Before I go on my little rant for the day….I have a thought to share…..we are in an extreme cold weather cycle and with all said I have an explanation……..IT IS WINTER!  Enuff said?

We hear almost hourly that some celeb is pushing this charity or the other…..they tell us all the good your cash will do….the all but beg for cash to continue the work that has been started….but let me ask….after you donate what is result of your generous donations?

I am glad I ask that……I found a few results of all this good will that our dynamite celebs have given us and the world…..remember after Katrina when Brad Pitt was getting all that PR about building new homes for the homeless?  Well here is part of the result……

Newser) – Brad Pitt got a lot of good press when he built a number of affordable, eco-friendly homes in New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina … but here comes the bad press. Some of the houses are starting to rot, and the wood will need to be replaced. “The wood turned gray and it was also black,” one homeowner tells Radar. “Also some parts it was buckling and it had mushrooms growing out of it.” Of the 100 houses built by Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, 30 used wood from TimberSIL, which claims to use non-toxic ingredients to prevent rot. Though not all 30 are yet rotting, all of them will have that wood replaced, the New Orleans Advocate reports.

The absence of chemicals in the wood apparently left it “unable to withstand moisture,” says a Make It Right rep, “which obviously is a big problem in New Orleans.” The wood was guaranteed for 40 years, but some of the homes in question were built as recently as three years ago, and the replacement project will cost Make It Right $150,000. The organization is considering legal action.

To be honest I heard after I wrote this draft that Pitt’s organization will make it all right……thus he will most likely forgo a lawsuit…..

Brad Pitt is not alone…for instance remember when George Clooney was all over the tube pushing for some sort of justice in Sudan….especially in the South where many people had been killed and maimed by militias….you may not recall…but I do….and that is…..WHY I AM HERE!

Here is part of the PR problem for Clooney and other celebs that jumped on this bandwagon…..

(Newser) – Hollywood stars like George Clooney and Don Cheadle have argued passionately for nation-building in South Sudan. Only problem: They didn’t quite see the whole story, writes Daniel Howden at the Guardian. Film stars and other activists delivered “a narrative about the new country that borrowed from a simple script”: After two decades of war and two million dead, the south needed to break free from “an Islamic and chauvinist north led by an indicted war criminal.” And only “huge development support” was required.

But most of the fighting was actually between rival militia groups in the south, often fueled by ethnic tensions, writes Howden. And when the war ended in 2005, no effort was made to ease those tensions. So when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, sacked his government to stop then-Vice President Riek Machar, a Nuer, from taking power, the two groups naturally started fighting. Now, “the only way out … will be another round of payoffs to military commanders and a reluctant return to square one on the state-building board, accompanied by an admission of past failures.”

Ple4ase do not get me wrong…….these people try to do good work but they need to be warned that their actions have consequences and some of them are not so pretty………and it is a shame that we need celebs to speak up before some of the problems are noticed….to me that is the saddest part….few care less unless some overpaid acting hack tells them they need to care….so very sad!