Since every week with Twitler in the Oval Office is, by definition, a dismal week, I thought I’d focus on a few things that will make you smile and warm your heart.
While not exactly proud of it, the fact that we learned this week that George Zimmerman, forced to file court financial disclosure papers related to ANOTHER run-in with the law, is $2.5 MILLION dollars in debt and has NO source of income did, in fact, make me smile and warmed my heart.
NOTE to George Zimmerman: Karma is, indeed, a “female cur”!
Moving on to more magnanimous Smile-Inducers-and-Heart-Warmers, CEO Martha Fuerstenau of American 1 Credit Union based in Jackson, MI has directed that 186 of the firm’s 187 employees be given raises that total almost $1 MILLION ($950,000)!
The one employee that CEO Martha Fuerstenau elected to NOT include in the generous raises was the herself!
And these were not nickel and dime raises – but ones that averaged more than $5,000 per employee. Additionally, 76 percent of the increase went to hourly employees, with only 24 percent going to management.
NOTE to Fortune 500 CEOs: THIS is how you should do “Trickle Down”!
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2018/05/combined_1_million_worth_of_ra.html
This one is made extra poignant by the fact that it happens down in Clinton, MS.
Few things are as heart-warming as a three-year little boy’s unbridled joy induced by a weekly visit from his best buddies … the garbage men!
It all began when Grandma Reynolds had her grandson Kyler help her take the trash out and was greeted with friendly waves from the crew. It has now become a weekly routine with a definite Win-Win for everyone!
(For a real treat, I’d encourage you to read the full story about their bonds at the YouTube site itself. Just click on the YouTube logo in the lower right corner when it plays.)
NOTE to racist republicans (or is that redundant?): This is how we can all get along – by treating others with kindness and respect. So take your hate-mongering bigotry and Go Cheney Yourselves!
Tomorrow will mark the one-week anniversary of a wedding that was not only pitch perfect but had lessons that began before it even happened, and they continued in its afterglow.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked guests and well-wishers to forgo wedding gifts and instead make a donation to one of seven charities that reflect their passions for helping others.
Prince Harry & Ms. Meghan Markle are incredibly grateful for the goodwill they have received since their engagement, & have asked that anyone who might wish to mark the occasion of their wedding considers giving to charity, instead of sending a gift. https://t.co/lzfrRmoeUv pic.twitter.com/nxrTZtIKBY
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) April 9, 2018
(You can read about the seven they selected either from the Tweet’s link or here:)
https://www.royal.uk/wedding-charity-donations
Of course, we knew it was going to be beautiful – and no doubt all you Anglophiles were chuffed at how blinding beautiful it was.
And afterwards Prince Harry and the now Duchess of Sussex continued showing world leaders their true compassion by donating all those gorgeous flowers, now made into stunning bouquets, to charities – including the St. Joseph Hospice in London, which has a long history involving the Royals.
Meet one of the lucky recipients, Pauline Clayton, who “is no stranger to royal family weddings. As a 19-year-old, Clayton, now 89, worked for royal dressmaker Norman Hartnell and helped embroider the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth II, according to the BBC. Clayton worked with three other girls, earning nearly 50 hours overtime on the dress’ train alone.”
All except for the Bride’s Bouquet, which by tradition that began when Queen Elizabeth, who married King George VI in 1923, placed her bouquet on the Grave of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey “in memory of her brother Fergus who was killed in 1915 at the Battle of Loos during the First World War.”
NOTE to Trump: THIS is how true leadership looks. GROW UP! Better yet – RESIGN!
