I simply got fed up with delivering food to “needy AIDS patients” in WeHo who were either a) Indifferent and unappreciative b) Never home thereby leaving the food outside to spoil c) Answered the door hung over and/or tweaked out d) Lived in better apartments and neighborhoods than me…

I truly believe that the only reason national AIDS/HIV organizations still exist is to provide paychecks for their thousands of executives and employees.

Imagine if AIDS were ever declared non-existent in the United States….these people would all be out of jobs. Talk about your AIDS/HIV-industrial complex…

This is a totally preventable disease and there is simply no reason why it should still be getting contracted within the “gay community”.

I reserve exception only for children, surgery patients and women who’ve contract it from unknowingly bisexual husbands.

Call me callous but speaking as someone who was there at the beginning and watched countless friends die off before life-giving protease inhibitors came on the scene…I think my frankness speaks from experience.

The fact that so many people think Y2K was a hoax actually makes me proud of the fact that we did our jobs.

crazy_legs on November 20, 2007 at 12:49 PM

I don’t think most people think it was a “hoax.” I certainly don’t.

But I do think it was wildly over-hyped and grossly exaggerated, by people who knew pretty darn well that it was either 1) a technically surmountable problem or 2) not quite the apocalyptic event they were pretending it was.

Speaking of global warming …

First it was “AIDS is gonna get you!” from the UN.Now it’s “Global warming is gonna get you!”The result?  Lots of cash rolling in to fund “special projects”.  And now we find out that the UN has overestimated the number……

Things I’ve survived: DDT, Alar, acid rain, nuclear winter, El Nino, killer bees, Y2K, secondhand smoke, McDonald’s french fries, global warming, the ozone hole, aerosol cans… even AquaDots.

saint kansas on November 20, 2007 at 12:32 PM

You know, Saint Kanas, we are some tough mofos to have toughed out all that, eh? But these days it doesn’t seem to make us stronger. It’s more like: What doesn’t kill us makes us more gullible and likey to fall for the next panic du jour.
So assuming that future generations wont be living in some sort of nightmarish global caliphate will they look back at our generation in bemusement as the silliest in history? Hope so. Please, God, let our children be wiser.

Things I’ve survived: DDT, Alar, acid rain, nuclear winter, El Nino, killer bees, Y2K, secondhand smoke, McDonald’s french fries, global warming, the ozone hole, aerosol cans… even AquaDots.

In defense of the Y2K “scare,” I work in the tech industry and while a lot of people did make out like bandits during Y2k, there actually were legitimate issues that would’ve caused problems if they hadn’t been addressed. The reason why nothing happened is because a lot of people worked hard insuring that nothing did happen. Would it have been what the scare mongers were predicting – mass global civilizational collapse? Of course not. But there were issues with the year change that potentially could have caused problems.

The fact that so many people think Y2K was a hoax actually makes me proud of the fact that we did our jobs.

Oprah’s spouting (incorrectly) in the ’80s that AIDS is going to blaze through half the heterosexual population, but to this day you wouldn’t dare suggest where one might choose not to put one’s penis to prevent contracting and/or spreading it. You must have sex, just make sure it’s “safe sex.” Here, take these brochures and a handful of condoms for Sex Week.

However, if you inhale one breath of secondhand smoke from two houses away, you’ll certainly die of lung cancer.

Funny, I was slicing an apple this morning and was reminded of Meryl Streep’s Alar scare… there I am, holding certain death in my hand.

Things I’ve survived: DDT, Alar, acid rain, nuclear winter, El Nino, killer bees, Y2K, secondhand smoke, McDonald’s french fries, global warming, the ozone hole, aerosol cans… even AquaDots.

World Aids
Global Warming
Over Population
Genocide

All four points on the moral compass with no direction.

What other science questions might the UN be giving similarly unwarranted alarmist treatment?

(Snort)

Yup.

Best part is that when the next generation is dealing with the next trumped up, ridiculous hysteria, and they’re being called “deniers,” they’ll point to the global warming hysteria – the same way we point to global cooling, or the population explosion, or massive starvation, or the Y2K bug (all predicted to just about end the world in past decades).

Our kids will point to global warming and say: “Don’t you remember that? Wasn’t that stupid? How do you know this scare isn’t the same?”

And nobody will listen.

It’s kinda funny. If you drink heavily before thinking about it.

I don’t know about other conservatives, but I will not support anyone who does not advocate the US leaving the UN and the UN (whatever is left of it) leaving the US.

No peerless, competitionless organization can be empowered and expected to grow in anything but grotesque and destructive ways. The UN is, in theory even, fated to abuse every bit of power given to it.

It just undermines support for a smart strategy to reduce HIV spread.

wonder what the next thing for them to obssess over and raise billions for so they can get their cut will be?

trailortrash on November 20, 2007 at 10:02 AM

Hey, I have an idea…maybe the UN could devise a plan to trade an otherwise sanctioned country’s best export resource in exchange for something that they don’t have but need really, really badly. As the administrators of the program, of course, UN personnel would be compensated for their work on behalf of this humanitarian assistance program…perhaps an in-kind compensation via some sort of vouchers.

The beauty of this plan is that it would be self-sustaining…the sanctions would be blunted enough so that domestic pressure wouldn’t cause a change in policy that would have the effect of lifting the sanctions.

Thoughts?