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Today is Boomtime, day 64 in the season of Discord, 3174.

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discord.org-maintained Yahoo-Style Collections of Links

• skeptical information
• links to resources on information security, hacking activity, and abuse

• Jim Lippard's home page
• The Lippard Blog

If you're here from the Salon magazine article about Scientology, you might want to see the following:

• My counter-notice regarding my web page.
• The URL that caused all the fuss, and what it links to now.
• What the URL that caused all the fuss linked to.
• More information about Scientology and its abuses and absurdities.

• discordian information
• The Apocrypha Discordia
• Emperor Norton I
• The Emperor Norton Utilities
• www.fnord.org
• www.23-skidoo.com
• www.whatis.com/fnord.htm

Animal Welfare

• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) (NYC, founded 1866)
  Two stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $50,267,338.
  expenses: $45,429,824 ($34,893,888 (76.8%) spent on program services, $659,930 (1.5%) management and general, $9,876,006 (21.7%) fundraising)
• Arizona Humane Society (AHS) (Phoenix, AZ, founded 1957)
  Three stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $9,674,753.
  expenses: $9,853,790 ($7,892,152 (80.1%) spent on program services, $749,244 (7.6%) management and general, $1,212,394 (12.3%) fundraising)
• Best Friends Animal Society (Kanab, UT, founded 1984)
  Three stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $21,618,002.
  expenses: $19,897,478 ($15,612,839 (78.5%) spent on program services, $804,387 (4.0%) management and general, $3,480,252 (17.5%) fundraising)
• R.E.S.C.U.E. (Phoenix, AZ, founded 1995)
  2004 revenue: $295,822.
  expenses: $299,198 ($120,328 (40.2%) spent on program services, $178,870 (59.8%) management and general)
• The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee (TESH) (Hohenwald, TN, founded 1994)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $5,304,093.
  expenses: $1,629,942 ($1,454,949 (89.3%) spent on program services, $113,237 (6.9%) management and general, $61,756 (3.8%) fundraising)

Civil Liberties and Legal Reform

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (San Francisco, CA, founded 1990)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $3,910,496.
  expenses: $2,414,650 ($1,911,756 (79.2%) spent on program services, $315,920 (13.1%) management and general, $186,974 (7.7%) fundraising)
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (Philadelphia, PA, founded 1999)
  2004 revenue: $1,289,014
  expenses: $1,081,244 ($885,881 (81.9%) spent on program services, $195,363 (18.1%) management and general, $0 fundraising)
• Help Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT) (Washington, D.C., founded 1978)
  Three stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $1,031,530
  expenses: $1,430,544 ($1,194,073 (83.5%) spent on program services, $51,413 (3.6%) management and general, $185,058 (12.9%) fundraising)
• Institute for Justice (IJ) (Washington, D.C., founded 1991)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator (for six years in a row as of 2007).
  2004 revenue: $6,506,546.
  expenses: $5,675,461 ($4,452,055 (78.4%) spent on program services, $595,983 (10.5%) management and general, $629,423 (11.1%) fundraising)

Education

• Arizona School Choice Trust (Phoenix, AZ, founded 1993)
  2004 revenue: $1,366,673
  expenses: $1,064,087 (100% spent on program services)
• ASU Foundation (Friends of Philosophy) (Tempe, AZ, founded 19xx?)
  (no numbers specifically for Friends of Philosophy program)
  2004 revenue: $89,582,412.
  expenses: $56,730,777 ($46,173,805 (81.4%) spent on program services, $6,205,773 (10.9%) management and general, $4,351,199 (7.7%) fundraising)
• Center for Public Integrity (Washington, D.C., founded 1989)
  Three stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $6,494,199.
  expenses: $4,545,903 ($3,436,047 (75.6%) spent on program services, $781,966 (17.2%) management and general, $327,890 (7.2%) fundraising)
• Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ, founded ?)
  No Form 990.
• Internet Infidels (Colorado Springs, CO, founded 1996)
  2005 revenue: 40,267.66 (2004: $47,451.06)
  expenses: $37,332.24 ($23,386.29) ($22,559.79 (96.5%) salaries, $5,774.83 (24.7%) occupancy, rent, utilities, and maintenance, $487.53 (2.0%) printing, publications, postage, and shipping, $8,510.09 (36.4%) board of director meetings, software, conference calls) (2004: $8,807.82 (37.7%) salaries, $6,850.28 (29.3%) occupancy, rent, utilities, and maintenance, $390.32 (1.7%) printing, publications, postage, and shipping, $7,337.87 (31.4%) board of directors meetings, software, conference calls)
• National Center for Science Education (NCSE) (Oakland, CA, founded 1981)
  2004 revenue: $738,707.
  expenses: $748,708 ($526,384 (70.3%) spent on program services, $187,455 (25%) management and general, $34,869 (4.7%) fundraising)
• Skeptics Society (Alta Dena, CA, founded 1996)
  2004 revenue: $387,279.
  expenses: $454,989 ($380,699 (83.7%) spent on program services, $74,290 (16.3%) management and general, $0 fundraising)
• The Talk.Origins Foundation (Houston, TX, founded April 26, 2004)
  2005 (Q3) revenue: $433.65
  expenses: $294.33

Health and Human Welfare

• AmeriCares Foundation (Stamford, CT, founded 1982)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $1,316,498,349.
  expenses: $1,075,766,809 ($1,069,045,343 (99.4%) spent on program services, $2,627,418 (0.2%) management and general, $4,094,048 (0.4%) fundraising)
• Handi-Dogs (Tucson, AZ, founded 1973)
  2004 revenue: $157,793.
  expenses: $177,298 ($150,704 (85%) spent on program services, $26,594 (15%) management and general, $0 fundraising)
• Modest Needs Foundation (NYC, founded 2002)
  2004 revenue: $197,408.
  expenses: $197,425 ($164,160 (83.2%) spent on program services, $32,745 (16.6%) management and general, $520 (0.3%) fundraising)
• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) (Seattle, WA, founded 1977)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $195,075,491.
  expenses: $87,323,376 ($74,884,142 (85.8%) spent on program services, $12,129,277 (13.9%) management and general, $309,957 (0.4%) fundraising)
• United Food Bank (Mesa, AZ, founded 1983)
  Four stars from Charity Navigator.
  2004 revenue: $16,942,453.
  expenses: $16,686,878 ($16,405,484 (98.3%) spent on program services, $169,321 (1.0%) management and general, $112,073 (0.7%) fundraising)

• Southwest Airlines promotes the Heaven's Gate cult--"Go See Do" (and Ti?)
• Back in the old days, God used to threaten the earth with plagues of blood, frogs, gnats, flies, locusts, boils, and the death of first-born children. These days, he appears to have mellowed out quite a bit...
  (Photo taken 5 February 1999.)
• Here's a more serious threat that God's been putting on billboards around town (this one's on the southwest corner of 19th Ave. and Bethany Home Rd.). This photo taken at a bad time of day on 2 October 1999. It seems to me these billboard advertisers are just asking for modifications--something along the lines of "There's a special hell reserved for those who dare to put words in my mouth."
• A billboard God put up in Baton Rouge, LA.

In memory of Blossom, who was my pet from October 1996 until her death August 11, 2001.

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