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"Maybe the Lord brought down this plague (AIDS)...because illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments."

1982
*CDC (USA) links the new disease to blood.
*Larry Speakes, President Reagan's press secretary jokes about AIDS during press briefing on October 15th.
*US President Ronald Reagan has not mentioned the word "AIDS" in public yet.

1984
*Dr. Robert Gallo (US) claims he discovered the virus that causes AIDS; however, this is about a year after the French discovery.
*US President Ronald Reagan has not mentioned the word "AIDS" in public yet.

1990
*Ronald Reagan apologizes for his neglect of the epidemic while he was president (US).

Like I said what a great sentiment.

How dare you bring up dreaming and at a time like this...

While the Dembulbs are mourning the loss of their big blue over reaching Hand.

CaptainShuddup says

How dare you bring up dreaming and at a time like this...

Sactly

Blurtman says

"Maybe the Lord brought down this plague (AIDS)...because illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments."

Probably not unreasonable. I remember in the mid-80's a story in the Dallas Times Herald called "The Dying of Howie" (Howard Daire, a Dallas psychotherapist who died in 1986). He was pictured at the end with the gaunt, hollow cheeks so common in AIDS patients. I know it was meant to arouse sympathy, but it actually caused a lot of outrage. When his life was described, his vacations were spent in exotic places for the specific purpose of having sex with as many men as possible and how much he loved it and missed it by this time. He seemed to think that was a reasonable way to live and so did many millions of other men like him. I remember a gay man I worked with who would brag about his exploits at the baths every night--one day he said "I got f****d 14 times last night" (this was in the late 70's). It never seemed odd to me that if you live in the sewer amid sewage you're probably going to get sick, it was just never anticipated it would turn out so terrible.

http://amarillo.com/stories/081901/fea_journalist1.shtml

indigenous says

"Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit."

...Whereas McDonald or Walmart or Goldman Sach really fill the souls of their employees.

Heraclitusstudent says

Whereas Walmart

BTW where do you shop?

I don't know about you but I have never been offered a job by a poor guy...

indigenous says

BTW where do you shop?

Is that relevant?

Would you say corporate America is a place where people spirit soars and their humanity is exalted?

I get that struggling to survive can be a fulfilling endeavor - if you make it.

But work in the US has ultra mechanized, commoditized, and processized - More like a soul crushing burden for most people.

Heraclitusstudent says

Is that relevant?

Very

Heraclitusstudent says

Would you say corporate America is a place where people spirit soars and their humanity is exalted?

I get that struggling to survive can be a fulfilling endeavor - if you make it.

But work in the US has ultra mechanized, commoditized, and processized - More like a soul crushing burden for most people.

Got any facts to go with that conjecture?

Why is that people immigrate to this country if it is so bad?

indigenous says

Why is that people immigrate to this country if it is so bad?

The age-old puzzlement.

Also socialism is often referred to as "cradle to grave" because it has no answers or provisions beyond the grave, it leaves you in the lurch.