In Virginia, our former governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were found guilty of corruption yesterday. I really don't put too much faith in politician's claims about their values and beliefs, but when they enact legislation that affects me I do need to pay attention. He has stated that his ideas have evolved with time, but 20 years ago he wrote that working women and feminists were 'detrimental' to the family. I'm not sure what an untested "miracle drug" based on tobacco was supposed to do for families other than take their money and give false hope.
Yesterday I happened to read a story about Secretary of State John Kerry on a conservative Facebook page. Kerry was addressing a group of Muslim Americans and supposedly made a comment about America having a biblical responsibility to protect Muslim countries from the effects of climate change. I made the serious mistake of reading some of the comments, and they make me truly worry for the future of this country.
I believe climate change is real and important, as is corruption. I'm curious if the corruption will get the same response as climate change. (ie silly John Kerry quoting the bible to defend policy of man-made weather problems). So far the "conservative" comments I've read about the McDonnell case mainly suggest that if McDonnell was a Democrat instead of a Republican he would have gotten off with just a slap on the hand. And that most jurors are unemployed welfare recipients (and obviously Democrats).
As it turns out corrupt politicians happen to be a pretty bipartisan bunch. Mainly I need to stop reading comments written by any nitwits who can't spell and who think any interpretation of religion, science or politics other than their own is wrong.
But we have survived this long, and nitwits are not a new invention of any political party or philosophy, or even the internet. Keep Calm and Ignore the Nitwits!
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