 embraced a corporate organizational model in the name of promoting women's health.
Despite raising a staggering $1.9 billion since its founding in 1982, and with assets currently topping $390 million, only 20 percent of Komen's income went to actual research in the 2009-10 fiscal year. That same fiscal year, Komen spent twice as much on what it called "public health education"--largely to promote breast cancer awareness through the ubiquitous pink ribbon.
While spreading the message about early detection is a worthy goal, the pink ribbons that Komen plasters on everything from high-end kitchen appliances to NFL helmets to buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken are also highly effective forms of advertising. Komen brings in $55 million a year from its licensing contracts, but little of that money actually goes to research.
"It's rarely more than a penny on the dollar," said Trent Stamp, executive director of Charity Navigator, a charity watchdog group. "It's just great advertising."
Take a closer look at who runs Komen, and the reasons for all this become clearer. Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker was a major donor to George W. Bush. Brinker and her ex-husband were recognized as "Bush Pioneers," having raised $100,000 toward his presidential campaign, in addition to the $125,000 raised for Republican candidates in the same election cycle.
As thanks for her support, Bush appointed Brinker as ambassador to Hungary in 2001. Brinker's ties to the Bush family stretch back to 1986, when then-Vice President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the National Cancer Advisory Board. In 1993, Brinker joined the board of Caremark Rx, one of the five companies involved in a Medicare prescription discount card program promoted by Bush Jr. in 2001--a dodge to avoid trying to stop rapid increases in prescription costs.
The backlash against the Komen announcement was another glimpse at the potential muscle that could be mobilized behind a renewed fight for women's rights. Rebecca Traister and Joan Walsh of Salon.com captured the outpouring of anger at Komen's decision to stop contributing to Planned Parenthood:.
These are the grounds in which a new movement can grow roots. We must demand comprehensive, shame-free health care for everyone. And when we stand with Planned Parenthood, we must defend all of its services. Abortion is not a necessary evil, one to be apologized for by asserting that it is only one service among many that Planned Parenthood provides. We must demand abortion access for all because it is a crucial part of women's health.
Comprehensive health care for all must be part of the debate moving forward. Health care and reproductive rights activists are bringing this message to the streets. In Seattle, activists organized an all-day teach-in around issues of economic justice, reproductive rights and LGBT equality. In Washington D.C., Occupiers "mic checked" the anti-choice March for Life rally.
The spontaneous and successful campaign to force Komen to change course should give all those who support equality the confidence to fight for more.Daniel Curtis Lee is an accomplished actor, comedian, and director.
Daniel has been seen in Disney Channel productions like Zeke & Luther, as well as Nickelodeon’s Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.
Daniel left home for Los Angeles to pursue his dreams, but despite his amazing accomplishments, the young star has never forgotten his Mississipi roots.
Recently, he came to town to direct music videos for a musician, also from the Magnolia state, who has seen major success in Japan.
This Spring, Daniel will be given a plaque that will be displayed along a one-mile trail at the Quisenberry Library in Clinton, the city he is from. The plaques will feature noteworthy people from Clinton who have gone on to do great things.
We talked to Daniel about how it feels to be acknowledged in that way. “It feels great to first be accepted by your hometown but to do be honored. I find it to be a great honor for someone to put you in stone and say for the rest of these years, there will be a legacy there. I’m appreciative,” he said.
Daniel is hoping to use his life as an example and inspiration for other Missippians to go after their dreams. He believes Mississippi has plenty of resources and untapped potential that is waiting to be put to use.Giuliani insisted on putting the NYC office of Emergency Management inside the World Trade Center against the advice of experts. The office was responsible for coordinating police and firefighters during an emergency, but were too busy evacuating to do that during 9/11. Giuliani tried to blame Jerome M. Hauer, his appointee, for selecting that location, then Hauer produced a memo that proved he argued for putting the office in Brooklyn but was overruled by Giuliani.

So Giuliani *could’ve* listened to the experts. And when called out for a bad decision, he could’ve been honest. But he didn’t.

Also: the radios that police and firefighters use were known to be defective for *years* before 9/11. Faulty radios during 9/11 led to deaths of first responders. Giuliani completely bungled the handling of this:

&gt; On Feb. 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked with a 1,200-pound bomb concealed in a rental truck that exploded in the basement. The blast killed six, injured 1,000 people, and forced 50,000 to evacuate.

&gt; In a detailed after-action report published in 1994 by the FDNY, the inability of firefighters and their officers to communicate over their analog radios that day was flagged as a vital issue that needed to be addressed with some urgency.

&gt; It took until March of 2001 for new digital radios to be deployed, but they were withdrawn weeks later after they were deemed responsible for a near life-ending miscue when a firefighter isolated in a basement fire in Queens radioed a “May Day” call for assistance that none of his co-workers heard over their radios. It was only picked up by another fire company miles away.

&gt; The new radios were shelved, and the old dysfunctional analogs were put back in service.

&gt; The contract for the new radios was a no bid, non-competitive contract that was, as it turned out, just an extension of an existing contract with Motorola, which has a near-monopoly on emergency communications.

&gt; According to a report issued by the New York City Comptroller the next month, the Giuliani administration had “willfully” violated “city contracting rules…. endangering firefighters in a reckless bid to buy a new type of hand-held radio that it later had to pull from service,” according to the New York Times.

&gt; The Times reported that “the new digital radios were never properly tested before being distributed to firefighters.” As City Comptroller Alan Hevesi documented, “they were purchased through what he described as an improper process that did not allow competing companies to bid for the contract.”

&gt; Just six months later, FDNY’s bravest faced the doomsday scenario as they sized up the rescue operation in the badly damaged Twin Towers on that clear blue-sky day in September that would take so many of their lives.

&gt; They were equipped with the same analog radios that had failed them so badly when the WTC was bombed back in 1993.

&gt; As the IAFF video documents and as the 9/11 timeline confirms, at 9:32 am. on Sept. 11, an FDNY Chief ordered all members in the North Tower to the lobby. Even though he repeated the order, not a single company responded.

&gt; At 9:59 the WTC South Tower collapsed; and at 10 am the order to abandon the North Tower was repeated. Inside the North Tower were 121 firefighters who never heard that order. They perished when the North Tower collapsed at 10:28 am.

[Source](https://www.salon.com/2019/10/13/giuliani-was-always-a-fraud-just-ask-the-fdny/)

...so Giuliani could’ve NOT completely screwed over the firemen and policemen he kept calling “heroes” and properly equipped them since they had been complaining about the radios since the *first damned time the WTC was attacked!!*

Really, think about that - Giuliani had already seen NYC attacked by terrorists and look how unprepared he turned out to be.

AND, Giuliani reassured everyone the air quality in lower Manhattan was fine within the first month ("The air quality is safe and acceptable.") Experts disagreed, but Giuliani did not insist that first responders wear ventilators. Just look at all the instances of cancer in 9/11 first responders now. 

Oh, and he proposed extending his term as Mayor due to 9/11. So yeah, a shameless power-grab during a national tragedy. 

The praise Giuliani gets for his leadership during 9/11 is a load of horseshit.﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Oh really? But how?
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﻿﻿﻿So it developed a larger body and feet made for running on land, but it lost its ability to fly. 'cause of its heavy body.
﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿Well actually, their wings still have purpose. They hold their wings out to help them retain their balance when running, especially when they suddenly change direction.
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