I love the internet. Things can't be slipped through or hidden as easily, there are too many sharp eyes on the blogs. Let's work on this one instance in which we may be able to keep the far right from using our dollars to lie and harm youngsters through this unethical waste of money.

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Or, will it actually get buried for the people who need to hear it most. The non-critical thinkers who absorb the TV network news might never hear about the findings. These results ought to be plastered across the headlines using simple words and direct phrases. Abstinence-only sex education does not work. Any nitwit with half a brain could have figured this out before the money was thrown at it.

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Like almost all other government programs that go to private companies, schools, research, or military contractors the primary goal is to enrich your cronys (and often former colleagues). Even when the 'give aways' have some legitimate use (for science) it is usually done inefficiently and the primarly goal is to give money to friends or key voting blocks. We will see even more frivolous spending in the future as there are countless scientists, pressure groups, and schools receiving money to study 'global warming' and there is a disincentive for them to actually find a 'cure', a 'cause', or, worst of all, finally come to the realisation that it might be the sun or that we have insufficient data to properly even quantify 'global warming'. this also applies to the 'drug war'. Mainly it gives money to churches, police forces, and pressure groups and is simply a give-away program.

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It never was about morality. The theocrats who have saturated this administration know that abstinence doesn't work. After all, they f!ck like bunnies like the rest of us do. And, they do it far more before marriage than the rest of us, as well. Ask a priest. How many of them do you know who are ACTUALLY celibate. None.

Anyway, this issue has never been about morality. Simply: kids who are told to NOT do something will simply do it. And as everyone who's ever had an orgasm knows, it's not possible to say no to one.

Thus, this is actually about keeping our stupider kids non-educated and poor. Non-educated and poor people are way too busy trying to make ends meet and takeing care of kids to VOTE. If they don't vote, then they can be ruled by crafty theocrat Republicans.

It's pretty simple. Look at how the courts are stacked. Look at what's happened in the Justice Dept. What was the VERY FIRST act that Bush did when he got in to office in 2000. He signed an executive order preventing federal funds for any institution that talks about condom use. Etc.

The facts are in. Abstinence education was a failure from the onset and they all knew that. They want our kids pregnant. They want to rule over those dumbass kids who have no chance to move ahead - saddled with unwanted kids. They know that and are willing to bring down our civilization all for the power and control they seek. This was simply one of their tools.

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