Poor fellas

8 top-paid, poor performing CEOs

"Who’s been fired, arrested, or whose companies have been bailed out"

At least the ones who needed it could afford the best in legal assistance...

Or try this little item:

40% of top-paid CEOs busted, bailed out or booted, study says

"CEOs of U.S. large companies got about 354 times as much pay as the average American worker in 2012"

40%! That puts those 1%ers in a class by themselves!

---

Why is this

a labour dispute I don't what to support?

---

Well,

if it is a doomsday cult, then they should realize that they can't take it with them, no?

Agape doomsday cult's financial empire dismantled, ordered to pay taxman $3 million


Isn't that right?

---

I don't think

for a moment that those who follow the Prosperity Gospel aren't sincere.

Creflo Dollar's Prosperity Gospel finds followers and critics

Like any group there are going to be people following for the wrong reason.

"The focus is on getting right with God, but you know that when you get right with God, you're going to get something for it."

I'm not at all certain that it is prosperity that you're going to get. I would think that you might pick salvation as the first gift.

Mind you, I'm a Franciscan, and our Father Francis didn't really put much stock in 'stuff'. I'll try to follow his lead...

---

Well...

NKY evangelist's trial exposes lavish lifestyle: Man accused of keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars


An INTERNET evangelist?!? We're all in the wrong business...

Mind you, it wouldn't be surprising for anyone claiming that the economic structure of the world will soon collapse to be carrying gold and jewels. That's assuming that gold and jewels will be worth anything then. Much better to stockpile canned goods and clean water. And guns to protect it all. And... oops! I'm beginning to sound like a survivalist. No, don't stockpile anything! If we're going down the tube lets make Mama Earth happy and all go together. Give her a chance to get over us, recover, and start afresh...

---

These cult leaders!

Disabled woman wins $500,000 payout from Rocco Leo's Agape Ministries doomsday cult

They may really start out believing their own claims, but at some point of ripping off their followers I really think they come to believe that they're just ripping off their followers. It doesn't make sense otherwise...

---

A perfect example

of a government out of control and answerable to no one.

Oda's staff silent on travel expense changes: Expenses 're-examined' but no details given

This is a government that campaigned on the issue of transparency. Of being answerable to the people. Now they are the most protective, closed and unanswerable government we've had in years. They are a perfect example of a government that cares only about themselves and their own ideology.

There is nothing about serving the people in this government. It's only about serving themselves and their small group of supporters...

---

'Mister' Black lives his own reality

Conrad Black and his fight to regain his Canadian citizenship


There are so many good quotations in this editorial that you'll just have to read it. Suffice to say that Mr. Black is not paying any attention to the rest of the world's reality and only the reality he believes in, which isn't anyone else's other than his, and perhaps his wife's.

---

Ummm... Wow!

Ontario girl's online banking speech goes viral

""I’m trying to get people to notice that the government is doing something wrong to us and we need to change what's happening," she said."

God bless her, and her family.

---

How wonderful!

It may never be settled enough for some people...

Lady with a Secret

But it all seems magnificent. (And I don't care if it is worth $100 or $100,000,000. Its beauty and history make it just so wonderful!)

---

And God said...

"Oh, it's just those humans again. I'll never figure out why I decided to create them in the first place. I must have had an off day. They hardly ever listen to me. They question everything. Most don't even belive in me anymore. Now dogs, there's a success! No better creature in all My creation than a dog. Loyal, trustworthy, loving, brave - just kind of what I was hoping from humans."

Tracking Creation in Glen Rose

---

And this is why

I argue that today Christians can't be Capitalists - because the very Capitalism espoused below has become mainstream.

Profit with No (Real) Gain: “Why I’m Leaving Goldman Sachs”

"Many proponents of capitalism, particularly the libertarian/Ayn Rand (Ayn Rand, so far away)-kind, argue that self-interest is good morally and beneficial economically."

Ah, Ayn Rand, the pin-up girl (would she ever hate THAT description) of the newly liberated first and second-year university students! In our culture today, the earliest 'me' generation has become the purveyor of all that is evil about Capitalism...

---

What is most sad

is that this fight throws the whole message that he was preaching into serious question. (Not as to whether or not it is Christian, because that was always in question.)

Rev. Schuller: My financial future is at risk

Rev. Schuller's message doesn't seem to be working out in his own life, and now he has had to take legal action and create division in order to get what he believes is his from his ministry.

Possibility gospel and prosperity gospel followers should take a lesson from this, but likely won't...

---

Disparity? What disparity?

No austerity for well-heeled

A very good editorial, though I suspect that the well-heeled think we should just shut up and do what we're told.

You can tell we're in a free country. In a non-free (in this case, I guess fascist would be the closest) country, the writer would be jailed for writing this, if not executed. Here, well, the worst that might happen is that someone may try to get them fired or something.

Ah, freedom. Ask the poor about it...

---

At least someone is thinking of them

Nuns Denounce Human Trafficking Ahead Of Super Bowl XLVI

All everyone else will be thinking about is money, sports and entertainment. Oh, and themselves. But that goes without question.

Some time ago someone was asking me who I thought would be in, and win, the Super Bowl. I thought, Ultimately? I guess God wins. Because these things are just small, small things in the grand scheme, and we are just tiny creatures full of our own self-importance and wanting everything for ourselves...

---

When I read about this:

Best Paid Pastors Make Hundreds Of Thousands To Millions Of Dollars Annually

It brings to mind the 1960 Burt Lancaster/Jean Simmons film Elmer Gantry, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. (Both are excellent by the way.)

Things that come to a bad end...

---

I can see this

becoming their theme song now that the U.S. Supreme Court has considered them the equivalent of human citizens.




Incredibly well done! Brilliant! (And sadly, not so funny, if looked at in context...)

---

'Disgustingly' is

the correct word to use.

Top 10 Disgustingly Expensive Gifts

People have always sought wealth and some have looked for the most ostentatious way to display their wealth. Here's a few of the most incredibly vulgar...

---

Boxing Day?

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about




Boxing Day  *** * ************ * ***
*I've always *thought that it was* weird to have *this day right at this time.*A holiday focussed  specificallyon spending *money? In some places a statutory holiday? What is *that about?Why *do we have to focus on this just at this*time? How did* sharing out of love become corrupted*into giving* as a requirement, rather than a holiday of*giving from one's own gifts to those we love, or those who* maynot have as much as we have. Our culture has *corruptued it. This is thelast Christmas *tree for me. No more. How is all *that buying and sellingrelated to the birth of theSaviour?
Justaskin'...

---

They have no shame

when it comes to serving the god they serve.

Wall St's Latest Shameless Ploy to Fleece You

"The industry's effort to overturn new regulations could push public anger past the point of no return."

I hope it does. It's what we need...

---