Our Iowa Supreme Court today unanimously gave the okay to same sex marriages in our state. Once again, the will of the people is overturned by the courts. Our state legislature will pass a law doing away with the deductability of federal income taxes. They say it is 'revenue neutral', but I have to say that there has never been a tinkering of tax laws that did not eventually create more revenue for the government. I listened to our state auditor say yesterday that the new law would be relatively revenue neutral until the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire at which time taxes on just about everyone who pays taxes would greatly increase. It will be so much fun to pay taxes on money we never got. Then I get to watch European leaders applaud our President for supporting the movement to the 'New World Order' and the push to a 'Global Economy'. They must love him over there, but I guess if I go to my grandchildren's preschool and handed out suckers, I'd be pretty popular, too. I hear there is a bill to allow the government to set pay standards for any company that gets bailout money. I listen to the White House press secretary answer a question regarding whether cabinet members that received bonuses from companies that got bailout money by saying 'we can't get into the finances of our staff and they are too busy working on important issues to be concerned about any bonus money they might have received.' I observe the Secretary of the Treasury stating that he can't remember anything about AIG bonuses in the bailout package he helped author. I see a Senator that at first denies any knowledge of an amendment that bears his name allowing AIG bonuses, and later admitting he knew about it, but the bill itself was so important that minor details such as the bonuses were inconsequential. I think this was the same senator that said the American public really doesn't care about all the pork in the stimulus package. I also couldn't help but notice that he was the number one recipient of campaign contributions from that company. Are we up to seven new government appointeess that 'forgot' to pay income taxes? Is anybody else out there to the brink of saying 'Stop the world, I want to get off!'? I have just about had enough.