I don't think we need the distribution of oil revenues by a federal iraqi government agency.  I say let the free market manage it.  There's a whole lot of ex-Enron employees that could handle the energy trading in a way that would benefit the US.  Why should these benefits go to Iraqis and Kurds?  What have they done to deserve any portion of the benefits?   Like we could trust a bunch of Iraqis in Baghdad not to have their hand in the till as they distribute the oil revenues.

If we don't want to use an Enron employees, how about Arbusto Oil or Harken Energy?  Why not let an American company with American knowhow show the Iraqis a thing or two. 

After all, to the victor go the spoils, right?  Bring it on, as they say.

Personally, I made the choice not to take a life when I unloaded that old shot gun of mine haha, well not for myself. But for my children? That's another story. I don't have to make that choice anymore. But personally I think Cain was a very bad boy and God forgave him later. He should have offered to God a more important offering instead of trying to be sneaky and give what didn't matter most.

The real question is my mind is why Eve got blamed for tempting Adam? Hmmmmmm, seems like Adam didn't take enough responsibility for his actions. He had his choices too. I spent over 35 hours in unmedicated labor myself and consider than penance to be well over and done. Whew! I wonder really if patriarchal religions didn't alter our translations on a few key points though in their ideas of making women subservient to men for life! That part doesn't make sense. I think women have a God given responsibility to do what it takes to keep their children safe, and to be societally supported in doing it. All life is sacred, but if women hold the wombs and the rights to all of our protections. It really bothers me when low income women. are forced to raise their children in impoverished conditions and judged for their choices. It also creates unequality for the children. Why should one child be treated less equally than another because of their parents success or lack there?

As a society we need to offer more supports to women and children and better safety and protection. We also need to give women the choices over their own bodies and let them work out their own vallues on what they do next. It seems like societally we are far too inclined to put our most vulnerable at risk and then try to handle the damage that befalls them through legal systems based on rules of evidence that can't always be enforced. We need to offer more healing, unconditionally, and avoid all the potential of further trauma inherant in structural violence.

I have a wonderful article I am going to publish on the new webspace. It is written by a cleric from the middle east who lives in this country and called To the last drops of her life. I need to communicate with the man and get further editing instructions. But is perhaps the most wonderful piece I have ever read vindicating women, all women, in every culture, for a horrific crime of violation against the very soul of a woman. Now I need to run off dancing and then to vacation. Hugs, Christie