For the month of January Bubbo Designs committed to donate 15% of total sales to the Darfur Stove program. Calculating sales both on etsy and in person as well as products I traded for help or services I got a figure of about $42. I had hoped to raise $50 so I figured I’d just round it up.
For the month of January we will be donating $50 to the Darfur Stove project, this will buy two and a ‘half’ stoves and will provide hope and stability in a very real way for some very real people.
For the month of February, 15% of sales will be donated to the Women for Women Congo project. In the area between the villages of Goma and Bukavu thousands of women seek out the safety of the refugee camps. These women are not only the Congolese, but also Rwandans who fled during their war, lost everything and still have no where to go.
These women are not merely refugees of war but victims of the cruelest weapon used in a war, rape. Raped, beaten and abused many of these women find themselves with the added insult of fistulas resulting from such treatment. Instead of finding help or support of their families they are shunned and despised.
No family, no home, permanently bent bodies, no hope. They flee their pain and shame and fear and if luck should smile on them, they might end up at the Panzi Hospital where the physical pains are treated along with the psychological.
The problem is stunningly overwhelming and yet we hear very little about it. 15% of Bubbo Designs sales won’t make much of a difference to the whole problem, but it might help one woman. That one woman could be a single mother and as a result her family would be helped.
All help starts with a single act and a single person.
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in my not so humble opinion
It is my opinion that banks that get bailed out should have to pay back the taxpayers on the same terms they give their average credit card holder. yeah, I’m looking at you, Citibank. You wanna borrow some money and spend it on a plane, that’s cool but your ‘revolving credit’ APR is say, 12% and don’t fucking be late with a payment or it jumps to 24%! plus late fees and finance charges. And don’t get all whiny with us and say you sent the check and the check cleared before the payment was due but you weren’t credited until 3 days after it was late and now you have late fees! Hey, we get the check, but the office shuts down and we can’t just go and credit your account when we aren’t here! Maybe send it earlier next time?
on to other things…
In a grand marketing coup, I managed to secure a product modeling contract with jesus. Check that shit out. I don’t care what you’re selling, I’ve got the son of god wearing my products. Yo diggity!
Random thoughts about this week
it’s been a while, I’ve been busy and distracted and whatever. Here are my random thoughts in no particular order.
- I watched the inauguration at my dad’s place since he has a tv and all that.
- Could Aretha Franklin’s hat been any more awesome? Seriously! From the moment she stepped out there I fell in love all over again. I want that hat. I love that hat. That hat was amazing.
- It is a SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS when a leader has to promise to bring science back. I almost wept when I heard that. Bringing science back. How crazy is that? This THIS THIS is what brings me hope. I find hope in knowing that leadership and decisions and education will once again be based on fact and study, based on the empirical rather than ‘faith’
- While we’re at it, can we have a one hour tv special explaining to the general population the difference between a theory and a hypothesis? These terms are NOT interchangeable and they do not convey the same idea.
- When he mentioned Khe Sahn I really wanted to believe he did because he loves The Big Lebowski. I want to believe my president is that awesome.
- “we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals” This is how I learned it in elementary school, in junior high, in high school. I learned that it is precisely our ideals that keep us safest. I learned that you may lose sometimes because the constitution does not allow you to go as far as you like in prosecuting or interrogating or spying but precisely because of that we will win in the end. A criminal might go free because he was not read his miranda rights, on the other hand the rule is in place so that every person who is arrested knows and understands their rights. A prosecuter may ‘know‘ that a person committed a crime, but they cannot just jail that person indefinitely while they try to find evidence. That keeps all of us safe. No one will be jailed indefinitely until ‘evidence’ is found. No one will be tortured, no one will be treated as less than a human. This is what I learned, this is what has always made me a committed advocate of the constitution. It is a document that says that it is willing to err on the side of the individual in order to maintain the safetly of the masses.
- I thought the ‘non-believer’ thing was a bit of an obvious play, but still I appreciated it. It would be nice to know that laws and rights can be crafted to encompass everyone, not just the people who believe certain things. That a bible says that I can only marry a man means about as much to me as the pink unicorn in my garage telling you that you can only eat beef on sunny days. Your book is not the boss of me and my unicorn is not the boss of you and the law should reflect that.
- I am sad that Ted Kennedy is dying. He is one of the last truly great liberal orators. Obama is getting close, but I fear the office will take a toll on him. I listened to a retrospective of TKs speeches and I was riveted. Is television killing our ability to write and speak truly great things?
- What does it say about my faith in humanity that I was terrified every time the Obamas got out of their limo during the parade?
- This is really one of the most touching photos of the evening
- on the crafty front, I’ve been making headbands for sale on etsy except people buy them before i have a chance to list them!
- I have a cold and I am tired a lot, but you know! eat lots of fruit or something.
- Just a reminder: 15% of all January sales at Bubbo Designs will be donated to Darfur Stoves. I wish I had a way to truly express how important this is to me. A woman should not have to risk rape, torture or death every time she tries to care for her family. If you don’t want or need yarn or felted accessories, please consider a direct donation.
- If there is any justice in this world this Nurse Practitioner will be charged with assault and battery. Provider Conscious rules cannot apply here as they can only exempt a professional from shirking their sworn duties in the dispensing of devices and medications that go against their ‘beliefs’. PC rules don’t cover the blatant attack and theft of these things. This is why I want science back in the forefront. I don’t give a good goddamn what your skyman tells you about my uterus! If you cannot uphold the professional obligations you have to my health and welfare then find another job. At the very least, Don’t lie and trick and assault your patients. Also, a nurse practitioner that DOES NOT UNDERSTAND how an IUD works needs to get her hands out of the vaginas and get her ass back to school. An IUD is NOT an abortifactant. Sloppy psuedoscience does not change this. Your magic skyman does not change this. My pink unicorn does not change this.
go go go
New colors, go see them now before happiness goes to your neighbor’s house!
You love the new yarn…oh yes you do!
Ways in which I am a doofus pt 341,887,990
I live in the city and when I drive i mostly do city driving. In observing my city driving habits I’ve come to the conclusion that I am going to be one of those pain in the ass old ladies that’s always hitting the brakes and freaking and making her passengers very nervous in the city (sort of like now, but I will smell like lilacs and pee when I am old).
The thing is, I have shitty-to-no depth perception and that makes driving a fascinating exercise for all involved. Mostly, it’s not the moving that’s an issue, but the parking. I hate any sort of parallel parking, I also hate trying to find a damned parking spot on a city street because you have to go slow enough to look for the spot and be able to stop for it but you can’t go so slow that you mess with traffic! It can be panic inducing!
Plus you have to deal with one-ways and weird street configurations and blah blah blah.
So! Being the doofus that I am I’ve taken to hitting Google maps before I leave and scoping out the entire area on street view before I go! This way I can see all the cross streets, figure out the one-ways, find nearby parking lots and basically preplan the minutia of the trip.
In less than an hour I am meeting a friend for coffee. The intersection she gave me is a pretty busy part of town! I could not picture the coffee shop in my head so I went to look and LO!!! the angels sang on me! There it was! With a large, accommodating parking lot no less! Easy! Total doofus, no panic! I love Google street view!
In other news…
Will be in Chicago for the weekend with Lisa and John and the kids. We’ll be making Christmas cookies! I’ve never made Christmas cookies with kids before, I’m very much looking forward to this (and the mess!).
Have 7 skeins of yarn to post and sell (4 pangolins, 3 hippomoons). Just need to take photos. Almost done with my first batch of I’m Your Moon, the Pluto/Charon yarn named after the JoCo song. And I realized that I need to make an official Auntie BubboPants colorway. If you don’t know Auntie BubboPants, don’t worry, I’m trying to figure out the best way to share her with you and that should be ready soon!
Okay. Stop. Shower time!