Gates Says Intelligence is "awkward" and "annoying"

Secretary of offense Gates said that the new National Intelligence Estimate's claim that Iran in no longer developing nuclear weapons " has annoyed a number of our friends." Friends meaning Bush and Cheney. I guess it would be annoying to have someone telling the truth to the people when you work so hard to spread lies.
Gates also said that it has confused our allies. I doubt they're confused as much as they're pissed that they've been lied to for this long.
The stupidity of the administration doesn't stop there, his argument is a three ring circus. he also tried to convince the people at the security conference that Iran "could re-start its nuclear weapons program at any time -- I would add, if it has not done so already." Yeah, and you could start telling the truth at any time, too, but we aren't counting on that one either.

Abstinence-only sex ed creating a trend, just not a positive one.

An article in the Washington Post today reveals a disturbing trend in teen pregnancies. They have risen for the first time since 1991. Along with the rise in teen births is a decline in condom usage and a rise in teenage STDs. When will these religious fucks realize that children are going to have sex no matter what you tell them. It's the truth, very few kids make it out of high school with their virginity. Abstinence-only was a failure from the start and anyone with a brain should have been able to see that it wasn't going to work. $1 billion spent on this shit and all we have are more mother who have to drop out of high school to raise a child on welfare and a child that will grow up on welfare and eventually continue the cycle one they are in high school. or they end up with a disease, some they will have the rest of their life or will end their life altogether.
A lot of this could be prevented if children were just taught that using condoms and birth control will decrease their risk of getting pregnant or dying.
According to the article teens in poverty stricken areas have higher rates than higher-income areas. that $1 billion could have been spend on safe-sex education and clinics in poor areas. but no, bush and the rest of the religious right have forced their twisted ideology into our school system, an ideology that ignores science and facts.
the facts are that children will have sex and they need to be educated to have it responsibly. They also need to be taught more than once. most programs are taught once during high school, some kids have had sex already by then. it needs to start in 7th grade and be repeated every year until they leave the public school system.
Abstinence-only does not work, and these programs should only be a small part of the sex curriculum, to maybe prevent some of them from having sex, for the majority they need to be educated to use protection and stop these trends.

Dodging a Bullet with WWIII Written On It

Well so much for thinking everything was falling apart. Monday's Intelligence Report's finding that Iran in fact is not producing weapons grade uranium and has not been since 2003 is comforting to me for two reasons. First, Cheney and the Chimp no longer have a case for invading Iran on the basis that they are creating nuclear weapons. Second is that the CIA is now focusing on finding the truth and are apparently no longer being pressured to say what the administration wants to hear. Although now I would expect there to be more allegations of Iran's involvment in Iraq. The neocon's still want Iran attacked before Bush is out of office, and Iraq involvment is thier only hope.

The race for prez is heating up, I think the slipping of Clinton and Guiliani(sp.) is not an indication of anything other than the general tightening of the race as it nears the caucuses.

Beginning of the End

As this is my first post, i'm going to start with my general concerns about the once great USA. Our political system has degraded to a government of the richest one percent, for the richest one percent, and by the richest one percent. Our elections always have us choosing not the best candidate but simply the one that sucks the least. Lobbyists have infested Washington and are skewing the laws in favor of the richest americans. The Moral Majority (which is neither moral nor the majority) is forcing their bigotry into the laws of our country and taking away the most basic rights of non-WASPs.

Outside of the polital scene, our culture isn't any better. Our country has the highest obesity rate in the world, our choice of televison is either whodunnit's, lack-of-talent shows, or let's-see-who-can-eat-the-grossest-shit. The culture as a whole is devoid of any intellectual thought, and anyone that expresses intellectuality is branded as a hippie weirdo and as having no common sense.

I'm here to fight back against this trend. The USA was founded by intellectuals, who i believe wanted this to be a place of freedom loving, smart, involved citizens. Instead we are an uneducated and unmotivated people being led around by dumbest among us who just happen to be born into enough money to have influence. Those of us who are involved and educated are too few to have any influence on the masses.