After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> They missed the part about Gates initially refusing to audit the
> Foundation's investments for Unethical Stocks, and about how the entire
> premise for that Foundation is likely to be little but a huge tax break
> and good PR:
>
> .----
> | But polio is not the only threat Justice faces. Almost since birth,
> | he has had respiratory trouble. His neighbors call it "the cough."
> | People blame fumes and soot spewing from flames that tower 300 feet
> | into the air over a nearby oil plant. It is owned by the Italian
> | petroleum giant Eni, whose investors include the Bill & Melinda
> | Gates Foundation.
> `----
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Maybe Gates's right hand simply doesn't know what the left hand does?
"AT the end of 2005, the Gates Foundation endowment stood at $35
billion, making it the largest in the world. Then in June 2006,
Warren E. Buffett, the world's second-richest man after Bill Gates,
pledged to add about $31 billion in installments from his personal
fortune. Not counting tens of billions of dollars more that Gates
himself has promised, the total is higher than the gross domestic
products of 70% of the world's nations.
Like most philanthropies, the Gates Foundation gives away at least 5%
of its worth every year, to avoid paying most taxes. In 2005, it
granted nearly $1.4 billion. It awards grants mainly in support of
global health initiatives, for efforts to improve public education in
the United States, and for social welfare programs in the Pacific
Northwest.
It invests the other 95% of its worth. This endowment is managed by
Bill Gates Investments, which handles Gates' personal fortune. ..."
>> It doesn't really matter; what's important is that his company is
>> regularly and consistently lawbreaking
>
> They're thugs:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/05/chair_chucking/
>
> Liars:
> http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo
>
> Thieves:
> http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
>
> And terrorists:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41210
>
> And the self-documented evidence of their criminal mentality is crystal
> clear:
>
> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/index.html
Looks like I was wrong above.
Father, forgive them. But they know what they do!
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Tux rox!
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