Would Red Cross Pimp Out Children?
by Bret JacobsonYou gotta hand it to most politicians: only seven Senators stuck by ACORN and the White House is doing its best to bail on the group caught on tape helping James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles in their (thankfully fake) effort to set up prostitution rings involving children.
Pols know when to let a disaster occur without getting themselves mussed. But not so with the hard-charging, uber-wealthy lefty funder who has been enabling ACORN’s seedy action for decades. Drummond Pike, longtime head of the Tides funding mechanism, has come out swinging at Fox News for attacking ACORN. In fact, he goes so far as to claim:
I wonder how many nonprofit organizations — even big, well-heeled ones like the Nature Conservancy or the Red Cross — could withstand the kind of media assault and unscrupulous tactics deployed by Fox? I doubt many could.
One wonders what Mr. Pike knows about the Red Cross that we do not. We have generally been under the impression they work to alleviate suffering, rather than foster it.
When news was about to break that Pike helped hide the embezzlement of nearly $1 million by the brother of ACORN’s founder, the order was “keep your yaps shut.” That would have been good advice here, rather than lashing out at legitimate charities and dragging their good names into ACORN’s sordid story.
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All is not roses with Red Cross too. They now know most of the locations terrorists are held in Iraq and I'm pretty sure theya re working very hard to help those bastards. In fact, every non profit is suspicious.
I guess that is an admission that FOX News is the best news organization around. Thanks for the endorsement Mr. Pike!
Dude. I'm so sorry. I meant to give you a thumbs up and hit the wrong button.
Wow, you have to wonder how much he is profiting off of ACORN and it's subsidiaries?
Dam need new headline – "Drummond Pike accuses Red Cross of illegal activites" –
As Rham say's Mr. Drummonds, "Don't let a good crisis go to waste."
The Left loves to use the tu quoque argument, rather than fix a problem…
Drummond Pike, answer the questions!
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I've taken a lot of heat over the years for my disdain for the Red Cross. They have some crosses to bear themselves.
I’m happy for corruption to be found out wherever it is, but if your only defense is that “everyone else [probably] does it” you’ve basically declared “no contest.”
This nursery-school logic that says I won’t be held to *any* standards as long as I can claim someone else is guilty of something just reeks.
Haul them to the public square, put them in stocks, and let the population see the face of corruption.
It may not end corruption, but it will give some cause to think.
Therefore propagating child prostituion is legit, because other charities aren't perfect……..Grow a pair Mr. Pike!
Alinsky Rule #3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
The media is looking for an angle that can exculpate their friends. They don’t want to give a victory to the conservative side. They simply can't fathom that conservatives could be right, so they dig in deeper.
Mr. Pike must be frolicking in stench of garbage of corruption with ACORN. Chill out. You better take time smelling your own excrement. Mr. Pikes, go get a real job like everybody else and produce something really good for mankind.
F'ing unreal! No, nobody should survive this kind of assult–as it should be! Don you want to bring a organization that abets CHILD SEX SLAVERY down??
Oy!
Breitbart: “As we go from ACORN office to ACORN office they seem to be experts at facilitating crime. And how to help the underclass work the system as best they can”
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ne...
This is ORGANIZED CRIME, investigate! It’s a national mafia.
How many people that were employed by the UN have been charged with possessing child porn or somesuch?
If the UN didn't get involved in any country's business? Would the rates of prostitution/child prostitutes decline?
Cut out the cancer and the body has a chance to survive.
I guess he is going back thorugh years of files and pictures to see what and where he was with this gropu called ACRON… That's what Mr. Pike should be worried about…..
hey what's that …. look, in front of ACORN building ….
http://www.shredit.com
I hope to see pic someday .. that would be great !!!
All funding for all organiztions foriegn and domestic needs to stop-Acorn, AARP, Red Cross, faith based initatives, it doesn't matter if they lean right or left. They are breeding grounds for corruption and perpetuate the power and the priviledge of those who are in office. We are all being played for fools.
Damn straight, the problem is that not every newspaper and station in the country is not trying to pull this thing down.
Burn baby burn!
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YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN SOME OF THE TAX RETURN CHECKS WE CASHED THIS YEAR IT WAS FOR UNBELIVEABLE AMOUNTS OF MONEY.NO WAY IN HELL SOME OF THESE PEOPLE GOT THIS MUCH MONEY BACK.UNLESS IT WAS CROOKED AS HELL
Hannah, James, next stop Salvation Army. Let's test that hypothesis. And just to make things interesting, how about we all agree that if they pass, all funding which would go to ACORN goes to them. That ring anyone's bell?
Acorn vs. the Red Cross? Ha! When I was in the Army, the Red Cross delivered messages to soldiers who were out of reach of telephone or computer. They have done more good in the world than Acorn could ever… or would ever do. The comparison is laughable. I wonder if Mr. Pike actually had a straight face while saying this. If so, he should go to Hollywood. Hell, he’d fit right in!
Drumond Pike mentions the Nature Conservancy; that Institution is nothing but Liberal Fascist Fraud, masquerading as a legitimate orginazation. They have done more to erode private property rights in this country than any other organization. It is run by uber-Liberal ultra-Elitist Trust Fund babies. It is a fraud,and a sham. Nothing more than one more tax exempt 501(c)3 Corporation, milking the system with tax exempt status. Quite frankly, everyone of these shams should be investigated. If they do not pass the smell test, let the chips fall where they may and shut 'em down……..
Hey Bret,
When the truth will out, you sure look like a real Pile, your trying to blame the video journalists.
As for Obama,
"Tell me of your friends and I will tell you who you are"
"I wonder how many nonprofit organizations — even big, well-heeled ones like the Nature Conservancy or the Red Cross — could withstand the kind of media assault and unscrupulous tactics deployed by Fox?"
Hopefully there will be more "FRINGE MEDIA" that will lead the war on graft …….MR PIKE
He mentioned the Nature Conservancy but he could have mentioned any and most of the environmental agency in the corruption racket and he would have been right. The amounts of money poured into this organizations from private, local, state and federal sources would be a major surprise to most of the people in this country, and they produce nothing useful, and more often than not take major liberties and rights away from the American public.
Fox news carried a news story that no other "FRINGE MEDIA" would not care to air
In case you misunderstand "Main Stream media, reports both sides of a issue
"FRINGE MEDIA" reports basics Such as ABC, MBC, CBS, MSMBC, to name a few
Hey Lefties
1. Pose as a prostitue, pimp
2. Ask for help starting a child sex slave business
Now do this at all of the convervative charity organizations, heck do it a the non-partisan ones.
3. Be prepared to sing old man river, love wearing orange, be confined to very small rooms and getting sodomized every night for the next 25 years by big angry guys with tats
Ok that last part was probably fairly exciting for most of you of on the left, but you get the point, you'd be in jail by 5pm that evening.
The left truly are criminaly stupid or insane, you take your pick both get you to the same place.
There's a difference between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US, domestic Red Cross.
For it to be organized crime, doesn't it have to be, you know, organized? What evidence has there been that anyone who runs ACORN or has any power in the organization organized anything bad at all? If you are an organization with 400,000 members, you're going to have some bad seeds. This is like piling on law enforcement because some of their officers are corrupt – and trust me, there were a heck of a lot more law enforcement officers arrested last year for criminal activity than there were ACORN workers. That doesn't mean that we should disband them, or that most of them aren't great, patriotic Americans.
If there were any ACORN leaders that got indicted, or any major fraud perpetrated by large networks within ACORN, then this witchhunt would make sense to me. But to go over their 400,000 members and find out that 5-6 of them are idiots that give illegal advice….I don't see what the big deal is.
To quote Bob Dylan…"It don't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
The next line should be:
When your sure you're right, and you're on the left, then anything goes!
I can't believe these people can pretend that any behaviour is OK, as long as it furthers the agenda.
How can anyone believe that: "Prostitution and Child Traficing ain't all that bad if it gets us where we want to go", and that somehow the people who shine the light on it are worthy of rebuke?
Boy is that backwords logic.
Sure hope there are Pulitzers in the future for Okeefe and Giles!
Speaking of 'charities'…
1Cr 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, – and have not charity (love) – it profiteth me nothing. (child prostitution is not love)
Golden Rule: Unless you know for certain where your donated dollars are going – do not give to them.
I believe it is important for Christians to make note of that Scripture since it has often been said that they are among the most giving.
If Mr. Pike is correct, then the Red Cross also should be defunded and prosecuted. I do not see how that would in any way benefit ACORN. Also, if Mr. Pike is correct, he certainly should be sharing with the law his reasons for suspecting the Red Cross or any other organization.
ACORN and it's affiliates have criminal and civil charges going back years….YEARS. But they are smart and have lots of money to pay lawyers and politicians to keep their evil corrupt business going.
This expose by two jr. journalists (NOT FOX) is just the latest.
These two young Americans did this on their own and with their own money. They did something that so called media corporations wouldn't do. They did something that we should all be proud of them for.
It is a shame that the UN can't be brought down because it also is one of the world's most corrupt organizations.
Many have tried to get them convicted but their status and reach so far has defied any thing other than individual convictions. At the very least the U.S. should kick them out of our Nation. Let them find a hole somewhere else.
Papa Ray
I'l be the first to admit I belive many organizations as the nature conservency, sierra club, WWF, Greenpeace and so many other environmental organizations are frauds. And should be investigated for that. But, even I don't think they would try to help someone get a start in child sex slavery.
But if you know something we don't. Please speak up. Even if it's the red cross.
The only group I can think of that might condone, help, and allow child sex slavery and genocide is the UN. And I'm all for defunding them.
The last I heard the red cross became the red crescent. Any news on the status?
Don't think by defunding ACORN it is a big Victory this is the link Bret Jacobson provided. In 1997 congress defunded ACORN. Lots more work to do.
Tides 'transparency'
"Keep your yaps shut."
That's what people working for two left-wing groups were told when word started to filter out that the head of another benefactor of "progressive" causes was going to bail out one of the groups stung by an embezzlement scandal.
Drummond Pike, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation, agreed to buy a nearly $1 million promissory note from the family of Wade Rathke, founder and recent leader of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, reports The New York Times.
Wade Rathke sits on the Tides Foundation board. (And Pittsburgh's Heinz Endowments, chaired by ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry, funded Tides with more than $8 million between 1994 and 2005.)
Mr. Rathke's brother, Dale, embezzled $948,507.50 from ACORN. The theft was discovered in 2000. Law enforcement never was notified. Instead, the Rathke family was allowed to work out a deal to repay the money. "That agreement was carried on the books of an affiliate, Citizens Consulting Inc. (CCI), as a loan to an officer," The Times says.
Last month, ACORN and CCI officials were told to "keep your yaps shut" about the dealings in a confidentiality memo, the newspaper says.
Which is quite an irony for a bunch of leftists who have been known to yap at others for their lack of transparency.
There's also the Hippocratic Oath, which I'm pretty sure is required to be a doctor. (Not to be confused with the Hypocrytic Oath, which I'm pretty sure is required to be a politician.) They may be terrorists, but technically, they're still people too.
Someone else suggested they try the NRA. Let's do that one, too.
Amazing the changes that these two young intrepid people have wrought. Who would have thought of the tremendous domino like impact they would cause in the government. They have done more in their lifetime than most so called experienced journalists and anchorpersons have affected through their "news" reporting. Hannah and Jim have done a great service to American people, unlike many senators and representatives who have corrupted America at taxpayers expense.
Notice the concerted Narrative: Fox News is behind this. Never mind that it was actually two twenty-somethings on a shoestring budget, with the help of a blogger. This is the line we'll be hearing repeatedly from the LSM, together with the bogus "few rotten apples" defense– ACORN: innocent victim of Eeeeevil White Republican smear tactics.
In fact, NBC and the NYT are already doing it.
Ask and ye shall receive.
http://www.acorn8.org
Using children for sex must be troubling liberals. Nightline devoted their entire time last night to "expose" male pedophiles in Cambodia. You know, as opposed to noticing an organization that was helping it in the US.
Quite impressive, looked like they used a segment intended for 20/20 or Primetime. Maybe they had to open up some prime time space to talk of the "urgent need" for health care reform. Again.
Then there the "Red Crescent" branches where they try not to offend the Muslims. Being as they are sensitive to local politics to keep operating, who knows what "concessions" they end up making?
Then there are the "Red Crescent" branches where they try not to offend the Muslims. Being as they are sensitive to local politics to keep operating, who knows what "concessions" they end up making?
It happens. Hey, you took personal responsibility, so you are better than the libs! Cheer up!
To me it's one thing for these other media outlets to just not cover it but to pretend they know nothing about it like Charles Gibson. Come on! You can't tell me that he heard nothing about it. He was just trying to cover his own butt so it didn't look like they just made a conscience decision not to cover it.
As reported at Pittsburgh Trib On-line – "Keep your yaps shut."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/op...
"Keep your yaps shut."
That's what people working for two left-wing groups were told when word started to filter out that the head of another benefactor of "progressive" causes was going to bail out one of the groups stung by an embezzlement scandal.
Drummond Pike, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation, agreed to buy a nearly $1 million promissory note from the family of Wade Rathke, founder and recent leader of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, reports The New York Times.
Wade Rathke sits on the Tides Foundation board. (And Pittsburgh's Heinz Endowments, chaired by ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry, funded Tides with more than $8 million between 1994 and 2005.)
Mr. Rathke's brother, Dale, embezzled $948,507.50 from ACORN. The theft was discovered in 2000. Law enforcement never was notified. Instead, the Rathke family was allowed to work out a deal to repay the money. "That agreement was carried on the books of an affiliate, Citizens Consulting Inc. (CCI), as a loan to an officer," The Times says.
Last month, ACORN and CCI officials were told to "keep your yaps shut" about the dealings in a confidentiality memo, the newspaper says.
Which is quite an irony for a bunch of leftists who have been known to yap at others for their lack of transparency.
Got some specifics?
Or, they know we are right about ACORN being dirty but they have a fondness for rolling around in mud. How many ads does the SEIU buy from them? Stamp out ACORN, trace the corruption to SEIU and others, bye-bye ad revenue.
Drumond Pike — Another rich, WHITE, limosine liberal.
Why are all these folks at the very top of the ACORN organization rich WHITES?
–Modern day plantation owners that want to pay their slaves with our tax dollars!
…and they have the gall to call us, (and now the Red Cross) "Racists."
I know of a job for him – prison work detail. He should be qualified for picking up trash from the road.
And failed miserably.
I have had personal dealings with them. But, since you asked…
I evacuated to a hurricane shelter one year. They charged for donuts, coffee and for the use of blankets. Being a prepared person, it wasn't an issue for me, but a lot of people just left home in a hurry and didn't even have the money for coffee and donuts.
My father gave blood regularly for decades and decades. They humiliated him in public and refused to take his blood when he about 65 because he had a skin condition- one he had had ALL his life. He was devastated and they refused to review the decision. He was not and never had been contagious in any way. His blood could have and maybe had saved a life.
I also don't like the fact that they sell donated blood. Or, how political they have become.
We donate blood directly to local hospitals. And, if surgery is needed we donate ahead of time.
Disgusting – the lengths these libs will go to – to liken the Red Cross to ACORN?
Meanwhile, he's flying around in a private jet!
Baby, bath water. The Red Cross and the Salvation Army do good work for people in real need, there are others. Now, I would love for such work to be entirely private funded, as charity should be. After we free up the money eaten by this ridiculous liberal taxation, then we can talk about that.
this is wats so funny…. this Pike douche has only made his self look incrediably STUPID… come on the only ones defending ACORN are the ones who are about to get exposed in some shit to do with ACORN… thats y they are fighting so hard to bash fox news… they want so badly for something to fall through, and thanks to these kids it wont, they want it to fall through so bad because they have things of their own tied into ACORN… I wonder how many underage prostitutes drumond pike has smuggled in through ACORN… tisk tisk goverment officals u were caught with ur thumbs up ur ass and a hand on the tit of a prostitute!!!
According to libs, the red Cross is bad. They reject gay blood donors.
As a Soldier deployed in support of OIF and OEF, I have no problems with what the Red Cross, or Red Crescent, is doing. The Red Crescent is merely and extension of the ICRC, and has a rightful place in doing what they do. The ICRC is a non-partisan, neutral organization that has both sides in this war respect.
The blood may be donated for free but the costs of collecting and processing it are enormous. Virtually every scrap of trash at a blood drive is labeled bio-hazardous waste, thus all those red trash bags. Then there are the trained professionals doing the collecting. During the processing they have a whole host of diseases they have to screen for. Etc. It has to be paid for somehow and private donations do not cover the bill. Now, which would you rather have, that cost getting billed to the user, or government paying for it with tax dollars, especially with their tendency to take things over at three times the operating cost?
Was it specifically the skin condition or a medication he took for it? The list of what they have to screen for keeps changing, growing, as new medical research gets incorporated. Sure, they are paranoid about practically everything, but last I checked we have the safest blood supply on the planet. And they have been bit before by waiting to act until the research is positive something is a problem, or assuming their screening test for something will always catch it. You can get kicked off for life for a false positive for HIV even when the more-expensive and better follow-up test reads negative. They are not rewarded for taking chances.
So during a hurricane they were running a canteen and trying to cover their costs? That is a big issue?
Oh, check with your hospital. Ours takes blood anytime, and sends it to the Red Cross for processing. They are very efficient at it and local hospitals are most likely not set up to do all the work themselves.
For what it's worth, I want to offer an alternative to ACORN…it is a group called LIFT (formerly NSP)
Their website: http://www.nspnet.org/
I volunteered for them in college (@ Northwestern) and have managed charitable drives on their behalf. No agenda except to help people in trouble (legally!!) navigate the world. It can be low income people, but also people who lack skills, or find them selves in difficult situations, to the elderly. They help with everything from resumes and jobs, to internet skills, to applying for help from charities or social services.
ACORN is wicked and all it's branches need to be, in the words of another organizer "cast into the fire".
But there is nothing squirrelly about LIFT! http://www.nspnet.org/
Keep up the good works!
For what it's worth, I want to offer an alternative to ACORN…it is a group called LIFT (formerly NSP)
Their website: http://www.nspnet.org/
I volunteered for them in college (@ Northwestern) and have managed charitable drives on their behalf. No agenda except to help people in trouble (legally!!) navigate the world. It can be low income people, but also people who lack skills, or find them selves in difficult situations, to the elderly. They help with everything from resumes and jobs, to internet skills, to applying for help from charities or social services.
ACORN is wicked and all it's branches need to be, in the words of another organizer "cast into the fire".
But there is nothing squirrelly about LIFT! http://www.nspnet.org/
Keep up the good works!
Not necessarily. The IRS had a new "First Time Homebuyers Credit" of $8000 if the taxpayer(s) purchased a home during 2008 or early 2009. (The closing had to be final before the credit could be claimed.) This resulted in *some* taxpayers receiving very large refunds, legitimately. If they would have gotten a $6,000 refund (not unusual in some circumstances) normally, then bought a home and got the credit, they would be cashing a check for $14,000.
Poor Charlie….Somebody should shoot an email over to him, or is he still using the telegraph machine…ACORN AGAIN ORGANIZING CHILD SEX SLAVERY STOP TAX AND MORTGAGE FRAUD STOP ABC NEWS SCOOPED BY YOUNG CONSERVATIVES WITH NO BUDGET STOP YOU LOOK LIKE JACKASS STOP
ACORN: Community Organized Crime…sunlight is the best disinfectant…RICO! RICO! RICO! RICO!
"We have generally been under the impression they [i.e. the Red Cross] work to alleviate suffering, rather than foster it."
Love it!!
My last name is Pike… Sorry folks, there's a few in every family.
I understand all that you say.
No, it wasn't any medicines he was on. It was ignorance.
Hearing a bunch of scared and hungry kids wanting donuts they couldn't have in the middle of a hurricane and denying to RENT blankets, probably donated, to desperate people, doesn't sound quite as nice as running a canteen to recoup money.
They were at ground zero of a disaster, I hardly think that was the time to run a so called canteen.
The costs you talk about should come from their operating budget from all the donations from private and public places. Maybe they could cut back on some of the big salaries at the top and give needy kids a flipping donut. Maybe run a few less commercials.
The Red Cross is a bloated bureaucracy. Maybe they do a better job overseas like a lot of charities do, such as the Lion's Club which doesn't even operate in the US anymore. Maybe they are afraid of lawsuits.
I don't know, but what I do know is I will never allow any one of my family to need the Red Cross or FEMA. I've put a lot of effort into that pledge.
I have a big problem with them. That is my opinion. I won't be dissuaded. After being at a disaster scene, I've made up my mind.
Thanks for asking.
Granted. But there have been isolated incidents over the years that should otherwise qualify as "aiding and abetting" with some distasteful things done to maintain that respect. I know it is a tough line they must walk to stay accepted by all sides, but there have been instances where a lot of grief would have been spared if someone had made an "anonymous" tip. Being absolutely neutral does have a human cost.
And how many donuts did you buy for those kids?
Apparently he does not know much about the internet, maybe computers period. Leave this one to the cable channels, when it is breaking online?
Happy to report that I didn't buy a single donut. I brought enough cookies to share with my near floor/bedfellows. I said, I came prepared. I will always share, if I can, but I won't do without if I can't.
I believe Chuckles Gibson calls them \”the cabblers\”… it's kind of pitiful to be obsolete and not know it.
So, can you see the problem now?
You have complained they have not handed out stuff for free, after all the money is not coming out of their pockets but from elsewhere. Sound familiar?
You are ready to share if you can, so do so. If you do not want to support a bloated national bureaucracy, you do not have to. You can direct donations to your local chapter, and you are willing to help locally, you can even specify what program it is for, like disaster relief. If enough people do so then they will not have to charge for donuts to stay afloat. It could even free up general funds for other things, like lower-cost to free blood.
Go to give.org, the BBB-equivalent for charities. The American Red Cross is a big organization with paid professional staff, and cutting their wages sure will not help much if at all. Check their report, their percentages, see where their money goes and how much. Then do what you are already willing to do, help those next to you. Or, wait for Barry and the libs to take your money to fill the same needs, at government efficiency levels with governmental levels of transparency and accountability.
Your call.
That sounds like an excellent idea. Let's take down the Nature Conservancy next. How can I help?
The Red Cross has perpetrated the image that they are there to help. Before an emergency they don't tell you to show up with money for them. So, people show up, perhaps expecting that they might get donuts or whatever. Maybe, it would be a much better idea to tell people in advance that they need to bring money to get help from the Red Cross. Maybe, they would be more prepared- if they weren't expecting a handout.
While I get your general point and I wholeheartedly agree that charity begins at home, which is what it all boils down to, I don't agree that I HAVE to wait for BO or anybody else.
I can work to change this admin and I can prepare and I can do what I am able to do to help. I do, however, also agree with Ayn Rand to some extent in at least one point: Altruism leads to dependence.
Ideally, people would prepare and not put themselves in a bad situation, if at all possible. THEN the funds and groups meant to help, could concentrate on the truly needy people, who for no fault of their own need help. For those capable of helping themselves and refusing to do so they just become a burden.
Why does the government and the Red Cross tell us to prepare while government makes laws against people having "hoarded" too much? (their definition)
Why does the Red Cross not tell you in advance that they charge?
Because they want us to be dependent. They want us to NEED them. They don't want us to actually be able to take care of ourselves for a long period of time.
In an emergency they can come and take from you anything they want and redistribute it. I could go and find the Bush's Executive Order, but it isn't too hard to find if you want it.
Bottom line- I don't like the Red Cross and I don't trust them or FEMA.
They would if ACORN ran the show!
Not even child prostitution has bothered many liberals, which is very revealing.
There's a fundamentally dark (not in the sense Charlie Rangel would think I mean it) force motivating the left in America, as in "Create a Godless Nation? YES! WE! CAN!" at <a href="http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/…” target=”_blank”>http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/…
Keep up the excellent work!
It's getting scarey out there Congress… Go into a room – grab a glass of wine and listen…. think of what you have become – how you sold your soul for the almighty dollar …
Be afraid, be very afraid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9852hq0W0
Come on IRS – dam ! this blog have given you more that you need!!!!
We need a camera in front of the Red Cross asking them to commnet on Mr. Pike's comments ….
Yeah, but FED / IRS being run by Timothy Geitner – he's crooked too, didn't know how to use TurboTax! Gonna be hard to get this investigated. Meanwhile, while we're distracted, I watched the POTUS effectively dismantle the long range missile defense system. He's taking over everything – we need to keep pressure up because it's their tactics. And Saul Alinsky. – But we're too busy talking about ACORN, RACISM AND HEALTHCARE. We have to keep our eyes everywhere, all the time.
So when will you guys release the full tape, and not just pieces? Because Acorn is claiming that A) they knew it was a sham and were just screwing with you (one employee claiming she shot her husband when she did not) and B) claiming that she asked if you were journalists.
If she did ask this, it should be on tape. Prove it isn't. If she did ask that, I'd pretty much say that she was totally leading you on. It's pretty hard to believe that anybody would fall for those outrageous costumes. It's possible, but I want more proof.
Not exactly, this is like trying to beat a DUI rap by saying the cops would have found something on his neighbor if they had been the one pulled over. Maybe, but it still makes sense they pulled over the one who hit at least five parked cars, not the one who was driving straight and following the rules.
Isn't Teresa Heinz Kerry on the board of the Tides Foundation? Now there's another foundation that deserves closer scrutiny.
Yup, you sure got your mind set.
So next time a house burns down and the Red Cross puts them up for a few days, as I hear quite frequently on the local news, they can be comforted knowing they cannot get one more day, no matter their situation, because there are people out there worried about fostering dependency and upset about charging for donuts.
Wonderful.
The blood may be donated for free but the costs of collecting and processing it are enormous. Virtually every scrap of trash at a blood drive is labeled bio-hazardous waste, thus all those red trash bags. Then there are the trained professionals doing the collecting. During the processing they have a whole host of diseases they have to screen for. Etc. It has to be paid for somehow and private donations do not cover the bill. Now, which would you rather have, that cost getting billed to the user, or government paying for it with tax dollars, especially with their tendency to take things over at three times the operating cost?
Was it specifically the skin condition or a medication he took for it? The list of what they have to screen for keeps changing, growing, as new medical research gets incorporated. Sure, they are paranoid about practically everything, but last I checked we have the safest blood supply on the planet. And they have been bit before by waiting to act until the research is positive something is a problem, or assuming their screening test for something will always catch it. You can get kicked off the donor rolls for life for a false positive for HIV even when the more-expensive and better follow-up test reads negative. They are not rewarded for taking chances.
So during a hurricane they were running a canteen and trying to cover their costs? That is a big issue?
Oh, check with your hospital. Ours takes blood anytime, and sends it to the Red Cross for processing. They are very efficient at it and local hospitals are most likely not set up to do all the work themselves.
Pike! I thought that was a fish.
Didn't Michael Dukakis keep telling us about a fish rotting from the head down?
Soooo…The Boy Scouts of America is demonized, hounded, ridiculed, cut out of federal, state, and local funding mechanisms, chased out of United Way funding, evicted from Philadelphia offices, etc., etc. for taking a stand on one of its original principles. Of course, it's an insidious organization dedicated to promoting obsolete standards like: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent, all of which are obviously values that would corrupt our youth.
Simultaneously ACORN and God knows how many other corrupt "community" organizations get millions in taxpayer funded freebies, carte blanch to promote cat houses, crack houses, trafficking in children, tax dodging, and a pass on all other obligations to obey the law as long as they make sure they deliver votes.
What's wrong with this picture? it's nauseating. Time to reclaim the asylum from the lunatics.
IMO the Non Profit idea has become completely politicized and needs to be sropped. Every organization needs a thorough investigation, none to be exempt including all Tax Free Trust…starting with Pew, Ford, Tides and all Religious NP Orgs too!
The ARC does have products with it's name on the label produced in china. A country that forces women to have abortions , up to and including the 9th month of pregnancy, if they already have a child.
Did you mean to say all federal funding? Or tax payer funding?
Because, you know, when someone comes into your place of business and you think they're screwing with you, you don't kick them out, you… play along.
Are you kidding? ACORN and all of it's "affiliates" are piggy banks for the rich elite handlers like Drummond Pike, Wade and Dale Rathke. Furthermore, they run a sweat shop kind of organization and pay their employees crap, abuse employees etc. I would venture to say they are running a modern day slave trade.. all the wealth goes to the top to fight the very same thing that the Rathkes are. They are using poor Blacks to make themselves rich. Did you know that Wade Rathke founded SEIU? For revealing info visit web.archive.org and plug in any of the following domains: acorn.org, waderathke.org, chieforganizer.org – makes for some fun reading!
We need to think twice about the American Red Cross. I recently found a job posting that connected the American Red Cross with AmeriCorps (brown shirts, Hitler Youth). They actually called me yesterday asking me to donate blood but I'm not sure I will donate blood to them again. I'll find another organization to donate blood to that has nothing to do with the corruption and fascism of this administration. Here is the job posting that I saw in the Albany, NY area.
http://regionalhelpwanted.com/Search/detail.cfm?S...
Absolutely! All of the government run agencies that provide so called "help" should be disbanded and the money that goes to fund these "aid" agencies given back to the American people! Individuals on their own will ALWAYS do a better job than ANY government run bureaucracy!
Shut 'em ALL down!
The Red Cross does not receive federal funding, unlike ACORN.
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