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LIFE IN THE 2000′S

The next time you are cleaning nuclear waste from your genitalia and
grousing about how your testicles have shriveled, think about how
things used to be some 500 years ago. Here are some facts about the
2000s:

Most people got "married", meaning a man and a woman were supposed to
live together for the rest of their long and miserable lives. They did
so year-round because the fools fancied they were "free to make their
own decisions." Ha! Pitiful animals!!

Decontaminant baths were primitive, and usually consisted of a great
deal of bleach and some scrubbing. Pitiful, and nearly useless in
removing radioactive wastes and preventing their accumulation in the
thyroid gland.

These baths essentially consisted of a glorified shower. Workers were
actually trusted to bathe themselves, thus ensuring that many would
skip one or more crucial steps and spread their radioactive
contamination everywhere.

Primitive stone houses were held together with mortar, made from
common dirt, and, unbelievably, some houses were actually made of
wood–precious wood! Unlike our modular houses made of plastic
byproducts, these primitive cave-like hovels were often hot in the
summer and cold and draughty in the winter, instead of being suffused
with a warm green glow year-round.

There was nothing to stop insects from entering the dwellings of these
savages. Even mice, rats, raccoons, birds, bats, and other unspeakable
pests were a not-uncommon sight.

Many floors were actually made of wood. Precious wood!

(I swear that all of this is true.)

In those olden times, they actually cooked raw meat and vegetables,
sometimes with the dirt still clinging to them. You may find it hard
to believe that these primitive animals actually devoured with relish
such "grub" as loathesome root vegetables and reeking meat and fish,
but it’s a fact. Many people had at least heard of powdered nutrients,
but they were regarded as a novelty; "something the astronauts would
eat."

Sometimes they would even eat pork. Filthy pork!

Those with money would indulge in a ritual called "eating out", where
filthy strangers would actually physically handle food cooked in
kitchens of dubious hygiene. People known as "health inspectors" were
forced to regularly close down such places due to health violations so
egregious that even these primitives could not tolerate them.

People regularly ate staple, water-intensive crops
such as wheat and corn, and even rice. Valuable rice!

They would often intoxicate themselves to near-insensibility with
crude, dangerous stupeficants, which would, of course, only serve to
radically weaken their immune systems, which made them especially
susceptible to cancers, viruses, radiation poisoning, etc.

Back then, the United States was still considered vast, and much of it
was even thought of as "underdeveloped." So it was that the
authorities looked, for the most part, with a lenient eye towards
swarms of alien interlopers who swarmed in from the far shores of the
teeming planet, bringing with them incurable diseases and exotic
customs even more unspeakably barbaric and primitive than those of the
"native born" Americans. These people were actually provided with
food, jobs, and health care, and in some instances were even provided
with a free education.  All this money spent on harboring fugitives
and interlopers– while the radiation spread and nothing was done
about it!

Sure, today most of us live underground in vast subterranean cities,
and will pass or entire short existences from hatching to
disintegration without knowing the feeling of sunshine on our cranial
extrusions. Nevertheless, to live in that savage era when blood ran
dripping red down the mouths and chins of these unspeakably hairy and
smelly men and women is a fate no right-thinking humanoid would wish
upon his worst podmates.
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By Francis DiMenno

A "MINI-FAQ" has appeared in the newsgroup which will, apparently, be
posted twice a month.  I suspect some months they will be the only
messages posted there.

And do you remember the "policies" of the newsgroup Brian Mailman
previously referred to?  The "MINI-FAQ" contains this:

"For details on our moderation policies and goals of this
Usenet newsgroup, see
ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/soc/soc.support.aids-hiv+.gz. (link
can be opened in a program like Winzip) although that document is out
of date."

So, those policies are out of date anyway!

This is particularly amusing:

"It is assumed that there is a virus, HIV, and it is the
cause of the syndrome called AIDS.  It is assumed there are medicines
that can slow progression, although they do have side effects
(postings on alternative/complementary treatments will be allowed)."

So, the followers of the HIV=AIDS=Death religion have now totally
given up on proving HIV exists and causes AIDS.  The whole thing is
now just "assumed."  LOL.

And then there’s this:

"If someone wishes to post a dissident/denialist message
contravening those assumptions, they are welcome to post in the
unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, misc.health.aids."

Obviously the difference between HIV and AIDS is totally missed by Mr
Mailman.  Perhaps he "assumes" they’re the same thing.

And this:

"The current moderators are

Brian Mailman"

So whenever the word ‘we’ is used in the "MINI-FAQ" it means ‘I.’

‘We are a moderator’ as Mrs Thatcher would say.

Ah, suddenly ‘we’ becomes ‘I’ with this:

"As traffic increases, I will put out a call for others interested in
moderating this group."

I think Brian’s being very optimistic there.  The newsgroup is
virtually dead:

Eight messages posted so far this month.  Two by Brian himself, four
by George Carter and two by other lost souls.

Two messages posted in May.  And one of those was by Brian himself.

Sixteen messages posted in April!  Interesting, that was the last
month Doug Houge, one of the newsgroup’s most prolific writers, posted
there.  On 26 February he wrote in this newsgroup: "All I know is that
AZT has been helping to keep me alive for twenty years and that can be
proven."  Perhaps AZT won the war?

And, finally, the "MINI-FAQ" contains this:

"The rejection notice will give instructions on how to
appeal (write to the team saying why you’re appealing…"

So, if Brian decides not to publish a message in soc.support.aids-hiv+
the author can appeal to, erm, Brian.

I think it’s quite sad that an HIV support newsgroup pushes one
particular viewpoint, rather than offering a place of support for all
those affected by HIV.  Presumably the lack of messages posted to that
newsgroup indicates others share my view.

I have asked before what interest Brian has in HIV, but he’s refused
to answer.  This makes me wonder if he’s just another campaigning
do-gooder with an agenda.

Oh, and by the way, the webpage he keeps directing people to,
<http://www.webcom.com/benny/ssah/ssah+.html>, still doesn’t exist!!!
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<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/25/DDG56QKAN…>:
"Best known for her role as a stuck-up, lovesick woman at a
predominantly black college in the 1980s sitcom ‘A Different World,’
actress Jasmine Guy now speaks at college campuses about the threat of
AIDS and the need for women to take charge of their sexual
relationships.

Guy lost 50 friends to AIDS over a 10-year span starting in the
mid-1980s, when she played Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the popular NBC
show.

‘It just seemed like every couple of weeks someone was sick or dying,’
Guy said in a telephone interview about the deaths of friends in the
entertainment industry. ‘It seemed like it was some kind of plague.
You just couldn’t hide from it.’"

I wouldn’t be surprised if her ‘entertainment luvy friends’ died from
drug (over-)use.  It seems quite common amongst those in the industry.
Perhaps it’s another ‘high risk HIV category.’
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"According to latest statistics from the state-run National Aids
Control Council (NACC), Kenya’s AIDS rate fell from 6.1 percent in
2004 to 5.9 percent of the east African nation’s 35 million people the
following year."

However, according to UNAIDS
<http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/default.asp> in
their 2006 report they list Kenya as having a population of 34,256,000
with 1,300,000 cases of HIV.  So, UNAIDS believe 3.8% of Kenyans are
HIV+.  I’m not sure where the NACC get their 5.9% to 6.1% number of
AIDS cases from.

Oh, and we all know how UNAIDS over-estimate their HIV and AIDS
figures.  Inflating estimates by 100% is their way of doing things.
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[...]

Hispanics in Northern Virginia make up 11% of the population reported
to be HIV-positive. According to Hafford, that figure is a ‘higher
percentage than in any other part of the state.’ She added, ‘If you
watch the trend over the years, the numbers have been consistently
going up’ in terms of HIV cases recorded among Hispanics. ‘The numbers
are small, just a few cases each year, but we are seeing it going up,’
Hafford said.

So, Hispanics become a new HIV target group because there are a few
extra HIV+ cases diagnosed amongst them.

As I’ve mentioned before, there is evidence that the more you test for
HIV, the more HIV you find.  This is because what triggers a positive
HIV result is common is most, if not all, people.

And, of course, by identifying and testing ‘at risk target groups’
you’re going to end up with a statistically higher number of HIV+
cases in them.

We don’t have Hispanics here.  They wouldn’t be poor and/or black
would they?
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