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REM's Michael Stipe delayed HIV test to stay out of the, um, Reagan-Bush internment camps
Cain TV ^ | Monday June 30th, 2014 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 07/05/2014 10:42:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise

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To: a fool in paradise

Ahh yes. The tolerance of the LGBTWHATEVER camp that shuts down businesses and destroys the lives of those who disagree with them.


21 posted on 07/05/2014 11:07:44 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: PLMerite

BINGO!


22 posted on 07/05/2014 11:09:33 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I had to buy some BDUs even though I was getting out and they were relatively expensive.


I bought some ACUs for my last two years in. One benefit was you could take them straight out of the dryer, shake them out, put them on the hanger and never need to iron them.


23 posted on 07/05/2014 11:10:15 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

The permanent press fatigues (as in Stripes above) were the same way, but they looked even better ironed and starched. In Korea my housemen did it (never called them “houseboys” they were usually old enough to be my father) but stateside I usually didn’t bother.


24 posted on 07/05/2014 11:15:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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“I miss that uniform. I had to buy some BDUs even though I was getting out and they were relatively expensive.”

I always thought the BDUs were better: more roomy, you sweated less, the material was more comfortable and pockets galore.


25 posted on 07/05/2014 11:15:55 AM PDT by vladimir998
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I found them to be hot, but then my last duty station was HHOC, 105th Military Intelligence Battalion (CEWI), 5th (Mechanized) Infantry Division, Fort Polk, Louisiana.


26 posted on 07/05/2014 11:18:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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I think this was the first time in the history of mankind where known carriers of a deadly, communicable disease, were not attempted to be kept isolated from the public.
And quite the opposite, the carriers were treated as virtual heroes and martyrs to their 'cause' of perversion. Billions of dollars raised to fight this disease (which was easily known how to prevent) and siphoned away from working on other diseases such as cancers and Alzheimer's.

27 posted on 07/05/2014 11:24:33 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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I found them to be hot, but then my last duty station was HHOC, 105th Military Intelligence Battalion (CEWI), 5th (Mechanized) Infantry Division, Fort Polk, Louisiana.


When they first implemented BDUs it seemed cooler places (Lakenheath, UK) only carried summer weight BDUs and hotter places (Barksdale, LA) only carried winter weight BDUs.


28 posted on 07/05/2014 11:32:44 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: a fool in paradise
Let's ask Arthur Ashe for his opinion on the quarantine of HIV patients.

Oh wait....

29 posted on 07/05/2014 11:33:03 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Yeah, ours were winter weight. I never wore them there except for one formation where they required it. I felt sorry for those guys as I waived to them from the rear-view mirror of my brand-new Ford EXP. Remember those? LOL


30 posted on 07/05/2014 11:35:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: El Cid

Yes, it trumped all $ for other diseases and they effectively stopped AIDS for those in modern countries. But political correctness and the refusal to quarantine killed a lot of people.


31 posted on 07/05/2014 11:39:44 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: El Cid

The move is on now to eliminate the laws that require persons with AIDS to notify their partner(s).

AIDS Pride and all that.

http://www.ippf.org/resource/Healthy-Happy-and-Hot-young-peoples-guide-rights

“A guide for young people living with HIV to help them understand their sexual rights”

“Sexual and reproductive rights are recognized around the world as human rights - Every person living with HIV is entitled to these rights and they are necessary for the development and well-being of all people and the societies in which they live.”

“Young people living with HIV may feel that sex is just not an option, but don’t worry — many young people living with HIV live healthy, fun, happy and sexually fulfi lling lives. You can too, if you want to! Things get easier (and sex can get even better) as you become more comfortable with your status.”

“This guide is here to support your sexual pleasure and health, and to help you develop strong intimate relationships. It explores how your human rights and sexual well-being are related and suggests strategies to help you
make decisions about dating, relationships, sex and parenthood. It explores the rights of young people living with HIV to:

• express and enjoy their sexuality (page 3)
• decide if, when, and how to disclose their
HIV status (page 5)
• experience sexual pleasure (page 7)
• take care of their sexual health (page 9)
• practise safer sex (page 11)
• choose if, when, how many, and with whom
to have children (page 13)
• access support and services that respect
their dignity, autonomy, privacy and
well-being (page 15)


32 posted on 07/05/2014 11:45:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’, but in a major key, called ‘Regaining My Religion’. Musically interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KmiIq2-m8


33 posted on 07/05/2014 11:48:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: riri

*shrug* Projection.


34 posted on 07/05/2014 11:51:40 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Confirms my wise decision to remove all REM music from my iPod collection. It sits up in the cloud where it belongs, along with Barbara Streisand, Roger Waters and Dixie Chicks.


35 posted on 07/05/2014 11:52:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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Disheveled man at bus stop rambles on about "internment camps". No one cares.

36 posted on 07/05/2014 11:58:28 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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I was working my way through college as a phlebotomist in a Catholic hospital at the height of this era. There was a doctor there who specialized in AIDS patients. If you saw his name on an order, you knew the patient was HIV+. Never saw anyone get hauled away.
37 posted on 07/05/2014 12:02:31 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: a fool in paradise

The guy is a Happy Meal short of a Happy Meal


38 posted on 07/05/2014 12:05:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Democrats rounded up Japanese-Americans and put them in concentration camps during WWII. Germans got a pass.

During the 1930’s, Democrats used impoverished black men as lab rats, to see the effects of deliberately untreated syphilis.

When it come to gross inhumanity and wanton destruction of civil liberties, some Republicans might talk the talk. But Democrats get’er done.


39 posted on 07/05/2014 12:08:31 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: a fool in paradise

They smoked pot all the time.

It causes this sort of thinking.


40 posted on 07/05/2014 12:24:05 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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