Thanxgiving

[*Annie*]

Posted by TK:

I want to do a lil’ something Thanksgiving for LA. Please join me, donations welcomed as well at The ECHO.

How this works, show up @ The ECHO, 10am. Expect to stay until 1pm. There will be an
assembly line to pack up 800 meals that then get delivered out to local
parks and areas where the homeless gather.

Want to help out? See you there.

Thank you.

*I'm definetely going to head down there tomorrow. Anyone else?

[biLzamo]

i was thinking of going but didnt want to go by myself.

[*Annie*]

I'm going with a friend... but I'll let you stand next to me and serve the beans while I make tostadas.

[biLzamo]

gobble gobble

[obiwankobe]

don't forget your tapatio

[*Annie*]

I don't think homeless folk like hot-sauce.

[MicheBel]

Damn. I totally would have done this, but I have other plans already.

next year! Good work, TK!

--Miche

[biLzamo]

shouldnt they be the "foodless" then.

strange that the term "homeless" is a somewhat dehumanizing label. suddenly they are some abstract political term and not an individual.

[*Annie*]

The other day I drove by this guy holding a sign that said: "Why lie? I need money for a beer."

[biLzamo]

you know there are people out there that beg for money but arent homeless.

btw can i borrow $5?

[*Annie*]

I was in Beverly Hills, that's where I want to be! Gimme! Gimme! (I couldn't help myself) and this cracked out girl walked up to me and asked for money. She was wearing a cute t with designer jeans. I thought it was really funny.... I don't care what they do with the money. I'll probably spend it on something worse, so go for it buddy.

[biLzamo]

at first i thought she was saying "Jimmy Jimmy"

[jack]

My Thanksgiving was on Friday.... And I had so much homework to do it was more of a Thanks for giving homework....

[obiwankobe]

Girl punished with "Will work for food" sign

Sean Murphy

Associated Press

EDMOND, Okla. — Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.

She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: “I don’t do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food.”

“This may not work. I’m not a professional,” said Henderson, a 34-year-old mother of three. “But I felt I owed it to my child to at least try.”

In fact, Henderson has seen a turnaround in her daughter’s behavior in the past week and a half. But the punishment prompted letters and calls to talk radio from people either praising the woman or blasting her for publicly humiliating her daughter.

“The parents of that girl need more education than she does if they can’t see that the worst scenario in this case is to kill their daughter psychologically,” Suzanne Ball said in a letter to The Oklahoman.

Marvin Lyle, 52, said in an interview: “I don’t see anything wrong with it. I see the other extreme where parents don’t care what the kids do, and at least she wants to help her kid.”

Coretha has been getting C’s and D’s as a freshman at Edmond Memorial High in this well-to-do Oklahoma City suburb. Edmond Memorial is considered one of the top high schools in the state in academics.

While Henderson stood next to her daughter at the intersection, a passing motorist called police with a report of psychological abuse, and an Oklahoma City police officer took a report. Mother and daughter were asked to leave after about an hour, and no citation was issued. But the report was forwarded to the state Department of Human Services.

“There wasn’t any criminal act involved that the officer could see that would require any criminal investigation,” Master Sgt. Charles Phillips said. “DHS may follow up.”