Accountability?

Well you sure as dick cannot hold bin Laden accountable by going after Saddam. What a crock! Now I suppose you're going to say that because we've had a Democrat majority for seven months, never mind the six years of Republican rubber stamping that got us stuck in Iraq, that now it's the Democrats complicity that we're still in Iraq. What a crock!

Republicans had six years to get us intertwined in this mess in Iraq, and now all they can do is obstruct, obstruct, obstruct because they do not want the Democrats to get us out of this trap. If the Democrats actually helped to get us out of Iraq it would look bad on the Republicans. Now we cannot let that happen now can we?

You want to know something? God in heaven knows who is responsible for all of the heart ache in the world today, and God in heaven will have his way with the liars and manipulators. If we demand instant answers, and instant gratification that somebody paid the price for our pain, well I'm afraid that the God I believe in doesn't work that way!

Try to imagine life as being a path. A path that is laden with many options. But there is always one option that leads to the one; the path of goodness. Once anybody steps onto another path, say a path of lies that lead to much destruction and death, then they have made a choice. Do you think that path will lead to the goodness that God in heaven holds for each of us? I do not!

The best part is that our forgiving God always has another option ahead that will lead back to the path of goodness, which He really wants us on. If we choose the correct path this time does it mean that we have instant glorification? No! It means we must make our atonement for all of the pain and suffering we may have caused others from the wrong decision the last time.

When we've atoned for our past transgressions then, we can be assured that we will continue on the path of goodness and enter God's kingdom! Well, no, not exactly! Usually before we've even atoned for past transgressions we will come to another path and we must make another decision, and on it goes along our journey throughout life.

My point is that once our leaders entered the lying ass path that they have lead us onto we will continue walking this path until either our lying ass leaders admit to their lies, and henceforth, choose the proper path for us to follow, or we get a new leader that truly leads by the truth, and we get on the proper path at that time.

However, either way is painful because either way still involves the process of atonement for the past lies that we followed and allowed to become our lives. With that being said it is wiser to get on the proper path that God wants us on, that is the path of truth and goodness, sooner rather than later!

The future of Transportation?

The recent disaster that struck our country, this time in Minnesota, offers the opportunity to critically think about the direction of our transportation industry.

It is a fact that our roads and bridges are aging. We have a national average of one quarter of all bridges that are structurally deficient. Many of our roads, especially local/county roads, are in a condition of disrepair.

The cost of repairing the infrastructure for this mode of transportation will climb into the billions of dollars nationally. Is it wise to spend so much money on a form of transportation that is nearing the end of its useful life? Would it not make more sense to appropriate additional funding to upgrade our transportation system for the future that is quickly becoming our present?

I am not refuting the fact that the safety of our commuting public should be priority one of this issue. However, when one thinks about the two concurrent problems in which we face, then, one must also look at this crumbling transportation infrastructure as a basis to promote progressive change nationally.

The two concurrent problems that I speak of are obviously, 1) The stranglehold of imported oil, and 2) The damage that burning said fossil fuel is doing to our environment. We currently have an two alternatives. We can continue living in a myopic present and try to throw money at the present problem, without regard to our future needs, or our children's future needs. Or, we may look to how we will be transporting our goods and ourselves in the not to distant future, and pursue a course to reach those future needs; NOW.

With our oil reserves naturally running dry, and the price of oil spiraling as it economically feasibly will, we cannot base our transportation industry on this resource. In doing so would totally relate to throwing money out the window.

We need a comprehensive 'Marshall Plan' that not only addresses our current crumbling transportation infrastructure, but also develops and implements solutions of getting from point a to point b when we can no longer afford the oil to do it the way we now do.

In undertaking this responsibility for our future we will be solving our transportation safety problem, our transportation energy problem, and our environmental problem that our recent transportation modes is a major contributor thereof.

This is what I would call the progressive solution to one bridge collapse in Minnesota, and the proactive way to ensure that nobody else must lose their lives due to governmental inaction.