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Just one of those things…

May 1st, 2008

You know, one of those internet things. Those things that “aren’t real”. Five bucks, somewhere, hoping to make a change…

Oh wait…

http://flickr.com/photos/67246020@N00/sets/72157604822733799/

Enough people felt strongly enough, appreciative enough, to donate over $4000 to buy flowers for Helen Thomas for actually asking a REAL QUESTION to the White House spokesman regarding the top-down authorization of torture. Real people. Real money. A real impact. What was my $5 worth? By itself, not much…

Combined with the will, the strength, and the resolve of countless other people, a force to be reckoned with…

Don’t ever give up, don’t ever stop caring…

2 Responses to “Just one of those things…”

  1. comment number 1 by: Kelley

    That’s great that lots of people care, are appreciative…but what the fuck does she need $4000 worth of flowers for?????

    I hope she at least donates them to give out to hospital patients or something.

  2. comment number 2 by: Garrett

    I believe that she is going to be donating some (most?) of them to hospitals and the like.

    The reason she needs $4000 worth of flowers is that the people who donated, donated because they knew the money was to buy her flowers. There was a short discussion about extra money being donated somewhere else, but everyone didn’t donate money for ’somewhere else’, we donated money to buy her flowers ;)

    $1000 by itself would have probably been excessive, but “we” apparently wanted to make a point. When I donated, she already had a couple hundred bucks, but I thought ‘why not’. Apparently, lots of other people felt the same way as the total grew!

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