Other - Politics & Government - March 2007

Are human rights violations such as torture still occurring there? What are the Dali Lama's opinions? Please tell me what you know about the relationship between China and Tibet and Tibet's sovereignty.

2007-03-10 10:49:24 · 6 answers · asked by funkyclarinette 2

that you can report this to your Congress person?

2007-03-10 10:13:23 · 8 answers · asked by kayboff 7

practice the rule of no sex before marriage? I'm in college and I have a very conservative republican friend who is pro-life. However she also has practiced "safe sex" with multiple partners. If you think life is so precious shouldn't you refrain from having sex until you are ready to have children. If you are pro-life are you waiting to have sex until you are ready to have children?

2007-03-10 10:10:32 · 7 answers · asked by healthyleeroy 3

I'm a Cheesehead baconbiting doughnut eating beer swilling slob from the Dominion of Marijuana and I just don't get it.

2007-03-10 09:58:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-10 09:55:59 · 16 answers · asked by neoconammo 2

2007-03-10 09:55:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've read the Constitution backwards and forwards many times but i can't seem to find the phrase or anything relating to "Separation of Church and State". so does anybody have an answer or maybe I miss something.

2007-03-10 09:51:25 · 19 answers · asked by bigroy_05 2

2007-03-10 09:50:20 · 25 answers · asked by neoconammo 2

I requested shipping confirmation on a priority package I sent the other day; I didn't expect it to arrive at its destination by today (it didn't) but out of curiosity, I checked its status online.

The package is going from Georgia to Connecticut. So why oh why is it in PORTLAND, OREGON, a few thousand miles across the country?

How does shipping in the USPS work? And why does a package that I could DRIVE to its destination in under a day need to go cross-country to presumably be flown back to Connecticut, or who knows where?

2007-03-10 09:49:57 · 3 answers · asked by OodlesofNoodles 3

I think if they had to make a choice one way or the other, they would stand with the fanatics against their own people.

2007-03-10 09:47:48 · 14 answers · asked by neoconammo 2

I guess Bush isn't a conservative after all. He's just like all the liberal wussies out there. I never thought I'd see Bush acting like Neville Chamberlin. Did you?

2007-03-10 09:33:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't the A in ACLU stand for American?

2007-03-10 09:30:22 · 9 answers · asked by neoconammo 2

Please specify whether you are for or against Operation Iraqi Freedom in your answer.

2007-03-10 09:12:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, and doctors to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful. This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect. There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.) That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry, the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.

The petroleum industry would be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough biofuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells.
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.

Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc

or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,

(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

2007-03-10 09:06:57 · 8 answers · asked by davegarkie 1

For all of you ???? a hummmm ????? who think that I or anyone else is saying that youtube has put anything out there or made a film, streaming video you guys are CRAZY and YOU don't need to VOTE evet AGAIN! You had a SINGLE brain cell and watch something that is very informative you MIGHT learn SOMETHING! It was CNN, the TLC cannel and whoever else that did the segments!!! Wow, no wonder our country is screwed UP! God bless you!

2007-03-10 08:47:09 · 4 answers · asked by lester6801 1

2007-03-10 08:44:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Say the US has embargoed all trade from Cuba, but not mexico, and sells arms to mexico, and mexico then sells the arms to Cuba... how can this be prevented? Are there laws to prevent souch a thing?

2007-03-10 08:39:49 · 2 answers · asked by Haddy 2

2007-03-10 08:29:25 · 3 answers · asked by ginzawasabi 2

where can i find a notary public in columbus, ohio?

2007-03-10 07:57:39 · 7 answers · asked by lu_consulting1993 1

2007-03-10 07:53:39 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

circumstaces can this be justified if they feared for their own life?
in case you havent heard the story heres a report about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6432133.stm
the soldiers involved are being investigated under international law do you think this is acceptable or not and why?

2007-03-10 07:47:54 · 8 answers · asked by vibrance0404 3

Im just a 15 year old kid in America.

2007-03-10 07:45:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-10 07:40:09 · 31 answers · asked by Welshdragon 5

imigration is way out of control and more and more cheap flights are on the go, whats so green about that

2007-03-10 07:31:38 · 3 answers · asked by bruce m 3

G W BUSH policy towards whole world and for america. is he doing right or he is bull ****, bad ***. what do u think

2007-03-10 07:30:45 · 3 answers · asked by dimmer_eye 2

I'm NOT talking about "the ends justify the means" debate.

I'm talking about whether it's sometimes useful to attempt something, even if you know you cannot succeed, because of the side-effects produced by the attempt.

And no, I'm not talking about Iraq. The specific example that prompted the general thought was someone reminding me that voting for a third-party candidate is not wasted effort, if it brings attention to how many people aren't satisfied with the two majority candidates. And another person talking about how much he learned researching a topic, even if the thesis could never be proven. In both cases, the side-effects of the attempt were worth the effort, even if the goal was unachievable.

Thoughts?

2007-03-10 07:23:27 · 29 answers · asked by coragryph 7

2007-03-10 07:19:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

If I were an office manager and I told an FBI agent about a crime that didn't take place, would a special prosecutor be hired and would I be tried and found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail?

2007-03-10 06:59:19 · 6 answers · asked by H.C.Will 3

Do you think Europe is a chance for the world ?
(A chance for peace, ecology, human rights, social etc.)

2007-03-10 06:53:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What about the other provisions of the First Amendment, such as: free speech, freedom to practice any religion, or freedom to assemble?

This is what I want to know: Are American journalists proteced by our Constitution when NOT on American soil?

If a reporter is in Iraq or Afghanistan, for instance, does the First Amendment apply, or does military law or the home nation's law (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.) apply?

2007-03-10 06:30:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous