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Still in for 2005:
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The Terminator/Governator Guy
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The Cowboy President,
going for a new record: the worst two-term president ever
Also still in: Rumsfeld, Rice and the ever popular Cheney
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Martha Stewart, still
in prison – the only CEO behind bars --
(Ken and Bernie are still free as birds)
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War is still in and
going strong
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Reality TV is still
in, along with photo cell phones, large SUVs and fake fiber optic Xmas
trees
What’s out and what's in for 2005:
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Out: Environmentalism: the red states have decreed that global warming
was a left-wing conspiracy
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In: Cutting trees, killing
off the last of the endangered species (both the act and the animals),
oil exploration in Alaska, loss of habitat for wild animals, shrinking
wetlands, toxic waste dumping (look out, Nevada), increased air and
water pollution, shrinking ice shelves at both the north and south
poles, increased ozone hole, possible displacement of magnetic north,
disrupted weather patterns that bring on increased droughts,
hurricanes, tornadoes and hotter temperatures
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Out: Scientific
rigor, scientific method, and theory building
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In: Creationism and
politically expedient “smart science”
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Out: Civil rights for
gays, lesbians, the trans-gendered, pregnant women and immigrants
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In: The morality police
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Out: Public
education
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In: No child left
behind, which includes closing
public schools in favor of charter schools, firing teachers,
counselors and librarians, teaching to tests rather than curriculum,
emphasis on school uniforms and unified minds rather than creativity
and free expression
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In: Increased
national security, which includes sending
the national guard off to war in foreign countries, using local
government budgets to pay state debts which result in rotating
closures of fire stations and reductions in police forces, no more
bans on assault weapons; locking up citizens and non-citizens without
charging them with a crime
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Out: civil liberties
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In: Increased airport
security, which includes women
being legally fondled in public, long waits for security checks,
increased luggage pilfering, but no feeling of safety
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Out: the friendly
skies
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In: The economy of
greed and cynicism, with the emphasis
on marketing shoddy, dangerous products to unsuspecting customers
including selling cigarettes, pesticides, and untested drugs to
developing countries, toxic waste dumping in developing countries,
FDA allowing drug companies to push dangerous drugs to market too
quickly while over-regulating cheaper Canadian drugs
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Out: legitimate,
non-partisan oversight
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And finally, what's
on the way out, our newest endangered species: Social Security, as we
know it
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