Daily Kos: A Message from Papa Johns CEO To His Customers

Dear Mr. CEO of Papa John's Pizza:

I  read your quote via the Huffington post. I've also seen pictures of ( Read more... )

I made the choice.  With eyes wide shut.  But I made the choice.  The outcome is on me.  I said at first that I just got greedy.  A friend said that my definition of greed needed some work because the things I had said I was looking forward to didn't sound especially greed to them.  Perhaps.

Perhaps it wasn't the choice so much as the hubris in ( Read more... )

Every now and then you have to redefine for people how you really feel.  About everything.  Every now and then, folks will get too comfortable with their narrowed focus of the world and express upset at your disagreement with them.  Because everything is essentially about them in their worlds, they cannot see beyond where their bubble of personal ( Read more... )

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Ever go for a good portion of time believing something and then find out it’s just a misunderstanding, a lack of appropriate information, or the result of an outright lie -sometimes all three?  With the exception of the last, most times it’s harmless and easily correctible, but it can be embarrassing if you have passed on the information thinking ( Read more... )

http://www.politicususa.com/catholic-bishop-goes-into-persecution-mode-claims-obama-is-hitler/

I honestly don't have words for the stupidity of this 'man of God'.  He should be drug out and stoned for treason.  As if First Amendment rights applied ONLY to Christians.  As if the Church didn't quietly condone Hitler's massacre of the Jews in WWII.  ( Read more... )

If it's not the hardline Muslims, it's the hardline Christians, if it's not either of those it's some random jackass thinking shooting up a school, church or a hospital, his enlisted brethren or his local Denny's is the answer to his life's problems.  Why can't these geniuses turn the guns on themselves first?  Dear gods don't let them hold hands ( Read more... )

You ever have a dream that makes sense only in the most abstract way?  Like if you're not paying attention it will just go away?  Only it doesn't?

When I was a kid, my grandparents house was my favorite place in the whole world..well, favorite HOUSE...it was the acreage it sat on that made my heart sing.  The barn was also a wonder-filled place of ( Read more... )

“Women As Livestock” Bill Passes in Georgia - Duly Noted
http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/12978/women_as_livestock_bill_passes_in_georgia/

This will continue to happen as long as there is the small minority of women who perpetuate the idea of having the right to be supported by their husbands, who claim with honor the privilege of having 'the ( Read more... )

There is so much wrong with the political landscape these days.   I see the wave of craziness, and it’s not like we knew it wasn’t coming, we’ve been hearing it for years - how the evangelical contingent of Christianity was systematically training up its ‘army for Christ’.  I have no problem with Christ.  It’s his followers that I have the issue ( Read more... )