American Idol and Ellen DeGeneres
First of all let me state that I enjoy watching American Idol. However, I am disgusted with the "Idol Gives Back" thing going on right now. Last night Seacrest stated that there were over 70 million votes and that when the voting reached 50 million votes some company or other "donated" 5 million dollars to the charity effort. Big whoop!! Each call (I have never called to vote btw) costs 99 cents. Am I the only one doing the math here?
Also, there is Ellen, in her most heartfelt, teary eyed, pleading way, telling me that I MUST have an extra 20 dollars to send in. Well, Ellen, and the rest of you celebrities can kiss my hardworking ass. When these people donate the extra MILLIONS of their fortune and live at the same standard of living as I do then I would consider donating. (Not really, as I already donate to my local animal shelter). Simon can sell his Bentley's and buy his cheesy T-shirts at Walmart instead of RO-DAY-O Drive. (Just a clue to all you "stars": Here in Texas it's ro-DEE-o, ya pompous bastards!!) Ryan can buy his $1200 suits at Goodwill. Randy can keep a little of his and take some English classes, I won't begrudge him that. Oh, and Paula, I love you but Alcoholics Anonymous is free hon.
One other thing: How about we get all these Africans together and have a little BIRTH CONTROL!!! party? Or maybe if you folks could get a hobby, say for instance gardening and STOP screwing each other for a week, well, then you might have enough FOOD for all of you!!!!
Okay, I think I'm done. Thanks for listening.
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I wasn't a big fan of last ...
I wasn't a big fan of last night either but
1. It's free to vote.
2. Ellen gave $100,000 of her own money.
Not true. If you read the ...
Not true. If you read the little blurb at the bottom it says 99 cents to call. Ellen gave perhaps .000001 % of her worth.
And apparently you missed ...
And apparently you missed my point.
It is free to call ...
It is free to call American Idol and vote from a landline, I don;t know where you are getting the 99 cents thing. I think they used to charge people to TEXT message their votes, and if you do not have free text messaging you may have charges from your wireless phone provider, but to call and vote from a regular phone is 100% free.
And while I agree that birth control would help Africa a lot, I think the way you put it is callous and shows that you are uneducated about their culture.
Uneducated about their ...
Uneducated about their culture? Care explaining to me how there are so many of them starving? Have we somehow got all of these starving babies in Africa because of them NOT screwing? Or maybe it is Divine conception? You're an idiot.
No, you're the idiot ...
No, you're the idiot Kingfish - maybe take a trip to Africa and see what is going on first. I have.
I didn't miss any point. ...
I didn't miss any point. I just think that you obviously have your mind made up up that you have all the answers. My daughter votes regularly and it is free. They might charge for text messaging. Also, there are many problems that need to be solved in Africa and I believe everyone should do what they can to help their fellow human beings, whether you're a celebrity or not. That special, done by American Idol, focused on people in need here in America too.
WOW!! Truth is breeding ...
WOW!! Truth is breeding some hostility here, eh? I agree 100%! Big freaking deal, so Ellen donated $100,000 from her own pocket! Guess what? She's got MILLIONS MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM!!!! And so do the rest of those living their highlife in Hollywood who are so bloody overpayed they should be FORCED to give at least half of their worth to charity instead of begging people like me (who GROSS only $40,000 a year, not $7 Million per movie) to fork over my hard earned cash to the starving UNEDUCATED nations of the world...they NEED to be educated not just fed or else we're gonna keep on dishing out our own cash. And IN MY OPINION they're actually just being corrupted by the bible thumpers who do "God's work" over there, not helped. I'll donate my money to starving, abused or neglected children in my own city thank you very much!
I AGREE WITH EVERY WORD OF ...
I AGREE WITH EVERY WORD OF THE ORIGINAL POSTER 100%.
Human evolution has created some very intelligent people all over the world, in the harshest of conditions, harsher than most parts of Africa. Most of them understand that sex=baby and too many babies=poverty. Africans just have never caught on or simply don't care. The violence in that place is overwhelming. It would be far kinder to let Mother Nature do it's job and let the population reduce to a sustainable one. We do not have to play God by giving BILLIONS in aid every year. I mean, would they do the same to save US if we needed it and THEY had the money? Of course not!
First of all let me say ...
First of all let me say thank you to Disturbing and Ranty. At least I'm not the only one to see the truth.
Now to Joycerg: I have been to Africa on several occasions. In 1986 while in the Navy, onboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk on a rescue mission in Mombasa, Kenya. Again in 1992 on a relief/construction trip to build a hospital in Ghana. And in 1998/99 on a relief/construction trip to build a clinic in Rwanda. I am quite familiar the politics and the culture. All told, I have spent 38 months in Africa among several different countries, cultures, tribes and factions.
Now to Vanessa: No, I don't claim to have all the answers, as I believe there is ONLY ONE fundamental problem: Too many people, not enough food. It is quite obvious that growing the population at a faster rate than the food supply IS NOT WORKING!! Since we as a world community are not ready to "terraform" Africa, meaning turning a desert into a crop sustaining, livestock sustaining Garden of Eden-like Utopia on a MASSIVE SCALE, there seems to be only one answer left: These people have to STOP f**king. Or they have to STOP having producing more PEOPLE THEY CANNOT FEED!!! Sending MORE money and MORE food only helps them in the short term. They get healthy and f**k each other. Then comes MORE PEOPLE THEY CANNOT FEED!!
This brings me to another truth. AIDS. In 1986, we were warned by the Navy not to have any sort of sexual contact with the locals because we were told that two out of five people were HIV positive. The ratio in the intervening years has risen to almost four out of five. Well, holy crap and guess what: They didn't get HIV or AIDS from pandemic use of shared hypodermic needles. They got it from F**KING!!!!! CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
Sorry for the YELLING, but theirs and YOUR myopic view is the CAUSE of the situation they are currently in. You (and people of like minded views) are ENABLERS. Just as someone who watches a loved one eat themselves into obesity and death, or ignores a loved one hooked on drugs, is an enabler.
There is only one viable solution.
On second thought Vanessa, ...
On second thought Vanessa, I suppose I DO claim to have all the answers. All ONE of them. Birth control.
Wow! some of you must have ...
Wow! some of you must have no understanding of what goes on in Africa. Birth control isn't the answer. This a place in the world that is ruled by alot of superstion and tribal customs. In some area's it's belived that if you have AIDS you can be cured by sleeping with a virgan! Education is the key.
To t_kenmare: Now let's ...
To t_kenmare:
Now let's start with today's first educational instruction: Virgin is spelled V-I-R-G-I-N.....or maybe when you said "virgan" you meant a vegan virgin?
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Thanks disturbing. There ...
Thanks disturbing. There was some, but not major violence near where I was in Rwanda and Ghana. A couple we were threatened by one faction or another and had to run or drive to cross some imaginary boundary ruled by another faction and then we were "safe". We'd wait a couple of hours (or days in some cases) and then go back to what we were doing, which was trying to build a clinic, more of a bush hospital. The boundaries were very dynamic and changed just about every other day. But I never really felt in "grave" danger. The worst was malaria. I got it once in Ghana and once in Rwanda and my doctors told me I can never go back because if I were to get it again they say I wouldn't survive. But, that works out well because I have no desire to go back.
Anyway, to address your question about why don't they improve infrastructure: There are too many petty little despots and wannabe dictators with hordes of followers wielding AK-47's fighting each other. Also, the countries of the U.N. can't agree or commit to such a massive undertaking. That's my opinion anyway.