Where Have All The Ribbons Gone?

 Just happened to notice something as I drive around the outskirts of good old Knoxville here: the cars seem to be devoid of all the ubiquitous Pink for the Cure stick-ons. Usually they are plastered hither, thither and yon........but they are no longer omnipresent. There are, of course, still some Pink for the Cure license plates. Wadda ya gonna do?

Seems just like the other day that the Republicans (I don't know if they were called Right wingers then) were up in arms because a Catholic was running for President of the United States. A papist, mind you, here in River City....or something like that. JFK had to practically swear a second oath that the Catholic Church or the Vatican would NOT influence any decisions he made in his capacity as president. Now we have Mike Huckabee announcing at CPAC (that conservative anti-Obama rally for the GOP) that "we are all Catholics now." Bet the Baptists are none too happy about that.........

Of course, we all know how the Vatican feels about contraception. Too bad they don't feel the same way about rape or child molestation, but I digress. Seems like they're up in arms over "having to provide it for their insured women, and it's against their religion." President Obama simply adjusted the proposal to say 'OK, YOU don't have to cover them due to 'religious grounds' but your employees can get still them through SOME insurance coverage NOT provided by you." Uh.....never mind......

After a while it gets a LITTLE tiring, playing in the sand box with this group of kindergartners. All they want to do is take their shovels, beach balls, pails, water bottles, and blankies and say "No, you can't play unless we do it MY way."  Or "I was here first....."

All I can say is: I'm glad I"M not running the daycare.......

Boobs in the Right Wing

.........and I'm not talking about those running for the Republican presidential nomination these days. I mean the ill-timed, selfish, obviously political move by the Susan G. Komen Foundation yesterday to stop all grants to the Planned Parenthood organization to perform mammograms for low income women.

How convenient that all of a sudden they have a "policy" in place that requires them to prohibit support for organizations/entities that are somehow "under investigation." For years this was apparently never a problem. The Komen Foundation has dealings with, receives money from, and by doing so supports such corporations as Bank Of America, GE, Lowes, Caterpillar, and American Airlines. Paragons of virtue every one of them.

Enter Karen Handel, their new  Senior Vice President of Policy, a "born again" Christian and Republican candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2010. During her political career, in other positions in that state she upheld the Voter ID act and proof of citizenship push, against the ACLU. Of course, she is very anti-abortion .... for whatever reason.


The Susan G. Komen Foundation, with help from a Big Parma Company of course, started the Race for the Cure and pushed "pink" onto everything: soup cans, pens, running shoes, cars,website, TV shows, pill boxes, catfood.....you name it. This got to be quite a money maker ("for research and development" of course) and they didn't want anyone else using their "For the Cure" in any context. And to prove it they  sued a smaller local group for doing so, even though this group was doing it "for cancer." The SGK uses approximately 13% of the money donated for "cancer research"...........really? Interesting........


Enter the Right Wing Republican extremists, bent on keeping this country under it's collective thumb, a mission they have devoted themselves to since November 2008. Any group of people that they can denigrate, mock, disenfranchise or take services from, they aim to do it: nonwhites, unemployed, seniors, public workers, unions, Liberals, Hispanics, immigrants,women, the poor...and now poor women (without insurance)who might need mammograms. Anything that might even SEEM to give "aid and support" to ANY belief they deem against their idea of morality (don't get me started on that)...it's outa here.


So tell me, Mr. Romney...where are those "safety nets" that the poor people you're not worried about can catch?


You might also want to check out the following:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39866_Susan_G._Komen_Official_Resigned_in_Protest_Over_Planned_Parenthood_Cut-Off/comments/#ctop 


http://web.archive.org/web/20100921093610/http:/blog.karenhandel.com/2010/07/karen-handel-on-life-and-planned-parenthood/