliament.
An MP wanted to know "what guidance has been issued on procedures for cleaning up and disposing of environmentally-friendly light bulbs which have been broken".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/18/nbulb118.xml

2007-12-18 05:44:00 · 3 answers · asked by Fred3663 7 in Government

.... keeping crime down?

North Dakota, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Montana, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Connecticut, Idaho

http://www.morganquitno.com/dangsaf07.htm

2007-12-18 05:42:32 · 12 answers · asked by How Big is Your Govt Check 3 in Politics

I know there are plenty of conservative celebrities who put their money where their mouths were and ran for public office: Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, and Fred Thompson come immediately to mind. For the life of me, I can't seem to come up with a single liberal celebrity who has run for office (and won) and actually put in the time and effort to actually do something.

Why don't the likes of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, etc. back up their talk with some action instead of jetting about the world promoting their "causes"?

2007-12-18 05:39:43 · 21 answers · asked by thegubmint 7 in Politics

of Scientology, Christian Science, Mormonism, etc., but we have only a one-sided picture of Jesus. It doesn't seem fair, does it? (Noone should claim that Jesus had no faults since it is impossible to prove, and makes no sense anyway.)

2007-12-18 05:39:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Our company provides a Christmas Bonus for hourly employees in some departments. For this bonus, all eligible employees have $0.10 per hour clocked held from their check. Then, in December, they are given the money held and the company matches that amount.

Here's where the confusion comes in. One of our more unfortunate managers decided that his employees should not have to pay their part of the Christmas bonus, so he pays them $0.10 more per hour over what he would normally pay them, thus making the business pay for both halves of their Christmas bonus (i.e. an employee is paid $15.10, instead of $15.00). Now we are correcting it whenever an employee comes up for review, but they are not all being reviewed at once. However, our Human Resource Manager thinks that the .10 extra on these employees counts as a separate benefit, and if removed from one employee, it must be removed from all.

So, does this 10 cents/hr count as a separate benefit?

2007-12-18 05:38:12 · 4 answers · asked by Godot 2 in Law & Ethics

I saw that American public is not happy for this circumtances. there is no enough answers for my question. why?
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/dunya/7889717.asp?gid=180&sz=73695

2007-12-18 05:38:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

To help answer, the definition of "sovereignity" is:
Supreme authority within a territory.
Source of definition is Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2007-12-18 05:36:40 · 6 answers · asked by Micheala #1 Fan of WDPLM-2 4 in Military

2007-12-18 05:35:00 · 5 answers · asked by sharda P 1 in Immigration

he must be doing well if the Republicans are this worked up about it.

2007-12-18 05:32:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

To serve in the military but not afraid to disrespect us or critize us.

2007-12-18 05:31:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

For our next president to address.

2007-12-18 05:30:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

There is lots to choose from, but please name what you consider the worst: treason in outing V. Plame, lying about WMDs, torture, scuttling of habeas corpus, tying a webcam to a dog, shooting friends in the face, outlawing stem cells, vetoing all laws that help others besides his rich buddies, the rich buddy tax cuts, the 2001 hanging chads, etc.

2007-12-18 05:30:02 · 22 answers · asked by fstreet111 2 in Politics

I sent it today, this teacher quit on October, I thought he still
worked there but I called later to the school after I sent it and they said he no longer works there since October. Will they send it back to me or will they forward it to his home address even though he quit on October(2 months ago).
If he got fired on October (which I'm thinking he did but not sure), will they forward it to his personal address or will they send it back to my address ?

I'm referring to a small medical community college in a small town. Few students and teachers.

Do you think that when they receive the card, they'll look at the card and think that it's "unworthy" for them to forward it to his address ? It is not unethical.

and another thing, do you think that more than likely they won't forward it because "the teacher no longer is their business". ?

2007-12-18 05:29:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

They have nothing to do with politics.

2007-12-18 05:29:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

In Dallas our schools and hospitals are 90% hispanic with anglos and blacks footing the bill. Our taxes are skyrocketing to keep up with demand. Does anyone know if anglos would be welcome in Columbai, Brazil, Chile? I want to retire but cannot continue to pay for immigration.

2007-12-18 05:29:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

What's the worst case of political correctness gone mad that you have ever heard???

2007-12-18 05:29:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

You know how cops, etc. have something before their name? Like Officer so-and-so? Does that go the same for sheriffs? Are they called Officer (Name)?

2007-12-18 05:28:42 · 16 answers · asked by I love the Beatles 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-12-18 05:26:13 · 18 answers · asked by majididrees686 1 in Politics

A: They are black?

or

B. They are a product of their living environment, which is disproportionally poor, uban and lacking in quality education and opportunity.

2007-12-18 05:25:58 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I manufacture a product for motorcycles. I sold one to a dealer. The dealer sold it to his customer and installed it. The customer took it home and said it failed. So, the dealer took it back and looked at the product and did not find a problem, so the customer took it back and claim there was still a problem. I am willing to any part that may have a problem. The dealer is asking to be reimbursed for his labor. The dealer has sold and installed a lot of this product and has not had any problems like this. Who should pay for the labor now?

2007-12-18 05:25:18 · 9 answers · asked by runjohnray 1 in Law & Ethics

...LEADER?

2007-12-18 05:21:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-18 05:21:17 · 2 answers · asked by wondering 1 in Law & Ethics

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American."

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City - October 12, 1915

2007-12-18 05:21:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American."

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City - October 12, 1915

2007-12-18 05:21:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

I just made that up - like a lot of the made up statistics here today.

2007-12-18 05:20:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-18 05:20:44 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government