Republicans have fought every attempt to get more resources to Veterans Affairs; the big money to be made is from lobbyists for military contractors, so that’s who gets the funding.
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Rhetorical…but, yeah. The most worthwhile “charity” for veterans is supporting politicians who will give money to soldiers and not mercenaries, generals and war profiteers.
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Maybe, but probably not a veteran of the US military who works in that sweatshop.
Yes. It contains an element of its own negation. Brilliant, No?
For the record, if the military doesn’t need 11,000 packages of coconut M&Ms, I’ll take 'em.
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I’d say that it is more the symptom of a social/political system that requires so many charities in order to function.
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Save it. Doesn’t the calender repeat in like 60 years or something?
Ironically - M&Ms were developed to get chocolate to GIs in the Pacific that wouldn’t melt. (IIRC). So… if WWII didn’t happen we may not have M&Ms. Thanks, Hitler?
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Why couldn’t they just have bought Smarties? (presumably because rationing, and also because Mr Mars wouldn’t have made lots of money that way)
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Smarties? Those are like tangy sugar candies.
ETA - I guess they could have used Smarties…
“Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the founder of the Mars Company Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets called Smarties, with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941.[2] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey.”
In America, these are Smarties. I love 'em. http://www.candy.com/assets/images/venimg/cede%20candy/smarties.jpg
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I have averred the very same thing, and I stand by it.
Not back in Perfidious Albion. We call those Refreshers. You people are weird.
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Maybe. But the fact of the matter is, individual donors still want to give. And they want and need a way of evaluating the recipients of their gifts, and that doesn’t exist.
You want some lovely Parma Violets. You know you do.
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Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 15 mm (0.6 in).
How Appropriate.
Apparently, though
Smarties are not distributed in the United States, except by specialist importers. This is because the American rights to the brand belong to the Smarties Candy Company, which manufactures its own hard tablet sweet under the registered trademark name Smarties. (In Canada, these are sold using the brand name Rockets.)
and, referencing the M&M article
Forrest Mars, Sr., son of the founder of the Mars Company Frank C. Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets called Smarties, with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting. Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941.[2] Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. When the company was originally founded it was M&M Limited.[3] The two “Ms” represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr., the founder of Newark Company, and Bruce Murrie, son of Hershey Chocolate’s president William F. R. Murrie, who had a 20 percent share in the product. [4] The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate, as Hershey had control of the rationed chocolate at the time.[5]
You just reminded me about AOL.
I remember getting a notice in my PO Box that I had a package to pick up. Drove to the post office, found a parking space, waited in line, handed them the slip, and they handed me a fucking AOL CD-ROM. I wrote them a nasty letter and I don’t recall receiving one ever again (at the PO Box, anyway). Since PO Boxes generally have dedicated zip codes, it should’ve been a simple matter to completely exclude those zip codes.
Some Clempies, I think.
Next you’ll be telling me the Police Protective League has nothing to do with the police. (Insert John Stewart gag of holding finger to ear for update.)
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False advertising. I can only see a regular display. What a shame.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. That is not in any way a ‘BIG DISPLAY’.
Also, M&Ms are pretty good, Smarties not so good. In New Zealand we have Pebbles. They’re my poison.
