Forget the Ice Bucket challenge this one is better

[Garion_55]

i challenge Jay-z and Taylor swift to go as long as they can before passing out!

[merrily]

1. The challenge has raised about 50 million more to help those with ALS, a horrible

illness that, until the challenge, seldome got much money from either government or private donors because it hits only a relative small percentage of the population. Except that, when it happens to you or one of your loved ones, it happens 100%, not a relatively small percentage.

If Jay Z or Taylor Swift contributed some of those dollars, or even helped raise some of those dollars, that is not what I am going to fault them for. Talent, even wardrobe, maybe. Helping raise money to try to figure out ALS, no.

[Garion_55]

2. i like this guys take on it

[merrily]

3. I could only listen to so much of that.

Took forever to get to the point, and doesn't sound too bright.

Yes, it is about raising money for the charity and not about getting doused with ice water.( duh, what an insight.)

First.

"Check out my ice bucket challenge" is only a shorter way of saying "check out the challenge that I issued you." It is not making the fundraising about himself.

Second.

Why did Burr donate the $100 to ALS research this year, when I bet you he's never donated before? Answer: the ice bucket challenge issued to him by this guy he is mocking mercilessly.

Third.

Why is the ALS charity raising 50 million this year (and counting) as opposed to something like now as Answer: The ice bucket challenges and all the fun (and publicity) they are generating.

It was a brilliant fundraising concept, thought up by an young ballplayer with ALS and his 27 year old friend, who died recently. A great visual for TV, facebook, YouTube, etc. and a challenge to others to keep the chain going. And, if you can't donate, you can at least keep the chain going. Or you can be a jerk.


Do you think that NBC would have sent a crew to the Bush home to film Dimson writing a check? Would Bush even have written the check to ALS without the ice bucket challenge.

As far as the desert, give me a break. Did he stop watering his lawn? Not to mention that he could have simply said, "It would be irresponsible of me to use water that way because I live in a desert. "So, I will just write a check and, symbolically, drink a glass of ice water and challenge so and so, who also lives in a drought striciken area, to do the same."

The charity is about $50 million better off. Perhaps even better, ALS awareness, almost zero last year, has now been raised to a level beyond even Lou Gehrig's famous speech.

How anyone, even the perpetually pissed off, can knock that so bitterly is beyond me.