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Overnight Music: Agnes Obel - Riverside

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/17/2012 10:31:17 am PST

re: #263 King of the Douche, now you may bow

OMG!! YOU ARE JUST LIKE GLENN BECK!!! Bringing food to people and al!! (this is a joke. All good Samaritan work is not recognized enough)
Sugartree Ministries in Wilmington received 38,000 pounds of food Monday thanks in part to conservative media personality Glenn Beck.
[Link: wnewsj.com…]

I’m not sure you understand. I didn’t bring along a bunch of food with me, I went to a volunteer center— this one a coordination between the Redhook Initiative, which is a local progressive institution and a Baptist Church. We then helped to pack and prepare the meals there and then walked door to door in the projects, which were mostly still without heat or electricity, delivering meals, soap, and other supplies to the people there and checking on their medical condition.

It’s obviously nice to donate food and supplies— if you coordinate, as Beck appears to have done, with the groups that will eventually deliver it, but what I was talking about was the actual action of getting the food to the people themselves, not donating it.

I don’t care about the politics of anyone who’s doing that, and I didn’t inquire. We had gauge-eared OWS dudes working next to old awesomely-be-hatted Baptist church-ladies. And nobody I met was there to get their name in print or try to make themselves look good. They were just there to deliver food to people that needed it and check on them. It was nice to see the virtue in masses of men.