Annual Child's Play Charity Drive Begins

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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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Ugh. Spanish everything? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-18 05:49 · Score: -1, Flamebait

California has been suffering from illegal aliens using LA/San Diego hospital emergency rooms for general health issues - so much so that 27 have closed in the last decade. It's not a surprise, everyone knows and accepts the cause - nobody seriously debates it.

Knowing that, what's with all of the Spanish language toys in the San Diego wish-list? Support your paying customers, not the ones killing your damn hospital. Be reasonable, for shit's sake.
1. Re:Ugh. Spanish everything? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-18 07:21 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  It'd be nice if they only allowed English toys to be sent, since that's the predominant language of the nation. The kids will be better off if they learn English primarily.
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.