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1
Good post. Put your sadness and concern for kids toward some concrete help for kids.
2
Fine charity I'm sure, but using the massacre in Connecticut to raise funds for them is sleazy, plain and simple.
3
Just put in $50. Thanks for giving me something to do.

Also, @2, I'm tempted to call you an asshole, but I just don't have the energy. And maybe you're just pissed like I am about this whole situation and feel like lashing out. But you're barking up the wrong tree. Any time is a good time to help feed starving kids.
4
Hey #3, maybe if we have another massacre tomorrow we can all give $100. Fuckin' sleazebag, you're no better than the wingnuts who blamed it on the lack of God in the schools. Is there nothing you won't use to shake the goddamned money tree?
5
Listen everybody, it's been a rough day. Let's all just get a decent night's sleep and see what tomorrow brings - maybe things will seem a little less awful by then.
6
@4...I'm sorry, man. Hope you have a good night.
8
@2/4: I didn't mean to use the tragedy, in any way. I hesitated about posting about the Charity Challenge yesterday, and I had my colleague Paul Constant help with the post to try to make it appropriate and respectful. We both felt that people might want to do a small, normal, caring thing on such a hugely abnormal, incomprehensible day. We did not mean to sound mercenary. The Charity Challenge is the opposite of that.

@everybody: Thanks for taking deep breaths and trying to understand each other. It is really, really nice to see the kind of empathy @5 and @6. Really nice. Thank you.
9
Didn't mean to use the tragedy? Bullshit. You're no different than the wingnuts who "didn't mean to use the tragedy" to push their religious agenda. Or McGinn who "didn't mean to use the tragedy" to push his re-election.
10
Let me tell you from my past experience using Northwest Harvest's services. They do all these food drives and ask for money, but _none_ of it makes it to the clients served. I'd go there every week and all they would have is a few canned vegetables, potatoes and a bag of rice. I don't know what happens to the stuff that's donated to them, but it never makes it to what's given to clients. Maybe they sell it?! It's a racket as far as I can see.
11
#10, so now we know where those $5 a pound farmers market carrots come from, eh?

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