[Milton Miteybad]

Nobody here cares about your psychotic slobbering insanity over this.

No beating around the bush, now. Be direct, please. Say what you mean. ;-)

But seriously, now...I have to agree with you in that ST's efforts to protect the would-be donors to this particular cause from self-induced financial harm bordered on hysterical mania...almost as if he was mental patient who neglected to take his medicine.

What made the whole thing so comical was that here he was, screeching at the top of his voice about how this could be a scam, when one only needed about five minutes of investigation in the form of reading a couple of websites (which he himself apparently failed to do; otherwise, why all the panic) to determine that donating $10.00 or some similar amount presented essentially no risk to anyone so inclined.

[Star Traveler]

A couple of things here ... one is that all of people’s donations will NOT go to the Pizza place. And then the second thing is that I believe it’s preferred to always “go direct”. And then the third thing is that you can personally “guarantee” your funds, and 100% of it, by going direct and you never have to even be concerned if the middleman is a fraud (you don’t have to read a thing). Namely ... it’s a “methodology”.

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One more thing on the “going direct” ... people give money to United Way and are not concerned about it being a scam, but there is still overhead for them handling your money, and even if you’re designating the donation to a particular recipient, money can still be shifted around so to actually get around your designation. If I see something worthwhile from United Way, I never go through them, but go direct! Then I know exactly what is happening, and that ALL my money is going to the recipient!