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Can I get a government job in Georgia with a misdemeanor theft by taking? ? I was arrested for theft by taking misdemeanor. Went to court and had to complete 64 hours of community service, which I did. I got a letter stating it is eligible for expungment (which I am in the process of). I am trying to get a job for 5 months now and I'm wondering if I can get a government job (like with the County) with this still on my record?

Andrew Jackson gave party supporters simple government jobs. Insight quizz? Andrew Jackson gave party supporters simple government jobs because he believed in A. the reward system. B. the spoils system. C. suffrage for all citizens. D. the caucus system. 2. The Southern states’ resentment over more tariffs prompted South Carolina to pass an ordinance that states could declare federal laws invalid, an idea called that was called A. suffrage. B. federalism. C. nullification. D. unification. 3. What prompted Jackson to authorize the Force Bill, which gave him the authority to mobilize the military to enforce acts of Congress? A. The ordinance of nullification adopted by a special state convention in South Carolina B. A bill pushed through Congress by South Carolina senator Henry Clay to lower the nation’s tariffs C. An anonymously published work claiming that states could declare a federal law null or invalid D. To address the growing resentment between the nation’s northern and southern regions 4. What role did Jackson play in the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears? A. Jackson supported the act and ordered the army to march the Cherokee to present-day Oklahoma. B. He supported John Marshall’s decision and sent troops to Georigia to enforce the ruling. C. He challenged Georgia’s attempt to extend its authority over Cherokee lands and publicly denounced the act. D. Jackson pushed the act through Congress and refused to support a federal court decision to honor Cherokee rights. 5. Why did Andrew Jackson set out to destroy the Second Bank of the United States? A. He thought the bank was a monopoly controlled by wealthy elitists. B. He wanted to create his own bank: the Third Bank of the United States. C. He believed the bank did not adequately control the money supply. D. He thought destroying the bank would prevent inflation. 6. A new party, the Whigs, emerged in opposition to Jackson. The Whigs supported all of the following EXCEPT A. industrial and commercial development. B. expanding federal government. C. centralized banking and higher tariffs. D. stronger restrictions on the federal government. 7. Most of the immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1800s were from: A. Germany and Britain. B. Germany and Ireland. C. Ireland and Britain. D. Ireland and Scotland. 8. The arrival of millions of Catholic immigrants lead to the rise of all of the following nativist groups EXCEPT A. the Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banner. B. the American Party. C. the Order of the American Flag. D. the Know-Nothings. 9. The attempt by Protestant ministers in the early 1800s to revive people’s interest in religion and stir their faith was called A. the New Spiritualism. B. the Second Great Awakening. C. the First Great Awakening. D. the Great Camp Meeting. 10. The massive amount of European immigrants provided what for America? A. Overcrowding and rampant crime B. Faster and faster expansion to the West C. Great diversity in the population which made society more stable D. A huge labor force for America’s growing industries 11. The period of religious revival led to the emergence of new religious groups such as: A. Mormons, Unitarians, and Shakers B. Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians C. Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons D. Unitarians, Universalists, and Protestants 12. The religious revival known and the Second Great Awakening influenced writers and philosophers to adopt the tenets of A. romanticism and skepticism. B. romanticism and transcendentalism. C. transcendentalism and realism. D. skepticism and realism. 13. Social reformers concerned about the effects of overconsumption of alcohol advocated what? A. Abolition B. Benevolence C. Moderation D. Temperance 14. In the mid-1800s, social reformers worked to improve all of the following areas EXCEPT A. Women’s rights B. Political corruption C. Education D. Prison reform 15. The foundation of the prison reform movement was that prisoners could be rehabilitated instead of locked up without restrictions. The new prisons resulting from this view were known as A. jails. B. institutions. C. penitentiaries. D. boarding schools. 16. Social reformers and civic leaders worked to develop a public education system because A. they thought the country could only survive if the voters were well educated. B. they wanted to ensure there would be educated workers for the government. C. they were concerned U.S. manufacturing would fall behind other countries. D. they wanted educated government workers to promote democracy around the world. 17. Many in the women’s movement were shocked by the Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, which urged women to pursue A. the right to a public education. B. the right to vote. C

What are the biggest industries in Georgia and Alabama? Are there a lot of good paying jobs in those states? I am thinking about moving from FL. Do they have a lot of good paying manufacturing and Government jobs?

How can I find out if I have reinstatement rights for a government job? I worked on an air force base in georgia from 1990-1996.I need to find out if I can be reinstated back in the field that I was in when I quit.

Complicated question about Georgia government benefits for after I have my son? OK, here's my situation: I am 32 weeks pregnant. My husband & I both work full time jobs. I am planning on working until my due date, then quitting (because my company does not offer any type of maternity leave, and I cannot and will not put my son in daycare to come back to work, just to take home half my earnings and to pay the other half in childcare expenses). As of right now, we qualify for nothing except for PeachCare health insurance for our baby, and we can't even apply for that until he is born. Once I quit my job, we should qualify for everything (WIC, food stamps, Medicaid etc..) because we will just be living off of my husband's income. Can I apply for everything now? Or do I have to wait until I am officially unemployed? I want to go to the DFCS office in our county next week and explain to them our situation. And here's the catch: I am under my parent's health insurance until May 31, 4 weeks before my due date. (to be continued..) The insurance is dropping me because I am no longer a full time student. I am SO confused because I don't know what to do- I won't qualify for Medicaid because I will still be working for 4 more weeks and can't afford to quit before then, but I cannot afford to pay for the entire delivery without any medical insurance! This has been stressing me out since I found out I was going to be without insurance or any kind of help the last month of my pregnancy. Has anyone been in this situation or know what I can do?! Please help me!

In the case, Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that? 1. In the case, Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that A. the Seminole people had no property values. B. the Cherokee people be removed from their homes. C. state officials must honor Cherokee property rights. D. state officials could not take Seminole property for any purpose. 2. The Whig party, created in opposition to Andrew Jackson’s policies, advocated A. a stronger federal government. B. preserving states’ rights. C. limiting commercial development. D. lowering tariffs. 3. Andrew Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed it A. brought into government the country’s most educated people. B. opened up government to more ordinary people. C. encouraged good workers to stay in their government jobs. D. attracted young thinkers into public service. 4. The Second Bank of the United States, which Andrew Jackson opposed, played an important role in A. lending money to poor farmers, especially Western settlers. B. keeping the money supply of the United States stable. C. supplying the gold and silver that supported state bank notes. D. allowing banks to make loans at a higher interest rate. 5. In 1833 Congress passed the Force Bill, authorizing the president to A. use the military to enforce acts of Congress. B. have members of Congress arrested. C. use the military to enforce new voting laws. D. declare war without a vote from Congress. 6. Most German immigrants arriving between 1815 and 1860 settled in A. Massachusetts and New York. B. Pennsylvania and Ohio. C. Louisiana and New Mexico. D. California and Texas. 7. What was one impact of the arrival of many immigrants from Europe in the early 1800s? A. they increased the number of merchants in America. B. they mainly moved to the western parts of America, causing population growth there. C. they provided a large labor force for the growing industry in America. D. they were completely accepted into American society. 8. The hostility towards immigrants that appeared in some parts of America was known as A. regionalism. B. nativism. C. foreignism. D. nationalism. 9. The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the traditional Calvinist idea that A. all people could attain grace through faith. B. only a chosen few were predestined for salvation. C. only God would choose who was saved. D. each person contained the capacity for spiritual rebirth and salvation. 10. The impact of the Second Great Awakening led to A. the creation of new religious groups. B. the creation of the penny press. C. the creation of a new political party. D. the arrival of many new immigrants to the country.

Can I qualify for a Federal job,CDC or V.A. Hospital if I have a felony(1 year probation). M.A degree.? I would like to know if I'm wasting my time seeking State or Federal jobs. I recently worked for 5 months at The USAF Judge Advocate Generals Office thru WRP sponsored by the Department of Labor for disabled college students. I received an excellent reference and Certificate from the Judge Advocate. My disability service connected rating is 50%. I'm currently pursuing a Curriculum & Instruction Ed.S which I'm hoping will allow me to become an instructor at a college or university. I researched the moral character statement for the OPM; it doesn’t specifically address disqualification for a felony. Is someone with knowledge of federal hiring guidelines or rules for Georgia State government and education jobs out there? I've spent years repairing my character and moral compass by volunteering for Covenant Hospice for three years and providing free Media & Video Instruction to at risk youth. I currently hold a B.A. Media, MA Health Care, Certificate: Health Care Ethics. Please help.

Question about salary based on cost of living per city? I was looking into government job salaries, and they said that the same pay grade could pay differently, based on the average cost of living in the city where that person works. So if, for example, someone lived in a very cheap apartment in New York, or a nice house costing the same thing, (for the house, and bills) in a place like Georgia, would the person be payed the same thing due to their house, or would the person working in New York get more, just because the price of living in New York is more? Some clarification would be greatly appreciated

What effect does the immigration issue have on how you will vote in November? NEW POLL: IMMIGRATION KEY ISSUE IN CONTESTED RACES Center for Immigration Studies : October 16 , 2006 -- by Steven Camarota Public Wants Illegals to Go Home, Enforcement, No Immigration Increase A new poll, using neutral language, finds intense voter concern over immigration in 14 tight congressional races. The surveys were conducted by the polling company inc. for the Center for Immigration Studies. In addition to a national survey, detailed polling on immigration was conducted in four contested Senate races: Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Montana; and in 10 contested House races: Arizona 5th, Connecticut 4th, Indiana 8th, Kentucky 4th, Pennsylvania 6th, Texas 17th, Louisiana 3rd, Georgia 8th, Colorado 7th, and Ohio 6th. The complete results are online at www.cis.org. Among the findings: * Immigration is a big issue throughout the country. Of likely voters nationally, 53 percent said immigration was either their most important issue or one of their top three issues, while just 8 percent said it was not at all important. With the exception of CT-4th, in races surveyed only about 10 percent of voters said it was not important at all. * When told numbers, voters want less immigration. When told the actual number of immigrants here (legal and illegal) and the number coming (legal and illegal), and asked to put aside the question of legal status, 68 percent of voters nationally thought immigration was too high, 21 percent about right, and just 2 percent thought it was too low. In every congressional race surveyed, the share who said overall immigration was too low was in the single digits. * Voters less likely to vote for immigration-increasing candidates. Experts agree that the bill passed by the Senate earlier this year would at least double future legal immigration, yet 70 percent of voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who wanted to double legal immigration. Overwhelming majorities in every battleground race feel the same way. * Voters reject both extremes -- legalization or mass deportations. Some previous polls have shown support for legalizing illegal immigrants. But those polls have given the public only a choice between large-scale deportations or ''earned legalization,'' and not the third choice of across-the-board enforcement, causing illegals to go home. This third option, which is the basis of the bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is voters' top choice. * House immigration plan by far the favorite. Enforcement approaches with no increase in legal immigration were the most popular policy option -- 44 percent wanted enforcement that causes illegals to go home, the House approach, and another 20 percent wanted large-scale deportations. Just 31 percent supported legalization of illegal immigrants. * Intensity greater among enforcement supporters. Nationally, 32 percent of voters said they would be much more likely to vote for a candidate who would enforce the law and cause illegals to go home, compared to just 15 percent who said they would be much more likely to vote for a candidate who supports legalization. This same pattern holds in battleground House contests. * Voters skeptical of need for unskilled immigrant labor. More than 70 percent of voters nationally agreed that there were ''plenty of Americans to do low-wage jobs that require relatively little education, employers just need to pay higher wages and treat workers better to attract Americans,'' compared to 21 percent who said we need immigrants because there were not enough Americans to do all such jobs. The results were very similar in all the contested states and districts surveyed. * Voters think lack of enforcement is reason for illegal immigration. Three out of four voters in the nation agreed that the reason we have illegal immigration is that past enforcement efforts have been ''grossly inadequate.'' Voters strongly reject the argument that illegal immigration is caused by overly restrictive legal immigration policies. Strong majorities in every battleground contest surveyed felt this way. * Numbers make a difference. One key finding is that when told the scale of immigration (legal and illegal), voters overwhelmingly thought it was too high. Also, when told how much the Senate bill would increase legal immigration, voters tended to reject it. This would seem to undermine the argument that voters are only concerned about illegality and not the level of immigration. The levels of immigration used in the questions are those widely agreed upon by experts based on government data. http://www.betterimmigration.com/reportcardintro.html Use the link above to find out your politicians positions on immigration. Are they part of the problem or part of the solution?

How many more great Men and women will we loose to the insurgents? Peace officers are a noble breed, daily risking their lives to protect and serve the rest of us. They are what separate the evil of the lawless from us. Two weeks ago on a dark, cool misty Texas night, Needville, Texas, Independent School District Chief of Police Ernie Mendoza, was coming home from his job. He had been supervising a basketball game at one of the local schools. As chief of police of Needville Independent School District, it was his job to protect students during school and during events. However, on the same road was 29-year-old construction worker Guillermo Paniagua. Guillermo was drunk and driving his pickup truck. He was headed toward the chief's car. And within moments Gulliermo's truck crossed the center stripe of the road, slammed head first into the chief of police's vehicle. The crash instantly killed this dedicated police chief. The chief had devoted 25 years of his life as one of Texas's lawmen. It was something that meant a lot to him. He was proud to serve his country as a peace officer. He was a 1983 graduate of the Waco Police Department where he worked in this small central Texas town. Then he moved on to the big city of Houston, Texas, where he worked with the Houston Independent School District Police Department, one of the Nation's largest school districts. And then in 1996 he accepted the position with the Needville ISD Police Department where he became chief of police. ISD police officers have the responsibility to protect children and teachers while they are in school. They maintain law and order and discipline. They keep the kids safe from day to day. And Chief Mendoza was one of the best. He strived to be a positive role model for the kids he protected, and he made peace officers look good. He took the time to talk to kids and was well liked throughout the school. But it all ended a mile from his own home and the indifference of a drunk driver. Like most drunk drivers, Guillermo had only minor cuts and bruises. He was not injured. But those bruises did not keep him, the coward, the killer, from running from the scene in the darkness of the night. He was quickly captured by the Wharton County, Texas Sheriff's Department, and now he faces first-degree felony murder charges, and failure to stop and render aid. You see, when you drink and drive and kill somebody, that is a felony, as it ought to be. Chief Mendoza's wife and four children are now deprived of their husband, and father for the rest of their lives. The kids of the Needville school system have lost a good protector. But this was not Guillermo's first rodeo. You see, he has a total of four intoxication convictions in the United States, two in Texas and two in Georgia. In Texas he was given probation for a DWI, but that was revoked when he was rearrested. And then when he got that second DWI, he only spent 3 days in jail and got 18 months probation and his license was suspended. This drunk should never have been given his driver's license back at all. His four DWI convictions proved that the system is not holding him accountable for being a drunk driver. But the most disturbing thing about Guillermo Paniagua is he is illegally in this country. So why is he still here? How did he get a driver's license in the first place? Why was his immigration status not checked by the police officers each and every time he was picked up for drunk driving? He should have been deported the first time he was arrested. Police Chief Ernie Mendoza was killed at the hands of an illegal, a drunk driver. And this could have all been prevented. He and his family have become more victims of the U.S.'s inability to secure the border and protect its citizens. Chief Mendoza was a real person. The Needville ISD and the great State of Texas have lost a fine lawman. And the casualty list continues to mount in the U.S. by those lawless insurgents who are illegally occupying our land. This government should be as concerned about the homeland casualties as it is about those casualties killed in lands far, far away, or there will be more Chief Mendozas killed. sorry lose. since I know you will attack a type.

Texas, Georgia, Washington, or Kentucky? (Rank)? I'm considering a move from KY to TX, WA or GA. Please rank them by your preference from most to least and state why. My rank: 1. Texas: desert, forest, mountains, mesas, plains, hills, marshland, swamps, beaches, and some of the friendliest people! Very clean, thriving cities, beautiful women, but I'd say it's becoming crowded! 2. Washington: Seattle, rainforests, volcanoes, skiing, Puget Sound, the islands, Lake Washington, strong job market, close to Canada, what few folks I've met from there have been friendly 3. Georgia: Atlanta, great nightlife, the prettiest women, lots to do, gorgeous mountains, beaches, close to the Carolinas Then, drop to: 4. Kentucky: Income taxation is high, women are attitude-laden, only two major cities, terribly incompetent state government, annoying accents, redneck culture, very hard to make friends here...at least the farms are beautiful and spring is pleasant Thank you!

Is the U.S.Government still a colony of the British Government? Does these statements have any truth to them? 30 little known facts about America - VID Posted By: Vasagoh Date: Friday, 5 September 2008, 12:48 a.m. 1) The IRS is not a U.S. government agency. It is an agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I, Public Law 94-564, Senate report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391) 2) The IMF is an agency of the U.N. (Black's Law Dictionary 6th Ed. page 816) 3) The United States has NOT had a Treasury since 1921. (41 Stat. Ch. 214 page 654) 4) The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF (Presidential Documents Volume 29 -No. 4 page 113, 22 U.S.C 285-288) 5) The United States does not have any employees because there is no longer a United States. No more reorganizations. After over 200 years of bankruptcy it is finally over. (Executive Order 12803) 6) The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the U.S. government. Even though the "U.S. Government" held stock in the various agencies. (U.S. v. Strang, 254 US 491 Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239) 7) Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF. The application for a Social Security # is the SS5 form. The Dep't of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5 forms do not state who publishes them while the old form states they are Department of the Treasury (20 CFR Chap. 111 Subpart B 422.103 (b)) 8) There are NO Judicial courts in America and have not been since 1789. Judges do not enforce Statues and Codes. Executive Adminstrators enforce Statues and Codes. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat. 138-178) 9) There have Not been any Judges in America since 1789. There have just been administrators. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat. 138-178) 10) According to GATT you must have a Social Security number. House Report (103-826) 11) New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the United Nations. Rudolph Guiliani stated on C-Span that "New York City is the capital of the World". For once, he told the truth. (20 CFR Chap. 111, subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2)) 12) Social Security is not insurance or a contract. Nor is there a Trust Fund. (Helvering v. Davis 301 US 619 Steward Co. v. Davis 301 US 548) 13) Your Social Security check comes directly from the IMF which is an agency of the United Nations. (Look at it if you receive one. It should have written on the top left United States Treasury.) 14) You own No property. Slaves can't own property. Read carefully the Deed to the property you think is yours. You are listed as a TENANT. (Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st session) 15) The most powerful court in America is not the United States Supreme Court but, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. (42 Pa. C.S.A. 502) 16) The King of England financially backed both sides of the Revolutionary war. (Treaty of Versailles- July 16, 1782 Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80) 17) You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it. (Padelford Fay & Co. v. The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Svannah 14 Georgia 438, 520) 18) AMERICA IS A BRITISH COLONY. The "United States" is a corporation, not a land mass and it existed before the Revolutionary War and the British troops did not leave until 1796. (Respublica v. Sweers 1 Dallas 43, Treaty of Commerce 8 Stat 116, Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80, IRS Publication 6209, Articles of Association October 20, 1774) 19) Britain is owned by the Vatican. (Treaty of 1213) 20) The Pope can abolish any law in the United States. (Elements of Ecclesiastical Law Vol. 1, 53-54) 21) A 1040 Form is for Tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209) 22) The Pope claims to own the entire planet through the laws of conquest and discovery. (Papal Bulls of 1495 & 1493) 23) The Pope has ordered the genocide and enslavement of Millions of people. (Papal Bulls of 1455 & 1493) 24) The Pope's laws are obligatory on everyone. (Bened. XIV., De Syn. Dioec, lib, ix, c. vii., n. 4. Patri, 1844) (Syllabus prop 28, 29, 44) 25) WE ARE SLAVES AND OWN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. NOT EVEN WHAT WE THINK ARE OUR CHILDREN. (Tillman vs. Roberts 108 So. 62, Van Koten vs. Van Koten 154 N.E. 146, Senate Document 43 & 73rd Congress 1st session, Wynehammer v. People 13 N.Y. REP 378, 481) 26) Military Dictator George Washington divided up the States (Estates) into Districts. (Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1 page 99 1828 dictionary for definition of Estate) 27) "The People" does Not include you and me (Barron vs. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore 32 U.S. 243) 28) It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect THE CORPORATION and arrest code breakers. (Sapp vs. Tallahassee, 348 So. 2nd. 363, Reiff vs, City of Phila. 477 F.Supp. 12

/What do a plantation owners do (in georgia)? Ok so i have to do this thing for U.S. History. I am a Plantation owner, in 1751, living in the Southern Colony, Georgia. I plant rice and indigo. but what are other things that i do? Into more detail? what does he do throughout the day? and does a plantation owner's wife do anything, other than stay home and clean the house, or have her own job? does she help the husband in the fields? also, does anyone know what the climate and the geography was of Georgia during that time? please tell me. and i would be living in a country side if i was living in georgia as a plantation owner right? what type of government did georgia have? and what type of tools do plantation owners use to do their job? i know this is a lot! but i really need help! so thank you so much! please and thank you so much! :)

citizenship english question translate to arabic ? any one new anywebsite hit me up ? INS Citizenship Test Questions The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) administers a test to all immigrants applying for citizenship. For years, these questions have been selected from among the following list of 100. How would you do? Many, you will find simple. Others are not so easy. In all cases, the answer USCIS wants to hear is given. (Study Materials and Guides) NOTE: New Test Questions Coming Oct. 1, 2008 On Oct. 1, 2008 The USCIS will switch a new set of test questions. All applicants who file for naturalization on or after October 1, 2008 will be required to take the redesigned test. For those applicants who file prior to October 1, 2008 but are not interviewed until after October , 2008 (but before October 1, 2009), there will be an option of taking the new test or the current one. ________________________________________ Current USCIS Test Questions (Click on the question to see the answer.) 1. What are the colors of our flag? 2. How many stars are there in our flag? 3. What color are the stars on our flag? 4. What do the stars on the flag mean? 5. How many stripes are there in the flag? 6. What color are the stripes? 7. What do the stripes on the flag mean? 8. How many states are there in the Union? 9. What is the 4th of July? 10. What is the date of Independence Day? 11. Independence from whom? 12. What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War? 13. Who was the first President of the United States? 14. Who is the President of the United States today? 15. Who is the vice-president of the United States today? 16. Who elects the President of the United States? 17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die? 18. For how long do we elect the President? 19. What is the Constitution? 20. Can the Constitution be changed? 21. What do we call a change to the Constitution? 22. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution? 23. How many branches are there in our government? 24. What are the three branches of our government? 25. What is the legislative branch of our government? 26. Who makes the laws in the United States? 27. What is the Congress? 28. What are the duties of Congress? 29. Who elects the Congress? 30. How many senators are there in Congress? 31. Can you name the two senators from your state? 32. For how long do we elect each senator? 33. How many representatives are there in Congress? 34. For how long do we elect the representatives? 35. What is the executive branch of our government? 36. What is the judiciary branch of our government? 37. What are the duties of the Supreme Court? 38. What is the supreme court law of the United States? 39. What is the Bill of Rights? 40. What is the capital of your state? 41. Who is the current governor of your state? 42. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the vice-president should die? 43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? 44. Can you name thirteen original states? 45. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."? 46. Which countries were our enemies during World War II? 47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union? 48. How many terms can the President serve? 49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? 50. Who is the head of your local government? 51. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements. 52. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate? 53. Who selects the Supreme Court justice? 54. How many Supreme Court justice are there? 55. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? 56. What is the head executive of a state government called? 57. What is the head executive of a city government called? 58. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists? 59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence? 60. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? 61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence? 62. What is the national anthem of the United States? 63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner? 64. Where does freedom of speech come from? 65. What is a minimum voting age in the United States? 66. Who signs bills into law? 67. What is the highest court in the United States? 68. Who was the President during the Civil War? 69. What did the Emancipation Declaration do? 70. What special group advises the President? 71. Which President is called the "Father of our country"? 72. What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen? 73. Who helped the Pilgrims in America? 74. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America? 75. What are the 13 original states of the U.S. called? 76. Name 3 rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. 77. Who has the power to declare the war? 78. What kind of government does the United States have? 79. Which President freed the slaves? 80. In what year was the Constitution written? 81. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called? 82. Name one purpose of the United Nations? 83. Where does Congress meet? 84. Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? 85. What is the introduction to the Constitution called? 86. Name one benefit of being citizen of the United States. 87. What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens? 88. What is the United States Capitol? 89. What is the White House? 90. Where is the White House located? 91. What is the name of the President's official home? 92. Name the right guaranteed by the first amendment. 93. Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military? 94. Which President was the first Commander in Chief of the U.S. military? 95. In what month do we vote for the President? 96. In what month is the new President inaugurated? 97. How many times may a Senator be re-elected? 98. How many times may a Congressman be re-elected? 99. What are the 2 major political parties in the U.S. today? 100. How many states are there in the United States today? ________________________________________ 1. What are the colors of our flag? Red, White, and Blue. 2. How many stars are there in our flag? 50 3. What color are the stars on our flag? White. 4. What do the stars on the flag mean? One for each state in the Union. 5. How many stripes are there in the flag? 13 6. What color are the stripes? Red and White. 7. What do the stripes on the flag mean? They represent the original 13 states. 8. How many states are there in the Union? 50 9. What is the 4th of July? Independence Day. 10. What is the date of Independence Day? July 4th 11. Independence from whom? England 12. What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War? England 13. Who was the first President of the United States? George Washington 14. Who is the President of the United States today? Currently George W. Bush 15. Who is the vice-president of the United States today? Currently Richard B. ("Dick") Cheney 16. Who elects the President of the United States? The electoral college 17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die? Vice - President 18. For how long do we elect the President? Four years 19. What is the Constitution? The supreme law of the land 20. Can the Constitution be changed? Yes 21. What do we call a change to the Constitution? An Amendment 22. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution? 27 23. How many branches are there in our government? 3 24. What are the three branches of our government? Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary 25. What is the legislative branch of our government? Congress 26. Who makes the laws in the United States? Congress 27. What is the Congress? The Senate and the House of Representatives 28. What are the duties of Congress? To make laws 29. Who elects the Congress? The people 30. How many senators are there in Congress? 100 31. Can you name the two senators from your state? (insert local information) 32. For how long do we elect each senator? 6 years 33. How many representatives are there in Congress? 435 34. For how long do we elect the representatives? 2 years 35. What is the executive branch of our government? The President, vice president, cabinet, and departments under the cabinet members 36. What is the judiciary branch of our government? The Supreme Court 37. What are the duties of the Supreme Court? To interpret laws 38. What is the supreme court law of the United States? The Constitution 39. What is the Bill of Rights? The first 10 amendments of the Constitution 40. What is the capital of your state? (insert local information) 41. Who is the current governor of your state? (insert local information) 42. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the vice-president should die? Speaker of the House of Representative 43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? William Rehnquist (or whoever is next) 44. Can you name thirteen original states? Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island, and Maryland. 45. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."? Patrick Henry 46. Which countries were our enemies during World War II? Germany, Italy, and Japan 47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union? Hawaii and Alaska 48. How many terms can the President serve? 2 49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? A civil rights leader 50. Who is the head of your local government? (insert local information) 51. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements. Must be a natural born citizen of the United States; must be at least 35 years old by the time he/she will serve; must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. 52. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate? Two (2) from each state 53. Who selects the Supreme Court justice? Appointed by the President 54. How many Supreme Court justice are there? Nine (9) 55. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? For religious freedom 56. What is the head executive of a state government called? Governor 57. What is the head executive of a city government called? Mayor 58. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists? Thanksgiving 59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson 60. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? July 4, 1776 61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence? That all men are created equal 62. What is the national anthem of the United States? The Star-Spangled Banner 63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner? Francis Scott Key 64. Where does freedom of speech come from? The Bill of Rights 65. What is a minimum voting age in the United States? Eighteen (18) 66. Who signs bills into law? The President 67. What is the highest court in the United States? The Supreme Court 68. Who was the President during the Civil War? Abraham Lincoln 69. What did the Emancipation Declaration do? Freed many slaves 70. What special group advises the President? The Cabinet 71. Which President is called the "Father of our country"? George Washington 72. What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen? Form N-400, Application to File Petition for Naturalization 73. Who helped the Pilgrims in America? The American-Indians (Native Americans) 74. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America? The Mayflower 75. What are the 13 original states of the U.S. called? Colonies 76. Name 3 rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The right of freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and requesting change of government. The right to bear arms (the right to have weapons or own a gun, though subject to certain regulations). The government may not quarter, or house, soldiers in the people's homes during peacetime without the people's consent. The government may not search or take a person's property without a warrant. A person may not be tried twice for the same crime and does not have to testify against him/herself. A person charged with a crime still has some rights, such as the right to a trial and to have a lawyer. The right to trial by jury in most cases. Protects people against excessive or unreasonable fines or cruel and unusual punishment. The people have rights other than those mentioned in the Constitution. Any power not given to the federal government by the Constitution is a power of either the state or the people. 77. Who has the power to declare the war? The Congress 78. What kind of government does the United States have? Democracy 79. Which President freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln 80. In what year was the Constitution written? 1787 81. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called? The Bill of Rights 82. Name one purpose of the United Nations? For countries to discuss and try to resolve world problems, to provide economic aid to many countries. 83. Where does Congress meet? In the Capitol in Washington, D.C. 84. Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Everyone (citizens and non-citizens) living in U.S. 85. What is the introduction to the Constitution called? The Preamble 86. Name one benefit of being citizen of the United States. Obtain federal government jobs, travel with U.S. passport, petition for close relatives to come to the U.S. to live. 87. What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens? The right to vote 88. What is the United States Capitol? The place where Congress meets 89. What is the White House? The President's official home 90. Where is the White House located? Washington, D.C. (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.) 91. What is the name of the President's official home? The White House 92. Name the right guaranteed by the first amendment. Freedom of: speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and requesting change of the government. 93. Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military? The President 94. Which President was the first Commander in Chief of the U.S. military? George Washington 95. In what month do we vote for the President? November 96. In what month is the new President inaugurated? January 97. How many times may a Senator be re-elected? There is no limit 98. How many times may a Congressman be re-elected? There is no limit 99. What are the 2 major political parties in the U.S. today? Democratic and Republican 100. How many states are there in the United States today? Fifty (50) New Naturalization Test Questions Beginning on Oct. 1, 2008, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will replace the set of questions currently used as part of the citizenship test with the questions listed here. All applicants who file for naturalization on or after October 1, 2008 will be required to take the new test. For those applicants who file prior to October 1, 2008 but are not interviewed until after October , 2008 (but before October 1, 2009), there will be an option of taking the new test or the current one. New Test Questions and Answers Some questions have more than one correct answer. In those cases, all acceptable answers are shown. All answers are shown exactly as worded by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. * If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT A. Principles of American Democracy 1. What is the supreme law of the land? A: The Constitution 2. What does the Constitution do? A: sets up the government A: defines the government A: protects basic rights of Americans 3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? A: We the People 4. What is an amendment? A: a change (to the Constitution) A: an addition (to the Constitution) 5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? A: The Bill of Rights 6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?* A: speech A: religion A: assembly A: press A: petition the government 7. How many amendments does the Constitution have? A: twenty-seven (27) 8. What did the Declaration of Independence do? A: announced our independence (from Great Britain) A: declared our independence (from Great Britain) A: said that the United States is free (from Great Britain) 9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? A: life A: liberty A: pursuit of happiness 10. What is freedom of religion? A: You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion. 11. What is the economic system in the United States?* A: capitalist economy A: market economy 12. What is the "rule of law"? A: Everyone must follow the law. A: Leaders must obey the law. A: Government must obey the law. A: No one is above the law. B. System of Government 13. Name one branch or part of the government.* A: Congress A: legislative A: President A: executive A: the courts A: judicial 14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? A: checks and balances A: separation of powers 15. Who is in charge of the executive branch? A: the President 16. Who makes federal laws? A: Congress A: Senate and House (of Representatives) A: (U.S. or national) legislature 17. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?* A: the Senate and House (of Representatives) 18. How many U.S. Senators are there? A: one hundred (100) 19. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years? A: six (6) 20. Who is one of your state's U.S. Senators?* A: Answers will vary. [For District of Columbia residents and residents of U.S. territories, the answer is that D.C. (or the territory where the applicant lives) has no U.S. Senators.] * If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. 21. The House of Representatives has how many voting members? A: four hundred thirty-five (435) 22. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years? A: two (2) 23. Name your U.S. Representative. A: Answers will vary. [Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) Representatives in Congress.] 24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent? A: all people of the state 25. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? A: (because of) the state's population A: (because) they have more people A: (because) some states have more people 26. We elect a President for how many years? A: four (4) 27. In what month do we vote for President?* A: November 28. What is the name of the President of the United States now?* A: George W. Bush A: George Bush A: Bush 29. What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now? A: Richard Cheney A: Dick Cheney A: Cheney 30. If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President? A: the Vice President 31. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President? A: the Speaker of the House 32. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military? A: the President 33. Who signs bills to become laws? A: the President 34. Who vetoes bills? A: the President 35. What does the President's Cabinet do? A: advises the President 36. What are two Cabinet-level positions? A: Secretary of Agriculture A: Secretary of Commerce A: Secretary of Defense A: Secretary of Education A: Secretary of Energy A: Secretary of Health and Human Services A: Secretary of Homeland Security A: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development A: Secretary of Interior A: Secretary of State A: Secretary of Transportation A: Secretary of Treasury A: Secretary of Veterans' Affairs A: Secretary of Labor A: Attorney General 37. does the judicial branch do? A: reviews laws A: explains laws A: resolves disputes (disagreements) A: decides if a law goes against the Constitution 38. What is the highest court in the United States? A: the Supreme Court 39. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? A: nine (9) 40. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States? A: John Roberts (John G. Roberts, Jr.) * If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. 41. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government? A: to print money A: to declare war A: to create an army A: to make treaties 42. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states? A: provide schooling and education A: provide protection (police) A: provide safety (fire departments) A: give a driver's license A: approve zoning and land use 43. Who is the Governor of your state? A: Answers will vary. [Residents of the District of Columbia and U.S. territories without a Governor should say "we don't have a Governor."] 44. What is the capital of your state?* A: Answers will vary. [District of Columbia residents should answer that D.C. is not a state and does not have a capital. Residents of U.S. territories should name the capital of the territory.] 45. What are the two major political parties in the United States?* A: Democratic and Republican 46. What is the political party of the President now? A: Republican (Party) 47. What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now? A: (Nancy) Pelosi C: Rights and Responsibilities 48. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them. A: Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote). A: You don't have to pay (a poll tax) to vote. A: Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.) A: A male citizen of any race (can vote). 49. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?* A: serve on a jury A: vote 50. What are two rights only for United States citizens? A: apply for a federal job A: vote A: run for office A: carry a U.S. passport 51. What are two rights of everyone living in the United States? A: freedom of expression A: freedom of speech A: freedom of assembly A: freedom to petition the government A: freedom of worship A: the right to bear arms 52. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance? A: the United States A: the flag 53. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen? A: give up loyalty to other countries A: defend the Constitution and laws of the United States A: obey the laws of the United States A: serve in the U.S. military (if needed) A: serve (do important work for) the nation (if needed) A: be loyal to the United States 54. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?* A: eighteen (18) and older 55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy? A: vote A: join a political party A: help with a campaign A: join a civic group A: join a community group A: give an elected official your opinion on an issue A: call Senators and Representatives A: publicly support or oppose an issue or policy A: run for office A: write to a newspaper 56. When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?* A: April 15 57. When must all men register for the Selective Service? A: at age eighteen (18) A: between eighteen (18) and twenty-six (26) AMERICAN HISTORY A: Colonial Period and Independence 58. What is one reason colonists came to America? A: freedom A: political liberty A: religious freedom A: economic opportunity A: practice their religion A: escape persecution 59. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived? A: Native Americans A: American Indians 60. What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves? A: Africans A: people from Africa * If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. 61. Why did the colonists fight the British? A: because of high taxes (taxation without representation) A: because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering) A: because they didn't have self-government 62. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? A: (Thomas) Jefferson 63. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted? A: July 4, 1776 64. There were 13 original states. Name three. A: New Hampshire A: Massachusetts A: Rhode Island A: Connecticut A: New York A: New Jersey A: Pennsylvania A: Delaware A: Maryland A: Virginia A: North Carolina A: South Carolina A: Georgia 65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? A: The Constitution was written. A: The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution. 66. When was the Constitution written? A: 1787 67. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers. A: (James) Madison A: (Alexander) Hamilton A: (John) Jay A: Publius 68. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for? A: U.S. diplomat A: oldest member of the Constitutional Convention A: first Postmaster General of the United States A: writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac" A: started the first free libraries 69. Who is the "Father of Our Country"? A: (George) Washington 70. Who was the first President?* A: (George) Washington B: 1800s 71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? A: the Louisiana Territory A: Louisiana 72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. A: War of 1812 A: Mexican-American War A: Civil War A: Spanish-American War 73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. A: the Civil War A: the War between the States 74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War. A: slavery A: economic reasons A: states' rights 75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?* A: freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation) A: saved (or preserved) the Union A: led the United States during the Civil War 76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? A: freed the slaves A: freed slaves in the Confederacy A: freed slaves in the Confederate states A: freed slaves in most Southern states 77. What did Susan B. Anthony do? A: fought for women's rights A: fought for civil rights C: Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information 78. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.* A: World War I A: World War II A: Korean War A: Vietnam War A: (Persian) Gulf War 79. Who was President during World War I? A: (Woodrow) Wilson 80. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II? A: (Franklin) Roosevelt * If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk. 81. Who did the United States fight in World War II? A: Japan, Germany and Italy 82. Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in? A: World War II 83. During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States? A: Communism 84. What movement tried to end racial discrimination? A: civil rights (movement) 85. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?* A: fought for civil rights A: worked for equality for all Americans 86. What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States? A: Terrorists attacked the United States. 87. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States. [Adjudicators will be supplied with a complete list.] A: Cherokee A: Navajo A: Sioux A: Chippewa A: Choctaw A: Pueblo A: Apache A: Iroquois A: Creek A: Blackfeet A: Seminole A: Cheyenne A: Arawak A: Shawnee A: Mohegan A: Huron A: Oneida A: Lakota A: Crow A: Teton A: Hopi A: Inuit INTEGRATED CIVICS A: Geography 88. Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States. A: Missouri (River) A: Mississippi (River) 89. What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States? A: Pacific (Ocean) 90. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States? A: Atlantic (Ocean) 91. Name one U.S. territory. A: Puerto Rico A: U.S. Virgin Islands A: American Samoa A: Northern Mariana Islands A: Guam 92. Name one state that borders Canada. A: Maine A: New Hampshire A: Vermont A: New York A: Pennsylvania A: Ohio A: Michigan A: Minnesota A: North Dakota A: Montana A: Idaho A: Washington A: Alaska 93. Name one state that borders Mexico. A: California A: Arizona A: New Mexico A: Texas 94. What is the capital of the United States?* A: Washington, D.C. 95. Where is the Statue of Liberty?* A: New York (Harbor) A: Liberty Island [Also acceptable are New Jersey, near New York City, and on the Hudson (River).] B. Symbols 96. Why does the flag have 13 stripes? A: because there were 13 original colonies A: because the stripes represent the original colonies 97. Why does the flag have 50 stars?* A: because there is one star for each state A: because each star represents a state A: because there are 50 states 98. What is the name of the national anthem? A: The Star-Spangled Banner C: Holidays 99. When do we celebrate Independence Day?* A: July 4 100. Name two national U.S. holidays. A: New Year's Day A: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day A: Presidents' Day A: Memorial Day A: Independence Day A: Labor Day A: Columbus Day A: Veterans Day A: Thanksgiving A: Christmas

What should our "government" do about illegal immigration? It is most definately time to do something, and fast. I live in a small agricultural town in Georgia and 15% of our population is non-english speaking hispanics. Working my job as an EMT-CT gets more difficult every day with the ever present language barrier. These illiegals refuse to learn the language of our land. They are provided indegent medical care while I have to fight tooth and nail to pay my insurance premiums. They are given "food stamps" and eat "high on the hog" while my family eats generic. They are provided free legal assistance. When the local law enforcement calls INS, they are given the run around. The majority of the illiegals in my area are drug or alchol dependant, In the past year I have been assaulted on the job 3 times by illegal hispanics Not only that I had to continue treating them after having to fight them.. I know they are trying to better themselves by coming to the U.S., but do you need any more kids to support? I know I don't!! In response to Peetah's "this question is getting old." You're damn right it is. The American people shouldn't have to keep trying to come up with ideas for our lawmakers on this matter. This is a cut and dry topic: close the borders and don't let them in!! And when they do get in and are found deport them that same day.This goes for any nationality; Mexican, french, Canadian. It doesn't matter. It's time we get some balls about us and stop worrying about hurting everyones feelings, or how these immigrants can pad my pocket.

Chances of getting into Georgia Tech or Emory? I am an Asian male from Marietta, GA. I go to a very competitive high school, the 2nd best in Georgia. I am a very hard worker & dedicated student. My GPA is currently 4.1 weighed & my ranking is i believe 80/670 (It will improve this year). I have/will take AP Chemistry, AP US History, AP Calculus AB, AP Government, AP Microeconomics, AP Biology, AP Physics B, AP Spanish Language. I have taken numerous honors courses. My SAT scores really do not reflect how smart & hard working I am as a student. This is due to test anxiety & I hope that these numbers will not cost my future. Verbal: 580 Math: 650 Writing: 610 Extracurriculars: National Honors Society, Future Physicians Club (president), Teacher @ church, Boy's Tennis, Pianist, Job @ Nursery, Fairview Development Center, physicians assistant & much more. I'm active in the community w/ 150+ hours & counting. Please inform me of my chances of getting into GT or Emory University. I'm worried & I'm willing to work hard. Let me know what I need to work on or how I must proceed. Will a higher GPA weigh out the lower SAT score? Should I take any SAT II subject tests? Please advise me on what I should do or let me know if I am fine or not. Thank you very much! I could get great recommendations for Emory.

Why do black people vote Democrats?Democrats started the kkk.Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.? Why do black people vote Democrats?Democrats started the kkk.Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.? Why Martin Luther King Was Republican It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s. During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs. Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans. Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation. Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that ****** preacher." Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan. Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched. The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats. Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous. After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites). Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans. In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.Source(s)http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500 Yeah I never understood why 90% of African American votes go Democrat? Clinton has stated he respects and has modeled his politics on Fulbright who was a known racist... Bird (D) served 11 years as Majority leader and was a KKK Vidmember... Yet, George Bush has appointed more members of minority groups to the highest positions of power in the history of the US... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_1yRVtey8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfK7AWx6_s Yes I'm Black,I just want to clear that up. I'm a republican too. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" George Wallace was a Democrat TOO!!!!George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 -- September 13, 1998), was a United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President four times, running as a Democrat in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and as the American Independent Party candidate in 1968. During the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, he rose to fame as a symbol of bigotry. This Video was taped from the History Channe and uplaoded to youtube.firey_cowgirl you need to watch more History and not cnn. Video from the he History. Channelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_1yRVtey8

Single mother, working 2 jobs and going to school. I need a loan!!? Hello, I am single mother in Georgia. I have a 2 year old daughter. I work 2 jobs and I am also a part time student. I fell on hard times after having my daughter. A lot of bills backed up and it is hard to pay them. My credit score is not that great right now due to the old bills. Now that I have a secure full time job plus a part time, I am ready to get everything back on track. I dont get any help financially from my daughter's father or any other family members. I am looking to get a Loan for about $3000 or more to pay off all my debt. I am a very reliable, honest person. I just need a little help. I tried applying for food stamps and other government assistance, but they say my income is over the gross income limit for them. I am not even able to get insurance for my daughter or myself from them. Right now I am paying for school out of pocket with no financial aid. Is there anyone kind enough to help me out? Thank you so very much! Any help is well appreciated! Also to add: I have tried applying for School loans, and I have been denied.. maybe because of my past credit issues. Plus I dont have anyone that can co-sign for me

Why do black people vote Democrats?Democrats started the kkk.Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.? Why Martin Luther King Was Republican It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s. During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs. Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans. Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation. Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that ****** preacher." Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan. Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched. The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats. Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous. After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites). Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans. In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.Source(s):http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500 Yeah I never understood why 90% of African American votes go Democrat? Clinton has stated he respects and has modeled his politics on Fulbright who was a known racist... Bird (D) served 11 years as Majority leader and was a KKK Vidmember... Yet, George Bush has appointed more members of minority groups to the highest positions of power in the history of the US... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_1yRVtey8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfK7AWx6_s Yes I'm Black,I just want to clear that up. I'm a republican too. Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It".

What jobs can I hope to find with a B.S. in Economics and minors in Finance and International Affairs? I will graduate in May '10 from Georgia Tech, but am just wondering what job prospects are out there for my major and minor combination. Is being a part of a Big 4 possible, if not, what else is out there for me? My current GPA is a 3.24. (3.0 is Dean's List at this Institution) I'm really hoping that my GPA won't hold me back. Am I destined to work in some government cubicle or is there real world application hiding in my degree awaiting the corporate world? Thanks for your time and advice!

Single mother in Georgia. I make too much money for federal help and too little to survive. HELPPPPPPP...? I'm so distraught - I make a little over the amounts needed to get financial help through the State of Georgia - but I don't make enough to survive. I have two children and am working two jobs - I am looking for a third job. Which means... my kids will be home alone - Does the government not see the need for single mom's??? I seen grants for so many different nationalities - and I don't fall into any of those - I am just a American born single Mom. Any information anyone can give would be wonderful! I'm so distraught - I make a little over the amounts needed to get financial help through the State of Georgia - but I don't make enough to survive. I have two children and am working two jobs - I am looking for a third job. Which means... my kids will be home alone - Does the government not see the need for single mom's??? I seen grants for so many different nationalities - and I don't fall into any of those - I am just a American born single Mom. Any information anyone can give would be wonderful! *** DIVORCED - and to the person who asked "why should the taxpayer be responsible for my bad choices"... I am a taxpaying citizen too - I didn't get to this point from BAD decisions - It was loss of a job - taking care of my Mother with Altzheimers - who passed away recently... bankruptcy and foreclosure. I have been struggling for over 1 year and a half now... I just need help to get back on my feet. I have had to swallow my pride to even ask... Thanks for the sympathy!

newer horizon demanded in usa politicking. can non natural born + nonbinding resolution senate run pres U S ?

:HELP:PLEZ:American HIstory Questions? One of the first important incidents in which American blood was spilled in the name of liberty occurred in 1770. The ____ resulted in the killing of five colonists. The incident was a symbol of fighting for freedom and would inspire others to risk their lives as well. Boston Massacre Intolerable Acts Battle of Lexington Boston Tea Party 2: One of the many concerns that the colonists had was over the issue of trade. A favorite phrase used by the colonists was ____ which spread throughout the 13 colonies. The concern here was the lack of representation in the British Parliament. No Stamp Tax No Quartering Act No Tea Tax No taxation without representation 3: The First Continental Congress had delegates from each of the thirteen colonies except: Delaware New York South Carolina Georgia 4: There were a number of colonial acts of opposition. One of the most famous was the _________, in which tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor. This event happened in 1773 when colonists disguised as Indians decided to show their protest to British trade policies. England responded and punished the colonists. Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party Battle of Lexington Stamp Act Congress 5: The British decided to punish the Boston patriots for their act of defiance. Parliament passed the _____ which closed the Port of Boston. This strained the relationship even more. Boat Act Quartering Act Stamp Act Port Act 6: The colonists decided to resist the punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They had a meeting called the ____ in which they voted to disobey the Intolerable Acts. This meeting was held in Philadelphia and brought the colonists closer to rebellion. Stamp Act Congress Meeting of War Act of Rebellion Continental Congress 7: Not all of the colonists wanted to separate from Great Britain. There were a number of colonists called ____ who supported the laws of England. These colonists were soon identified and many had to leave the country because of the growing opposition to England and its laws. patriots loyalists fans British subjects 8: After Paul Revere warned the colonists, an important battle that led closer to war occurred. This was the battle of ____ in which minutemen fired on the British troops as they marched toward Boston. America Boston Lexington and Concord Bunker Hill 9: The colonists now had to make definite plans for war. They had to appoint a commander in chief who turned out to be ____. His leadership skill and inspiration for his troops made him an excellent choice. He had the difficult job of turning farmers into soldiers. Sam Adams George Washington Patrick Henry Nathan Hale 10: By the year 1776 much more was being written about the need to separate from Great Britain. One of the world's most famous documents listing the reasons for rebellion was written by Thomas Jefferson. His ____ listed the reasons why the colonies had a right to be free and independent of Great Britain. His words were so inspirational that future governments would use them to justify the right to rebel and fight for freedom. Bill of Rights Ten Amendments Act of Defiance Declaration of Independence 11: In his pamphlet, _______, Thomas Paine urged Americans to seek independence from England. Pilgrims' Progress Magna Carta Common Sense Olive Branch Petition

Why do black people vote Democrats?Democrats started the kkk.Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_1yRVtey8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfK7AWx6_s Yeah I never understood why 90% of African American votes go Democrat? Clinton has stated he respects and has modeled his politics on Fulbright who was a known racist... Bird (D) served 11 years as Majority leader and was a KKK Vidmember... Yet, George Bush has appointed more members of minority groups to the highest positions of power in the history of the US... Why Martin Luther King Was Republican It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s. During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs. Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans. Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation. Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that Nigger preacher." Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan. Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched. The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats. Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous. After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites). Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans. In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity. Wow Adam B How many minority groups did Bill Clinton appoint to the highest positions of power Source(s): http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500 Yes I'm Black,I just want to clear that up. I'm a republican too. It's called change noway dog Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"

Why does Wal Mart Stores, Inc not follow their own guidelines and procedures? Bill Lang wants to transfer to a Sam's Club in Colorado as soon as possible. Mr Lang used to be trusted by Max Rafael Waller who made the mistake of telling him everything before the Termination on Monday, 23 April 2007. Team Lead Ambrosio Galvan also knows a lot of dirty secrets at Sam's Club 6625, but is nervous about losing his job if he sides with Max Rafael Waller Sam's Club PD-57 was NOT adhere to by Club Manager Fidel Jacobo and Membership Manager Esperanza Lopez. No documentation of any complaints and the San Fernando Police Department or the Los Angeles Police Department ever showed for a "Work Place Violence." Please show proof since one complaint and one video tape does NOT establish a workplace violence. Neither Mr Jacobo or Ms Lopez wanted to sign the papers of any meeting between two managers and Max Rafael Waller for Legal Documentation. No meetings to address any potentail problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. Max Rafael Waller formerly Assoc ID 0035 and Operator 007 proudly served from Tuesday, 13 November 1990 - Monday, 23 April 2007 and only needed about nine years to do a minimal of twenty-five years to retire from Wal Mart Stores, Inc. He was one hundred percent vested in Profit Sharing and had a one month vacation allocated per year. Max Rafael Waller 11261 Sproule Avenue Pacoima CA 91331-155118 http://www.myspace.com/max_rafael_waller Naval Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps, N.J.R.O.T.C., and alumn of Les Prestigians ~ Class of 1983. San Fernando Senior High School 11333 O'Melveny Avenue San Fernando CA 91340 Telephone:1-818-365-1121 US Army Active Duty: 1984 - 1988 and Individual Ready Reserve, IRR: 1988-1993 Type of Discharge: Honorable RE-1, which is the highest. One Station Unit Training, OSUT 1st Platoon, 4th Squad Echo Company "Outlaws" 7th Infantry Battalion 1st Infantry Training Brigade "Relentless in Training and Unyielding in Battle" Fort Benning Georgia 31905 Continental United States (CONUS) 2nd Platoon Charlie Company "Hard Core Charlie" 3rd Battalion "Battleforce" 327th Infantry (Air Assault) 1st Infantry Brigade "Always First" (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) "Screaming Eagles" Fort Campbell Kentucky 42223 United States Army Europe (USAEUR) 3rd Platoon Delta Company "Dogs of War" 1st Battalion "Regulars by God" 6th Infantry (Mechanized) 1st Armored Brigade "Forerunners" 1st Armored Division "Old Ironsides" APO NY NY 09140 Storck Barracks at Illesheim West Germany Sam's Club 6625 12920 Foothill Blvd San Fernando CA 91340 Telephone:1-818-365-7710 Facsimile:1-818-365-0690 Sam's Club Awards Division A, now Region A 3rd Quarter Award for Member Service The award was received at Home office in November 2003 Region 54, now District 55 2nd Quarter Award for Member Service The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 Sam's Club 6625 September 2003 Associate of the Month The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 Wal Mart Today, now Wal Mart World Member Service Legend How it life started to really go down hill December 2006 Mehmet Ekinci {A Hatchet Man and sent to "clean House" is no longer there but in Fresno according to Mr Jason Fastner} said that he was replacing everyone in the tire shop or its proper title: Tire and Battery Center according to Jeff Lopez{no longer works there} and Mark Castro{has recanted}and Bill Lang heard indirectly but will deny it. Max Rafael Waller studied all of Wal-Mart policies and found that if that his remark {INTIMIDATION} could be verified then he would get a coaching for making such a remark. The others are scared to tell the truth. Fidel Jacobo and Enrique Velarde had possibly everybody at Sam's Club gathering information given out by Max Rafael Waller and will reward them by promotion and/or a payraise along with illegal surveillance that GROSSLY violates the Global Ethics Compliance that Wal-Mart Stores, Inc claims to uphold. Fidel Jacobo might had given misinformation through the tire shop boss, Bill Lang. Fidel Jacobo has received a lot of Anti-Union training Bill told Max if the associates did not follow rules let that be the problem of management. Bill Lang is a Team Lead and so he is required to enforce all rules even IF he disagrees. Sam's Club 6625 did the following tactic as of Wednesday, 4 April 2007 with the participation of members. One African-American tried to talk about the union, but Max's reply "You started inserting the talk about the union and so you want to find out what is going on in my head. You wearing clothes so raggedy that your testicles are showing. If you were FBI you would be in trouble for indecent exposure." He left. TACTICS USED BY SAM'S CLUB 6625 / WAL MART STORES, INC Others Associates and one Caucasian-American named Jarrod tried to be his friend. Jarrod in the past ignore him while his friend that came along with him came from another Sam's Club and they enjoy Good Cop and Bad Cop. Their plan was to have enough approaches to seek "friendship" but they were to seek information and what he was up to since some web sites about Sam's Club 6625 are on the internet. Another tactic used by Sam's Club 6625 / Wal Mart Stores, Inc Wal-Mart Stores, Inc will protect their Public Relations and Image AT ANY COST INCLUDING MAKING A PACT Loyal Customers, "grateful" associates, and their vendors and suppliers. Members where to complain to get Max Rafael Waller and Sam's Club 6625 management would had an easy time had him fired for inferior member service. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc WILL improve and better their ways of operating, but it will NOT be easy. They are NOT as horrible as people claim. To give the Appearance that Max Rafael Waller was causing great harm to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club they had labeled Interview Questions and "Privileged & Confidential" and its Sam's Club University title is More Than A Gut Feeling Participant's Guide A list of interview questions should be deemed Innocuous that would not be Injurious to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc and Sam's Club. The so called witnesses would had been Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang of Sam's Club 6625. A print out of this document conveniently did not have a date printed to give an appearance that is so sensitive that it is disruptive. These document bring no harm and it shows how Disingenuous and Duplicitous Samuel Robson Walton and the Legal Division of Wal-Mart Stores really are. Mr. Fastener and Mr. Lang were also giving the amount of money lost on the Profit and Loss so the if their conversation would be on the internet. They were hoping for the amount to have been stated, but the fact that the conversation was written was enough to know that he wrote at MySpace. Around Wednesday, 21 March 2007 he dragged the rotting carcass of a dog so children would not touch it. It was in front on the Pepsi Bottling Plant in San Fernando California 91340 and its entrance is on Dronfield Ave. He might have breathed some Bacteria, Germs or other Biological Agents and maybe some Botulism. Esther Topete on Saturday, 24 March 2007 was watering the front lawn at 11261 Sproule Ave, Pacoima California 91331 and was scared. Max picked up a headless Squirrel that had a foul stench and maggots and placed in the garbage bin. INTIAL ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WITH A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION A possible misdiagnosis {two EKG readings, Blood tests, Urine Tests, and Lung X-rays}but no medicine was initiated by Scott Wang MD from Providence Holy Cross Medical Center 15301 Rinaldi St Mission Hills CA 91345 Telephone: 1-818-365-8051 Max was scared because he had a high heart rate and cloudy vision, but it turned out that it could have been a result of MEGADOSING on vitamins and minerals a one result is VITAMIN INTOXICATION. Dr Scott Wang's name could not be found at their website http://www.providence.org/losangeles/facilities/providence_holy_cross/default.htm An old white man claiming to be from a PET {Positive Emitting Tomography} Psychiatric team from Kaiser Permanente never left a business card or a phone number for communication. With a PET scan something called RFID can be planted and placed strategically at vital part of the body to electronically kill Max by devious people and this method of killing American Dissenters is from the FBI and the US Military. It is in the Black Operations of the US Federal Government. They also do Electromagnetic Harassment so please visit http://www.mdspec.com The old white man looked like an actor from Law and Order portraying a Psychiatrist and this IS ILLEGAL. Kaiser Permanente's Behavioral Health Care Member Help Line and their telephone: 1-800-900-3277 On Sunday, 1 April 2007 Dr Paul R Hladon Kaiser Permanente 13652 Cantara St Panorama City CA 91402 Telephone: 1-818-375-2377 A possible misdiagnosis since Max had a burning sensation of his Bronchial tubes and Dr Hladon reluctantly gave the medicine. At first he said it was a possible Acid Reflux BUT HE MIGHT HAVE MISDIAGNOSED OR RUSHED TO MAX OUT OF THE WAY! Someone at Kaiser Permanente placed a magazine despicting death possibly the Filipino Nurses. They claimed that they do NOT have a Physician Desk Reference{http://www.pdrhealth.com/ } which can tell about Dessicant Bacteria and its Incubation Period. The Nursing staff was Disigenous and Duplicitous and COULD NOT BE TRUSTED FOR A HONEST ANSWER ! Dr Paul R Hladon gave RELUCTANTLY Max two prescriptions: Azithromycin Tablet 250MG{Take two tablets daily for seven days} and Ciprofloxacin HCL Tablet 500MG{Take one tablet orally two times a day for fourteen days}. Dr. Hladon had two X-Rays so how did he know to give WHAT medicine{prescription} without blood work and being tested for anything out of the ordinary ? Misdiagnosis kills almost 100,000 Americans yearly! The secret for Wal-Mart not getting caught using tactics, fear and intimidation, is simple: a lot of unwritten rules so there is no evidence. A lot of non-managers associates will respond by saying they see or know nothing of improper treatment. They will also have selective memory. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc has a persistent Legal Divsion that rivals the US Federal Government and has many victories on its belt. It can be verified just ask the New York Times for confirmation. Wal Mart Stores, Inc violate their own Global Ethics policies. Their Global Ethics Office have stated that they only handle Age Discrimination. Read the United Nations Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org/AboutTheGC/TheTenPrinciples/principle10.html http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Issues/transparency_anticorruption/index.html http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/anticorruption/iccfccd/index.html?cookies=no Institute for Global Ethics http://www.globalethics.org/ The FBI will discredit American Dissenters by all necessary means like Biological and Psychological war along with Electronic from their world famous Behavioral Science Unit or BSU The FBI protect multi-national conglomerates Group Stalking and Electromagnetic Harassment are some their tactics. COVERT ELECTROMAGNETIC HARASSMENT The heart has a frequncy and cycle and the EKG also looks for a rythm Two EKG's were done at Holy Cross Hospital by Dr. Scott Wang and with the frequncy the FBI {every day and night}are sending just barely audible to inaudible Electromagnetic pulses and signals PLEASE visit to understand to dark side of the US Federal Government http://www.mdspec.com http://www.homeland-security-join.com http://www.secretangel.tv Use use the Freedom of Information Act and expect the FBI to stone walled and cite National Security and National Interest More on the FBI and US Homeland Security Surveillance, Psychotronics and (Gang)Stalking Operations The Xiandos web site is http://xiandos.info/Surveillance,_Psychotronics_and_(Gang-)Stalking_Operations To verify the FBI's LACK OF COOPERATION Please call 1-310-477-6565 and if they respond only with FBI keep on pressing with the question "May I please have your name." Ask if they were investigating Max Rafael Waller The FBI{twice} were given via e-mail, max_rafael_waller@hotmail.com, the following pertaining to Max Rafael Waller; Social Security Account Number, Driver's License Number with expiration date, Home and Work Address with their telephone numbers. Misinformation has been used succesfully by the LAPD, SFPD, FBI, and etcetera. Bureau of Security and Investigative Services of the State of California http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=15863&P_LTE_ID=651 Lincesee Name: Weinhold Investigations License Type: Private Investigator License Number: 15863 License Status: CLEAR Definition (Status Definition: The License/Registration/Permit is current and valid. ) Expiration Date: September 30, 2008 Issue Date: September 29, 1992 City: PINON HILLS County: SAN BERNARDINO Actions: No Business Owners: Weinhold, Peter Herman Related Licenses/Registrations/Permits: No records returned Disciplinary Actions: No records returned This information is updated Monday through Friday - Last updated: APR-24-2007 Disclaimer All information provided by the Department of Consumer Affairs on this web page, and on its other web pages and internet sites, is made available to provide immediate access for the convenience of interested persons. While the Department believes the information to be reliable, human or mechanical error remains a possibility, as does delay in the posting or updating of information. Therefore, the Department makes no guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, currency, or correct sequencing of the information. Neither the Department, nor any of the sources of the information, shall be responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the use or results obtained from the use of this information. Other specific cautionary notices may be included on other web pages maintained by the Department. All access to and use of this web page and any other web page or internet site of the Department is governed by the Disclaimers and Conditions for Access and Use as set forth at California Department of Consumer Affairs' Information and Use of Information(http://www.dca.ca.gov/disclaim.htm). Another headache for Max Rafael Waller Everyone, Managers and Non-Managers, at Sam's Club 6625 willingly volunteered. In December 2006 Pete Weinhold, unkown to Max Rafael Waller, was trying to save a Private Security contract with Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Pete Weinhold might be working at the Sam's Club in Santa Clarita Sam's Club and in possible contact with Bill Lang who is in denial. Pete Weinhold owns a Private Security firm and is a Private Investigator licensed in the State of California. Mr. Weinhold's Private Security firm employed retired and active Peace Officers. Peace Officers have Police Powers but NOT regular Private Security firms and thus Pete Weinhold can charge extra for this. Mr. Pete Weinhold was desperate to save his contract at Sam's Club 6625 and he found an angle; Max Rafael Waller might be an Internet Predator and Pedophile. Mr Weinhold might be at the Sam's Club in Santa Clarita California. Los Angeles Police Officer Julian Almaraz used to work for Pete Weinhold. Three Questions to Mr Pete Weinhold Why does Mr Pete Weinhold not explain his investigation to make peace ? Is it possible that he broke a lot of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties along with Los Angeles Police Department and San Fernando Police Department ? Will Internal Affairs of the Los Angeles Police Department and San Fernando Police Department get involved or has it becomed a Political Hot Potato ? A failed Sting Operation around February 2007 Undercover Police, two white on the inside and two hispanic waiting outside, were setting up Max Rafael Waller at the MacDonalds in the shopping Center were Sam's Club 6625 is at. The bait was a hispanic looking girl at the register who was possibly under eighteen years old. Max Rafael Waller wanted to show proof that some strangers can be trusted so he showed his id with his home address. The one Undercover asked the other do we spring the trap ? The other said not yet. The reason is that showing were someone lives is NOT illegal and reason enough, BUT what would had sprung the trap was that she would be asked to come to his home and the trap FAILED MISERABLY due to the fact that the girl was NOT invited or given a suggestion for a future contact ! A male manager from MacDonalds who looked middle eastern was nervous HAD confirmed it. No evidence has been found to justify surveillance and justify tactics used by the US Homeland Security and local Law Enforcement. PLEASE show all of the information gathered ! Who are involved: the Los Angeles Police Department, the San Fernando Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a lot of associates from Sam's Club 6625 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The following have been written around the middle of April 2007 and never responded even though a mailing address was given, except Barbara Boxer. US Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) http://boxer.senate.gov/ Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/ Harry Reid (D-NV) http://reid.senate.gov/ Hillary Clinton (D-NY) http://clinton.senate.gov/ Chuck Schumer (D-NY) http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/ Arlen Specter (R-PA) http://specter.senate.gov/ Russ Feingold (D-WI) http://feingold.senate.gov/ Patrick Leahy (D-VT) http://leahy.senate.gov/ US Congress Howard Berman (D) 28th District of California http://www.house.gov/berman/ Nancy Pelosi (D) the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 8th Congressional District of California http://speaker.house.gov/ Max Rafael Waller has plenty of "Dirty Laundry" or to simply write: acts that are questionable. Sam's Club 6625 Associates are possibly spreading misinformation in the San Fernando Valley especially in Pacoima. One of the is possibly a Check Out Supervisor, COS, Jay with a woman at a cell phone store in Pacoima on Foothill Blvd between Pierce St and Terra Bella St. and this came from a relative of Max.

Question about suspended license court date? I was not driving when I got arrested. Nor was I pulled over for speeding. I called the cops for a problem I was having with two of my friends. They did a check on me and informed me my license was suspended. We were standing outside my vehicle in a parking lot at the time. I did not know my license was suspended. I have sense reinstated it. I CANNOT go to my court date which is this Friday. I cannot get the time off work and the court down in Georgia said they cannot change the date. What are my options because if I miss Fridays work, I am FIRED from my job? Why is it the government thinks its citizens should revolve their life around what they say? There is no chance of work letting me off this friday. My level of management is required to be here for a very important meeting in the company. Normal law abiding citizens? Excuse me, mr (or ms.) arrogance, but just because your license is suspended does not make you a common criminal. The only reason my license is suspened is for speeding. Which everyone in this country knows are made only for towns to make a profit.

Why is there such a big deal about the "first black president"? It has nothing to do with being 'racist'. We all know that on national television, they showed buses loading up people who otherwise wouldn't have voted (and probably didn't vote in previous elections, because they weren't given 'buses'). If they went and voted for Obama because they were given a 'bus trip/outing'...isn't that a bit unfair? The same process was used in Georgia's Cynthia McKinney election. She got in by doing the same thing. She was in for a while...and then people realized they had made an awful mistake. The same people that voted her in realized how foolish they had been, and her own black people began to dislike her. Why is there such a huge focus on him being the "first black president"? It honestly seems like that is ALL that people care about. Forget his values, forget his morals - they want him in there because he is 'black' - and that is coming out of people's mouths on live television. They think they will bring some huge 'change' (of course, his own slogan was 'change') to America. I saw people on TV in churches who are always screaming, "We shall overcome!" Yes, I'm white. I have no problem at all with the black people that do something with themselves in life and try to make the world a better place. I'm a new generation - born in the 80's, before slavery. Yet many black people hate me for what my ancestors did, and I don't 'owe' them anything because my skin color happens to be the same as the former generation that persecuted their former generation's skin color. Growing up in schools, I heard black children my age say, "They've been against us since the 70's" - who were born in the 80's, just like me. This is a massive problem - we're stuck in the past here. If what people say about Martin Luther King's dream coming true - why are so many black people unhappy and making everyone else miserable? Why are people still shouting they "shall overcome!" when the whole slavery and segregation thing was GONE in the 70's. Gone. Gone. So now, why am I in 2009 still hearing all of this nonsense about 'overcoming'? Every black person that I knew, voted for Obama because they wanted a 'black president.' Because their reasoning was that since he was their own skin color...that he would be in favor of them. Isn't that unfair to whites? Is it not unfair to whites who are persecuted by present-day blacks who weren't even born in the 70's, yet still hate whites for something they had no control of in the past and weren't even born yet? Where I live, most of the blacks have really good jobs. Most of them also get welfare for each and every kid they have per month. Our government is going broke, and people are having their hair braided and nails done with the money they get from working a job - but let the government feed their kids. Yes, I think all of humanity in general should have a problem with this. It's wrong and will always be wrong. As the son of a white widow who grew up for most of my life without a father (no, he was not a 'baby's daddy' and took off, either)...we couldn't get welfare. Yet every black person seems to get it. If it does not serve all people...what good is it? Correct me if I'm wrong...but are not the people always screaming "racist" not being racist themselves by hating people who had nothing to do with the past generations? That's wrong, too. Two wrongs don't make a right. However, I'm really tired of hearing about the 'first black president' when to me...I'm looking at his qualifications, morals and experience. He already seems to support abortion - the murder of babies. What will be next? Gay marriage? Being a "people's president" is not quite a good thing. And note also that I'm not thrilled about the 'white' people of my former generation who kicked Native Americans off from their land and killed them, so that they could take it. Yet I'm not perpetually mad at every 'white' person present-day, who wasn't responsible for that and wasn't alive to take part in it. I have Native American in my family's bloodline, as well...so it's a two-way street. And yes, Chad, you are correct - Obama's mother is factually white and his father is black. Agreed, Mutt. James - Not really. One doesn't have to look backwards into the past, because all of this nonsense is still staring us in the face present-day. I brought it up because I'm among the probably millions of people who are so sick of hearing about it present-day. I don't have a problem with Obama's skin color - and if he does a good job in office, then good. However...I do not think it's fair that the common black view is that he will "bring justice to blacks" for things like the past events - which are indeed past. Yes, they were bad. So was the treatment of Native Americans. So was the Holocaust. So was the Inquisitions. If we focus on one bad history even - why not all?

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State (The original & my responce)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves

What do u think of my Research? I know it's too long but plz read it if u can and tell me what do u think of it and how much do u rate it from 1 - 100? Thank you so so MUCH!! The American Educational Reform in the 1800s American reform movements in the early to mid 1800's strived at improving our developing society. America was growing larger, and with the expanding population, many new ideas sprang up. Conflicting opinions between the people of the United States caused the emergence of an Age of Reform, where people tried to change things such as the educational system and women rights. These movements were the result of our nation's self-determination and interest in improving the society we live in. Education is really important to every country and every civilization and it's noticeable that "Education is the transmission of civilization." (Ariel and Will Durant, The Lessons of History, 1968) Education reform means to make education better by removing faults and defects. True educators are always thinking of more effective ways to enhance and democratize the way children learn. With the continuous change of growing population, economics, culture, family, and global communication, there has to be continuous educational reforms to keep the society abreast with these changes. Home education was so common in America that most children knew how to read before they entered school. As Ralph Walker has pointed out, "Children were often taught to read at home before they were subjected to the rigours of school. In middle-class families, where the mother would be expected to be literate, this was considered part of her duties." (Ralph Walker, Old Readers: In Early American Life, October, 1980, p. 54.) In the early 1800’s education in America grew and developed rapidly, largely because of the works of three very important men: Noah Webster, William McGuffey, and Horace Mann. These three men were catalysts for the growth of education throughout the nineteenth century, and without them the large strides America took during this time would not have occurred. These great men all shared one goal: to educate the youth of America as well as possible. The first American schools opened during the colonial era. As the colonies began to develop, many began to institute mandatory education schemes. In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made "proper" education compulsory. Similar statutes were adopted in other colonies in the 1640s and 1650s. Virtually all of the schools opened as a result were private. The nation's first institution of higher learning was Harvard University, opened in 1636. Most of the universities which opened between 1640 and 1750 form the contemporary Ivy League, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and several others. After the American Revolution, the new national government passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, which set aside a portion of every township in the unincorporated territories of the United States for use in education. Public education in Massachusetts began when Horace Mann left his post as Senate president and became Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837. Mann did many things, but his main legacy was to convince people that public education was a public good that should be publicly funded. As a result, Massachusetts had the first system of public schools in the country. By 1860 the fruits of these efforts were impressive. The states were generally committed to providing free elementary education. For students who wished more than a grammar school education, there were 300 public high schools in the whole country, and almost 100 of these were in massachusetts. There were also about 6000 private academies, many of which charged only a small tuition to poor children. Colleges and universities were still small, few had over 100 students and ill equipped, but their numbers had increased since colonial times. Just as every instant city needed a newspaper and hotel, so it needed what was called a college. Julian Sturtevant, founder of Illinios College in 1830, said, "It was generally believed that one of the surest ways to promote the growth of a young city was to make it the seat of a college." (A History of the United States, p. 281) So before the Civil War 516 colleges were founded, many were little better and the private academies, but only 104 survived to the 1900s. The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 provided federal financial support to state universities. Many land-grant colleges and state universities were established through gifts of federal land to the states for the support of higher education. Financial support was extended to the universities and this in turn led to increased research. The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 sparked the growth of state institutions offering curricula in agriculture and the mechanical arts. The act created a variety of institutional arrangements such as A & M colleges, and even allowed some private colleges to provide the new curriculum. Women have been equally discriminated against in American schools. Even in coeducational schools, practically no encouragement was given to the girls. For countless centuries, the role of the American female was in the home. Domestic responsibilities such as devoting time for the home, preparing meals, and caring for the family rested in the hands of females. Mothers taught their daughters' responsibilities in the home to prepare them for their future. In colonial days girls were taught the household arts but were not expected to learn to read and write. People thought that "book learning" would put an undue stress on their delicate minds and bodies. Progress came slowly and step by step. Women's education and career options, especially for the middle and upper classes, were aided by the founding of academies and seminaries for girls. In Massachusetts girls began to attend summer sessions of the public grammar schools in the late 1700s. "In 1821, Emma Willard established the Troy Female Seminary in New York, the first endowed educational institution for women in the United States." (Education, p, 3) In 1823, Catharine Beecher opened the Hartford Female Seminary and later founded seminaries in Cincinnati and Milwaukee. In 1837, Mary Lyon established the Mount Holyoke Seminary with a curriculum that emphasized domesticity, piety, and teaching. Mount Holyoke enrolled girls from both wealthy and poor families; it was the first institution to challenge class discrimination. By 1840 the efforts of reformers where showing results, and nearly all New England women could read and write. Finally in 1836 (200 years after Harvard College was founded for men) Wesleyan College in Georgia was chartered as the first college for woman. As years rolled by "women protested that they too should have a right to learn and that it is unfair that men could go to college and they can't." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3) A new status for woman was "their opportunity for an adequated education and the right to speak out in public, would mean a richer life for all." (History of the United State, p.284) The rights of women seemed essential to a better America. "The brave reforming women that helped in education are our founding mothers of women education today." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3) Because of racial discrimination, African Americans not only struggled to acquire an education but had to combat stereotypes concerning what type of education was most suitable for them. The 1800s witnessed important changes in their education. The education of blacks remained very low until President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The Civil War and Reconstruction period had a profound effect on the education of blacks in the South. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments granted equal rights to freed slaves. Many sought to take advantage of their new freedoms, especially the opportunity to acquire an education. The reconstruction era witnessed major advances in segregated education for African Americans. Before the Civil War, education for blacks was practically non-existent in the South, and several southern states had laws against teaching slaves to read and write. Schools in the North were segregated. African American ingenuity and perseverance produced some notable exceptions. For instance, Milla Granson of Natchez, Mississippi, a slave who had learned to read and write from her master's children, operated a school late at night when her master slept and slaves had finished working in the fields. During the Civil War, both African American and white teachers began the arduous but rewarding task of educating southern blacks. Indeed, freedmen's education began in army camps. Many brave teachers such as "Mary S. Peake began teaching freed slaves at a Fort Virginia School in 1861. Susie King Taylor, a former slave who learned to read and write, taught black soldiers in the army." (African Americans: Freed People, p. 5) After the war, some white northern women used their education by moving south to teach the freed slaves. Laura Town was the first to do so; in 1862, she established the Penn School on the South Carolina Sea Islands, which she ran for forty years. The African American educator Charlotte Forten Grimke joined her. In her diary, Forten remarked "I never before saw children so eager to learn." Such was the case with most black children throughout the South. The number of black teachers increased as more African Americans became educated. The literacy rate was around 5% in the 1860s rose to 40% in 1890, but when many wealthy American men and woman, mostly from the North gave millions of dollars to help educate black people, the literacy rate by 1910 was at 70%. John D. Rockefeller an American industrialist and philanthropist, for example, "had contributed over $50 million, most of it to train more teachers for black schools." (History of the United States, p. 449) The South spent less money than other parts of the country on education of all kinds. And blacks there had to attend separate and inferior schools. But many black leaders did not agree about this situation. In 1881, an American educator, author and leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he trained thousands of blacks to be better farmers and mechanics, to make a good living, and to help build their communities. He did not want blacks to spend their efforts learning history, literature, foreign languages, science, and mathematics. Instead, he said that they should train quickly for jobs, and mostly for jobs they could do with their hands. Many who admired Booker T. Washington still did not agree with him because they did not want to wait for their rights. Twenty five years after Washington started his Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a group met at Niagara Falls. Their black leader was W. E. B. Du Bois. He was born in Massachusetts after the Civil War, he studied at the University of Berlin in Germany and then received a Ph.D.degree from Harvard University in 1895. "He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, was a professor at AtlantaUniversity and the leading black intellectual of his time." (Evitts,William. The Niagara Movement, p. 1) In 1905 the declaration by Du Bois's Niagara Movement expressed outrage. It demanded for blacks all their human rights, all their rights as Americans, and at once. It opposed all laws and all customs that treated blacks as if they were different from other people. And of course, it demanded the right to vote. As the United States entered the twentieth century, it had adopted a framework of publicly supported elementary and secondary schools and had seen a significant increase in the number of colleges and universities nationwide. The advancement in technology and learning methods has brought about a lot of change for the better in the public education. The American public school has always been looked upon as a system that inculcates the ideals of equality and freedom in the individual. It has changed historically according to the upheavals in the society.

Essay?! easy 10 points:))? just tell me if it's good or not and please read it! how can i make it better?? Do you know how and for what reasons the first 13 colonies of North America were found? Many of us today don’t know why these colonies were established, but we should because it’s an extremely important event in history. Many of the first settlers in the North America came from England, they came for reasons such as these: wanted land to plant on, religious freedom, wanted to become rich or famous, needed a new beginning, wanted to escape paying debts and others. The first successful settlement was Jamestown, Virginia and then other colonies arose. The 13 colonies of North America are: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut (New England Colonies), New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania (Middle Colonies), Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (Southern Colonies). Each of these colonies have different laws, government, religious beliefs, way of life and how they were set up. First, lets talk about the New England Colonies and the first successful settlement Jamestown, Virginia. During the 1580s English had tried a couple of times to establish a colony on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, but their attempts failed. Later, The Virginia Company was developed, it was a joint-stock company. In December 1606 they began their journey and on April 1607 they entered the Chesapeake Bay. They named their new settlement Jamestown in honor of their king who granted them the right to organize settlement. The colony was build on a peninsula so it could defend itself from attack but many died do to disease, hard labor, weather and hunger. With the Virginian leader John Smith the colony survived 2 years, but it was later John Rolfe who learned how to grow tobacco and saved the colony. Virginia had made a great profit growing tobacco, then many others came to the colony and House of Burgesses was formed to let people have a say in their government. Groups of people came to the New England Colonies in order to find religious freedom. At that time many people disagreed with the practices of the Anglican Church and wanted to reform it, those people were called Puritans. Others who wanted to leave and set up their own churches were called Separatists (Pilgrims). Separatists were later persecuted in England which caused them to flee to Netherlands. They did not stay their long causing to lack of jobs, so they made an arrangement with the Virginia Company to settle in North America for free religious practice. One of the New England Colonies is Massachusetts. It was founded for religious freedom by John Carver, William Bradford and John Winthrop, and settled during 1620-1630. Second colony is New Hampshire, it was founded because of profit of trade and fish by Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason and settled in c.1620. Another colony is Rhode Island, which was founded for religious freedom by Roger Williams in 1636. Last of the colonies is Connecticut which was founded in 1635 by Thomas Hooker because of profit from fur trade, farming; religious and political freedom. Second, the Middle Colonies, that also play a huge role. The first colony is New York, it was founded by the Dutch settlers in1624 to expand trade. The colony had a really an excellent harbor that the English wanted to acquire. So in 1664 they attacked and Peter Stuyvesant who was the governor surrendered because he was not prepared for the battle. King Charles II the gave this colony to his brother Duke of York, who renamed it New York. New York became a proprietary colony. Later, the colony became widely populated and demanded a representative government. The English government allowed New York to elect a legislature starting in 1691. A different colony is New Jersey, it was founded by John Berkeley and George Carteret during 1638 and gained profit from selling land. The colony did not gain much success and became a royal colony. Another colony is Delaware, it was founded by Swedish settlers in 1638 in order to expand trade. Last Middle Colony is Pennsylvania founded by William Penn in 1682 and gained profit by selling land/ religious freedom. Penn belonged to a Protestant group of dissenters called Quakers. They believed that everyone was equal in god’s view, had toleration towards other beliefs and were pacifists. Penn wrote the city’s first constitution and believed that settlers should pay for land(since it’s the Native America’s). He also encouraged others to come by advertising in different languages and granted the colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislative assembly. Finally, The Southern Colonies that were founded for different reasons. The colony of Maryland was lead by Cecil Calvert son of George Calvert who always wanted to create a safe place for the Catholics. Cecil had sent two of his brothers to rule the colony when he gained it in1634. They at first turned to tobacco as the main crop knowing it saved Virginia, but planted corn as well. The city Baltimore founded in 1729 had became Maryland’s largest port and settlement. As you know there were conflicts between colonies and one was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It was soon resolved but another conflict arose when Calverts had welcomed Protestants in Maryland. As you know the colony of Virginia became very wealthy and it kept on growing. William Berkeley had made an agreement that for a piece of land he would keep his settlers out of the Native American lands. Nathaniel Bacon, a leader of the western part of Virginia did not agree. He and others had settled in Native American lands and set fire to the capital Jamestown. It was known as the greatest rebel ever. Bacon’s sudden illness and death was the only thing that kept him from taking charge of Virginia. A new proprietary colony was set up called Carolina. It was ruled by eight prominent members of kings court. They divided the colony and each ruled one part. John Locke was the one to write constitution for the colony. The people of the colonies disagreed and went they’re separate ways creating North Carolina and South Carolina. The Carolina’s was the colony who had many rice fields and more than half of the population were enslaved Africans. In 1729 the Carolinas became two royal colonies. The last colony and final colony is Georgia. It was founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe for religious freedom; protection against Spanish Florida and a safe home for debtors. This was a safe colony if you had not payed your debts. In Conclusion, I hope that you understand how important it is to know about the history of these colonies and reasons for their findings. Each of the colony had something different about it and unique. Each colony also has different religions, crops, culture and clothing. This all depends on where and how the colony was developed. From this essay you should have learned who was the founder of the colony, why it was established and in what year it was set up.

How did states expand suffrage in the 1800s? 1.How did states expand suffrage in the 1800s? A.Allowing women to vote B.Lowering or eliminating property ownership as a qualification to vote C.Halted the practice of charging people a fee to vote D.Allowed African American men to vote 2.President Andrew Jackson supported using the spoils system because it put an end to the permanent, non-elected office holding class of government workers and officials. The spoils system was: A.A system where government workers had to reapply for their jobs every 4 years. B.A system where all government workers were fired every 4 years. C.A system where a new President would give people government jobs based on party loyalty. D.A system where the government accidentally handed out spoiled food to people. 3.The idea of nullification was championed by: A.Daniel Webster B.Andrew Jackson C.John Tyler D.John Calhoun 4.The meaning of nullification was: A.States had the right to declare a federal law unacceptable and void. B.The federal government could declare a state law invalid. C.States could secede from the Union and become their own nation. D.State could void or not participate in treaties they disliked. 5.After a South Carolina convention declared the federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 to be unconstitutional, President Jackson: A.Agreed with South Carolina and got Congress to repeal the tariffs. B.Asked South Carolina to secede from the Union. C.Increased the tariffs on goods exported by South Carolina. D.Declared the actions of South Carolina to be treason and sent a warship to Charleston. 6.President Jackson wanted to deal with the Native Americans by: A.Moving them all to Mexico. B.Moving them all to the Great Plains region. C.Fighting a war with the tribes. D.Forcing them to move to Canada. 7.The Trail of Tears was a direct result of: A.The Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia. B.Non-compliance by the Native Americans. C.The 1830 Indian Removal Act. D.Citizens crying about the plight of the Native Americans. 8.The Bank of the United States: A.Used its power to prevent the state banks from lending too much money and limited inflation. B.Used its power to help the poor acquire land and homes. C.Used its power to encourage state banks to lend money and print more paper money. D.Used its power to help candidates campaign against Andrew Jackson. 9.Jackson was opposed to the Bank of the United States because: A.He thought it was not effective enough in controlling inflation. B.The Whig party supported it. C.He believed it only benefited the wealthy and elites of society. D.The Bank did not cooperate with Jackson on implementing his policies. 10.During his re-election campaign in 1832, Jackson attacked the Bank of the United States and its policies, and after winning a second term, he: A.Removed the government’s deposits from the Bank, in effect slowly destroying its power. B.Vetoed a bill to extend the Bank’s charter for another 20 years. C.Decided to keep the Bank if it changed it policies. D.Opened a personal checking account with the Bank.

Illegal Immigrants are absolutely wrong....what do you think??????? Ok, first of all I am not racist. I like everybody. But.....I absolutley am against people here in this country Illegaly ,stealing jobs from legal americans!!!! My state of Georgia is covered with illegal hispanic workers...stealing my tax dollars, from government funded services, that i would not have a problem them getting if they where here legaly. What is so hard about getting american citizen ship, and coming here legaly?? They save up money for their relatives as well as their selves to be smuggled here, so why not come here legaly??? I know for a fact that our tax dollars are being spent on stupid illegal immigrants....why...come here legaly and i wont have a problem, but if you come here illegaly gooooo hooome... what do yall think?????? And for everyone that disagrees with me, Think about it. If they want to come here(immigrants) then why do they not do it legaly? And yes they do take our jobs. Employers know that they can under pay them and over work them. Thats why some americans dont get the jobs..because they want a fair wage, not like illegals coming here. I agree, people have a right to come here. we are te greatest country in the world, but do it legaly, pay taxes, and i wont have a problem with it.its not just mexicans, its anyone here illegaly.

How should true patriots reclaim the media from Republican/Fascist interests? http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=fascism+in+america&btnG=Search ) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. September 11 Freedom Walk New Majority Leader: Iraq War “May Be The Greatest Gift That We Give” Our Grandchildren Headstones of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with the Pentagons war-marketing slogans White House and the RNC are going to make a habit of using uniformed military personnel as props at Republican political rallies, despite the fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning politicization of the armed forces. "You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die." The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon More... 2.) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights: Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. Bush threatens to veto $442b defense bill if Congress investigates detainee abuses. Guantanamo Judge: “I don’t care about international law. I don’t want to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned with international law.” Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the administration's policy of imprisoning without the protections of the Geneva Conventions and enable the Pentagon to legally hold "ghost detainees," US 'preparing to detain terror suspects for life without trial' U.S. oks evidence gained through torture July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. US has at least 9000 prisoners in secret detention More... 3.) Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause: The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc. Congressman: Muslims 'enemy amongst us' SB 24, Ohio law to muzzle "liberals" World history textbook used by seventh-graders at Scottsdale’s Mohave Middle School was pulled from classrooms mid-semester amid growing right criticism of the book’s unbiased portrayal of Islam Rallies planned against 'Islamofacism': Event to 'unify all Americans behind common goal' More... 4.) Supremacy of the Military: Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized. If you haven't seen the Oreo flash animation yet, see it here Bush’s Domestic Program Hit List Bush slashes domestic programs, boosts defense. Arlen Spector calls it "scandalous" Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House Pentagon to spend 75 billion for three new brigades Three cable channels now feed news, information and entertainment about the armed services into millions of living rooms 24 hours a day, seven days a week: The Military Channel, the Military History Channel and the Pentagon Channel. More... 5.) Rampant Sexism: The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy. It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages Bush refuses to sign U.N proposal on women's "sexual" rights W. David Hager chairman of the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee does not prescribe contraceptives for single women, does not do abortions, will not prescribe RU-486 and will not insert IUDs. The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S. group part of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political participation and democracy. More... 6.) Controlled Mass Media: Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media Free Press details recent governmental propaganda efforts, from faux-correspondent Jeff Gannon to paid-off pundit Armstrong Williams, and from the demise of FOIA to video news releases passed off as news. also... See a Whitehouse fake news release here (opens realplayer) US seizes webservers from independent media sites Bush's war on information: US editors forbidden to publish certain foreign writers More... 7.) Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses Bush Aides ADMIT 'stoking fear' for political gain: Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race. The strategy is aimed at stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry's ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush's image as the steady anti-terrorism candidate, aides said. The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level. Keith Olbermann: "The Nexus of Politics and Terror." Cheney warns that if Kerry is elected, the USA will suffer a "devastating attack" GOP convention in a nutshell (quicktime) Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue in 2006 More... 8.) Religion and Government are Intertwined: Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. Jerry Falwell cleared of charges that he broke federal election law by urging followers to vote for Bush NC congressman proposes law making it ok to preach politics from the pulpit Texas Governor Mobilizes Evangelicals Family research council: Justice Sunday Thou shalt be like Bush: What makes this recently established, right-wing Christian college unique are the increasingly close - critics say alarmingly close - links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican establishment. Park Service Continues to Push Creationist Theory at Grand Canyon and other nat'l parks More... 9.) Corporate Power is Protected: The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. The K Street Project is a project by the Republican party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House majority leader Tom DeLay. American Conservative Magazine: One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a duffel bag... and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning days of the CPA and told to spend it “before the Iraqis take over.” There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN) scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in Iraq Bush money network rooted in Florida, Texas: Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts to the President's elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and lobbying clients More... 10.) Labor Power is Suppressed: Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically President Bush Attacks Organized Labor: Bush attacked organized labor Saturday, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can spend for political activities and opening up government contracts to non-union bidding. March 2001: President Bush signed his name to four executive orders on organized labor last month, including one that cuts the money unions will have for political campaign spending. Congress and the Department of Labor are trying to change the rules on overtime pay, eliminating the 40 hour work week, taking eligibility for overtime pay away from millions of workers, and replacing time and a half pay with comp days. More... 11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds. A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications More... 12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'" America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole. The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits. More... 13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. Bush Cronyism: Foxes Guarding the henhouse Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal If Bush's pick is confirmed, that will mean the five top appointees at Justice have zero prosecutorial experience among them. Iran-Contra Felons Get Good Jobs from Bush Big Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Went To Big Donors Bush Wars -- Crooks Get Contracts : The main companies that were awarded billions of dollars worth of contracts in Iraq have paid more than $300 million in fines since 2000, to resolve allegations of fraud, bid rigging, delivery of faulty military equipment, and environmental damage. US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) lost track of $9 billion "Contracting in the aftermath of the hurricanes has been marked by waste, corruption and cronyism" More... 14. Fraudulent Elections: Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. Rolling Stone does some investigative and rather exhaustive digging into public documents and says we’re almost guaranteed the 2004 election results were massively rigged Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings Conyers hearing in which Clinton Curtis testifies that he was hired to create hackable voting machines (.wmv) The Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire. The Conyers Report (.pdf) No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in Hocking County Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international observers. This picture is what stopped the ballot recounts in Florida shortly after it seemed that legitimate President Gore had a lead. The "citizens" started what was later called "the preppy riot". Screaming, yelling, pounding on the walls, these "outraged citizens" intimidated the polling officials to halt the court mandated recount. A closer look reveals who they really were. They were bussed and flown in at Republican lawmakers expense. Some even flew in on Tom Delay's private plane. More... If Mussolini defines fascism as "the merger of corporate and government power" what does that make the K Street project? Related Articles: "Now and Then"- Part 1 A 3 part series by W David Jenkins III on the similarities between America now and Germany post Reichstag fire Click here to purchase this image on POAC merchandise "Now and Then"- Part II: The Propaganda Machine Now and Then- Part III Hitler's Playbook: Bush and the Abuse of Power It may sound crazy to some, but the style of governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as fascism. Is America Becoming Fascist? Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt The Danger of American Fascism: With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. Sheila Samples: Freedom To Fascism -- A Bumpy Ride: Republicans don't seem to realize that they are no longer individual members of a coherent "party," but are merely part of a mean-spirited and dangerous movement that is threatening to sweep away democracy as we know it. Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism The Brownshirting of America: Bush’s supporters demand lock-step consensus that Bush is right. They regard truthful reports that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the September 11 attack on the US – truths now firmly established by the Bush administration’s own reports – as treasonous America-bashing. Fascism then. Fascism now? When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare. What is Fascism? Some General Ideological Features Hello. You are now living in a fascist empire Neo-fascism in America : Too many people believe fascism is only about goose-stepping, jack-booted Nazis. Too many people believe that American democracy is so strong that fascists could never take control of America. If you are sympathetic to those views, I invite you to consider the possibility that you are mistaken. It is in times of fascism rising that armies of ignorance are once more resuscitated from the bowels of a society bordering on the edge of mass psychosis. The America at the dawn of the twenty-first century is no exception... Republican Party Brown Shirts: "The Wide-Awakes": The organization was known for virulent anti-Catholicism, secretive rituals, and a military-style organization complete with "officers" and units. Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State They Saw It Coming: The 19th-Century Libertarian Critique of Fascism Victims of Creeping Fascism: We are witnessing nothing less astonishing than the demise of the American experiment. 12-20 The ten phases of a Bush scandal. 12-22

Has the bail out worked in the Southeast? Mike Papantonio was just on TV screaming how the bail out has turned everything around in the South. He claims our Florida RINO, Crist says we are doing great. What he would not admit is that the dollars that have been spent are not creating jobs, they are simply being put into holes in governmental funding, the private sector is not feeling anything. Papantonio says that Georgia and Alabama are also on the up swing thanks to the bail out. Can any of you explain to me some of the wonderful jobs that are being created, not retained government positions, but new jobs. So much hot air came out of the leftist Pensacola lawyer, they should have applied cap & trade.

(Very Long) Would This Work on the American Economy? “Mercantilism is economic nationalism for the purpose of building a wealthy and powerful state. Adam Smith coined the term “mercantile system” to describe the system of political economy that sought to enrich the country by restraining imports and encouraging exports.” (The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Mercantilism by Laura LaHaye) “Adam Smith earlier called Capitalism “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty” (Wealth of Nations). Economic individualism’s basic premise is that the pursuit of self-interest and the right to own private property are morally defensible and legally legitimate.” (The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Capitalism by Robert Hessen) There is a problem with American Capitalism. While I fully believe that competition creates a better product, and also Work Ethic, than any other Economic Philosophy, I feel it has 2 major flaws: 1.The motive to make money has far surpassed fairness to workers, and good to America. What once manifested itself as an investment in child labor, sweatshops, and abuse of a workforce, has been made to evolve in America due to Labor Unions, fairness laws, and Minimum Wage. In response, Multi-National Companies have moved their jobs overseas, which is called outsourcing. Recent studies by the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimated that 15 million to 20 million jobs might be vulnerable to outsourcing. The current Labor Market in the U.S. is 140 million. That's almost 14 percent of American production at risk. A study by the Labor Department found that almost 10 percent of yearly layoffs in 2007 were due to jobs being outsourced. On top of that, the Commerce Department found that around 5.3 million Americans were employed by overseas firms in 2006, the latest data available. Those are American workers who are not helping the U.S. Economy, but could be. While useful, the Capitalistic urge to find the cheapest way to make the most money has pushed it from American shores. 2.I feel the ability to produce in America has far surpassed the ability to buy, no doubt in large part due to the above outsourcing and loss of jobs. In 2005, Athens, Georgia reported a housing surplus of about 2,000 units, just in single-family permits. Similar situations have occurred across the country, and it has only gotten worse from there. These housing surpluses are at least partially and/or indirectly responsible for the failing of the Banking Industry in America. Banks would either loan building companies money to build houses they later couldn't sell, or they loaned money to people who bought houses outside their income, and who couldn't sell their previous homes due to the flooded market. When the economy worsened, and those loans needed to be collected, they couldn't be paid, resulting in the Banks failing. The same instance is occurring in the car market. Americans cannot afford a new car with the economy like it is, (because they either are losing their job, or their place of business is having a hard time) As a result, car manufacturers are going bankrupt, and require government assistance. I have no doubt that after some tough times, our country will right itself economically, but if changes are not made, this situation will fulfill the old saying, “History repeats itself.” We will climb out of this hole, only to fall in again at some future date. I think that our problem could be solved by a, for lack of a better phrase, combination of Mercantilism and Capitalism. Now I do not mean the fully evolved form of Mercantilism rampant throughout history. I mean the basic idea, as stated in the qoute above. While we need to allow the economical Darwinism inherent in Capitalism, we must also find a way to cut down imports by a huge margin, and at the same time increase American production and jobs. Another way of putting it would be to say that America needs to be able to stand on it's own. For example, according to the Energy Information Administration, Canada provides the U.S. with 13 percent of it's natural gas. Almost as much comes from Mexico. By contrast, there are 448,641 producing natural gas wells in the United States, with almost 4,000 in Arkansas alone. Unfortunately, almost ¼ of the produced gas will be exported to other countries over the coming year, instead of being used to cut down on imports. As another example, American food imports have jumped 70 percent since 2003, according to CNN. In fact, according to the USDA, 78 percent of the fish and shellfish consumed in the U.S. are imported, up ten percentage points from 2000. Imported wine had 27 percent of the U.S. marke in 2003 compared with 21 percent in 2000. Everything from lamb and avocados to spices, beer, flowers and bell peppers increasingly is imported. By August of 2004, food imports were $156 million higher than exports. Now, this itself is bad, but consider that we are not even using our exports. If we simply stopped all exports, and used that food, we would nee Why is it stupid, and how does it "fly in the face of liberty"?

Can you make $250,000+, own 2-3 luxury vehicles, live in a 3000+ square foot home and still be "OPPRESSED"? I live and work in an area of Atlanta, Georgia where the majority of high paying jobs, huge houses (valued at $500,000+), and luxury cars belong to blacks. I am fortunate that I also live like that, but I am so tired of hearing about opression/descrimination and lack of opportunity from blacks! There are millions of people (white, black, asian, hispanic, etc) that would love to be 'Opressed' if it means having all of the above mentioned. You never hear poor, white people living in run down trailer parks (the equivilant of public, government assisted housing that is 90% occupied by blacks) screaming how they as whites are opressed and lack opportunities! They realize if they are not educated and willing to work, they will continue to live in poverty.

Unit Nine Test B Insight Students!? Andrew Jackson gave party supporters simple government jobs because he believed in A.the reward system. B.the spoils system. C.suffrage for all citizens. D.the caucus system. 2.The Southern states’ resentment over more tariffs prompted South Carolina to pass an ordinance that states could declare federal laws invalid, an idea called that was called A.suffrage. B.federalism. C.nullification. D.unification. 3.What prompted Jackson to authorize the Force Bill, which gave him the authority to mobilize the military to enforce acts of Congress? A.The ordinance of nullification adopted by a special state convention in South Carolina B.A bill pushed through Congress by South Carolina senator Henry Clay to lower the nation’s tariffs C.An anonymously published work claiming that states could declare a federal law null or invalid D.To address the growing resentment between the nation’s northern and southern regions 4.What role did Jackson play in the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears? A.Jackson supported the act and ordered the army to march the Cherokee to present-day Oklahoma. B.He supported John Marshall’s decision and sent troops to Georigia to enforce the ruling. C.He challenged Georgia’s attempt to extend its authority over Cherokee lands and publicly denounced the act. D.Jackson pushed the act through Congress and refused to support a federal court decision to honor Cherokee rights. 5.Why did Andrew Jackson set out to destroy the Second Bank of the United States? A.He thought the bank was a monopoly controlled by wealthy elitists. B.He wanted to create his own bank: the Third Bank of the United States. C.He believed the bank did not adequately control the money supply. D.He thought destroying the bank would prevent inflation. 6.A new party, the Whigs, emerged in opposition to Jackson. The Whigs supported all of the following EXCEPT A.industrial and commercial development. B.expanding federal government. C.centralized banking and higher tariffs. D.stronger restrictions on the federal government. 7.Most of the immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1800s were from: A.Germany and Britain. B.Germany and Ireland. C.Ireland and Britain. D.Ireland and Scotland. 8.The arrival of millions of Catholic immigrants lead to the rise of all of the following nativist groups EXCEPT A.the Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banner. B.the American Party. C.the Order of the American Flag. D.the Know-Nothings. 9.The attempt by Protestant ministers in the early 1800s to revive people’s interest in religion and stir their faith was called A.the New Spiritualism. B.the Second Great Awakening. C.the First Great Awakening. D.the Great Camp Meeting. 10.The massive amount of European immigrants provided what for America? A.Overcrowding and rampant crime B.Faster and faster expansion to the West C.Great diversity in the population which made society more stable D.A huge labor force for America’s growing industries 11.The period of religious revival led to the emergence of new religious groups such as: A.Mormons, Unitarians, and Shakers B.Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians C.Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons D.Unitarians, Universalists, and Protestants 12.The religious revival known and the Second Great Awakening influenced writers and philosophers to adopt the tenets of A.romanticism and skepticism. B.romanticism and transcendentalism. C.transcendentalism and realism. D.skepticism and realism. 13.Social reformers concerned about the effects of overconsumption of alcohol advocated what? A.Abolition B.Benevolence C.Moderation D.Temperance 14.In the mid-1800s, social reformers worked to improve all of the following areas EXCEPT A.Women’s rights B.Political corruption C.Education D.Prison reform 15.The foundation of the prison reform movement was that prisoners could be rehabilitated instead of locked up without restrictions. The new prisons resulting from this view were known as A.jails. B.institutions. C.penitentiaries. D.boarding schools. 16.Social reformers and civic leaders worked to develop a public education system because A.they thought the country could only survive if the voters were well educated. B.they wanted to ensure there would be educated workers for the government. C.they were concerned U.S. manufacturing would fall behind other countries. D.they wanted educated government workers to promote democracy around the world. 17.Many in the women’s movement were shocked by the Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, which urged women to pursue A.the right to a public education. B.the right to vote. C.the right to bear arms. D.the right to own slaves. 18.Education reform resulted in tax-supported elementary schools in most urban areas. There were fewer in rural areas because A.children did not have transp

my chances of getting into georgia tech or emory? I currently have a 3.6 gpa(weighted).Started off with a bad freshmen year and semi ok sohmore year The AP classes I have taken or am currently enrolled are: AP Comparative Government AP European History AP US History AP Environmental Science AP Macroeconomics AP Calculus AB AP U.S Government My sat scores: Math:680, Reading:580,Writing:540 I have had the same summer job for the past 4 years and am currently enrolled in Beta club, Wrhs the Hive(promotion director), habitat for humanity, formerly a peer tutor, and animal rescue. I am a black male and I believe the essay I wrote for this school was fairly good. So, what are my chances of getting into this school.

About the immigration raid in Stillmore, Georgia. Is rounding up people who come here to work and wind up...? getting arrested an answer? What annoys many is the fact that we seem to be down on people who want to be our friends, sing our national anthym in their language and are willing to work for less than minimum wages while the nations and government leaders south of our borders live off of billions of dollars we sent to those countries. The courts and system in the U.S. are being jammed with the unauthorized and undocumented work force of approximately 12 million migrant workers, while thieves, murderers, rapists, and killers walk amongst us and who are American citizens. Where the hell is all of that money going that we give, interest free (interest free loans-something I as an ex g.i. don't get), to Mexico. Should we demand accountability for the loans and grants we give to Mexico rather than lock up and chase after someone whose only crime is that he/she wants a job? Where will it all end....your thoughts?

US history help Please!?!?!? 1.Andrew Jackson gave party supporters simple government jobs because he believed in A.the reward system. B.the spoils system. C.suffrage for all citizens. D.the caucus system. 2.The Southern states’ resentment over more tariffs prompted South Carolina to pass an ordinance that states could declare federal laws invalid, an idea called that was called A.suffrage. B.federalism. C.nullification. D.unification. 3.What prompted Jackson to authorize the Force Bill, which gave him the authority to mobilize the military to enforce acts of Congress? A.The ordinance of nullification adopted by a special state convention in South Carolina B.A bill pushed through Congress by South Carolina senator Henry Clay to lower the nation’s tariffs C.An anonymously published work claiming that states could declare a federal law null or invalid D.To address the growing resentment between the nation’s northern and southern regions 4.What role did Jackson play in the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears? A.Jackson supported the act and ordered the army to march the Cherokee to present-day Oklahoma. B.He supported John Marshall’s decision and sent troops to Georigia to enforce the ruling. C.He challenged Georgia’s attempt to extend its authority over Cherokee lands and publicly denounced the act. D.Jackson pushed the act through Congress and refused to support a federal court decision to honor Cherokee rights. 5.Why did Andrew Jackson set out to destroy the Second Bank of the United States? A.He thought the bank was a monopoly controlled by wealthy elitists. B.He wanted to create his own bank: the Third Bank of the United States. C.He believed the bank did not adequately control the money supply. D.He thought destroying the bank would prevent inflation. 6.A new party, the Whigs, emerged in opposition to Jackson. The Whigs supported all of the following EXCEPT A.industrial and commercial development. B.expanding federal government. C.centralized banking and higher tariffs. D.stronger restrictions on the federal government. 7.Most of the immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1800s were from: A.Germany and Britain. B.Germany and Ireland. C.Ireland and Britain. D.Ireland and Scotland. 8.The arrival of millions of Catholic immigrants lead to the rise of all of the following nativist groups EXCEPT A.the Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banner. B.the American Party. C.the Order of the American Flag. D.the Know-Nothings. 9.The attempt by Protestant ministers in the early 1800s to revive people’s interest in religion and stir their faith was called A.the New Spiritualism. B.the Second Great Awakening. C.the First Great Awakening. D.the Great Camp Meeting. 10.The massive amount of European immigrants provided what for America? A.Overcrowding and rampant crime B.Faster and faster expansion to the West C.Great diversity in the population which made society more stable D.A huge labor force for America’s growing industries 11.The period of religious revival led to the emergence of new religious groups such as: A.Mormons, Unitarians, and Shakers B.Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians C.Catholics, Protestants, and Mormons D.Unitarians, Universalists, and Protestants 12.The religious revival known and the Second Great Awakening influenced writers and philosophers to adopt the tenets of A.romanticism and skepticism. B.romanticism and transcendentalism. C.transcendentalism and realism. D.skepticism and realism. 13.Social reformers concerned about the effects of overconsumption of alcohol advocated what? A.Abolition B.Benevolence C.Moderation D.Temperance 14.In the mid-1800s, social reformers worked to improve all of the following areas EXCEPT A.Women’s rights B.Political corruption C.Education D.Prison reform 15.The foundation of the prison reform movement was that prisoners could be rehabilitated instead of locked up without restrictions. The new prisons resulting from this view were known as A.jails. B.institutions. C.penitentiaries. D.boarding schools. 16.Social reformers and civic leaders worked to develop a public education system because A.they thought the country could only survive if the voters were well educated. B.they wanted to ensure there would be educated workers for the government. C.they were concerned U.S. manufacturing would fall behind other countries. D.they wanted educated government workers to promote democracy around the world. 17.Many in the women’s movement were shocked by the Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, which urged women to pursue A.the right to a public education. B.the right to vote. C.the right to bear arms. D.the right to own slaves. 18.Education reform resulted in tax-supported elementary schools in most urban areas. T There were fewer in rural areas because A.children did not have transportation to school. B.rural areas did not have school buildings. C.children were working in factories and could not leave to attend school. D.children were needed to help with farming during large parts of the year. 19.Early opponents of slavery thought gradualism was the key to ending slavery. The first step in the process should be to A.stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves. B.phase out slavery in the upper South. C.phase out slavery in the North. D.compensate slaveholders in the South. 20.Some early antislavery reformers founded the American Colonization Society, who felt slavery and racism could only be solved if African Americans were sent back to their homelands in Africa. They were able to A.stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves from Africa. B.compensate slave holders for their loss and move 1.5 million African Americans back to Africa. C.acquire land in West Africa and and charter a ship to take 12,000 African Americans to Africa. D.move 250,000 African Americans between 1821 and 1860 back to their homelands in Africa. 21.In the 1830s, abolitionists proposed that those enslaved should be A.freed gradually, with compensation to their slaveholders. B.freed immediately, without compensation to slaveholders. C.freed in small groups so the economy in the South could adjust. D.freed immediately and sent back to Africa. 22.How were abolitionists able to create support for their cause? A.By founding the American Anti-Slavery Society B.By applying the ideals from the Second Great Awakening C.By using a wide variety of media to share their ideas D.By founding the American Colonization Society 23.How did Southerners respond to the criticisms of slavery? A.They argued that slaves had no desire for freedom because of their close relationship with their Masters. B.They suppressed publications like the Liberator from being circulated in the South. C.They stoned and attacked abolitionists. D.They kidnapped free African Americans in the North and brought them back to the South.

Any help for single young mothers in Georgia? I am 22 and the mother of a 3 year-old and a 7 month-old. I am currently living with my parents and trying to find a job that will not only pay for childcare costs, but also a place to live because my parents are moving and I'm tired of living with them. My ex-husband divorced me and i'm receiving $700 a month in child support. are there any government grants or any programs that can help out with child care, housing, or anything else? it's hard to find a job in this town that'll pay enough to cover childcare as well as rent and utilities and gas and groceries because our town was hit hard by a tornado last year and a lot of our business were knocked out. Please help with any advice you can give!

Texas, Georgia, Washington, or Kentucky? I'm considering a move from KY to TX, WA or GA. Please rank them by your preference from most to least and state why: 1. Texas: desert, forest, mountains, mesas, plains, hills, marshland, swamps, wide rivers, the Gulf, and some of the friendliest people! Very clean, thriving cities, great job market, beautiful women. 2. Washington: Seattle, rainforests, volcanoes, skiing, Puget Sound, the islands, Lake Washington, strong job market, close to Canada, what few folks I've met from there have been quite friendly 3. Georgia: Atlanta, great nightlife, the prettiest women, lots to do, gorgeous mountains, beaches, close to the Carolinas Then, drop to: 4. Kentucky: Job market sucks, income taxation is high, women are attitude-laden, only two major cities, terribly incompetent state government, annoying accents, redneck culture, very hard to make friends here...at least the farms are beautiful. Thank you!

Texas, Georgia, Washington, or Kentucky? (Rank)? I'm considering a move from KY to TX, WA or GA. Please rank them by your preference from most to least and state why. My rank: 1. Texas: desert, forest, mountains, mesas, plains, hills, marshland, swamps, beaches, and some of the friendliest people! Very clean, thriving cities, beautiful women, but I'd say it's becoming crowded! 2. Washington: Seattle, rainforests, volcanoes, skiing, Puget Sound, the islands, Lake Washington, strong job market, close to Canada, what few folks I've met from there have been friendly 3. Georgia: Atlanta, great nightlife, the prettiest women, lots to do, gorgeous mountains, beaches, close to the Carolinas Then, drop to: 4. Kentucky: Taxation is high, women are attitude-laden, only two major cities, terribly incompetent state government, annoying accents, redneck culture, hard to make friends here...at least the farms are beautiful and spring is pleasant

Texas, Georgia, Washington, and Kentucky? I'm considering a move from KY to TX, WA or GA. Please rank them by your preference from most to least and state why. My rank: 1. Texas: desert, forest, mountains, mesas, plains, hills, marshland, swamps, beaches, and some of the friendliest people! Very clean, thriving cities, beautiful women, but I'd say it's becoming crowded! 2. Washington: Seattle, rainforests, volcanoes, skiing, Puget Sound, the islands, Lake Washington, strong job market, close to Canada, what few folks I've met from there have been friendly 3. Georgia: Atlanta, great nightlife, the prettiest women, lots to do, gorgeous mountains, beaches, close to the Carolinas Then, drop to: 4. Kentucky: High taxation, women are very bad attitude-laden, inconsistent weather, very incompetent state government, over-the-top redneck culture, closed-minded to even the rest of the U.S., some people are polite but most are very unwelcoming...at least the farms are beautiful. I don't like it here and CAN'T WAIT TO LEAVE!

can anyone tell me what is wrong with georgia? this state shows the poor folk that it doesn't give danm about them. why is it that transportation can't be better. the government down here are working very hard to keep the struggling ppl down. min. wage is 5.15. companies will hire someone they know with no experience weather than hire a person who knows that job like the back of their hand. why is it that this state show favoritism towards ppl who already have something in life than trying to help someone in need. THIS ISTHE MOST SELFISH, SELF-CENTERED I HAVE EVER BEEN IN. I HATE IT HERE. ALL OF YOU PEOPLE ON HERE MUST BE FROM GEORGIA. I WAS ASKING A QUESTION AND THATS IT. BUT YOU DUMB F###S DOWN HERE JUST CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH. you all have proven my point about most people in georgia being a##holes. BY THE WAY ... I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO LEAVE YOUR F####N state.

How should true patriots combat the rising fascism in America?

Please help me!! Plantation owners in 1750? Ok so i have to do this thing for U.S. History. I am a Plantation owner, in 1751, living in the Southern Colony, Georgia. I plant rice and indigo. but what are other things that i do? Into more detail? what does he do throughout the day? and does a plantation owner's wife do anything, other than stay home and clean the house, or have her own job? does she help the husband in the fields? also, does anyone know what the climate and the geography was of Georgia during that time? please tell me. and i would be living in a country side if i was living in georgia as a plantation owner right? what type of government did georgia have? and what type of tools do plantation owners use to do their job? i know this is a lot! but i really need help! so thank you so much! please and thank you so much! :) to catwoman1316: thank you, but is there anymore geography you could tell me, and what tools the slaves would use in the fields?

EASY SOCIAL STUDIES QUESTION PLEASE HELP!? ok so I am in the 5th grade. I have been sick for the last week. I have a social studies project due this monday and I dont have my text book. I need theese answers below. Colonie: Georgia Where was it located? When was it founded? Why was it founded? the georaphy in the colony The climate in the colony The jobs avalible in the colony The government in the colony How this colony is different than others? THANKS SOOOO MUCH!

Have you seen this????The news just keeps geting BETTER!!!? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVASION USA Cities across nation crack down in illegals Frustrated by federal inaction, new measures spark growing movement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 26, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Hazelton, Pa., Mayor Louis J. Barletta Frustrated by the federal government's immigration policy, small cities across the nation are taking enforcement into their own hands, passing laws that make it harder for illegals to live and work in their communities. Dozens of towns have followed the path of Hazelton, Pa., which passed an ordinance July 13 to deter housing owners from renting to illegals. Riverside, N.J., quickly passed a similar measure, which fines landlords $1,000 per day for renting to illegals and removes business licenses from employers who hire illegals. Already, legal action has been taken by opponents who insist the new laws usurp federal authority. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, which is challenging Hazelton in court, says four communities have passed similar measures and another 17 are considering them, according to Stateline.org. On the state level, legislatures have considered a record 550 pieces of immigration-related legislation and passed at least 77 new laws in 27 states, Stateline.org said, citing the National Conference of State Legislatures. In Georgia, a massive immigration reform package passed in May sanctioned employers who hire illegals and anyone who offers them access to public services. Colorado's legislature later passed similar measures. In Pennsylvania, Hazelton Mayor Louis J. Barletta, an immigrant's grandson, says he wants to make his town "the toughest place on illegal immigrants in America." "What I'm doing here is protecting the legal taxpayer of any race," he told the Washington Post. "And I will get rid of the illegal people. It's this simple: They must leave." While the law doesn't take effect for another month, the Republican mayor already sees progress, according to the Post. "I see illegal immigrants picking up and leaving -- some Mexican restaurants say business is off 75 percent," Barletta said. "The message is out there." Elsewhere: In Valley Park. Mo., earlier this month, landlords began evicting residents who don't have legal status in the country. Landis, N.C., unanimously passed an ordinance that requires residents to conduct business with the town in English only, the local Kannapolis Independent Tribune reported. Alderman James Furr said the reason for the ordinance is to get everyone on the same page. "We want to welcome immigrants to Landis and want to understand them," Furr said. "When someone comes before the board, I want to know them." A nearby town, Mint Hill, N.C., is considering an ordinance that would go a step further, making English the official language but also punishing business owners that hire illegal workers or provide them services. Business owners would face loss of licenses for up to five years on the first offense, the Kannapolis Independent Tribune said. In Escondido, Calif., city leaders voted 3-2 last week to draft an ordinance to punish people who provide jobs and housing to illegal immigrants. Councilman Ed Gallo said the council's charge is to "provide for the health and safety of the residents of Escondido. Is it wrong then to ask them to be here legally?" Hispanics make up 42 percent of the town's 142,000 people. In Farmers Branch, Texas, a city councilman plans to propose similar measures and also wants to stop publication of any documents in Spanish and eliminate subsidies for illegal immigrants in the city's youth programs, according to KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas. In Riverside, N.J., the city council already has adjusted to court challenges, approving several amendments to reinforce an ordinance that bans hiring or housing illegal immigrants, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. In Arcadia, Wisc., the new mayor, John Kimmel, is being accused of racism for plans to make English the official language and to create an "illegal alien task force" that would forward complaints to federal authorities and hold landlords accountable for renting to illegal immigrants, reported the Associated Press. The city council of Altoona, Pa., introduced an ordinance Wednesday calling for fines and revocation of licenses for employers who hire illegal aliens and landlords who house them. Officials there, however, will not include making English the official language because they fear it would not be legally defensible, the Altoona Mirror newspaper reported. Councilman Ron Reidell said the ordinance is justifiable because illegal aliens "breaking the law sap our resources, and they show themselves unwilling to go through channels others have navigated at great expense and effort." Meanwhile, some employers themselves are cracking down on the hiring of illegals. Companies in California are using the state's unfair competition statutes to sue competitors, claiming their rivals gain an unfair advantage by hiring illegals at lower wages, without pensions or workers compensation. Groups that oppose illegal immigration are helping finance the legal actions, the Associated Press reported, believing the tactic could prompt a wave of litigation across the country that would deter hiring of illegals. Statistics compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show immigration law enforcement at work sites is limited. Last year, just 1,145 work site arrests were recorded, compared to 2,849 in fiscal 1999. Federal borders agents in at least one sector also are taking initiative, cooperating with local governments to m make a 210-mile stretch along the Texas-Mexico border a "zero-tolerance zone" for illegals. Rather than being immediately sent home, illegals caught in this area – surrounding Del Rio, Texas – are arrested, prosecuted and sometimes sentenced to prison before being formally deported, the AP reported. Federal officials, in fact, have praised the effort as a creative combination of local and federal resources to curb illegal entry. Other border sectors have not engaged in such a practice because of limited resources. In the Del Rio sector, however, authorities have found bed space elsewhere in the region and assigned federal agents to help prosecute cases, the AP said. "There's nothing we're doing that wasn't already on the books," said Hilario Leal Jr., a supervisory Border Patrol agent in the Del Rio sector. "It's nothing new. We just started enforcing the law." I think "mizgreeneyez" needs a lesson in economics!!

Is it against the law for an employer to continuously add new job duties after hiring an employee w/o consent? I work at a restaurant as a food expediter. Each new shift I work, it seems that the management staff has added new job duties for me to do outside of my expediter duties; such as buttering burger buns, doing "line checks" (a line check is when each food item served on the restaurant's menu is checked before the shift starts to gurantee a shift is ran efficiently, line checks are supossed to be conducted by cooks) I know that under the labor laws of the U.S. government, an employer must specify on paper an employee's job duties and if after the hiring process, these job duties change or are extended, then the employee must be consulted and re-issued a revised "job duties" pamphlet. Under what LABOR LAW does this fall under?, I would like to meet with my boss and discuss this issue, but I want to be backed by facts and not just my personal opinion. If State and Federal laws differ slightly, what laws in Georgia will back my claim?

Chances of getting into Georgia Tech or Emory? I am an Asian male from Marietta, GA. I go to a very competitive high school, the 2nd best in Georgia. I am a very hard worker & dedicated student. My GPA is currently 4.1 weighed & my ranking is i believe 80/670 (It will improve this year). I have/will take AP Chemistry, AP US History, AP Calculus AB, AP Government, AP Microeconomics, AP Biology, AP Physics B, AP Spanish Language. I have taken numerous honors courses. My SAT scores really do not reflect how smart & hard working I am as a student. This is due to test anxiety & I hope that these numbers will not cost my future. Verbal: 580 Math: 650 Writing: 610 Extracurriculars: National Honors Society, Future Physicians Club (president), Teacher @ church, Boy's Tennis, Founder and Teacher of a Piano School, Job @ Nursery, Fairview Development Center, physicians assistant & much more. I'm active in the community w/ 150+ hours & counting. Please inform me of my chances of getting into GT or Emory University and what I should do

Why do so many people lay on welfare for a lot of their lives? I just wanted to ask this, because I think it's a huge problem with our government funding. I live in Atlanta, Georgia...apparently Georgia is VERY lenient (more so than other states) regarding welfare, WIC, section 8, etc. Mostly, the blacks/african americans/whatever they want to be called, are getting welfare benefits such as the above listed. Yet they seem to live a lot better than most of the people who work a regular job and barely try to get by. I know that welfare is funded by our tax money, of course. I find this very frustrating, because I do not feel that I should have to pay for someone's illegitimate child that they don't want to work to pay for, because they couldn't quit sleeping around with every "baby's momma" and "baby's daddy" in town. In my area, most of the black people HAVE the good jobs...and seem to get section 8, welfare, WIC and just about everything else 'free' that they can get. Yet I've worked with and encountered I don't know how many people, who said their money from working their actual job, was going to be used to get their hair and nails done. Nails might be $50 to $150 every couple of weeks to a month; and hair can run into the hundreds of dollars per couple of weeks to a month. Umm...what exactly am I missing here that these people are so 'poor' that they need 'welfare' for? I find it highly offending that someone can get the government to pay half of their rent...yet as a white person, we never could get welfare even though I grew up in a very low income family. What kind of bs society are we turning into? I'm sure that someone is going to comment and say "welfare is for helping people who don't make enough." I don't think 90% of America "makes enough" technically to provide for their family 100% of the time and do everything they need to do in life. But...we don't get free stuff. I am not 'racist'...however, it doesn't take a genius to see that most of the black people have the high paying jobs around here and also seem to get welfare at the same time. The government is going broke....and people are sitting there watching it do so. Finally, it seems that the government is encouraging people to have more children, as if we need more added to the 6+ million people in 29 counties of the Atlanta Metro area already. For each child that they have without knowing "who the father is"...the government pays them so much more each month, per child. Does anyone else find this sickening? I was raised by a mother for half of my life, because I lost my father when I was very young. But...without welfare, my mother raised my brother and I. No government handouts, no 'section 8'...none of this nonsense. Will 'welfare' ever be discontinued or will it take our government going broke to wake everybody up and end the program unwillingly? Uh...it's not possible to go "ask the black people" as one user put it. So I'm asking the general U.S. society on here (at least, those who use Y! Answers). Some people don't seem to care one way or another how their money is spent - but you know, this does affect our taxes in a huge way. Huh...that's funny. So you're telling me that you would rather pay your taxes (yes, this SHOULD be an issue for you, I don't know why it's not?) for the rest of your life for people who don't want to work and/or try to get by the system so they can get more of the money you had to work for and pay taxes with?

How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?

Bush a true orator?

This is how Republicans in Congress treat vets.? Six months after her return to America, she lives in a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, sharing a room with eight other women and attending a job training program. Her parents live in Jamaica and are barely making ends meet, she says. "I'm just an ordinary person who served. I'm not embarrassed about my homelessness, because the circumstances that created it were not my fault," says Beckford, 30, who was a military-supply specialist at a U.S. base in Iraq — a sitting duck for around-the-clock attacks "where hell was your home." It was a "hell" familiar to Noel during his eight months in Iraq. But it didn't stop when he returned home to New York last year and couldn't find a job to support his wife and three children. Without enough money to rent an apartment, he turned to the housing programs for vets, "but they were overbooked," Noel says. While he was in Iraq, his family had lived in military housing in Georgia. In New York, they ended up in a Bronx shelter "with people who were just out of prison, and with roaches," Noel says. "I'm a young black man from the ghetto, but this was culture shock. This is not what I fought for, what I almost died for. This is not what I was supposed to come home to." There are about 200,000 homeless vets in the United States, according to government figures. About 10 percent are from either the 1991 Gulf War or the current one, about 40 percent are Vietnam veterans, and most of the others served when the country was not officially at war. "In recent years, we've tried to reach out sooner to new veterans who are having problems with post-traumatic stress, depression or substance abuse, after seeing combat," says Dougherty. "These are the veterans who most often end up homeless." Pobete, you were not in the service, if you were you would honor your brothers in arms as I do. You would also know what these men are dealing with. I do. People like you spit on the graves of those who died in Nam All 58,000 of them. You know nothing of war. Perfect American, your nick is way, way off. Check the votes of that list. Republicans control every vote. Republicans even cut vets benefits twice. Republicans also reduced death pay for vets families. You really should read more. I honor my brothers in arms.

Do you think Home Depot made the right move? The Home Depot is tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work. So the Georgia-based company turned to Congress for help. I think it is insane that we try and appease criminals at all. Every one of these poor hard working looking for a better life illegals is STEALING a job from an American. The Americans that hire them, I just can't think of enough BAD things to say to these traitors, they would have been marched to the gallows years back. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2869... Make sure you read this article, this company was forced to build temp buildings, bathrooms, etc, forced by illegals that are not supposed to be here. Who can find out who was responsible for forcing a company to appease criminals. They will never hear the end of this if I find out. 2 days ago Something must be done this is outrageous! Please help me track down those responsible. 2 days ago Hey Rabid Frog: It is a cryin shame, we have got to make some noise about this even support letters to Home Depot. I mean a company trying to do the RIGHT thing being held responsible, they had every right to call the law and have those criminals arrested. 2 days ago Mikey: What's up? 2 days ago Shawty1isback: ICE did not process 12 - 15 million mexicans into the USA in the last 5 years. IT IS OBVIOUS, IF YOU ARE NOT BLIND. By the way we should be questioning ANY PAPERWORK from Hispanics as the id fraud stemming from illegal immigration is reaching astronomical proportions. 2 days ago CRK: You are so right once again. supaypahuahua: Ha Ha Ha, Please This is our country 12- million illegals 300 million angry Americans Do the math chump. Dang right your not blacks, Blacks EARNED those rights, Blacks were mistreated, don't even try to compare yourself to the black population. Someone forced them here, illegals broke the law, paid smugglers etc to get here, and demand rights???? I wish it would be a war like you said then we Americans would put an end to illegal immigrants permanently.

could someone summerize? plz!!!? President Mikhail Saakashvili appeared poised for an election victory on Saturday, according to early exit poll results in this former Soviet republic where the former hero of democracy now faces accusations of authoritarian leanings. An exit poll showed President Mikhail Saakashvili winning Saturday's election with 53.8 percent. He needs an absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff election in two weeks. The exit poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The U.S.-educated Saakashvili led mass street protests that ousted a Communist-era veteran from power following fraudulent elections in late 2003. He won a January 2004 election with more than 96 percent of the vote and set out to transform the bankrupt country into a modern European state. advertisement Now the Rose Revolution hero, who was much lauded in the West, is fighting to stay in office amid opponents' claims that he has ignored the needs of the poor and shown a tendency toward authoritarianism. The head of an international election monitoring mission said about two hours before the polls were to close that the election to that point appeared to be fair. "From what we're seeing now ... there does not appear to be anything to suggest there is an election being stolen," said Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Florida Democrat heading a mission sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In November, many Georgians were angered after police violently dispersed peaceful demonstrations and Saakashvili imposed a state of emergency that included banning independent TV news broadcasts. The crackdown called into question Saakashvili's commitment to democracy. Saakashvili defused the crisis by calling an early election, cutting short his own five-year term. Saakashvili has focused his campaign on increasing social welfare support. He has said the election has put at stake his plan to change Georgia into a country worthy of membership in NATO and the European Union. After voting in Tbilisi, Saakashvili _ whose team has been accused of planning to rig the election _ said he was dedicated to having it be free and fair. "We are committed to having Georgia as a beacon of democracy in our part of the world," he said, with his Dutch-born wife and their two young sons at his side. He faces his toughest competition from Levan Gachechiladze, a member of parliament who represents an opposition coalition that wants to do away with the presidency. If a parliamentary system is established, as the coalition wants, Gachechiladze would step down. "I am 43 years old and I never lie," he told supporters Thursday. "I will be gone. It's not a fight for me, for my presidency, it's a fight for democracy." At a central Tbilisi polling station Saturday morning. David Machavariani, 22, said he was voting for Gachechiladze because he wants to do away with the presidency. "I want a strong prime minister and a strong government," Machavariani said. Niko Jialishvili, 52, said he was voting for Saakashvili. "He has created jobs. He has raised salaries, pensions," Jialishvili, a taxi driver, said after casting his ballot. "There is light, there is gas, there is everything." Opposition leaders say their supporters are ready to return to the streets Sunday if the vote is not free and fair. However, the Tbilisi mayor's office turned down a request for permission to hold protests on the city's main avenue. After he voted, Gachechiladze said his supporters reporting numerous violations across the country. "We are ready to respond to all those violations," he said without elaborating. The opposition's plans to protest also have been undermined by a scandal that has discredited one of the leading candidates, billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili. He has admitted offering large sums of money to police if they side with protesters. Georgian authorities say he offered $100 million. Saakashvili's campaigners have been accused of improper use of government funds and voter intimidation by Transparency International. The OSCE observer mission said earlier that it had received apparently credible reports of abuses. Saakashvili's campaign chief, David Bakradze, said there may have been some individual violations, but that that should not be surprising given Georgia's lack of experience with competitive elections. He said he was certain observers would find the "overall climate was free and fair." During Saakashvili's time in office, he has cracked down on organized crime and corruption, modernized the police force and the army, restored steady supplies of electricity and gas and improved roads. The result has been economic growth of about 10 percent per year and a steady rise in foreign investment, but many complain the economic success has not yet benefited much of the population. ___ Associated Press Writer Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili contributed to this report.

Is this DISGUSTING,or what? Hispanic Birth Rate Soars. Taxpayers stop hospital bankruptcies! Posted on Wednesday, August 09 @ 15:27:18 UTC Topic: money campaigns cost illegal immigration Hispanic birth rate soars in Southeast Hispanic births are skyrocketing in the Southeast, where an increase of at least 40 percent was recorded in five states between 2000 and 2003, according to a new government report. Topics: illegal immigration, birth rate, Hispanic, Mexico, Mexican, costs, money, hospitals, taxpayers, medicaid, bankrupt 8/9/2006 The Associated Press Atlanta Among the states with the largest increases were Kentucky (80 percent), South Carolina (62 percent), Alabama (53 percent), Tennessee (53 percent) and Arkansas (40 percent), the report found. The report, from the National Center for Health Statistics, is called the first state-by-state breakdown of birth and fertility rates in the U.S. Hispanic population. U.S. births for non-Hispanic whites decreased 10 percent between 1990 and 2000, and 2 percent between 2000 and 2003, the report showed. Births for blacks declined 9 percent and 5 percent, respectively. In contrast, births for Hispanic women jumped 37 percent between 1990 and 2000, and another 12 percent between 2000 and 2003. But there were differences in birth and fertility rates among Hispanic sub-populations, noted Paul Sutton, an author of the new report. "Hispanics are not a monolithic group. There's a tremendous variation" in births among women of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin, said Sutton, a statistician and geographer with the National Center for Health Statistics. Mexican-Americans had the highest birth rates overall, followed by Puerto Ricans and Cuban-Americans. Mexican-Americans gave birth in their teens and early 20s at higher rates, while for Cuban-Americans, the highest birth rate was for women in their late 20s. And while California and Texas continue to have the largest Mexican populations, North Carolina and Georgia had the highest fertility rates for Mexican mothers. In North Carolina, there were 181 births per 1,000 Mexican women ages 15 to 44 in 2000. In Georgia, the fertility rate was 180 per 1,000 Mexican women. In contrast, the U.S. fertility rate for Mexican-American women was 105 per 1,000. California's was 112, and Texas' was 124. It's not likely Georgia or North Carolina will soon surpass Texas or California in Hispanic births: In 2003, nearly 270,000 babies were born to Hispanic mothers in California and 183,000 in Texas, but 18,000 in Georgia, 16,000 in North Carolina, and 5,000 or fewer in most other Southeast states. But the relative increase in the Southeast states is notable, and may have implications for health-care facilities and state budgets, particularly if some or many Hispanic families are uninsured. WakeMed _ a 515-bed hospital in Raleigh, N.C. _ saw Hispanic births rise from 463 in 1997 to 1,819 in 2005. Hispanics account for about 36 percent of the births at the hospital. Most years, more than 90 percent are Mexican, said Dr. Juan Granados, who trains obstetrics residents at the hospital. Only about 3 percent of the families have health insurance, he said. Fortunately, the state provides a special Medicaid payment to help offset such unreimbursed care, he added. "So the hospitals don't go into bankruptcy," said Granados, a University of North Carolina professor of obstetrics and gynecology and maternal and fetal medicine. In the past, most Hispanic mothers were part of migrant farm worker families who came to the Raleigh area for part of the year and then moved on. But lately, many Mexican families seem to be staying year-round, with men taking jobs in construction and landscaping, Granados said. NOTICE only 3% have insurance! That means taxpayers are stuck with the bills!

I did not work in 2007, do i still file any tax forms? I was jobless with no earned income in 2007, zero dollars earned. I lived on my savings from previous years and did not get a new job until the end of January 2008. Is there any tax form that I should file to say "zero earned income". I am a resident of Georgia and I also need to know if there are any state tax forms that i need to file stating zero income. I have no dependent, and no one can claim me as dependent for i am 22 years old. How will this effect my filing for next year? I was not on unemployment from the government and did not receive any govenmental money help what so ever.

The Israeli Anglo-AmeriKKKan Axis of Evil! This article is the truth dont you agree??? The Israeli Anglo-AmeriKKKan Axis of Evil Junious Ricardo Stanton Jul 28, 2006 03:42 PDT *From The Ramparts* Junious Ricardo Stanton *The Israeli Anglo-AmeriKKKan Axis of Evi*l / "One day before the Israeli air strikes, the main partners and shareholders of the BTC pipeline project, including several heads of State and oil company executives were in attendance at the port of Ceyhan. They were then rushed off for an inauguration reception in Istanbul, hosted by Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer in the plush surroundings of the Çýraðan Palace. Also in attendance was British Petroleum's (BP) CEO, Lord Browne together with senior government officials from Britain, the US and Israel. BP leads the BTC pipeline consortium. Other major Western shareholders include Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, France's Total and Italy's ENI. (see Annex) Israel's Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was present at the venue together with a delegation of top Israeli oil officials. The BTC pipeline totally bypasses the territory of the Russian Federation. It transits through the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia, both of which have become US "protectorates", firmly integrated into a military alliance with the US and NATO. Moreover, both Azerbaijan and Georgia have longstanding military cooperation agreements with Israel. In 2005, Georgian companies received some $24 million in military contracts funded out of U.S. military assistance to Israel under the so-called 'Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program'." /The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil by Michel Chossudovsky The corporate mind control apparatus is primed and pumped to propagate the party line about Israel's right to defend itself (by engaging in acts that would be deemed war crimes if committed by people of color), being AmeriKKKa's only democratic ally in a volatile region and now with the bogus tape supposedly from al CIA Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri calling for an all out jihad against Israel the US media will go hog wild justifying the butchery Israel has unleashed in Lebanon and Palestine. "CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from 'Spain to Iraq.' In a taped message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahiri said the terrorist organization would not stand idly by while "these (Israeli) shells burn our brothers. 'All the world is a battlefield open in front of us,' said the Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama bin Laden. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/zawahiri.ap/ The media is also saying bin-Laden will make some type of message of support for the Arabs. "Another new audio or video message from bin Laden was also expected in the coming days and was planned to deal with Gaza and Lebanon, according to IntelCenter. The U.S.-based independent group provides counter terrorism information to the U.S. government and media.: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/27/zawahiri.ap/ That would be a real neat trick considering the real Osama bin-Laden is dead! The fact the US is supplying the ordnance and weaponry Israel is using to slaughter innocent civilians shows the Israelis and AmeriKKKan ruling elites are totally indifferent to the loss of innocent lives. The US media will even make a major leap of deception and spin it to make it seem Hamas and Hezbollah which were elected by their respective supports as part of the Palestinian and Lebanese governments are united with al-Qaeda. Meanwhile the real facts regarding the supposed flashpoint that started all this will be suppressed and swept down the memory hole as usual. As I have noted in previous posts, the lies Israel used to justify their war against Lebanon do not hold up under close scrutiny. The fact of the matter is, the Israeli troops and tank crew that were killed and captured (not kidnaped as the US media sock puppets reported) were in Lebanese territory, they had violated Lebanese territorial space. The Lebanese did not come into Israeli territory and kidnap Israeli soldiers and tank crews to facilitate a prisoner exchange! But the propaganda and psychological warfare surrounding Israel's unprovoked aggression into Lebanon and Palestine are merely the tip of the iceberg in a much wider geopolitical and strategic operation. It is all part of the Anglo-AmeriKKKan and Israeli axis of evil's overarching plan to invade, control and hold the region militarily, so they can expropriate and control the resources and the means of getting oil and gas from the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf regions into global (Western and Asian) markets. It is part and parcel to the real reasons the US is in Afghanistan: to secure access to Caspian Sea resources via construction of trans-Afghanistan oil and natural gas pipelines (as well as control the opium trade). It is also why the US plutocrats and their NATO allies waged their illegal war in the Balkans: to prepare the landscape to secure European routes for gas and oil pipelines through that region and control the drug trade from Afghanistan into Eastern and Western Europe! The US mind control machinery did an excellent job of suppressing information about the war crimes and lethal devastation the US and NATO committed in the Balkans. Unfortunately for the US and Israel, the Arab world has their own telecommunications setup. It makes it harder for the Western mind control apparatus to dupe the masses here when the photos and images of the carnage the US and Israel have caused in the region are being flashed around the world for all to see. Make no mistake about it, Israel is a key player in the Anglo-AmeriKKKan oil and resource scramble. Israel has its own energy and resource needs (oil and water). Like any true barbarian from the Steppes of Central Eurasia, the Khazars will pillage, plunder and take what is not theirs' to get them. As reported by Michel Chossudovsky in his recent piece on the Global Research Website, the Ashkenazim are right in the thick of the war for oil. "But there is another dimension which directly relates to the war on Lebanon. Whereas Russia has been weakened, Israel is slated to play a major strategic role in 'protecting' the Eastern Mediterranean transport and pipeline corridors out of Ceyhan. The bombing of Lebanon is part of a carefully planned and coordinated military road map. The extension of the war into Syria and Iran has already been contemplated by US and Israeli military planners. This broader military agenda is intimately related to strategic oil and oil pipelines. It is supported by the Western oil giants which control the pipeline corridors. In the context of the war on Lebanon, it seeks Israeli territorial control over the East Mediterranean coastline. ..Israel is now part of the Anglo-American military axis, which serves the interests of the Western oil giants in the Middle East and Central Asia. While the official reports state that the BTC pipeline will 'channel oil to Western markets', what is rarely acknowledged is that part of the oil from the Caspian sea would be directly channeled towards Israel. In this regard, an underwater Israeli-Turkish pipeline project has been envisaged which would link Ceyhan to the Israeli port of Ashkelon and from there through Israel's main pipeline system, to the Red Sea. The objective of Israel is not only to acquire Caspian sea oil for its own consumption needs but also to play a key role in re-exporting Caspian sea oil back to the Asian markets through the Red Sea port of Eilat. The strategic implications of this re-routing of Caspian sea oil are far-reaching." The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil by Michel Chossudovsky www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle The events we see unfolding have been on the drawing board for quite some time now. The corporate elites and global bankers, the real shot callers, don't care thousands of innocent lives will be lost; that too is part of their dastardly plan for global depopulation via perpetual wars mixed with public and private policies that promote sterility, create famine and deadly pandemics (see the National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) - April 1974 to see just how diabolical and psychotic these people are). Israel's war on Lebanon is just one piece in a complex puzzle designed to benefit numerous players known and unknown: the Ashkenazim Zionists, the multinational oil consortiums, the military-industrial-technology hydra, the international financiers and the New World Order afficionados. They all have a symbiotic relationship with each other. They are working hard to bring their New World Order into existence, where the bulk of humanity will be reduced to cannon fodder, wage slaves, debt peons, Pavlovian consumers or prisoners. In this case the main culprits and identifiable axis of evil members are the US, Britain, Israel, their agents, pawns and operatives like the US Congress, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Enterprise Institute to name a few. Keep this in mind as events continue to unfold, the bloodletting and the carnage escalate. -30-

Have you ever experienced racism of any type? If not, what are your opinions about it? Will it racism improve? Racism hurts more than people think it does. All I want to do is to be treated with respect, like a normal person, instead of being frowned at and followed around stores. Racism has even gotten me suspended from school once too. Also, my mom is a GS12 government worker at the US State Dept. She wants to transfer back to Georgia, but they always say she isn't "fit" for the job, but then they hire somebody else (that is lower rank than her). Do you think that the opinions of racism toward others will improve and we can learn to all come together? There are even people that are racist on Yahoo! Answers that post negative questions reguarding those of other races/ethnicity. It's really sad.

Enough information for a 9th grade midterm (10 points)? Instead of a test, we are researching a project in class. I chose FDR and am displaying the info in scrapbook I am making. Is this enough info? Childhood On January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York. He had a comfortable life at his family mansion. His childhood days were full of sailing, horseback riding and private tutoring. He was the only child of Sarah and James Roosevelt. Franklin’s father was a businessman and a railroad worker, while his mother took great care in preserving anything Franklin made or wrote. At the age of 14, Franklin Roosevelt attended Groton, an elite boarding school. There, his tutors taught him a valuable lesson: it was the responsibility of the wealthy to take care of the well-being of those who were poorer. This lesson would become the foundation of his presidency. After his father’s death in 1900, at the age of 18, Franklin Roosevelt entered Harvard Law School. He was unperturbed by his ‘C’ average, but was upset to find out he was too light to participate on the football team. When he was 28 democratic leaders from Dutchess County approached Roosevelt and asked that he run for state legislature. He accepted and became state senator. This was the beginning of his political career, and arguably the end of his care-free days of his youth. Election The stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, and America’s financial well-being ended. President Hover believed that there was nothing to worry about. However, the breadlines, homeless farmers and the unemployed proved differently. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now Governor of New York after serving as Secretary of the Navy, thought differently. He believed it was the Government’s responsibility to provide for it’s people. Democratic leaders chose Roosevelt as their candidate. Roosevelt’s running mate was John Garner. He spoke with coal miners and farmers during his campaign, giving a voice to their concerns and anger. He created jobs in reforestation and helped farmers threaten be poverty. On Election Day, 1932, the American people had cast their ballots. The message of hope Roosevelt gave was chosen. On November 8th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected as the 32nd president of the United States of America. FDR would go on to win his second election, by a land sliding victory against Alf Landon, with 523 electoral votes. Roosevelt did not request to be re-elected for a third term, but the public put his name on the ballot anyway, so he started campaigning. He built Willkie, a politician who wanted to go into World War II and fight Hitler. Roosevelt received 449 electoral votes in 1940. Because of his declining health, FDR narrowly won his fourth and final election against Thomas Dewey. After Franklin Roosevelt died, Congress amended the Constitution, declaring a president can serve no more than 10 years. Polio While Roosevelt and his family were vacationing in Canada at their summer home, he was struck with polio, or infantile paralysis. While sailing on August 9, 1921 he fell into the water. He developed a high fever, and the doctors reported he had a “bad cold”. In the preceding days, he would lose control of his left leg, and then his right. It was late that Roosevelt discovered he has polio. He would never walk un-aided again. In 1924, Roosevelt discovered Warm Springs, Georgia, which allegedly had healing mineral water. He became a frequent visitor there for the rest of his life, as he swam their to exercise and regenerate his muscles . Three years later, he donated $200,000 to the resort to create the Georgia Warm Springs Association. Patients who knew Roosevelt well referred to him as ‘Uncle Rosey’. Because of Warm Springs, FDR was able to drive again after Warm Springs developed a hand-controlled car. Warm Springs not only brought healing waters, but a continuous support system. For donating so much money to search for a vaccine to cure polio, on 1964, Congress decided to honor FDR by placing his face on the dime. Because of Polio, Roosevelt personality had changed. He became less self-reliant and concerned with appearance. He would often joke about his disability, and although he never hid it, many Americans never knew he was paralyzed from the waist down. Family- The first Roosevelt to come to America was a Dutch immigrant by the name of Claes van Rosevelt, who arrived in 1649. The name Roosevelt translates to Rose Field. In his third year at Harvard, Franklin fell in love with Eleanor Roosevelt, his distant cousin. Although they knew each other since childhood, being relatives, FDR did not begin to love her until his 21st birthday. Eleanor contrasted his demeanor, being shy and serious and often and advocate of Civil and Women rights. Franklin and Eleanor had 6 children together, five of which reached maturity: Anna, James, Elliot, Franklin Jr. and John. FDR enjoyed sailing, riding, and wrestling with his kids. Like his father, he was horrible at punishing, a

If I believe that I should get unemployment? I left my job in california because my ex hus dissapeared left me with two kids, and as a result, I left cali my entire life because I couldnt support myself and two kids off my income alone. I left to Georgia where I could live off my savings. Man, I even tried to get government support, but they would only give me a few hundred, it wasnt enough to cover all expenses. So I left went to GA, lived off savings. My hearing for unemployment is tomorrow. Do you think that I had probable cause to leave my job? Do you think I will receive benefits? Man, I cant wait till this is over, I want to keep the faith, but I dont want to be let down either if I believe I will than I should right, is that what faith does?

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State No Joke (The original & my response)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves To B D; your points was covered; like here; The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! I've had this & been posting it a while and ain't any insurance companies trying to prove me wrong!

The Nanny -- Nazi -- State Goes a long with Why People Are Scared (The original & my response)? Willys cynical thought for the day; In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES! The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag) Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices. John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails. I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly? The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine; When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us. This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff. If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be! The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help! And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing! Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes; "The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein "The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/ From; Willys Jokes archieves

I have nowhere to go.? Im 18 years old. I live in Winder Georgia and im on my own. Father is dead and mother has moved and i have been trying to get a roommate thing set up but just no one is reliable enough. I was getting a decent check from the government for going to school, but i have actually dropped out just recently, was going to go to an alternative type school, but it costs money every week that i dont have. Im with a friend right now, but i dont think i can stay much longer here. Ive tried for a loan but i have no credit being so young. Ive got a job and thats about the only thing ive got going. Is there like community's where i can just go and live with others and work? I think id enjoy joining a commune of like "hippies". idk. Also, if there isnt, what should i do?

I need help with a mock election for school - what is the best way to win votes and get my candidate nominated Ok - so in my Honors Government class we are holding a mock primary election - where we have to create candidates and make them out to be the best person for the job. My guy is called Collin King ( black,young,served in marines, former ambassador to italy, and georgia senator) - the problem is that there are only four of the six original candidates and I am one of them...now, California and New York have already been taken and not by my guy. Also, Louisianna is probably already taken same as Virginia....so, I need to bust my but in Ohio, texas, pa, north carolina, and etc. - so, are there any ideas that i can get myself some votes here ladies and gents? I already have Oprah endorsing my campaign, and I am going to have Senator Casey represent for PA ( someone already to Rendel)...so any other states I am missing or ideas for pushing my campaign in the right direction???

How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?

if cops are there to protect and serve why do they do things like this ???

Do you think Home Depot made the right move? The Home Depot is tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work. So the Georgia-based company turned to Congress for help. I think it is insane that we try and appease criminals at all. Every one of these poor hard working looking for a better life illegals is STEALING a job from an American. The Americans that hire them, I just can't think of enough BAD things to say to these traitors, they would have been marched to the gallows years back. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286944,00.html Make sure you read this article, this company was forced to build temp buildings, bathrooms, etc, forced by illegals that are not supposed to be here. Who can find out who was responsible for forcing a company to appease criminals. They will never hear the end of this if I find out. Something must be done this is outrageous! Please help me track down those responsible. Hey Rabid Frog: It is a cryin shame, we have got to make some noise about this even support letters to Home Depot. I mean a company trying to do the RIGHT thing being held responsible, they had every right to call the law and have those criminals arrested. Mikey: What's up? Shawty1isback: ICE did not process 12 - 15 million mexicans into the USA in the last 5 years. IT IS OBVIOUS, IF YOU ARE NOT BLIND. By the way we should be questioning ANY PAPERWORK from Hispanics as the id fraud stemming from illegal immigration is reaching astronomical proportions. CRK: You are so right once again.