"Baker seems to feel the entire study is fruitless and a waste of time; thats how I'm reading him anyway." Yep. You keep saying it is meaningful, but you refuse to say how it translates to saved lives. People who have unprotected sex won't dodge the bullet forever. You may get by for two years, but eventually the coin will land on the other si
"Should we hush up studies which suggest they're the most effective tool save abstinence against STDs?" Funny that when abstinence is the topic how this conversation gets reversed. Supposedly it's a boon to the world to teach that unprotected sex with a circumcised penis gives you a chance of not getting HIV, but teaching that abstinence is 100%
Why should he have to? It's his site. I guess you don't do things in your house you wouldn't tolerate other people doing?
I'm with others who point to the commercials. I have always been vaguely annoyed with Mac people, but the commercials have raised my ire exponentially. They are basically lies in a cutesy package, insulting the very people they want to woo. Nice business plan.
Lord of the Rings.
"How about let's just wish him and his family well, pray for them, and not politicize it. " No one should wish harm on anyone else, but the fact is whether or not he comes back will influence the course of our nation. The people who elected him deserve representation. Should we allow the 51/49 majority to be a 50/49 majority just so we don't se
This is what HIV educators are battling , and world-wide. The same kind of fear, irresponsibility and arrogance exists in India, China, even here to a lesser degree. You give these people an OUNCE of belief that some hocus pocus can cure/prevent HIV, and they jump on it. So, you read that article. READ THIS ONE . Ask yourself how the subtle nuances of
If you were dealing with people who would act responsibly based upon this information, sure. You aren't. As I said, if circumcision is a factor in whether or not you get AIDS, then you've ALREADY done something you weren't supposed to do. If people use condoms and behave responsibly, the chance of circumcision making a difference is nil. If people don't, posing circumcision as a ghetto condom just gives people a false sense of security. This is just another of those irresponsible st
That's not how it works, unfortunately doc. The oppressive legal standard set up during the civil rights era has basically left us forcing the accused to prove that they WEREN'T being racist. Every 'whites only' golf club and fraternal order had some sort of non-racial excuse, so we built a system that was sharpened to cut through any excuse. That's what's happening here, isn't it? We're having to list all these reasons and face all this scrutiny from bleeding hearts? Now imagine yo
"I thought this was "it does no harm, and may do some good". And in that, medical science seems to agree." A false sense of security does great harm. Anyone who has to deal with STDs will tell you that one of the greatest problems they have are these little urban myths that make people feel less apt to protect themselves. You put out informatio
"I dont think that was ever said or even implied. The study said "cut the risk" not eliminate it. Condoms "cut the risk" but they do not eliminate it either." That's not how xythe is portraying it. Evidently to him this is the third world's answer to the condom. What such an ignorant perspective ignores is the fact that the small percent of a c
"Airlines are private entities. They can kick people off the plane for any reason they choose." That's iffy, and I mourn it alongside you. The problem is something called "common carriage". Back in the civil rights era we decided that owners of private businesses that serve the public were forbidden to discriminate based upon race, religion, na
"According to the study, this is false." That's laughable. So you're really saying that people who are circumcised don't get HIV? I have almost daily contact with an HIV clinic, and that's bullshit, frankly. If it gives you a 2%, or a 5%, or a 50% chance it is meaningless, and my statement stands: If someone is sticking his unprotecte
Not Dems, MM, Political parties. They don't have the collective control they need over the presidency. Once the president is there, they can't influence him. In Congress they can keep our representatives on a little string, making sure nothing they want to do gets done, and that they won't be re-elected. Presidents have too much independence, and if parties want to reach out further into international politics they have to subvert the office. So lets not divert this in partisan term
Sub-genre? LMAO. Seriously, come on... It's like writing a history of computers and skipping from charles babbage to the 1990's, or forgetting to mention Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin in US history. It's said that all country music can either be traced back to the Carter Family or Jimmy Rogers. You skip both. Hank Williams wasn't country's first big star. The whole idea is a joke. Country was very popular nation-wide before Hank Williams even showed up on the Opry. H
That's because it isn't about any particular party. It's about trying to shift diplomatic power to the branch where the most corrupt, represented by both parties, can get their slimy hands on it. This may very well be the last strong presidency we ever see if we end up with the kind of election we are asking for in 2008. It's a sick, sad mess, and people don't care because they are brainwashed by "bush is evil" silliness. Those who aren't are brainwashed into believing one or the oth
Nope, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Provide examples if you like. We've had ineffectual Presidents, and we've had wrong minded presidents, but what you have now amounts to a bone fide movement to completely marginalize the presidency. There's been conflicts historically, and there have been turf wars in our darkest times between the different branches of government. This, though is the beginning of a new era. Wait and see.
That sounded harsh, sorry. I just can't really imagine an article about the history of country music that gives a whole paragraph to mutt lange and doesn't even mention jimmy "the father of country music" rogers, lol. If I were you I'd scrap this and start all over. This kind of reminds me of that David Allen Coe song, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" where he talks about steve goodman having to write that extra verse to make it the perfect country song. I think you need a few ex
The article says that specter is going too. This isn't about being traitors, this is about reinventing the American government without permission. This is about stripping the executive branch of it's constitutional power. We are in for hard times unless the corrupt congress of the US is reigned in. They are out of control and answer to no one but the parties that pay their bills. It doesn't matter which party is in the majority, nothing changes, and now they want to hijack the const
I come from the same area as loretta lynn, dwight yoakam, ricky scaggs, and a host of others. I spent my childhood listening to country, ending up on the bus afterward, hearing the arguments about who is what and when they become it. I have a hard time with articles like this, because honestly you can't really trace the genre this way. "Country" is about as descriptive in terms of the musical art as "Pop". Even so, I don't think you really have anything akin to reality here, as you s
No offense, but if someone is sticking his unprotected penis into someone who has HIV, you've already lost the battle. The slim chance that not having a foreskin will help sounds about as desperate as raping virgins as a cure. All thinks like this do is give people looking for an excuse to have unprotected sex one more detail to help them not worry while they do it. It's irresponsible and shameful.
Buncha hooey if you ask me. Palestinian propaganda to make people there feel that Hamas is going to be considered more legitimate in the near future. They are facing a civil war in the next few months if something doesn't change, so I guess they'll say about anything at this point.
I get the error message too. Like Gid said, I bet they just aren't checking to see if it went through before hitting back and submitting again.
"But it also annoys the hell out of me when people jump on the backs of those who are playing by the rules when there is blatant and rampant corruption going on." But you have to admit that it doesn't matter if they really play by the rules or not. Would you say that everything Delay was originally accused of was against the rules or illegal? D
Since when has the strict rule of law mattered to Dem supporters? 74 trips during the seven-year period. All the time we hear that while x,y, or z isn't illegal, it still exemplifies the "culture of corruption" when a Republican is the focus. It didn't matter that you couldn't get two legal experts with the same opinion of whether they were legal or not. Nope, Democrats can do anything they like. They can stuff $90k in the freezer after accepting it on tape as a bribe. They can be
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