This awful day is coming to an end and I have time to breathe, so.
At 2 a.m. my friend Brian Beutler was shot multiple times. He lost a lot of blood and underwent major surgery. And by 4:30 p.m., when I saw him in the hospital, he was cracking jokes. That's the kind of guy he is: invincible. The blogosphere's very own 50 Cent.
He's also going to be a man with some serious hospital bills. Plans are in motion for Kriston's band Gestures, my band The Surge, and some other friends' bands to play a benefit concert in D.C. to raise money for Brian in the near future. I'll be posting notices here as soon as things firm up. If you can attend, please do, and if you can't but can donate money, please do that instead. I'm going to set up a PayPal account for Brian as soon as I figure out how. What a great thing it would be if we could come together as a community to support each other when disaster hits.
That's it for me tonight. I'm fried. The important thing is that my friend is going to be OK. It's going to take more than fucking bullets, I can tell you that much.
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Hang in there.
And keep what these guys are tellin’ ya in mind.
It’s truly your mind that matters.
Don’t let the snakes take over.
No matter…..
What.
If it helps: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_wp-standard-overview-outside
Hang in there man. You guys rock. Brian’s lucky to have friends like you all.
Buetler doesn’t have health insurance? Or is doesn’t cover stuff like this?
I’m in.
In from here too …
Best to Brian and to you Spencer!
What?
What is health insurance?
Ugh. My daughter has to get her wisdom teeth pulled this summer. yuck.
stock up on the ice cream and stuff for smoothies, dude!
How many freaking which ways are we supposed to spend our money?
Getting America on track has got to be first. Sorry for the negativity, but please. If we had a decent health care system, this wouldn’t be an issue.
It’s a bit concerting, isn’t it. I dip into FDL on and off over the day, and I could just run my checkbook dry with all the causes. In this sadly depressed economy .. as I watch my savings take a nose dive… I just really get depressed. Not that I don’t want to help, I DO. But I’m beginning to feel disfocussed.
And I just googled to find out who is Brian Beutler and what, for god’s sake, happened to him. No news. I’m confused.
From TPM on Brian Beutler
Thank you, Dearie, for supporting my rant. Not that I don’t think Brian deserves to be taken care of, I do. But the larger issue of health care…
Kennedy still doing his part for the common man
Thanks, nahant, for the info. Am I at the right spot? Is this late night? I’m so confused.
Attackerman is new front pager at FDL, so I will give him much leeway. I don’t think he was trying to be untoward, just speaking for a friend.
Everyone is hurting for $$ right now.
Late Late Nite will be at the lake at its regular time
Committee Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal
The Iraq was/is not a war for Oil… Nah just a way for Bush’s buddies to get rich… Freaking assholes… another article of Impeachment for this deal if I might say so!!
Emptywheel is all over this, natch.
Indeed. I started a new temp job this morning, but that just means I have some money to buy food and gas.
My 20 year old son moved back in with me and he’s got that wisdomteethneedtobepulled too. He’s got no insurance. He’s just grateful that I have a room for him and air conditioning and food.
This world is really hard and I’m having a hard time just trying to figure out which thread to be on.
Holy Mother Cow.
Kicks just really really keep getting harding to find.
Good some one needs to make sure this is told far and wide… too bad there are so many dummies in our country… but glad most of them are rethugs…. a dying breed
I’m in, Spencer.
Point me to the PayPal thingy when you get it up.
Digg it HERE
When I hit the lottery, I’ll come back.
Sorry for all the ills of the world. Did you all hear about that bulldozer Palastinian? Hell in a handbasket, I say.
Bruised fruit and broken bread, we are.
Too much.
I hope there are a lot of rich dems stepping up to the plate. My $20 donations are adding up. Seriously. I need to watch out!
Quick question for anyone who knows…did RevDeb make it to her meet up today?
Hi all. My best wishes to Brian for a speedy and complete recovery.
(((demi))) I hear you…my daughter just moved home with her 3- & 1-year-olds.
No trouble finding kicks around my place lately.
Good for you, newtonusr.
OMGosh! Does your daughter and her kids have a private area in the house, or you all one big family?
Oh, my!
What are we gonna do?
Love them, kiss and hug them and feed them. Hopefully your grandbabies are eating less than my guy and the friends who come over to visit. I actually bought some cheap-ass loaves of white bread today. I can’t believe it!
No, this doesn’t look like a depression. Not a bit. Good night John Boy and all other firepups.
(Have a potato).
Okay, can I get 150 to 200 people in Ventura/Santa Barbara counties and we’ll buy us a doctor? I know there are well trained doctors from India and Phillipines (many are in my health plan — I didn’t get mental health counseling because I just couldn’t do “whadya say?”). I have a room to rent/kitchen privileges. We all get catastrophic ins. for surgeries/broken arms/etc. I might even be able to find a nice Amurkan doctor who is ready to retire and would handle that minimal case load for time to surf, boat, fish, read. I’m telling you, folks, I think we are going to have to handle this mess on our own. No damned Dem is going to stand up for the rest of us.
Um…no, not at the moment, as I have half of the old house stacked around the new…it’s been a little stressful.
Oh, boy. Happy grandparenthood, though. These are times that your grandkids will remember forever.
My kids and I moved in with my dad and his wonderful wife when I was 48. The house I was buying wasn’t done, but the old one had been sold. My kids and my dad and his wife formed a really special bond during those two months.
Keep on the Sunny Side.
Oh, Ron. It does sound stressful. I’m feeling ya.
Stress, like you don’t sleep well at night?
Like, you snap at people, or misunderstand what they say?
I’m lifting you and yours up tonight.
hey, Spencer, you’re a good friend to look out for your pal. let us know when there’s a paypal thingie, okay?
Fuck Bush — and the time he’s lost getting this country of ours well.
You too, hon.
{{{demi}}}
Hospitals charge victims of crime for their injuries? This is one sick nation. What are those victims’ funds for, if not for this?
Thanks to everyone for their support. If you don’t feel like donating, you don’t feel like donating, simple as that. No one has enough money for everything they need/want. But please, if you don’t want to donate, there’s no need to lecture the rest of us on how many important causes there already are. We all know. My friend got hurt and I want to help him. That’s all.
Word, Cotton.
Linked here.