This should get a humanitarian award.
Lift people up. Give dignity. Be generous.
Its pretty simple.

as you would hope to be treated?


peace to you misterhighwasted,
kp

Read it this morning, & glad you posted since I was so busy this weekend & missed much of DU.

I am sure that the subject of the tweet will be brought to the fore as Clinton's campaign moves through the year.

Should be interesting to see how Gov Scott reacts when Hillary addresses Climate Change in the State of Florida.
Enjoy your day.

it was a dupe,

your last sentence requires



peace,
kp

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Where have we heard this before?

The Universality of the Golden Rule in the World Religions

Christianity All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:1

Confucianism Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state.
Analects 12:2

Buddhism Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga 5,1

Hinduism This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.
Mahabharata 5,1517

Islam No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
Sunnah

Judaism What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
Talmud, Shabbat 3id

Taoism Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
Tai Shang Kan Yin P’ien

Zoroastrianism That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself.
Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5

Adapted from "The Christopher Newsletter"

and look how good YOU turned out!

...if it's real we believe it.

So, do to others as you wish done to you. Be kind, help where you can and don't make a big deal about it.

Poor people are real
Climate change is real
Science is real
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old
The Universe is 14.7 billion years old
There are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
Wars are real and bad. A waste of human capital
Peace is good. Working together to solve problems is good
The top 1% don't pay their fair share
The political system is rigged in favor for the rich
Republicans are owned by the Koch brothers, Wall Street, Big Banks and the 1%
Republicans could give a flying f**k about the poor and middle class
Social Security Disability Insurance is not an entitlement, it's a benefit paid for by workers
Medicare is not an entitlement it's a benefit paid for by workers and those enrolled
Need I go further?

No accusations or judgments of "moral failing," no claims that the person had drunk a beer of bought a candy bar in the recent past. Just pure human kindness.

obscenity beyond belief. It's too crazy for Monty Python. It seems mankind is capable of any insane inversion of the truth. A few week s ago I read a US Catholic (my church) blogger, in effect, saying that we really must kick the crutches from under cripples, otherwise we'll be encouraging them to be dependent.

I don't recall Jesus fretting about that at all. In fact, he commended the poor widow who gave all she had into the Synagogue treasury. And he said, 'Take no care for the morrow....;' and 'Regard the lilies of the field. they neither sow, neither do they spin.'

He's not commending sloth; but he knew that the worldlings of the right make an idol of worldly riches and the toil of the people who enriched them, and if this didn't clobber them, nothing would. It didn't and nothing has - which however he already knew, as is clear from his story of Lazarus and the rich man.

Never make enemies when you can make a friend.

foodstuff in a box on the back steps for my dad to pick up every Friday. Dad used it mostly for the chickens and geese but there was often a lot of things in there that were "edible" for humans also.

The person going through the dumpster clearly buys food off of cruise ships.

Amirite?

to be filled with awful stuff.

isn't it a shame that such a basic bit of humanity is so rare as to be newsworthy? and that there are people in this "greatest, bestest, richest country in the world", who are in such dire straits?

would think of sending some money to this restaurant owner to support her good works. What a great example THIS business owner sets for us all. Thanks for a good news story!

Whether he goes there or not I don't know. Probably does though

What a wonderful person. How horrible our government doesn't give a shit.

I believe they actually understand the teachings.

In the spirit of maximizing profit, you should spray kerosene on your garbage to make it inedible*. Force that poor person to BUY your food . . . at a profitable markup. That's the capitalist way.


*According to The Grapes of Wrath (chapter 25), people actually did this in California in 1933 to discourage Okies from eating surplus fruit during one harvest season when the banks said prices were too low to afford selling the entire orange crop. So they dumped some of the crop . . . Well, here's the quote:

“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

Now, if this man wants to feed the homeless with his money, he is surely one of the kinder human beings on the planet, and I hope more people will follow his example.

Imagine if every food establishment fed a couple of homeless people every day. There would be far fewer hungry people in every city, and just knowing that someone really cared would make a difference in a homeless person's life.

And a great many nonprofits exist today. Historically, businesses existed long before the concept of profit came into being, possibly as much as 100,000 years.

If that's fifty thousand dollars, and you pay yourself twenty-five thousand dollars, you have twenty-five thousand dollars in profit. Or you can pay yourself fifty thousand dollars, and show "no" profit. Or the family business might rake in a half a million dollars, and show no profit, because mom and pop each make $250,000. Profit is a rather "loose" term in business, wouldn't you say?

As a matter of fact, there's a lot of folks making hundreds of thousand of dollars working for "non-profits."

entitled "A Long Way from Chicago" and "A Year Down Yonder" that talk about a couple of kids and their summers spent with their fictional Grandma - who is a bit of a mischief maker. But one of the things that she does is stay up at night and greet the out-of-work men traveling illegally by train with food and sandwiches. she just does it. She doesn't check with anyone to see if it is all right, and wouldn't back down if it weren't.

That description of that simple act made such an impression on me when I was reading those books to my kids. The person in this store is doing the same, acting out of the same impulse - and it is a feeling of kinship with our fellow people that we should all cultivate and nurture. Fuck the "morals" that our corporate-bought media and government try to foist on us.

Edited to add - the stories were during the Depression

there are many "christians " who dont toot their own horn. there are many who dont want credit . there are many who work behind the scenes with their time . talent and monies and dont make any noise about it . this lady deserves

Ok see this person, see this person help her fellow man..... this business is the business that needs a go-fund-me account set up for her, not these scam pizza, florist BS groups scamming cash for hate.....

hope that she gets more people coming into her establishment than she knows what to do with, and just maybe she could hire that person that was looking for the food behind her business

Sadly, dumpster divers aren't always going solo.

Going in for a pb&j is great for the individual but what if there are hungry kiddos waiting somewhere?

Will take it away.

I ended up with $10.00 at the end of March that I'd like to send to the restaurant owner.

From Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pbjams66?fref=ts

5912 NW 38th
Warr Acres, Oklahoma
(405) 789-0888

Looks like there's a GoFundMe account set up somewhere, too. If I lived near there, I sure would become a regular customer! I LOVE giving my business to worthy enterprises like this one. Always good to reward and reinforce good behavior!

There is still good in the world!

What's the point of a society that can't feed everyone?

Such a society is broken.

goes to bed hungry. Shit - when I see what gets wasted, and what gets thrown out, it just makes me hurt.

That just pulled a heart string.

My parents both served in WW2, and afterwards, moved into a row housing clapboard,
shotgun duplex in New Orleans. This location happened to be close to a major highway (remember, this is before Interstates), and a major rail junction.

We occasionally had some weary traveler, usually a vet, knock on the back door asking for food.
My mom always fixed a PB&J and a tall glass of cold milk.
2nds if asked.

I was 4 or 5, and remember sitting on the back steps with these travelers while they ate their sandwich. I had completely forgotten those memories until this thread.
Thank You.... and now I feel like crying for all the hungry people while we throw so much money away on the military.

DURec.

More like they would wait with their gun and shoot.

Bless this person for trying to help.

I still remember the faces of the people in need that would come to our church when I was a little kid. You could see the happiness. For that small moment in time they imo their hardships were gone.

It immediately set to mind the cheese sandwiches for poor kids in school.

we are surrounded by evil systems based in greed.

What a refreshing change from the people banning gays. This is obviously how true compassionate people act. Too bad more people do not follow Ms. Jiron's lead. THIS is a person who really should have a gofundme account, to do good deeds with.

for a national grocery chain. You would be appalled at how much perfectly good food they are forced to throw away. Even flowers and living plants that reach a set date. LIVING PLANTS! They are not allowed by law to even give the food away to charities or food banks. Not EVEN allowed to give it away to the employees. It is totally pathetic. And millions of animals are killed and the meat gets thrown away. It is a crying shame.

That owner is a good person