You see, now they are the real estate owner and they collect steady rent off the properties they own with a McDs store on it.

#3 | POSTED BY BBQ AT 2023-11-27 01:13 PM | REPLY

Ray Kroc told people he wasn't in the fast-food business but the real estate business.

#3, etc. | POSTED BY MW6789MW

Like shrimptaco on psilocybin. Keep up the fine work.

"There were good dead civilians on both sides" isn't the moral victory you want it to be.

#5 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2023-11-25 11:57 AM | REPLY

Amen.

10, 14
POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Not that I intend to speak for Corky, but I presume the answer to your question for him is in the headline:

Trump Called Evangelicals 'So-Called Christians,' 'Real Pieces of S-t'

If you're cramming food down your piehole like the gentleman in the photo, even if it's green beans, you could die of choking first.

Lumiere brothers. Retort programmers do not allow for some or all diacritical marks.

Is my understanding that usually get kicked out of Catholicism for doing this.

#2 | POSTED BY TOR

Offending priests are laicized but still Catholic.

I'd posted this story here a few weeks ago if you want the background.

Ugh. So... this is embarrassing. I'm not in the military anymore. I done went and retired.

#27 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Congratulations to you. It's rare that I agree with a damn thing you say, but congratulations regardless.

I knew a guy who was 20 years in the navy, spent 20 years as an educator, then became a successful consultant ... along with the two nice pensions to help fund his comfortable lifestyle. Made me question although not regret some of my decisions.

We know someone else has the poor billionaire category all to himself.

Jews for the most part don't proselytize.
. . .
But then, about half the Jews in Israel are secular.

#33 | POSTED BY CORKY

True. It's not part of what they do, unlike Christanity and Islam. Nor do Jews care to be proselytized.

There's a cartoon in the Big Book of Jewish Humor of two men standing together, one obviously Hasidic, the other what looks like a happy businessman. The b-man says, "Can I talk to you about Jews for Jesus?" Two panels of frozen figures. Then in the fourth panel the Hasid says, "You're on kamikaze duty, I presume."
. . .
Jews are very open. I've spoken with a number of Jews who don't like the term "cultural Jew," but that's certainly a thing. And I was reading a book about Judaism that indicated that the full spectrum of Jews begins with atheist and moves toward ultra-Orthodox. I don't think any Christian or Islamic group would claim that their adherents could be atheists, but that seems worst thing of all to be on a number of counts. And considering Jesus would welcome them no matter what . . . well, who am I to say anything about it?

When I first skimmed the headline I read too fast, "Rainbow Bridge Falls Closed after Explosion." My first thought was, Good. Now I don't have to hear about it when people's pets die.

As a side, a Christian who converts to Islam might be frowned upon, but converting to anything from Islam is a death sentence.

#23 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Those Christian converts to Islam ... Lots of Christian Americans, not just the right wingers, wouldn't be happy with it, especially if the convert is male and Black.

Jews wouldn't be dancing with joy either, that's for sure.

It's not a topic for public, polite conversation.

Dead girl or live boy ?

#27 | POSTED BY NORTHGUY3

Don't forget the nostrils of your sleeping associates and their wives. And everyone wants to get their own protection these days ... and this clown's gonna play the "God made me binostril, and He don't make no mistakes" card and and be forgiven if he's corrupt enough.

#9 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

Doc: Here's what I read.

Winnifred Crane Wygal
US social service organization official, 1884-1972

Oh, God, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and insight to know the one from the other.

The Woman's Press, Mar. 1933.

This is the "Serenity Prayer," the most famous and beloved prayer of modern times. It is most commonly quoted as, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." There has been considerable controversy and misinformation about this prayer's origins, and it has usually been attributed to the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. The first edition of the New Yale Book of Quotations listed Niebuhr as the author, but a new interpretation by William FitzGerald in a forthcoming book (based on discoveries made by the New Yale Book of Quotations editor) argues for Wygal as author. It is not unusual for important quotations by obscure women to be ascribed to prominent men.

The March 1933 sentence above, the beginning of an article by Wygal, is the earliest known occurrence of the Serenity Prayer. The other oldest versions all appeared in contexts related to the Young Women's Christian Association, of which Wygal was a longtime staff member, and all followed Wygal's wording very closely. No attributions of the prayer to Niebuhr by others have been found from before 1937, and no one has ever definitively documented any pre-1950 uses by Niebuhr himself. In a book devoted to the Serenity Prayer, Niebuhr's daughter Elisabeth Sifton repeatedly told a story about his composition of it, with a firmly asserted dating of 1943. Niebuhr believed he was the author, although his statements on the origination were vague. It may be that his role in 1943 was that of popularizer (shared with Alcoholics Anonymous) or editor.

Wygal was an associate of Niebuhr, and in her diary entry for 31 Oct. 1932 she quoted him as follows: "The victorious man in the day of crisis is the man who has the serenity to accept what he cannot help and the courage to change what must be altered." That sentence featured some of the elements of the Serenity Prayer yet lacked the key "insight" or "wisdom" element, and it was not a prayer. In 1940, in her book We Plan Our Own Worship Services, Wygal herself linked "O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other" with Reinhold Niebuhr's name; however, she may have been crediting only that particular wording to him. The answer to the issue of provenance is not certain, but the demonstrable evidence points to Winnifred Wygal as the coiner who combined pieces apparently drawn from Niebuhr with important other pieces of her own devising to create a most memorable prayer.

All I know is that your Bronze Age God hasn't deigned to reappear in 2000 and counting years, and that none of the noted historians of his age, made note of his existence in the time he was supposed to exist. Thus, I retain my 'severe reservations' as to the authenticity of his person (i.e. I maintain he is fiction, just like Zeus, Thor, Odin, the Buddha, etc, etc...)
#15 | POSTED BY EARTHMUSE

You can maintain whatever you want, but readers of Josephus, not exactly a lightweight and certainly close enough in time to write about Jesus, might disagree.

Trump Derangement Syndrome on display.

#1 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT

Those poor folks living in the white house.

Curious that the yard has a recent sign with his mugshot among the myriad 2020 signs, but the homeowner doesn't have a single 2024 sign. Maybe they ran out of money on funding the fatman's legal defense.

And a bit of scandalous trivia. I worked on a book some years back that, after some in-depth review of the Reinhold Niebuhr Papers, held that the Serenity Prayer was mostly composed by a female longtime secretary of Niebuhr's. Point was made that it was just another example of powerful men taking the credit for the work of women working under them.

#2 | POSTED BY CORKY

Another problem is that the Christian left has often been misunderstood and even ridiculed. The Berrigans were looked at as clowns and heretics; Rauschenbusch was before his time, but in time to influence quite a few of the century's most prominent theological thinkers; Merton was committed to silence but couldn't shut up -- and maybe was offed by the CIA in SE Asia; and Dorothy Day was finally too strident about trying to bring about the kingdom.

Shame because all were great, devoted people.

I'll limit myself to giving you a swirlie.

#55 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

"It's down there somewhere, let me take another look."

50 I'm married and have a sex life than includes receiving BJ's from my wife. In bed, my goal is to give more than I receive and it works out well for me as well.

#52 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

I am both happy for and mortified for your wife.

Violent? I'd ---- up half the people on this site if I had the opportunity.
#43 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Hey, STD. What's your line on tough guy talk on the Internet? It's gotta come from someone he'll listen to. He just doesn't realize it applies to himself. Bless his heart.

@#2 ... Great. Something else for them to moan about! ...
Hey, I resemble that comment.
:)
#3 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Sorry. I left some comments earlier today that didn't take. Bad weather coming through, maybe intermittent outages.

I was just playing with you. But one could read the comment as the you resembling that comment of what they were going to be moaning about.

Won't be taking my job, and as a freelancer I'm not keeping one from them. My retirement plan is to keep working. No one promised me a stage of my life that would be almost complete leisure, (except for those few years in college). And I enjoy what I do.

So I'll keep contributing to their Medicare and SS. And continuing to pay my own 15.3 percent of that Medicare.

Signed,
One of those hardworking baby-boomer libs who enjoys work and pays his taxes, unlike what the righties think here exists.

You sound like a fat idiot.

#9 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

Well, thanks. Most of the time you sound like the stupid uncle who people can't wait to leave and go home. I don't hold it against you.