Archive for February 2nd, 2010

Fighting Terror With Separate Beds?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Too busy not catching terrorists and losing two wars, the Pentagon is now worried that it may “lose focus” if gays unreservedly are to be allowed to serve in the military.

What’s the problem? Apparently, our macho boys will have difficulty accepting there are gay boys living, breathing and fighting with them. There’s talk of separate housing accommodations, but so far the Pentagon says planning for this hasn’t extended to separate shower facilities.

On the other hand, our macho girls will be left on their own against lesbians, pretty much what they would expect from a misogynistic workplace full of heterosexual harassment and heterosexual assaults.

One wonders which planet our boys and girls were living on prior to joining the Spaceship Pentagon.

There’s not a single community anywhere in the United States that does not include homosexual people.

And a significant number of our politicians certainly think that discrimination beats tolerance when it comes to winning votes. Worked against blacks, worked against women, will work again.

Progress through separate development? Where have we heard that one before? Why yes, it was the official slogan of the apartheid regime in South Africa during the 60s and 70s!

Gorilla says: “We defend our country by fighting for the indefensible!”

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The Old Dominion Of Stupidity

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Virginia once again leads the nation on a downward spiral!

This time it’s a bill in the Virginia Senate exempting Virginians from being required to buy health insurance should the current version of health care reform ever pass.

And of course, this bill really should be called “The Insurance Company Cherry Picking Subsidy Act”.

Without a mandate, insurance companies will either offload the sick to government or charge vastly higher premiums to the healthy. It’s a surefire formula for keeping health care costs rising forever.

What’s even more ridiculous is that Democrats made this possible: 5 Democratic senators joined with all the Know Nothings to pass the bill.

Of course, the bill’s an exercise in political pandering and has no chance of being made law.

But the message is clear: Democrats are not willing to lead on health care reform and they will be punished for it in November.

Gorilla says: “Insurance companies get the cherry, the rest of us get the pits!”

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FHA: The Foreclosures Hold Sway

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

FHA’s capital is being depleted rapidly, as the rate of borrowers now 3 months behind on their loans has jumped from 6 to 9%.

Congress requires that FHA have at least 2% in capital reserves to meet the possibility of increasing foreclosures. In the most recent report, FHA had only 0.53% in reserves. New fees are promised, lending standards will be tightened, horses will be led back into the barn: you know the drill!

So, the number of foreclosures is likely to continue rising, the FHA will be back for more cash from Uncle Sam, and house prices will continue falling.

Eventually, supply will meet demand at the bottom, perhaps by 2011-2012.

Gorilla says: “Sadly, an FHA a day keeps Obama in play!”

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Malaysian Sodomy And Papal Bull

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Once again, the main Malaysian opposition leader has been charged with sodomy.

One wonders why sodomy is the preferred choice of those seeking to eliminate democracy in that southeast Asian nation.

Why not go with adultery, and keep the sexual orientation stuff neutral? Oh right, because Mr. Ibrahim only has the one wife.

Meanwhile, the Pope has come out against a revision of equality laws in the UK that would make it more difficult for churches and religious communities to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

Apparently, the organized religious community’s motto is: “We have a right to promote ignorance, homophobia, and intolerance, the Bible tells us so”.

And of course they do have a right to such beliefs, it’s called free speech.

But they’re not entitled to a taxpayer’s subsidy for these views, and that’s the point of the legislation.

Gorilla says: “That’s why for most of us, Jesus and Allah left the building a long time ago!”

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Trapped And Not Hiring

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Deficits, deficits, deficits!!!

It’s so horrible, and so laughable. The President has bought in, lock, stock, and barrel, to the mantra of reducing deficits at a time when the US economy is having its worst performance since the Depression. This is coming from the Know Nothing Party mostly, and no one seems to remember the huge deficits created by their President from 2001-08.

The government, of course, should be running much larger deficits, given that consumer and private sector demand has more or less fallen off a cliff. There’s an output gap exceeding $2 trillion, and what we get from our leaders is fretting about non-existent inflation and miniscule additional stimulus packages.

Much more interesting than the deficit blather is the assumption about employment contained in the President’s budget submission:

If his budget was passed in its entirety, the President assumes the unemployment rate in 2012 would still be 8%!!!

That is, the unemployment rate will not have fallen at all during his Presidency.

Gorilla says: “A surer recipe for one and done you would be hard pressed to find!”

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