I'm getting grumpy.

[Griff]

I feel a major funk coming on, why you ask?

1) For some reason governments failure to protect air travelers and working people at the WTC has created support for federalizing more workers and ratcheting up the police state through a terrorism bill.

2) All this paranoia about anthrax lead by the war mongering media is starting to bug me. I don't know what its like in urban America but out here in the woods we find the danger absurdly over-blown.

3) The disconnect in so many peoples heads that terror perpetrated by government in our name is somehow different to the victims from terror perpetrated by NGO's.

4) Our self-styled free market president is subsidizing airlines and generally pissing tax dollars into the wind (he he picturing the spritz on his cowboy boots) because of a falling economy which was probably exacerbated by easy money policies in the nineties.

5) We are entering a war for peace which is totally open ended, without an identifiable enemy, only vague "evil-doers". I want our troops to be the best armed and best trained in the world but I don't want to see their lives squandered over some fuzzy goal.

6) That we could actually create an Office of Homeland Security without so much as a peep of dissent.

7) We had an opportunity to reduce our overseas military engagement with a president who supposedly felt we were over-committed and suddenly when our interventionist chickens come home to roost we are compelled to increase empire not reduce it.

8) The same folks who work hard to reduce gun ownership and carrying are now celebrating the bravery of air travelers who had to die to crash a plane that couldn't have been taken in the first place without a disarmed public.

9) We are creating more haters with each misdirected bomb.

10) The worst thing is that I generally agree with Bin Ladens stated goals (not I repeat NOT his methods), stop bombing and starving Iraq, quit being Israels bitch, and get our troops out of Saudi Arabia. I find our agreement on those goals terribly distressing.

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