Impeach or surrender

The time has finally come, I fear, to either impeach Bush/Cheney or just surrender to them. They have made it abundantly clear they have nothing but contempt for Congress and the American people. They are claiming executive priviledge in such a broad way that they believe they are untouchable. As Pelosi and the Democrats have basically promised not to impeach them there are no limits to the powers they claim. The latest Presidential Executive Order is basically a declaration of war on the public and the creation of an American dictatorship. They have repeatedly placed themselves above the law, thumbed their noses at us, and blissfully go ahead doing whatever they wish. No amount of negotiation over funds for Iraq or over their claim of executive priviledge is going to make any difference to them whatsoever. There is no recourse now except impeachment. To fail to do so means surrendering to their claim of absolute power. So what is it to be?

In the half-light of evening the huge ponderosa pines outside my study are silent for the first time today. They are huge to me but for their life spans I guess they are not much more than maybe second-graders. We had one nice day, yesterday, but now today it is hot once again. The garden suffers, the peas did not do well, the corn and beans and carrots are thriving, the tomatoes lag behind, we harvested our first zuchini, and the rutabegas, beets, and parsnips are kind of so-so. This has been a tough year so far and no end in sight for this unusually long hot spell. We used to have a few hot days in August but this year has been different, very different. I can only conclude that it has something to do with global warming that is giving us extremes of temperature. I cannot believe those who argue that this is just the normal cycle of the earth's climate. I refuse to believe that a billion or more internal combustion engines plus who knows how many coal plants and other industries belching their waste into the skies have nothing to do with it. I am all for alternative energy but totally opposed to all nuclear plants. Any species that would use an energy source that produces radioactive waste they don't know what to do with, and will last more than 10,000 years, is insane and has nothing but contempt for human life on this miserably small planet. Peeing in the rivers might have been innocuous enough a couple of hundred years ago, but it isn't any longer. We have been fouling our nest long enough, now is the time to stop or it will soon be too late. It is very quiet now. The coyotes will start soon as they do most every night. The skunks visit in the night and leave their little holes everywhere. Our friends' dog got sprayed the other evening. I wonder if cats ever get it? Once we were visited by a Fisher, extremely rare, that. Two very small fawns visit most every morning. We try to keep their mothers out of the garden but do not always succeed. I love all the creatures of the earth. It would be a great pity if they, too, had to suffer from our greed and ignorance. Churchill once said, "dogs look up to us, cats look down on us. Give me a pig. Pigs just look you square in the eye and treat you as an equal." Ah, Winston, where are you when we need you so badly?

LKBIQ:

"I have always considered that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind."
Sir Winston Churchill