CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Posted on 08/25/2014 4:25:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The other day I got a video, somebody sent me a video in the e-mail, he said, "Rush, you've gotta play this." I'm not big on Internet videos 'cause of my hearing and so forth, although it's better. So I clicked on it and it was my buddy George Brett and the country music star Keith Urban in Kansas City taking the ice bucket challenge. And Brett names me as one of the three he next challenges to take the ice bucket challenge. It was me and Tom Watson, who is the Ryder Cup captain from Kansas City, and I forget who the third one that George named was.
Now, obviously, I haven't done it yet, the ice bucket challenge, but the reason why -- George sent me an e-mail, "Have you done this ice bucket thing yet? You know, I called you out." I said, "No, I haven't done it."
"Well, you ought to see the videos all over the Internet. It's cool, everybody's doing it."
I said, "There's something about this that doesn't make sense. I think everybody's doing this wrong." The ice bucket challenge consists of two things: You either donate to ALS or dump a bucket of ice on your head, right? So how are they raising money if everybody's just dumping ice on their heads? It seems to me the idea is to send ALS some money. (interruption) Well, they don't show video of 'em doing both.
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with George Brett
The videos are just people getting dunked with ice buckets in creative ways. Like Bill Gates built a whole guillotine. The Bill Gates video, he builds this whole guillotine thing, like gallows, and instead of a hangman's noose there's an ice bucket up there. He pulls the rope and he gets drenched. And all these brilliant tech wizards are trying to out-genius everybody in how they get dunked. Brett and Urban, they just dumped the buckets over their head and dropped it.
I'm saying, wait a minute. This is ass backwards. What you ought to do -- and I'm thinking of doing this -- just make a video of writing a check to ALS and holding it up. The point is, either donate or drop the bucket. And everybody's putting ice on their heads for the video of it. But I said, "How is ALS getting any money out of this?" But I think Snerdley, you're right, 'cause they are raising a lot of money with this. They have collected a lot of money.
But you know me, I mean, I'm a student of the language, and I am a man of precision, and I looked at the ice bucket challenge, and it is not worded in such a way that you dump ice on your head and then send them a check. It's one or the other. I don't even know if I can do this, you know, with cochlear implants and stuff. I'd have to take them off, obviously, but even at that. And then I don't know what three people I would name. I don't know three people to name.
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RUSH: I remember now. George Brett's third person he challenged was June Jones, the head football coach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, SMU. I don't know if Watson's done it. I don't know if June Jones has done it. I haven't. Well, again, I'm a literalist, I am the mayor of Realville, and the challenge is you either donate to the cause or have an ice bucket dumped on you. Well, I'll donate. Anyway, it's obviously metamorphosed into something other than that.
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I think it is pretty clear that people are doing both. Now how that got started, I don’t know. But this has been genius fundraising for them, so file this under: nothing succeeds like success.
I hope anyone who supports them and ESCR goes to hell.
Leftist ploy alert!!! The same line is used by United Way for Planned Barrenhood! They simply move in other money to fill the gap.
I hope you have fun on your way to the burning cauldron.
I visit a nursing home virtually every day. Not a single one of the residents is suffering from anything "pretty".
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Yes. I said, “The ALS Foundation funds Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Of course, that means the killing of babies. Besides, ESCR has never produced ANY treatment for any disease.”
“I hope anyone who supports them and ESCR goes to hell.”
Anyone who thinks that killing babies is OK probably will go to hell.
BTTT
My wife was “nominated” for this and accepted. I would not have. For one thing I WILL PICK MY OWN CHARITIES! But upon further questioning I was even more turned off.
1) It is to “raise awareness” in other words it is to increase fund raising not find a cure. If you jump through hoops you can donate to research only.
2) “This challenge has increased donations by....” Ok, so they can further fund raise? What have they done with these extra donations?
3) No mention of any progress towards a cure or treatment.
4) And finally, the use of pressure for “charity” has always turned me off. Reminds me of the United Way drives in the USAF; you would dare not say no....
Also I wonder what the take home will be this year for the top execs there. “Non profit” does not mean that the staff works for free, often they do quite well.
Nice post!
:-)
There, fixed it.
The whole ice bucket challenge thing is totally stupid and moronic. I will be extremely glad when it passes. And if I get challenged I will just tell them I gave at the office.
Can I steal that pic?
Yep.
This charity also uses too much of the donations for administrative costs. Translation: a lot of people get big fat salaries for not doing anything related to finding a cure.
One of my cousins, a guy I really grew up with, died of this terrible disease.
We played everything together, from Little League baseball through high school football, but as adults with our own families, we grew apart, both going our own ways. In 2000 one of our old aunties made me aware of what was going on and it happened that I was doing a lot of traveling for work and a fifty mile detour would bring me through town, so I got to stop and see Cuz as often as possible.
He died in '04.
I hold on to the last smile and the laughter in his eyes when I said, "Hey Cuz, who ever thought we'd make sixty."
They'll get nothing from me...
Absolutely!
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