12/4/2005: Obelisk condom

Presented without further comment, other the basic facts: the Obelisk of Buenos Aires is hereby covered with a giant condom to commemorate World AIDS Day, December 1, 2005.

Somehow I can't see the current administration allowing that on the Washington Monument.

Why not? We could use all of the protection we can get...

Protection, yes. But who from whom is the question.

Now gentlemen, I know you can't POSSIBLY be implying that there are dicks in DC.

No......not THAT.

/sarcasm off

impacts in the 3rd world

Friends of mine just returned from a whitewater kayaking trip to Uganda where one of their observations was in regards to the negative influence of the neo-conservative US administration on the Ugandian people.

Prior to the Republicans gaining office, there was a very strong safe-sex campaign, promoting the use of condoms (which were freely available in a economically poor country). Part of this promotion consisted of large billboards with 'condom-sense' types of advertising.

In the last 6 years, however, health related funding from the US has been only given with the stipulation that abstinence be the only promoted anti-AIDS programs. Those 'condom-sense' billboards have been replastered with abstinence related messages. It's economic blackmail pushing conservative values onto a foreign country at the expense of the health (and lives) of it's citizens. And guess what - new HIV infection rates have reversed their downward trend.

Of course I have a bias against policies like these, and I'm no fan of the Bush administration, but the above is presented with true facts.

Here's a link to a page from Human Rights Watch that has much more information:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/30/uganda10380.htm

My understanding is that Bush, despite his many flaws - too numerous to mention here, has dramatically increased the funding that is available to fight AIDS in Africa. I also don't care for the strings he has attached to that money, but you have to give him credit for what he has done in the fight against AIDS. He could have just turned his back like everyone else.

So you're saying that more money spent in such a way that it won't work is better than a little money that would work?

Leap Year is every four years
EXCEPT for those divisible by 100
EXCEPT for those divisible by 400.

So 1980 is, but 1900 isn't, but 2000 is.

I'll take the last one, then. TE did not invent the lightbulb. He improved it to the point where it became useful.

Yeah, well, Edison is vastly overrated anyway. He had a good PR department. I'll give him that. Nikola Tesla. Now that's a guy that rocked. Our entire system of electricity is based on that guy's work.

I agree.

That's shocking.

Tesla, or the agreement?

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Somehow I can't see the current administration allowing that on the Washington Monument.

I can't seem to think of anything except for a visual of a monumental amount of spooge that is going to take quite some time to dry up before disposal.

12 01 1993 in Paris on "La Concorde" square :

I don't think this one is "ribbed for her pleasure".

Hello, Cellar!

welcome to the Cellar, hideouse.
Nice piece of info there.

I thought the key word here was density. Surely water is more dense than air. But whadda I know. I'm just an old Marine.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Somehow I can't see the current administration allowing that on the Washington Monument.

Just scaling the monument and hauling up anything big enough to drape it would be an impossible task without heavy equipment.

with a condom this size, you better have some "heavy equipment".