Bro Deal said:
Don't give it a second thought. Alienater is a blue ribbon asshole and he cannot stand it that other people have different opinions. He's proved it time and time again on many different sites.
A few other sites? Really? Proof, please.
As for your thoughts. As a result of increased awareness, cancer deaths--for the last year tabulated--went down 8 times the rate they decreased the year before. For the record, those two years of decrease, in the US, are the first years since records have been kept that cancer deaths have decreased. If you don't think awareness is an issue, then you only need talk to all the familys of people who out of ignorance or lack of awareness never got treatment for the testicular, breast, coli-rectal, or whatever cancer.
Fashion statement? Maybe for some, but I don't care. The more people that by them, the more moeny that goes to cancer research. An effort to look cool? Wow. What an effete, weak claim. Sure, there is a minority of people who might wear them for that reason, but so what? That's no different than the reason that you do the things that you do. There are, however, a large number of us that wear them out of rememberance of friends and family who have had cancer, who've died from cancer, or who are struggling with and fighting cancer. That you can't see that speaks volumes about you. I don't care why someone wears a LiveStrong band anymore than I care why someone rides a bicycle. I only care that research gets funded.
As for the LAF,
here is Charity Navigator's analysis and rating of LAF. As a charitable organization, LAF ranks very highly.
Lance Armstrong is smart and capable, and he's made the most of those qualities in the form of LAF. In the LAF, it's apparent that Armstrong is doing something to try and leave the world a better place before he dies. That's something everyone should strive for.
As for your doping insinuations. Yawn. You know nothing and have no facts. You bleat just like everyone else who has some personal interest in hating the man. Me? I don't care. I know that I don't have the inside scoop on his cycling life, so I choose to see things objectively and say that I don't know if he doped or not...because I don't. I do know that a book or two is not proof of any facts. I know that a newspaper article or two is not proof of any facts. Suspicion does not a fact make. Neither do your bleatings. It's baseless whining, such as yours, that makes the current struggle to find a solution to doping in sport so difficult to find. You're a witch hunter. You exercise zero objectivity.....much like the majority of your posts.
So, where is all of this "proof" that you have? What is it, exactly, that you know about professional cycling that no one else knows? What is it, exactly, that you know about cancer that no one else knows? What exactly is it that you bring, of benefit, to the table? I suspect it's as little as your skills of perception are small. That those are small is evident from what you've apparently "perceived" about me in internet forums. Yeah, as if you actually know me. What enlightment do have that you can share with anyone? Apparently it must be very great, because you seem to just know it all re: LAF, Armstrong, me, cycling, and people in general.
Wow. You got skillz.