What I want to know is why the hell noname thinks that the terms
"hippie" and "liberal" are insults.

I don't associate myself with any political group because they're essentially
all the same. The matter isn't really about who you support. Many people
seem to make cases against Clinton whenever Bush does something wrong,
how is this logic even remotely acceptable? When will people realize that
it's not about liberal democrats or conservative republicans, it's not about
the person in the white house, it's about the ACTIONS taken by that person,
no matter what side of the coin they're on. You need to look above your
"loyalty" to a party and think about these actions with only a sense of logic
to guide your opinions. Only then will you see that each side is just as
bad as the other and the ultimate goal is and will always be more power
for those with it, and less for those without.

On the 21 million: it doesn't bother me as much as the recent events
with the Dept. of Homeland Security spending actual tax dollars without
anyone knowing (basically destroying all checks and balances put in
place under the reasoning of "national security") on a party. It's easy to
criticize someone when you're not in their shoes, so Bush throwing a
big party, while I hope I would never be that big of an asshole, I've
never been in that position so I have no idea what I'd do. It reminds me
of the time when Modest Mouse started selling their songs to advertisements
and many of their loyal fans (including myself) got pissed off, at which
time the word sellout was thrown around quite a bit. Isaac's reply was
something along the lines of "When you stop spending your parents'
money or you stop selling french fries, then you can criticize our
principles. We're just trying to pay for our goddamn electricity."

.opt