Politics, Religion

From The “What Did You Expect Would Happen?” Department

-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger

The Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity is having trouble meeting their fund-raising goals as a result of their controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Resignations at the local and national level continue to plague the organization.

Jaimie Leopold, executive director at Komen Southern Arizona, has termed the Planned Parenthood decision a “debacle.” Because of a downturn in donations, Leopold has closed the Tucson, Arizona, Komen office on Fridays.

Dana Curish, the executive director of Komen’s Central Indiana affiliate, said “I could be looking at a shortfall of $750,000. Hopefully, it won’t go higher than that.”

A leading market research firm that specializes in corporate reputation and brand health research recently found that:

Susan G. Komen’s current brand equity score of 55.1 represents a 21% drop in brand equity over the prior year ─ a historic drop in the study’s 23-year history, surpassed only by Fannie Mae in 2009.

If you run a trusted charity and you decide to support radical religious dogma over rationality and science, the current fund-raising problems are entirely predictable.

H/T: NY Times.

18 thoughts on “From The “What Did You Expect Would Happen?” Department”

  4. Are there no right-wing sugar daddies that will make up for the lost revenue? Is that how they treat their foot soldiers?

  5. Blouise, I think you’re right about that, and I’m going through some of the arguments my friend and I had about the “stupidity versus evil” issue. Among my clearest examples were two child abuse cases (because I was a Presenter and round-table leader on the Public Health Service Clinical conference circuit, Region III, mid-Atlantic Region).

    1. Physical abuse, New Jersey, DYFS personnel repeatedly could not “found” a case in which a five-year-old boy who claimed that he was being beaten and choked by his father had bruises all over his body consistent with the narration he was giving, and had been at his father’s house during the entire time that the photographed bruises could have been made. I spoke with a social worker there who insisted that the boy’s complaints were merely the result of the parents hating each other. I insisted that you don’t get bilateral thumb marks on your neck from your parents hating each other, but he insisted that was the cause, and closed the case. (The kid started a fire years later and ended up in Juvenile, but nobody investigated what home situation had led to his hostility and violence.)

    2. Sexual abuse, New York. Prosecutor’s personnel refused to investigate or allow investigation into the fact that an eight-year-old girl was hospitalized and had emergency surgery for pelvic inflammatory disease, after having alleged sexual abuse by her father (who had a prior finding in social services registry of sex offenders already!) for two years. The prosecutor’s personnel insisted that they could only investigate if the surgeon were to give them a written statement that there was only ONE cause of the pelvic inflammatory disease, and the director of the hospital, not eager for a lawsuit, forbad the doctor to give an affidavit that there was “only one cause” because that is not medically permissible. The doctor did tell me, on the phone, that “the only other cause would be a ruptured ovary, but a child this age and this stage of development cannot have a ruptured ovary without some kind of accident that would be easily identifiable, such as in an automobile accident. Besides, she didn’t have a ruptured ovary. And her appendix was pink and fresh and not inflamed.”

    I took these two cases and concluded that the officials involved were NOT stupid enough to believe that (a) marks get on a kid’s neck because of hatred-like disturbances in the spiritual realm; or that (b) a little girl gets pelvic inflammatory disease and nearly dies of it from something smashing her ovary although no sign of such an injury appears during surgery.

    I said, “These people cannot be that stupid; they are evil. They are lying. They know what happened and they want to avoid saying so, so they pretend dumb. Nobody is THAT DUMB!”

    And telescope forward in time, Sanford Police Department, 2/26/2012:

    Is anybody dumb enough to think that a guy who already had his hackles up for “assholes” who were trying to run away would (a) get squirrely with the police when describing where they could find him; and (b) then figure, “oh well, the asshole got away” and calmly return to his car; and (c) get jumped by a kid who had been trying to evade him for the last 10 minutes, about which evasive actions he had complained; and (d) get beaten nearly to death; and (e) HAVE TO KILL THE KID to save his own life; and (f) then advise the cops, calmly, that he yelled “help help help” but nobody helped him? Would three (or even four) cops all be that stupid? How the Hell did they manage to tie their shoes in the morning to appear for work without tripping over their own shoelaces and breaking their poor noses?

  7. “I insist that it is impossible for people who have graduated from some university somewhere and who hold responsible positions in business or government or non-profit or this or that to BE SO STUPID and therefore, there is a point at which apparent stupidity can only be explained by the presence of other things in the equation, hidden things, like EVIL.” (Malisha)

    I would agree with your assertion for Evil is sly but has no real intelligence as it is based on lies. A normal person experiences confusion when first confronted by Evil and rightfully asks the question How Can They Be So Stupid(?).

  8. Hopefully, this “we will not forget” will spread to other groups who have also put religion and party over decency, need, and reason.

  9. The Susan G. Komen group has some real idiots in their leadership. I mean, don’t even get me started, it’s pretty much a whole new area of idiocy-study and with all that’s already on that curriculum, it’s just a course too much.

    But I have an ongoing intellectual battle with a guy who’s so smart he’s in my personal “top ten” and he also has credentials: lawyer and economist, Macalaster, Duke, I mean, obviously smart and paperwork too. He and I argue about whether it is POSSIBLE to be “that stupid” whenever we come across something that COULD be excused for “stupidity.” This is usually something that was done by a public official, etc., and that gets revealed, and then everybody goes, “How STUPID!” His argument is that I do not allow for enough stupidity, that I cannot IMAGINE enough stupidity, so I judge things from a point of view that is essentially uninformed in that way. I insist that it is impossible for people who have graduated from some university somewhere and who hold responsible positions in business or government or non-profit or this or that to BE SO STUPID and therefore, there is a point at which apparent stupidity can only be explained by the presence of other things in the equation, hidden things, like EVIL.

  10. It couldn’t have happened to a better excuse for a non-profit. The founder was more interested in making money off of her sisters’ death than fighting breast cancer.

  12. Oh, the dog pack said to say that Susan wont be Komen anytime soon. That was from Kaltenrunner the German Shepard. Chico says she should have planned better. Otter says that Krauts dont need to be swimming in money. The Sheltie (oddly named) Susan B. Anthony says that those foundation people have littered enough and that someone needs to stand up for female dog rights.
    JustUsDogsTalkin

  13. The money quit Komen. The susan people need to speak the King’s English. Maybe they can start giving their money to that school which fired the lady for trying to use science to have a kid. Then they could complete the circle of the wagons and solicit money from schmucks (all five of em) called Catolics who do not believe in the right of two consenting adults to use science to procreate. Pedophiles need apply.

  17. “What Did You Expect Would Happen?” Has anyone responsible for the decision ever answered this question?

  18. “and you decide to support radical religious dogma over rationality and science,

    Sounds like the Republicans war on womens rights,that they deny exist.

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