Face painting at the Democratic tent
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 14:12
Volunteers are painting faces at the Democratic tent at the Woodbridge Firemen's Carnival
Pulpit Freedom Sunday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 09:03As I was reading the blogs this morning, I stumbled across Bill Reichart’s blog post about Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Here is the comment that I added to the discussion there.
My wife works for a secular non-profit advocating on specific legislation related to the beliefs of members of the organization.
As such, they regularly speak about issues that matter to them, but cannot endorse specific candidates.
If they wish to endorse specific candidates, they need to change their status from being a non-profit 501(c)3 to being a taxable 527.
Leaders and their members are free to say whatever they want. However, if they engage in electoral politics they lose their tax exemption.
I believe that the same should apply to any organization, no matter what their beliefs, and organizations that willfully and flagrantly violate the tax code should lose their tax exemption.
If pastors want to chose who the next Caesar will be, then they should render onto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Recent ma.noglia bookmarks
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 03:02
Tribute to Paul Newman
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 17:46
Entrecard For Sale
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 09:21Entrecard users are all talking about Entrecard being for sale. In some of the posts some details emerge. Let’s look at the Entrecard model and try to make a little more sense of offering. In many ways, Entrecard is like BlogAds with a little bit of MyBlogLog thrown in. It is like BlogAds in that the user places an ad on the site and receives compensation. It is like MyBlogLog in that it is community based and you can see who visited you and return the visit.
Each time a user clicks on an Entrecard, they receive a credit, as does the person whose card is clicked on. A user can click on up to 300 cards for every blog that they have in the system. There is also a limit to the number of clicks that can come from a single IP address. Currently, there are 3 million such clicks a month. In addition, to place a card on another person’s site, you need to buy an ad slot. Currently, the price rises exponentially based on the number of ads in queue. Unknown sites cost two, four, eight, or sixteen credits. Well know sites go for thousands of credits. The person whose site the ad runs on gets 12.5% of the revenues.
