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September 19, 2024 Click here to mail this page to a friend.
Ignoring Clint Eastwood's advice in "Dirty Harry" that opinions, like certain body parts, are best kept to yourself.
Those St. Jude TV Ads Tear Me Up

The president of Portland, Oregon's Goodwill stores paid himself $830,000 last year, while mentally and physically challenged employees earned minimum wage, and others worked as volunteers.  And, the merchandise is all donated.Seeing those poor little kids with cancer and how terrible it is for the family makes me want to go online and sign up to help.

But, every time I do that, the charity starts flooding me with junk mail begging for more money. I'm convinced most of the $25 bucks a month I'm sending them isn't going to those people needing help, but to cover the cost of the continual postal mailings and emails asking me to give even more. That includes a "bread for the world" promotion pushed by Rick Steves of PBS travel show fame, a Christian shelter for homes men in downtown St.Paul, and the lady sending food boxes to elderly Jewish people in war zones.

I've resisted requests from "Wounded Warriors" after doing some research and finding out the CEO is pulling over half a million a year out in salary, and the CEO of St. Jude has a salary over a million.

I do give my $11 a month to "Tunnels and Towers", the CEO is the man you see on television, and he takes no salary.

Hazel helped every person she could, after she died I heard from people about some of the things she'd done

I remember that time when I was driving out of a Walmart parking lot and there was a young girl holding a baby in a blanket and a small cardboard sign. "Back Up Back Up!!". She said. Yes, it was a real baby, maybe a month old, and girl couldn't be over 20. Her boyfriend had kicked her out, Hazel gave her all the money in her purse and got the last twenty out of my wallet. She worried about that girl for days.

Time for my evening glass of blood-thinner. My cardiologist wants to put me on an expensive pill, but I told him that a little brandy does the same thing.

I think I have the only First Aid kit in the RV park with a flask of brandy in it. For medicinal purposes only, of course.

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