Komen official quits amid Planned Parenthood funding dispute: "An executive with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood. The resignation came in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel announced her resignation as vice president for public policy in a ( Read more... )

taura_g, trowa_barton, and I are in agreement that the recent stupidity perpetrated by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has left us unable to continue participating in the 3-Day Walk. At this point I'm not sure what would have to happen in order for us to reconsider, but it would have to involve a pretty major shakeup of leadership at the very least. Either ( Read more... )

Susan G. Komen Apologizes for Cutting off Planned Parenthood Funding: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation apologized for cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood and vowed to revise its policy that led to that decision amid intense backlash against the nation’s largest breast cancer organization. "We want to apologize to the American ( Read more... )

Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In: "Sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood."

[That official, by the way, was Mollie Williams, the top public health official at SGK.]"[A] source directly involved with ( Read more... )

So go check out the various items up for bid and make sure you are still in the running for whatever you bid on!

REMINDER: Please make subsequent bids in replies to previous bids, so that people will be notified when they've been outbid. In the case of multiple batches, the goodies will be awarded to the top n bidders (as in, if there are 3 ( Read more... )

Obviously, trowa_barton and I won't be doing the Breast Cancer 3-Day this year. However, taura_g is volunteering for the Boston crew this July and would like to raise some money. She doesn't have a minimum goal as a crew member, so this isn't as huge an undertaking as it is when we're walking as a team. Still, there are already a number of yummy-looking entries at treatsfortits. ( Read more... )

All those who have contributed treats and/or successfully bid on items, please see this entry over on the Treats for Tits auction LJ, if you haven't already!

Wow! Thank you all so much, both for donating goods and for bidding! Tonight we'll be notifying winning bidders that they've won, and taura_g will tabulate what everyone owes.

Boobs everywhere are grateful! :)

Please check out all the fabulous goodies for auction over at treatsfortits, especially new items at the end of the list! There are still items with only a couple of bids; there are also a few little bidding wars happening. Fight for your right to nom!

Remember, all proceeds to to help me and taura_g get to the 3-Day in October. We're up to nearly $1000 in bids so ( Read more... )

...and we are surprisingly close to hitting $1000 in bids. Whoa. If 4-5 people decided to bid on the cake truffles or the quiches, we would reach that mark. Not that I want to discourage anyone from bidding on anything else, you understand. :) It's just that bidding on the aforementioned two items will raise that money right quick. Follow the links ( Read more... )