Welcome to 2005

Do you feel that you’ve wiped the slate year and are ready to start fresh, or are you still reeling from the fates that have befell us through out 2004? I sit here at my iBook pondering the possibilities for 2005 and know that there are many good things that are yet to come.

I think that it is healthy to be a little cynical. After all, without that dose of cynicism, how else could we objectively look at all the possibilities. And how could we become easily talked out of taking the risks in life with the help of a Cynic?

It’ll never work. Pessimism, the life blood of many a good cynic, but not the only attribute that a cynic needs.

So should I look forward or should I look backwards? Looking back, I see that 2004 was the year of Disasters. What will 2005 be? Maybe this will be the year of the Constitution, and a return to the values of Freedom and Liberty at home.

My hope for 2005 is:

• That we learn that Liberty and Security are two separate and exclusive things.
• That we work towards reduction of this nation’s debt.
• That we work as hard on humanitarian efforts the world over, as strong as we do on our war on terrorism.
• The pendulum swings back towards the middle.

Peace for 2005