Armstrong to send $250,000 to Hati

[Mellow Velo]

I'm sure he won't forget the amount, this time.
I wonder if any other cyclists will be making a donation?
Not that it would ever make the media.

For once, I agree with Flicker.
What has this to do with pro racing?

 

[thehog]

It's the Lance Armstrong Foundation donating the $250k, not Lance himself... Big difference.

Also to answer an earlier question, MLB announced it is donating $1 Million to Haiti.

Livestrong has not donated the money. It has "pledged" the money. Meaning that want something in return and it won't be a lumpsum payment.

Brad Pitt donated 1 million. Donated not pledged. He did not issue a press release. Armstrong did.

 

[Carboncrank]

God bless Lance Armstrong, he rivals Mother Theresa in his selfless generosity. He truly deserves to be canonized during his illustrious lifetime. Viva Saint Lance!

i'm again astounded by how irrational the hated of Lance is.

This is more proof that, literaly, there's nothing Lance can do that some people will not find fault in, or claim that he's in it for getting attention, or claim that he should have done more.

Is it good for a well known public figure to be public about something like this?
Of course it is! He has far more fans than detractors and his giving will encourage others to give.

 

[Ninety5rpm]

God bless Lance Armstrong, he rivals Mother Theresa in his selfless generosity. He truly deserves to be canonized during his illustrious lifetime. Viva Saint Lance!

A comparison more apt than you may realize.

One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing. Sunday [When Mother Teresa was beatified/sainted] was a great day for these parasites, who saw their crummy methods endorsed by his holiness and given a more or less free ride in the international press. Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. More than that, we witnessed the elevation and consecration of extreme dogmatism, blinkered faith, and the cult of a mediocre human personality. Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of [Mother Teresa]: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

"Mommie Dearest: The pope beatifies Mother Teresa, a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.", by Christopher Hitchens

 

[Ninety5rpm]

It's the Lance Armstrong Foundation donating the $250k, not Lance himself... Big difference.

Also to answer an earlier question, MLB announced it is donating $1 Million to Haiti.

Please cite your source for the above bolded claim, or retract it.

 

[Barnaby]

Christopher Hitchens calling somebody out for being a radical and fundamentalist. Oh the irony.

 

[zapata]

What's this got to do with anything? Norwegian author Tom Egeland donated 500 nok to the cause today, i happen to know. Don't know what any of it has to do with professional road cycling.

 

[thehog]

Any support for the Haitian plight is truly commendable, even if poverty, dictatorships & natural catastrophes have ravaged Haiti endlessly up to now without effective global attention. It is a Caribbean island nation that lies in the same sea as the billionaire’s playground of St. Barth’s where all our (western) movers & shakers turn a blind eye to the privation in their midst.
LiveSTRONG must concentrate the rays of global consideration like a lens towards one point, which is the fight vs. Cancer.
Otherwise, the ‘cause’ becomes one of broad-spectrum interventionism favoring, fully understandable, personal reactions to each disaster visited upon the world. Giving according to one’s ‘own’ means must not be mixed up with drawing off $250,000 and pledging donations to an entirely different course and purpose; however sincere the motivation, LiveSTRONG cannot meet each problem as it arises.

http://livestrongblog.org/2010/01/13/livestrong-pledges-250000-to-haitian-relief-efforts/

 

[Ninety5rpm]

What's this got to do with anything? Norwegian author Tom Egeland donated 500 nok to the cause today, i happen to know. Don't know what any of it has to do with professional road cycling.

It has as much to do with professional road cycling as do the attacks (most well justified) on Lance Armstrong's character and personality: nothing. But that doesn't stop countless forum members from making myriads of posts like that.

 

[Ninety5rpm]

Christopher Hitchens calling somebody out for being a radical and fundamentalist. Oh the irony.

This is way off base, but are you suggesting that Hitchens is radical or fundamentalist???

 

[BigBoat]

He urged the public to come forward with further donations

Whose money is that then?

It is awful when something like this is done and the only thing in my mind is,"whats the angle".


I guess I have Zero Dollarance for his swervacious nature!!

Thats a priceless quote right there... lol

 

[Clemson Cycling]

The US donates a lower percentage of their GDP to development aid than almost every other industrialized nation in the world. Get your facts straight.
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Americans also rank #1 in % of their income donated to charities every year.

 

[hfer07]

Honestly this thread is very inappropriate to discuss- not for how controversial LA & his donation may appear to the posters -but the fact that 50,000 people have died & a 100,000 are homeless, suffering & in desperately need for food & shelter- and yet people here are more interested in a useless argument whether the gesture is legitimate or not?

here is a reliable & unquestionable source is you want to make a donation
http://www.redcross.org.

 

[fatandfast]

Americans also rank #1 in % of their income donated to charities every year.

Anything given to these suffering people should be welcomed. Look at the quotes from Rush Limbaugh, they should open a cell at Guantanamo for that heartless fat doper, He is urging people not to give.

 

[zapata]

if this is about raising money for the people of haiti, I suggest everyone donate to the Red Cross, bank account 8200.06.08331. (In norway, at least, I don't know how it works in other countries, but I guess you could use this account?) If it's actually about lance armstrong once again, i suggest to everyone to be silent for a minute and think about the people of haiti that are dying as we speak.

 

[zapata]

Honestly this thread is very inappropriate to discuss- not for how controversial LA & his donation may appear to the posters -but the fact that 50,000 people have died & a 100,000 are homeless, suffering & in desperately need for food & shelter- and yet people here are more interested in a useless argument whether the gesture is legitimate or not?

here is a reliable & unquestionable source is you want to make a donation
http://www.redcross.org.

+1! that's what I meant to say.

 

[Clemson Cycling]

Mine as well just lock this one up. I didn't even spell Haiti right

 

[Publicus]

Honestly this thread is very inappropriate to discuss- not for how controversial LA & his donation may appear to the posters -but the fact that 50,000 people have died & a 100,000 are homeless, suffering & in desperately need for food & shelter- and yet people here are more interested in a useless argument whether the gesture is legitimate or not?

here is a reliable & unquestionable source is you want to make a donation
http://www.redcross.org.

Word. I was only curious about the thought behind the structure, but I was never questioning, nor would I question, the reason behind the donation.

 

[thehog]

Just need Contador to bang $255,000 of his own money on the table to **** off Lance.

 

[ChrisE]

OK, back to sending thoughts and prayers to the poor Earthquake victims and their families.

That's the problem I have with religeous folk. Why don't you do some anti-earthquake praying before this shyt happens and then there wouldn't be all of this suffering.

 

[Ninety5rpm]

That's the problem I have with religeous folk. Why don't you do some anti-earthquake praying before this shyt happens and then there wouldn't be all of this suffering.

#Haiti: u know who gets away with murder? God. No matter what **** goes down, to the least deserving, he skates on "mysterious ways"

Too true. Too true.

 

[ChrisE]

Too true. Too true.

How hard would it be to have a checklist of bad things to pray against every day, thus prompting God to not allow this to happen? Earthquake? Check. Hurricane? Check. Plane into building (I know there may be some conflicting God motives here). Check. VD? Check. Mudslides? Check. Farts in elevator? Check. Etc.

Sheesh, this lack of preventive praying could have an impact on my well-being so you guys need to get your a$$es in gear!

I think maybe God is on the LA hatewagon. Maybe he allowed this to happen so LA's motives could be skewered on CN forums.

 

[Moondance]

This is way off base, but are you suggesting that Hitchens is radical or fundamentalist???

He was (and to my knowledge still remains) one of the greatest proponents of the US led invasion of Iraq, an illegal and unneccesary war fought under false pretenses which has to date resulted in the deaths of half a million Iraqis (although some estimates are much higher). I've heard him defend the invasion as recently as 2008, and it was still as balls to the wall unapologetic and lacking any concern for the humanitarian crisis that it caused.

Also it is pretty radical (although not unique to him) to claim that religion represents the greatest moral evil to society. And also to write petty critiques of certain figures like the Blessed Teresa (which you have already referred to) who has provided aid, both medical and spiritual to some of the most downtrodden and abandoned people in the world, and has been a positive force in the lives of millions of people. The Blessed Teresa touched far more lives in one day of her work, than Hitchens' books or columns for Vanity Fair or Slate has done in his lifetime so far.

Okay, I'm biased, i thoroughly dislike the man, but what does he expect when he writes a book called How Religion Poisons Everything.

 

[flicker]

I must say this is one of the most negative threads. Guy gives 250,000 $and you forumites whine and cry about where the money came from.
I'll bet anyone of you crybabies that the Mothers and children in Haiti in the disaster area will appreciate any support from any direction it comes from.
Shame on you negative people.
I will tell you 3 things. #1 Get a job.#2 Ride your bike#3 Get a life.
PS maybe if you are concerned find out what you can do to help the people who are hurting. Thanks flicker

 

[Moondance]

I must say this is one of the most negative threads. Guy gives 250,000 $and you forumites whine and cry about where the money came from.
I'll bet anyone of you crybabies that the Mothers and children in Haiti in the disaster area will appreciate any support from any direction it comes from.
Shame on you negative people.
I will tell you 3 things. #1 Get a job.#2 Ride your bike#3 Get a life.
PS maybe if you are concerned find out what you can do to help the people who are hurting. Thanks flicker

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