Comments on: For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Kendall

Kendall — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:24:54 +0000

Anonymous missing the point….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:35:00 +0000

Do you really think they’re evil Kendall?

By: Kendall

Kendall — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:48:06 +0000

wAnonymous @ 11:43, just ‘cuz they do some good, it wipes out the evil they do?! (eyeroll)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:12:05 +0000

As a wise person once said, "It takes only one 'oops' to wipe out a thousand 'atta boys'" The Salvation Army takes money from the federal, state, and city governments. Uses that money to lobby government for discrimatory legislation, actively discriminates against gays and people of differing religios viewpoints. That's a no-no in my book. These governments are not allowed by law to discriminate. Yet, they fund an organization that discriminates. Something has to give. Either stop discriminating or get off the government dole. Be a private org that lives in the dark ages of humanity, that fails to follow its own purported Christian ethics for all I care. But I'm done with supporting that org in any fashion.As an aside....Happy Thanksgiving, Pat. Great book!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:43:23 +0000

And I suppose that because they “actively discriminate against gays” it wipes out all the good that they do?

By: Tangent

Tangent — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:37:06 +0000

Wow... I didn't know the salvation army disciminated. Murdoc, what an awesome story! That's something for an author to be proud of. Ha! Way to keep your head on straight Marky. I love Monty Python. :)As for me, considering what's been said I'm glad I live in a small town and attend a community college. I'll probably never be anything "great", but I'm happy. Odd to say but, I hope I'm never really wealthy. I always wanna be free. Cliché, I know, but its better than playing the game of "have(s) and have not(s)".Last of all: Pat, Pat, Pat,... what a can of worms. Somehow though, I get the feeling your enjoying the show. I'm new to the blog but I read The Name of the Wind a while back and then again and then I finally bought it. I hope to donate money for some honeybees before Dec 11. Anyway, all the conversation is quite amusing and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.Cheers, Aryanne

By: Chrys

Chrys — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:28:25 +0000

The Salvation Army used to be one of my favorite charities – we always, and I mean always, gave them money. And then I realized that to them, the fact that I love who I love meant that I was not worth the dirt on the bottom of their shoes – so now we give to the local battered women’s shelter. They do a lot of good, I’m sure. But they do it with hate in their hearts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:03:46 +0000

I’ve talked with someone who had done the Christmas bell-ringer gig at shopping malls and in front of supermarkets. They said the folks driving the SUVs, with bags from fancy stores or a cart overflowing with groceries are not the ones who give, or maybe they toss in a few quarters. The guy who throws in a twenty generally looks a bit worn around the edges, like maybe they remember being broke and hungry not so long ago.

By: marky

marky — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:56:08 +0000

Ha! That reminded me of this Monty Python sketch. Graham Chapman: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!Terry Gilliam: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.Michael Pallin: Cardboard box?TG: Aye.MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.Eric Idle: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."MP:But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.ALL: Nope, nope..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:22:50 +0000

Poor? You don't know poor!Sounds like everyone is playing the one up game."I've never had a car and I did it so you don't need a car and there for are not poor." As Kvothe once said to Ben "Don't try to boldface your way through this one. That's a fallacy. You taught me that yourself."-Plucky