Thanks everyone — our Kiva Team just hit $3 Million in loans.
What is Kiva? Kiva is a organization that lets us give small loans to people in the third world that need help starting small business. We make small, interest-free loans towards the projects we support, and Kiva combines them to fund the loan to the person who wants to build a small workshop, farm, restaurant, fruit stand, etc. These are interest-fee loans in places like Cambodia, Peru, Uganda — places where traditional bank lending to the poor is unavailable (or predatory). Kiva ensures that the loans are paid out and that the money is paid back. A lot of us feel this is the best way of bringing economic growth to the poorest areas.
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Still behind mormons ;/
The Mormons are rich bastards who do not spend money on beer.
They do spend their money on golden plates however.
When you rake in as much dough as the Mormon church does, you can have golden plates, golden forks, golden colanders, and golden napkins. You can even sit on a gold chair while eating off a gold table– and then pay your maids minimum wage to clean up after you. The LDS church fleeces enough money from its’ flock that it could solve a lot of poverty issues in the world. However, the Mormon church would much rather let a small percentage (approximately 5 to 10 percent) of its’ mandatory charitable donations trickle down to the poor, and invest the remaining amount in more “prophet-able” investments. Not only are the churches’ tithes completely tax exempt, but the LDS church leaders get to pat themselves on their extremely wealthy backs for the generosity of their charitable organization.
Dear Sauceror, good examples, but you forgot about “…and poop into a golden toilet…” – but they’re probably somewhere inside the Tabernacle where it is closed to non-Mormons. Again, it only took a century and a half to get the modern LDS church, kinda sobering to think about the ones that have had 5 or 10 or 20 centuries, LOFLMAO.
Do they have golden showers?
They better, or my Borched Mesom is NOT going.
Fair enough, though it is amusing to remember that the Mormons were the Branch Davidians of the 19-th century, hounded from pillar to post in the US for their nutty religion. Now they are the epitome of right-wing conservatism. D’you suppose that there is a moral for pastafarians somewhere in that story? (…snd not all Mormons are as rich as Mitt Romney….)
I think that shows that maybe pastafarianism will someday become one of the world’s top religions. Maybe even then it will be the worlds’ top religion if and or when we make it to Mars.
Hey fellow pasta loving beautiful people.
I was recently on an team building/drinking day with my work/ship mates around London only to find the Mormon/racists have a massive temple a stones throw away from the Natural History Museum, probably some of the most expensive land on the planet! Does anyone in my part of the world fancy getting together with some placards of truth?
I’d love to but I live on the other end of the world.
Thanks Keith, if it happens I’ll let you know, and hold one on your behalf, shipmate
Thanks, Steve. I’ll leave it up to you as to what witty comments to put on the placard.
Someone at Kiva needs to take a small loan of themselves. And go back to primary school. Has anyone actually read that trash that someone wrote!!??? Did anyone proofread it? (Nope!) it’s so tragically misspelled and un-grammared that I find it pretty hard to believe that it’s even a real company, or that they WON’T scam you into taking your money and supporting the blimmin’ Mormons!
George, it may have been written by someone from a non-English speaking background, such as an American. Of course all the money goes to the Mormons.
Ewwww FB: We writhe under the lash of your sarcasm, LOL
AF, more like a flick from a wet noodle.