Things that piss me off!

[herman2]

Originally Posted by BriteLite

Charities that are con games have been discussed and that subject is my top ranked piss me off presently.

http://gpbnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/...ty-raises.html

Research will uncover the founder is a convicted criminal. He and his family have been fraudulently(my opinion) paying themselves nice salaries for years. What the article does not say is food goods are donated or purchased at heavy discount then SOLD to the needy for $25. Sounds ok but after inspecting the food for my church I found quality severely lacking. For instance, steak cuts contained much bone and in some cases were 50% fat. If put in a grocery display for sale only someone with poor eyesite would purchase. The whole family should be jailed.

Related to this is the avoidance of paying income taxes. In the State of Georgia(USA) anyone can register a non-profit corporation usually a church. You are not required to provide affiliation with another orginaztion. Lets call my church Britelite Ministries Inc. My address can be my home. I can appoint anyone officers(Myself,wife and 2 brothers). Now I setup a for profit business. Any or all income from the for profit is donated to the non profit becoming a 1 for 1 tax writeoff. All the donated funds are parceled as salaries for the officers. Both business' are now free form Federal and State income tax burdens. The officers are now responsible for personal income tax. But if I have a creative accountant all the employees become self employed and can take full benefit of itemized deductions. In the end nobody will pay income tax.

Don't believe me? I am personally aware of a family that does this. The father operates a business grossing almost $1 million dollars yearly. Generates about $600K in net profit. Neither he nor his family have paid income tax in the last 5 years.

Legal but morally wrong. Come to think of it the tax issue just moved up to number 1 on my pissed off list.

Disclaimer: Not my family. I pay my taxes dutifully every year.

This Takes the CAKE!! Why give to Charity when it goes in the pocket of Big Shots! Why I ask you Why! This is Disgusting!!!

Golden parachute eased departure of foundation president this year; charity commits `to transparency'
Toronto Star Newspaper

The SickKids Foundation gave former president Michael O'Mahoney a $2.7 million golden parachute when they showed him the door early this year, documents reveal.The charismatic O'Mahoney, an American headhunted six years ago to lead the charity, received a payout that included his final salary of $600,000 plus a whopping $2.1 million the charity calls "incentive payments" and money to compensate him for leaving before the end of his contract.
Realizing that this payment – which is unlike any in Canadian charity history – may enrage donors, the charity has set up a special phone line for calls from the public.
"This was one of the most difficult years in the history of SickKids Foundation," board chair Patsy Anderson said Wednesday.
O'Mahoney did not return a call to his new office, a charity fundraising consultancy company on Queen St. E. When O'Mahoney left SickKids, he said he was going to attend divinity school and become a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church.
Late Wednesday, he sent a written statement saying his deal with SickKids Foundation stated "the terms of my severance package be kept confidential." He added, though, that the $2.7 million cited by the charity in its financial statements to regulators "represents a sum far greater than the one I was offered."
SickKids is the fundraising arm of the Hospital for Sick Children. Two years ago the Star reported that SickKids was using aggressive, commission-based fundraisers. The practice is frowned on in the charity world. The Star also reported on high salaries such as O'Mahoney's. At the time, Anderson stood by the president, saying he was a skilled leader who was needed for the job. His salary was $612,000 in 2007. By comparison, the president of World Vision, a charity that not only raises funds but undertakes projects worldwide, was $175,000.
When interviewed, O'Mahoney defended his salary, and when asked if he received any additional incentives based on fundraising or other targets, he said he did not.
According to Anderson Wednesday, O'Mahoney was getting these incentive payments – she wouldn't say how much – and they were building up. She said that's part of the reason for the $2.7 million payout. A big chunk of it is also related to a clause in his contract – approved by the board when it hired him – providing for severance pay. Anderson refused to release this contract.
The hospital, she said, "seeks the best researchers. We seek the best foundation executives." In a statement Wednesday, the board said recent measures it has taken "reflect the Foundation's core values of honesty and integrity."
Hired this summer to replace O'Mahoney is Ted Garrard, formerly vice-president (external) of the University of Western Ontario. Garrard told the Star Wednesday he will be paid $400,000, plus another 25 per cent of his base salary if he meets fundraising and management targets. Garrard is paid a bit less than the president of Sick Kids Hospital; O'Mahoney was paid more.
This new wave of disclosure may be a sign philanthropic groups want to boost donor confidence. SickKids called the Star before it published its financial documents.
"We are very committed to transparency," board chair Anderson said in an interview at the foundation's University Ave. offices.
The SickKids Foundation grew under O'Mahoney, but so did its cost of fundraising. Administration and fundraising now costs 40 cents on the donor dollar, the charity said in the statement. Anderson said they are restructuring to bring those costs down.
She pointed out that fundraising revenue grew significantly under O'Mahoney, more than doubling from the $45 million when he took over in 2003. But in the past year, a challenging economy has seen revenues drop to $88 million.
Proof that the charity can be run more cheaply was evident over the past six months. A board member and Toronto business executive, John Francis, who ran the foundation until a full-time president could be found, did the job for free.
The $2.7 million payout to O'Mahoney was a "negotiated resignation," Anderson said.
As part of what she calls "restructuring costs" they also paid $800,000 to some other senior executives the charity let go.
In his statement, O'Mahoney said he is proud of his achievements, which he said included raising fundraising revenues from $43 million in 2003 to $98 million in 2008.

[Rising Sun*]

Among the many (possibly infinite ) things that royally piss me off are people who and organisations which have no sense of humour and choose to treat everything they can find as an assault on their particular area of humourless sensitivity and as validation of their oversensitive sense of martyrdom, ably assisted by the morons commonly known as experts (in search of publicity) and journalists (in search of a beat up).

A CALENDAR featuring cartoons of rabbits committing suicide has been called irresponsible by animal welfare and mental health groups.

The 2010 Calendar of Bunny Suicides by British cartoonist Andy Riley is available through bookstores including Borders and Angus & Robertson and features 12 images of rabbits planning to end their lives with such items as power sockets, flammable substances and knives.

Barbara Hocking, of mental health group SANE Australia, said retailers should refuse to stock the calendars.

"It is being flippant and tasteless around what is a very tragic and important issue," Ms Hocking said.

"Calendars are more public than books because they can hang on the wall for all to see. If a person who has been affected by suicide saw any of those images, they would be very angry."

Ms Hocking said the cartoon pictures sent the wrong message to children and immature adults.

RSPCA spokesman Tim Pilgrim said the black humour undermined the progress of animal welfare.

"The attempt at humour in these books is poor and sets a bad example to the community," he said.

"An animal's welfare is an extremely important issue."

Cartoonist and writer Riley also assisted in writing some episodes of the British comedy show Black Books.

Anyone needing help with personal problems can call 1800 18 SANE (7263).

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...06-661,00.html

Yeah, well, I've been very closely affected by suicide in the past year and I can't see why the calendar shouldn't be published.

Then again, I'm not going to respond to the invitation for anyone needing help with personal problems to call SANE, partly because I'm not likely to launch myself off my trolley because a cartoon fucking rabbit necks itself and I can't tell the difference between the cartoon fucking rabbit necking itself and a human being I love doing the same.

Or maybe there's something wrong with me, that I can't see the difference between a human being and a cartoon fucking rabbit.

Possibly because I am so seriously disturbed that I fail to identify myself with a cartoon fucking rabbit, unlike SANE people.

Perhaps this is why I am reduced to a bit of a snigger every time everyone is reported to be offered counselling every time a newspaper reports someone causing offence by some major offence such as farting in public.

Counselling and other grand interventions by people who have no fucking idea what actually happens in a so called 'critical incident' might be a waste of time, at least for everyone except the useless overpaid consultants offering it to corporations etc. But I'm just judging on the basis of my limited personal experience with some useless 'How did it make you feel' psycho dollies providing some pretty much compulsory bullshit after one mass murder event which didn't quite get off the ground, after the first murder and some other gun violence didn't quite go the way the intended mass murderer and then suicide by police cunt intended.

Meanwhile, judging by media attention, the nation is supposed to get itself as wound up about blackface in a trivial event by a few kids in a school in a schoolyard nobody has ever heard of as the nation should be about a fucking cartoon rabbit in a calendar?

Row over school blackface prank

* Eliza Sum
* From: Sunday Herald Sun
* November 01, 2009 12:00AM

ANOTHER Hey Hey It's Saturday-style race row has surfaced after a photograph showing a group of year 12 students in full blackface was posted on social networking website Facebook.

Four male students from Luther College dressed in singlets, baseball caps and school uniform pants posed on school property in the photograph while parodying stereotypical African Americans.

Although the photograph was taken a month ago on the last day of compulsory winter uniform, the picture was uploaded on Facebook only recently and has remained there.

The incident has occurred weeks after the blackface racism row on the final Hey Hey It's Saturday reunion special, which became the subject of extensive international criticism.

Ignoring the negative historical connotations associated with blackface, the students struck a pose for the photograph and proudly displayed "gang" hand gestures.

A female classmate posted the picture on Facebook, where a former teacher viewed it.

Both the student and former teacher, who do not wish to be named, expressed their disapproval, claiming that the blackface parody was racist.

The former history teacher went on to discuss the incident on Twitter, where he expressed his shock at the behaviour of his former students.

However, he was more surprised by the inaction of the Croydon Hills school, which has a strict racial harassment policy.

"I'm surprised none of the staff said anything," he said.

"Normally the school takes this any kind of harassment very seriously, (so) I don't know how this got past them."

He was quick to defend the moral character of the students, saying that they were "good at heart".

Luther College declined to comment on the issue.This incident follows the suspension of nine Xavier College students and numerous reports of anti-social muck-up day behaviour in the last week.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vic...-1225793134632

[tankgeezer]

There is no telling these sorts of people anything, they are convinced they alone have the job of telling everyone else how to perceive, and respond to whatever the nutter idea of the week may be. There was a similar bleating of the Cloud 9 society here some years ago about a book, and calendar featuring (with equal parts creativity and practicality in my opinion) the manifold uses for deceased cats.