My Friend Needs Your Help

Not everyone in America has a great job or the best lot in life and this time of year we need to reach out and touch a life. By no means am I affluent but my five daughters sleep in a home with heat and blankets that keep the chill off when the temperature dips. They never have to worry about wearing three sets of pajamas when going to bed or for that matter if I could get them to wear the pajamas in the first place. Little ones will be little ones.

As a blogger I have had the blessings to meet many creative writers and frankly artists when it comes to the written word. Not everyone can put a point of view into a coherent sentence and leave the reader thinking. My online friend Chell can do just that and it amazes me to no end. With that being said, she is in dire need. You can help her.

We all know the pains of trying to keep the house warm during the winter and folks in the northern part of our nation know that fact is very costly this time of year. For some folks a simple wood stove could heat their entire home and the kids would sleep like they should. That is what my friend is trying to do but in the mean time they are doing without conventional heat. I personally want to beg you to help this family. My voice on the net is not big but I have touched many of my readers with my work, Chell does the same thing with her readers.

This is a plea to offer assistance and help to just one family this winter. Like many of you I don’t have a ton of excess cash lying around but this family needs our help. I donated ten bucks. Can you spare five or even two bucks. Chell is good people, her heart and soul is gold when it comes to her writing works that she puts out there for all to read. No she is not of the conventional perspective but I never judge a good book by the cover. That is what her blog is all about.

Please donate what you can to help this family. Please visit Chell’s Roost and donate what you can. She has swallowed her pride asking for help and I can not see it in my heart not to try and help her and her family to get heat into their home.

Note to Chell: I’m not going to apologize Chell for putting this post up so shut the hell up. I only hope it helps.

Copy and paste in your web browser if you can not get the link...

http://chellsroost.com/2007/12/17/ten-steps-to-tepid/

Papamoka

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Grinch AKA Bush Kills Kids Health Bill… Again

Separated at birth is our current Commander in Thief and the Grinch who stole Christmas. If you took the time to compare the two it might not be as far off a thought as you think. With his hefty and mighty veto crayon he swiftly cast the medical care of 10 million kids in the “Do Not Recycle” bin out in the back of the White House today... AGAIN!

His rationalization for vetoing the bill is that it is the beginning of socialized medicine? Maybe the President has not visited an emergency room in any city in America lately. Socialized medicine is already here! It’s just the most expensive form of medical health care there is and we all pay for the poor using the Emergency Room with every payment to our HMO provider whether we like it or not.

If there ever was a clear cut example of what not to do as an American President then this guy is going to be mentioned more times than anyone else. He clearly fit’s the phrase from the movie The American President where it was said “For someone that loves America but clearly can not stand American’s”. Rough paraphrase but it fits W to a tee.

Bush vetoes children's health bill a second time
Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:02pm

By Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill expanding a popular children's health care program for the second time, angering Democrats who are locked in a fight with the administration over the budget and spending.

Pushed by the Democratic-led Congress but also supported by many Republicans, the bill was aimed at providing health insurance to about 10 million children in low- and moderate-income families. Taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products would have been increased to pay for the aid.

Bush vetoed a version of the bill in October but Congress quickly passed another one that included some changes but not enough to satisfy the White House.

"Because the Congress has chosen to send me an essentially identical bill that has the same problems as the flawed bill I previously vetoed, I must veto this legislation too," Bush wrote in a message to the House of Representatives.

The fight between Congress and the White House over the health bill is one in a series of clashes over spending that have arisen as Bush approaches the start of his final year in office. -Reuters

One of the obvious problems with the bill is how it was to be funded and those funds discharged. There was no money in it for the “Bush Too” crew of political hacks. If Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi had linked some (more than half) of the money from the bill to be directly paid back to any oil company or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia then it might have had a chance at passing.

It is very obvious that this President does not care one iota about his own peoples health care. He does not even care about our own military wounded soldiers coming home for care in our military hospitals unless the Washington Post blasts the negligence across the front page to embarrass him. Even then he only tosses a white wash over the issue and moves on to where the money is.

Sometimes I wonder if he has CADD, that would be Conservative Attention Deficit Disorder. Federal programs that don’t send money his friends way just can not seem to hold his attention span long enough. Out comes the veto crayon and he tries his best to color within the lines but those pesky flash bulbs always make him mess up.

Back to the emergency room kids. Socialized medicine? Ridiculous!

Papamoka

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Cross posted at Michael Lynn Jones and Bring IT ON!

*****I See My Dreams has cross posted this piece... Thx BJ!

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