Common sense and responsibility means more than just looking out for number one.

August 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
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Yes it does, but it includes looking out for number one rather than asking the govt to do it instead.

Bush has acted as though the battle against AIDS had been won. Well, as this study so clearly shows, it has not. “Just say no” is not an educational program. Sometimes you have to do what is right and morally correct rather than following the commands of your homophobic base.

The next obvious question is what segment of the population is most under reported and why. It would come as no shock to me to learn that the under reporting is disproportionatly concentrated in the African-American community.

Blame Canada Says:
#2 Not that there is anything wrong with free condoms at clinics and college campuses but at some point people have to use common sense and take responsibility for themselves. Condoms are widely avaliable to anyone who want’s to buy them. Blaming stupid Family Values freaks for one’s own lack of common sense is just a cop out.

I am not blaming stupid family values freaks for anyone’s lack of common sense, I am blaming stupid family values freaks for keeping the truth hidden from the public for thier own vindictive agenda.

righties always accuse the left of having an agenda, well we do, it is to make sure the truth is being told and not just one side of the story.

family values freaks are driving right wing legislators to keep the truth from average Americans because of their homophobia.

republicans and right wingers are not nice people. In life I notice that the people I want to spend time with, those who care about life and people are progressives.

The ones who want to control my life, even though they can’t run thier own are always conservatives.

Common sense and responsibility means more than just looking out for number one.

A sign that Bush’s precious abstinence-only programs are a failure.

Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
I would like you to explain to me how My Brother, a very fit and healthy,never used drugs heterosexual was killed by AIDS after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion.
HOAX SCHMOAX!
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I am sorry for your brother, but the ‘heterosexual’ quip is the kind of BS that I have to deal with my whole life. Only the gays get AIDS right? It’s God’s punishment right? Straight people don’t get it or deserve it right?? Majority of AIDS cases in the world are heterosexual.

I used to be paranoid until I realized that the world-wide conspiracy against Reichradio and Evangelicons couldn’t possibly spare the manpower to eff up my life. At least they’re good for something besides comic relief.

RFID chips

Tell that to Magic Johnson.

chimpy strikes again!

RFID chips

As for the race as a whole? I find comfort that there are others who are wiser than we are, and fanaticism is cyclical. Despite the damage that fools have done, and can do, I still think smart, wise, sane, people are the safe long-term bet. I know that I’ve had a more positive outlook since I canceled cable and stopped listening to the braying jackasses of the corporate media.

Imported beer helps too!

How did Bentonite help get us mired in Iraq???

Glen Greenwald does it again. ABC News has some explaining to do.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html

We should not be spending a billion a month on stupid Occupation brought to us with lies and botched. We SHOULD be spending our money on Universal Healthcare. Prevention AND treatment programs. Raising our aid to developing nations to 0.7%. Teaching kids how to prevent HIV. Having price controls on drugs, devices and diagnostics.

But you’re right, Pete, that the focus of the prevention piece should have two aspects. One the more general one to the broader population along WITH a focused one on populations among whom infection risk is higher.

Oh, here’s a good one:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/20080724_aids_and_the_myth_of_the_oversexed_negro/

Anyway, the government has utterly abrogated its credibility. The CDC is a lapdog of Cheney. NIH and FDA beholden to pharma. And pharma has turned the science of clinical studies into a charade of marketing tools.

I’m beginning to think the hole we have dug is too deep. Indeed, I kinda think it’s our collective grave. It is sad. We were truly a bizarre and fascinating species…but the flaws we all inherently suffer are magnified in the hands of a few that wield great power and care for nothing but their great exultation, a meaningless joke in the end.

Can we turn it around in time? I hope…but I doubt it. But it is SO good to see the great hearts and comments on this site (which I often read and I apologize for the length of these discussions–but it has been my work for over 18 years as a gay man living with hepatitis C and no insurance and one who has watched way too many remarkable, wonderful people–men, women, children of every ethnicity–face great suffering and death far too soon.)

So long as a sizable portion of the public Believes that they aren’t at risk? No policy will have much chance.

Heh! I wonder how the “no free condoms” camp would react to a “condom tax for AIDS research and prevention”. Personally, at my age, a nickel per condom would not be a hardship and I’d be happy to help those less fortunate than myself.