Let us hope that ultimately, cooler heads in Beijing and DC will prevail on this one

The Gay Secretary

But there is one thing that those in the bowels of power in DC, Tel Aviv, and Geneva need to realize; Chinese military leadership has gone on record as stating that they will unhesitatingly start World War III to avoid losing the oil they need from Iran.

According to NDTV, a Chinese news station based outside the country, in regard to recent speculation that Iran would be the target of a US-Israeli military assault, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong commented that, "China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third world war," remarks described as "puzzling to some". The news report also quotes Professor Xia Ming as paraphrasing Zhaozhong's quote that, "not hesitating to fight a third world war would be entirely for domestic political needs."

I would not characterize this strong language as "puzzling"; this general was simply making the case for what he believes would be in China's best interests, if the US and Israel are insane enough to initiate such a military misadventure.

And in recent years, unfortunately, sanity has had a rather distant relationship to US foreign policy.

I would, therefore, respectfully request that the US, NATO, and Israeli military and civilian leadership take this person at his word.

Since the dawn of the 20th Century, every major war has been lost by the nation that started it

The Gay Secretary


This goes back to the warning made by Sun Tsu in "The Art of War" that the army with the moral law on their side is the army that wins.
Once again I will predict that the US will lose this war. The US lacks "Three Ms", Money, Manpower, and Manufacturing, all of which are needed in copious amounts to fuel a major war.

Of course, the bankers who profit from war care not which side wins or loses, as both sides go into debt to fight the war and further into debt to rebuild from the war. It is easy for the bankers to change which flag hangs from the front of their counting houses. It is to them, after all, merely colored cloth.

http://rt.com/politics/us-georgia-iran-war-441/

Congressman Albert Thomas winks back at a quickly-smiling LBJ as he is being sworn in to be the next President of the United States on Air Force One

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And, so are these girls!!!

Oh God, Barak, enough already!!!

The Gay Secretary

Memo to President Barak Obama: this arms deal demonstrates (as if that reality needed any demonstration)is that for the United States Government, democracy and human rights are only acceptable when they are convenient for the US government, and when they are not, they can simply be thrown under the proverbial bus.

The largely Shiite population of Bahrain is consistently oppressed, to the point of military attacks against civilians and torture, by a nastily autocratic, tin-eared and blind Sunni hereditary monarchy which hasn't quite gotten the memo that they are living in the 21st century.

Yes, I do understand that Bahrain is home to the US's 5th fleet; but holy Hieronymous Bosch, is there not someplace else, some other country, which would be happy to accept their presence which is not an autocratic, poverty and corruption-ridden dictatorial monarchy, with absolutely no concern for the welfare of their people?!?!?

Do you have any idea of how embarrassing this is for the US's image, particularly in countries where the notion peaceful, democratic self-determination is just beginning to bloom?!?

And the only logical conclusion to that question has to be, you don't give a damn how this looks to the world, because you are simply doing what your predecessors have done forever; just propping up yet another tinpot dictator because it would be "inconvenient" not to.

King Hamad bin Isa Khalifa is just another in an endless string of tyrants the US government has supported over the years.

And when, ultimately, such tyrants are overthrown, the Presidents, Pentagon and State department officials and Congressional members collectively roll their eyes, as though they absolutely couldn't see it coming.

But Mr. President, I would strongly caution you on this practice by quoting a man for whom I believe you had at least some respect for, the late President John Kennedy who once remarked, "When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable."

Maybe they know that the 16th Amendment, which is what supposedly makes the personal income tax legal, was never actually ratified!!

The Gay Secretary

The Obama administration finally stumbled upon some change. Unfortunately for America, some top aides in the White House decided to pocket those pennies, which should have been sent to Uncle Sam.

Three dozen aides working under US President Barack Obama — the same president who insisted on tougher taxes for the economic elite during Tuesday’s State of the Union — are guilty of forgetting to give the government their due share in taxes. Thirty-six members of the staff are delinquent with their federal taxes, Investor’s Business Daily reports. In all, the sum totals to a whopping $833,970.

The Daily Caller adds in their own report that the 457 aides working under President Obama made a total of $37 million in 2011. Around one-third of those staffers have salaries that exceed $100,000, and 21 aides take home $172,000 each year.

Only two days before the report was released, President Obama told the world during his annual State of the Union address, “We don't begrudge financial success in this country. We admire it.” The president added that “When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it's not because they envy the rich. It's because they understand that when I get a tax break I don't need and the country can't afford, it either adds to the deficit or somebody else has to make up the difference, like a senior on a fixed income, or a student trying to get through school, or a family trying to make ends meet.”

“If you make under $250,000 a year like 98 percent of American families,” added Obama, “your taxes shouldn't go up. You're the ones struggling with rising costs and stagnant wages.” So struggling, in fact, that Obama’s own aides haven’t even paid their fair share.

The president went on to say, “we need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes.”

“It’s ironic,” Americans for Tax Reform’s Ryan Ellis tells The Daily Caller. “The same week that President Obama says that people who paid their full obligation should pay more, it’s ironic that people who work for President Obama haven’t even paid their own taxes.”

Then again, the president also said the state of the Union is strong, and that is open for argument as well.

Of course, the White House isn’t the only place in Washington you’ll find deadbeats. Internal Revenue Service records suggest that, in all, active and retired federal employees and military personnel owe a total of $3,420,168,684 in unpaid taxes for 2010 alone. Within the ranks of the US Postal Service, 25,640 employees are delinquent to the tune of $270 million.

Now it makes sense why stamps keep getting costlier.