Grab your tissues, because if you are like me this story will make you teary.
Nine-year old Isaac Saldana and his brother were about to walk their dog when the news announced the shootings of a little girl and Gabrielle Giffords (among others) in Arizona. Isaac told the Huffington Post “I just thought, whoa! I didn’t know that people carry around guns here in Tucson. It scared me a little.” He continued, saying “I felt really bad about Gabrielle being in the hospital and getting shot, so I just wanted to help her.”
However, Isaac had an idea. He decided to sell his toys and even a bracelet his father had given him. He filled his backpack and sold the items at school, even getting in trouble with his teacher and having his backpack taken away.
Well, young Isaac was able to raise $2.84. So he put it in an envelope with a get well card and sent it off to the Giffords’. Isaac’s mother, Aracely, was unaware of what her son was up to. When she found out she understandably got a little choked up. “For him to go out of his way, risk getting in trouble to do a good thing — that was just awesome,” she said. “I was crying. I am extremely proud of my children.”
Giffords’ husband Mark told KVOA News in Tucson that he planned to “get [Saldana] his lunch money back.” But Isaac said he won’t accept it.
“I don’t really want it back,” he said. “I think she needs it.”
Now, this whole story is amazing to me. And at risk of embarrassing myself, when I was nine, I had no clue what was going on the world. I didn’t pay much attention to the news or current events. I was blissfully unaware of anything outside my world of school, cartoons and teenie bopper music. Yes, the amount of money he raised is small but the important issue is that he cared enough to do something. He used the resources he had available and in his way, he made a difference.
Aracely Saldana has every right to be proud of her children. And she should also feel good that she must be doing an excellent job of raising her three children. If they can be selfless enough, have enough compassion – it is something that should be celebrated and embraced. And I personally would like to thank this family for giving me hope. Hope that maybe one day we can turn this country around and once again have it moving forward.
has a remarkable talent of seeing, truthfully, what our psychotic government is up to. Using humor and insight, Mr. Franken dissects some of the biggest lies of the beginning of the Bush Humiliation Years (as I like to call them), including Weapons of Mass Destruction; how Mr. Bush and his cronies stole the election and divided the country amongst themselves; Bush’s deep ties to oil and Bin Ladden; and everything that comes out of Ann Coulter’s mouth.
” about the 1925 trial of John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution in school. I believe it fits his religious fanaticism as well as what he has done to the country. “Can’t you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we’ll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!”
‘, you know.” {Vicar of Dibley is a British comedy about a small village acquiring a woman vicar.} And I consent. I know there are some thoroughly modern areas, but the fact still remains that there was a place that looked like that for them to film! All we have here is some guy in a hardhat yelling, “Mind you head,” before he unleashes an avalanche of asphalt.
is a mixture of the “kelpie” and Nessie – the Loch Ness Monster – legends. The kelpie, which is actually known as the water horse, was a shape shifter. “It generally had grayish black fur, and would appear to be a lost pony, but can be identified by its constantly dripping mane.” The kelpie would lure people onto its back and then dive into the loch in order to drown the rider. Nice story for the kiddies, eh? However, if you were able to bridle the kelpie, it would be forced to do your bidding – until the bridle came off, then don’t stray too close to the shore! Visually, Crusoe looks like Nessie and the majority of the story leads you to believe it to be so. Aside from the sickeningly adorable CG on the newborn Crusoe, even the toughest viewer should be prepared to say, “Awwww,” numerous times. The personality and expressions given to the water horse are on the verge of shamefully cute. But one nice thing that we, as moviegoers, do not often get to enjoy in this age of special effects is the plot. Even though we are dealing with a beautiful CG mythical creature, its effects do not overshadow the story. However, one cannot help but be saddened by the observation put before us, that as humans, we seem wont to destroy anything that is unique.
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