It's all about the terminology

[fredericks]

The Feds push the abstinence message to the older folk. Great. Now, instead of having to 'fess up to the driest dry spell this side of the Sahara, I can claim I'm being a good citizen...? How about we work on taking away some of the stigma surrounding sex and educating the public about what diseases are out there?

No? Too hard? Bastids.

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[rwarner.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

How much longer til Dubya and his cartel get tossed out on their collective asses?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

The scary part - will we get the conservative Christian point of view out once Dubya's out of office, or will "we" (*ahem*) elect someone in the same vein? One of the most encouraging things I saw at the last election was a pair of youth "thugged out" kids walking into their respective polling booths. Hopefully things will change but it'll take people raising their voices.

[rwarner.livejournal.com]

What concerns me is the many similarities that the US is beginning to show to the late Roman Empire. Someplace I read a comparison of this current Congress with the Senate of Nero and Caligula, and while we don't have a horse in the US Senate, there certainly is enough corruption and influence peddling on Capital Hill to make anyone sick.

Are we due to have a big decline a la Rome? Hopefully enough people get upset with the way things are going to make some kind of change before things get to that point.