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"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

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“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Little Slow on the Uptake, There


Rmember the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, and the mess they managed to make when they decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood? Well, it looks like they finally figured out the consequences.

On Wednesday, the Dallas-based breast-cancer charity announced that its president, Elizabeth Thompson, was resigning. Founder and chief executive Nancy Brinker said she would relinquish her post after a replacement is found, and two Komen board members also said they are leaving.

Brinker expects us to believe that she, the foundation’s president and two board members just happen to decide to move on at the same time? That’s what Komen told its affiliates Wednesday, in a perfect example of the kind of forethought that got them into this mess.

I wouldn't call it "forethought" so much as a complete lack of thought.

You might remember that Brinker is very wealthy and very Republican -- a prime example of the 1%.

Does that tell you anything about the way this was handled?
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