Your tax dollars at work: Teaching African men to wash their stuff after sex

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• Sources report that Michelle signed Barry up for the seminar. Barry showed up, took a complimentary cheese sandwich and then promptly left.

• Good one!

• There is a cure for AIDS. Sit on your ass and keep your mouth shut.

• The F*CKING we get , is for the F*CKING they got

• I guess when they said stimulus............they weren't talking about our economy....which really pisses me off that stimulus dollars are going to anything other than our effing economy. This is why the stimulus didn't work-cause most of it went for stuff having ZERO to do with our economy! And frankly-the more savages who buy it from AIDS on the African continent, the less radical muslims they will import here, and the less welfare recipients they will import here-and ultimately, the less our government will spend on the AIDS crisis in Africa, while they stick it to our veterans(for example).

  • On the serious side - one of the major sources of HIV infection is the re-use of unsterilized needles by under-funded clinics in poorer regions. Heard that on SRN news ( reputable source ) some months ago.

  • Dude, not cool.

    It's never good to hope for the death of someone (that's a Democrat trick), and especially from something as brutal as AIDS. It is one monstrously complicated situation over there. Not every person in Africa is a muslim -- good Christians are suffering and dying every day over there. If you want the short answer, it won't get better until the people there decide they deserve better and throw out their thugocracies. That takes people that think they have a tomorrow.

    • That is true. A lot of Christian women are being raped BECAUSE they are christians as witch doctors tell the men to do so thinking their blood will be cleansed that way. Some husbands do not tell their wives or girlfriend they have it or that they may have it (due to their behavior). So little girls to old women are living their lives with AIDs and those in child bearing situations end up having children with AIDS and the cycle continues. There is too much going on and it is not at all simplistic, pouring money willy nilly though is not a solution either as a lot of those funds ends up in the hands of corrupt officials anyway. Circumcision (sp?) can help a lot with the AIDS crisis and I guess this washing initiative is part of hygiene education that can lead to less spread of AIDS but unless the cultural and political spheres are actually fixed, this initiatives won't yield much fruit. I don't know what the solution is , the decisive solution, it takes someone that knows a lot and don't know if that someone or if those people exist yet.

      • In other words, Kimmy, it's putting a bandaid on a death sentence. It's an awful expensive one, though.

        • Yes. There is so much to deal with and SO MUCH to change especially when it comes to the human condition that I don't think we will actually find a stop to this disease UNLESS an actual cure is found and yes it will be expensive no matter what.

          With a cure to HIV/AIDS I can guarantee that there won't be long until a new STD of even more massive catastrophic circumstances will begin.

        • I'm sure the CIA is working on the replacement for AIDS already. (Note to self. Release "sarcasm" button after that one.)

      • The real solution is monogamy. However, the flower children of the left think that's unpalatable. You don't get grant money for that, and people start whining about imposing your morals on other people. I can't see what is wrong with telling people to behave themselves and they'll live longer.

        I can't see how washing can eliminate the consequences of unprotected sex with multiple partners better than eliminating the unprotected sex with multiple partners. Reminds me of the perfect birth control joke.

        A woman goes to the doctor, asking for a 100% effective birth control method. The doctor opens a box at his desk, and hands her an apple.

        She goes:"An apple? Really? That's all it takes? When should I eat it? Before, during, or after?"

        Doctor says: "Instead."

        As to circumcision, the main practitioners of it in Africa are muslim, and I simply cannot believe that the hygiene that circumcision supposedly enhances prevents AIDS. If so, muslim men would not be at risk, and would be all up in everyone's face about it. Also, given the prevalence of that procedure in the US (you have to fight to prevent it in most US hospitals), then by that stellar logic, there would be only AIDS amongst the uncircumcised in the US. Simply not true.

        What these researchers are doing is conducting medical research where their test subjects are definitely risking life and limb, when a clear alternative is known but not considered. In the US, that is usually considered unethical, and in Germany in the 1940's, Dr. Mengele was a key practitioner. This is something the left ascribes to corporations (a la "Constant Gardener"), but actually is the sole practitioner of in reality. Not a surprise coming from the left. It's not considered barbaric when they do it.

        • Well it is true that just not having sex or having sex with one partner (long term or for life) is the best solution, the thing is that we cannot regulate people's behaviors (or I guess we shouldn't as it goes to freedoms and liberties... UNLESS of course we are talking about criminal acts). Raping and having unprotected sex with someone KNOWING that they have AIDS is a criminal act, however unfortunately the measure of punishment is doled out AFTER the fact and by then it is too late to do anything about prevention. So what I am saying is that we lack the ability to prevent those acts which are criminal and of course we cannot regulate non criminal acts. I think that there lies the dilemma. Govt aren't (and shouldn't be) all powerful to regulate non criminal behavior and Govts do not have the power to prevent criminal acts. What is the solution to that? Certainly not to give all power to government to choose for the individual what their behavior should be that can present a lot of problems that we will not like.

          There is NOTHING wrong in TELLING people that monogamy or simply not having sex unless you are in a monogamous relationship. That is actually a good thing and it should be said. The problem lies is that a lot of people for whatever reason do not have the ability to self regulate even if their actions are not criminal in nature. This goes back to culture, upbringing and in some cases religion (like the witch doctor example I gave above). All that can be done is to just tell people what is the best action and the repercusions of taking an action that is not the best (as one understands it). Other than that, it is up to the individual to make the final choice, and unfortunately individual decisions do not remain with the individual it affects others, so I guess that is why these research and measures are in a way necessary, because it provides SOME alternatives once the individual decides not to do one of the TWO things that can truly prevent AIDS and other STDs: Abstain for sex or just have sex with one individual (long term or for life).

• Why would it be any different from caucasion men? Are white men being discriminated against and denied this "experience?"

  • Obama doesn't plan on giving whitey a reach-around while he's ass-pounding the country.

  • No, we have soap and water, thank you very much, and Obama should just keep his hands to himself.

• Shouldn't this be included in the 'lives touched' measure of stimulus effectiveness?

  • What about the "jobs created" part of the stimulus? Think of all the penis washing jobs that could be created. Does a person need teaching credentials to do this job? Would Barney even be qualified? Or could he by pass the educational requirements with "life experience" credits?

    • Plenty of on-the-(blow)job training.

• First step is heat the water by burning some pages in your koran ....
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• Making them wash their own penises!? That's an outrage! The government should be hiring nurses to wash everyone's penis, here and around the world. Liberal voters are entitled to these services because the only thing they've ever done in their lives is vote for liberals, which means the government must provide.

  • Yep, they could have a newly unemployed senator from Massachusetts do it. Call the service "Barney's Franks"

    • that is hilarious!

  • Nurses don't bathe the patients. That's the orderly's job and then only if the patient is unable to bathe his/herself.

  • Maybe Al "Sex-Poodle" Gore can recommend/provide job references for some "washers".

    • always a 'happy ending'!

      • For "Mr. Happy". ;-)

• Uh-uh, I ain't touching this one. ;-)