Nine eleven was such a shocking and sad day for America. It is hard to believe that it happened 8 years ago. It seems like just 2 or 3 years ago, the hurt is still so fresh in my mind.
One of my biggest uplanned expense each week is the cost of gas. I never know how much driving I’ll be doing and I don’t know how much the cost of gas will be from week to week. Last month I had hopes that gas would be dropping back to about $2.00 a gallon – or perhaps a little under that, if we got very lucky.
But last week, gas jumped back up to $2.59 a gallon and I have no idea why it went up so quickly. I’ve heard nothing on the new about bad weather or oil shortages anywhere. So what the heck is going on?
Today, France took a big step forward for women.
“In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a presidential address to the French Parliament.
“The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement – I want to say it solemnly,” he said. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.”
I totally agree with him and yet it worries me that the French want to start a religious issue. Religious wars are the ones that drag on forever and no one seems to win them.
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