Remember a few posts back I bitched about something along the lines of this [Taken directly from Your Feet Can Make Thunder]:
"AIDS funds for the parts of Africa hit hardest with HIV/AIDS are essentially wasted. On the same level, in the same villages and towns, the lovely christian missionary preaches abstinence and the evils of condoms. Well there are two things wrong with that. 1. Sex is natural and impossible to prevent in human beings in any culture in any region of the world, and 2. Condoms are the affordable, plentiful, direct method for the prevention of AIDS transmission."
WELL my ultimate vindication came this morning with the release of this scientific study.
You mean to tell me that there is virtually NO impact on sexual behavior resulting from abstinence? Well I'll be damned, I was right. Sex is natural and impossible to prevent in human beings in any culture in any region of the world. Well, I guess it's not impossible, but then we're journeying into another area entirely.
And no, I didn't go looking for this article, it was featured on the Google News main news page.
This article actually was going to reinforce my most recent article, about stem cell research.
So apparently our left-ass congress is trying to pass a bill enabling [federally funded] stem cell research, but our right-ass president has pledged an immediate veto. Ah, it feels good to have boyhood memories of learning about how great and effective our bipartisan, three branched government is. Checks and balances my ASS. I will never, ever, ever, in my lifetime pledge any sort of allegiance to any political party. But I can rationalize a democratic president because they want to promote stem cell research (Clinton certainly does.)
But, I will let infamous YouTuber Steve Sutton sum it all up for you (this was originally why I wanted to make a post.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1OuSg6rzk
So, find your own damn news articles about it, I'm tired of searching. But that's it right there.
And then I was going to finish this and go to the grocery store, but Nikki was flipping through the TV and I asked her to stop on FoxNews because there was talking about "Charity Chaos." Apparently, there is some funny business behind the (RED) Charity. They say not all the money goes to charity, a lot of it has to fuel the bureaucratic machine that is their "charity." But I still hate FoxNews, so don't be alarmed. That is related to the abstinence article, because it started around how donating to that charity is the cool thing to do.
So I don't know, it's pretty cool I guess. My mind was kinda blown because all of that happened at the same time. Maybe I should wish for things I want on here, and then they'll come true.
Bye for now.
*EDIT: I figured maybe I would go find an article for you. Article is here. Spending 5 times more on marketing than the money actually raised/donated to AIDS in Africa... tsk tsk tsk.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
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