Gary Sinise on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson

[Roland99]

He was showing some clips of positive work in Iraq, esp. re: rebuilding schools and such.

He was touting http://www.operationiraqichildren.org/ and asking people to help send school supplies. It's a good cause but it got me to wondering. $168,000,000,000 spent so far and some schools are shy some paper and pencils???

:wtf:


This administration *still* won't properly support the needs of the impoverished, even in countries it just invaded and occupied! Unless there's an ROI attached to a project, it's up to the bleeding hearts to fix it.



edit: oops, forget some zeroes.

[Stand and Fight]

1. Sinise is a Republican. n/t

[Roland99]

2. Does that make his efforts to make life better for Iraqi kids worthless?

[RevolutionStartsNow]

4. Not at all, thanks for posting this.

You could also ask why after spending all that money, we don't have paper and pencils in some of our schools in this country either?

[Roland99]

5. We need more than that...esp. with the ridiculous NCLB mandates

[atreides1]

8. No Not Worthless

It just makes his efforts questionable. And yet we still don't know why they don't have monet for pencils and paper.

[Roland99]

10. Well, the way I look at it...

every celeb can't be everywhere doing everything. Pick your battles. If he's a Republican, at least he's trying to do something worthwhile to make up for one area where our government has fucked up.

[rndmprsn]

12. he's an unwitting enabler...liked him in forrest gump...

but i don't care one bit about his politics...that said hope those iraqi kids not ONLY get pencils and papers, but get their WHOLE freaking country back...thats the difference between gary sinese and me.

[FlemingsGhost]

13. Why not help our own children, then?

Are they not a good enough cause?

Does Gary have kids? Where do they go to school?

[Toucano]

3. There must be some sweet profit margins.

Absolutely ridiculous!

How FUCKING dare anyone ask people in this country to send school supplies to Iraq when we're sacrificing so much already?

We've got schools here that are going without.

What color is the sky in Sinise's world?

[Clark2008]

7. Amen, brother (or sister).

I live in a middle-class neighborhood and my son's school covers this neighborhood and one that is poor.
Our poor little school barely survives on donations from (gag) corporations (it shouldn't be that way).
I hope one day I'm so comfortably wealthy that I can just give a ton of books and supplies to the schools here.
But, I can't even find work as an office clerk (my "hoity toity" college edjumakshun must be interferring) and I may have to sell my house. Fat chance on that happening.

[FlemingsGhost]

6. There's at least $100 million unaccounted for in Iraq.

Did Gary mention that?

[Syrinx]

9. anyone happen to see that show Monday night with Ben Stein?

They were talking about Deep Throat, the Watergate figure. So they also talked about the porn flick. And they bleeped the phrase "gag reflex" twice. (it was easy to lip-read.) I just thought that was odd.

[FlemingsGhost]

11. No surprise Ben Stein is familiar with "deep throat."

He is often on his knees.