Before I get started on the main topic of this post.... Some terrific Lost hidden picture info.... In the last ep (Everyone Hates...) check out the milk carton that Hurley is holding during the dream sequence... Catch who is the "missing kid" on the carton? That's right... Walt! My question is... this is a dream, but Hurley isn't supposed to know that Walt is taken yet is he? Being that the girls just found the bottle of notes on the beach.....
Anyway.... On to other things...
What's Another thing wrong with this country????
Well, I don't know if you watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition or not but the episode from Oct 16 is about a camp about 25 miles from where I live... Camp Barnabas in Purdy, Missouri. To tell you the truth, I wasn't really aware about what this camp did before the episode last night. During the episode, I learned that they offer a summer camp experience (for one week) for children with disabilities of any kind but especially for ones that cannot or could not attend a regular summer camp. Great place, great idea, and... here it come... something this country should be doing more of. Now for the problem... These folks that started Camp Barnabas seem to have created this extraordinary place on whatever they could get on their own.
Here's what I think is wrong... I'm usually one of the first people that will say that government should not be advocating or supporting religious organizations. Too much messy "that's not my belief" and "how about my religion" fighting usually happens when the government gets involved but this place just feels different. The looks on those kids faces... The joy you could see emanating from every fiber of their being to just be considered an equal in the world, if only for one week... That was priceless! And in an country where we can spend billions of dollars fighting a war that was both planned as a lie and now fought for far different reasons than it was started... Why can't we better support organizations like this one??? The cost of one day in Iraq could run this place for years and give kids, who through no fault of their own are not seen as "normal", the belief that they can be and are just as important as those that live in the Beltway padding their pockets.
I'm not a crier... My wife holds that position in our house (last night she went through half a roll of toilet paper after we found we were out of tissues), but I shed a few tears last night. The biggest one was after a young girl was visiting for one day because she could not attend full time. You may not care why (but I tell you anyway)... She was dying... Not in the way some people say, "we all are dying," but her kidney's were shutting down and she was on dialysis. She wasn't supposed to be here much longer and that just ripped into me. Couldn't help it since I was watching with my kids.
If you watched last night and you want to help this remarkable place. Go to their web site and make a donation, or buy the issue of TV Guide that has Ty on the cover (they are giving 10% of sales to the camp).
Places like this should thrive and grow.
We will be judged by the way we treat the least of us..... I truly believe that.
Bry...
Anyway.... On to other things...
What's Another thing wrong with this country????
Well, I don't know if you watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition or not but the episode from Oct 16 is about a camp about 25 miles from where I live... Camp Barnabas in Purdy, Missouri. To tell you the truth, I wasn't really aware about what this camp did before the episode last night. During the episode, I learned that they offer a summer camp experience (for one week) for children with disabilities of any kind but especially for ones that cannot or could not attend a regular summer camp. Great place, great idea, and... here it come... something this country should be doing more of. Now for the problem... These folks that started Camp Barnabas seem to have created this extraordinary place on whatever they could get on their own.
Here's what I think is wrong... I'm usually one of the first people that will say that government should not be advocating or supporting religious organizations. Too much messy "that's not my belief" and "how about my religion" fighting usually happens when the government gets involved but this place just feels different. The looks on those kids faces... The joy you could see emanating from every fiber of their being to just be considered an equal in the world, if only for one week... That was priceless! And in an country where we can spend billions of dollars fighting a war that was both planned as a lie and now fought for far different reasons than it was started... Why can't we better support organizations like this one??? The cost of one day in Iraq could run this place for years and give kids, who through no fault of their own are not seen as "normal", the belief that they can be and are just as important as those that live in the Beltway padding their pockets.
I'm not a crier... My wife holds that position in our house (last night she went through half a roll of toilet paper after we found we were out of tissues), but I shed a few tears last night. The biggest one was after a young girl was visiting for one day because she could not attend full time. You may not care why (but I tell you anyway)... She was dying... Not in the way some people say, "we all are dying," but her kidney's were shutting down and she was on dialysis. She wasn't supposed to be here much longer and that just ripped into me. Couldn't help it since I was watching with my kids.
If you watched last night and you want to help this remarkable place. Go to their web site and make a donation, or buy the issue of TV Guide that has Ty on the cover (they are giving 10% of sales to the camp).
Places like this should thrive and grow.
We will be judged by the way we treat the least of us..... I truly believe that.
Bry...
Comments
I agree with you fully with what is right with this country. Camp Baranabas is a great camp that I have known about for years because of my work with people with disabilities. It does change lives of those that attend. If more people would focus on helping others like, this country would be an even better place.
As you know this country was founded on Religious freedom. The original writing of Thomas Jefferson makes it clear that the government is not suppose to interfere with the religious institutions and is not to make a National Religion but there is nothing there about the government funding different religious projects. After all, public school and colleges were started off as religious institutes. I believe that we have missed the boat.
On the war, I also believe that you have missed it. Iraq was not only a dictatorship but it was also a country that refused to abide by the peace treaty/ ceasefire agreement that they signed with us. After we beat them in 1991, they agreed to terms to end the war. They never abided by them. Our country not only had the right but the responsibility to invade Iraq and liberate them, as we should have every year since we left in 1991.
On the so-called “lies” that you brought up, Bush was wrong. So was ever other leader in our country including your beloved Clintons. Both of who stated that Saddam had these Weapons of Mass Destruction right before we invaded. Iraq was a perceived threat because they wanted us to think they were a threat. I am still not convinced that they did not have them and just shipped them to Syria. I will be blogging on this on my site later today.
Your friend
Larry
First, the post was about a GREAT place....not about a seemingly morally corrupt GOP or a war that is costing us more and more in money and lives.
But since you bring it up... Here's my take on the invasion of Iraq.. no better yet, I'll do some posting on the site about my feelings on these topics... See you there.