This story came from Reuters and I thought it was so cute I just had to share it with everyone.  See there really are people who care enough about others to do something nice other then just think about themselves.  Have a great day.


Boston - Are diamonds really forever?

An anonymous gift-giver left a $15,000 diamond engagement ring to the owner of an unlocked car in western Massachusetts with a typed note hinting at a broken heart.

"Merry Christmas. Thank you for leaving your car door unlocked. Instead of stealing your car I gave you a present. Hopefully this will land in the hands of someone you love, for my love is gone now. Merry Christmas to you," the note said.

The three-diamond ring with a white-gold band appeared on the seat of the man's car at a train station in Westborough, about 30 miles west of Boston, on December 7, police said. Four days later, the man reported it to police.

"This appears to be random," said Westborough Police Lt. Paul Donnelly. "I think there was a search for a car that was unlocked."

The 37-year-old man decided to keep the ring after a jeweler appraised its value at $15,000, police said.

After I wrote that poem on impeaching the president with the pictures someone calling themselves Get Real sent me a nasty response. I would like to share their nastiness and my response. I am not "One more whining leftie".

First is my response and following that is their letter. The poem that caused the brouhaha follows after that. The original comments are in the post on the poem.

Sweet_One4Now Nov 04, 05
This is addressed to Get Real...

You are the one who is not being real here. You make all kinds of statements, but you can't back them up. The evidence suggests otherwise.

For instance:
You said: "YOU made the choice to stay there during the storm. Your government warned you to get out, begged you to leave, and you didn't."

Now I ask you how someone who is poor is going to flee. How will they eat? Where will they stay? Who will look after them?

A disaster like this lays bare what is overlooked and invisible under normal conditions. In our day-to-day traffic it's easy to look past those people who live at the margins, those who are unable to move about because of lack of mobility or money.

In virtually every major disaster it is the poor who live in areas prone to flooding or other natural destruction. They live in housing that is less substantial. They don't have the transportation to flee, nor the money to pay for transport. They lack insurance and their jobs are the first to go away in a disaster like this.

Here’s where one of the most embarrassing episodes of modern American history turns even uglier. On Sunday, August 28th, the day before the storm hit the Gulf Coast, the Governor of Louisiana ordered New Orleans evacuated. In Louisiana, however, the word “evacuation” takes on a meaning of its own. It means those who can leave should pack up a few valuables and get their butts out of town – pronto. And flee they did, checking into hotels from Atlanta to Houston.

In an Armageddon-like scenario, over 100,000 New Orleans residents were left behind, and the ugly truth is that those left behind were mostly either too poor or too elderly or too infirm to leave.

New Orleans was, in fact, in a state of disaster before Katrina struck and before the levee failed. Over one quarter of New Orleans’ population struggled to live below the federal poverty line in some of the most substandard housing in the country. Over 100,000 of them lacked access to automobiles – giving New Orleans the lowest auto ownership rate in the U.S. – even lower than mass transit endowed New York City.

It is easy for you to say "Get Real" because you obviously do not know what it is like to be poor, or elderly or sick, or disabled, or any combination of the above.

How you can have no compassion for these people is beyond belief. Clearly when Jesus said that we should take care of the least of these he had in mind those brothers and sisters among us who are most vulnerable and also least visible, the poor, the elderly, the sick, the disabled.

As for the photo being a composite you said: "And as for this trash about the president "gloating" in Louisiana, that's pure B.S. The photo here is a FAKE, BTW, made as a joke from two completely different and unrelated photos."

Those photos are a composite, yes, but they are related.

Bush was clowning around for the cameras, by "strumming" a guitar backstage presented to him by country singer Mark Wills, during a fundraising and commemorative event at Naval Base Coronado outside San Diego, California on Tuesday, August 30 . Tuesday was the day after Hurricane Katrina hit just west of New Orleans, causing horrific damage to that and other cities on the Gulf Coast.

(Note the presidential seal on the guitar, obviously carefully prepared beforehand. Some things are quite well managed like photo ops for Bush with country singer Mark Wills"strumming" a guitar....)

Meanwhile residents of New Orleans, Gulfport, and other stricken areas found themselves without food, water, medicine, or shelter; the emergency response from the federal government was all but non-existent.

While most people were wondering how they would take care of themselves and where they would be able to sleep ; George Bush, after a day of fun and speech-making, flew back to his comfortable bed in Crawford, Texas, where he spent a lazy evening before flying to Washington Wednesday morning.

This is unbelievable. This is beyond reprehensible. This is beyond impeachable. How dare George Bush stage a managed photo op instead of getting to work, doing his job, and helping people in dire need?

You said this about FEMA: "FEMA responded as quickly as it could after the disaster struck. It needed to be sure it wasn't putting rescue workers in unnecessary danger. Would people have liked a faster response? Sure. But it wouldn't have helped to add a lot more bodies to the large pile already there"

Pardon my language, but what a crock of crap.

The “too dangerous to rescue” myth was also employed by FEMA as rationale for ordering rescue teams to stand down early in the crisis.

Louisianans are a tough lot, and many private boat owners from areas surrounding New Orleans immediately entered the city as flooding began, creating an ad hoc rescue flotilla.

Many survivors tell of strangers in small fishing boats plucking them out of second story windows or off of roofs, depositing them high and dry on highway overpasses.

The Federal government put a stop to such heroism, turning back a citizen flotilla of 500 men, while failing to replace the independent effort with one of their own.

FEMA impeding, sabotaging relief efforts: Numerous instances of FEMA officials deliberately impeding relief efforts are documented. During the first days of the crisis, FEMA officials turned back at least three trucks full of water for New Orleans victims sent by Wal-Mart, telling the drivers that the water wasn't needed. Two other tractor trucks carrying thousands of bottles of water were not allowed in the city by FEMA officials. "FEMA would not let the trucks unload," said William Vines, who helped coordinate the water delivery. "The drivers were stuck for several days on the side of the road about 10 miles from Camp Beauregard. FEMA said we had to have a 'tasker number.' What in the world is a tasker number? I have no idea. It's just paperwork, and it's ridiculous." FEMA blocked the delivery of 1000 gallons of diesel fuel from a Coast Guard ship docked offshore of New Orleans. On September 5, essential emergency communications lines were cut by FEMA officials, who then gave orders that the communications lines were not to be restored. New Orleans sheriff Harry Lee reconnected the lines anyway, and posted armed guards on the lines to protect them from being cut again. In other words, local authorities had to protect essential resources from being destroyed by FEMA. The report reads, "We now have multiple reports of police being ordered to guard key infrastructures in order to defend them from FEMA federal agents. Sheriffs in numerous different counties are guarding highways to keep FEMA out. FEMA is being treated as the enemy because they are sabotaging key facilities in an effort to intentionally worsen the already desperate scenes of horror in New Orleans." Why? Apparently in a deliberate effort to seize control of the area for the federal government. It sounds paranoid...but I'll go with paranoia until I hear a better explanation of why FEMA was sabotaging communications and blocking deliveries of water and fuel.

You said: "If we didn't impeach the lying, adulterous, swindling, flip-flopping, financial-scamming, womanizing piece of crap that preceded Mr. Bush in the White House, we've no reason to impeach Bush, either. Less, even."

#1. Bill Clinton was acquitted on the charges in his impeachment hearings.
#2. Furthermore I do not see what womanizing has to do with the issue at hand.

The issue at stake here is whether or not Bush should be impeached.

After the way Katrina was handled I would say he does deserve to be impeached. He hired people to run Homeland Security and FEMA who are guilty of gross negligence and serious malfeasance as well as dereliction of duty.

If FEMA and Homeland Security (which is head over FEMA) were doing what they were supposed to be doing then suffering and loss would have been minimized.

Obviously though from the news that came out of New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, FEMA was actively obstructing help.

It is gross negligence, malfeasance and dereliction of duty on George Bush's part to hire people who are not skilled in disaster preparedness to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Michael Brown had no experience in this area. He was the President of the Arabian Horse Racing Association. Also Michael Chertoff did no better. FEMA, under George Bush's directive was changed from a Cabinet level organization, to running under the Department of Homeland Security. This makes Michael Chertoff responsible for what went wrong too. Ultimately, since Bush made the changes and appointed these people he holds ultimate responsibility as the Captain of the Ship.

The last issue to deal with here is what you said about Iraq.

You said: "I've got a little solution to your problem with Iraq. Why don't you head on over and switch places with one of the soldiers? That'd get one home earlier and rid this country of one more whining leftie..."

Haven't you heard of the investigations going on about missing WMD's and the Downing Street memo? Maybe you missed the outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame? Is it possible you didn't know that the evidence of Iraq trying to obtain Yellow Cake Uranium from Niger was a fake? What about Lewis "Scooter" Libby being indicted.?

Going to war for oil and killing people for lies is not okay. The children dying there and being born with birth defects from the 3000 metric tons of depleted Uranium is not okay. Halliburton getting no bid contracts and their profits rising is not okay. Privatizing Iraqi oil fields for profit by American corporations is not okay. In fact nothing about this war is okay. We are not liberating Iraq. We are enslaving it for oil.

How can you sit there knowing all this and call me a "whining leftie..." ?

How can you not have compassion for our young men and women spilling their blood in a battlefield of horrors for nothing?

Maybe you the "Chicken Hawk" should go to war and take George Bush's daughters with you. Then we would have a few less blind "Sheeple" following fearless foolish leader into hell, death, and sure destruction.

End of my response

Get Real... Nov 02, 05

I'm sad for everyone who lost their lives or their loved ones in Katrina. To those few who hadn't the physical well-being to get out of there when they knew the storm was coming, I'm very sorry for what you went through. To everyone who had the physical ability (even to only walk away from New Orleans), as much as I sympathize with you, you also need to realize YOU made the choice to stay there during the storm. Your government warned you to get out, begged you to leave, and you didn't. Even a bicycle would have gotten you far enough away that the storm couldn't touch you.

And as for this trash about the president "gloating" in Louisiana, that's pure B.S. The photo here is a FAKE, BTW, made as a joke from two completely different and unrelated photos. FEMA responded as quickly as it could after the disaster struck. It needed to be sure it wasn't putting rescue workers in unnecessary danger. Would people have liked a faster response? Sure. But it wouldn't have helped to add a lot more bodies to the large pile already there.

If we didn't impeach the lying, adulterous, swindling, flip-flopping, financial-scamming, womanizing piece of crap that preceded Mr. Bush in the White House, we've no reason to impeach Bush, either. Less, even.

As for the war in Iraq, while I may not agree with the reasons, I would never tell our soldiers (as you're doing) that they're "all going to die" over there. That's an exaggeration in the extreme. And as for the number of dead, have a look at how many lost their lives on D-Day in WWII, or in any of the major battles the U.S. has fought in the past. While I hate to see us lose ANY soldiers, the bottom line is that 2000 soldiers lost to liberate an ENTIRE COUNTRY is a small price to pay.

I've got a little solution to your problem with Iraq. Why don't you head on over and switch places with one of the soldiers? That'd get one home earlier and rid this country of one more whining leftie...

This is a poem I wrote. I sent a copy to Static Brain She said I should publish it and linked some pictures to it for me. Be aware that the pictures are very graphic in nature. This poem is not for the faint of heart. If you can't take it, then don't look. So without further ado I present to you my poem.

Impeach Him Now!!!

Bodies were floating





The president was gloating



The waters were rising



The children were crying



The President is lying
In Iraq people are dying



The war is a lie
Our men will all die



He's sending off more men
We keep letting him
When will it stop
When the world is a flop?


Red Pills and Blue Pills
You take your Pick
As for me
BUSH MAKES ME SICK!!


Bush has gone too far
He's almost unstoppable now
Impeach him I say
IMPEACH HIM NOW!!

They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young,
The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave:
But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung,
Shall they come with years and honour to the grave?

They shall not return to us; the strong men coldly slain
In sight of help denied from day to day:
But the men who edged their agonies and chid them in their pain,
Are they too strong and wise to put away?

Our dead shall not return to us while Day and Night divide—
Never while the bars of sunset hold.
But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,
Shall they thrust for high employments as of old?

Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour:
When the storm is ended shall we find
How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
By the favour and contrivance of their kind?

Even while they soothe us, while they promise large amends,
Even while they make a show of fear,
Do they call upon their debtors, and take counsel with their friends,
To conform and re-establish each career?

Their lives cannot repay us—their death could not undo—
The shame that they have laid upon our race.
But the slothfulness that wasted and the arrogance that slew,
Shall we leave it unabated in its place?