Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
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A recent Newsweek article states that seventy-five percent of Americans favor the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. This federal law requires Lesbians and Gays to be discharged from the military of it comes out that they aren’t straight. Yet fifty percent of those same people still don’t think Lesbians and Gays should be “allowed” to get married. The article goes on to give three “reasons” for the change of heart about Lesbians and Gays in the military. And while I understand what the author, Sarah Kliff, is saying, it’s straight out BULLSHIT!
The first reason is that discharging military experts because of their sexual preference is a National Security Risk. I remember when DADT was being drafted, some of the lame arguments for not allowing Lesbians and Gays in the military were that we weren’t “tough enough” or would try and “recruit or sexual attack and harass other soldiers.” DADT didn’t stop us from serving in the military. It stopped us from talking about our sexual orientation. So exactly how did DADT prevent that from occurring? It didn’t! That argument was another red herring in the lies told by bigots to prevent Lesbians and Gays from openly serving in the military.
The ironic thing about this issue is that many of the soldiers discharged because of DADT are people we can ill afford to lose at this time. They are Arabic linguists. And to bring even more light to this issue, an Out and Proud Gay Arabic linguist, Daniel Choi, was discharged from the military because of DADT. He was recently brought BACK INTO THE MILITARY and is waiting to be deployed because his skills are in demand, but few people have them.
The second reason for the changing opinions about DADT is because other Super Powers allow Lesbians and Gays to serve openly in the military. And have been doing so for DECADES! That alone proves that DADT was silly when it was created and that the “experiment” to see what would happen if Lesbians and Gays served in the military has been completed. The outcome? The decision to lift the ban on homosexuals had no impact on military performance, readiness, cohesion or ability to recruit or retain.” REALLY? Go figure!
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I’ll admit it. I don’t like nor respect Sarah Palin. She’s a hypocritical simpleton who needs to go back to being a “soccer mom” and stop trying to be a politician. She seems to put her foot in her BIG MOUTH on a regular basis seemingly to keep her name in the news. But this last one is so funny that when I read it, I couldn’t stop laughing. At a Tea Party convention where Palin was a speaker, it was found that she had written crib notes on the left hand!
I have never done any real public speaking even though I am a ham. A family trait I might add. But I can imagine that in preparing for a speech, you might want to hit a few highlights. In this case, the highlights consisted of just three topics, “energy,” “tax cuts” and “lift American spirits.” So I’m guessing she was going to “blow smoke” in between these three topics. The thing that made me laugh was the fact that she couldn’t remember 6 words? I know. She’s a mama. And I’ve heard that kids take years off of their parent’s lives and working cells from their brains. But she couldn’t remember 6 words? And I thought being able to “see Russia from her back door” was bad!
As I said before, she’s not a person who I give a damn about. So this is confirmation of just what a LOSER she really is. She didn’t have the brains to hide it well. She was caught looking at her hand during the speech. During her speech, Ms. Palin had savaged President Obama as a “charismatic guy with a teleprompter” — a line that got one of several cheering ovations from the audience. I guess with the recession, the Republican Party can’t afford a teleprompter. They use the “old school” teleprompter, HANDS! Hell, even children in school know how to show more finesse in cheating on a school test!
I hope this is the “great white hope” of the Republican party because she makes them look “real good” almost every time she steps out into the public!
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One of the many things that this recession has done is to hold up a mirror to how Americans think and feel about money. Because those people who already have more money that God should allow want more and those people who don’t have any money, want to be able to keep a roof over their heads. And those people in between just want to keep what little they have. Yet it has been those people who have the most who are doing and saying anything to keep it. And as an example, I present South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer to equated feeding/giving poor people welfare to “feeding stray animals.
People are poor for a myriad of reasons. Some people are born into poverty and can never vision another way of living. Some people are forced into poverty by a job loss, a death of the primary wage earner, or a medical disaster. And yes, there are some people for whom welfare is a right of passage. But NO ONE with more than one working brain cell can say that waiting on a check is living because it isn’t. It’s existing. And that isn’t living! But here is where the mirror that is being held up to vilify the poor is being conveniently covered up when it is aimed at CORPORATE WELFARE!
The American Government has given BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to FOR PROFIT CORPORATIONS who have mis-managed, stolen, fraudulently spent, and gave out in bonus’s, to people who have been eating with silver spoons for decades! Not to mention people who run Corporations who on top of THEIR WELFARE also get LOCAL, STATE, and FEDERAL TAX BREAKS! These same people spent millions on “corporate junkets and vacations”, and corporate jets, luxury sports sky boxes, and expensive alcohol and food that was as abundant as McDonald hamburgers. Yet these exact same “Captains of Industry” came with their hats in their hands to the Government trough and got billions of “Corporate Welfare Money.” Oh, sorry, the term for Corporate Welfare is “BAILOUT!” If poor people, many of whom never had a chance to succeed are “stray animals”, what would you call people who have WASTED more money than has been paid out to welfare recipients? LEECHES! BLOODSUCKERS? MOLD? FUNGUS? Whatever is considered LESS than ANIMALS, that is what they are!
Bauer’s comments have been met with scorn by both Republicans and Democrats alike. And he has stated that he meant what he said, he just should have used another word for animal. What a great guy! I would love to hear him explain giving BILLIONS to RICH PEOPLE would be considered. And what word he would apply to these WELFARE TAKERS? He’d probably call them “FRIENDS“, COLLEAGUES, DONORS, and SUPPORTERS.
“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, let’s add another HYPOCRITE to the wall.” Calling Andre Bauer to, your SPOT is now available!