Aerows
Aerows's JournalFood for thought
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Human beings are social creatures, and acts of love are far more powerful than punishment.
Build a man a fire, you keep a man warm for a night. Teach a man to build a fire, you keep him warm for a life time.
That statement doesn't seem to mean what Republicans think it means. To teach a person, you actual have to get down in the dirt with him to show him how to do it.
How many people on Wall Street could build a fire and fish if thrown to the wolves of a metropolitan city street with no ID or money on a cold winter night?
Super 8 hotel kicks out a homeless couple with a room paid in advance
On Valentine’s Day, at a Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio, George Gruss and his wife met Stephanie and Louis, a homeless couple with no place to stay for the night. The temperature was going to be below zero. It was about that in Chicago, and I–personally–winced at taking the garbage out.
They took some time and spoke to the couple. They were in their early twenties. Stephanie was from South Carolina, Louis was from Alabama. They had parted ways with a friend and were on their way to a drug rehab center in Michigan.
Instead of doing what most people might do, brushing it off and figuring the couple would figure something out, or saying “Welp, not really our problem,” Gruss and his wife took the couple over to a Super 8 Hotel and paid for a three night stay to help them avoid the bitter cold.
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An hour or so after Gruss paid for the room and dropped the couple off–having been very clear about the fact that they were buying a room for this couple and not for themselves–he got a call from hotel security saying that the couple had been evicted for not having any identification. He was also told that his credit card would not be refunded for the three days he paid for.
http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-02-17/super-8-hotel-kicks-out-a-homeless-couple-with-a-room-paid-in-advance-because-they-had-no-id/?utm_source=share-fb&utm_medium=button
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What in the hell is this country coming to when people can't even help those in dire need? Who is this heartless?
Great Horned Owl
It has come again and woke me up.
Hoot, hoot, hoot.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that it clears vermin from the property. That's fantastic.
Can it quit hooting by my window and waking me up?
It's the hooting RIGHT BY the window that is an issue,
It's halftime, and I've already eaten too much
The culprits:
A.) some type of vegetable dip with habanero. I think I ate a field of carrots and celery.
B.) some little pastrami sandwiches with the bread sliced in the middle then laden with a crap ton of havarti, pastrami and dijon mustard. Assembled and sliced like a cake vertically.
Okay, I made option B, but damn. I didn't mean for it to be *that* good.
The official I hope the Patriots cream the Seahawks
just to vindicate them from all of the crap about them cheating thread.
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