Kids in Katrina zone:"How will Santa find me? I'm not in my house any more

Meanwhile there are some who are concerned about why their WH "Holiday" card didn't have the word "Christmas" in it.

I'd like to kick O'Reilly's butt -- maybe he could shut up about the "war on Christmas" and pay attention to the war on children and the poor.

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for down your way???

I know the salvation army has done the angel trees in the past.

Lydia Leftcoast is working with an Episcopalian group and coming down this way soon. Maybe that group is taking donation of toys or for toys.

I'll do some checking and see what I can find out for you MissWaverly. :hi:

thank you :hug:

I told my boss to give me cash for Christmas and one of my co-workers usually buys me something and I saw a friend of mine who gave me $10.00 so I should be able to send
$60.00 that's something at least.

Miss Waverly
:-)

x( Forget I said that.

hurricane and how it broke their house. :cry:

From the article:

To children who asked him to prevent future hurricanes, he said: "Santa will do his best, but some things even Santa can't control."

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While Santas in other parts of the country marveled over sometimes extravagant requests -- like kids as young as 6 asking for laptop computers -- those in the hurricane zone were struck by the children's poignant appeals: a house for their parents, or all their old toys back.

My 4 y.o. grandson would go spinning through the house knocking everything over and saying "I'm a hurricane!"

He was really upset to see his preschool all damaged.

why her clothes and toys were all over the yard and she couldn't sleep in her bed after the storm. Their house was totally gutted, everything they owned was spewed all over the neighborhood and all over their yard. We couldn't let them touch any of their toys for fear of contaminents.

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Kids just don't know how to deal with it. Neither do Big Peeps.

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:( Poor little kids. :cry: Of course O'Reilly won't talk about this.

keith.olbermann@msnbc.com

house, or any other Katrina kid's house because God punished them for being godless heathens, therefore there's no possible way Santa would put him on the list.

/fundie

but the man's not worth the breath.

from home.

A few simple explanations does the trick.

Undoubtedly a lot of those Katrina kids are growing up too fast. At least they made it through the storm. God bless them.

Then I started thinking about it -- all our songs make the point again and again that Santa comes to good children and forgets bad children. But in the real world Santa comes to well-off children and forgets the poor children. I started thinkg what message that sends to a poor kid every year -- no matter how good you try to be, at the end of the year it's just not good enough for ol' Santa.

I just thought of one of my favorite commercials this time of year -- for the Marines "Toys for Tots" program. A marine in dress uniform standing at attention and a kid comes up and asks if he is Santa because the kid has his list. The Marine never blinks, never breaks his stance, never looks down, but silently a white-gloved hand opens to accept the list.

Chokes me up every time.

Toys for Tots -- good thing and recommended for all here to give.

Of course, my folks were real charmers, but it's hard when you are a kid, really hard.

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Its not enough that you have ruined these children's lives and much of their futures.

You've ruined everything they have to look forward to. You've ruined everything their families had to look forward to for the holidays.

Its sad enough to think what they have to be frightened of and worried about all the other things in their lives, but this has been yanked from them, any realm of innocense and magic is gone for them.


Their homes, their sense of safety and belonging have been ripped away and stolen from the residents of New Orleans because of individuals like all of you and Michael Brown and Michael Chertoff.

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Just to comfort the afflicted? Can you see ** giving a damn?

Call Bill a bubba and a sex maniac all you want, ** is still the most classless, graceless occupant of the WH EVER.

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