Bono, What Happend To One Love?

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By Nads | Thursday, September 23, 2010 | 3:00 pm | 13 Comments
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Bono’s ONE foundation is in some serious hot water. They just uncovered that out of the $15 million that got donated in 2008, only $184,732 went to legit causes, and $8 million went towards paying the workers’ salaries. This is NOT positive! I understand that only a percentage of donations from a charity are REQUIRED by law to be allocated, but if I were Bono, I’d make sure an a$$load of the donations were being put to good use. I wouldn’t be handing out leather notebooks, and bags of coffee to reporters.

I understand that raising awareness is a big part of charity work, but if that’s where all of your money is going–then I wouldn’t call something a charity. I certainly don’t want to be funding Bono’s tax write-off. How the hell is Bono going to save face on this one? He’s the all-loving, the Mother Teresa of music.

But don’t forget Gasmii, for just one dollar, you can still buy a wristband to fund the receptionist’s salary.

Here’s a screen grab from the ONE store:

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I love that they have a “SALE” section! Does that mean that even less goes to the charity? Or do they donate the same amount? I’m going to start a NADS foundation. I won’t lie about it, 100% of the proceeds goes to me. No fine print, no B.S. I’ll take straight up hard cash…or you can Paypal me. :-)

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Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

13 Comments

  1. 1
    thiajok
    Posted September 23, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    He chaps my ass, so thanks for posting this. He’s a poser and the most politically naive asshole ever to grace the Earth.

  2. 2
    Robin Robinez
    Posted September 23, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    @thiajok I agree with every single word.Can’t stand him.

    TC,Robin

  3. 3
    lindaw205
    Posted September 23, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    Ditto.

  4. 4
    Prodigal Cheez
    Posted September 23, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Count me in on the tally.

  5. 5
    Nads
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 8:32 am

    @thiajok–agree. I don’t know who’s worse with their “political activism”–Bono or Wyclef. Such a joke.

  6. 6
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 9:34 am

    Add me to the list of people who agree…and George Clooney to the list of politically active, naive posers. (I refer to the money Clooney raised after Hurricane Katrina…money which never made it to the people in need.)

  7. 7
    sheesh
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 11:21 am

    That Jeff Spicoli kid is the worst of all.

  8. 8
    Nads
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    @cattyfan – Clooney didn’t get the money to Haiti???? What?

  9. 9
    CattyFan cattyfan
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    No. This was money for New Orleans after Katrina. Clooney organized the multi-network concert…and millions were raised. Most of which never went where the public was assured it would go.

  10. 10
    nads
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    i totally misread your first comment…was thinking Haiti. My bad. that’s nuts about Katrina…how have they not put him under fire yet?

  11. 11
    thiajok
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:42 pm

    I admit it: I hated “Feed the World” and “We Are the World”, too. I’m a liberal, but most celebrity-or-socialite-based charities spend more money trying to raise money than they do helping people who need charity.

  12. 12
    lindaw205
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:44 pm

    I think Bill O’Reilly called him out on it, not sure though. Also read somewhere that all that money that was raised for Haiti never got to people in need, courtesy to corrupt Haitians officials. By the time they took their bribe money to let in supplies there was very little left.

  13. 13
    thiajok
    Posted September 24, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    Bill O’Reilly is hardly trustworthy either, in my opinion. But I think Linda is right in that the basic problem is that corrupt governments do tend to warehouse whatever products or monies are given–these things are never distributed to the populace.

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