I Agree with George W. Bush

"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak..."

-George W. Bush
March 31, 2005

Yes, Mr. Bush.

That is why you don't persist in giving huge tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class, especially when you have bankrupted the nation.

That is why you don't slash Medicaid to pay for the tax cuts for the rich.

That is why you don't single-mindedly set out to destroy Social Security, the program that is the difference between a dignified old age and poverty for millions of older Amercians, and do it by lying, and deceit, and sleazy huckstering.

That is why you don't slash programs like Head Start which exist to help the weakest among us have a better life.

That is why you don't give everything and more to the corporate interests of the country and the world at the expense of the people who cannot possibly stand up to their monetary and therefore, political might.

That is why you don't rape the environment for your corporate cronies at the expense of people all over the world.

That is why you don't protect the pharmaceutical giants, your patrons, at the expense of the nation's elderly and sick.

That is why you don't keep the victims of your corporate wet nurses from being able to sue for the death and maiming and heartache that your corporate puppetmasters wreak.

That is why you don't doom the victims of your credit card pushing sugar daddies who turn America's weak and disadvantaged, the ill and unemployed, into indentured servants for life by barring them from the protection of bankruptcy.

That is why you don't protect your Svengali Cheyney's Halliburton, for whom Cheyney in his wisdom bought massive asbestos liability when he ran that company, from having to make whole the victims of asbestos and their families.

That is why you don't prevent our great medical researchers and technologists from doing everything and anything to find cures for the suffering of millions of people so that you can pander to your theocratic zealot voter base, whom you harm by the policies of your true agenda, naivly empowered by those religious fanatics , in order to effect the enrichment of your cronies.

Yes, Mr. Bush, I agree that the essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. So step forward, Mr. Bush, and for once, do the right thing for weak, the powerless, whom you have given the back of your hand. You have brought shame to our once-great civilization.

You still have time to take your own words to heart.

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Maybe My Christian Friends Can Help Me Out Here

Please explain. As long as you don't fuck, ass fucking, blowjobs, and carpet munching are not sinful in the eyes of God?

No wonder you hate evolution. You feel left out!

Teen Pledges Barely Cut STD Rates, Study Says

By Ceci Connolly

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 19, 2005; Page A03

Teenagers who take virginity pledges -- public declarations to abstain from sex -- are almost as likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease as those who never made the pledge, an eight-year study released yesterday found.

Although young people who sign a virginity pledge delay the initiation of sexual activity, marry at younger ages and have fewer sexual partners, they are also less likely to use condoms and more likely to experiment with oral and anal sex, said the researchers from Yale and Columbia universities. "The sad story is that kids who are trying to preserve their technical virginity are, in some cases, engaging in much riskier behavior," said lead author Peter S. Bearman, a professor at Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. "From a public health point of view, an abstinence movement that encourages no vaginal sex may inadvertently encourage other forms of alternative sex that are at higher risk of STDs."

Rates of Disease

The findings are based on the federally funded National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey begun in 1995 that tracked 20,000 young people from high school to young adulthood. At the start of the project, the students were 12 to 18 years old and agreed to detailed, sexually explicit interviews. They were re-interviewed in 1997 and again in 2002, when 11,500 also provided urine samples.

Virginity pledges emerged in the early 1990s based on the theory that young people would remain chaste if they had stronger community support -- or pressure -- to remain abstinent. Programs vary, but in most cases teenagers voluntarily sign a pledge or publicly announce their intention to abstain from sex. Often pledgers receive a pin or ring to symbolize the promise and team up with an "accountability partner."

Since it was founded in 1993, the virginity group True Love Waits claims 2.4 million youths have signed a card stating: "Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, those I date, and my future mate to be sexually pure until the day I enter marriage."

The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that 20 percent of those surveyed said they had taken a virginity pledge. Bearman and co-author Hannah Bruckner broke them into two categories -- "inconsistent pledgers" and "consistent pledgers" -- to reflect the fact that some changed their status or their responses between interviews. Among those youngsters, 61 percent of the consistent pledgers and 79 percent of the inconsistent pledgers reported having intercourse before marrying or prior to 2002 interviews.

Almost 7 percent of the students who did not make a pledge were diagnosed with an STD, compared with 6.4 percent of the "inconsistent pledgers" and 4.6 percent of the "consistent pledgers." Bearman said those differences were not "statistically significant," although Robert Rector, who studies domestic policy issues at the conservative Heritage Institute, said he interpreted the data to mean that young people committed to the abstinence pledge were less likely to become infected.

The study did not detect major geographic differences but found that minorities were far more likely to have an STD. About one quarter of African American girls in the survey tested positive for at least one STD in 2002.

In terms of high-risk behavior, the raw numbers were small, but the gap was statistically significant, Bearman said. Just 2 percent of youth who never took a pledge said they had had anal or oral sex but not intercourse, compared with 13 percent of "consistent pledgers."

Debate on Abstinence

The report sparked an immediate, bitter debate over the wisdom of teaching premarital abstinence.

Deborah Roffman, an educator and author of "Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex," said youths who take virginity pledges are often undereducated about sexual health. "Kids who are engaging in oral sex or anal sex will tell you they are practicing abstinence because they haven't had 'real sex' yet," she said.

Ralph DiClemente, a professor at Emory University's School of Public Health in Atlanta, compared virginity pledges to adults' efforts to make New Year's resolutions.

"I wish it was that easy. We'd all be a lot healthier," he said. "If we can't do it as adults, why would we expect kids to be able to handle those issues?"

But Joe S. McIlhaney Jr., chairman of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, said the study offers an incomplete picture because it could not say whether sexually active teens who did not take a pledge had been pregnant or treated for an STD before the 2002 testing. The analysis "doesn't prove or disprove" assertions that virginity pledges are flawed, he said.

On the other hand, Bill Smith, public policy vice president for the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, said, "Not only do virginity pledges not work to keep our young people safe, they are causing harm by undermining condom use, contraception and medical treatment."

Conservative academics said the paper overlooked earlier important findings about adolescents who take virginity pledges, most notably that they have fewer pregnancies and out-of-wedlock births.

"It's hugely successful on those variables," Rector said. "Bearman has focused in on the one variable he thinks can show they [pledgers] don't do better."

President Bush has requested $206 million in federal funding for abstinence-only programs this year.

Several True Love Waits officials were unavailable Friday, according to a receptionist. Telephone calls to another virginity group, the Silver Ring Thing, were not returned.

Republicans Should be So Proud!

When Senators restored $14 billion slated to be slashed from Medicaid, the program of health care for the poor, lame, halt, blind and needy, the lowest of our low, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, R-NH showed what compassionate conservatism is:

Gregg called claims that Medicaid cuts would hurt people ``absurd, misleading'' and ``just scare tactics.'

-AP, 3/17/05

For My Friends Who Voted for Bush

In exchange for leading you to believe he is a Christian and cares about the things you care about, in exchange for his packing the courts with far right wing judges, here is what Bush is giving you:

"Passed: A tort reform bill that makes it harder for ordinary citizens to sue corporations who harm them.

"Coming soon: A bankruptcy bill that will make it harder for distressed workers to declare bankruptcy and will increase credit card company profits by an estimated $1 billion.

"Coming soon: A transportation bill that adds two unpaid hours onto the work days of short-haul and long-haul truckers.

"In progress: Changes to Social Security that will almost certainly include benefit cuts for current workers.

"In progress: Making permanent a set of tax cuts that primarily helps the upper class.

"And it's only the middle of March. Can anyone name even one thing the Bush administration has done this year -- or is proposing to do -- that would benefit ordinary workers? Do they even pretend to care any more?"

-From Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly

Is this what you thought you were voting for?

"With legislative maneuvering designed to punish and deprive the least fortunate among us -- working people at the lower end of the American economy and their children -- the Republicans don't seem to be upholding the caring Christian ideals often proclaimed by the President. They're pushing down wages, snatching away tax credits and food stamps, slashing Medicaid and children's health insurance, and removing bankruptcy protections from families that suffer medical catastrophes. But they're extending tax cuts on dividends and capital gains, and making sure that those bankruptcy laws still protect the richest deadbeats.

"In short, they are stealing bread from the mouths of the poor and stuffing cake into the maws of the wealthy.

"The bankruptcy 'reform' currently pending in the Senate, for instance, would compound the misery of Americans already ruined by enormous medical expenses, which is what drives most filers to seek legal protection. The sponsors of this punitive act, which will further inflate the profits of credit-card companies, rejected every amendment to discourage deceptive and extortionate lending practices, as well as every amendment to soften the impact on destitute veterans and others whose misfortune might ordinarily stir feelings of compassion."

-From Joe Conason in Salon

Does the man you voted for have one ounce of concern for you? Well, if you're a well connected multi-millionaire, a large financial concern, an oil company, a polluter, or the credit card companies, then yes.

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The Pendulum Swings

Bush's scheme to destroy Social Security is dead.

His budget, phase two of "Starve the Beast," is dying, killed by his own party.

His environmental plundering is dying, killed by his own party.

Tom DeLay is finally going down.

Santorum is going to meet the fate of Daschle.

The winds of change are blowing, the times they are a changin'.

Some of the American people are realizing that while they believed the bible thumping, culture war lip service that was being sold to them, Bush's real agenda was not at all in their interests. You touched the third rail, George. Now you're starting to fry.

Forked Tongue

Just because Karen Hughes was able to lie and distort and ridicule and character-assasinate to get the American yahoos to [almost] vote Bush into office, Bush thinks she can work that same magic with the rest of the world?

The rest of the world isn't so stupidly, ignorantly, gullible, Mr. Bush.

You aren't, are you?