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The Irish Doggy Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Reminds me of Nancy Reagan with her just say no nonsense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 in a little-noticed passage in his first book, “On My Honor,” a encomium on the Boy Scouts published in 2008, Perry also drew a parallel between homosexuality and alcoholism. “Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink,” he wrote. “And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-l...pUbbJ_blog.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-l...pUbbJ_blog.html And if I'm married and a hot 22 YO chick hits on me while I'm drunk... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Now I see how he was elected as Governor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Kind of depends upon what you are measuring, doesn't it? If you are measuring the number of teen pregnancies, then I think it has to be admitted that abstinence, as a policy or as a teaching method, doesn't keep kids from doing it. I think Perry is confusing what I have heard often, which is that if you do not want to get pregnant, then abstinence is really the ONLY thing that can work 100% of the time. Meaning, you can't get pregnant if you don't do it (therefore, abstinence works). I think Perry has probably heard that slogan said in that context, and then he erroneously tried to apply it also to the context which was given to him during that interview. Does abstinence work? Yes. If you do not want to get pregnant, then not having sex will work. Does abstinence work? No. As a strategic policy to try to stem teen pregnancies, it does not keep kids from doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Kind of depends upon what you are measuring, doesn't it? If you are measuring the number of teen pregnancies, then I think it has to be admitted that abstinence, as a policy or as a teaching method, doesn't keep kids from doing it. I think Perry is confusing what I have heard often, which is that if you do not want to get pregnant, then abstinence is really the ONLY thing that can work 100% of the time. Meaning, you can't get pregnant if you don't do it (therefore, abstinence works). I think Perry has probably heard that slogan said in that context, and then he erroneously tried to apply it also to the context which was given to him during that interview. Does abstinence work? Yes. If you do not want to get pregnant, then not having sex will work. Does abstinence work? No. As a strategic policy to try to stem teen pregnancies, it does not keep kids from doing it. This pretty much nails the misunderstanding. I would say that the teaching of abstinence only (in other words, failing to teach contraception) is the thing a lot of people can't support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untateve Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 And if I'm married and a hot 22 YO chick hits on me while I'm drunk... then you are asleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 This pretty much nails the misunderstanding. I would say that the teaching of abstinence only (in other words, failing to teach contraception) is the thing a lot of people can't support. +1 Sex is bad mmm'kay. The end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 WASHINGTON -- Two weeks before Thanksgiving in 2003, top officials from Texas Governor Rick Perry's office pitched an unusual offer to the state's retired teachers: Let's get into the death business. Perry's budget director, Mike Morrissey, laid out a pitch that was both ambitious and risky, according to notes summarizing the meeting provided to The Huffington Post. According to the notes, which were authenticated by a meeting participant, the Perry administration wanted to help Wall Street investors gamble on how long retired Texas teachers would live. Perry was promising the state big money in exchange for helping Swiss banking giant UBS set up a business of teacher death speculation. All they had to do was convince retirees to let UBS buy life insurance policies on them. When the retirees died, those policies would pay out benefits to Wall Street speculators, and the state, supposedly, would get paid for arranging the bets. The families of the deceased former teachers would get nothing. The meeting notes offer the most direct evidence that the Perry administration was not only intimately involved with the insurance scheme, but a leading driver of the plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaterMan Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 You can't blame Perry for this. Judging by how he talks, I don't think he has the brains to be that capitalistic with money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 then you are asleep. I'll take it how I can get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Pretty sure the military does stuff like this, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 (edited) And if I'm married and a hot 22 YO chick hits on me while I'm drunk... C'mon man, she was in customer service. You probably think strippers like you too. Edited August 26, 2011 by Square Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 C'mon man, she was in customer service. You probably think strippers like you too. Only the ones that are dancing to pay for college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 There was no misunderstanding there. He just didn't want to answer a tough question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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