My resolutions for the New Year - early edition

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My resolutions for the New Year - early edition

Every year there's the usual banter and blather about resolutions. They usually involve losing weight and to quit smoking. My response when asked what my resolutions are is to say "I resolve to make NO resolutions".

This solves 2 problems. 1: I've made a resolution; and 2: I've immediately broken it so the year is shot for resolutions.

Well, this year it's going to be different. I'm putting out my New Year's resolutions early as they apply to the DU.

1. I won't respond to threads about breast feeding in public. As shocking as it may sound, breast feeding in public really does shock people. Women who do engage in public breast feeding shouldn't be shocked that it shocks people.

2. I will not engage in debates regarding banning cigarettes, high-calorie-high-carb-high-fat foods or anything else some heath advocate is pushing this week. I'm really not interested in the disease of the week. If we stopped eating, drinking, smoking, or doing all the things which some health expert is blathering about - we won't be able to eat, drink, smoke or do anything. If you are really concerned - then consider banning everything to protect the easily offended and/or overly cautious.

3. I don't give one mistletoe leaf about the war on Christmas. Frankly, if a store employee is required to say Merry Christmas or Have a Nice Day it means nothing. These types of sentiments only have meaning if they are freely given from the heart.
Bill O'Reilly is more than welcome to make this his life's mission and to continue to make himself appear even more like an idiot in search of a village.

4. You say Potatoe, I say Potatah - forget it, won't respond to playing semantics. A rose is a rose because it's a freaking rose.

5. Want to know who I'm backing for 2008 Presidential Elections? Guess what - you're going to have to wait until at least this time next year. Too early to start laying out the race program. Alot of things will happen between now and then - these events will be determining factor on who will be at the primary starting gates.

6. I'm a registered Dem. Don't count on me drinking the kool-aid or blindly following the party line. I was an independent for years, switched to a Dem after 2000-fiasco for purposes of being able to participate in primaries. I can switch back just as fast and poo-poo on the primaries.

7. To impeach or not: I think impeachment should be on the table. It should also be under the table and sitting at the table right next to George W. Bush. It should be like a huge, hulking, stinky gorilla with a fist full of poo ready to be thrown. It should be there as a reminder that the gorilla's fist is locked and loaded. It should be there to remind the bushies that we are ready "to roll".

8. Ignore the freepers - it's not very sporting to engage in a battle of wits with those who are unarmed. Freepers will self-destruct on their own or they will wake up and find other sites. If a 10-mile asteroid were to strike the earth today, two things will survive, cockroaches and freepers.

9. If a member of congress is caught in some scandal - I will be outraged regardless of party affiliation. We cleaned house and senate to get rid of the bums, not to vote in a new batch.

10. The biggie: I WILL PUT MY BUTT INTO GEAR AND MAKE A STRONG EFFORT TO GET MY CARTOONS PUBLISHED SOMEWHERE THAT PAYS. In the meantime, I'll continue to do them for no other reason than they give me an outlet for any anger or rage I'm feeling. I like to draw and it relaxes me, sometime they even make a few people laugh.