Question

Is anyone else out there kind of uneasy that a non-profit 501(c)(3) "ministry" like "Focus On The Family" is trademarking the expression "Helping Families Thrive" (TM)?

For a "ministry" ( and I use that term in the law's loosest sense ), doesn't it seem rather....unseemly?

Sort of "God and Mammon" or "Jesus and the Moneychangers" unseemly?

So I think we should ask Jim Daly (above), what is the true slogan of his company? Perhaps what he really should be using is "Business before Belief" or "Money before Morals" or "Lucre before Love"?

I've got it: "Helping Ourselves To Your Finances".

Really I guess they could change the name of the whole money grubbing organization to "Finance Not Families". Then I guess at least we might see some Truth in Advertising".

But I guess I should not have expected more from the organization with its own the gulag in Colorado Springs because what they have forgotten about Christian charity is more than the world will ever know.

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What really bugs me about the Herman Cain sexual harassment story is the media's total inability to explain the law. On CNN last night ( 11/04/11 ), on Andersen Cooper's snoozefest, Gloria Borgia and Jeffrey Tubin both said the story would go away because no specific actions of Herman Cain have been identified to say "he did sexual harassment".

Guys, in the case of sexual harassment, the accused DOESN'T HAVE TO PHYSICALLY DO ANYTHING.

This is a law which says harassment happened when the accuser says it happened.

One of the categories of harassment is "hostile workplace". This means the accuser just has to say she felt uncomfortable and the object of their claim has just about no defense in law that will save him.

You don't have to touch, you don't have to speak - all it might take is a photo on your desk of your wife showing just a little cleavage and "bang!", you are done.

Have none of the so called "pundits" on TV had ANY training in their workplaces on sexual harassment? Some companies say to their employees, "No girlfriend pictures on your desk - because it's best to play it safe".

So to try to protect yourself from false allegations, you sit in an office with a desk, a chair and all white walls - and some bimbo will still say "I felt very uncomfortable in Mr X's office. It felt like he was examining me. You know? Like in a doctor's office. It really creeped me out. I thought he was coming over the desk next. With a speculum and a very slow grin. I had to get out of there!" "Bang!" You are guilty again.

So it doesn't matter what Mr Cain did. It doesn't matter if he perceives he did nothing wrong. It doesn't matter whether 99.9999999% of the population thinks he did nothing wrong. Sexual Harassment as a charge rests solely in the eye of the alleged victim. And once a complaint is levelled, you can't get out from under it.

And if you pay to make it go away, it makes you look guilty.

And "no admission of liability" is just weaselly lawyer-speak that no one but lowlife attorneys believe means ANYTHING.

So the media verdict is "this story is going away". And you know what? If you were a regular Joe, your goose right now would be cooked. And your ability to get ANY new job ( let alone the job of President ) would be very difficult.