Posted on 12/14/2009 2:15:40 AM PST by rabscuttle385
SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.
"I delivered all these children because I didn't know there was another way," said Adongo, who started on a free quarterly contraceptive injection last year. Surrounded by her weary-faced brood, her 21-month-old boy clutching at her faded blue dress, she added glumly: "I fear we are already too many in this family."
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Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women.
Bush's mammoth global anti-AIDS initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, poured billions of dollars into Africa but prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs, whose budgets flat-lined.
When Congress reauthorized PEPFAR in July 2008, to the tune of $48 billion over five years...
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In know an Ethiopian here and he is Muslim and loves Obama. But you are saying US aid kept Islam out of Ethiopia?
Bad news Bush. He was claiming to have this multi-lateralism before the invasion.
RE :” The side benefit of both was to train aids nurses that would later immigrate to the US to alleviate the aids nurse shortage. ”
Now this I can see. I have been at nursing homes and most of the nurses aids are black immigrants(work ethic ) . Amazing that America prints so much money to hire foreigners to take care of our sick and elderly. Unemployed Americans may take these jobs some day.
“The United States has the most powerful military force on the face of the earth; why was it locked in a “desperate fight” with a bunch of camel-humping jerk-offs in Iraq and Afghanistan?”
Because the hand wringers feared that if we used shock and awe we would lose the hearts and minds of the people. As if.
They still haven’t figured out that muzzies are taught from the cradle to hate all non muslims. They will never love us - far safer for us if they fear us.
So is she saying she is too stupid to know what causes children? How about abstinence you stupid.....?
I'm so done and fed up with ignorance like this. This is almost 2010. If these populations die out from ignorance then it's all for the best. They weaken the gene pool.
Either produce the statement where I said exactly that or shut up.
What? Are you trying to claim wanted McCain to defeat Obama?
I didn't want either of them to win.
Got it?
The process of elimination is not a complex concept, especially when there are only two candidates standing.
There were more than two candidates on my Virginia ballot. I voted for the one that was actually conservative.
Neither McCain nor Obama are conservatives, so why don't you try using the process of elimination on that?
Saving millions of human lives in Africa from horrendous deaths may be the best investment the U.S. government has ever made. Thank you President Bush.
There could have been six million candidates on your ballot. But only two had a chance of winning at this point. Out of these two, guess which one you favored? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't McCain
So what?
Out of these two, guess which one you favored? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't McCain
I favored NEITHER, a fact that you can't seem to get through your thick Ohioan skull.
Failure to support McCain did not imply support for Obama, and similarly, failure to support Obama did not imply support for McCain. Otherwise, failure to support either would imply that one was capable of supporting both candidates simultaneously, something that makes absolutely zero sense, unless you're a guy like George Soros, in which it doesn't really matter which one wins because they're both taking your money.
Now, unless you can cite a statement that I made here on FR directly expressing support for Obama or his twisted Socialist agenda, shut up and stop babbling like a fool.
And yes, for your information, I do support Ron Paul, but I also support Jim DeMint, and I made contributions to Michele Bachmann's campaign last year, something that I may repeat next year, after I make a contribution to Tom McClintock's re-election campaign.
When it came down to either McCain or Obama, Bachmann favored McCain...unlike you.
The RINO Party doesn't own my vote, so what's your point?
I have to apologize, I do not know HTML code to make a nice organized response like you did. Please bear with me as I struggle through this.
I do not want to return to power Republicans who are not conservative...I am for and helping to return the Republican party to it’s conservative base. There is no real hope for a third party succeeding in anything but keeping the real enemy...the democrats in power. That we MUST NOT allow to happen. We can join the Tea Party movement and get involved with Republican party...basically taking it back from the RINOs.
We were/are in a desperate battle with terrorists basically because of two reasons. First, technology has made it possible to replace large armies with just a few individuals willing to kill large amounts of innocent people. That is very difficult to defend against. Indeed, it is impossible. There is not a question of “if” we will be attacked with WMD, it is a question of when...think about that. That when was a hell of a lot sooner on 9/12/01 than it is today. Although, it is still going to happen and is presently more likely as the democrats allow Iran, Venezuela, Syria, etc. to obtain nuclear weapons. We already have N. Korea, China, former Soviet Union, Pakistan, and India who have them. Once, there are enough nations to make it difficult to determine where particular bombs came from...they will be used by small terrorist cells against us and Europe. Don’t kid yourself, it is going to happen. This is what makes the war so desperate. Also, our military was gutted during the Clinton era. While still being the mightiest on the planet it was down in capability to handle a large war as we have had to engage ourselves in. President Bush has had to spend a lot of money to bring us to par for the confrontation in front of us. There are many potential enemies out there who work somewhat together...think Cuba, China, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, etc. etc. etc....think AXIS power in World War ll and you can draw some conclusions.
BTW, over 900,000 individuals went through terrorist training camps prior to our war theater in Afghanistan. Do not underestimate this enemy. They have the backing of governments and are determined and very capable to defeat us over time.
Regarding Obama’s culpability of current recession. First of all, I do not buy into the myth that the recession began in 2007. Simply is arbitrary bullcrap, by the Economic Council. They admit they do not have a definition which they go by.
However, the recession did begin prior to Obama taking office. It is what he has done and is doing that is extending the recession and deepening it. Yes, it is not over...not by a long shot.
Regarding President Bush’s culpability, no I do not think it is Bush’s fault. This is a subject we should start a seperate thread on as it takes to long to cover the whole story. I think it is primarily the liberal policies of democrat party in regulation, taxation, etc...
IN regards to the natural disasters you list, those are all very small compared to Katrina. I do volunteer disaster relief work with the American Baptist Men Disaster Relief organization. I went down to Mississippi just after Katrina and helped out. I also took a trip around the south (when I had a couple days off) and you can not believe the amount of damage for such a huge area. I don’t think any knowledgeable source claims anything but that Katrina was by far the largest natural disaster the US has ever suffered. It amazed me when we did not suffer a recession from it. I was fairly certain we would...God Bless the insurance companies eh? Think about it...
Regarding knowing so much that isn’t so...prove it! Pick one of the above...and prove what I am saying is wrong and what you are saying is right. I think you are heading in the right direction, just don’t realize the full scope of what that entails yet...
And what assurances do I have that, after regaining power, the Republicans won't start acting like they did from 2000 to 2006?
None.
Every time, other factions of the Republican Party appeal to libertarians to join them, yet after using them for their votes and their efforts, they either throw them aside, deride them as "kooks" and "liberals," or do the political equivalent of locking them in a spare room in the attic.
There is not a question of “if” we will be attacked with WMD, it is a question of when...think about that. That when was a hell of a lot sooner on 9/12/01 than it is today.
Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11 not with "weapons of mass destruction" but with perversions of ordinary commercial technology, namely four (or more) commercial airliners. They also exploited weaknesses in various governmental systems, opening bank accounts, obtaining driver's licenses, passing through airport security, and otherwise blending in to American society.
Focusing on "weapons of mass destruction" does absolutely nothing to address the matter of commercial technology, or our own complicated and overly bureaucratic systems, being turned against us. Furthermore, it does nothing to address rampant and gross intelligence failures; the Bojinka plot of the 1990s was known of by U.S. officials prior to 9/11.
The only way to properly address such failures on the part of government is for the government to stop being a control freak and allow citizens to take individual responsibility, within the realm of the rule of law. As an example, 9/11 might have ended differently if American citizens had been allowed to carry weapons in-flight as deputy air marshals, subject to training and certification.
Although, it is still going to happen and is presently more likely as the democrats allow Iran, Venezuela, Syria, etc. to obtain nuclear weapons. We already have N. Korea, China, former Soviet Union, Pakistan, and India who have them....We already have N. Korea...
The only reason North Korea and many other hostile, or potentially hostile, powers are where they are today is because they are propped up by foreign assistance.
Terminate their foreign aid.
And while we're on that subject, terminate all foreign aid except for limited technical assistance and limited loans to foreign powers in circumstances where their assistance is useful to the pursuit of U.S. interests, as was Goldwater's take on foreign aid.
There are many potential enemies out there who work somewhat together...think Cuba, China, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, etc. etc. etc....think AXIS power in World War ll and you can draw some conclusions.
Cuba is a backwater hell-hole, Venezuela is falling apart, Iran has a large population of restless pro-Western youth, and Syria...do they have anything to speak of?
No.
As for China, she has her own demographic problems and problems obtaining sufficient natural resources.
I would not be so quick to make them into a big bad bogeyman.
However, the recession did begin prior to Obama taking office. It is what he has done and is doing that is extending the recession and deepening it.
That does not excuse the fact that Bush's signature is on the TARP legislation, and the votes of a number of Republicans in favor of TARP are on record.
I think it is primarily the liberal policies of democrat party in regulation, taxation, etc...
Liberal Democrats were not the only ones attempting to manipulate American society and the American economy through regulation and taxation, present or future.
Many "conservative" Republicans engaged in the same sort of tomfoolery too.
I don’t think any knowledgeable source claims anything but that Katrina was by far the largest natural disaster the US has ever suffered.
Approximately 8,000 people perished in the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which dramatically altered commerce in the Gulf; thereafter, Houston became the dominant port in southeast Texas, eclipsing Galveston.
Over 3,000 people perished in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire.
In comparison, only 1,836 people perished in Katrina in 2005, and that was largely due to government malfeasance and corruption.
God Bless the insurance companies eh?
That is what insurance is for.
“Out of these two, guess which one you favored? I’ll give you a hint, it wasn’t McCain”
That was just the most idiotic statement I have seen, NO ONE IS OWED ANYONES’ VOTE! McCain did not EARN Rabs’ vote nor MINE! He earned NOTHING BUT OUR DISGUST AND LOATHING and he received it in spades!
So entire nations are forced to stop using birth control because a President on another continent stops funding a program? Interesting gyrations one must make to blame everything on anyone else.
I see it as the corollary to having a government which believes it has a mandate to solve every problem, everywhere. When every problem is yours to solve, every unsolved problem is now your fault.
Our governments, at every level, are in desperate need of awareness of and adherence to strict limitations on what is their business and what is not. Of course, the problem arises first because of the mistaken expectations of ignorant voters who want "solve everything" politicians.
As I've said before, once the liberals took the schools, the rest was only a matter of time.
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