I like Bob Geldof -I think he is a well-meaning person, and I still hum some of the old Boomtown Rats tunes (I don’t like Mondays either), but I wouldn’t take his opinion on international AIDS help to Africa over the opinion of the organisations that actually work in these programs. Why would you? Or what was the point of your post?

The religous right along with Bush has all but abandoned AIDS sufferers and the researh dollars to find a cure. I feel the religous right has alot to do with this slow death of the whole program. And we all know how Falwell and Dobson and Robertson feel about AIDS because according to them, it is caused predominantly from homosexuals and IV drug users.

Yes this slow strangulation of the AIDS Policy has religous rights fingerprints and MO written all over it. And remember according to the religous right, AIDS is a plague brought down from God Himself for homosexuals and sorcerers (drug users).

This is so sad it’s funny. Talk about infantilizing.

ROTFL!

MTV actually did a political segment the other day. I caught it in the middle of the segment, and actually thought I’d scrolled to one of the news channels…. I hope they keep it up!

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The current environment would detract from his integrity? I hope not. Maybe the electromagnetic radiation would f*ck him up.

His MySpace page would be bad-ass.

The musician-turned activist said Washington was providing major assistance, in contrast to the European Union’s “pathetic and appalling” response to the continent’s humanitarian crises.

“You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy,” Geldof told the Guardian.”

THE GUARDIAN

Exhume, extract DNA, clone? :D

But I have to wonder if he would, in the current culture of X-Boxes, ipods and myspace, still grow up to be the same man of incredible character?

Cures aren’t what the pharma companies want.