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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on March 29, 2015, 08:44:39 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026434056
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 04:52 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
he didn't even have a blanket of his own
I teach at a school where most kids have been in trouble for some reason or another. Expelled for drugs, or battery on staff or peers, fights or threats or any other number of things. We are their "second" chance to salvage some credits towards graduation even though they have been kicked out of mainstream schools.
I run an incentive program to aid the students in good behavior. Each week the students earn tickets every hour for doing what they are supposed to be doing. The tickets are put into a container for a chance to win one of two different items every Friday. Most of the time these are small items such as home baked goods or 5 dollar gift cards for various places.
A couple weeks ago, we had a small fleece blanket donated to use in the drawing. Not a big thing to most people.
I had a student approach me in private asking about the blanket. He said he hoped he won it because his cousin stole his blanket and he had nothing to sleep on. This is a 16 year old kid. How can he not have a blanket. (I felt really horrible especially when I thought of the three blankets we put in our dog cages)
Hubby and I went that night and bought a blanket. I took it the next day and told the student I couldn't guarantee he would win the blanket and so we "just had one" and brought it to him. He was very grateful.
HOW can someone not even have a blanket to call their own.
As part of our program, all kids are required to take a "group class" it is a therapy type class taught by a social worker. We are going to get yards of that fleece material and next year, towards Thanksgiving, we are going to teach the students we have then how to make their own blankets and they can pick out the colors they want. Then they can either keep it for themselves or give it to someone they love at Christmas.
We are going to look for grants to help pay the cost of the material because the cheapest price we have fount is 3.98 a yard. Each blanket takes 4 yards. We could have anywhere from 10 to 30 students.
I just could not believe it. And then people wonder why students do horrible on tests.
Serving notice to crazy Mo that as a former DOTY it is back in the game.
BTW Pam,since you take cruises every year why don`t you spring for the 5 C notes you say it might take?
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:00 PM
elleng (54,287 posts)
1. THANK YOU for the work you do, demtenjeep,
and please inform us when you and your students have particular needs. You know this is a big-hearted place.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Can healing white light make a blanket?
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:01 PM
Laurian (1,513 posts)
2. I wish
everyone would view the world through your compassionate eyes. Thank you for providing that child with a blanket.
Many do that times a thousand,they are conservatives and they don`t brag about it.
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:03 PM
enlightenment (8,198 posts)
3. Kudos.
It must be very difficult to see this sort of thing every day - I think your efforts to make things better are wonderful.
Have you considered setting up a Go-Fund Me page to raise the money for the project?
Response to enlightenment (Reply #3)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 05:07 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
4. I have not...thanks for the info
I had not considered that.
Pam knew about it and already had the $$$$ dancing in her head.
Response to demtenjeep (Reply #4)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:28 PM
mainer (8,116 posts)
34. I heartily endorse Gofundme as a great site to gather donations
I used it for my own fundraiser (for medical research) and it takes very little for the service.
I will donate if you set it up.
A fund raiser for medical research?
In other words,one hundred dime bags.
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:28 PM
BobTheSubgenius (1,226 posts)
23. That a child like that would end up in a program like yours is small surprise.
How could ANYONE grow up in those kinds of conditions and develop "normally?" Staying on the right side of the law would be an achievement, in my opinion
Response to BobTheSubgenius (Reply #23)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:32 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
25. so true
we have another student that was sent home for lice for the 3rd time since Jan.
He basically said he has had lice since he was 9. He and his mother live in a shack probably with no running water.
He is always hungry. I keep snacks like apple pies and things so I can just give the students something they can put in their pockets and eat later.
I just do not get how people don't take care of their kids.
Has Pam ever suggested she "taught" in this kind of school? :???:
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:15 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
32. if we get enough $ for material, we will do it 2 x a school year as our students in spring will be
different than the students in the fall
I am hoping this could be an ongoing project every year.
We take basic things for granted.
I grew up poor but I always had a blanket or two to choose from
Responded to its own OP.
Response to demtenjeep (Reply #32)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 07:16 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
33. The hour after he told me this I just cried
I just could not comprehend not having basics
Responded to its own response. :mental:
C`mon Pam,we need your derangement in the DUmp! :hyper:
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Pam is going to tear a rotator cuff, patting herself on the back like that.
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This thread should make the Big Guy feel better.
Pam announced her terminal gut rot while George W. Bush was still in office.
With the taxpayers firmly on the hook for his pension he really doesn't need to keep the scam going, unless he's really serious about his DOTY campaign.
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Personally I don't see what Pam is doing that is worthy of mockery. Other than the fact she is publicly patting herself on the back, her actions in response to a kid with out a blanket should be commended and I for one am happy to see her take it upon herself to remedy a sad situation. I have seen and dealt with people who can't afford things that some of us take for granted.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves from making fun of some who actually did something to help someone else. There aren't many on DU who would do that. They'd make note of the situation and then post back on DU about it and relate it to George Bush and the republicans' attempt to destroy the middle class.
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Personally I don't see what Pam is doing that is worthy of mockery. Other than the fact she is publicly patting herself on the back, her actions in response to a kid with out a blanket should be commended and I for one am happy to see her take it upon herself to remedy a sad situation. I have seen and dealt with people who can't afford things that some of us take for granted.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves from making fun of some who actually did something to help someone else. There aren't many on DU who would do that. They'd make note of the situation and then post back on DU about it and relate it to George Bush and the republicans' attempt to destroy the middle class.
When you or I do something charitable, we do it. We don't go around bragging about it afterward. That is my objection to Pam's post.
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Given her history as greenbrier from her DOTY days,the chances of her actually doing anything for a kid will have to take a long ride north to get to zero.
DUmmies lie,all the time they lie.
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Sun Mar 29, 2015, 04:52 PM
demtenjeep (22,151 posts)
he didn't even have a blanket of his own
I teach at a school where most kids have been in trouble for some reason or another. Expelled for drugs, or battery on staff or peers, fights or threats or any other number of things. We are their "second" chance to salvage some credits towards graduation even though they have been kicked out of mainstream schools.
I run an incentive program to aid the students in good behavior. Each week the students earn tickets every hour for doing what they are supposed to be doing. The tickets are put into a container for a chance to win one of two different items every Friday. Most of the time these are small items such as home baked goods or 5 dollar gift cards for various places.
A couple weeks ago, we had a small fleece blanket donated to use in the drawing. Not a big thing to most people.
I had a student approach me in private asking about the blanket. He said he hoped he won it because his cousin stole his blanket and he had nothing to sleep on. This is a 16 year old kid. How can he not have a blanket. (I felt really horrible especially when I thought of the three blankets we put in our dog cages)
Hubby and I went that night and bought a blanket. I took it the next day and told the student I couldn't guarantee he would win the blanket and so we "just had one" and brought it to him. He was very grateful.
HOW can someone not even have a blanket to call their own.
As part of our program, all kids are required to take a "group class" it is a therapy type class taught by a social worker. We are going to get yards of that fleece material and next year, towards Thanksgiving, we are going to teach the students we have then how to make their own blankets and they can pick out the colors they want. Then they can either keep it for themselves or give it to someone they love at Christmas.
We are going to look for grants to help pay the cost of the material because the cheapest price we have fount is 3.98 a yard. Each blanket takes 4 yards. We could have anywhere from 10 to 30 students.
I just could not believe it. And then people wonder why students do horrible on tests.
I seriously doubt this story is true. If it is, then why didn't the dummie buy the whole family blankets so the kids wouldn't steal from each other? For that matter the dummie could have bought them all sleeping bags so they would be warm when sleeping under the bridge down by the river.
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Personally I don't see what Pam is doing that is worthy of mockery. Other than the fact she is publicly patting herself on the back, her actions in response to a kid with out a blanket should be commended and I for one am happy to see her take it upon herself to remedy a sad situation.
Please. Educate yourself, or refresh your memory, on Pam Dawson's history at the DUmp.
Go to the DUmping Ground forum and scroll back to the 2009 and 2010 results where coach posts the highlights of Pam's year.
She was known as "greenbriar" before using "demtenjeep" to brag about a new vehicle.
Pam did not give a kid a blanket. She is not planning for more blankets. It simply is not true.
Pam has proven over, and over, and over that she is a pathological, compulsive liar.
Every single thing she has said at the DUmp is a lie.
When she was posting regularly, she'd put up some self-congratulatory crap like this blanket business, and within a week she'd contradict herself.
Pam is an entertaining DUmmy because she is so abysmally stupid, but she's also a stone-cold, guaranteed 100% liar, so don't criticize anyone for mocking her.
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With all due respect, sir, there's two things going on here.
The mockery's because this so nicely illustrates the primitive attitude that by merely suggesting something, one's a "good" person, a virtuous person.
I call it 'Skippyism," after the NYC_SKP primitive, who's notorious for saying nice things but avoiding actually doing them. He's a nice guy, because cheap sentiments trump actually doing something.
We saw this with the life and career of the late Vast Teddy--and I'm sure future historians will take note of this aspect of his character--who was popularly perceived by many of the public as being a "generous, giving, magnanimous politician."
It's easier than strawberries-and-cream, to be generous with other people's money.
But that's no virtue, because virtue demands sacrifice, that one actually do something oneself.
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The second thing is, I've known a lot of people like you, sir, in real life, and I quite reasonably suspect you've done others more kindnesses, been more charitable and compassionate and giving, than the whole of Skins's island's ever done.
But you don't advertise it, and so in the primitive mind-set, you don't do it.
God knows you do, and obviously that's enough for you.
Kudos for your Christian conscience; it's laudatory, and well worthy of emulation.
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I didn't see the need to mentally review her history (I've been watching DU for the last 11 years) because I was only looking at the action she claims to have taken. I said that her boasting about it tainted the subject for me a bit, but I gave her the benefit of the doubt and chose to believe she actually did what she claimed to do.
I see so little good coming from people on DU that I find any potential positive action as a tiny ray of light in the dark ignorance they live in. Instead using her action as a point of ridicule I prefer to give her some credit. Maybe it will stir her to go more good things for people. If it does hopefully I'll never know about it because she will have learned to do some good things and to appreciate it solely for the good it brings and not need any accolades from the other creatures that populate DU.
Doing good things has a way of changing people for the better if they find they enjoy the act of helping someone who really needs the help.
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As coach would say...
Dummies aren't smart, but they are devious as hell.
There is a template to this story.
Step one, come up with a heartstring story.
Step two, allege that you have personally come to the rescue, but intimate that the story is a microcosm.
Step three, sound surprised when your colleagues suggest a charitable solution.
Step 4, rake in the windfall just like Scamdy.
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Why the hell would any place raffle off a blanket?
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It's far too complex for the smartestest people on the planet to grasp, but that OP encapsulates everything that is wrong with the Church of LIbEral Progressive Fundamentalism.
Including the fact that, I believe there is more than a wee bit of embellishment going on.
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Why the hell would any place raffle off a blanket?
Worse still, in a ...."class".... with 16 year olds?
Deepest Blue, inner city 2nd Graders, maybe. Take heart though, (D)Ullards. In two years, he can join a wonderful fraternal order where he'll have: Wool Bankets, OG-107, 2 Ea. for as long as he wants them!
Quote from: FlaGator on March 29, 2015, 09:37:56 PM
Personally I don't see what Pam is doing that is worthy of mockery. Other than the fact she is publicly patting herself on the back, her actions in response to a kid with out a blanket should be commended and I for one am happy to see her take it upon herself to remedy a sad situation.
Because there be a whole lot of :bouncy: content to that OP.
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As coach would say...
Dummies aren't smart, but they are devious as hell.
There is a template to this story.
Step one, come up with a heartstring story.
Step two, allege that you have personally come to the rescue, but intimate that the story is a microcosm.
Step three, sound surprised when your colleagues suggest a charitable solution.
Step 4, rake in the windfall just like Scamdy.
Devious being a byproduct of trying to satiate envy by theft.
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Devious being a byproduct of trying to satiate envy by theft.
And devious in the way that monkeys are.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Any scam that works is soon to be attempted yet again by the DUmmies.
Sometimes they allow a respectful amount of time to lapse so that a whole new fresh batch of marks can be flimflammed and skinflinted.
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Expelled for battery on staff or peers? In a sane world that should earn the maggots a free blanket in a prison cell.
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The scam is underway.
Response to demtenjeep (Original post)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:46 PM
demtenjeep (22,158 posts)
54. did I do this right?
http://www.gofundme.com/qdr6mw
Notice the amount looking to be raised is double what she asserted was the potential maximum cost.
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:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
Joy, joy, joy! I found it! It took a lot of looking, but I found it!
:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
"Skippyism" as so well defined by our colleague obumazombie:
.....often, liberals are content to treat gestures as the functional equivalent of deeds, and intentions as adequate substitutes for achievements.
That is a classic definition.
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Why is pam on gofundme? Cruise cash low?
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The scam is underway.
Notice the amount looking to be raised is double what she asserted was the potential maximum cost.
Administrative costs. Pam has to be able to wet her beak.
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Pam's small gesture of charity was more than offset by her expectation that 'a grant' and Gofundme would line her pockets. Typical proglodyte, always trying to appropriate Other People's Money.
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:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
Joy, joy, joy! I found it! It took a lot of looking, but I found it!
:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
"Skippyism" as so well defined by our colleague obumazombie:
That is a classic definition.
It's a very descriptive and erudite quote.
And I am glad that it is being attributed to me.
It sounds somewhat like me.
It could possibly even be me.
But I would have to see the original post to be sure.
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Anyone who believes there's even a shred of truth in Pam's blanket bouncy is either a gullible naif, or has never read Pam's huge history at the DUmp.
She lies, every single time. It is compulsive and pathological.
There is no blanket.
The only truth in her bouncy is that she's paid to serve as a warden/"teacher" in a facility that warehouses Wichita's felonious hoodrats until they're old enough for the Kansas state prison system.
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It's funny, until today when I took a good look, I was reading demtenjeep as dementjeep.
dementjeep is better as it has the root word demented built right in.
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My nephew taught at a HS similar to that early in his teaching career. He had to tackle one of the students who was trying to stab another. The mother brought assault charges against my nephew which he won. He now teaches in a regular HS but is still teaching kids with behavior problems.
Good thing he's a big guy!
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As coach would say...
Dummies aren't smart, but they are devious as hell.
There is a template to this story.
Step one, come up with a heartstring story.
Step two, allege that you have personally come to the rescue, but intimate that the story is a microcosm.
Step three, sound surprised when your colleagues suggest a charitable solution.
Step 4, rake in the windfall just like Scamdy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026435482
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Well, the greatest scam to ever rock the DUmp was started by one of its DUmbest members, poor stupid Beth Ferrari, so one doesn't have to be intelligent to defraud DUmp democrats.
Pam's compulsive lying may result in DUmmies sending her money, but it would be a stretch to call it a scam.
A scam requires planning. Beth could apparently do that, but it's way beyond Pam's chromosomally-addled intellectual capacity.
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Well, the greatest scam to ever rock the DUmp was started by one of its DUmbest members, poor stupid Beth Ferrari, so one doesn't have to be intelligent to defraud DUmp democrats.
Pam's compulsive lying may result in DUmmies sending her money, but it would be a stretch to call it a scam.
A scam requires planning. Beth could apparently do that, but it's way beyond Pam's chromosomally-addled intellectual capacity.
Once the template has been established, there is no need for planning.
All you do is full in the blanks from an established template.
Copycat scamming at it's best.
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The kid is 16. He could actually get a job and buy his own blanket.
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Let's pretend this story is true. Good for Pam, but there are some things about it that I don't understand.
1) Why would a 16 year old male, especially one with behavioral problems, admit a weakness to a woman?
2) I'm in Georgia where it should be warmer than in Pam's area. I've got a shitload of blankets. I would have just given the kid one. Why did she have to go buy one?
3) Why did she need to tell DU about it? I'm sure that all of us here do charitable things, but it's rare that we bring it up.
4) Why did DUers, who like to pretend to be the givingest of the giving, tell her to go to GoFundMe? Why didn't they just send her some money or some blankets?
By the way, how much does a cruise or a cruise balcony upgrade cost these days? I haven't been able to afford to go since Pelosi, Reid, and the MBPOTUS fixed things.
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Let's pretend this story is true. Good for Pam, but there are some things about it that I don't understand.
1) Why would a 16 year old male, especially one with behavioral problems, admit a weakness to a woman?
2) I'm in Georgia where it should be warmer than in Pam's area. I've got a shitload of blankets. I would have just given the kid one. Why did she have to go buy one?
3) Why did she need to tell DU about it? I'm sure that all of us here do charitable things, but it's rare that we bring it up.
4) Why did DUers, who like to pretend to be the givingest of the giving, tell her to go to GoFundMe? Why didn't they just send her some money or some blankets?
By the way, how much does a cruise or a cruise balcony upgrade cost these days? I haven't been able to afford to go since Pelosi, Reid, and the MBPOTUS fixed things.
5)Why did it take 2 days from the last school day to start the thread?
6)Why did it go from saying it had no idea what go fund me was to having a page up and going within a couple hours?
7)Why did it ask for 1000.00 when in the DUmp thread said it would take a maximum of less then 500 and perhaps as low as 160?
You Dumbasses have been played for the fools you are once again.
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Why didn't they just send her some money or some blankets?
Pam doesn't want any blankets.
There was no kid and there was no blanket.
Four years ago, Pam was spinning one or two tales like this every week.
This is the first time she's scammed the DUmp for money, though.
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Oh my.
Pamela's a rank amateur.
After Indiana Pizzeria Said They Wouldn’t Cater Gay Weddings, the Backlash Was So Extreme It May Not Be Safe to Re-Open
Crystal O’Connor, the co-owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana, says it may not be safe to re-open their pizzeria after they said they wouldn’t cater a gay wedding.
“I don’t know if we will re-open, or if we can, if it’s safe to re-open,†O’Connor said on TheBlaze TV’s Dana. “We’re in hiding basically, staying in the house.â€
O’Connor recently told WBND-TV, “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no.â€
She made it clear that they are happy to serve gay customers, but would not be a part of the wedding because of their religious beliefs. National news outlets quickly picked up the story.
O’Connor said they have since received an endless flood of “bashing†comments on social media, and their Yelp page has been trashed. One reviewer wrote that they serve an “intolerance special with toppings of hate, bigotry, stupidity, and old fashioned beliefs.†And a high school gym coach from Walkerton, Indiana has been suspended after urging people on Twitter to burn down their establishment.
Thanks to mrclose here, who found this.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/01/after-indiana-pizzeria-said-they-wouldnt-cater-gay-weddings-the-backlash-was-so-extreme-it-may-not-be-safe-to-re-open/
http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza
Anyway, in 5 hours, from 1,004 people, they've raised $37,440.
Too bad for the primitives.
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Well, I'll be.
In eight hours, $47,148 from 1,316 people.
The goal had been $35,000.
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It used to be the gay mafia wanted tolerance.
Then once they became widely tolerated, they upped the ante to acceptance.
Then came legitimacy.
But that wasn't good enough.
Now the gay mafia is going to use intimidation, threats and whatever means available to establish dominance and superiority.
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It used to be the gay mafia wanted tolerance.
Then once they became widely tolerated, they upped the ante to acceptance.
Then came legitimacy.
But that wasn't good enough.
Now the gay mafia is going to use intimidation, threats and whatever means available to establish dominance and superiority.
Center-of-mass. H5.
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$48,803 raised in 11 hours thus far, from 1,370 decent and civilized people.
The goal had originally been a mere $35,000; now it's raised to $45,000.
I dunno what's up with that, but Pamela needs to study this.
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Oh my.
$10
A.L. Britt
17 mins ago
Because the LGBT community is as Tolerant as Adolf Hitler.
How true.
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$144,614 raised from 5,045 decent and civilized people in 18 hours.
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Personally I don't see what Pam is doing that is worthy of mockery. Other than the fact she is publicly patting herself on the back, her actions in response to a kid with out a blanket should be commended and I for one am happy to see her take it upon herself to remedy a sad situation. I have seen and dealt with people who can't afford things that some of us take for granted.
You people should be ashamed of yourselves from making fun of some who actually did something to help someone else. There aren't many on DU who would do that. They'd make note of the situation and then post back on DU about it and relate it to George Bush and the republicans' attempt to destroy the middle class.
100% agree. For God's sake, there are kids out there without BLANKETS! Let her pat herself -- she also is advertising their predicament.
This is a sad thread and should probably be shut down. :(
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My poor dog has 5 blankets that she uses as bedding in various rooms.
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Still can't believe anyone is gullible enough to think there's been even a single word of truth from Pam Dawson.
She has proven herself many, many times to be a shameless, compulsive, pathological liar.
There was no kid, there was no blanket.
She accidentally scammed the DUmp and, apparently, a few others with do-gooder hearts, while attempting to simply gin up some DUmp cred with her ludicrous sob story.
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My poor dog has 5 blankets that she uses as bedding in various rooms.
Pam can share one of those, which will free up one of her blankets to go the her blanket less student.
Problem solved without gofundme, wish a do, or any other collection site.