I am not a regular listener of podcaster Wanda Wisdom (Bradley Traynor) as I used to. Since the Feast of Fools podcast is in hiatus, I decided to give Wanda’s show a chance. Brad does two shoes for Lavender Media in Minneapolis, Big Gay News and Lucky Bitch Radio, as part of Big Gay News he mentioned the fact that although alleged censorship of LGBT books is a legitimate issue people are getting hurt and killed for the simple fact for being queer.

First in Iraq, people are being systematically executed for being gay in Iraq, even though we helped liberate this nation from Saddam Hussein we still have not liberated the nation from tyranny for all Iraqis. I applaud organizations such as GOP Proud for helping to bring forth awareness of this issue in one of their recent press releases by mentioning that we should advocate for human rights for all.

Then in Massachusetts, a place where you would not expect a person to be beaten up and disfigured for being gay.  Justin Goodwin got the unfortunate beating from two men in their twenties where the victim will likely be deaf in one ear and blind in one eye because of the malice and prejudice the men had. 

Of course we should not give up the frivolous news stories that you might read on Perez Hilton or what outfit Britney Spears might wear on her world tour. However we should be aware that the world is not perfect and there is still darkness in the world around us. Get active, visit sites such as Amnesty International, the Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign, then enjoy your bread and circuses we got to leave this world a better place for the next generation.

I am proud of the people across the nation who demonstrated against government waste on Tax Day. Anderson Cooper and Rachael Maddow may make jokes about the tea party events by mentioning the double entendre of tea bagging. Geeks who have XBOX 360’s quite understand what these commentators are making the reference to especially when you play Halo 3.

The left thinks these activists are just whiny upper crust folk who do not want to pay for government where Rachael Maddow exclaims these people have their events at public parks and have police watch over the event which are government funded and are perceived to be freeloading hypocrites . Most of the activists are not looking to be free loaders, they just want government to be operated responsibly.

The left thinks that the tea party movement is nothing more than an astro-turf campaign. However the grassroots movements of the left wing are funded by their own sugar daddies such as George Soros. Money is money, if right winged sugar daddies want to support us, so be it.

The tea party movement is not a Republican movement, but its a movement of the grass-roots. Rachael Maddow may make light of the Tea Party movement with its not as spectacular attendance, but it was just as attended as the Post Proposition 8 rallies across the nation last November.

Of course Republicans spent irresponsibly, voters punished the party big time in 2006 causing the Democratic Party to replace many long time Republican legislators. However the party of President Obama is doing a better job at spending the money we do not have like there is no tomorrow. Even without the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama, Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker Pelosi have mortgaged our great grandchildren to debit.

Middle America was not against a stimulus, but we needed to take the time to make sure we were not destroying our nation in the quest of saving it. Many of us are not rabid for limited government, but we know the difference between too much governmental intervention and too little government.

Yes, it was President Bush who started this madness. However the blame is also on the Democratic Party. And as Americans we need to stand up for what is right and keep on fighting until the job is done.

The reforms passed by the voters in California are in danger of being eliminated thanks to Congressman Royce of Orange County and Congresswoman Bean of Pennsylvania. Luckily for us in San Bernardino County, we have a congressman on this key sub committee of Financial Services that could be influential in sinking this plan the insurance industry dreams for.

Insurance companies want to have it where state regulations to be eliminated because in fact federal law supersedes state law. Insurance companies do not want to deal with the regulations and protections that states such as California give to consumers.

The Royce-Bean legislation is still in draft form, but with outcry from the constituents of the 43rd Congressional District perhaps the legislation can be nuked before it gets to the committee.

Although being on key committees does help in helping to get the campaign cash, hopefully the congressman can balance the interests of his constituents and industry at the same time.

In ColoradoPols.com it was posted that:

The Denver Post reports on initial passage today in the Senate of SB-88, which would extend limited health benefits to same-sex partners of Colorado state employees. Did you know, gentle reader, that the Bible declares homosexuality punishable by death?

Well, a State Senator did not want to support the bill because he did not want to reward people who violate biblical law and equated homosexuals as murderers.

Colorado Republicans are not having a good time right now, they lost a US Senate Seat, they lost the state legislature and a congressional seat. I decided to be an advice columnist helping their state chairman mend the damage.

Chairman Wadhams,

As a Republican and gay man from California, I would like to provide some advice on how to bring your party to the majority and the mainstream again. Be a party that unites ALL of Colorado and the nation as a while. Wonder why Congresswoman Musgrave lost in 2008, and your state party lost the governorship, a US Senate Seat and the state legislature.

Remarks from Senator Renfroe will only help the Democratic Party devour your state party and help fuel the liberals to gain bigger margins. Even if your members in the legislature have these views they need to be quiet so they don’t cause further losses towards irrelevance.

You got to be a party of the mainstream, not just James Dobson! Until this happens, do not expect to gain back the majority or even retain the US Senate seat our party still holds in 2010.

Best,

Matt Munson

People were big for the bailout of banks, but they did not realize how government money has strings attached. Government wants to regulate the compensation of its executives in the companies it bought interests in, government wants to restrict the marketing practices where you can not name the stadium that was just built Big Bank Company Arena.

Nationalization of industries does have implications for freedom for individuals. Nationalization of our banks actually has bit New York state in the ass. New York State relied upon the big bonuses from these financial industry titans because they got taxed on these bonuses.  The limit from the government is going to do one very good thing, make business not willing to take governmental handouts.

When these financial industry businesses are suffering and they are crying for mercy it is understandable that we as taxpayers don’t want these businesses taking junkets at the Four Seasons or excessively spend money to redecorate their offices. These businesses choose to be enslaved by the government and they get to suffer the consequences.

Yes, I hear the arguments from Rush Limbaugh that these businesses should be left alone, and its agreeable that in fact, the new jets Citibank had ordered does employ people in the construction of these high ticket items. However corporations need to become more tactful in the era of a depressed economy because the demons of nationalization and socialism will come creeping close.

The solution is to increase the regulation of the financial industry so we would not have any of these problems we recently experienced while ending the micromanaging of the running of these institutions.

On page A9 on the Los Angeles Times on February 2nd, Bill Perkins from Texas published an advertisement asking people of California this question.

Question #3: Why is Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Proposing to use your money to bail out Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &CO, Carlyle, Blackstone and other private equity firms?

It’s YOUR MONEY!!!

“The list of industries being bailed out by Congress may soon grow to include an unlikely one: private equity firms. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus included language in the tax portion of the proposed stimulus package that would allow companies to defer income taxes triggered when they repurchase their own troubled debt at a discount.”

-WSJ Jan 28,2009

As an employee employed by a company owned by a private equity firm, I would like to
encourage our senators from California to lobby against Senator Baucus’s (D-MT) proposal to subsidize the losses from private equity firms with our tax money.

If we allow the government to bailout the losses from private equity firms, then we should at least offer strings attached such as making sure employees from their companies are not being cut and laid off so we can stimulate the economy with their wages. If employees are not working and earning wages, then we have no economic stimulus because our economy is driven from consumer spending.

If we are insisting on corporate welfare, at least it should go to the bottom as well as the top.