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"BOY, DID WE SCREW UP"

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49. You believe that there should be punishment for breaking the law regardless of how much you wish the law would be broken.

50. You understand that Freedom of Religion also means Freedom from Religion.

51. You are appalled that Osama Bin Laden isstill at large years later even though the Taliban offered to surrender him for trial if the US would merely provide the minimal probably cause which a US court would insist upon anyway.

52. You have noticed the devaluation of the Medals of Freedom by being awarded to CIA Director George Tenet, Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer III, and Army General Tommy R. Franks for their intelligence (or lack thereof) regarding Iraq’s “WMDs” and the bungling of the War.

53. You were puzzled by the dismissals from government of Richard Clarke who got it right on terrorism, Larry Lindsey who got it right on the monetary cost of the Iraq War, General Eric Shinseki who got it right on the number of troops really needed, Colonel Charles Pritchard who got it right on North Korea’s nuclear intent, and Paul O’Neill who got it right on the tax cuts costs.

54. Unapologetic cronyism disgusts you. It is one thing to give party hacks jobs that do not mean anything, but keep them out of agencies that have important work to do or require special training or expertise.

55. You watched the tv coverage of Hurricane Katrina and all the preventable damage and destruction.

56. You learned despite the known lack of qualifications of “Brownie” he was still appointed as head of FEMA. You don't like appointees like Gonzales who lie under oath.

57. You believe the legal community ought to be listened to regarding whether a judge has demonstrated competence and fairness.

58. You believe the best qualified and most neutral judges should be selected, preferably the ones that will appeal to the broadest spectrum of Americans to encourage obedience to the law and stability, rather than chaos.

59. You are angered why the titles of so many laws being passed such as the so-called Patriot Act, the so-called Clear Skies Initiative, the so-called Bankruptcy Reform Act, the so-called Healthy Forest Initiative, and the so-called Debt Reduction Act all seem to the opposite of the actual intent of the laws.

60. Your sense of fairness is offended by tax cuts which only go to the super rich and bankruptcy law changes which only adversely affect the lower classes and not the rich or their companies.

61. Your sense of fairness is offended by those driving a company into bankruptcy to take away pension plans and promises to the employees. You believe pensions and savings that someone has worked for all their lives is sacrosanct.

62. A $120,000,000 bridge to an Alaskan island with less than 100 people and the refusal of the senator to divert it to help hurricane victims speaks for itself especially when it would have been cheaper to just give the residents of the island a $100,000 each so they could each have their own yacht.

63. You are embarrassed that our opposition to the elimination of land mines putting the US solely in the company of dictators.

64. You may wish President Chavez was assassinated, but you don’t like hypocrites an example being Pat Robertson, a church leader and self proclaimed religious man, who called for assassinations of those he disagrees with like President Chavez.

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It's probably obvious I'm a CYNICAL PESSIMIST. Why a cynical pessimist? Possibly it's the result of expending a full lifetime defending, first with rifle in hand and then with a legal pad, "truth, justice and the American Way." Observing the less (more...)
 
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