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Originally Posted by legion

One of my biggest problems with this is that I have no chance to vet the charity at a cash register and it is often not clear where your money will really go. It is not uncommon for charities with seemingly noncontroversial aims to in turn make donations to charities with clear political ideologies. I can cite several examples of this. Susan G. Komen makes large donations to Planned Parenthood. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), is not affiliated with local Humane Societies and is really a front group for PETA. It is also not uncommon for charities to pay their executives and staffs lavish salaries (and benefits, and travel) and spend very little on their actual cause. It's too easy for a seemingly innocuous request to actually fund something that I vehemently oppose.

This is it for me, lots of charities are really borderline scams. I donate to charity but it's those that I research and choose, not the ones the grocery store guilt trips me into.

Originally Posted by Seahawk

You know what I hate: The goddamned Girl Scouts humping cookies outside every goddamned store in the county!

Birth control, People, birth control.

I mean for the love of god, how dare they make me look them in the eye and tell them to **** off...it is child prostitution for cripes sake.

And the only thing thin about the fat mothers standing behind the little trolls is the Thin Mint cookie crumbs on their K-Mart sweaters.

What is their website, anyway: www.cookiewhores.com!?!

All green ink.

Here is what I say to the cashiers and Girl Scouts: No thanks. Bye.

My daughter was a Girl Scout for a year, you know what those bastards do? They allot you with XXX boxes of cookies, then you have to pick up the cookies and write them a check. Now they become MY cookies that I have to sell to make MY money back. Eff that! Even worse is that now I have a crate full of Thin Mints and Peanut Butter Patties sitting in my dining room, who can resist THAT?

My daughter, btw, did not whore out said cookies in front of the grocery store. The few that I didn't eat went to friends and family. Then the gross ones went to work, because engineers will eat anything.