re: Breast Cancer Overfunding

I agree that designating an entire month for breast cancer is overkill. However, you can't fault donors or charitable organizations if the donations for breast cancer are greater than other illnesses. Face it, breast cancer is more marketable than other cancers. Save the colon doesn't sound as marketable as Save the Ta-tas. Plus, you have a lot more high profile advocates for breast cancer. I can't fault the organizations for being more aggressive in pulling in financial support.

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Breast cancer deaths are highly preventable by early detection. One of the most preventable forms, and easiest to detect. It's about awareness for women to go get tested frequently

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heart disease is also easily prevented, and affects a much larger segment of the population.

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plus to top it offf Kommen is a BS charity that spends more on advertising and litigation than they do donating to research.

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and funds abortions

Has it ever occurred to you that the reason it doesn't kill as many people is BECAUSE there is a great fundraising effort?

1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Tell me how many people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

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I was reading an article years ago, and it was saying that had Hiv gone airborne it would likely have been an extinction level event. Pretty scary to think about.

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If ants were the size of cats, we'd be all dead.

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quote: I was reading an article years ago, and it was saying that had Hiv gone airborne it would likely have been an extinction level event. Pretty scary to think about. If ants were the size of cats, we'd be all dead.

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Not really. IIRC, large insects require extreme amounts of oxygen, which is why they thrived in the...well, whatever era giant forests damn near covered the land. What makes ants terrifying is their numbers, and if they were the size of cats, limits on resources would make them inefficient and cause them to die out from lack of sustanence.

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I love this stupid fcking thread every year at this time.

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I love people who complain about threads being repetitive by posting in said thread and giving their also repetitive opinion. Also like when people feel better about cursing by misspelling the word, like that makes it's use better or more civilized

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The pink in NFL games triggers the rednecks as well and we usually here from them.

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It's not the pink, it's the fact that Kommen PAYS the NFL for this, in turn the NFL markets merchandise that is sold with funds going back to Kommen. Of all this money changing hands, you are the one giving and they are the ones spending, though only 20% goes to the actual cause of the charity. That's why I and many others are upset.

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Go start your own charity cause and pimp the frick out of it so yours can be better

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Plan to, though I would never pimp a charity, I find this getting rich off of charity crap to be morally wrong.
Easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle.......

We need a walk and 5k to raise awareness of bullshite charities.

#Iwalkfordonorresponsibility
#goodcause
#blessed

My mother died of breast cancer. You can't fund the research too much, as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely, let's fund research for other diseases better, but if this is about you being tired of seeing pink, GFY.