Today I was reading a few articles, one about the speech Muammar Qaddafi made at the U.N., another about Steve King, and his irrational and potentially damning remarks on same-sex marriage. In the first article, it's summed up pretty well how Qaddafi sounded throughout his hour long speech. Even with a comical twist on the article, they pretty much nailed it. Qaddafi appears to me to be a rather power-hungry, irrational leader, who is dangerous whenever he's within 100 yards of power. He also seems so irrational that he's more likely to nuke his own house than to carry out a threat against a nation. However, it seems like Qaddafi is quickly sounding suspiciously similar to Mahmud Ahmadinejad, the amzingly insane president of Iran. Their tirades against western society, and their sweeping claims of wrongdoing make them more of an attraction for comedic relief, than respected leaders.
The second article I read was about Iowa's decision to allow gay marriage, and more specifically, Rep.(R-IA) Steve King's comments on the new ruling. He called the ruling "unconstitutional," and said that Iowa would become the "gay marriage mecca." He also came to far-fetched conclusions linking gay marriage to incest, and stating that once gay marriage was allowed, there would be group marriage, in order to evade taxes, or get benefits. Apparently, my roll of the interweb dice has landed me two nutters for my entertainment. Representative King seems not to notice, or care, that 96% of Iowans that the Des Moines Register polled said that gay marriage has "brought no real change to their lives." He even claims that gay marriage is a purely socialist concept. In my OH so humble opinion, he's seriously going to screw up his chances of election if he doesn't shut up and move on.
Both of these articles, on both of these sites, seemed very neutral. There wasn't much of a tonality to them, to make me think that they were liberal or conservative. Really, all I got from the sites was the news, and that works.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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