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They better do it! I'm looking forward to it!
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Everyone who is politicizing the meme are doing those tiny little buckets. And I never see ice. My son's friends are doing the big 5 gallon ones.
So if they do it they should do it correctly. At least I think so.
I mean you can't back down from a challenge so they have to do it. Right?
ALS is a good cause and Ice Bucket Challenge is cool... but I don't care who the operator is, I'm not standing under a front loader bucket like the video in that link.
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...the familiar ritual of institutional self-absolution...
...for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment...
Should put this on the front page.
Can they wear a pink shirt instead?
I link this to my other post about the 28 page declassification idea... might be bad taste for RP to follow my idea. But I still like it.
Originally Posted by KEEF
I had the same thought when Taft first started pushing this. Heh.
People have been wearing pink duds for years and we still see cancer dropping them like flies.
This $#@! is lame. Hashtag activism, gtfo.
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Firefighters Shocked, Hospitalized in Ice Bucket Challenge
You'd think these fellers would know better. They are professionals in their fields after all.
Got that right. No one that I know that's done it has donated a red cent. They're just being lemmings looking for attention.
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Technically, if you do it, that gets you out of donating. Many donate anyway though.
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No one I know that hasn't done it but has spoken about it has donated either! Like specs said, hashtag activism is bs. Besides, giving money to medical foundations is a waste of money. Why would they ever want to actually find a cure? They spend the cash on executive salaries, very lavish annual conventions and more fundraising. May as well just write a check and mail it to some big pharma company.
I remember reading an expose on Jerry Lewis' MDA and the ungodly amount of money they've collected over the years and have come no closer to a cure than when it started. Can't imagine why that is
Last edited by devil21; 08-22-2014 at 05:45 PM.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
Ya I still don't understand this ice bucket stuff.
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Well, it certainly has raised my awareness of ALS. I wasn't aware that a maximum of 30,000 people (ALS foundation claim, NBC says 12,000 max) may have the disease in a country of 300+million that's $17T in the hole in gov't debt alone. $40 million raised during a few days of this challenge? I guess things aren't as bad in this country as I thought if people have that kind of cash to dump into a non-issue. And $275,000 to donate to a cop that shot someone dead in the street in St Louis. And $500,000 to a 15 year old fake gunshot victim in Houston. And $20,000,000+ to parents of allegedly murdered kids in CT. And $100,000 to race and sex baiting receipt scammers on Facebook. etc etc. Seems people are flush with cash to give away at the slightest urge by their peers.
PT Barnum was a visionary.
Last edited by devil21; 08-22-2014 at 07:48 PM.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
Read up on the leadership of ALSA. It's a bunch of corporate types that bounce from medical foundation to medical foundation, with the goal of soliciting money from people that mean well but will never see their money amount to anything except lavish lifestyles for the employees of the foundation and cash funneled to big pharma and their hospital 'sick care' clients.
http://www.alsa.org/about-us/leaders...-newhouse.html
The CEO of ALSA has worked for:
ALSA
American Cancer Society
Alzheimer's Association
Autism Society of America
Arthritis Foundation
Leadership Institute on Aging
ALSA Marketing Officer:
ALSA
Lung Association
American Red Cross
Chief Scientist:
ALSA
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bachelor's degree in PHARMACY
Chapter Relations Officer:
ALSA
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
American Heart Association
Care Services Chief:
ALSA
Veterans Administration :cringe:
Harvard Community Health Planning
Inova Health Systems - Corporate Health Services (huge hospital corp)
They are expert 'non-profit' fundraisers and big pharma tools, not people devoting their lives to curing ALS. There's no money in cures.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
The ALSA spends 72.4% on programs and services, while only 11% goes to overhead, administrative staff and associated costs. So what was your point?
Source: http://www.charitynavigator.org/inde...6#.U_wERGO-Zq1
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Programs and services eh? Well that changes everything. What does your link mean by Programs and Services?
I said they funnel money to big pharma and hospital sick care. That is their program and service. 11%=$2.2mil went to staff in 2013.Program Expenses:
This measure reflects what percent of its total budget a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver. Dividing a charity's program expenses by its total functional expenses yields this percentage.
It's not productive investment of capital since it doesn't produce anything beneficial.
Last edited by devil21; 08-26-2014 at 01:57 AM.
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"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
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I'd be shocked if Ron Paul did this, it goes against his no-nonsense personality.
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