Handel declined a severance package

no doubt contained a non disclosure clause – weighed against all that cheddar to be had on the rubber martyrs circuit

p.s. as previously stated, I have Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council in the pool :D

YEAH! Now she can go on to a more lucrative wing-nuttery sinecure. Or spend more time with her family.

Perhaps she can start a home for the “bad girls”. She can tell them how bad they are, and how they deserve to live in poverty the rest of their lives. She can call this a “Home for Unwed Mothers”.

Karen Handel aka right wing nut case, welcome to the year 2012!

What happened to the Komen Foundation showed other organization this is not a good time to attack the LEFT!!!

Karen Handel and her type are not taking this well, they know their ZOMBIE WORLD OF MORONs aka Tea Party nut cases is dying.

the Poster child for the 1% Mitt Romney yet again finds himseld cheering for the wrong side.

Has she been on Faux Snooze yet?

She’s going to the Chamber of Commerce. You watch!

You make a good point, jedi. We talked with our money here, and we won. SGK, and Karen Handel in particular, got their asses kicked by the left in a matter of days.

When’s the going away party?

Ding Dong, only one witch is dead.

Brinker and Ari need to go, along with Komen’s tendency to kill any info about environmentally caused cancer.

KOMEN’S CORPORATE SPONSORS:

http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.aspx

You know what to do.

This was amazing to watch. Less than 30 days to cook her goose, from when the story first broke. Maybe even less than two weeks? I lost track.

The right-to-lifers are all just disgusting liars. Handel’s bitter resignation letter is just the most recent proof.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen David Dayen:

I don’t believe that this resignation will mollify the broader base of Komen donors but isn’t this an opportunity to create a real woman’s health non-profit funding base that could really be a force against astroturf anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood politics? Where do you see this newly energized force going?

Update: after checkin out the corporate donor list, I think it’s time to make hamburger out of the Komen cash cow and create a real grassroots women’s health force, kinda like Howard Dean did with the DNC before Obama swallowed it whole.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE BASTARDS MIGHT EVEN KILL THEMSELVES OFF!!

The Koch Roaches have been exposed. Komen is a total “Front” for Billionaires, neo-cons, and wingnut crybabies, such as Handel. You could even call it a conspiracy. But most of the Dee Cee “Think Tanks” are wingnut Fronts involved in conspiracies for a world war. Komen wages war against women…and men. Handel is the latest dee cee Wingnut Victim and Epic Failure.

Komen’s decision to change its granting strategy and exit the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood and its grants was fully vetted by every appropriate level within the organization. At the November Board meeting, the Board received a detailed review of the new model and related criteria.

Handel has an Epic Sad. Every aspect of Handel’s “work” is to deny women health care. Because Handel is a despicable liar, the Dee Cee opinion makers will defend her against the FemiNazi Left.

This development should sadden us all greatly.

Just as Komen’s best interests and the fight against breast cancer have always been foremost in every aspect of my work, so too are these my priorities in coming to the decision to resign effective immediately.

Hope the door slams on her fanny as she is leaving.

Don’t suppose she’ll be attending any of the SGK mahjong games anymore.

While I am definately not defending her. NOT AT ALL. It does seem that she was thrown under the bus. And, for the record, I’m not saying that is a bad thing. I just think, based on her letter, she shoulda had some company.

normally, an excellent bet – but she’s presently too closely identified with “fringe” for them to pick her up. I’m stickin with Tony – her current ‘bloodied but unbowed by the librul baby-killin’ hordes’ status is the very fundraising catnip he needs right now that Santorum has shit his seer sucker pants on the national stage

komen was the home for the dwindling group of moderate gop women and politicians who supported choice, but held their last caucus at the Gooper national conventions long about 1996. then, they got spotted holed up at Komen, and the right-wingers on the board nudged the president and she brought in Ari to redirect the organization through the hiring of a hard-right message person (female) who had already proven herself in a public campaign.

komen was always too good to be true and the papers where I worked all had the message that their runs were a safe thing to promote. I remember covering a few of them, as I liked to work Sundays.

good to see ya, you old hell raiser !

Sorry to go OT, really, – but, in a pre- Prop 8 court ruling, Dan Choi is on MSNBC right now.

Of course she was thrown under the bus. The ENTIRE board approved the blacklisting of PP and she was selected to take the fall when it exploded. The remainder of the board will be careful. Expect to see PP denied grants for various not-related-to-abortion reasons starting with their next grant.

Boxtrtle (I dunno if SGK will survive, certainly their money from the left is gone)

good riddance.

Oh…and…. too little. too late.

BTW, you’ve been missed, of late, demi.

Just so ya know.

DW

So when does Handel get to continue her version of the “Crying Game.” You know: about how she was so incredibly and unfairly “bullied” by all those mean nasty baby-murdering FemiNazis?

I agree with prior commenters: maybe Handel ain’t getting some platinum-plated “severance package” (I don’t even believe that), but for sure, she’ll land on her feet pulling down lo$ta buckeroni$ from some Koch-funded hate tank or another. Right now Handel is platinum for rightwingers wishing to victimize themselves against the baby-murdering Nazi Lefties.

ptoui!

Thanks. It’s amazing how much house work a person can get done when they can’t comment at the Lake. The time off gave me the opportunity to achieve a little different perspective.

Doorknob might add a little emphasis to the slam, too.

I agree with you. Said it yesterday. No love lost watching this rhymes-with-rich get tossed under the bus. But the whole kit ‘n caboodle is corrupt at the top (probably not as much at the lower levels).

My understanding (albeit limited & have no links) is that they bought off Ari Fleischer some months ago to “handle” this fracas. The whining victimization of the Komen Ponzi scheme has been quite *interesting* to witness over the past few days. But make no mistake, the whining victim stance is the preferred fall-back position of conservatives, when they don’t get “their way.”

My fervent hope is that more of the 99% gets the picture that Komen is a corrupt organization. Whether you are “for” or “against” PP, Komen needs to either seriously clean up its act or get kicked to the curb permanently. It’s nothing more than a cash cow for a bunch of 1% greedy shitheads and has precious little to do with assisting women who have cancer. ptoui!

The crying game should begin on Faux this evening, they’re running her story as the headline on their website is very large type.

I’d bet she ends up in either Newt’s or Frothy Mixture’s campaign before the end of the week.

Boxturtle (Either that, or she opens up her own church)

There was already a letter to the editor in my local “nooz” paper decrying the “bullying” of Planned Parenthood against the saintly Komen Ponzi scheme, and mentioning how Handel had be so vilely “mis-treated.” Signed by someone claiming to be an “MD.” shudder…

Prop 8 unconstitutional!!

We have missed you. We really DO like you here and welcome your comments.

WHOA….that’s gonna leave a mark.

With apologies to Norske–and our fighting’ goes on and on

Axelrod suggests White House could back down on birth control

LINK.

Would that be a University of Phonenix, MD?????
..
I got one of those.

What better organization to take over for Komen than Planned Parenthood? I would imagine administrative expenses would come down, although Komen did a reasonable job with that.

I remember when pink ribbons made their debut. One of the local TV anchors fired the whole viewing area up with her involvement.

Dent.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Who’s gonna organize all the races. NOT ME!!!

Ya know, there really are times when I wish I had a teebee. This is one of ‘em. Choi talks and studios catch fire.

It wasn’t a personal decision. I was having trouble with FDL not loading properly. No biggie. All better now. :)

When SGK was still young the races and other events were organized on a local basis. No reason not to go back to that.

There was a great exchange between Dan and Michael Steel. Maybe it will be on youtube later. And, he quoted Beyoncee’s Destiny’s Child. He really is amazing.

Hoooyahhhh!

Calif. same-sex marriage ban violates Constitution, appeals court finds

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/07/calif-same-sex-marriage-ban-violates-constitution-appeals-court-finds/

Feurae and I are struggling for use of the mouse, otherwise I’d have gotten it up earlier.

I understand. You may remember I had to change from “carguy” to “newcarguy” for similar reasons.

I suppose we’ll eventually move on past this. Whadya figure, 15-20 years????

” • 58% of all Catholics agree employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception. That slides down to 52% for Catholic voters, 50% for white Catholics
.
• 61% of religiously unaffiliated Americans say employer plans should cover contraception.

• 50%of white mainline Protestants want the coverage. However, for evangelical Protestants, that drops to 38%.”

MORE.

Definitely a dude I’d like to have next to me in the bush. Sure wouldn’t have to worry about my back.

I don’t think it’s gonna take that long. Less than 10 would be my guess. People are getting tired of the haters.

Yep, and here’s the thing: In a way, and not to lessen or diminish your service, we are still in the bush. And, he is standing beside us for everyone’s rights. How we treat the One, we treat all.
When everyone understands, things will be better. As you say so correctly, Which Side Are You On?

Yeah, we still are in the bush, aren’t we?

That’s because it’s a stupid topic that makes for an easy election-year “debate.” Choose something that everybody-including-the-supreme-court has already made their decisions about, then use it to pretend there’s a difference between R’s & D’s. Both sides want culture-war topics to be front and center, rather than the bankers and military.

rather than the bankers and military.

Ding.

Plus, the WH wouldn’t want to buck a trend. Actually, seems to be a trademark, doesn’t it?

Is that pathetic, or what?

To me the big scandal about Konen’s operation is that something like 2/3 to 3/4 of their revenue goes to ‘overhead.’ You get a better return from the casino.

Exactly. The operation was a scam from the get go.

Komen should’ve hired back Molly as soon as they could no longer hide its sleezy “truth”! So, why didn’t they?

She did her job and will be rewarded by some cushy post at a Koch brothers think tank. That’s how the game is played.

I looked that up and the Better Business Bureau shows administrative expenses at 8%, which considering their revenue is quite a sum.

To me the big scandal is that they’ve trademarked “for the cure” and similar phrases and then sue small mom n pop fundraisers to squish the competition. Is that not evil?

Don’t know if that’s covered by “administration” or not.

You don’t have a TV? I just got rid of mine a few weeks ago. Wouldn’t you know it? The Giants go to the SuperBowl and win a barnburner. Still don’t regret it. Yet. Now if the Yankees……………..

Good t’ see ta, demi!

I have one but when teebee went digital I said the hell with it. It sits there collecting dust cuz I’m too lazy to haul it out to the curb.

There really is some interesting and entertaining stuff on TV. On “Science Channel”, they have a show “How It’s Made”. Did you know that a panel of sheetrock is 1,100 yards long before they cut it up into smaller pieces???

My translator box (which was free from a relative) sits in a drawer. My tvbox serves to watch dvds and vhs from the library or my collection. No commercials…

I was so thrilled to see “Craft in America Family” that I spread the word before I found out it was a series…just borrowed more from the library. Makes me want to break out my beads.

Please be careful how you use the title “Witch”. You could counter your own intent, even though most modern Witches do not get bent out of shape over it. (Just a suggestion, because the message is good.)

Wait…the LEFT wins on this particular issue by an overwhelming demonstration of its princiaples AND its monetary power, and Axelrod (pres) chooses THIS moment to talk about caving the OTHER way?

They really are in an impenetrable bubble. Did they not notice what was happening the last ten days?
face palm. unbeforkinlievable.

The rest of the resignation letter is an indignant defense of the decision to defund, and her associated martyrdom. Handel declined a severance package.

Where’s the letter? No link, just your characterization and the limited quote?

I have 2 shelves of books that need to be read. I learn from the non-fiction and work the hell out of my imagination with the fiction, mostly sci-fi/fantasy. I’ll take that over teebee any day. Always have. *g*

Did they not notice what was happening the last ten days?

That’s a rhetorical question, right?

Guess so, but I really kinda thought even the DC bubble people had to notice.

How ya feelin’?

Crummy. But better, in a way. The wheezing is almost gone, tho’ still coughing, and head aches, prolly from coughing. Hungry, ’cause I’ve got tonsof food..ingredients. There’s the catch in scratch cooking…if you ain’t got the energy to put them together, you still wind up hungry. Thank god eggs are easy. *g*
Going out to restock in a little while..after a short nap. If I’d gone to the doc last Thurs, I’d likely have been spared all this misery, tho’ my bank acct might have suffered. Ha?

OT: Reasons I love Atrios:

given that some are increasingly embracing short sales I think one answer which doesn’t get enough attention is that they are assholes. As in, their approach wasn’t simply based on financial considerations but instead a desire to punish the moochers and freeloaders who forced the banks to lend them money to buy overpriced houses.

Cheered me right up. Nancy Brinker triggered the hate bc she can’t seem to articulate a straight sentencee, every one outta her mouth was twisted and spun to death.

work the hell out of my imagination with the fiction, mostly sci-fi/fantasy

*smile*

They noticed but they don’t want “the people” to think they have any power to flex muscles. “Don’t like it? Where else ya gonna go?” I hear Obama thinking while he smirks.

…any power to affect the government decisions

When are people going to learn that you can’t trust the conservative and religious zealots to act responsibly. Obama, are you listening?

He’s too busy trying to get the Dem clown car into reverse so he can run away from the contraception “furor”.

Well, quite the success for her and her ilk. Her work there is done. Serves these asses right for even hiring this troll. Regardless, this organization is not worth it, so let it die it’s deserved death. A new, less corporatized and corrupt movement for breast cancer is needed.