But please--pretty please with sugar on top--rec this one: Nine Million Meals: Obama Admin Likes Farm to School, by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse. It is the second diary in this weekend's blogathon for Feeding America, and it contains some staggering news about the "hunger body count" for America's children.
Join me over the flip for some brief but heavy-handed diary pimpage and a silly poll. Or just cut to the chase, and go to the diary now to read and rec. We need to keep these diaries on the Rec List throughout the weekend so the maximum number of Kossacks and visitors to Teh Great Orange Satan will get familiar with the issues and have the opportunity to donate to Feeding America. The diaries detail what we all instinctively know: in these troubled economic times, hunger is soaring in every corner of this land.
In Patriot Daily News Clearning House's diary (have you been over to rec yet?), find out, for example, what ignominious distinction we share in international law, when it comes to children's rights, with only one other country: Somalia. (Yikes!) But also learn lots of hopeful good news: the burgeoning of Farm to School programs, which link kids to healthier options.
So please rec Patriot Daily News Clearing House's fantastic diary(done it yet?), and I promise to take down this not-a-diary as soon as PDNC's masterpiece hits the Rec List. Okey-dokey?
Thanks!
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UPDATE at 4:38pm: Well, ask and ye shall receive! Thanks, kids!!! PDNC's diary has just rocketed to #2 on the Rec List. Screw HCR! We got some hungry children to feed! Yes we can...whore for some worthy rec's from time to time. Smooches to all of you who helped! ;-)
UPDATE THE SECOND: I forgot to note: a couple of Kossacks are donating five and ten cents per rec and per comment in these first couple of Feeding America diaries. So get in there and rec, donate if you can, and chat away as well!