Comments on: pondering “thanks-giving”

By: Rightwing Bugboy

Rightwing Bugboy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:16:25 +0000

As opposed to your totally imagined source? Hahaha.

By: mingaling

mingaling — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:49:04 +0000

the “news report?” ok, that totally clears it up!

By: Rightwing Bugboy

Rightwing Bugboy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:23:51 +0000

“youâ€™re right, bugboy – because of the smaller group that takes advantage of goodwill, we should just stop bothering. good logic there.”

From the news report on the matter I saw, it was not a smaller group that took advantage. The majority of “patrons” drove up in cars and were reasonably well-dressed.

Your assumption otherwise, based on nothing apparently, was itself not good logic.

By: dpb

dpb — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:48:01 +0000

duane, sorry, I’ll be in Memphis spending Thanksgiving with loved ones and being thankful I have the ability to do so. You’ll have to let me know how it goes.

By: mingaling

mingaling — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:59:25 +0000

you’re right, bugboy – because of the smaller group that takes advantage of goodwill, we should just stop bothering. good logic there.

i haven’t yet been hit with the empty gas can yet, although the “i need money for marta” has always been quite popular. of course they hate it when i offer a marta pass instead of cash (which is why i volunteer – can’t exactly just write a check, especially working in nonprofit for so many years).

By: duane

duane — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:58:27 +0000

Dave, are you going to meet me there? I may or may not go to a soup kitchen, but I will definitely be giving money to feed the homeless this year; I do every year.

By: Rightwing Bugboy

Rightwing Bugboy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:41:33 +0000

Sorry to say that in the past, that Hosea thing was filled with people who drove up in cars for a freebie. It’s not exactly the desperate and homeless crowd you’d expect.

Speaking of which….the old “empty gas can” trick is coming back. In the last few months, I’ve been hit up by two different people with a gas can walking around in the exact same place (Midtown Promenade) saying they are out of gas and need money to fill up. I haven’t seen this trick in years, when I was at GSU. I’d see the same people every day for weeks walking around with a can asking for gas money.

By: Rightwing Bugboy

Rightwing Bugboy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:36:02 +0000

AHHHHHHHHHHHahahahahaha!!…I didn’t even think of that. And to think of all those 500,000 starving people in Atlanta, while all these caring souls do nothing.

By: mingaling

mingaling — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:21:30 +0000

Good idea. Hosea Feeds the Hungry still needs volunteers. It’s really easy and fun:

http://www.hoseafeedthehungry.com/default.php

By: dpb

dpb — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:19:22 +0000

Thanksgiving is a fake holiday? How about you do something to legitimize it? Why don’t you go down to the local soup kitchen and help feed the homeless this Thanksgiving instead of getting drunk with James?