Isn't it amazing?

Here we are struggling to pay high gas prices and the oil companies are getting richer off our suffering.

You think I'm just saying this because I hate the high prices? I actually have proof of what I'm talking about.

USA Today, stated on Oct 27, 2005, that Exxon-Mobil made profits of $10 billion dollars. On February 2, 2008 The Washington Post had this to say, Exxon Mobil's Profit in 2007 Tops $40 Billion. Exxon-Mobil claims they need these excess profits to keep up with "the massive scale of the energy challenge before us." to quote Kenneth P. Cohen, Exxon Mobil's vice president for public affairs. What challenge do they have? They have the gas that we need, there is no challenge for them. How much do you want to bet that Exxon-Mobil and all the other major oil companies are sitting in their offices laughing at us because of all of this? They know they have us over the proverbial barrel and there is nothing we can do about it.

High gas prices are part of the reason the economy is in such a bad way. Small businesses are sinking because they can't afford to pay the extra prices. Larger companies just pass the extra expense to us because they can. Families are drowning in debt because of these prices. What will it take for us to finally say that enough is enough?

I realize that I seem to be targeting Exxon-Mobil, but I'm not. If you check the links I've listed, you'll see that all the major oil companies are in the same position as Exxon-Mobil. What are we as a nation, going to do when gas prices get so high that we can't afford to go to work? It's almost that high now. And while I love the way our government is supposed to work, I realize that there are a lot of politicians in the pocket of these same companies. They say they aren't, but sometimes I have to wonder. Why hasn't anything been done to help us? The politicians are supposed to be there for that very reason.

To any elected official who might actually read this, prove to me that you actually care about us "little people", those of us that can't afford to go out eat. We're doing good to buy groceries to feed us and our children. You're out there paying $100 dollars or more just for one meal. That is one problem I wish I had.

I'll get off my soapbox for now, but don't be suprised if I start in on something else just as important to me. As a matter of fact, I have the next few posts ideas ready, I just have to do a little research before I write them.

God bless and I hope you have a great week.

Doctor or Dentist

Why is it people are so afraid of going to a dentist but will go to the doctor? I've noticed that my husband is that way. He'll go to a doctor for whatever he needs to but is scared to death of going to the dentist. He may not want to go to a doctor, but he's more willing to. I just had to say that but that's not really what I wanted to talk about.

The main reason I'm posting today is to ask for help. I've written up some articles of incorporation for my program and would appreciate someone going over them to make sure they are correct or if I need to make some changes to them. I'm not an attorney so I'm not sure if they are written correctly. I can't pay anything for you to do this, I wanted to be upfront about that from the start. I really want to make this a recognized 501c3 organization and I know this is the first step. So any help is really appreciated.

I hope you have a great day. God be with you.

May be looking for a blogging software

I've been trying to change my blogger settings so I can publish on my own site, but it won't accept changes so I've set it up so that it's under blogspot. I've posted comments on the help section but have yet to receive any reply, as have a number of people. It's not like it matters where I post things, but it is aggravating when something like this happens.

Now on to other things.

As you know, my husband lost his eye to cancer almost a year ago. We got an acrylic eye for him that now doesn't fit. We found a place in Memphis that has silicone prosthetic eyes and we're going to try it. We'll be leaving soon to go there and see what happens there. If you haven't had your eyes checked, please do so. He had no warning signs at all, just a small blind spot that he would never have noticed if he had not been shooting bb guns with the boys.

Have a great week and God bless.

It's almost here, Again

It's hard to believe that Christmas is almost here again. It seems like only yesterday that we were celebrating Christmas. As I've gotten older, I've noticed that times seems as if it's going faster and faster.

As you know, I'm big on children. That being the case, what are we going to do about all these toys with lead in them? I honestly feel we should boycott any products from China! We, as a nation, need to show these manufacturers that we won't stand for this. How much longer are we going to let these companies get think they can do whatever they want. We have become so complacent that of course they feel this way. We've gotten to the point that we hardly ever stand up for ourselves. We NEED to stand up for ourselves. Our jobs are going out of the US, gas prices are ridiculous, our elected politicians are more concerned with how much they can make than what's best for us as a nation. I strongly urge every citizen to let these people know that we won't allow this to happen. If we don't, it will only get worse. After all, how are we going to buy these products if all of our jobs are overseas or in Mexico?

Think about it and God bless.

I Actually Did It!!!!!!!!

I've been playing a game called Rocket Mania. The reason I've been playing so much is because I read somewhere that on the hard difficulty, there were 2 more levels to reach. Well, let me tell you from experience, there isn't. Brothers of Dragons is the highest level you can reach on any difficulty. My latest score is 4056340, and still it shows Brothers of Dragons.

I realize this may not interest you, but I'm surprised I've made it this far. This is the best score I've ever gotten during the whole game and just had to share.

Have a great weekend and God bless.

About my newest site

I told you about a new site on the web, but now I want to go into more detail about it.

It's a site I did to try and help churches bring in more visitors by having one central location to post any event that might be happening. The name of the site is Local Christian Event Calendar. I got tired of having to look all over the place to find out what is going on where at the churches in my area, as well as where various singing groups were performing. And once I get it off the ground, it will be a great source for this kind of information.

If you've never started your own site, let me tell you it can be very time consumming! Between finding other sites to link to it, calling churches and singing groups to advertise on it, it's been slow going. But I know God had a hand in this, (and still does), so it will prosper, I just have to be patient. I ask that you be patient also with this site. I'm getting word out about it and really believe that it will be a great site one day with a lot of information on local Christian events. Just keep my site in your prayers as I'll keep you in mine as you read this.

God be with you always.

Please have your eyes checked

In February of 2007, we found out that my husband had cancer in one of his eyes. It was melanoma. There were no symptoms only a blind spot in his side vision that he found when he was out back shooting BB guns with our 2 boys.

We had 2 choices, go to Philladelphia and have radiation placed in his eye and loose his sight, and the eye, in a few years or just go ahead and remove the eye. He chose to have it removed. He now has a fake eye that is very hard to tell is fake.

I'm not going to say we had an easy time going through this because we didn't. Your first response when you hear that your loved one has cancer is total fear. "What if I loose my husband?" That was the first thought that went through my mind when I heard it.

Once the eye was removed, we found out that they got all of the cancer when they removed the eye and his chances of ever getting cancer again is 1 to 2 percent each year, and it's an accumulative percentage, meaning that in 25 years, he'll have a 25 to 50 percent chance of getting cancer again. So the odds are great for him.

I thank God that he went to the doctors when he did. As I stated above, there were no warnings that it was even there and with it being in his side vision, it was very hard to see unless he was only using one eye as in the case of shooting guns with the boys.

Please, if you don't have regular eye exams, do so. You never know what might be there. We didn't.