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Annual Child's Play Charity Drive Begins

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 18, 2004 @05:35AM from the from-one-geek-to-another dept.

Many, many thanks to the gentlemen at Penny Arcade for the kickoff of their now annual Child's Play Charity Drive. The drive is intended to hook up willing people in our community with children's hospitals across the country, to spread some geeky christmas love to young folks that need it. This year the drive extends across the country, and you can donate toys to hospitals in Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Houston, and D.C.. Tycho has a little startup post on Penny Arcade, as well.

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Re:Children's hospitals--too easy. by araemo · 2004-10-18 06:14 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Just a quick one, because this touches on a personal pet peeve:

Why should we, as americans(No, the parent posters may not be american, but myself and the PA guys are..) help other countries before we help ourselves?

We run around the world causing wars and causing hardship, then spend 10 years doing a half-assed job at cleaning it up.. all because we believe we are morally superior..

Yet we let many of the same 'wrongs' we say we are going to war to end persist in our own country. Fix our country first, THEN fix the rest of the world.