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Quasimodo
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CA
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Apr 24, 2014 - 06:53pm PT
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For years my wife and I sent $1,000 every Christmas to CAI. It was the only check, I wrote all year, I enjoyed writing. I thought Greg's work was a shining light in sea of corporate nonprofits that spent the majority of their donor's money on expenses, salaries and ostentatious galas.
During the Gulf War #2 Iraqi invasion I thought my money represented a real opportunity to help children, especially young girls, obtain a decent education and a possible path out of poverty. Greg printed an impressive magazine that illustrated all the great work of CAI. I was thoroughly impressed and convinced this is where my money should go.
I was impressed by Mortensen's online display of his tax return on the CAI website. His story was so compelling.
If his story is a fabrication he deserves the wrath from the State of Montana. If Mortensen used CAI as his "personal ATM" it saddens me greatly.
I am much more careful where I donate today. Honesty and transparency is rare.....thanks Greg for making a cynical old man even more cynical.
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Bad Climber
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Apr 24, 2014 - 09:11pm PT
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Uh, Kathryn:
At least as far as "Three Cups of Deceit" goes, all the proceeds are going to a different charity. So Krakauer is being enriched how....?
When Mortonsen admits his guilt, what are YOU railing about?
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OR
Trad climber
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Apr 24, 2014 - 09:59pm PT
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You all just love beating a dead horse, don't you. When you write your autobiography, guess what? You have the First Amendment right to tell your tale in any way you see fit, whether anyone agrees with you or not. This character assignation not only took education out of the hands of the poorest kids in the world, right into Krak's pocket. Only the By-Liner proceeds went to SGT, the random House version went right in his pocket. Let me leave youbwithnthis image, the actual writer, David Renlin, laid down on railroad tracks and took his life after the frivolous law suit was appealed, and lost, you Krak supporters spend too much time at altitude to see the path of death and destruction that follows Krak like a dead fish. So go on, keep kicking Mortenson like a dead horse because he is still building schools while Krak tears down reputations, and enriches himself. Ten thousand curses on all your thick heads.
You are delusional…….
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Off White
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Tenino, WA
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Apr 24, 2014 - 11:54pm PT
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I don't have anything to add, but I did want to post Kathryn O’Hehir's name again so this thread also comes up whenever she googles herself.
Pity that FYYFFF didn't catch on as a tacoism.
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Kathryn
Social climber
Mesa
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Apr 25, 2014 - 04:48pm PT
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Before you post my photo,which is copyrighted, have the courtesy to ask my permission. I have taught in Asia for 6 years, 20 years in all, but I don't need to justify my feelings to a rock head like you. Check your rope for knots dude.
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Kathryn
Social climber
Mesa
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Apr 25, 2014 - 04:50pm PT
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OR, you a practicing psychologist? If being correct is delusional, you need the check up not me. I was right. Case dismissed twice. But the damage and death can never be changed. Climbers and your ego, sick of it.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Apr 25, 2014 - 04:54pm PT
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Thank you Studly for some perspective. Certainly the man is not perfect, but he has nevertheless done far more good than anyone on this site has. I'm not saying that he isn't culpable. He is, sadly, but he nevertheless built 131 schools where there were none previously. The jerk. Spare me the pennies from schoolkids bullsh#t. I find the mob a bit too ready to lynch.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 25, 2014 - 05:22pm PT
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In 1998, as a tribute to his companions lost on Everest, Krakauer established the Everest '96 Memorial Fund at the Boulder Community Foundation with earnings from Into Thin Air. As of 2012, the fund had donated more than $1.7 million to such charities as the American Himalayan Foundation, Educate the Children, Veterans Helping Veterans Now, the Access Fund, and the Boulder Valley Women's Health Center.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 25, 2014 - 05:27pm PT
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Nice mention Mtnmun....both are being portrayed in the worst possible light depending on who is opining....but, as in most cases, the truth lies somewhere in between.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 25, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
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Well said Donini.
In 2011, Krakauer published Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way. All of his proceeds from this latter work have been donated to the Stop Girl Trafficking program at the American Himalayan Foundation.
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Apr 26, 2014 - 10:43am PT
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There's some Lord of the Flies style sheeple hate going on here.
Hey big brains, when your attitude is created in the media then you are a dangerous reactionary.
Read more,talk less:
October 9, 2013: Federal appeals court affirms dismissal of case against CAI and Mortenson
BOZEMAN, Mont. – Central Asia Institute was pleased to learn Wednesday that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has dismissed the purported class-action lawsuit against it and CAI Cofounder Greg Mortenson.
The federal appeals court ruling upholds U.S. District Court Judge Sam E. Haddon’s dismissal of the case with prejudice in Great Falls, Mont., in May 2012.
A three-judge appeals panel ruled that the plaintiffs’ “conclusory statements and minimal factual allegations” on the allegations of fraud, deceit, racketeering, or breach of contract were vague and insufficient, according to court documents.
Also, “the [lower] court acted within its discretion in dismissing the complaint and denying leave to amend. Plaintiffs have already had multiple opportunities to amend, even after the defects in the pleadings were identified in extensive briefing[s].”
U.S. Appeals Court Judges Barry G. Silverman, William A. Fletcher, and Consuelo Maria Callahan unanimously agreed the case was “suitable for decision without oral argument” and concluded: “The district court properly dismissed the complaint.”
“Clearly I’m pleased with the court’s decision,” said CAI Board Chairman Steve Barrett. “I’m also happy to report that we have satisfactorily completed all specific actions outlined in the Assurance of Voluntary Compliance that CAI signed with the Montana Attorney General’s office in 2012.”
The AVC was part of a 2012 settlement agreement following the AG’s inquiry into allegations that CAI had, over a period of years, failed to maintain adequate financial controls, governance, and stewardship processes. CAI has since made numerous internal changes. The AG’s office has indicated it is satisfied and did not propose any action beyond those enumerated in the AVC.
“The conclusion of both of these weighty matters – the appeal and the AVC requirements – allows CAI to rededicate its energy and resources to the important work of promoting education, especially for girls, in remote areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. As we’ve said before, no other NGO does what we do in these locales with such a small team of dedicated individuals.”
CAI has worked with communities in these mountainous regions for 17 years to build and/or support nearly 300 schools, 42 women’s literacy and vocational centers, 10 scholarship programs, 31 public health (potable water, midwifery, and disaster-relief) projects, and more than a dozen community programs.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 26, 2014 - 01:46pm PT
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I'm no lawyer, even though I have friends who are, but the court's dismissal
may very well be due to the plaintiffs' shoddy presentation and not actually
the validity of their claims. Remember, the US legal system is predicated
upon dotting all the i's, crossing all the t's, and job security, not whether
a case actually has merit.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Apr 27, 2014 - 02:13pm PT
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Interesting that a little fact checking could have prevented a lot of spewing all over a Taco thread.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Apr 27, 2014 - 03:18pm PT
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The dismissal of the lawsuit does not mean that Mortenson did not do anything wrong. Both Mortenson and the CAI have both admitted they screwed up.
This was a bad lawsuit to begin with. The lawyers were trying to argue that anyone who bought Mortenson's book was entitled to damages. If they won, they (the lawyers) would have gotten all the benefits. The people who bought books would have gotten only pennies or nothing. Also they didn't make much effort to present a strong case.
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