Outrageous News!

The Webster dictionary describes the adjective "outrageous" as: "Going beyond standards of decency, utterly intolerable in a civilized society." Other sources describe it as "beyond all reason and being beyond the bounds of good taste."
The jury decision not to hand down a sentence of death for Zacaraias Moussaoui is a reference that should be included in the dictionary in the definition of Outrageous. How can we justify giving the death penalty to single murderers when a jury fails to find sufficient cause to give the admitted participant in the murder of hundreds. Mitigating circumstances be damned! The radical Muslims will begin taking hostages in his name once he is incarcerated, demanding his release or they will kill the hostages. When will the "bleeding hearts" and liberals realized that weakness only encourages those that hate us, to be more aggressive in their quest to kill the "infidels".
On a nationally broadcast radio program this week one of the professors at a Big Ten Law School made his case for the reducing or eliminating standardized tests used to determine who gets into Law School. He advocated using the performance of the law student in the first year be the deciding factor in who gets to complete a law school education. This is this "liberal" professors idea for increasing the number of "needed" minority lawyers in our country.
Forgive me if I misunderstood the role of graduate schools such as Medicine, Law, Dentistry, and "PhD" programs. I really thought it is to graduate and send out into the real world the best and brightest not a graduating class that is marginally proficient, but perfectly "Balkanized" and politically correct! This is just another attempt to destroy the merit system that makes our graduate programs in all fields the envy of the whole world. With any luck this concept will fail!
The proposal to ban soft drinks except diet sodas in primary and high schools is another example of the government meddling in our lives that will surely bring unwanted results.
Not only are most diet drinks loaded with chemicals that have been linked to cancer, but how are they planning to enforce this ban? Yes, they can remove all the dispensing machines, but who will be designated to be sure the students won't bring in sugar loaded drinks. The "food police"! Teachers are having a hard enough time teaching our children to read, write and do basic math. Now they have to check back packs?
What will be next? The banishing of meat in the lunch room. After all, it has fat in it in varying amounts which can contribute to obesity. There is no end to the lengths that people with "good intentions" will go to accomplish their goals.But how about the individuals rights?