Komen the good gals won

VanYoungman · #1 by **VanYoungman** » Feb 03, 2012 6:54 pm

Hooray:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/healt ... ml?_r=1&hp

BrandySpears · #2 by **BrandySpears** » Feb 03, 2012 6:58 pm

Komen is still a rightwing front group. We were allowed a glimpse through the fog screen. Playing politics with cancer is the most disgusting tactic religious whackjobs have come up with yet.

BrandySpears · #3 by **BrandySpears** » Feb 03, 2012 7:02 pm

For $429.99 you can buy this pink handgun with "part" of the proceeds going to cancer research. :lol:

http://gawker.com/5881982/susan-g-komen ... k-handguns

Sityl · #4 by **Sityl** » Feb 03, 2012 8:08 pm

Someone mentioned a 70% administrative cost to Komen donations, but I don't have a source. Don't suppose anyone here does?

VanYoungman · #5 by **VanYoungman** » Feb 03, 2012 8:46 pm

That figure won't be available until the dust settles. If they stay the hell away from politics, they should be able to recoup. Their problem is the right wing woo woos and republicans.

Shrunk · #6 by **Shrunk** » Feb 03, 2012 8:49 pm

Sityl wrote:Someone mentioned a 70% administrative cost to Komen donations, but I don't have a source. Don't suppose anyone here does?

PZ Myers says that's not the case, but he doesn't cite the source.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... g-charity/

AlohaChris · #7 by **AlohaChris** » Feb 03, 2012 8:50 pm

You can check Komen's admin-to-mission funding ratio on Guidestar.org. It's behind a paywall, but it's like $7 IIRC.

AlohaChris · #8 by **AlohaChris** » Feb 03, 2012 8:58 pm

BrandySpears wrote:

For $429.99 you can buy this pink handgun with "part" of the proceeds going to cancer research.

http://gawker.com/5881982/susan-g-komen ... k-handguns

You getting one, Brandy? If you are I could make a matching pink holster and mag holder for you. :naughty2:

BrandySpears · #9 by **BrandySpears** » Feb 08, 2012 2:57 am

WOW! @ the 2:40 mark cancer survivor speaks her mind!

Shrunk · **#10** by **Shrunk** » Feb 08, 2012 11:07 am

I'm in love.

Shrunk · **#11** by **Shrunk** » Feb 08, 2012 6:20 pm

More good news, if not at all surprising: Karen Handel, the anti-abortion zeolot who was behind the Planned Parenthood decision, has been forced to resign from Komen.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/07/komen_s ... en_handel/

Steve · **#12** by **Steve** » Feb 08, 2012 8:59 pm