Too late

One thing that I have seen in the paper is the man on death row in California who may just get off. The Man was to be executed, but the doctors refused to take part. Now they can't find any other doctor who will perform the procedure. If the man wasn't lucky enough after awhile if he isn't executed then the Judge who originally issued the death warrent will have to issue another one, but the judge said that he won't do that. I personally am opposed to the death penalty, and think that the people involved are taking a just stand. I am also obliged to bring up Stanley "Tookie" Williams. A man who turned his life around, was actually doing some good. Mr. Williams wrote books to get children to stray away from the life he had, he was a Nobel Peace prize nominee. Mr. Williams was a completely different man from the one that fist entered that prison, yet the State still executed him. So I wonder is this stand against the State funded killing of men a result of the lesson learned from Stanley, or is it that this man some how deserves to live more than any other man. Maybe Stanley was just a couple of weeks too late.

Fine Line

Today I am Commenting on the whole situation with the Middle Eastern Company trying to take over some U.S. ports. I think that, that is a fine line to walk. If we don't allow it, then we come off as rude to our middle eastern allies who have been very helpful to us. On the other hand if we do allow it then we are trusting our port security to foreign people. There is the possibility that they may be infiltrated, and could use the control to harm us. When I think of us turning them down solely on the fact that we don't trust them because of the actions of a few people who may not be associated with the cmpany, how does that make us look. This is a delicate situation that requires deep thought and consideration. I honestly do not know which way to side on this. Certainly it is wrong to judge an entire people based on a few, but that doesn't mean that we should automatically trust them or anyone else. I don't believe that all Middle eastern people are terrorist, but on the other hand terrorist have been known to find there wasy into supposedly safe places.

Faith

True faith is blind, but that does not mean we should believe everything we are told. Today Christianity is under attack by the very people claiming to be its protectors. I in my own opinion think that we should treat all people equal no matter what. People claim that by removing religion from school and other aspects of Govn't is wrong but please remember that church and state are to be seperate. The gay marriage thing was big a while ago, but the people trying to outlaw it are hipocrits they speak of wanting to protect the sanctity of marriage but, then shouldn't you also be trying just as hard to outlaw adultry or divorce and all other things facing marrige. If you were to do that then it wouldn't bother me either way, I could care less. Also Intellegent Design theory shouldn't be taught in school. School is a place of learning, church is the place for spiritual enlightenment. By making religion a science you are belittleing it. I personally believe that our views of God and religion should change and we advance technology wise. The U.S. is falling behind other nations in the sciences and maths, if we cling on to archaic beliefs about God and mans place in the universe then all of humanity is doomed to go the way of the dinosaurs just in a more civilized way.

Honesty & Incident

I often watch the news just to see what is going on in this world of ours. A couple of days ago I saw that VP Cheney had shot a man accidentally, it was completely understadable if it was an accident things like that happen all the time I'm sure. The VP refused to talk to the press about didn't inform White House Press Secretary McClellan of what had happened. Now I am not all up in arms over what the VP did if it was an accident Okay. What gets me is his attitude towards the whole thing. When the police tried to talk to him about the Secret Service wouldn't allow it, then he refused to talk about it, and then when he did talk to the press about it he would only talk to a certain news organisation. The VP still feels his actions were okay. I guess what I am getting at is how safe should we feel if the man second highest on the totem pole feels that something minor like this is not the people busines. Makes me wonder what larger things is this administration hiding form the people who put them there. It is abount Honesty not the incident.