Gleaning Facebook: Well-Regulated

NRA folks would like to delete that pesky qualifying clause. Have you noticed that they never mention it?

From the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence:
One of our supporters helped the National Rifle Association fix this membership request they sent her...

 

Gleaning Facebook: Non-Profit Millionaires

Nonprofit organizations don’t pay taxes on their net incomes. Their tax-exempt status is the economic equivalent of a subsidy to them, paid by the rest of us. So when nonprofits give their CEOs humongous pay packages, you and I pick up part of the tab. Non-profit hospitals and health insurers are among the worst offenders. It was recently reported, for example, that the CEO of San Francisco-based Blue Shield took home more than $4.6 million last year. Why should taxpayers be subsidizing inequality? My proposal: In order to qualify as a nonprofit, salaries of top executives must not exceed 15 times the median wage (which would cap nonprofit pay this year at around $500,000). What do you think?   - Robert Reich

$4.6 million to head a "non-profit?! That should be criminal. It is a fraud to call an organization non-profit in that situation. That goes for "churches" that build crystal cathedrals and mansions for their "ministers" and "charities" that spend more on salaries and fund-raising than on charity.

Kenneth Copeland's 18,000+ Sq. Foot Lake House in 2011

Comments

Bob Doster

I don't like the high salaries paid to CEO's either, but Mr. Reich did not play fair in his example. This non-profit is not a charitable organization nor a religion. It is an insurance company that is using the tax code to evade taxes.

Donald Murdock
Good point, Bob. I was once CEO of a health related non-profit and chose to take no salary.

Adaïr AIis
You can go to guidestar and see every registered non profit's financial statements to determine which ones to give your money to. There are tons of greedy "nonprofits" out there and their leaders are pretty corrupt. Pretty sad.

Gleaning Facebook: Stream Stomp

We had a great afternoon today along the nature trail at Armuchee Elementary School. Arrowhead, in cooperation with CRBI's Riverkeeper Amos Tuck, led a series of lessons for AES's third graders. Vivian Davis and Marilyn McLean of Arrowhead showed off our alligator, king snake, and a gopher tortoise, Amos Tuck, the "Fish Dude" helped capture some of the fauna of the little stream, including several species endemic to the Coosa River Basin, and I led a walk on the trail and demonstrated the Water Planet's water cycle.

 

Amos Tuck found several species of fish… I'll let him ID them.

Amos performs his trademark Stream Stomp to shoo critters into the net.

Amos performs his trademark Stream Stomp to shoo critters into the net.

If I remember correctly, this guy the is recently IDed Coosa Banded Sculpin.

Gleaning Facebook: A Flower for Mother

 We picked a magnolia blossom for my Mom this morning. Ain't it pretty!

Gleaning Facebook: Wateriest 2014

Terrell Shaw giving the Armuchee environmental quiz bowl team a pep talk before the big competition. If you don't have plans, come out to Coosa River Basin Initiative's Waterfest today! Comments Jaki Day How did AES do on E bowl?
Terrell Shaw Jaki our kids got off to a very slow start, losing the first two rounds, then won four in a row to tie with Trion for first place, forcing a shoot-out (all toss up) round. We lost that. So a very good Trion team won the championship. I am very proud of how our kids worked, how they functioned as a team, and how they showed great sportmanship. They represented AES very well.
Jaki Day Second place is still great...and a close one at that.

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From Coos River Basin Initiative 

Darrell Fedchak

Please tell me there's video of you storytelling

Terrell Shaw

Actually, DJ, a few of my stories have been posted on YouTube

The Biggest Hickory Log in Adams County:

http://youtu.be/-sUhi3f9K2Y

Pigtales (1):

http://youtu.be/JTQ4kavtLWw

Pigtales (2):

http://youtu.be/6oUu7ay-AZw

Darrell

Thanks, Mr. Shaw!

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Took a pic after we set up the tent this morning. Then I didn't see it again till after the Quiz Bowl! But Gary Greene and Bob Harris tag-teamed with stories from ten till noon. At one, I told my story "Yellow Tail" with which I won the Big Fibber award in April. About twenty folk gathered in and around the tent for that, and it was also broadcast throughout the Waterfest grounds.

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Rose McDonald Darby
Do you have any CD's of your stories?

Terrell Shaw
I'm working on that, Rose. 

I discovered yesterday that a local big box office supply place had their banners on half-price, and on a whim decided to just audaciously create a banner for our guild. I thought it turned out well. I picked it up from the Cartersville store at nine last night.
I wonder if anyone took pics during storytelling. Probably not.

Just before we took down the tent Sheila took my picture with the sign I made for River Tales (after midnight last night, with typical timeliness.