Had begun a long answer but decided I couldn't make it come out the way I would like.

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So here's the short form:  No one is in any group he/she hasn't joined.  Contrary to what one well-meaning but seriously misinformed person might think, I don't (yet) drive a VW microbus.  Contrary to what another small-minded but seriously misinformed person might think, I don't take illegal drugs (or even most legal ones).  Contrary to what several others whose religious outlook is frighteningly narrow, I am neither influenced by (or particularly impressed with) their infernal junior deity. 

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What I am mostly is tired.

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I am tired of a political environment where someone can use the electronic equivalent of drawing horns and a mustache on a filmmaker's picture and think that in any way it passes as a refutation of that person's documentary.

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I am tired of a political environment where a "leader" who was actively opposed by at least half his constituents does not seem in the least concerned about their views, and whose supporters see nothing wrong with that picture.

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I am tired of a religious environment where people cite the rules of their personal game as if they apply to everyone.  Because there are rules common to both Monopoly and business doesn't make those rules interchangable, and it *CERTAINLY* doesn't argue for handing out "get out of jail free" cards automatically to those who pray to the "right" one of several hundred contradictory deities.

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I'm tired of politicians who cite their own rules as justificiation for their own behavior, having denied their opponents access to the same rules.  I'm especially tired of seeing 70 percent of the American people shut out by 41 individuals.  If it weren't a matter of $10 billion and thousands of lives lost every month, it would still be unfair.  And I'm especially tired of the 29 percent who applaud such behavior.

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I'm tired of the fairy-tale assertions of "liberal media."   There Ain't No Setch Animal.

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So, as I said, I'm tired.  Tired people make mistakes.  On another blog, last week, one fellow tried to imply that I was a racist.  Not being one, I simply assumed he was tired, too, and had made a mistake.   Laura Huxley wrote a fantastic book entitled "You Are Not The Target," words to live by. 

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Of course, if there are arrows constantly flying your way, it's a good idea to see whether you're *STANDING* in front of the target.

"I am a conservative. I believe the government should stay out of my life and my business, both personal and professional...."

So you hate Bush too huh Mark?  LOL

Actually, that was well said, and I believe that people get tagged to be either radically conservative, or radically liberal, in which most people are neither. It's human nature to categorize people.

There are attackers from both sides, no doubt....but....uh....I do find the liberals are more entertaining and less crude when they attack.....but I guess that's not true if you're the target. LOL 

I wonder why you don't have posts to the contrary?

There is no honor in being the turtle

Stick your head out

Its one thing to say "I have my own opinions"

Well, what are they?

Iraq

Iran

health care

taxes (lets get into a lilttle more detail than you posted--AMT, sec 179 etc.)

govt intervention (like helmet laws)

drugs

mandatory sentences

unions

gasoline prices

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