Another one bites the dust!

Saddam Hussein found himself temporarily between heaven and earth, and forever in hell earlier tonight after he was hanged for crimes against humanity.

Was it really almost three and a half years ago we saw this monster, wearing thick glasses and looking terrified reading a statement as we laid down the shock and awe on his bunker? Was it a little later his two psycho sons were put to justice by the troops? Was it three years ago we found this thing looking like the town drunk (and no disrespect to reputable town drunks) hiding in an outhouse? My, how time flies.

And how easily The Left protests. News reports state that Human Rights Watch criticized the execution, calling Saddam's trial "deeply flawed."

"Saddam Hussein was responsible for massive human rights violations, but that can't justify giving him the death penalty, which is a cruel and inhuman punishment," said Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program.

"Cruel and inhuman?" Please, rape rooms are cruel and inhuman. Throwing people feet first into a wood chipper is cruel and inhuman. Gassing a defenseless city is cruel and inhuman. Get a clue.

The New Yak Slimes said hanging Saddam won't make Iraq a better place. Well, duh. We've got a long way to go still in Iraq.

But, please, thank our troops. They've given us one less fiend on Earth, one more in Hell.

This week saw the passing of President Gerald Ford.

President Ford, 93, superseded the late, great Ronald Reagan as our oldest living ex-President. I have to find it interesting these two presidential rivals passed to their rewards with the same age. It's as almost as eerie as both Jefferson and Adams dying on the same day.

I'll eulogize Ford with some of the same comments greater men than me have. Ford's legacy will be his decency. Someone will be hard pressed to call Ford a great President. After all, he led us during the final, sad days of our abandonment of Vietnam to the Communists and some of the worst economic crises of the 20th century. Much worse is the appointment of John Paul Stevens, one of the most left-wing Justices on the Supreme Court. Much like other Republicans, like Eisenhower and Earl Warren, and Reagan and Sandra Day O'Connor.

Despite his misgivings, Ford was the right man for the time. He was what the nation needed: a good-hearted, honorable chief executive who held enough authority to keep the lights on. Sure, there was no great foreign or domestic agenda, but after Vietnam, Watergate, and more, the nation didn't need a vigorous agenda, just a chance to breathe again.

The book "Personality Plus" by Florence Littauer, quoted a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Thanks for Nothing," stating Ford perhaps deserves the grandest memorial of all presidents. Not for what he did, but he didn't do.

Perhaps that's an idea whose time is here.

Good night, President Jerry. Thanks for the nothing.