I’m just stopping in to put you all on the forefront of a major movement. It’s something that happened to a friend of mine and his fiancee, and it’s a great opportunity to feel even better about your Katrina victims’ donations:
http://saabbumper.blogspot.com/
It seems so appropriate, though in an almost ineffable way. Go there, pledge money, and tell your friends. One man’s grandmaster-class selfishness might just save the world.
Fanny Roborat
23 comments
dee
September 14, 2005 at 9:35 pm
1The UU Service Committee Gulf Relief fund will appreciate the donation I’ll make in this guy’s name. I was gonna do it anyway, but it’s so much more meaningful now.
What a maroon.
Jay
September 14, 2005 at 9:53 pm
2Darn, and I wanted to be the first to post. I have pledged a donation to a fund that will help Coast Guard (about the only organization able to make rescues in the early days) families affected by Katrina. Anyone else onboard?
cooper
September 14, 2005 at 10:42 pm
3Jay,
Yeah man, I’m on with the Red Cross, since my brother works for them, and works for them, and works for them…
dee, does UU stand for Unitarian Universalist? For years I thought my mom was the only UU in NC. When she moved to FL, she found a coven down there to join.
dee
September 14, 2005 at 11:41 pm
4Cooper — There are 27 UU congregations in NC. We’re planning a coup against the Baptists.
cooper
September 15, 2005 at 7:17 am
5dee, having grown up in the Southern Baptist Church (my father’s idea of a good time), I wish you much luck in your mission.
Mary
September 15, 2005 at 10:01 am
6I’ve donated to the Red Cross (have a friend down in Louisiana volunteering as I write) but love the idea of the Coast Guard. A donation in honor of Saab-bumper guy. I’m on it!!!
Dee- you go girl!!!!!!!!!!
Kate
September 15, 2005 at 10:12 am
7Dee - let us know how that coup goes. And thanks for mentioning UUSC, I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of them for donating… I’ll go do that now, and go back to lurking.
ginny
September 15, 2005 at 12:28 pm
8I’ll be donating to the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund, and I bet they’d be interested in an alliance for that coup deal. They’re running a bunch of different programs in different states. Also, the Mennonites have a good thing going with their “rebuild from the ground up” programs. They go in, they support, they help rebuild.
yllama
September 15, 2005 at 1:09 pm
9Do you have any idea how much Saab charges to put a decorative crease in the bumper? $836.
Bob
September 15, 2005 at 2:34 pm
10You can donate money to a good cause and make some lawyer look like a dick? Damn, what could be more American than that?
Thompson
September 15, 2005 at 3:01 pm
11Correction, Bob. You can’t make the lawyer look like a dick. He’s managed to do that all on his lonesome.
Hot Tub Tommy
September 15, 2005 at 5:42 pm
12I wish you fine citizens would quit bashing on us lawyers. Many of my fellow congressmen, and even some of the girls, are attorneys. Many of them take great pride in their profession and, also, in the truly elegant automobiles that their line of work enables them to buy.
I think it’s a shame that you people belittle the claims of this highly educated gentleman, who had his expensive car slammed into by an inattentive driver - no doubt negligently yakking on her cell phone - and still faces the risk of delayed response to whiplash, Post Traumatic Stress, and lower back injury, which can take days to show up and years of physical and psychological therapy and numerous disability awards to correct.
I pray that if you ever find yourself in similarly dire straits and excruciating pain, you will change your opinion about lawyers and seek help from a true professional - with Ivy League credentials.
Yours in Christ and May God Bless America!
Representative Thomas Delay (R-TX)
Washington, DC
Murray
September 15, 2005 at 8:59 pm
13HT Tommy,
You are so right.
Jesus loves you, and I hope that you find true joy and peace relaxing in the Texas cell that waits for you.
This site was just the push needed for me to move into action.
My old religion did have one good thing going for it. The CRWRC. They helped disaster victims world wide with almost no administrative cost. It is one of the most efficient charity organizations around. (This coming from someone dead set against “Faith Based initiatives”). Most of the workers are volunteers (my brother helped with the hurricane in Nicaragua).
http://www.crwrc.org/relief/na/Katrina.html
Jay
September 16, 2005 at 10:52 am
14For anyone who visited the site when Adam first posted it, I highly recommend a second visit. The incident has come to a very interesting conclusion. I will be making my pledged donation this evening.
Martindale
September 16, 2005 at 3:47 pm
15It’s a good thing Jesus loves Tom Delay since he needs all the help he can get.
Murray
September 16, 2005 at 5:29 pm
16Adam, it’s pretty obvious that your friend is a real liberal.
He is able to see the other person’s side, able to question his own motives, able to change his mind, able to come to a conclusion that is financially detrimental to himself.
No conservative on earth has ever done any of these things.
Mike Z
September 17, 2005 at 12:11 am
17Jay and Murray - I enthusiastically agree. That whole thing ended up being far more fascinating than I could ever have expected. There are a lot of morals to that story, not the least of which is that the moral high ground is an awfully slippery place.
I even forwarded the link as a discussion topic to philosophy colleagues.
dee
September 17, 2005 at 4:03 pm
18But enough about ethical quandries –
I WENT TO THE WWDTM CHAPEL HILL SHOW!! No, Adam wasn’t there (he’s “working”) but it certainly was a good time nonetheless. Since it was their second show, they taped one of those “historical” ones they use when everyone decides to go on vacation. So whenever you hear the one with an (undestandably) intense discussion about “prostate warmers”, well that’s the one.
I got Carl’s autograph on the cassette of my phone message and got to meet the lovely Emily Ecton and Amanda Gibson (eat your hearts out, boys).
And Adam, Emily has something for you from me. I figure she was the only one of that crew I could trust with it. Just know that the bottle was full and the distinctive red wax seal was intact when I gave it to her.
Pete IVDL
September 17, 2005 at 4:38 pm
19Holy shit. The Saab Bumper story didn’t end up like in the movies? Fire the writer. (I’m sure Hollywood can, and quite possibly will, make a feature ilm about this story, with Charlie Sheen as the Saab Bumper guy, Charlize Theron as his wife, Matt Damon as Mike, and Winona Ryder as the fianceé. Plus lots of bit parts for the gruff yet warm mechanic, maybe Tim Robbins as the cop… any other suggestions/replacements?)
Pete IVDL
September 17, 2005 at 4:40 pm
20Aaahhh, crap. “feature ilm”? Oh yeah, it’s because Hollywood doesn’t give a f*
(Good recovery, huh?)
tribolumen
September 17, 2005 at 8:07 pm
21On the topic of creative disaster-relief concepts, has anyone else here seen Boobs4BourbonSt? It’s not quite in the league of the Saab Bumper Memorial Fund (something like $7500 last I looked), but it’s fairly novel.
Bourbon Street is, of course, the American Mecca of flashing. Now someone has established a site wherein you can donate to charity in exchange for access to a collection of topless flasher pics. The charities are well-known, like the Red Cross, and you donate to them directly, then forward your e-mail receipt to the web site; it seems to be on the up-and-up. The pictures likewise are donated (though I’m reasonably sure *those* don’t go to the Red Cross).
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with the site, its creators, or the persons sending in the pics. I just think it’s a pretty slick idea. And not just because I think it’d annoy Pat Robertson.
dee
September 17, 2005 at 8:35 pm
22That just reminded me how I was sooooo hoping that at some point during Bush’s speech Thursday night, some remaining denizen of the French Quarter would have shouted “Show us your tits!!”
George
September 18, 2005 at 4:41 pm
23Nice)