Children

How? Where? Who? How Many? Why?

Those are questions that advocates for any cause must be prepared to answer. Now in these Golden Google Days and Wonderful Wikipedia Nights, it's easy to find almost any statistic that you'd like to find. Sure it's easy, it's sexy (h/t to bullydoc), but is it credible? Are you sure? Really?

The best way to know that the information you're using is credible is to go to a reliable source. My mission today is to let you in on one of North Carolina's best kept secrets.

I am so glad Rep. Miller is in Washington working to uncover the corruption and end the abuse of this Administration. Still, I so wish we could all get our families and neighbors to care more. I believe The corruption and abuse will stop on the day that the American people wake up and say, "Stop."

This post is my reaction to this article posted by the incredible Betsy Muse.

Fp'd by Betsy because a rant can be a beautiful thing....and well, she called me incredible. :)

Until today, I've been singularly unimpressed with Hampton Dellinger as a candidate for Lt. Governor. With grass-roots heroes like Pat Smathers and true progressives like Dan Besse in the race, Mr. Dellinger seemed a little too much a part of the machine, a little too slick, and just didn't set himself apart. Not in the race, at least for me. Until today.

Hamp (I'm going to take the liberty of calling him Hamp)added a Kid's Page to his website. Very Smart. Read more below the fold.

On April 12th, 2007, Liisa Ogburn asked 63 First Graders at JY Joyner Elementary in Raleigh, NC,

“If you had one wish for the world, your family or yourself, what would it be?”

As someone said recently, our children are only 21 percent of the state's population, but they're 100 percent of our future.
Stand up for 'em now.

Editorial from this week's Carrboro Citizen:

Denial of service
You would think that here in the tenth largest state in the wealthiest country ever that cutting back on children’s’ health care to save money would be off the table.

Think again. Then count to ten, because it isn’t.

In fact, it’s one of the ways to “balance” the budget that our legislators are considering.

Christmas is almost here and Greensboro’s neediest children are hoping to be ‘adopted” by a generous Santa’s Helper. Are you one of these people?

I am doing one of my favorite things again this year: working as a Volunteer at the Salvation Army on their Christmas Angel Tree Program. We took applications of families needing help making their children’s holiday more bright in late October and early November. We are now in the process of finding Santa’s Helpers who wish to adopt a child or a family.

This is how the program works for you who are new to it. First we take applications of families who MUST prove their, how shall I say this, poverty. On this application we take all data concerning the family like address, phone, monthly income from all sources and monthly required out go. Then comes the good part; we list the children in the family along with their ages, sizes and what they would like best to receive for Christmas. We caution the parents who of course are applying to be reasonable in their request for toys and most are. We ask them to limit their request to under $50 per child. Most requests are far below that figure however.