(From Samspolitics.com) In an interview with Politico.com former Vice President, Dick Cheney, criticized President Obama for not prosecuting the War on Terror as Bush did. Cheney is referring to Obama's plans to close Gitmo and prohibit the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. In addition, Cheney believes that President Obama is too concerned about America being loved around the world. Cheney makes an excellent point, as much of the world is a moral wasteland, and America should only be worried about sticking to our core values. America is the greatest country in the world because we are the only country that consistently fights evil around the world. If we start acting in a way because we want to be liked, then America will no longer be exceptional.
Cheney said:
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry...The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama administration believes.” (For more click on link above)
Feb 4, 2009
Feb 3, 2009
The Obama Nominee Fiasco
(From Samspolitics.com) Tom Daschle is the 2nd Obama cabinet nominee who did not pay his full share of taxes. As a result, Daschle has dropped out as potential Secretary of Health and Human Services, a significant position in the Obama administration, in charge of overhauling healthcare. The other was Timothy Geithner, who was just approved as Secretary of the Treasury, despite his tax problems. Obama's judgement should be called into question after these two botched nominations, because Geithner and Daschle were either too incompetent to figure out how much taxes they owed, or worse, they intentionally decieved the IRS.
This story is very ironic in two ways. First, assuming Daschle and Geithner did not intentionally withhold money, one must wonder how the Federal Government expects regular citizens to figure out how much money they owe in taxes, when the people who legislate those laws cannot figure it out themselves! The tax laws are extremely complex and outdated. In addition, it is almost comical that two members of the Democratic party did not pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes owed to the government. After all, the Democrats are the party of higher taxes, especially for the top earners, a group which Geithner and Daschle are surely a part of, and thus when top Democratic Officials do not pay their taxes it comes off as a little hypocritical. If Geithner and Dachle do not want to pay nearly half of their income to the government, then they should lobby for lower taxes, like Republicans!
This story is very ironic in two ways. First, assuming Daschle and Geithner did not intentionally withhold money, one must wonder how the Federal Government expects regular citizens to figure out how much money they owe in taxes, when the people who legislate those laws cannot figure it out themselves! The tax laws are extremely complex and outdated. In addition, it is almost comical that two members of the Democratic party did not pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes owed to the government. After all, the Democrats are the party of higher taxes, especially for the top earners, a group which Geithner and Daschle are surely a part of, and thus when top Democratic Officials do not pay their taxes it comes off as a little hypocritical. If Geithner and Dachle do not want to pay nearly half of their income to the government, then they should lobby for lower taxes, like Republicans!
Dec 29, 2008
Times Reporter Philippe Naughton Disrespects Christianity
In an article entitled, "Pope accused of stoking homophobia after he equates homosexuality to climate change" Times reporter Philippe Naughton disrespects Catholicism, Christianity, and all of humanity by lending legitimacy to the homofascist claim that anyone who shuns sodomy is somehow "homophobic."
Naughton starts off her article by quoting the Pope one or two measly times. She then uses the rest of her terrible article to Christian bash. In short, she places quote after painful quote of heretical occultists claiming the Holy Bible supports acts of sodomy.
Philippe Naughton ought to get off the homofascist band wagon and come back to reality. Yes, reality. That thing homofascist's find so hard to believe in. In reality, the human body is not an abstraction, but rather, an important part of who we are as human beings. We are not abstract conscious's inhabiting impersonal bodies, but rather our bodies are a part of who we are and we must recognize as much if our personhood is ever to be whole, entire, and unbroken.
Naughton starts off her article by quoting the Pope one or two measly times. She then uses the rest of her terrible article to Christian bash. In short, she places quote after painful quote of heretical occultists claiming the Holy Bible supports acts of sodomy.
Philippe Naughton ought to get off the homofascist band wagon and come back to reality. Yes, reality. That thing homofascist's find so hard to believe in. In reality, the human body is not an abstraction, but rather, an important part of who we are as human beings. We are not abstract conscious's inhabiting impersonal bodies, but rather our bodies are a part of who we are and we must recognize as much if our personhood is ever to be whole, entire, and unbroken.
Dec 20, 2008
Step Down! Jerry Brown!
California state Attorney General Jerry Brown says that he will now defend sodomy in the California courts against the will of Californians, who voted overwhelmingly on November 4th in favor of natural marriage.
Due to "deep probing," into the issues of sodomy and same-sex attraction, Brown says, he's had a change of heart.
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