Yay vacation!

I finally got around to calling the people who cleaned the house before roomie came (and Tom visited!). Unfortunately, it's been long enough that they'd require a full clean first, again, before it went to monthly less-expensive cleaning. Must decide how to present this to roomie. I figure I should probably pay more, as I have slightly more of the house, but the main areas we want cleaned are the kitchen/living room/bathrooms, and that's equal. So...hmm.

you Mary Sue, you!

I did it with Spike, this is only natural.

The guy who sold me my car was named Cas(s). I took that as a sign. From above. He gripped me tight and raised me from public transportation.

Good things can happen to me.

Not for nothing, last time someone looked at me like that, I got a car.

Speaking of the car (and no longer Show), I'm really enjoying it. Unless it plans to go out with a bang, I think I can handle the slow decline into actual decrepitude as age creeps up on it. But, for now, it responds. Because of the extremely limited way (in which) I (like to) to drive, I hate driving most cars. It's a precise resistance of the steering wheel, bounce back of the pedals, and leap forward upon acceleration. Because otherwise I'm at a loss, and I'm never sure I'm going to end up reaching where I'm trying to go to. Or when.

Basically, I want to drive my new Jetta V6 on the streets and highways of Michigan with no snow. Forever. Except I don't want to ever go back to Michigan, and the V6 is a thing of the past...::sigh:: sob story.

Heh. cas/ita !

I'm glad you're enjoying your new car. We are enjoying our new car. In fact, I was so glad today when it started letting loose with the snow that the SO was in the Pilot and I didn't have to worry about him getting home. He did cancel his last lesson because visibility was, like, nil.

But I have nowhere to go tomorrow, and the SO split a full rick of wood, plus he restacked the deck log rack, so I am perfectly content to have snow.

Oh, those lying sacks of shit.

Komen responds to the backlash:

"We don't base our funding decisions ... on whether one side or the other will be pleased," said Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker, depicting the criticism as a mischaracterization of the charity's goals and mission.

Komen has said the decision stemmed from newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations under investigation — affecting Planned Parenthood because of an inquiry by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., acting with encouragement from anti-abortion activists.

Brinker said there were additional factors, notably changes in the types of breast-health-service providers it wanted to support. However, she said grants would continue this year to three of the 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates — in Denver, California's Orange County and Waco, Texas — because they served clientele with few other breast-screening options.

...but...

A source with direct knowledge of decision-making at Komen's headquarters in Dallas gave a different account, saying the grant-making criteria were adopted with the deliberate intention of targeting Planned Parenthood. The criteria's impact on Planned Parenthood and its status as the focus of government investigations were highlighted in a memo distributed to Komen affiliates in December.

According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, a driving force behind the move was Karen Handel, hired by Komen last year as vice president for public policy. Handel lost a Georgia gubernatorial campaign in which she stressed her anti-abortion views and frequently denounced Planned Parenthood.

Source.

OK, now I'm surfing their website going "Well, maybe I could take my vacation THERE!" Except I want somewhere warm and sunny, and it looks like it is not warm and sunny there soon.

re: Komen.

In addition, "Komen has said the decision stemmed from newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations under investigation"...

they have not pulled their $7.5 million funding from Penn State - an organization also under investigation from multiple agencies.

I didn't realize that Komen foundation also does not support stem cell research.

what the fuck? how can you be for a cure and not support stem cell research? I don't get this.

Yeah, I noticed that on their website. I think if you looked closely a lot of this was probably apparent for a while. They just haven't forced the issue in a public way before now

I wasn't paying attention. I didn't ever give them $$ and I had no idea this was their agenda.

Man.