- The Tea Party Convention thing in Nashville will be broadcast on teevee, for a reason that apparently exists. [New York Times]
- Abstinence-only education works after all, which means the government will probably deploy a slightly re-worked “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (Anything)” policy in our nation’s middle schools. [Washington Post]
- Obama’s asked for $230 million in order to ship the Gitmo detainees to New Gitmo, in New Gitmo, Illinois. [CNN]
- Haitian orphans that had been adopted pre-earthquake are now being sent to their new foreign adoptive parents. [WSJ]
- Noted celebrity Anne Hathaway woke up so early today to read a list of every movie that came out this year just to prove she could. [Los Angeles Times]
- China will hate Obama so much if he hangs out with the Dalai Lama. This is true of anyone hanging out with the Dalai Lama. [Times Online]
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Speaking as one who’s been abstinent for some time now, I can assure that it has not adversely affected my sex life. So it works, but only if you work it. Or something.
Of course, the religoids are shrieking with orgasmic joy that “Just say no to Fucking” works. Like certain parts of the constitution, what they ignore is that the study shows that “Just Say No” works if one doesn’t shit on birth control and not talking about Jeebus watching you masturbate which isn’t what the religoids do.
What does this mean? It means that religoids were still scream about sex while fucking chickens, kids, donkeys or their Jeebus statue with the special hole and the debate will continue till China calls in its debts and US Americuh is forced to burn their bibles for fuel.
Perhaps the bathroom amenities organization, Toilet Paper Nation, will also hold a convention in Nashville with humorous results.
Is Ann Hathaway related to Jane Hathaway? Cause then I would have a reason to like her.
Way to go Barry. Dubya (friggin Dubya! for chrissakes!!) gave the Dalai Lama a friggin medal. Barry is so afraid of offending our Chinese overlords he won’t even meet with the guy.
So much for the “most liberal president ever ever ever.”
[re=505709]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: Did you not see Brokeback Mountain? Because that movie gave me a reason to like Anne Hathaway.
Now if only abstinence-only programs were found in more non-conservative areas in the country… oh, that, and if they didn’t preach about how using condoms will give you AIDS.
“They resigned in protest over the ticket prices, and accused the organization of trying to profit off the movement.” Hey ding-dongs profit is the lifeblood of freedom. FUCKIN’ FLIP-FLOPPERS. Why is anybody listening to these spoiled teenagers. Teabaggers are the political equivalent of the mopey punks who loiter on the street corner and mutter “I hate my Dad.”
So the teabaggers will only allow right-wing media to cover their convention. They really have locked hypocritical double standard thing down.
Haiti’s kids are so screwed. The Baptists and Scientologist are teaming up to help.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/02/scientology-pat-robertson-group-out-to-save-haitians-body-and-soul-/1
NYT did neglect to mention however that the word is no longer Johannesburg.
How do we know that the abstinence-only program didn’t simply make the students feel more ashamed of having sex and therefor more likely to lie about having it? :-\
From the article on the Tea Party convention:
“Some former volunteers for Tea Party Nation, the for-profit social networking site behind the convention, have said that they resigned in protest over the ticket prices, and accused the organization of trying to profit off the movement.”
Now, whoever could have imagined that the for-profit social networking site, the Tea Party Nation, would try to make a profit off their convention?
Its kinda fun to watch the TeaBagger movement explode its spooge all over the face of Fox “News.”
The organizers suggested that they saw the broadcast as a solution to some of the criticism leveled at the convention over the last several weeks, as sponsors and participants have pulled out and grassroots tea party activists have complained that the ticket price — $549 — is too expensive for members of a movement that holds fiscal conservatism as a core value.
For a group that held itself to fiscal conservatism and LESS government into personal matters, its fun to watch the Paultards and other Libertarians get kicked out of the movement they helped create by the fundies.
GOP conservatism = no room for social progressives at any cost. At least I agreed with Libertarians on issues of social progress…
A – abstinence-only works my ass. The people most likely to listen to abstinence-only messages are the people who, by their choice or their parents’ choice, are the most likely to opt for an abstinence-only class and the ones most likely to be abstinent anyway. Whereas the kids less likely to stay abstinent are also less likely to listen to that message and more likely to either hear about birth control and condoms at home or end up pregnant/with an std.
The study also looks at 6th and 7th graders through the next two years – how about looking at them through the end of high school? That’s a more accurate representation – how many are still abstinent senior year?
B – [re=505714]HipHopOpotamus[/re]: Exactly. The fact that abstinence-only classes are run by Jeebus who tells them that condoms break 100% of the time, giving you aids and crackhead babies 100% of the time, doesn’t help. I very briefly attended a religious school growing up, and the “sex ed class” (which, by the way, we had to get a signed permission slip from our parents to attend) was really abstinence only and was not very far at all from the Family Guy scene where some group (Promise Keepers?) tells the kids condoms aren’t safe, cause you wouldn’t put a plastic bag over grandma’s head would you? And then all the kids end up having sex in the ear cause that doesn’t break their promise to Jeebus.
Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, were “rightfully concerned about backlash they will receive from the left-leaning Democrat controlled House Ethics Committee.”
However, the backlashes that Ms. Bachmann routinely distributes in her expensively appointed leather and rubber bondage dungeon in the basement of her Stillwater home are not really much of a concern. Damn loony left and their twisted “ethics.”
Who’s having sex in 6th and 7th grade? I know I was a little late to the cherry popping party, but rumors of back-of-the-bus-BJs didn’t start until AT LEAST 8th grade.
Really, the films nominated today have to comprise one of the lamest batch of nominated films in, well, a couple of years. Aside from a few standouts, most of the films nominated in the last 10 years have been generally lame. Hollywood just continues to churn out the crap, and then they wonder why nobody watches the Academy Awards anymore. Well, if you make crappy films, and then nominate crappy films, then no one cares what crappy film wins what crappy award!
[re=505720]Terry[/re]: And you can resign from a voluneer position?
Great. A chance for Snowbilly to be showered with accolades on TV by literally dozens of the stupidest Murikans ever.
wait, is this Scientology Freak giving the Haitian girl a lap dance? I can think of a broken bone that might help heal, but otherwise…..
Hey, the 2010 Oscars! Hopefully Sean Penn will get a chance to call Obama ‘elegant’ again.
[re=505716]JMP[/re]: They need to avoid “wide” camera shots, which would reveal the sparse attendance.
Not to mention all those N-word signs…
[re=505725]Redhead[/re]: Letter-designating the topics in your posts is a nice touch, here in the anarchist dystopia that is the Wonkett playspace, where we make fun of everything.
[re=505784]krustysfather[/re]: Racists among the teabaggers? How could that be?
[re=505713]rmontcal[/re]: Did you not see Brokeback Mountain? Because that movie gave me a reason to like Anne Hathaway.
Heck, she had me at “Princess Diaries.”
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[re=505725]Redhead[/re]: The young religious girls like the “abstinence-only class” because it’s an easy A. The only drawback is the final exam is … uh, an exam.
So the survey says that the kids who went through abstinence-only were ~10% more likely to put off sex. What the survey doesn’t answer is whether the kids who went through the program but still didn’tput things off end up doing riskier stuff. How do the pregnancy and STD rates of the two groups compare?
What’s the point of reducing the prevalence of teen sex when the Bristols out there are working overtime to keep up the teen pregnancy rates?
And then all the kids end up having sex in the ear cause that doesn’t break their promise to Jeebus
Sex in the ear? SOMETHING NEW! Hmmm..
[re=506049]TGY[/re]: Naw, it’s old as hell. Like every time you’d try to stick it in her mouth, she’d turn her head…
[re=505914]Guppy06[/re]: the survey says that the kids who went through abstinence-only were ~10% more likely to put off sex.
What the survey doesn’t tell you is those are the ones who opted in to the program were already ~10% more likely to put off sex.
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