FOLLOW THE TRAIL

The axiom 'for every action, there is a reaction' should have people thinking ahead to what those reactions of consequences might be. The Cheney/Bush administration neglected to do this when they declared war in Iraq. As a result, the pain and price paid in human suffering will last for decades. A far cry from the scenario they had fancied...that we would be greeted as liberators and met with flowers and wild greetings.

While Pro-Lifers think that they would not condone murder, the are expressing relief that Dr. Tiller will no longer be doing abortions. In fact, no one will be doing the difficult and humane acts he was doing or making lives possible for so many people. A life is not just a fetus growing to term., it is all humans of all ages who search not only for life, but quality of life for all. There will be no more happy babies or happy parents in the future simply because Dr. Tiller was assassinated. A 9 year old girl, impregnated incestuously by her father. should not have been required to become a mother under those conditions. Yet there are those fanatics out there who would have had her carry the baby to term regardless of the cost to the child-mother, her infant, and the family members (if there were those) who would forever carry the shame and scar of the father's actions. Most importantly, how would that infant develop self-esteem if it were kept in the home with this child-mother, or if put out for adoption, only to learn later in life of its beginnings.

When we thought ethanol would free us from oil dependency, we were feeling freer and hopeful until we realized that more fuel was expended to make the ethanol from corn than it was worth. Brazil seems to fare better using sugar beets.

An unexpected figure came out of an article on BBC under technology.

The horror of the World Trade Towers bombing was the nucleus for many more deaths beside those in New York. Deaths followed in the workers who cleaned up without masks. The people who fought and those who worked in Iraq, adding the Iraqis themselves. These deaths had news men and women also being killed...a fact not as common in previous wars Aid workers were not immune to the pull of death. The events are like links in a chain. They extend, breakout, shorten, and continue in places that would surprise those who do not understand the connectedness to these deadly events.