Cindy and Greg

As we start our day, let us not forget to take a moment from our lives to remember those died on September 11, 2001. Let us not forget the young men and woman who have lost their lives fighting President Bush’s War on Terror.

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Several days ago Saddam Hussein was hung for crimes against humanity. One has to ask, is the world a better place with Saddam dead as opposed to a jail cell?

Many of your know, I would consider myself a recovering Catholic, but the Vatican quickly denounced the hanging calling it “tragic and reason for sadness” and I have to agree. There is no question that the man had done evil things and needs to be punished, but is putting someone to death any better then the original crime of murder? Cindy will disagree with me on this point, but I must say, that the death penalty is no better then the original crime. I understand Cindy’s perspective and I find myself going back and forth a lot, but I think I have concluded (for now) that the death penalty is in fact immoral.

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Finally, someone I voted for wins! It has been a long time since that happened (Clinton, I think)

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Keep your fingers crossed…we are almost there

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According to the BBC World News, Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death by hanging. What a way to go…in the last few seconds of your life you hear your neck snap and people cheering. No doubt President and former President Bush would like to be in the front row of that event. While it is clear that Saddam Hussein is an evil man and deserves what eternity will bring to him, it is unclear to me why the Presidents Bush have a personal vendetta against the man and risked our troops and invade a country under false pretense, you all remember the term weapons of mass destruction don’t you? Perhaps we have our own WMDs here in the states, though the acronym translates to weapons of mass deception.
While I believe the world will be a better place without Saddam Hussein, we ought to look at the cost our sons and daughters in Iraq had to pay so President Bush could say “Daddy, I did what you told me to do…I got that Saddam guy you always talk about, can I sit at the head of the table for Thanksgiving?”

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So I was at the gas pump yesterday and paid over $3.10/gallon to fill up the car, in Williamsburg. I know, I choose an SUV, so I am not complaining about the total cost to fill the car, we are lucky enough to be able to afford fluctuations like this.

But late yesterday I also saw an Reuters report that Chevron profit jumps 49% to $4,000,000,000. This on the heals of the big retirement packages for oil company execs….would 300 million have really been a hardship for him as opposed to the 400+ million he received? I am all for a capitalist society, but at the same time, we need a social responsibility. Oil companies are claiming poverty when it comes to bearing their own tax burden, but the evidence appears to contradict those statments of poverty.

There are people in this country that can not afford this type of change in pricing a change that can’t really be justified in my opinion. Why are oil prices rising? We have the most control in the Middle East then we have had in years and are able to control our oil interests, yet crude prices continue to rise. That brings another question, just because crude prices rise today, why do gas prices rise tomorrow…the process from crude to gas is not an overnight process. The reason prices are rising is simply because “they can.” Shame on the officials who we elected (and even the ones that didn’t actually win, but hold office *cough* Bush *cough*) to protect our interests for not doing so. I would love to see GW breakout his own credit card (okay so maybe it would be daddy’s card) and fill up Army 1 at the Exxon on 21st and M in the district.

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