Holsinger also belongs to a church that offers a ministry to "cure" gays of the sexual orientation

Otherwise known as Ted Haggard 2 week quick fix solution?

Involvement with "ex-gay" ministries should automatically disqualify anyone from anything that might ever have to do with science.

Is this the same loonbag who thinks that reading the Bible is a cure for PMS?

What a dick.

Bush Surgeon General nominee: "Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina"

Did anyone else get the mouthwash ad?

Sometimes I ponder if the Bush Administration is something besides a façade for lunacy. Then I'm reminded it isn't.

FTA: "...Said Homosexual Practices Can Cause Injury or Death"

As even Ric will tell you, living can cause injury or death.

Hey, giving birth is pretty brutal on the vagina, and on top of that, it can even place the life of the mother in danger if something goes wrong.

/it must be unnatural then

Maybe he was looking at this....

Right...so what does he say about anal with your wife?

And can Bush please stop picking the absolute worst men as appointees? PLEASE?

I swear he has a talent for it.

Sometimes I ponder if the Bush Administration is something besides a façade for lunacy. Then I'm reminded it isn't.

You know, just when I think I've seen and heard it all when it comes to this tool (Bush), something like this comes along.

Does anybody have that Doonesbury cartoon with the doctor offering a patient new and old TB treatments, explaining that if he's a creationist, he can use the old (ineffective) medications and describes them as "intelligently designed"?

Bush Surgeon General Nominee: "It's not a Toomah!"

A real Doctor: "Um yes it is."

Gotta love an article whose last three words on the first page are 'anus and rectum'.

Dear George W. Bush,

Please be so kind as to take a hike.

Sincerely,
PUFTAS

Comrade438

Sometimes I ponder if the Bush Administration is something besides a façade for lunacy. Then I'm reminded it isn't.

Actually I figured it out a few weeks ago: Bush, Cheney, Rove, et al are actually Democrat moles. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government and are destroying the Republican Party from within.

It's the only plausible explanation.

Haldin: Maybe he was looking at this....

I just repaired my toilet's ballcock last weekend. It's a biatch to replace if the nuts holding it in place wear out.

/and it's the truth too.

Ah, 'tis wonderful to be living in the age of reason.

Oh No Computer

"MAN I had a crappy weekend! The nuts holding my ballcock in place wore out!

Hee! :)

so wait so you are saying that anal would be in innovation since it isn't the obvious way to go about such things...
and America prides itself in that sort of thing so anal sex= America?

He's only speaking the truth, and there is a mountain of evidence to support his claim. Where do you think AIDS comes from? Liberals are all about science until suddenly it doesn't fits into thier agenda.

Obviously the nose was designed to smell and to breathe, not to hold eyeglasses up. Wearing glasses is therefore unnatural and I demand that Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr. cease wearing them at once, or face the righteous wrath of a just god.

Where do we find these morans?

Suuure. Because Ted Haggard is a sterling example of how talk therapy and "the right woman" can magically cure a man of homosexuality.
Would some woman in the far right please start some kind of "Straight and Narrow" advocacy group to smack down these delusional bastards that keep insisting that being straight and keeping together a "Christian Marriage" is worth trapping hapless straight spouses in draining sexless marriages for the sake of mere appearances in the church directory?
Gads- I've met SO many men who wasted years of their lives and the lives of their ex-wives trying to be "straight" that every time one of these "Pray and you'll be healed of queerness" jackasses shows up I want to SCREAM!!!

Ebenator
Did anyone else get the mouthwash ad?

It's not just for your mouth... Think bigger!

How apropos. ;)

fatassbastard
Actually I figured it out a few weeks ago: Bush, Cheney, Rove, et al are actually Democrat moles. They've infiltrated the highest levels of government and are destroying the Republican Party from within.

I'd say they are doing precisely what their backers wanted them to do, that is utterly destroying what legitimacy and respect the federal government once commanded. All the better to drown it, as they say. Did people once think Washington is full of incompetent boobs? Well, they do now.

Rippin Kitten
He's only speaking the truth, and there is a mountain of evidence to support his claim.

Good troll! The "mountain of evidence" is a nice touch and the "intelligent design science program" in the profile is the winner! You almost had me until the profile.

Seriously, Bush has never considered real science to be an asset. From the top down, every agency has sacrificed good science for political motives. The EPA, NASA, and Interior are all suffering from Bush appointees in charge that in all probability consider intelligent design to be good science. Never has one man done so much to ruin a country.

"When the complementarity of the sexes is breached, injuries and diseases may occur."

/you're likely to have trouble when the penis hits the anus

He's only speaking the truth, and there is a mountain of evidence to support his claim. Where do you think AIDS comes from? Liberals are all about science until suddenly it doesn't fits into thier agenda.

I want to hear where you're going with this.

Homosexuality has nothing to do with the advent of HIV. Now, it is a medically accepted fact that anal intercourse does make it easier for STDs (HIV included) to spread, but it is hardly the progenitor of the virus.

Awwww look. Another Bush bot trying to think.
It's just so goddamn cute!

The Religious Right/"Moral Majority's" first big entry in the political arena was backing Reagan in 1980. When he was elected, my biggest fear was that he would bend over backwards (no pun intended) to carry their regressive agenda, especially when he made the campaign comment about trees being a major cause of pollution. Except for the unfortunate case of ignoring the AIDS crisis, he (fortunately for us) only gave lip service (again, no pun intended) to their agenda.

As bad as I feared what would happen under Reagan, it can't even begin to match the reality of the Dark Ages that Bush seems intent on returning us to.

what a farking waste. does this asshole know he represents the entire nation as is and not as he wishes it were? farking dick.

some troll
Where do you think AIDS comes from?

I believe that the general consensus is that AIDS comes from HIV.

... and the Senate leadership had better be seriously considering rotating the "Summer recess" among its members so Bush doesn't get the chance to make another "emergency appointment".

Rippin Kitten

Haha, you took it too far too early! Now it looks more like sarcasm.

Someone ask the good nominee to explain how HIV vectored into the human population so that the a plasma sample from 1959 contains it. Furthermore how then it traveled so that a teenage boy in St. Louis would die from the HIV virus in 1969.

/if I knew those answers I'd publish and wait for my Nobel prize

rga194
Here ya go.

"Doonesbury" strip on creationism. (pops)

Origin of Aids:
The first report of AIDS was published in the June 5, 1981, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It detailed unusual cases of a type of pneumonia - usually seen only in patients with severely weakened immune systems - in five previously healthy men in Los Angeles.

The men, who sought care for the illnesses between October 1980 and May 1981, were later recognized as the first reported AIDS cases. By the end of 1982, CDC officials concluded the cause was a new infection spread through sexual contact.

http://www.kare11.com/news/national/national_article.aspx?storyid=126352

Soon plans to visit Washington to explain and advocate the institution of "Technical Virginity" to him.

"The rectum is incapable of mechanical protection against abrasion and severe damage ... can result if objects that are large, sharp or pointed are inserted into the rectum," Holsinger wrote.

OMFG when did males grow large, sharp, pointy genitalia?
Is he aware of what the basic anatomy here is?

Well, the Bible does say that these Sodomites grow horns, or something like that. But I never figured they were for that.

What if you have a "remarkable" anus?

amxcvbcv, I thought everyone knew HIV was brought on from man-sex. God is upset after this country lost it's way in the 60's.

It's all because of those liberal scientists with their lies brought on by Satan. It's also a medically accepted fact that anal sex leads to eternal damnation.

br14n420
I thought everyone knew HIV was brought on from man-sex. God is upset after this country lost it's way in the 60's.

no no no, that's all wrong. we all know that HIV comes from condoms. (scroll down almost to the bottom "Volunteering as a Speech Therapist in Swaziland" by Brenda Connell).

amxcvbcv
It's not just for your mouth... Think bigger!

How apropos. ;)

Uh mine is smaller, though I guess if you're doing the things the Surgeon General prospective is advising against, maybe it's bigger.

It must be right, Mark Foley told him so.

LOL@ closet homo neocons

OK read the actual TFA:
The rectum is incapable of mechanical protection against abrasion and severe damage to the colonic mucosa can result if objects that are large, sharp, or pointed are inserted into the rectum (Agnew, 1986).

What I found interesting is he felt the need to footnote this one, as in it is important to justify and cite sources for this informative observation. Damage? Are you sure? I'm not sure about this. Do you have a source on... oh, I see here you do!

Does anyone really need a study to show that a sharp, barbed spike up the pooper could hurt, particularly a large one?

Therefore, based on the simplest known anatomy and physiology, when dealing with the complementarity of the human sexes, one can simply say, Res ipsa loquitur - the thing speaks for itself!

Actually, it doesn't speak for itself. What are you saying? That we as a community should support medical efforts to reach out to the gay community to inform and endorse safe sex practices?

"Every challenge met by incompetent douchbags." Should there be liberal history books, that will be a common term for this administration. Seriously, the America I grew up in science was the future, that is why I'm typing on a keyboard that has a wireless connection to the intertubes.

He's only speaking the truth, and there is a mountain of evidence to support his claim. Where do you think AIDS comes from?

If I recall correctly (college biology was quite a few years ago for me), most scientists believe that AIDS is the eventual outcome of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a mutated form of SIV - simian immunodeficiency virus. It's been theorized that SIV became HIV when humans in central Africa ate poorly cooked monkeys (some peoples of Africa do indeed eat monkey meat). Someone failed to thoroughly cook an SIV-infected monkey before eating, insufficiently heating the semi-raw meat to a degree that would have killed the virus. It's also been theorized that the virus jumped when barefooted humans with open cuts or sores on their feet stepped in the spoor of SIV-infected monkeys.

HIV might have remained contained in Africa, much like Ebola, were it not for the more-or-less contemporaneous collapse of the economies of several central African nations in the 1960s and 1970s and the completion of the Pan-African Highway in the early 70s. Many women turned to prostitution as a means of survival, and many of these plied their trade at the various truck stops along the Pan-African Highway. One or more of these women were infected with the mutated SIV virus - HIV, and one or more of them infected one or more truck drivers or itinerant traders and travelers, who in turn spread it up and down the highway to other prostitutes and other truck drivers, travelers and traders, and one of them passed it on to someone who for whatever reason traveled to Europe and passed it on to someone there, ... and so forth, and so forth, for ever and ever, world without end, amen.

Unprotected anal sex with an HIV-infected partner is a very efficient means of virus transmission, and it was indeed the primary reason that so many gay men in the US became infected with HIV. But let's not forget that the initial spread of HIV, while prompted by simian-to-human transmission and mutation, was facilitated by heterosexual contact ... and heterosexual women in underdeveloped nations remain the highest at-risk group for new infection. The whole "gay = AIDS" attitude is not only stupid (as if viruses were capable of conscious recognition of sexual orientation, or politics, or religion!), but downright dangerous, as it's a red herring that allows the ignorant and uninformed to exercise their prejudices and divert resources and energies that might better be employed in finding viable, scientifically valid solutions to this scourge.

/sorry for the rant
//I've lost dear friends, gay and straight, who were HIV+
///God have mercy on us all; I wouldn't wish HIV on my most loathed enemy