Our fabulous non-democracy

" President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversing his position out of concern the pictures would "further inflame anti-American opinion" and endanger U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."

This proves there is no democracy in this country. In what kind of democracy can a president block a court-order? The whole point of the judiciary system is to be the decider of right and wrong. If the president can just over ride them, then what's their point? This is a major problem for a country that claims to be a "democracy" and wants to spread this "democracy" across the world.

Stupid Banks/Governements

After reading this article, I realize that the Obama administration does not know what its doing when it comes to the economy.

Clearly, these bank stress tests are not telling us anything. If you read the article, you find out that banks are losing a lot more then what the tests predict even in harsher economic conditions then we are in now. This means that these "tests" are made just to stimulate wall street and give people a false sense of security. The government would also be wrong to simply hand money to these banks, it is time to nationalize them. When you have bonus scandals like what happened with AIG and idiots at Bank of America and Citibank who still can't figure out how much they have in "toxic assets" you know it is time to take them over. The problem is that Obama decided that he'd rather have people from the old regime, like Gethner and Summers, on his economic team then bringing in professors and/or young talent who may have some fresh ideas on how to get out of this crisis. But the guys that are there now have no idea on how to deal with this. They are opperating under the assumption that the system is fine and if we keep pumping money into it things will magically work. This works if you have buisness owners who actually care about the health of the people of the US, but they don't, they only care about themselves and their own wealth. The answer, as Europe has been saying, is regulation. The stimulus package, although it could have been done better, was a good idea, but every other plan so far has been somewhat idotic, what this system needs is tough, firm, regulation on how the buisness of buying and lending morgages is done, it will prevent us from falling in this type of crisis again, and it will create jobs for all these buisness majors (and there are too damn many of them) in the area of overseeing these practices. Unfortunatly, our government doesn't see clearly, they are stuck in the same old past and need some new ideas, this would have been Obama's chance to promote "change" but as of now, its not there...

Proof of one thing...

"Veteran Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter told colleagues Tuesday that he switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party, Sen. Harry Reid says."

What this proves is that our two party system is really a one party system. How could a long time republican all of a sudden become a democrat? Could you imagine a long time communist all of a sudden become a capitalist? In other countries, this is the distinction between one party and the other, which is why elections are so important and people bleed over them. Here, the choice is between tangerines and clementines. Both parties are right wing, but one is slightly less then the other. What has changed from the last administration to this one? Other then some housecleaning measures on torture (which is still going on in the Obama administration) and some funding for abortion? Foreign policy is the same and both parties believe in pumping money into a broken financial system to fix it (Not that some money shouldn't be poured in, but we need more regulation then anything else). This is a problem which was made by greed, if it goes unfixed, the US could have some major problems in the future.

Viva Chavez

"Venezuela and the Palestinian Authority have established diplomatic relations."

At least there is one good leader in the world...

Same old, needs to change...

"Two Palestinians have been killed in separate incidents in the West Bank, Israeli army and Palestinian sources have said.

Jewish settlers shot a teenager, alleging that he had tried to attack residents of a West Bank settlement on Friday.

In a separate incident, Israeli troops killed a man who had been protesting against Israel's separation barrier, Palestinians said."

Now how did either of these people deserve to die? Doesn't make any sense. Those settlers kill Palestinians all the time and never get in trouble for it. It's utterly ridiculous.

Ofcource not...

"An Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson has confirmed to Al Jazeera that it will not co-operate with a United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes during the 22-day assault on the Gaza Strip."

This is what countries do when they know they were wrong. Israel has always been committing atrocities, it would be nice to see them get punished for it.

What an Effort

"Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has vowed to continue his hunger strike until opposition politicians pass an electoral bill approving a new constitution and elections."

"Morales' opponents say the bill, already partially approved, would give Morales political advantage because it assigns more seats to the poor, indigenous parts of the country."


Morales is an amazing man, not many leaders in this world care about the poor and he is one of the few. His country is behind him and his snobbish opponents, who are US backed, will lose.

puppet talk

"The Afghan ambassador to the United States has told Al Jazeera that civilian casualties during US military operations are "a price that we have to pay" if the Taliban and al-Qaeda are to be defeated."

"The envoy also said that Afghans would understand that mistakes by US forces would be made, as long as there was a full apology."

This is the definition of a puppet government. I want to see these guys go to any family in Afghanistan who have had a family member die and tell them that its ok because the US military apologized.

Not so terrorist...

""If helping the Palestinians is a crime, I officially admit to my crime … and if it is an accusation, we are proud of it. Everybody knows that this is not the first time Hezbollah has tried to furnish arms to the Palestinians," he [Nasrallah] said."

This is why arabs LOVE Hezbollah.

Stupid interest groups...

This story talks about the dog breeder who sold a puppy to the Bidden's. Apparently PETA had used this to try to force people into buying from shelters instead of breeders. This report says there were death threats against Bidden and the breeder just because of the sale. This proves one thing, PETA is a group of retards. To the people who left death threats, I have to ask, what's worse, buying a dog from a breeder or killing someone? I'm all for treating animals well, but at some point I think humans are more important. By the way, dogfighting should not be a felony and to all of these PETA's (that's my new word for them) who were protesting outside the court room at Micheal Vick's hearings, don't you think the man went through enough? He went to jail for something that didn't even involve humans solely because of your nagging and bitching. Don't you think there are more important issues? Like war victims and oppression of PEOPLE across the world? Again, I'm all for treating animals well, I have two pet cats at home that I love, but there is a line where we have to differentiate between animals and people and PETA's cross that line way too often.

Only when it comes to Islam...

What Obama fails to understand is that Muslims and/or Arabs are not mad because they think your at war with them. It's because of Americas unconditional love of Israel and American economic takeover of the Arab world. And, their support for repressive and useless regimes like Kings Stupid and Retard of Saudi Arabia and Jordan respectively (or interchangeably, doesn't really matter). This is all a lead in to my main point, why is it that every time a US president visits a predominantly Muslim country it becomes about that? I don't hear anything about Christianity when he visits France...why? This is not about religion, this is about politics and freedom. The sooner the US and Obama realize that the sooner the "Muslim/Arab world" (whatever that stupid phrase means, we are exactly the same as any other "world" just under oppression) will respect what any leader of the US says. And why would Obama encourage ties between Turkey and Armenia regardless of the past? Until Turkey admits the genocide (and YES, it was a GENOCIDE) they committed in Armenia, relations will never be great between the two countries. To Obama, please don't stick your nose into things you know nothing about, his remarks were a slap in the face to all Armenians who suffered at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

Something I actually support...

"Barack Obama is set to outline his plans for a world free of nuclear weapons in a major speech."

I love this. The world has no need for nuclear weapons. First of all, it is completely unethical to use nuclear weapons in ANY circumstance (and that includes WWII) and also, as for deterrence. I think a hundred cruise missiles would be enough to deter a country or group from trying to develop or get nuclear weapons. There is no need for them, so why not get rid of them for good?

The Auto Industry

Obama today promised to help the auto industry but said they must restructure. Unfortunately, the administrations is being hypocritical and unfair to the workers with their plans. I commend the government for calling out GM and Chrysler on their stupid decisions and recklessness during the last couple of decades. The problem is, what about AIG? What makes AIG any more important then GM or Chrysler. Why are they held to business morals while AIG gets bailout money without any questions asked? This is where the problem comes in, if you are going to get tough with the auto industry (which directly and indirectly employs about 3 million people) then why didn't they get tough with AIG or any other financial company that received financial bailout? I know AIG is completely entangled in the global market, but if they cannot prove that they can be viable and cannot restructure their company (the same demands that are being given to GM and Chrysler) then the government should let them enter bankruptcy they same way they might allow GM and Chrysler to do that.

The other problem is the specific restructuring the government is demanding. The main component of their demands is renegotiating their deals with the labor unions. In simple terms, they want the employees of the car companies, who are struggling to pay their simple bills and keep their house to pay for the debt their bosses created while those bosses have the right to keep their multiple helicopters without being forced to downsize.

Its not fair. Obama says that he is "fighting" for the workers, but I don't see it, it looks like another case of favors to campaign contributors.

Kooky Rabbis

"Reporting from Jerusalem - The winter assault on the Gaza Strip was officially portrayed in Israel as an attempt to quell rocket fire by militants of Hamas. But some soldiers say they also were lectured about a more ambitious aim: to banish non-Jews from the biblical land of Israel."

And this is why some religious American citizens and politicians support Israel.

The Truth..

Reading this article on AlJazeera, you see:

"The demonstrators said pressure should be put on Hamas to release Shalit by worsening the conditions of the almost 11,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails."

and then you see:

""Many of the prisons and detention centres they're held in have been deemed by Israeli courts as not fit for human use," Odeh reported.

"The latest actions ... admittedly to exact pressure on the Hamas movement in order to secure the release of Gilad Shalit, have been declared by human rights activists and prisoner rights activists as collective punishment, [which is] illegal under international law.""

So I have to ask what came first? Crappy conditions for innocent Palestinians in jail, or the kidnapping of a terrorist soldier in Gaza?