Vermont church to sell Tiffany window to help homeless

Imagine the good that could be done with all the treasures stored in the Vatican?

BRATTLEBORO, Vt.—Here's a twist on the old saying, "When a door closes, a window opens." A Brattleboro, Vt., a church is removing a historic stained glass window, so it can open its doors to the homeless.

The First Baptist Church is selling a stained glass window that was installed in 1896. It depicts St. John the Divine and was created and signed by Tiffany Studios.

Proceeds from the sale will be used to repair the church's leaking roof so it can continue to host a winter shelter for people who need a place to sleep and a warm meal.

An antique dealer who specializes in stained glass windows told the Brattleboro Reformer the window could fetch anywhere between $40,000 and $60,000 at auction.

Video- Homeless Camps In Tennesee

Oy.

Bushvilles: The new Hoovervilles

Dear lord. In America.

Conservative Kathy Shaidle: "Today's 'poor' are fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people's"

By GottaLaff

Wowzers, kiddies! Here's a Rushpublic I'd never heard of before! And for good reason. Her name: Kathy Shaidle. Hold onto your hats. You're in for a bumpy ride.

Remember Paddy's post, a video of Michelle Obama volunteering at a soup kitchen? What a sap the First Lady was! I bet you didn't realize that poor folks are really cell-phone hoarding, tattooed boozers. Via Wonkette, without whom I'd have never have been introduced to this:

So now America’s conservative pundits are very upset that this supposedly homeless man has a telephone, so poverty isn’t actually a problem, and we’re even “blessed” to have such rich homeless people in the United States.

As promised, he-e-e-ere's Kathy! (who is also mentioned in this Salon post)

[W]hy is a guy with a cellphone homeless? [...]

He spends all his (our) money on cellphones and, most likely, tattoos and drugs and booze and other crap, and has no money left for a home and food. And why should he bother? We pay for his shelter and food anyhow. [...]

What's really funny in that news story by the way is what they're serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, "You expect me to eat this weird crap?!"

But oops:

As Salon’s Alex Koppelman notes, the “weird crap” is simply “rice cooked in chicken stock with some vegetables.” Jesus, this Shaidle person is a night terror. WHO IS SHE?

Our new bff, that big-hearted, charitable, humanitarian sack of malignant wordplay, Kindly Kathy:

And Salon's Alex Koppelman is obviously a delusional liberal pantywaist who can't stand to have his romantic notions about "poverty" challenged (by someone who knows what they're talking about firsthand, and is also a better writer than he is.)

I'd rather be right than "nice" and "polite" -- and so would any intelligent adult who values the truth.

I'm betting Alex Koppelman is a grown man who still rides a bicycle. By choice. On the sidewalk.

I'm thrilled. That line is going to look SO great on my next book jacket.

Between that and my handgun license coming in the mail this aft, this is turning into my favorite day in a long time!

Aren't the Rushpublics compassionate? Who could resist that kind of charm? Let's file this one under "2010".

VIDEO-- President Obama's Florida Town Hall Meeting: Homeless Henrietta Hughes

By GottaLaff


This touching moment was included in my earlier post. Now you can see the video. I hope homeless Henrietta Hughes doesn't have to hurt much longer. She currently lives in her car. President Obama promised his staff would talk to her after the meeting. That was after he stepped off the stage and entered the audience to give her a hug.

Via Oliver Willis:

In President Obama’s town hall about the economic crisis in Fort Myers, FL today, a woman named Henrietta Hughes - facing homelesness thanks to the crisis - gave voice to the economic concerns of real Americans being dismissed by the conservative echo chamber and the mainstream media.

Ms. Hughes asked the President: “We need something more than the vehicle and parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.”

He should and knowing him, he will.