It’s not terribly surprising to see that the people who work for Bill treat customers the same way he does.

Oh, wait, did you forget to mention that you work for him? Nice.

Also why and how they could afford to send out such things as NWbiker also wonders.

I do not like things sent to me in the mail and generally put other stuff in the envelopes and send them on their way (if postage is paid) (sometimes other coupons sometimes shredded paper. Hey I get tired of people sending me paper that I have to throw away. It is like someone is handing it to me saying “get rid of that–OK”
LOL—relax though people-do what you will–I am sorry for the people that get “duped” if that is the way you feel.
We are all here for such a short time—Try spreading a smile or two instead of smart “ss comments, trying to prove you are smarter than each other.
We should all be nicer to one another.
Take care and have a great week!!!
Anthony

I was wondering how they “had”

I also note that the ad hominem attacks in this thread have been by defenders of St. Joseph’s against those who have raised legitimate concerns about the nature of this organization. Gee, that speaks well for St. Joseph’s!

In sum, I will continue to direct my family’s charitable giving to organizations whose legitimacy is not in question. There’s plenty of need to ‘go around’, so if you want to give to St. Joseph’s, knock yourself out. It smells funny enough to me that I don’t feel an overwhelming need to go out on a limb here.

And for God’s sake, people, you can disagree without calling each other names.

For your information, my wife and I give thousands of dollars to charity every year. We reserve our limited charitable funds for organizations which have a history of doing work we respect in an open, transparent fashion; of successfully using the vast majority of the donations they receive for their work rather than for overhead; and of allowing independent third parties to audit their finances to confirm that they are doing so. These are the metrics which I believe any responsible person should use when deciding whether to donate to a particular charity.

My wife and I do many hours of volunteer work for local charities every year.

As for whether the director of SJIS is “ten times the adult” I am, I would point out that he lied about releasing his organization’s financial records to independent third parties for review, and he lied about giving me the answers to the questions directed at him which I posted above. He sent me private email on January 14, in which he said, “I saw you posted a response to my response on your blog. I do have answers for you and will post them as quickly as I am able; however, it may be tomorrow.” It is now almost two months later; do you see the answers he promised? Using lies to defend his organization against legitimate criticism does not seem particularly adult to me.

My family does not have an X-Box or any other game console. Neither I nor my wife drinks or smokes. I have been faithful to my wife since the day I met her almost 20 years ago. As a parent of five young children, I rarely have the time or energy to have a “good night on the town,” and I would imagine that the seven of us would have a tough time fitting in my parents’ basement.

In short, you’re an idiot.

Hey, Jonathan, what are you doing to help the plight of Native American children? Sounds like you’re the kind of self-righteous, fingerpointing jerk who would rather blindly criticize those who are trying to help in the most difficult of situations than doing anything yourself to help those you cleverly feign concern about. We call anti-Christian, secular bigots like you bleeding heart tightwads because all you typically do is complain about what others are doing in the name of their faith while you do nothing in the name of your faith … except complain and point ignorant fingers of judgement. At least the director of SJIS sounds ten times the adult you do so when you get finished playing with your Tonka toys in the sandbox how about illuminating the rest us as to what you do with the thousands of dollars (like our family does each and every year) otherwise intelligent, middle-class American like you must be giving to help Native American children, Central American children or South American children have a better life that they otherwise wouldn’t have because of YOUR generosity … or do you generally blow your loose cash on the latest X-Box releases, smokes, drink, loose women, or having a good night on the town? Or do you prefer to blow it on redecorating your mother’s basement to make your sweating over a keyboard a little easier?