God Lowers Gas Prices

I have been all over the world and I must say, The United States has some of the most...um... unique citizens in the world. This from the BBC:

Petrol pump pilgrims keep faith

By Greg Wood and Sandra Shmueli BBC News, New York

Rocky Twyman says God, not market forces, brought prices down

A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol.

Rocky Twyman, 59, a veteran community campaigner, started Pray At The Pump meetings at petrol stations in April.

Since then, the average price of what the US calls gasoline has fallen from more than $4 a gallon to $3.80.

"We don't have anybody else to turn to but God," Mr Twyman told the BBC. "We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man."

His first pilgrimage to the pump was prompted by fellow volunteers at the First Seventh Day Adventist Church in Petworth, a working-class neighbourhood of the US capital, who were struggling with higher gasoline prices.

He led them down the block to the local Shell gas station to pray. And over the months since then, he has held similar prayer meetings at pumps all over the US.

Prayer warriors

"We were down in Huntsville, Alabama. We finished praying," Mr Twyman said. "Immediately the owners came out and changed the gas prices. They brought it down. We had marvellous success down in St Louis, Missouri."

This week the group returned to the site of their first prayer meeting to celebrate. Singing "We shall overcome," they changed the words of the well-known hymn to "We'll have lower gas prices".

Mr Twyman is sceptical that market forces might be responsible for the lower prices. But he and his prayer warriors have changed their motoring habits.

"We believe not just in prayer - because we believe that faith without works is dead. So we've encouraged people to car-pool more and organise their days more, because it's a combination of faith with these other factors."

Pray At The Pump plans to build on its success and drive gasoline prices even lower. In the words of Rocky Twyman: "We just thank God for blessing us with small victories and we expect greater things to come."

On the other hand, this film looks interesting (click here to view trailer):

Bush Administration IS Above the Law!

Do you believe that Bill Clinton should have been held accountable for lying to the Grand Jury? I do. It is easy for any armchair political analyst to proclaim that he should have just said, "that is none of your business!" But he didn't and he lied and he should be held accountable. Politicians are not above our laws.

I know what you liberals are saying (though this should not be limited to liberals but to anyone who values our constitution and the values this country was build on):

Lying to the American people and dragging our nation into an unethical war that has killed over 4,000 US soldiers (over 33,000 casualties) and easily over 150,000 Iraqi civilians, plunging their country into complete chaos, wire tapping our own people illegally, kidnapping and torturing often innocent people and many more crimes are much worse than receiving oral sex while married and lying about it.

Yes, even though no one died when Clinton lied (or was tortured or spied on or illegally fired because of their political beliefs...), he broke the law.

Should he have been impeached?

The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: "the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Is what Clinton did "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?" I think not.

But it appears many members of the Bush administration have broken far greater crimes and if so, they must be held accountable. Lets start with one of the worst. Karl Rove.




Go to SEND KARL ROVE TO JAIL and sign the petition. Tell your congress people that accountability is important to you as a tax payer and as an American who votes. Lets clean up our government before they harm any more Americans or other members of our global community.

sources: infoplease.com, Wikipedia, iCasualties.org, Financial Times