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Today’s champion of open government: Fox News?!?!?

 

Actually Fox Business Network.

The network filed a FOIA request to see where exactly our tax dollars (and our kids’ and our grandkids’) are going. Due to a little heal dragging on the part of the Treasury Department, Fox sued them to force them to release the data, including details such as what “toxic” assets were purchased, any collateral involved, and any restrictions put on the use of the money.

Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President, FOX News commented, “The Treasury has repeatedly ignored our requests for information on how the government is allocating money to these troubled institutions. In a critical time like this amidst mounting corruptions and an economic crisis, we as a news organization feel it’s more important than ever to hold the government accountable.”

So there you have it. The journalistic crusaders at Fox have shown today that every once in a while,  they do something right. Here’s hoping they win.

Kook-Bag, Kool-Aid drinker letter of the day

Jesus was a FREE Market Capitalist – Who Knew?

Gotta love it when neo-conservative theocrats write letters to the editor and misinterpret our founding fathers;

In plain English, our unalienable rights are endowed by our Creator (God), and it is the responsibility of our government to protect these rights.

No, our rights are endowed by us. God gave us our own brains and thoughts to govern ourselves. Individulism and independence is the backbone of a FREE society. Faith is an important facet of that, but it is only one rung in the ladder.

Christianity does not corrupt men; men corrupt Christianity.

Yeah, detective, that’s what we like to call Hypocrisy. It’s pretty prevelant, but does not affect my American Freedom one single damn bit.

Freedom is the result of democracy.

No Shit?! Thanks for the insight.

Christ is freedom’s father. Government’s confiscation of personal and financial freedom is the byproduct of socialism.

Jesus was actually a socialist (you know, helping your fellow man, etc. etc.). He warned us of the money changers, didn’t encourage us to be them. He got up in their shit, and wrecked their house and such.

I think you better throw away your current bible and pick up the King James version, it explains all of this in great detail, really.

Huh!?

This guy was responding to a post about how blue our country has become in voting, to be quite honest with you, I have no clue what he is talking about. In the words of the late great James Brown, Rama Lama, Fa, Fa, Fa.

I see that it appears this conversation is over, but if I must say, AND I MUST, if it weren’t for the “theocrats” you wouldn’t have the freedom to express what you are expressing now!! Our founders were mostly Christian, or at least acknowledged Christian values to be the best at governing a free people. Look at the “buddhist” countries. Look at the “Hindu” Countries. Look at the “Muslim” countries. And now look at the “Christian” countries (aka US, England, Spain, etc) Although not perfect, no country on earth can be, these countries are examples of the “free” world, aka “the Christian” world. You do not have to be Christian to agree that it is the best and ONLY religion that allows a free, civil society to exist. Thomas Jefferson, the one everyone likes to point to as the father of “separation of church and state” although this was taken entirely out of context, was most definitely not what we would consider Christian today, although he DID in fact carry a Bible, was the FIRST superintendent of Washington, DC schools. Guess what? He MADE THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE the PRIMARY textbook for ALL schoolchildren in DC. Don’t believe me? Look it up, but it might be hard to find, since so many liberal and communist historians in America have literally re-written our history!! ALL of our founders agreed that it is necessary for a people to fear a higher authority than government so that government does NOT have to be over our shoulders all of the time, and they believed Christianity to be the most BALANCED of religions to achieve this (and yes, most modern religions did also exist at that time). People who do not fear THE higher authority are more likely to commit crimes such as tax fraud, theft, and other crimes when the government can NOT see them. To date, there has been no other religion that has allowed a free country to exist as long as the United States has!!! However, these days are numbered. As we continue to allow things previously considered crimes or mental illnesses to openly be practiced, such as adultery, homosexuality, tax fraud, etc. to go free, we will have lawlessness (actually we already do) prevailing on the streets, and the United States as we know it will collapse (I would argue that it already has collapsed). Man, I could go on and on, and on. Did you know most of our founders lost EVERYTHING for the principle of freedom? They lost family fortunes, status, saw their wives and children sacrificed, literally murdered, by British troops, and the list goes on and on. Do you actually think Barack Obama would sacrifice all of that? I think John McCain would have, not that he was perfect or anything, because no man is. John McCain sacrificed six years of his life in HELL for YOU AND ME!!! And I know he would do it again. Everyone is thinking about their jobs and stuff nowadays, and sure, I am too, but that doesn’t mean I sacrifice unborn babies lives, the right to freely worship God in private or public, or the right to bear arms just so I can eat. Our founders, Thomas Jefferson included, would have a fit if they knew they sacrificed money, family and comfort for the future right of a country to elect a COMMUNIST president!!!

Which house do you think McCain would sacrifice first?

Franklin rejected Christianity to his death bed, you know, the guy who pretty much invented American free speech and dissention.