Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Happy upcoming birthday weekend Nancy Freeman!
(See, this is the guys' cop-out way of remembering somebody's birthday. I know it's AROUND Valentine's day and I THINK it's the 13th but I can't be sure and I forgot to look at the list I have with my friends' numbers and birthdays on it.)
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The weather people keep threatening rain for Friday which should make the Alwun House opening pretty special.
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I'm on the downside of a cold which I hope doesn't re-populate itself in my person on Friday if it DOES indeed rain.
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Is anybody surprised that the promised money to the tsunami areas is not flowing like one would hope?
For the life of me I don't understand how charitable things are supposed to work, especially if those things are charity events NOT sponsored by organizations with experience in that sort of thing.
Remember the "Concert for Bangladesh?" George Harrison held a MONSTER concert in 1971 at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the newly-formed (and rapidly starving) country of Bangladesh (which I think now is in Pakistan, right?). Anyway, this being New York, nobody worked for free. And after paying off everybody who wanted to be paid, and paying off the record company who put out the album from the show, and paying this that and the other, and then the AGENTS for the performers wanted their share even though the performers themselves worked for FREE, and in the end the fundraiser wound up in the hole by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lesson learned: Never try to raise money if you don't know what you're doing.
In the case of the tsunami, it appears that charities are coming through but governments who promised money are not.
When this country has a REALLY big boo boo, and it will, it will be interesting to see who comes to our aid and how fast they give it.
TT
(See, this is the guys' cop-out way of remembering somebody's birthday. I know it's AROUND Valentine's day and I THINK it's the 13th but I can't be sure and I forgot to look at the list I have with my friends' numbers and birthdays on it.)
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The weather people keep threatening rain for Friday which should make the Alwun House opening pretty special.
------
I'm on the downside of a cold which I hope doesn't re-populate itself in my person on Friday if it DOES indeed rain.
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Is anybody surprised that the promised money to the tsunami areas is not flowing like one would hope?
For the life of me I don't understand how charitable things are supposed to work, especially if those things are charity events NOT sponsored by organizations with experience in that sort of thing.
Remember the "Concert for Bangladesh?" George Harrison held a MONSTER concert in 1971 at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the newly-formed (and rapidly starving) country of Bangladesh (which I think now is in Pakistan, right?). Anyway, this being New York, nobody worked for free. And after paying off everybody who wanted to be paid, and paying off the record company who put out the album from the show, and paying this that and the other, and then the AGENTS for the performers wanted their share even though the performers themselves worked for FREE, and in the end the fundraiser wound up in the hole by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lesson learned: Never try to raise money if you don't know what you're doing.
In the case of the tsunami, it appears that charities are coming through but governments who promised money are not.
When this country has a REALLY big boo boo, and it will, it will be interesting to see who comes to our aid and how fast they give it.
TT
Comments:
Yeah, I'd agree with you that it's "the government's" fault, especially in light of this associate press article which talks about the bureaucrats in Sri Lanka looting the aid.
deborak
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