Hello, everybody!

Well, it seems that things are going pretty well with the well in the Gulf of Mexico.  The well cap seemed to have held up pretty well enough to be left to its own devices when the oil workers had to evacuate the Gulf when Hurricane Bonnie threatened to blow over the Gulf, but she was downgraded to a tropical storm, so the workers are coming back to the Gulf today.  Everything seems to be fine, although the news media did admit that oil and methane was beginning to leak from the ocean floor, but "this is normal" for deep sea oil rigs.  Whether or not that's really and truly "normal" all depends on whom you want to believe, the news media or your natural common sense.  Now, natural common sense would tell you that when oil and methane leak from somewhere other than an uncapped well, something is seriously wrong.  But, since most people tend to look at a glass as half full, they tend to believe what the news media tells them, no matter how erroneously wrong it may be (and, in the case of Fox News, this is quite a great deal).

Speaking of how erroneous Fox News really is, I feel that I must touch bases on that not-so-little news story from the past week, involving the African American member of the Department of Agriculture and the supposedly racist statements she made concerning white farmers she had helped keep their farm twenty four years ago.  From what Fox News would like for us to believe (boy, would they!), she didn't want to help these people because they were white.  However, what they didn't tell you or even show you was that this was the beginning of a very interesting story she was about to tell concerning the subject matter which states, in a nutshell, that you really shouldn't look at a person's race when they need help, but at their economic situation.  The story, in its entirely, was that she was considering not doing everything to her full potential to help these people, but, after carefully looking over their financial situation, she decided that it was not race that made these people eligible for help, but how poor they were, and she decided to do the right thing and help these people save their farm, which she did.  Now, that's the story Fox News didn't tell you, and I think I know why.  It's because this woman's entire story teaches us all a very valuable lesson in what Jesus Christ would want all of us to do, help each other when we need help, no matter who we are.  Something the right wingers at Fox News would never do.  How sad that is.

Well, that's all the time we have for this week.  Until next week, be well, stay well, and don't forget to help the earthquake survivors!

Sincerely,




Marley Sue