Interesting Gallup Polls
Larry, I suppose we could have declared war on Iran during the hostage situation and during the fuel crisis instead of pursuing a diplomatic solution which is what Jimmy did. Did you want him to go to war with Iran? He was very unpopular for his distance from this issue. Many thought he should have gone to war. I think he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. There was no way to play that game and win the popularity contest.
The Carter years were up front with very few (the fewest, I believe) covert ops on foreign soil.
Carter's opponents called him a hand wringer. I call him a very thoughtful person, respectful of human life.
Carter's commitment to humanity post term speaks volumes about who he is. Roll Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Daddy Bush, and Johnson all together and collectively they do not match Jimmy (and Rosalynn's) commitment. At anytime after the current idiot gets out of office, we can throw him in the mix also; Carter still wins.
Larry you are spewing the party line. Stop and think.
The Carter years were up front with very few (the fewest, I believe) covert ops on foreign soil.
Carter's opponents called him a hand wringer. I call him a very thoughtful person, respectful of human life.
Carter's commitment to humanity post term speaks volumes about who he is. Roll Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Daddy Bush, and Johnson all together and collectively they do not match Jimmy (and Rosalynn's) commitment. At anytime after the current idiot gets out of office, we can throw him in the mix also; Carter still wins.
Larry you are spewing the party line. Stop and think.
I think the numbers are misleading because its easy for an infected male to transmit it to a female. but that male would've most likely gotten it from needles, or gay.mcrib wrote:according to the cdc's website off all the reported cases of aids in 2005 18,296 were from male-to-male sexual conact 5,292 from iv drug use 11,989 were from heterosexual sex and 263 from other.
HIV could mutate to become more virulent. Its close cousin is the cold sore virus. It was something that needed the attention of science. As president, turning one's back on it due to one's fucked up anti-gay Christian perspective is not excusable. Reagan is likely the cause of thousands of deaths and the toll after the heavy lady finally gets done singing may be very great indeed.
Shamis (and pigsteak, too)
I guess it doesn't really matter whether it is a hetero or homo disease.
Magic Johnson might have a different opinion on the subject.
Though I think it is pretty dangerous to think you can only contract it through anal sex (this is kind of like when teenagers think you can't get preggers by doing it standing up).
I think we can all agree that it kills people. no? Actually, it kills (and has killed alot of people).
The bigotry that reagan helped perpetuate, as I said, very much made it easy to keep the funding on research limited. I mean who cares if it kills a bunch of gays? Certainly not mainstream america. As a result, more people died, and more people are dying because he kept the research supressed by not funding it. . . kind of like his policies on alternative energy.
Interesting how Iran has so much oil and affects our strategic situation. .. .strange how Saudi Arabia, too. Interesting how they both fund extremist groups (the first shia (hamas, hezbollah, etc) the second sunni groups . .a la al qaeda)
Maybe if we stopped funding both sides of this war we might make some headway. .. . interesting idea.
Interesting if we had started to eliminate those sources of funding back in the late 1970's some THIRTY YEARS AGO!!!!
Oh, wait a minute that might take too much logic. . . .
Interesting how my posts always seem to appear towards the end of the semester when I have lots of work to turn in. . . . .. sort of sad really.
I guess it doesn't really matter whether it is a hetero or homo disease.
Magic Johnson might have a different opinion on the subject.
Though I think it is pretty dangerous to think you can only contract it through anal sex (this is kind of like when teenagers think you can't get preggers by doing it standing up).
I think we can all agree that it kills people. no? Actually, it kills (and has killed alot of people).
The bigotry that reagan helped perpetuate, as I said, very much made it easy to keep the funding on research limited. I mean who cares if it kills a bunch of gays? Certainly not mainstream america. As a result, more people died, and more people are dying because he kept the research supressed by not funding it. . . kind of like his policies on alternative energy.
Interesting how Iran has so much oil and affects our strategic situation. .. .strange how Saudi Arabia, too. Interesting how they both fund extremist groups (the first shia (hamas, hezbollah, etc) the second sunni groups . .a la al qaeda)
Maybe if we stopped funding both sides of this war we might make some headway. .. . interesting idea.
Interesting if we had started to eliminate those sources of funding back in the late 1970's some THIRTY YEARS AGO!!!!
Oh, wait a minute that might take too much logic. . . .
Interesting how my posts always seem to appear towards the end of the semester when I have lots of work to turn in. . . . .. sort of sad really.
Carter was up against a Republican Congress that wasn't going to do anything Carter wanted.
When Carter sent a rescue mission into Iran that for some reason flew straight into a sand storm and crashed, the head of the CIA was George H.W. Bush.
Nixon said at one point, "The only one I'd keep of all these bastards is Bush. He'll do anything we tell him to."
When Carter sent a rescue mission into Iran that for some reason flew straight into a sand storm and crashed, the head of the CIA was George H.W. Bush.
Nixon said at one point, "The only one I'd keep of all these bastards is Bush. He'll do anything we tell him to."
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"Not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill[/size]
climbboy, I think you missed shamis' point. what he said, correct me if I am wrong, is this: two hetero's, who don't engage in homsexual sex, don't get blood tranfusions, and don't swap drug needles, would be a very low percentage of the infected AIDS population. now, if a man was on the down low, and then had sex with a lady, sure the risk increases. who was informing Reagan at the time from the CDC? Monday morning QB'ing is easy on all things, whether it is Carter, Reagan or Bush....
btw, I had a cousin die of AIDS in 1989...long before information was common knowledge.
btw, I had a cousin die of AIDS in 1989...long before information was common knowledge.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
the truth about how it really is transmitted would be nice. I think it has been used by various groups to support their religious or political views, rarely with much regard for factual information.climbboy wrote:I guess it doesn't really matter whether it is a hetero or homo disease.
His name is Magic. Seriously. Besides pro basketball players bang whatever they want whenever they want, so he very well may have just banged a lot of chicks in the ass, most likely with a massive black cock, which could have been messy, dramatically increasing chances of transmission. Or maybe he banged so many chicks that he got tired of them one day and decided to bang a dude. Who knows? He's a married man though, so the truth is less important than appearances.climbboy wrote:Magic Johnson might have a different opinion on the subject.
I certainly wouldn't tell anybody to have unprotected sex. However, I think its worth noting, that at some point in my life, I thought I had contracted an STD (Turns out I didn't). I asked 2 different doctors if I should be worried about HIV/get tested for it, and they seemed completely indifferent. The first doctor just brushed off my question, and said I didn't have to worry about that. The second doctor told me point blank that my chances of getting it were basically zero. I was a little bit surprised since all the health classes I had said otherwise.climbboy wrote:Though I think it is pretty dangerous to think you can only contract it through anal sex (this is kind of like when teenagers think you can't get preggers by doing it standing up).