Irvine511
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There, that's better.
at least by the 90s no one thought that "AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD" shirts were funny anymore.
There, that's better.
i don't think this is true at all. celebrities do lots of different charities, certainly cancer is on that list, as are many others. AIDS is a big one, certainly, but if you look at the scale of *global* AIDS, it's already the deadliest disease in human history. that does seem to point out that it's worth of some consideration.
disproportionate, yes, when 5% of the population makes up about 45% of the population with HIV in the West. i agree. but there's that other 55% of heterosexuals who have it, and sadly it's their plight that actually made the government start to care about AIDS. when it was just gays and Haitians in the early 1980s, no one cared. mothers and children had to start dying.
lung cancer certainly seems a lifestyle disease. so does any number of heart ailments related to weight, stress, smoking, diet, and exercise.
AIDS continues to be stigmatized in a way that other diseases aren't, and sexual diseases in general are stigmatized in ways that other diseases aren't. look at the "controversy" over Guardasil here in the US. the real objection was not that it was a somehow unsafe vaccine, quite the contrary. the real controversy was that some abstinence-obsessed parents thought it would encourage kids to go out and have sex since, hey, no HPV to worry about! this is why the abstinence-only crowd is obsessed with supposed "failure rates" of condoms -- because knowledge that facilitates responsible sexual activity utterly crushes their "no sex till biblical marriage" because it removes the fear-mongering and scare tactics they use about STDs and about how contraception is utterly doomed to failure.
certainly people bring diseases upon themselves. still, yes, i actually do feel more sympathy for someone who neglects to use a condom in a heated moment than someone who smokes a pack a day for 20 years and is diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.
it always seemed like the UK/Ireland had a much larger heroin problem than is understood over here.
Irvine511 said:but that does tie into attitudes in the early 1980s where the main groups getting HIV were gays, drug users, and Haitians. and some attitudes were, "at least AIDS is killing the right people."
Irvine511 said:can't speak for Ireland, but i have since seen Margaret Thatcher's public address on HIV/AIDS, and it's remarkable how much more sensible, calm, and rational she was in comparison to over here. something like, "if you have sex, use a condom." no doubt she isn't beholden to evangelical groups and their infantile attitudes towards sexuality.
Washington Post
Posted at 06:30 PM ET, 10/23/2011
Soda boosts violence among teens, study finds
By Rob Stein
Teenagers who drink soda are more likely to carry a weapon and act violently, according to new research.
Sara J. Solnick of the University of Vermont and David Hemenway of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston analyzed data collected from 1,878 14- to 18-year-olds in grades nine through 12 in 22 public schools in 2008.
Those who drank five or more cans of non-diet soft drinks every week were significantly more likely to have also consumed alcohol and smoked cigarettes at least once in the previous month, the researchers found.
Moreover, even after taking other factors into consideration such as age, gender and alcohol consumption, the researchers found that heavy use of carbonated non-diet soft drinks was significantly associated with carrying a gun or knife and violence towards peers, family and partners.
About 23 percent of those who drank one or no cans of soda a week carried a gun or knife, and 15 percent had perpetrated violence toward a partner. In comparison, among those who consumed 14 or more cans a week, 43 percent carried a gun or knife and 27 percent had been violent toward a partner, the researchers found. Similarly, violence towards peers rose from 35 percent to 58 percent while violence towards siblings rose from 25.4 percent o 43 percent.
“There was a significant and strong association between soft drinks and violence. There may be a direct cause-and-effect relationship, perhaps due to the sugar or caffeine content of soft drinks, or there may be other factors, unaccounted for in our analyses, that cause both high soft drink consumption and aggression,” the researchers wrote in the journal Injury Prevention in a paper titled: “The ‘Twinkie Defense’: the relationship between carbonated non-diet soft drinks and violence perpetration among Boston high school students.”
The Twinkie Defense refers to Dan White, who was tried for the 1979 assassinations of San Francisco city district Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. White’s lawyers argued he had “diminished capacity” in part because he was depressed and had recently changed from a health-conscience diet to eating junk food such as Twinkies.
Seems more based in reality than any of the sources you tend to cite.
If your reply is to me, I didn't cite any source.
If it it is, why not do do some online research on the breakdown of the family the past 30 or so years and the increase in teen violence.
Is there a connection?
If it it is, why not do do some online research on the breakdown of the family the past 30 or so years and the increase in teen violence.
Being raised in a two parent family where values are taught to
children and rules/limits set have nothing to with it.
there isn't.
crime on the whole is way, way down from it's peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s. youth crime, and crime as a whole, dropped dramatically in the mid-1990s. society on the whole is safer than it has been since the 1960s.
likely, the legalization of abortion has much to do with this. it's really not to do with ...
this represents little more than an inkling you have, a feeling you get, a need to view yourself and your views as superior to those around you, and likely an overall problem with modernity as evidenced in your other posts. it's not at all represented by facts, as you yourself admit.
but you can keep trying. maybe one day you'll hit upon some facts that actually buttress the lifestyle you're trying to promote.
crime on the whole is way, way down from it's peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s. youth crime, and crime as a whole, dropped dramatically in the mid-1990s. society on the whole is safer than it has been since the 1960s.
likely, the legalization of abortion has much to do with this.
the iron horse said:So, now a study confirms that sodas are the reason for the increase in
teen violence?
Being raised in a two parent family where values are taught to
children and rules/limits set have nothing to with it.
It's those evil sodas!!!
Bingo?
Well someone is clearly a teacher... Pfan is not one of your students, though. Since you're the interested one here, why don't you do the research and share with the rest of the class?
As to the article, you've totally misrepresenting the study. The study does not claim that soda consumption is THE reason for violent behavior, or even one of the main reasons for violent behavior. And the study doesn't even comment whatsoever on the "increase in teen violence" or broken families, so I'm not really sure from where you're drawing your conclusions about it. It's merely showing a correlation between violent behavior and soda consumption - nothing more, nothing less.
Your opinion.
I guess we can go back and forth on this with opinions and stats.
I'd go with:
1) tougher sentencing laws and more efficient policing techniques which led to...
2) record numbers of criminals behind bars (where it's harder to commit crimes)
3) And an aging population
Are you going to recommend we go watch American Graffiti after that, Ponyboy?I think that the family is a huge factor in a teenagers life.
I guess we can go back and forth on this with opinions and stats.
Have you ever read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton?
They're behind bars for a couple of months serving out boring misdemeanours related to small amounts of drug possession...who fucking caresI'd go with:
1) tougher sentencing laws and more efficient policing techniques which led to...
2) record numbers of criminals behind bars (where it's harder to commit crimes)
3) And an aging population
Are you going to recommend we go watch American Graffiti after that, Ponyboy?
They're behind bars for a couple of months serving out boring misdemeanours related to small amounts of drug possession...who fucking cares
i don't think people should be put behind bars for possession of small amounts of marijuana.
as a smoker, i'm sure you'd agree. marijuana is far less harmful than nicotine.
vote libertarian.
I would love to score some medical marijuana stamps.Plus I can use a vaporizer to inhale marijuana and not deal with most of the harmful smoke.
Plus I can use a vaporizer to inhale marijuana and not deal with most of the harmful smoke.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Congress Pushes Back On Healthier School Lunches
by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON November 15, 2011, 02:52 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?
In an effort many 9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration's efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools.
The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting the use of whole grains. The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts.
The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA had wanted to only count a half-cup of tomato paste or more as a vegetable, and a serving of pizza has less than that.
Nutritionists say the whole effort is reminiscent of the Reagan administration's much-ridiculed attempt 30 years ago to classify ketchup as a vegetable to cut costs. This time around, food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes and lobbied Congress.
School meals that are subsidized by the federal government must include a certain amount of vegetables, and USDA's proposal could have pushed pizza-makers and potato growers out of the school lunch business.
Piling on to the companies' opposition, some conservatives argue that the federal government shouldn't tell children what to eat. In a summary of the bill, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would "prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and ...provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals."
School districts have said some of the USDA proposals go too far and cost too much when budgets are extremely tight. Schools have long taken broad instructions from the government on what they can serve in the federally subsidized meals that are given free or at reduced price to low-income children. But some schools have balked at government attempts to tell them exactly what foods they can't serve.
Reacting to that criticism, House Republicans had urged USDA to rewrite the standards in a bill passed in June. The Senate last month voted to block the potato limits in its version, with opposition to the restrictions led by potato-growing states. Neither version of the bill included the latest provisions on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains; House and Senate negotiators added those in the last two weeks as they put finishing touches on the legislation.
The school lunch proposal is based on 2009 recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said they are necessary to reduce childhood obesity and future health care costs.
USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe said Tuesday that the department will continue its efforts to make lunches healthier.
"While it's unfortunate that some members of Congress continue to put special interests ahead of the health of America's children, USDA remains committed to practical, science-based standards for school meals," she said in a statement.
Nutrition advocate Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said Congress's proposed changes will keep schools from serving a wider array of vegetables. Children already get enough pizza and potatoes, she says. It also would slow efforts to make pizzas — a longtime standby on school lunch lines — healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower sodium levels.
"They are making sure that two of the biggest problems in the school lunch program, pizza and french fries, are untouched," she said.
A group of retired generals advocating for healthier school lunches also criticized the spending bill. The group, called Mission: Readiness, has called poor nutrition in school lunches a national security issue because obesity is the leading medical disqualifier for military service.
"We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would effectively categorize pizza as a vegetable in the school lunch program," Amy Dawson Taggart, the director of the group, said in a letter to lawmakers before the final bill was released. "It doesn't take an advanced degree in nutrition to call this a national disgrace."
Specifically, the bill would:
— Block the Agriculture Department from limiting starchy vegetables, including corn and peas, to two servings a week. The rule was intended to cut down on french fries, which many schools serve daily.
— Allow USDA to count two tablespoons of tomato paste as a vegetable, as it does now. The department had attempted to require that only a half-cup of tomato paste could be considered a vegetable. Federally subsidized lunches must have a certain number of vegetables to be served.
— Require further study on long-term sodium reduction requirements set forth by the USDA guidelines.
— Require USDA to define "whole grains" before they regulate them. The USDA rules require schools to use more whole grains.
Food companies who have fought the USDA standards say they were too strict and neglected the nutrients that potatoes, other starchy vegetables and tomato paste do offer.
"This agreement ensures that nutrient-rich vegetables such as potatoes, corn and peas will remain part of a balanced, healthy diet in federally funded school meals and recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste, ensuring that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta," said Kraig Naasz, president of the American Frozen Food Institute.
The school lunch provisions are part of a final House-Senate compromise on a $182 billion measure that would fund the day-to-day operations of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the bill this week and send it to President Barack Obama.