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Patricia K. Shaw
Monday, June 16 2008 - 10:35 AM
Friendship Bridge
On Thursday, June 26th, the Antelope Valley chapter of Friendship Bridge will be hosting a dinner and evening with the renowned scientist, author and television personality, Dr. Art Ulene.
In addition to listening to the wit and wisdom of Dr. Ulene, the purpose of the event is to raise funds for the Friendship Bridge micro-loan program which provides funding and education for entrepreneurial women in impoverished countries. This program has proved a great success in other parts of the world and the AV chapter, “Flor del Desierto” (Flowers of the Desert) has chosen a village in Guatemala as the site of our “bank”.
This event will be held at the Antelope Valley Country Club and it begins at 6:30 pm.
For tickets and more information, write me a private message or call me at 274-1277.
bear says...
Why don’t you pick a small town in America where the women can’t even afford to get out of town and form this
Friendship Bridge micro-loan program, great idea, just the wrong country to do it in. You people have your head in the sand.
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PKShaw says...
Just because someone is willing to help women in other countries does not mean they don’t help women in this country.
In this country there is already a small business loan program that gives special consideration to female owned businesses. There is also free public education and certainly help with food, clothing, and housing. These are forced participation programs which I support every time I pay taxes.
Friendship Bridge offers micro-loans in such small amounts that would be of little help to Americans but tremendous assistance to those living in impoverished countries.
And unlike American assistance programs, this is voluntary. No one is forcing you to buy a ticket.
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bear says...
Plenty of places to raise money for in America, let the other countries take care of their own. Stay out of other counties business and worry more about America.
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bear says...
Life Expectancy Slips in Poor Parts of America
New Study Shows Drop in Life Expectancy in Deep South, Parts of Midwest, Texas and Appalachia, Particularly for Women
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bear says...
America and the Poor – What it’s like to Be Poor in America
By Black Betty
I can’t work with out being medicated and I can’t buy my medicine because I don’t have a job. The welfare program has not offered me any assistance with child care so I can get a job. See the circle and how it goes around and around. Fortunatly I am wise enoght to be able to make a little money so I can survive. I have to because I know the US Government is not going to help me. Yet there are foreign familys that live here in America that have their own business (tax free for 8 years), a new Lexus, their own house, and they recieve 1000.00 dollars in food stamps a month to feed there five children. If your an American living in America you need to get a job so we can support these people so they can become american too. If your poor in America put your faith in God because that is all the real hope you’ll ever have.
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bear says...
Raising money to send out of this country is about the worse thing you can do. When paople here need all the help they can get to get on their feet. More and more will soon be unemployed due to the cost of fuel, yet you ask people to give to help another country. Very sad indeed.
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bear says...
Friendship Bridge across America, helping the poeple that live here start their own businesses and become independent. This is what you should be raising money for.
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poof1967 says...
What a great endeavor PK! This is a well needed outreach. ( BTW, many who support this friendship bridge also support their local community.) Lord knows we need to be good ambassadors for the USA. I am excited to see Dr Art Ulene and hope others take advantage of his appearance in the Antelope Valley!
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poof1967 says...
For those that do not know what the Friendship Bridge is all about, here is one of the you tube recordings.
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poof1967 says...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCygUaV3Kc&feature=PlayList&p=E606C3089F25CA9F&index=2
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Denise_Latanzi says...
Friendship Bridge is one of the most interesting an innovative programs I’ve seen. The micro-loans being made to these women are so small, less than a weeks worth of groceries for most of us, and yet one of these loans often means a lifetime of self-sufficiency for a woman and her family in a country where there are no alternatives.
The fact is that we actually have tons of programs in this country to help those that want to help themselves, and even programs to help those that don’t.
The money raised through friendship bridge is creating sustainable jobs for women and children living in desperate poverty. I think it would be a big help for people who think they are poor in the United States to look at the type of poverty that exists in other country, because the poorest of us is still in much better shape than 90% of the worlds population.
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bear says...
Maybe you all need to take a few trips a round the united states and see what poverty looks like in this country. Its time to take care of our own and stay out of other countries. Let the other countries care for their own. We cannot take care of the world and we need to take care of our own.
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leftofcenter says...
bear…we disagree quite often, but you are right on the mark here. Help our people first, give them a fighting chance to overcome poverty before we offer it to other countries…..keep up the fight bear!!
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Denise_Latanzi says...
Well, one great thing about it being my money and my choice, I can spend it however I like.
For the record though, I have lived and worked with the poor in really depressed communities though, including areas in this country where a good portion of the population still lacks indoor plumbing. Poverty to that scale is a shame no matter where you find it, but most of it in this country is a matter of choice to one degree or another.
Making the choice to help empower these women doesn’t take away from what can be done here at home.
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bear says...
Every dime you send out of this country is taking money away from helping people in this country. You do have a right to spend your money any way you want, but its turning your back on your own country for one that wouldn’t give you the time of day.
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poof1967 says...
Ok, fella’s, get something started that we haven’t already helped. Show us your true conservative ways. I will be glad to go to an event that you plan and buy a $50.00 plate. Of course I choose not to give to the funny farm that will round up some of the bloggers in here someday.
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138hwy says...
Shaw.. You should be ashamed of yourself. This is TOTALLY wrong and immoral. I think it is about time for some complaints to be registered. Like, maybe me making some phone calls to the maayor, etc.
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bear says...
138, the fact is all countrys need help of some kind. They all have poverty and they must learn to take care of their own. We have people right here eating out of garbage cans. We have people right here living on the streets, we have people losing their homes and their jobs. We have kids going hungry and yes we have women looking for a job to feed their kids with out a father. We have kids that can’t afford to go to college, we have people that can’t afford med’s yet people like PK and Denise would rather take care of Guatemala women than try and help people right here. Right now there are all kinds of people from Gustemala here illegally sucking off our system, running this country into the ground. This friendship bridge should be within your own country. I hope not many people fall for this and don’t give a dime.
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poof1967 says...
Let’s see. I bet there are a few folks that give to missions that work in other countrys. Are they also turning their back on their own country?
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138hwy says...
How dare shaw print (mexican) in her post and NOT translate into Tagalog, Mandarin, Japanese, etc.
This IS a racist request and I will take some kind of action “downtown”.
Posts of this kind are political and pandering to mexicans and I shall protest loudly.
I suggest shaw removes her post.
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Redflag says...
Your tone relative to this thread, Larry, reminds of the time that I took an ex-girlfriend of mine to an acupuncturist for the purpose of treating an elbow she had injured while skiing (while crashing, actually :-). She said: “Why are you putting needles in my foot? I’m here because of my right elbow.” He said: “Whole body connected. Take look.” (He happened to have been a Chinese acupuncturist.)
Persevere.
Guy
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PKShaw says...
As I previously stated, the United States already has an SBA program in place. The SBA not only provides loans to start up a business, but loans for business expansion as well. They also provide education and mentoring from others who have been successful in the same type of endeavor.
Friendship Bridge provides “micro-loans” meaning very small loans ($150-$250) which would be of very little use to someone living here. They are however a huge benefit to someone whose daily wages are only $2-$3.
But consider this; for every small business owner we help in Guatemala to become financially independent that means fewer people needing to uproot their families and flee (probably illegally) to the United States.
It’s one thing to gripe about the problem of illegal immigration but another to actually do something about it.
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poof1967 says...
Guy, do you think some of these bloggers will get such a concept?
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PKShaw says...
I tell you what Hob. I am also working on the annual Rubber Ducky Race in September. 100% of the funds raised by this event stays right here in the AV. How many ducky adoptions can I count on you to purchase?
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poof1967 says...
PK, I also understand the more we can show ‘them’ how to be self sufficient, they will not have to pay servitude to the sweat shops.
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138hwy says...
NO SHAW..Damm it. You are pandering to “illegal aliens.” Stop it!! REMOVE YOUR POST NOW! If, in any way, you are connected to ledfoot, he will hear about this post tomorrow.
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bear says...
When Americans are all on their feet and the ones that want jobs have them, when children in this country are all being fed, when people that want to go to school to learn a trade and have the money to do it, when people that need Medicine can have it and when people here that need and operation and can afford it and many many more items, then we can help other countries with their problems. Until then this country comes first.
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bear says...
This is where you should be raising money for our people not thier people. Add you dinner money to this event to help people right here in the valley.
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PKShaw says...
Also bear in mind these are LOANS, not gifts. They must be repaid. And the payments include an amount equal to 10% of the loan which is put into a savings account so they learn about saving.
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PKShaw says...
So again Hob, how many ducky adoptions can I count on you for? In addition to working on the event I typically buy $100 worth – care to match me?
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bear says...
Poof1967 the more we can show them that live right here in America to be self sufficient maybe we can reduce walfare payments.
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138hwy says...
IT IS A RACIST POST..Like a LA Raza post..”all for the race.” I am so pissed that ANYONE gives money to only mexicans and not other poor peoples.
Panderers to Mexicans>>>
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bear says...
As long as the money goes here in the valley I sure will PK.
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bear says...
I buy ducks every year through my kids at school.
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poof1967 says...
Too bad our friends in DC can’t quit appropriating so much money on the greedy war for oil and work on fixing the problems we have here at home. I think they need to hear your message bear.
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PKShaw says...
I knew you would Hob.
The Rubber Ducky Race benefits many small groups as well as a large part going to the Assistance League which runs a free/reduced cost daycare in Lancaster to help single mothers.
The other main benefactor is the Palmdale Library Foundation which is raising money to buy books for the (hopefully) soon to be built library on the east side of Palmdale.
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poof1967 says...
bear says…
Poof1967 the more we can show them that live right here in America to be self sufficient maybe we can reduce walfare payments.
What do you suggest we do first? Sounds like a GREAT idea to me!
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bear says...
Look into a hungry child right here in America and tell them you are sending money to Guatemala. Try raising a little more money and do the same right here in this country.
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PKShaw says...
A great idea would be to stop GIVING welfare benefits and start LOANING them.
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bear says...
PK’s program could be used right here in America and help women become self sufficient.
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PKShaw says...
This is not my program but one that started many years ago and has proven to be a great success in other parts of the world.
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bear says...
Great idea PK, so start collecting the money for micro loans right here, for Americans.
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PKShaw says...
Again, as previously stated (I think twice) “micro-loans” would be of little use here in the US and THERE IS ALREADY A PROGRAM IN PLACE THAT PROVIDES LOANS AND EDUCATION TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS.
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bear says...
Thats great PK but lets make it a success right here. I saw a man at the bank today that is help teach kids a trade and how to build a home. So they can be self sufficient, give your money to that program pk and help take kids off the street and teach them a tade that they too can feed a family later.
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bear says...
Many still need help right here PK and so many fall through the cracks in these so called programs they have here. They need added help in many cases. We give more help to the illegals than our own citizens.
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PKShaw says...
Funny you should mention that Hob. As it turns out I do help just such an organization. It’s called YouthBuild and they are having their graduation ceremony at Jet Hawks stadium this Wednesday at 4pm. See you there?
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138hwy says...
Larry..She cannot understand that.
Maybe she WILL understand my complaint tomorrow morning. This is bullshit, asking for money like she is for illegal aliens.
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PKShaw says...
I am not asking for money, I am merely making folks aware of the program.
And how exactly are they “illegal aliens” if they are still living in their home country?
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mattkeltner says...
Excuse me Billy, but this isn’t about “asking for money for illegal aliens”, it is about empowering women who want a stake in the global economy.
If anything, by helping innovative people in their own nations, we can avoid the travesty of them having no other choice but to illegally immigrate to the U.S.
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Denise_Latanzi says...
If you’re really interested in helping out in this country, may I suggest making a donation to the community of Greensburg, KS.
On May 4th, 2007, the community was completely leveled by a 2 mile wide, EF5 tornado.
The business community was completely wiped out and there were almost no homes left in this community of 1500, and even with all that, they are trying to rebuild, and become one of the first all “green” cities in the United States.
you can get more information on Greensburg at www.greensburgks.org.
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alis says...
PK
the more i able to pay forward – I tell most folks if you want to make money (and remember it is all HIS money – we are but stewards) try giving some away – And yes i do give here in the states, but our business came from HIM and HE is in Roatan… The tithing began over 11 years ago with $32 right here local and has grown 4000 fold yes 4000 fold! tell me what i am doing is wrong… i tell you the fruits our labor are worth every dime! i will pm for a address…
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alis says...
In some foreign countries a girl, that of a small child, has a greater chance of being raped than learning to read… tell me about hardship and trials… I will tell you, you know not of true suffering!
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alis says...
BUILD THAT BRIDGE! ONE HEART/BEAM AT A TIME!
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mattkeltner says...
Yeah, I just love all of these faux “patriots” who lecture us and threaten us for supporting a group like Flor Del Desierto, but they are usually the first to go to Wal-Mart and buy cheap goods made in Asia for the simple fact that they are cheap and not bothering to pay a buck or two more for an American-made product.
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Denise_Latanzi says...
I was really happy to see the Friendship Bridge program because it’s an incredible, self-sustaining model that lifts people up by giving them the tools to pull themselves out of poverty.
Here in this country, we have a lot of programs for the poor that have become handouts, not hand ups. Maybe the answer is turning our existing welfare programs into a model that expects people to work or start their own businesses, but also has to be guaranteed by the community and paid back. If we had some accountability in the programs we already have, maybe they would actually work as intended.
That said, participating in something like Friendship Bridge doesn’t take anything away from Domestic programs, and it may just be what it takes to keep people inside their home countries instead of fleeing to ours.
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mattkeltner says...
We owe nobody an apology for supporting Friendship Bridge.
The invective from Billy is typical of someone with a limited education and similar intellectual capacity.
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PKShaw says...
It is also typical of someone whose hatred for illegals has nothing to do with dislike of lawbreakers; but more of a cultural dislike of folks from Hispanic countries.
(Not that we didn’t know that already)
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bear says...
You said it Denise, work on the programs here in the United states. Help set them up to get people off welfare,expect the people to work and become business owners to help themselves. Make them learn how to work and how to pay back. Take this money you want to sent out of this country and use it to train women right here how to get on their feet and have them pay back the loans.
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bear says...
This country sends so much money out of the country and the countrys they send it to uses that money right back agains’t us. You can’t buy friends. This country is going farther and farther down hill, we must pull this country back up on its feet.
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bear says...
We must just say no to trying to help the world and help our country first. You can’t save a sinking ship by loading more people on board, you must save the people you can.The people you can are the ones right here in America.
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Redflag says...
bear: This country [the United States] sends so much money out of the country, and the countries it sends that money to uses that money against us.”
In many ways that is quite true in that so-called foreign aid is most often used to bolster the interests and to prolong the reigns of puppet oligarchies whose only purpose is to serve the interests of US-based multinationals and the US State Department (e.g., Somoza, Pahlavi, Marcos, etc.). And, yes, we are often “repaid” in the form of what has to be known as “Blowback” – the social phenomenon in which American citizens too often pay the consequences of “their” government’s behavior vis-a-vis the Third World (i.e., “911”).
Also, for those concerned with the way in which the Friendship Bridge program may impact undocumented immigration, it may well serve to promote indigenous capitalist development within Guatemala, thereby reducing the level of its people’s desperation and, therefore, quite possibly reducing the level of undocumented immigration.
Related reading:
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins, published by Berrett-Koehler, 2004
Persevere.
Guy
I’m out.
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Randy Hall says...
“The invective from Billy is typical of someone with a limited education and similar intellectual capacity.”
“The behavior of the teacher is influenced by the behavior of the students and in turn influences student behavior.”
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Teacher-Student+Interactions+and+Teacher+Competence+in+Primary+Science-a076770288
MK I suggest you model the outcomes you want. It is all the rage in the teaching circles that teacher’s perceptions determine the outcomes of their students.
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Randy Hall says...
...”You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”
From PYGMALION.
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Randy Hall says...
“Simply put, when teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways”
Pygmalion in the Class
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=PYGMALION%20IN%20THE%20CLASSROOM&index=blended&page=1
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Randy Hall says...
Is it any wonder why over half the kids that enter high school drop out?
I’ll remind you why: “The invective from Billy is typical of someone with a limited education and similar intellectual capacity.” MK
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alis says...
A lady who was about 105 or so was asked if she would do anything different if she could live her life over—her reply was – “I would not care so much of what others thought of me.”
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alis says...
The views and opinions of peers do in fact have serious consequences to a child, who is seeking “self”, their own personally identity. It takes absolutely no talent to judge, -simon.
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mattkeltner says...
Randy,
You probably couldn’t handle one day of teaching, just as I probably wouldn’t know the first thing about taking an automobile apart and putting it back together. I have never impugned your mechanical trade and have even gone as far as to tell others that you are reliable and professional in your work, despite our many disagreements.
It would be nice if you could reciprocate and not criticize my teaching ability.
My beef with Billy is that nowhere in Patricia’s main post did it say anything about illegal immigrants. Though, he feels the unscrupulous need to insert them into yet another blog because of his personal and often demonstrated dislike of Patricia herself. Billy’s only issue with our group was that we chose a Spanish-language name, nothing else.
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Randy Hall says...
Since I didn’t partake in your social get together it took me months to figure out who “Billy” is.
I’m simply asking for professionals to act like them.
138hwy goes by 138hwy. Calling him “Billy” or whatever is totally unprofessional.
I made a point of show how perceptions can cause outcome especially with children. Here your perceptions taint your desired outcome again: “You [Randy] probably couldn’t handle one day of teaching…”
I would pain me to think the teaching profession is unaware of Pygmalion in The Classroom. The hardest thing to fix on a person’s car is their perception of that car
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dbeardw says...
Bear and 138 – When Oprah built the orphanage in Africa, she took a look of abuse because people said she should spend her money here. She had her reasons and they were valid. PK and I have rarely agreed, if ever, on anything, but I support her project because it doesn’t matter where in the world the Friendship Bridge is being build—the fact is it’s happening and those women do need assistance.
Bear and 138, it shouldn’t rub you the wrong way because PK is doing something that uplifts a group not on our soil. What should be impoortant is that she and others are doing something to make someone’s life better. God knows, there is so much pain, torment and cruelty everywhere in this world. Someone spreading a little joy should offend anyone.
Sounds like a great event, a great guest, and more than a worthy cause. Love PK’s projects or not, at least she’s out there in the world trying to make a difference.
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bear says...
We must take care of our own first, we can’t take care of the world. To many people right here needing help.
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bear says...
I agree with the people that thought Oprah should have helped the children right here. She is making her money here and here is where she should be helping. Plenty of kids in foster homes here that need help, when they hit 18 they are out on their own.
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bear says...
Oprah could have built trade schools to help keep the kids here off the streets and from selling drugs for a living.
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138hwy says...
What we have here on this blog site are only four, (4) astute and intelligent bloggers, besides yours truly. In no particular order we have Randy Hall. He knows his stuff and backs everything up wih “facts.” The left hates him as they hate me. Then we have Guy Marsh. A “genius” with words and never, ever a mistake in punctuation and a true believer in what he thinks. Very admirable. Next we have a psycho named 00100, and a hundred other handles too numerous to mention. And finally there is Larry Hobson. A most “common sense” blogger to be sure.
Randy Hall always knows how to “shut up” ignorant bloggers in a (nice way.)
Guy Marsh usually paints a picture in his prose which no normal right thinking person could ever accept, and I think he knows that.
John Wells is quite intelligent but he is fanatic in his beliefs, so hardly anyone pays him any mind.
Lastly, we come to Larry. A more “common sense” guy than one could ever find. He gets attacked daily and like the “energizer bunny”, he just keeps coming back. But it seems like Larry has softened his responses, and what a shame.
I like total honesty. I remember that a certain blogger took issue because someone pointed out that his baseball cap was “reversed” in his profile picture. The blogger became quite perturbed and stated “homo hater, homophobe”, etc.,just because of a blog comment.
Instead of complaining, why not just come out of the closet? No one would be surprised I betcha.
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mattkeltner says...
138hwy says…
What we have here on this blog site are only four, (4) astute and intelligent bloggers, besides yours truly.
I was with you until the last part of your last sentence!
In no particular order we have Randy Hall…Then we have Guy Marsh…Next we have a psycho named 00100…And finally there is Larry Hobson.
For the most part, I agree.
I like total honesty. I remember that a certain blogger took issue because someone pointed out that his baseball cap was “reversed” in his profile picture. The blogger became quite perturbed and stated “homo hater, homophobe”, etc.,just because of a blog comment.
Instead of complaining, why not just come out of the closet? No one would be surprised I betcha.
Again, why the obsession here? What relevance does my own sexual orientation have to do with my blogging activities on this site?
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138hwy says...
Well, kelter, your “orientation” has everything to “do with it.” If, as I have been advised by many private PM messages that your significant other is a mexican, then your comments carry no weight as you have an axe to grind. Your PRO MEXICAN-OPEN BORDER CRAP is just that, CRAP.
BTW..No white guys out there? lol
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mattkeltner says...
What are you talking about? I don’t have a “significant other”. Either someone is blatantly lying to you or you are extremely delusional.
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avbornbred says...
So if I make a donation, am I going to assist a woman in this third world nation start a tortilla business. What would this woman do. She could never export her product, the health agencies would never allow tortilla’s made in a mud hut come here. Where would she ship them to? How about funding a American citizen, woman, start her own business here that meets all of the standards of our country.
I hear a lot of women from Guatamala are house keepers. Sounds like they already have all the funding they need here in the US already, tax free money.
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bear says…
I agree with the people that thought Oprah should have helped the children right here. She is making her money here and here is where she should be helping. Plenty of kids in foster homes here that need help, when they hit 18 they are out on their own.
Bear, Oprah has helped families and far too many children to even count who live in the U.S. The issue was that it’s her money…and she had a right to spend it the way she wishes.
She has paid for many, many kids to get college educations. She has paid to relocate families from crime infested neighborhoods. She’s done it all.
But like Bill Gates, whose mother was the inspiration for him to get involved in Africa and do something about the deplorable AIDS epidemic there, people with money have a right to spend it as they wish.
Oprah said she got tired of the kids here wanting the latest fashions, toys to entertain themselves, etc. She wanted to give the gift of education.
Bear, people don’t seem to realize that we are all somehow connected on this earth. The fruits of one’s labors in a distant land, eventually trickle our way. Just as the sins we and others commit in other lands, have repercussions for us as well.
It’s not the Trickle Down Theory. It’s the Tickle Around Theory
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PKShaw says...
I hope everyone will take a look at Bill Warford’s column in today’s AV Press. In it he details Dr. Ulene’s passion for Guatemala and the value this program will bring to the women in this country.
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bear says...
DBEARDW, help our own before we help others. So many kids right here that need help so much to do right here. It might be her money but if it wasn’t for the people right here she wouldn’t have it at all.
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PKShaw says...
We help “our own” every time we pay taxes. The rest that we get to keep we can spend any damn way we choose.
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Frankbradshaw says...
Bear,
I often hear people talk about the “massive” amounts of children that “need help.” Which children are you referring to? I can certainly understand children with illnesses, but can you please identify who the “kids right here that need help” are? Are you talking about foster kids? Orphans? Are there kids out there wandering the streets looking for food?
This is a serious question.
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Frankbradshaw says...
“Serious” meaning that I’m not being sarcastic.
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bear says...
Children are the same any where in the world, women are the same any where in the world. Women and children right here in this country need help, why would any one think its better to help people in another country before helping people right here? Foster kids are one place? What about micro loans to these kids that at the age of 18 get thrown out of foster care to live on their own? Kids all across this country need help, they live in proverty right here. You don’t see them like you do in these other countries because yes there are far more in those other countries. But these other countries need to take care of their own. We cannot take care of the world we need to take care of America.
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Frankbradshaw, have you ever heard of children of the night? These are kids that are out on the street that are looking for food, selling their bodies to eat.
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WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?
“My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.
Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.
This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning.
Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short . The United Kingdom , Spain , Bulgaria , Australia , and Poland are some of the countries listed there.
The other list contains every one not on the first list. Most of the world’s nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war. THEN EVERY YEAR THERE AFTER It’ll GO TO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO IT WONT GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.
The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hell holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.
Need help with a famine ? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France
In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money toward solving the vexing social problems we still have at home . On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the earth.
Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or maybe China .
I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France , Germany , and Russia . Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well. Bonne chance, mezamies.
I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don’t care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York
A special note to our neighbors. Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.
Mexico is also on List 2 its president and his entire corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple extra thousand tanks and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put ‘em? Yep, border security.
Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty – starting now.
We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we’ll be drilling for oil in Alaska- which will take care of this country’s oil needs for decades to come. If you’re an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there.
It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, ‘darn tootin.’
Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America It is time to eliminate homelessness in America To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won’t forget.
To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak Arabic.
God bless America .. Thank you and good night.”
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
(Please forward this to at least ten friends and see what happens! Let’s get this to every USA computer!)
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bear says...
Screw other countries and help the people that are American citizens. I get very tired of hearing about helping other countries when people right here need help. This country is going into the toilet and your group has the nerve to help another country, time to wise up.
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