To you queers, everyone who isn't queer and doesn't want to have you molesting our kids and prancing naked in public parades is a homophobe.

HOMOPHOPBIA: Fear of homosexuals/homosexuality. Do I sound like queers frighten me? They disgust me. There's a difference.

Russia is sounding more and more like the last bastion of morality left in the world. I know it isn't but when you look at the way our leaders are screwing up, all weak and corrupt, and then look at the strength of character being displayed by the Russians, it's hard not to see them in a more favorable light, and I sure as hell never thought I'd ever be saying that.

Putin is a political genius. He is ruthless, efficient, and most of all cunning. And the Russian people are behind him 100%, despite being deprived of democratic representation and free speech. One of the reasons for this, I believe, is Mr. Putin's post-soviet Russian ideological realignment from the extreme left, to the extreme right. Instead of the eternal revolution and egalitarian equality, Mr. Putin has replaced these soviet era ideals, with those that can be found within our nation's own bible belt.

Putin's recent trumpeting of anti-LGBTQ laws is one of many of his efforts to create a new conservative, "morally righteous" Russian Empire. These homophobic sentiments are shared with many citizens of the United States, despite our recent progress on the issue. Support is even more fervent among African nations who have also passed anti-gay laws.

This, along with his extreme privatization measures, goes to show that when Reagan brought the wall down, he may have created an even worse enemy than we had before.

I have no idea what some one else might have said, but I've said the same thing several times - and I'll try one more time - money is politics has continued to increase as government continued to grow - when companies like Pepsi spend millions lobbying to increase food stamps a clear sign is being sent. I'm sorry if you can't read signs like that, but the failure of people to see this cancerous synergy between government growth and influence buying is the single biggest danger to our national well being.

Thanks - but to belabor the point once again - I'm concerned that more and more people seem to vote for a living and by that I don't mean welfare people - but lawyers who get more business every time a new law or regulation is put on the books, accountants every time a new line is added to the tax code, lobbyists each time a special interest group is identified, many at the large corporations who seek some form of rent seeking advantage - and the growing bureaucrats whose numbers increase as well as pure power with each and every government "solution" to a problem.