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Post by Montana Bab on Aug 17, 2007 11:24:44 GMT -6
........Or smoke signals......
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on Aug 17, 2007 11:58:55 GMT -6
Hey GAC,I bet they still use telegraph for sending messages! ;D ........Or smoke signals...... ;D ;D
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Aug 17, 2007 16:45:40 GMT -6
Diane, I'm in your corner all the way, I didn't get my soubriquet of Wild Bill Hiccup for nothing. I'll make a deal with you. If you don't quite, I won't either. Remember the Cheyenne saying, "Our nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground" - I cannot imagine your fighting heart ever being on the ground. As I see it the argument is simple. Either the BOD have overstepped their authority or they have not. If they have, we must do something about it. If they have not, we break our arrows and go home. What we need is the opinion of a legal brain on whether or not there is a way forward.
ake wancinyankin ktelo
Hunk
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Aug 17, 2007 16:46:18 GMT -6
Er, that should be quit!!
Hunk
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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 17, 2007 20:40:34 GMT -6
As Groucho, I think it was, once said: "I resemble that remark." My daughter says that I am a day older than water, and two days older than dirt; but then I am much younger than she is, so what does she know?
Gordie, the trouble with most games is that someone's always keeping score...............................
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Aug 19, 2007 8:29:40 GMT -6
Gordie, Out of the mouths of babes. My 2 year old grand niece greeted me yesterday with "Here's the man who says silly things". Perceptive little brat!
Hunk
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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 19, 2007 8:54:50 GMT -6
A future Prime Minister, no doubt!
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Aug 19, 2007 12:12:57 GMT -6
Yo Diane !!
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Post by crawdaddo on Sept 29, 2007 22:48:35 GMT -6
hey Diane I'd like to say thankyou for all the things you do keeping this site up.I may not contribute very much but this place is the first place I checkout when I come online because I know I'm gonna learn something or at the very least get a chuckle from one of the very many funny characters that hang out here. More power to you and safe trails. Crawdaddo
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Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 30, 2007 8:18:50 GMT -6
Thanks very much!
What you described is what I hope the message boards always offer, a place to learn with a little fun on the side.
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Post by Melani on Oct 4, 2007 12:56:01 GMT -6
Re: 501(c)(3) status: I work for one, and I asked our CPA about that issue. He seemed to think that it was no big deal--according to him, if they lost the 501(c)(3) status, they could simply declare themselves to be a foundation and then pay extremely minimal corporate taxes. He said the rules for such things were so complex that he couldn't generalize any more than that. I am certainly in favor of organizations making money, as long as they use it for some appropriate purpose. In the case of LBHA, I can think of a great number of appropriate things they could do with any spare money, and if they are short on ideas, I'm sure the NPS could help them come up with some.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 4, 2007 15:26:59 GMT -6
That's a point others have made. There would be no objection to money making if it would be used for something LBHA or LBH-related. The only regs I could find stated that you can't use funds for unrelated businesses. For example, it couldn't be used to finance another rug store for Blake even if it was in LBHA's name. There's nothing wrong with having reserve funds, but I think the current situation goes way beyond that. As far as the membership knows, Blake is the only one who knows exactly where the money is and how it is being used. That's the sin. If it is being invested as he stated in the Newsletter, why couldn't the Treasurer have managed those funds? Why would it have to be moved to an AmeriTrade account with Blake as the only known contact. (BTW, AmeriTrade recently had a security breach in their database.) When asked at the 2006 conference how he made so much money for LBHA, he reportedly told a member that he invested in the Chinese stock market. I don't think that fits the 2005 investment procedure, and he conveniently ignored a vote by the entire board that was made on a telephone conference call in January that overrode the investment policy.
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Post by Melani on Oct 8, 2007 13:22:37 GMT -6
Chinese stock market???
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Post by fred on Oct 8, 2007 13:26:32 GMT -6
Yeah, you know. Where all that fine beef comes from.
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 9, 2007 7:50:54 GMT -6
Or in this case, all the bull.
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