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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:10:21 +0000

Then stick to those facts. I, too, find him irritating, but I don’t claim he hasn’t done all the things he has done.

I just find irritating men really hot. What can I say? I’ve had a crush on Steve Jobs for twenty years.

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:29:33 +0000

Bono is full of self-righteous bullshit, and I think it’s great that he can generate charitable contributions, but he’s just a loud obnoxious pissant in the great scheme of things, that’s all.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:17 +0000

I’m not talking about fundraising concerts; I’m talking about debt relief and the One campaign. Those are very big numbers, and he doesn’t get a cut of any of it.

You think singers have much to teach farmers about farming? What would his credentials be for that? He has none, and it would be a waste of everyone’s time. Are you suggesting he give up effective, benevolent action to help rebuild faltering nations to pontificate on things he’s not qualified to speak on?

I say, he’s very good at this fundraising/debt relief/infrastructure building thing. Let those who’ve proven their skills and abilities to do good things do them.

Do you disagree?

By: Bunk Strutts

Bunk Strutts — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:11:53 +0000

You missed my point. So what if the US hasn’t paid dues to the corrupt UN… the US has more than paid it’s dues in benevolent action to help rebuild faltering nations (and still is, regardless of which party is in power).

My point was that Bono is a self-righteous self-promoter who donates a relatively small amount of money from his fundraising concerts to folks who aren’t willing to fork it over to the people that need it, just like most charitable organizations.

If Bono was honest and sincere, he’d be sitting in the middle of Zimbabwe teaching the locals how to grow food instead of crowing about himself on stage and claiming that he’s working miracles when he isn’t.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:45:23 +0000

Well, the US hasn’t paid its dues in fifty years. That’s enough to get you thrown out of the Boy Scouts.

$180 million a year, for three years. You think that doesn’t save lives? Of course you think it saves lives, or you wouldn’t have equated US dollars with saving lives. And no, he does not charge a handling fee; you are completely wrong and self-evidently desperate. When you don’t stick to facts you risk getting written off entirely.

I’m sure that there are a lot of people in Guatemala etc, who have much to say on the subject of the uses to which US dollars are put, including Canadian Bruce Cockburn, who was in a jeep that was blown up by explosives donated by the US government.