4:56 pm - Wed, Jan 4, 2012
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somepolitics: skatieb: anne rice’s son knows what’s up.  “We should all ask ourselves, at what point does a person’s ‘opinion’ that I should be denied basic civil rights stop being an ‘opinion’ and start being an attack on my Constitutional protections as a citizen of thsi country and my right to live freely? We’re not talking about my right to wear purple shirts in public or own a teacup poodle. We’re talking about laws which actually criminalized my ability to be intimate with another man, and we’re talking about an individual who has equated my intimate romantic relationships with bestiality and pedophilia i.e. criminal acts. Boiling it all down to a matter of who does or doesn’t ‘like’ someone seems like a massive trivialization of what is essentially a civil rights issue. If I suddenly advocated a law that said employers had the right to deny black applicants a job based on the prevalence of crime in predominantly black urban ghettos, do you think this ‘opinion’ would be greeted with anything other than outrage and contempt? Why does a different standard apply here? And why are those who err on the side of the disenfranchised and embattled in this debate always the ones who are asked to be ‘nicer’? I’m not actually asking for Rick Santorum to change what he does in *his* bedroom, yet he feels like he has the right to enter mine with the power of the state government at his back. And the catch is, I actually have examined the thinking and ideology around Santorum’s opinions and along with many others, including psychologists, medical professionals and a large number of religious leaders, deemed it to e wholly unsupported by any real science or collected evidence that would make it worthy of deeper inspection. Santorum, on the other hand, has chosen to willfully ignore documented proof regarding the necessity for individuals to express their true sexual identity to avoid the risk of terrible mental illness. He refuses to acknowledge the complete absence of evidence that gay partnerships pose any threat to heterosexual marriages, and this refusal appears to be willful. And while the rest of us wring our hands over the tone of our political dialogue, bullies in high schools across America will have a friend and candidate in Rick Santorum.” 
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skatieb:

anne rice’s son knows what’s up. 

“We should all ask ourselves, at what point does a person’s ‘opinion’ that I should be denied basic civil rights stop being an ‘opinion’ and start being an attack on my Constitutional protections as a citizen of thsi country and my right to live freely? We’re not talking about my right to wear purple shirts in public or own a teacup poodle. We’re talking about laws which actually criminalized my ability to be intimate with another man, and we’re talking about an individual who has equated my intimate romantic relationships with bestiality and pedophilia i.e. criminal acts. Boiling it all down to a matter of who does or doesn’t ‘like’ someone seems like a massive trivialization of what is essentially a civil rights issue. If I suddenly advocated a law that said employers had the right to deny black applicants a job based on the prevalence of crime in predominantly black urban ghettos, do you think this ‘opinion’ would be greeted with anything other than outrage and contempt? Why does a different standard apply here? And why are those who err on the side of the disenfranchised and embattled in this debate always the ones who are asked to be ‘nicer’? I’m not actually asking for Rick Santorum to change what he does in *his* bedroom, yet he feels like he has the right to enter mine with the power of the state government at his back. And the catch is, I actually have examined the thinking and ideology around Santorum’s opinions and along with many others, including psychologists, medical professionals and a large number of religious leaders, deemed it to e wholly unsupported by any real science or collected evidence that would make it worthy of deeper inspection. Santorum, on the other hand, has chosen to willfully ignore documented proof regarding the necessity for individuals to express their true sexual identity to avoid the risk of terrible mental illness. He refuses to acknowledge the complete absence of evidence that gay partnerships pose any threat to heterosexual marriages, and this refusal appears to be willful. And while the rest of us wring our hands over the tone of our political dialogue, bullies in high schools across America will have a friend and candidate in Rick Santorum.” 

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Q: I have seen few additional documentaries regarding HIV matter... I cannot recall professor's name, but he is German and he was fired from university after publicly stating that HIV has been created in the lab. Another one was some American who was working directly for Merck he was talking openly how they poison human beings with live virus through vaccination... I have been told by one fella that in South Africa banana seeds being GMO'd so vaccines will be eaten with actual bananas. Animals!
mrtrueman

….as of late I’m not ruling out anything. There’s been such a crazy emphasis on a cure…that the origin tale has almost been neatly swept under the carpet. Hopefully this book addresses many of those details. The book itself was inspired by Dr Alan Cantwell Jr’s “Doctors of Death”

6:03 am
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fuckyeahartandscience: “The HIV virus, a menacing genetic script that lethally infects more than 33 million people worldwide, looks more like a splotch under the planet’s most powerful microscopes. By scraping for details of the virus’ structure from more than 100 studies in three different scientific fields, however, four focused artists summed it up into one intricate 3-D structure. The model is now considered the most-detailed ever created for the contagion, and won the competition’s first-place prize in illustrations. Image: Ivan Konstantinov, Yury Stefanov, Aleksander Kovalevsky, Yegor Voronin/Visual Science Company” source.
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fuckyeahartandscience:

“The HIV virus, a menacing genetic script that lethally infects more than 33 million people worldwide, looks more like a splotch under the planet’s most powerful microscopes.

By scraping for details of the virus’ structure from more than 100 studies in three different scientific fields, however, four focused artists summed it up into one intricate 3-D structure.

The model is now considered the most-detailed ever created for the contagion, and won the competition’s first-place prize in illustrations.

Image: Ivan Konstantinov, Yury Stefanov, Aleksander Kovalevsky, Yegor Voronin/Visual Science Company”

source.

6:00 am
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nowmybutthurts:

was chatting with mike ruiz and martin bertusch about this phenomenon over the weekend and it sort of spawned a lengthy discussion among my friends on facebook (you can add me if you wanna see it) about the state of HIV nowadays. years ago i met a “bug chaser” in doing research for a story. i went to one of their “parties” and was pretty horrified. i remember explaining the phenomenon to a colleague and them just staring at me in disbelief until i played them the recorded quotes. this footage is thankfully a couple years old.. and many of the folks in this have died.

listen kids.. AIDS meds are destructive to your system.. it’s not like taking a single pill in the morning and then getting on with your day. it requires dietary adjustments, lifestyle changes…. and then your organs eventually fail from the meds and you still die. 

5:58 am
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Critics assail crime laws aimed at people with HIV

9:59 pm - Wed, Dec 21, 2011
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Newt Gingrich: don’t vote for me if you’re gay The suggestion by Newt Gingrich that a gay Iowan should vote for Barack Obama reveals a deeper truth about the Republican frontrunner If a politician talks long enough about themselves, they will eventually utter a truth. And the more highly he thinks of himself, the deeper the truth will be. Hence the significance of Newt Gingrich’s sweeping defense against charges of lobbying: he was too busy earning hundreds of thousands of dollars making speeches and writing best-sellers to get into the picayune business of lobbying. This argument that skates around the meaningful definition of lobbying but reveals just how important Newt thinks his ideas are, his profound conviction that his presence on the national stage alone accounts for his influence – not his years of collecting favors and connections. So, okay, now the gays! On Tuesday gay Iowan Scott Arnold asked Gingrich: “If he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama.” Newt’s response made headlines that were weirdly non-newsy: Republican candidate refuses to seek support of citizens unlikely to vote for him anyway! But his rejoinder was actually kind of a non-sequitor: Arnold wasn’t looking for electoral guidance, he was asking about Newt’s capacity for leadership in the context of a country that right now doesn’t really agree about anything except how awful the economy is. Rick Perry could come up with answers that were more appropriate: “I’m going to make sure that all Americans have the freedom to make their own choices about health care and housing,” “I’m sure that Americans of all types will rally around a leader who is dedicated to making our country first in the world economy again,” or even, “Judge me by the choices I make in office, not by one specific special interest you may have.” I mean, all of those answers are kind of bullshit, but they don’t suggest such tower arrogance. Oh, and bigotry. In other truthiness news, on Tuesday Newt also told reporters that other candidates (cough-Romney-cough), “hire consultants who get drunk, sit around and write stupid ads.” Which is probably a generous analysis but not off the mark.
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Newt Gingrich: don’t vote for me if you’re gay

The suggestion by Newt Gingrich that a gay Iowan should vote for Barack Obama reveals a deeper truth about the Republican frontrunner

If a politician talks long enough about themselves, they will eventually utter a truth. And the more highly he thinks of himself, the deeper the truth will be. Hence the significance of Newt Gingrich’s sweeping defense against charges of lobbying: he was too busy earning hundreds of thousands of dollars making speeches and writing best-sellers to get into the picayune business of lobbying.

This argument that skates around the meaningful definition of lobbying but reveals just how important Newt thinks his ideas are, his profound conviction that his presence on the national stage alone accounts for his influence – not his years of collecting favors and connections.

So, okay, now the gays! On Tuesday gay Iowan Scott Arnold asked Gingrich: “If he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama.”

Newt’s response made headlines that were weirdly non-newsy: Republican candidate refuses to seek support of citizens unlikely to vote for him anyway! But his rejoinder was actually kind of a non-sequitor: Arnold wasn’t looking for electoral guidance, he was asking about Newt’s capacity for leadership in the context of a country that right now doesn’t really agree about anything except how awful the economy is.

Rick Perry could come up with answers that were more appropriate: “I’m going to make sure that all Americans have the freedom to make their own choices about health care and housing,” “I’m sure that Americans of all types will rally around a leader who is dedicated to making our country first in the world economy again,” or even, “Judge me by the choices I make in office, not by one specific special interest you may have.” I mean, all of those answers are kind of bullshit, but they don’t suggest such tower arrogance. Oh, and bigotry.

In other truthiness news, on Tuesday Newt also told reporters that other candidates (cough-Romney-cough), “hire consultants who get drunk, sit around and write stupid ads.” Which is probably a generous analysis but not off the mark.

5:02 pm
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ktdiddesign:

NSFW AIDS Awareness Commerical

4:55 pm
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"Canadian-made HIV vaccine approved for human testing"

(Source: greencosmos)

4:53 pm
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HIV+ man sprayed with Lysol at work

James White’s lawyers in Michigan call his case “the worst case of HIV discrimination they’ve ever seen.” It’s hard to believe how much James had to endure:

  • When James disclosed his HIV status to his boss at a Great Expressions Dental Center — where James worked as an office assistant — James’ boss told everyone in the office that James had HIV. 
  • For months, James’ coworkers followed him around with cans of Lysol. They sprayed James, refused to let him touch doorknobs, and wiped down furniture after he touched it.
  • James was finally admitted to the hospital to deal with the toll of months of stress from the situation at work — he was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • On his last night in the hospital, James got a call saying that he was fired.

Jim Harris is a junior at the University of Oklahoma who has dedicated his time on campus to educating his fellow students about HIV. When Jim read about what happened to James, he was outraged — so he started a petition on Change.org demanding that Great Expressions Dental Centers apologize for how James was treated and pay him reparations. Click here to sign Jim’s petition right now.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attempted to mediate this situation, but Great Expressions refused the proposed settlement. So the EEOC gave James a letter supporting his right to sue Great Expressions — but a lawsuit will be costly and could take years.

James shouldn’t have to wait years for an apology or compensation. Great Expressions is a large chain of dental centers, with locations in seven different states — bringing large-scale public pressure is exactly the right way to force a quick resolution rather than letting the company wait it out and hope James runs out of money. 

(Source: dishabillic)

4:02 pm
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wordsoftakumi: The first same-sex “traditional first kiss” in the Navy’s history (12/21/2011)
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The first same-sex “traditional first kiss” in the Navy’s history (12/21/2011)

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