Five things wrong with America

Chicago's hardcore punks Rise Against have just released a list of five things that they think are wrong with America.

1. The Iraq War: Still being involved in an unjustified invasion of Iraq that is now a civil war that is taking our beloved soldiers -- our brothers and sisters and wives and husbands -- away from us, en masse.

2. 'American Idol'

3. The Minutemen: If you patrol the border of Mexico in your pickup truck with your buddies, some dogs and a rifle, you are a racist and you are looking for an excuse to use your gun rack. Stop pretending you aren't.

4. Meat Is Murder: America's obsession with torturing animals, injecting them with hormones, brutally slaughtering them, establishing acceptable amounts of feces and then not only eating it ourselves but then teaching our children that this is "the way things are," just like our parents taught us -- bon appetit!

5.: Global Warming Naysayers: People who still believe that global warming is just a theory and that our climate change is simply a natural cycle -- those same people believe the War in Iraq has something to do with 9/11. Those people bore me.

I agree with all of them, except for number four. I think that millions of Americans without any form of health insurance would have something to add to this list...so would millions of homeless people, the un(der)employed, and the working poor. All in all, Rise Against gets a 4/5...80%...and honest "A"