This is me tired and run down and watching the movie Pearl Harbor. Yes, that's an old movie but I am feeling like I need a comfort movie and for whatever reason this movie is it for me. Maybe I feel like watching it because it is the prelude to the entrance of the U.S. into WWII and with Syria still the hot topic I want to watch something that gave another generation pause before involvement into a war.
I have written my congressional representatives as well as to President Obama voicing my opposition to any involvement in Syria without the support of the United Nations, NATO, and the United Arab Union. I hope others are doing the same. I have written my representatives in the past and I hope that my voice will be heard. (kinda funny- I feel like I have the right to write the Iowa representatives as well as the Illinois because I think of them almost more as mine than I do Illinois.)
I think the thing that bothers me most is commentary that since the U.S. and President Obama have taken a stance against the use of chemical weapons that we will look weak if we don't act. I think that is the biggest bunch of bologna out there. I applaud the Democrat Rep Alan Grayson who appeared on PBS World News from Florida who did a wonderful job of voicing opposition to U.S. involvement in Syria and correctly stated that the idea of a stand or a message is the wrong discussion to even be having. I agree that we are stronger and the President looks better if he listens to what "we the people" have to say. NO WAR! Focus on humanitarian support and the name of the U.S. will go a lot farther. Everyone knows we have power, but those who have the most, are the ones who refrain from using it.
There is other news out there right now besides Syria.
In the Midwest there was this guy who kidnapped three girls and held them captive for years; the guy was sentenced and then apparently hung himself with his sheets. What kills me (:-) is that some people are upset about the fact that this guy killed himself. What's wrong with a person deciding to end his or her own life? I know the Bible says somewhere that suicide is wrong but I really only remember that because of reading Dante's Inferno and suicide is reserved for something like the 11th circle of hell- particularly horrible. Suicide in other cultures has been thought of as honorable. I'm not saying that this guy did an honorable thing but he did save taxpayers thousands of dollars in jail costs and I don't think you can argue that after inflicting so much pain that this guy didn't deserve to die- especially since he chose it himself.
I truly don't understand why so many people are preoccupied with keeping people who are in jail, who want to die, from killing themselves- especially those who are in jail for life without parole. Why do we persist to force feed people who are starving themselves to death because they can't take prison anymore? It costs the rest of the population way too much money to keep these people alive who were basically sentenced to death in jail. Maybe my friend who is a pastor for a prison population in southern Illinois would feel differently- I'll have to ask.
I suppose that that conversation transitions to the topic of death and if people have made their peace and are okay with death than who am I to question that decision? I don't fear death but I guess that is because I have belief in a something else that I choose to call heaven (although I like the peaceful connotation the name Elation Fields brings to mind personally).
Peace to all and to all a good night!
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