Charity can be a very deceptive thing. The Walmart in which I no longer shop is adorned with quote from Helen Walton, "It's not what you gather, it's what you scatter." When one nasty family gathers trillions through theft of labor and other unethical and illegal tricks, it is easy to look good by scattering about a few million in philanthropic donations. These do not put an appreciable dent in the problems they have caused; they are only cheap pr sleights of hand.

The charity strategy of the right is an integral part of their fundamental deception crafted by the robber barons of the Gilded Age. First, through their consummately greedy and rapacious policies, they destroy the lives of a third to half the people in the country. Then, after they had secured their third vacation home, replaced last year's yacht with a new one, and accumulated enough money to bailout a bankrupt country, they ostentatiously donate to charitable causes, thus rescuing perhaps one hundredth the number of people they have harmed. They still rape the environment and their fellow humans, but do so while taking public acclaim for how charitable they are, and salving what little conscience they have.

I ordered the Tamron 150-600 from Amazon Sept. 10th -
They told me to expect it to be delivered between Oct. 8th and 29th -
Well it didn't happen -
They sent me a message that they may have it buy Jan. 29th.
I canceled the order because I got mad !
Checked on-line and a Charlotte camera store said they had one in stock.
Well I called and it was gone.
They took my number and said they would call me when they got one in.
Well they called me today (one week later) and said that it was in.
Will pick up my new Tamron 150-600 in the morning (Tuesday)
Got it in one week ....