Of course, they failed to mention that ‘those tax dollars’ will include the ones I’m paying to make up for their tax cuts.

All sorts of reference to God by our Founding Fathers, in their documents, on and on. The exclusion of references to God is what is new. The right is after all, freedom of religon, and I have not seen anybody kicked out of school for passing on the ‘under God’ piece of the Pledge.

I am still looking for this right to political correctness some seem to think exists.

Plus, “under God” was only added to the pledge in the 1950’s and it was added specifically for religious effect:

“The Knights of Columbus in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity.”

From wiki’s page on the pledge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance

I’m sure that there are some drug cartels paying off cops somewhere; that’s what underground business operations tend to do. But as far as the topic of discussion goes — that is, the increasing aggressiveness and militarization of local police forces — the really payoffs here are coming from none other than the United States federal government, which has spent the past few decades as the prime sponsor, trainer, and supplier for paramilitary SWAT squads, “elite” task forces, and local patrol cops, through the mechanism of tax-funded federal grants, special training seminars and collaboration initiatives with federal law enforcement agencies, surplus equipment sales, etc. And while counter-terrorism and other so-called “Homeland Security” projects are now a driving factor in this process, the chief driving factor, over the past 30-40 years, has been the War on Drugs itself. If you want an explanation of why small-town police are increasingly trained to be belligerent, have the equipment and the desire to conduct paramilitary SWAT raids at the drop of a hat, are taking on larger and more powerful assault weapons just for ordinary patrols, and generally act like a case study of collective roid rage, it’s precisely because the Federalis have been juicing them for the past 30-40 years in order to use them as foot soldiers in the enforcement of federal drug policy.

I smell that Lance may be a disgruntled leadfoot. :D
Sorry, but the last time I took a speeding ticket (been a few years), I shrugged it off and went through the process. The law is what it is, it supposedly is for safety and the punishment is just a minor inconvenience (unless you’re dumb enough not to learn the lesson.)

As for a revolution now; you make me laugh. Revolution takes personal sacrifice, putting one’s cause well above ones’ comfort. I see no such tendency or drive behind the squeakiest of wheels, here or elsewhere. Whining is as far as it goes, to avoid the personal inconvenience of actually doing something.

I see the same so much in those who say, ‘Oh we have to help the poor people in Africa’; and you all know what I think of that is the Nike slogon (’Just do it‘). And that, dear friends, is far easier than any revolution.

There were definitely errors in starting this war; that is a given, but hardly unheard of in history (uhh, Bosnia?). However, from our side, it has been fought with a level of precision unheard of in previous wars. Those bombs we drop? Precision guided munitions that will take out a single building and leave the one next door standing. The civilian casualties caused by us are, in a large part, due to the other side surrounding themselves with civilians before they attack, while we try to clear them out and take many casualties holding fire for their sake. Jack, if you can’t see the moral difference, it’s only because you sit in this country in comfort and have never had to face such yourself.

let me given you a couple links that may give you a little clarity, from someone who is independent and seen this stuff in person:
A real martyr
The 1920s Brigade saw both sides of the issue and made their choice.