For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 27, 2014

What’s for dinner, Michael, ain’t Thanksgiving dinner for Canadian TG was in October.

I imagine the Elly haters will be jumping out of their skins at this one, anticipating the lecture she’ll give Michael based on the story she’s reading in the newspaper…

Must be about North Korea. They’ve been at that stage for several years now.

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

Thanks, never knew about that. The only ’ Comic Relief’ effort I knew of was televised show that Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and others put on as a fundraiser years later…

I’m thankful that my family is Not starving, and hope someday greed will be a crude thing of the past and that we can all not be hungry.

Thank you for this; that is very interesting. It is so important to remember the starving millions when we, who are more fortunate, sit down to a good meal. There is a homeless man who lives in the bushes alongside the railway line, just a couple of streets away from us. Last Christmas morning I went for my usual walk and I saw the homeless man rummaging in a dustbin outside the local pub. He found a complete sandwich, still in its plastic packaging, I will never forget the happy look on his face as he held up the sandwich. That was probably the best meal he had had all week. When I see him in the vicinity now I give him a loaf of fresh bread. our local church gives him a mug tea or coffee on a Sunday morning.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all the American readers. May you all be blessed with happiness and prosperity

A bit judgemental, wouldn’t you say? What do you know personally of the costs incurred by each in the production and the percentage donated by each to the cause involved?

Thanks to Lynn—a perspective we should never forget.

It is rather an important thing that children learn that they have never, ever been hungry, will almost certainly never be starving, that it is completely untrue that the “never get to have any fun,” that there are parents who go without food in order that their children can go to school, that there are millions for whom a safe, warm bedroom is a fantasy far beyond any hope of fulfillment, and that on this Thanksgiving, there are those for whom a big bowl of plain rice and a cup of clean water would be cause for real thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving!! :-)

The problem for stores giving expired food to charities is that shoul someone get ill the great god LITIGATION screws it up for everyone. Perfect world … one without religion and lawyers.

You mean 29 years earlier, and this is long before in today’s world Africa had its recent Ebola health scare.

@PacopuddyActually, few Americans have to dig in rubbish for food. There are very few places without charity kitchens and food banks, and I have talked with many homeless and only knew one who was hungry. I bought him a meal but did nothing to change his future.

For many years, a Phoenix restaurant owner, Nick Ligidakis, closed his restaurant for several days to prepare thanksgiving dinner for those in need in the valley. He is now retired, but during the 14 years he prepared his Thanksgiving dinners, he fed over 250,000 people. I was privileged to be one of his volunteers a number of years.

This just shows you how thankful we should be…but many of us take for granted…take a moment or two today to give thanks for all your blessings…if you say you have none….just look around you and you’ll find you have more than many of us…myself included…deserve.

Lynn’s Notes:

Having gone on several Medical Missions to Honduras and Peru, I am well aware of how little some people have and how much we in North America take for granted. When my kids said they were “starving,” I was grateful that they had no idea what “starving” meant.

Pprey: Nonsense. There are laws on the books now which protect anyone involved in feeding the poor from any liability short of proven intent to harm. Greedy merchants just don’t want to be bothered and they have pressured local governments to ban Christians (or anyone else) from following Matthew 25:31-46. So much for religious freedom..We have found only one supermarket in all of Dallas which will let us take two-day-old baked goods to our local food bank, and they are violating company policy to do so. And what we get fits easily into the back of a Prius without obstructing rearward vision. This is for 450 families who are proved to have fallen through the net.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m thankful my cats and I aren’t living in the car anymore!

" they were published in a collection called Comic Relief, sold to raise money for USA for Africa."

And, like all sappy sentimental things, it didn’t make any difference, because the people in Africa weren’t moved to change the behavior that got them into that mess.

All he said was ‘happy Thanksgiving’…

I am thankful for all my blessings. I don’t have a lot of money but I am not POOR. I know there are millions of people who would trade places with me in a minute. Thankful to be an American, thankful for my good health, wonderful family, good job, sweet pets, Jeopardy and NCIS! Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! Peace.

During the Vietnam war, I was a volunteer on a crisis switchboard in Tucson, set up supposedly to deal with university freshmen on their own for the first time and having troubles. What we got were Vietnam vets who were clearly suffering from the syndrome now known as PTSD. It wasn’t identified back then. These guys were suffering serious brain function problems and were homeless because the VA seemingly had few or no programs set up to deal with people who looked ok, but frankly had badly scrambled operational capabilities. -Mental illness is still poorly understood, and how much of it is due to undetected brain damage is part of the problem. As long as we allow insurance corporations to not provide adequate insurance coverage for this type of illness, or we don’t provide adequate funding for the VA to take care of returning service personal suffering this damage, we will continue to see people living on our streets and dumpster diving.-We will also continue to see people who think the world is out to get them, and who walk into buildings and shoot other people who they’ve never met. There is now a student at Florida State College who is studying biomedical engineering who is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of one such incident recently.-People who are afflicted with problems that make it impossible for them to understand reality will try to survive as best they can. With the resources available to them now, dumpster diving may be the only alternative in areas where there are few food banks…

Rebel Strike: Your nom de web explains your racism. In the clergy-organized food bank I mentioned, the racial demographics reflect the county population; I smell tobacco, but not alcohol; virtually all are unemployable due to physical or mental restrictions; the State of Texas rather kill its citizens than provide adequate food and health aid; and the overwhelming majority are what you, in your hate, would call “po’ white trash”. They are human beings beaten down by the system that enables you to have the means to express your hate.