This post really has nothing at all to do with the actual news today.
As an incurable news junkie I feel remiss because I can't seem to watch any news right now.
I can't seem to care.
Hard pressed to watch even the entertaining things like Jon Stewart, Colbert or even Bill Maher.
I can't get angry at Obama, Limbaugh, or Dick Cheney. I truly want to but I can't.
Haven't watched the news consistently since about a week ago. Not at all in the past few days.
I miss it too. But when I put the news on my mind seems to wander off or shut down.
Who are all these people, what the hell is wrong with everyone and everything?
Where is the good news?
Back when I was hot and bothered by waterboarding, Congresswoman Foxx, swine flu, the economy, health care, bank bail outs and Pakistan I could talk for hours, now I have trouble concentrating on getting the mail or what I'm going to do about my car without any money. Just doesn't matter.
What has happened that's different this past week?
My mother is very sick and it looks serious this time.
Which I was dealing with as best I could until a few days ago.
Now I'm just numb.
And as far as I can see the world and it's news will go on just fine without me as it always has regardless of my opinions.
Leaders will go on screwing big things up and fixing little things happily without me caring or watching.
It really doesn't matter.
Maybe what I'm feeling isn't really numbness, it's the sheer utter terror of a child afraid of the dark disguised as numb.
Because somehow an "adult" can deal with numb.
Or can we?
I guess I'll find out over the next few days.
I'll leave O'Reilly and Olbermann to duke it out over the what they call the news these days.
A morning post that isn't at 2am... an oddity for me.
Not sleeping all that well anyhow and yes, I do realize I'm tired, overwhelmed and probably depressed.
A very odd Mother' Day for me.
And yet another long, long day on Long Island starts.
They say no news is good news but that really isn't all that true is it?
Laura
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI what possessed you to say that using condoms increases the AIDS problem?
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I actually didn’t believe this when I first heard it because it seemed so outrageous like something the Onion would make up as a spoof but turns out it is real. I find this very discouraging.
Pope Benedict XVI according to all accounts when visiting of all places Africa where AIDS is a huge problem rejected the distribution of condoms as a means of fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to msnbc Benedict said that “distributing condoms “increases the AIDS problem.” This is simply irresponsible coming from the official leader of the Catholic Church. Either life is sacred or it isn’t, you can’t pick and choose who lives and dies. So how dies the pro-life 81 year old pope make a statement that may condemn millions to illness and death while passing the disease on to others along the way?
According to Times online Benedict said the “traditional teaching of the Church” on chastity outside marriage and fidelity within it had proved to be “the only sure way of preventing the spread of HIV and Aids”.
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So those that have sex outside of marriage or are raped deserve to be condemned to HIV infection because the church thinks abstinence is the answer instead of protection? Because birth control is a no-no to the church? When a condom is being used to prevent a deadly disease from being spread to a partner or to prevent an innocent child that might be born with HIV doesn’t that trump the stance against condoms as birth control alone? Apparently not.
I’m not Catholic and I’m not religious though I was brought up Christian. I do not practice any organized religion. I do not rule out a God but no one religion can be proven to be the “right” one. Pope Benedict’s proclamation is an irresponsible, downright dangerous, uninformed stance that could condemn people to a disease that they might otherwise have prevented by using a condom. The Catholic Church has never been able to admit that every time even a married couple have sex they aren’t trying to conceive a child. This is outdated and irrational thinking. It’s simple not true, condoms used right can do a lot to prevent the spread of HIV. Sir this is a fact. This is the church that says they put the innocent children’s lives before anything?
Yes, Pope Benedict if only people practiced abstinence there would be less HIV infection but in the real world abstinence doesn’t happen that often. How many marriages has your church performed on all ready pregnant women because of the anti-birth control stance you advocate? How many have contracted HIV because condoms are not sanctioned by the Vatican and you actually actively discourage their use at all?
Unbelievable. Unconscionable. Is there such a thing as unintentional genocide? I can’t understand saying “AIDS is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems”. Let me get this straight: you can be absolved of your sins by going to confession and every thing’s fine but you can’t use a condom because you say so?
This saddens me that such a powerful man of the cloth would make such a callous mistake. I don’t remember any commandments saying Thou shall not have safe sex…
I must have missed it.
G’night,
Laura
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I actually didn’t believe this when I first heard it because it seemed so outrageous like something the Onion would make up as a spoof but turns out it is real. I find this very discouraging.
Pope Benedict XVI according to all accounts when visiting of all places Africa where AIDS is a huge problem rejected the distribution of condoms as a means of fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to msnbc Benedict said that “distributing condoms “increases the AIDS problem.” This is simply irresponsible coming from the official leader of the Catholic Church. Either life is sacred or it isn’t, you can’t pick and choose who lives and dies. So how dies the pro-life 81 year old pope make a statement that may condemn millions to illness and death while passing the disease on to others along the way?
According to Times online Benedict said the “traditional teaching of the Church” on chastity outside marriage and fidelity within it had proved to be “the only sure way of preventing the spread of HIV and Aids”.
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So those that have sex outside of marriage or are raped deserve to be condemned to HIV infection because the church thinks abstinence is the answer instead of protection? Because birth control is a no-no to the church? When a condom is being used to prevent a deadly disease from being spread to a partner or to prevent an innocent child that might be born with HIV doesn’t that trump the stance against condoms as birth control alone? Apparently not.
I’m not Catholic and I’m not religious though I was brought up Christian. I do not practice any organized religion. I do not rule out a God but no one religion can be proven to be the “right” one. Pope Benedict’s proclamation is an irresponsible, downright dangerous, uninformed stance that could condemn people to a disease that they might otherwise have prevented by using a condom. The Catholic Church has never been able to admit that every time even a married couple have sex they aren’t trying to conceive a child. This is outdated and irrational thinking. It’s simple not true, condoms used right can do a lot to prevent the spread of HIV. Sir this is a fact. This is the church that says they put the innocent children’s lives before anything?
Yes, Pope Benedict if only people practiced abstinence there would be less HIV infection but in the real world abstinence doesn’t happen that often. How many marriages has your church performed on all ready pregnant women because of the anti-birth control stance you advocate? How many have contracted HIV because condoms are not sanctioned by the Vatican and you actually actively discourage their use at all?
Unbelievable. Unconscionable. Is there such a thing as unintentional genocide? I can’t understand saying “AIDS is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems”. Let me get this straight: you can be absolved of your sins by going to confession and every thing’s fine but you can’t use a condom because you say so?
This saddens me that such a powerful man of the cloth would make such a callous mistake. I don’t remember any commandments saying Thou shall not have safe sex…
I must have missed it.
G’night,
Laura
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