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The Salvation Army makes me happy. Harold took up the collection this year and last (at First Friday at my office, “The Cartoonery”)… and I am happy to report that donations made to Harold’s little coffee can this year topped last year. Thank you to those who were able to give! Joy to you!
Woot! Go Harold!
Pete… yer an angel!
I love that they want to do good, but the SA has such a huge issue with glbt individuals (and won’t distribute to anyone who appears nonstraight) that I haven’t been able to support them for years. Instead I give to other groups that are much more nindiscriminatory.
Gexx… wha-huh? This is the first that I’ve heard of this? If this is so, it’d make me most sad! Poop. And double poop.
Aint that the truth. I hope rye isnt thinking of putting his pointsettia in the bucket.
Religions can be so overwhelmingly consuming that their followers tend to only favor those who support their doctrines. Boy Scouts are known to be highly homophobic themselves, except for many of their leaders who’ve taken to molestations and are noted on some sort of secret list that numbers in the many, many thousands and is only publicly mentioned once every several blue moons. Hmm, both Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are eagle scouts and have served on their boards.
Ryan ought to plant that poinsettia, and use its pot for his own collection.
Jack… goodness, no! I personally wind up killing the ones I buy for my office every year. I hope he has better luck.
stick… sigh. Two organizations that do good and yet…
It just occurred to me that poinsettias are poisonous… and he’s bring it home? where there’s a certain boogerhead cat… an early Christmas gift for Randie? Nah… I’m sure it’s a gift… after all, it’s GOOD tidings.
I think the controversies might be a tad overblown or out-of-contexted. I’ll bet there are people in every organization you can name that believe/do things you don’t agree with. I’ll keep putting money in every kettle I can if it means a hungry person will be fed, and I don’t care if they worship The Mighty Kudzu.
EofO… Smiles! ….and… Who is this Mighty Kudzu?
EofO… The Boy Scouts actually set a major precedent by winning a Supreme Court case which allows them to rightfully exclude gay applicants and or members who admit being such.
My view of Twinks has him being too smart to eat a poinsettia, although I’m not the writer here.
So did R&R learn their lesson, or will there be another apartment fish for Twinks to study?
I love how in another strip, Jon keeps mindlessly bringing new fish for Garfield to munch on…over, and over again.
It’s all for a good cause, although I will say that the guy with the bell looks sort of like a drunk Walt Disney.
brig… I did a quick search and Kudzu is a climbing, coiling and trailing vine native to southern Japan. It’s a nasty, fast growing weed that quickly climbs over trees and shrubs and kills them. On the plus side, it is edible, can be used as hay for livestock, has been used for centuries in making baskets and clothing, helps with erosion control (although it overwhelms all other plant life), enriches the soil it is in, is considered one of 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine and is being studied by Harvard for its effects of stopping alcholic cravings.
Dada… Ha! Maybe the guy needs to chew on a kudzu vine.
Oops…must have been chewing on some kudzu at the time. With the precedent-setting Supreme Court case won by the Boy Scouts…I ment to say that the verdict allows them to LEGALLY exclude gay applicants and kick out extisting members who admit being such. Nothing rightful about it.
Dada… Hmmm… sauced up animators would probably do fine in the position.
stick… Kudzu sounds interesting. Reminds me of Day of the Triffids. Does salt water not kill them?
I don’t want to diminish the good things that the Salvation Army does… nor the Boy Scouts… and I am afeared that there is too much emphasis on their negative points here… “Emily, the children… Christmas day”… (Scrooge reference there when Bob Cratchit’s wife won’t drink to the founder of the feast). Let’s see the good right now.
Good call, brig.
Your bell ringer, as well as real ones, can use nice soda or burger gifts themselves as they tirelessly and selflessly raise funds for their charges. Ringing in a new year as it were.
Maybe Enid has some freshly knitted scarves and mittens about.
Now THAT would be a good deed, stick! … burgers for bell-ringers… hee hee.
Stick– plant the poinsettia where? They’re tropical plants, and Ryan is very much risking it wilting by having out in the cold at ALL.
Dani… Tropical plant that needs warmth…eh? Maybe he can put it up for the time being in a pot over at his Kalamari Kitchen job’s kitchen. Then he has free use of the pot for some good intentioned collecting, and he can always return the plant to the pot once this good deed of whatever day is over.
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/why_you_shouldnt_donate_to_the_salvation_army_bell.php
Yeah 🙁 . Here’s an article that even includes anti-glbt discrimination laws that the SA lobbied for (with money from donations) and a 1st hand account by a man who was denied services until he broke up with his boyfriend. Again, I donate, but often to goodwill, domestic violence shelters, or my local non-discriminatory foodbank/shelter. It’s frustrating seeing people give money to an organization that thinks that I’m *wrong*.
There’s other articles as well if you choose to google ‘salvation army glbt’ which state similar.