3 posts tagged “funny”
The other day our friend Betty called the house to talk to mom about something. Mayor McCartt showed up at ThriftTown (it's a consignment/thrift shop run by the ladies at the Downtown Women's Center where we stayed once, the nuns are gone! HAHAH!) and decided to be a homeless person for a day as a publicity stunt. I'd been in my little stupor of playing GTA all day and eating cheetos so I had not heard about this. She picked a dopey hat and wore it to the side and slept outside all night.
When we first elected a female mayor, I was extremely excited. Too many years of Trent Sizemore's Doing you Right Camper themes (I always sang screwin' you right, it made me feel better) drove me to the brink of insanity. But Debbie seems to just be a bureacrat that gives huge subsidies to corporations for them to stay in town while they only hire the janitors and security force from the community and import the real labor from downstate. They get 2 million dollars, pay no taxes on their land, etc, every year to "stay in the community". She got a trip to France to discuss the defense contracts so I guess she got something out of it on the tax payer's dime.
Anyway back to her being a streetperson!
Mayor homeless for 24 hours
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Homelessness can happen to anyone and the Amarillo coalition for the Homeless proved it Monday by showing a video of what Amarillo Mayor Debra McCartt would go through if she found herself in dire circumstances.
At the 10th annual Beans & Cornbread Benefit Luncheon in the Heritage Room of the Amarillo Civic Center, McCartt said "Homelessness comes in many forms, from losing a job, being sick, down on your luck or evacuation."
Master of Ceremonies Kelly James said walking a mile in their shoes "only gives you a glimpse of what they go through.
"Some people may want to close their eyes to it but it's happening in our community," he said.
In the video "This Could Be Your Life," McCartt was given a situation by KAMR-TV's David Martinez: "You're a single mother with a child. 'Polly' comes down with chickenpox and the day care won't allow her back until it's cleared up. You stay home to care for Polly but your boss fires you. You fall behind on your rent and you're kicked out onto the street. And your car is stolen.
"You've got no home, no food, no money and no car. What do you do?" Martinez asked McCartt.
The mayor's answer was go to the Tyler Street Resource Center and 211 Texas, the one-stop clearinghouse for social agencies.
The video follows McCartt through the system for 24 hours. The mayor tries to hop a bus from City Hall to the center at 200 S. Tyler St., but with no money, she is forced to walk the nearly three-quarters of a mile. McCartt fills out forms to gain referrals for free food, clothing and shelter before walking more than a quarter-mile to Faith City Ministries, where she found the shelter full but could get a hot meal.
Fortified, she trekked more than a mile to the Downtown Women's Center's Thrift Town to shop for clothing.
Fed and clothed, McCartt said she needed to get some money but first had to walk almost a mile back to Tyler Street Resource Center so Polly could be attended to in the Family Dayroom.
Secure that her "daughter" would be looked after for a maximum of four hours, McCartt walked almost another mile to the area around West Seventh Avenue and South Adams Street, where she offered herself as a day laborer.
She agreed to work for $4 an hour as a painter but when the contractor was not satisfied with her work after 4-1/2 hours, she was returned to the day labor site and wasn't paid.
Discouraged, the mayor dragged herself back to Tyler Street Resource Center to pick up Polly and walk about a quarter-mile to the Salvation Army, where she was given shelter.
"I'm so thankful I have a place to sleep," she said.
At the conclusion of the video, McCartt stood before the gathering and said, "the challenge is to empathize with those who are homeless, but we mustn't confuse those who are homeless with panhandlers or transients.
"I am especially proud that Amarillo is a place that provides a hot meal and a place to sleep. My short 24 hours of being homeless is just an instant in how they live" day in and day out, she said. "I'll be blessed forever by what I saw, heard and experienced."
The proceeds from Monday's luncheon will be contributed to the
Interfaith campaign for the Homeless and be further enhanced by a
challenge grant from The Don and Sybil Harrington Foundation that will
match dollar for dollar up to $80,000.
Notice the Beans and Cornbread idea. The people who attend it make six figures a year, and the turnout is not good. Yes, imagine, rich people don't want to eat poor food for charity. Give them a fucking lobster. Or make the donation cheaper, my husband/fiance/person ate Tripe and Jello for 50$, we'd pay 30$ for a buffet or something.
From The Department of Readiness website!
If a terrorist sets you aflame, sit quietly and enjoy it as it engulfs your ignorant soul. The good of the many outweigh the good of the few, the child who eats the most marbles does not live long enough to have children of his own!
If you spot a homosexual, blow your morality whistle. If you're a homosexual, start singing "It's raining men"!
If you
spot a terrorist arrow, pin it against the wall with your shoulder!
Use your flashlight of freedom and religion to summon the spirit of Christ to free you from being trapped under large debris! FEMA can't help you, after 911 everything changed, always remember that.
Michael
Jackson is a terrorist. If you spot this smooth criminal with dead, dead eyes,
run the fuck away, especially if you're: a. a small boy; b. a young man; c. a monkey named bubbles.
If you are trapped under falling debris, conserve
oxygen by not farting.
If you lose a contact lens during a chemical attack,
do not stop to look for it.
Do not drive a stations wagon if a power pole is protruding
from the hood.
I was over on youtube watching a protest of some power-shill's war propaganda. While reading through the comments I learned a new word: Moonbat.
From the wikipedia:
I wonder how many people would be fit this category. Hell I could sell moonbat tshirts and coffee mugs. Remember the Chinese ideogram for disaster also means opportunity!
Perry de Havilland of Samizdata says a moonbat is "someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be". Adriana Cronin-Lukas defines the term as "someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency". De Havilland says it was not originally a play on the last name of George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian, although he and Monbiot have appeared on the BBC together expressing politically opposed views. [citation needed]The term was originally coined through a newspaper hoax perpetrated by the New York Sun. It claimed that a British scientist using a new type of telescope had discovered a race of bat-type creatures living on the moon [[4]]. While this term was originally coined to attack commentators on the Right, it was also used to afront Leftists.[citations needed].
Some bloggers claim "moonbat" is neither a general epithet for U.S. War on Terror critics, nor even a purely U.S.- oriented term. They say they use it only against those who construct elaborate conspiracy theories concerning American foreign policy.[citation needed] For example, someone who claims that George W. Bush caused the 9/11 attacks would fit this category. "Idiotarian" fits a similar context.
