Wednesday, March 16, 2005

One Small Step Toward Energy Independence Well isn't it about time?  It's a great day, although it is a small step, in the beginning of an energy policy that finally is doing something to GET some.   ANWR was set aside by Congress as land to be used for oil exploration and drilling.  Expect the environmentalist wackos and the democrats like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to just go berserk over this.  So the 10-year process begins.  Short sighted ethically challenged politicians like Sen. John Kerry are out there saying that this won't change the price at the pump.  As if he has a better solution.  Like usual though, if he has a better idea he's keeping it to himself.  This politician knows it takes 10 years on average from beginning to end in getting oil from the ground and gas in your tank.  And for him to talk about the effects this will have on today's gas prices, which is nothing, is showing the lack of respect he has for the truth, and the American people.  It's also illustrative of a political party that puts 'getting their power back' over everything and anything to do with the country. In fact, the gas prices of today are a result of what the Clinton administration did 10-12 years ago.  Nothing. Senate Votes to Open Alaskan Oil Drilling. Sharply Divided Senate Votes to Open Oil Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ABC News: Politics] 5:26:14 PM    comment [] trackback []

Terri Schiavo Case, When Compassion Is Cruel & Usual I've deliberately avoided writing about this case, hoping that all the hoopla and press and the federal legislature would just let this case end. But it isn't. A few things about this case bother me. The covenant between a husband and wife, a marriage, is the beginning of a new family. Both partners become a family of their own, where their respective families before marriage no longer have any legal claim or responsibility over their adult children. When Terri's father gave her up for marriage, as the saying goes, legally, contractually, he's giving her up to begin a new family of her own. Terri's husband has control and neither her parents, Jeb Bush nor the legislature should try to usurp that responsibility. Then there's the matter of removing the feeding tube, which will literally starve her to death. This is common practice in hospitals and has been for I don't know how many years. For the media to act as though this doesn't normally happen is simply rediculous, and typical of them.  It's one of those things that, to a brain dead human, will hurt the survivors more than the patient. Terri has no conscious feeling or emotion; she's brain dead except for respiratory & digestive functions, a vegetative state. It think the thing that has everyone's shorts in a bind is the method of termination of her life. Why do we use a lethal injection in death penalty cases and starvation in hospital wards? In this case and others like it, a lethal injection should be used. Starvation is inhumane. Does the vet starve your pet if it needs to be put down? Why is it that your spouse is treated worse than an animal or a death row prisoner? In Terri's case, keeping her in a vegetative state for years is just as inhumane as starving her to death. 9:05:27 AM    comment [] trackback []

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