N2EY wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:


It's weird for sure, but I think it is a result of what some people
have tried to do to adolescents regarding their sexuality.


Deny they have any?

Correct! And when a fundamental drive is suppressed, it always comes
out in some weird other way.


Using AIDS
fear as a lever, some people have tried abstinance programs as a cure
all for STD's, and golly gawrsh, it just happens to fit into their
morality view. What they are trying to do is distinctly unnatural.
Humans reach sexual maturity at one age, and we are trying to enforce
celibacy until they reach their late 20's early 30's, when they are
supposed to marry and have kids. So celibacy is supposed to take 20 of
the most fertile years of your life and you aren't supposed to do
anything. Stupid, stupid, stupid.


Fun facts:

- Research shows that the *average* age of puberty has been dropping over the
past several generations, particularly in girls. Yet the age of first marriage
has been rising even faster. Go back to the time of "Little Women" (War Between
the States era) and the delay between puberty and typical first marriage was
only a few years (even for Yankees). Today it's a lot more - and for folks
looking to go to college and grad school and start a career, even longer. So of
course the reality becomes that there's an official message (abstinence) and
what actually goes on in people's lives (something quite different from
abstinece).

Agreed. And when you only lived to an average age in the lower 40's, it
was easier to stay married to one person only.


- The whole abstinece thing is a relatively new invention. Research shows that
about 1/3 of Colonial-era brides were expecting on their wedding day.

And the kids these days think THEY have it bad! hehehe



*Every* generation thinks they invented it...

When we all know it was *our* generation! ;^)


Of course.


I think that the videos of the people leaving Saigon were one of the low
points of US history.



And that happened under whose administration?

Good King Richard's? 8^)


Bingo.


He told us in 1968 that he had a "secret plan" to end the war. Four years
later, that plan hadn't been put into action, but he got reelected anyway.
Then
there was the secret bombing of Cambodia..

Well, there you go!


There were also wage and price controls, which delayed stagflation but
ultimately made it far worse.

What a socialist thing to do.



Most important was that it made the problem worse.

Of course! If you are going to pull anything from socialism, price and
wage controls would have to be just about the worst. Dumb.


But very effective in the *short* term. Then the problem comes back, far worse.


Because he cheated on his wife? Heck, look at what ol' Newt did to *his*
first wife.

But there was a difference, Jim. He's Republican. He was framed or
there was an invasion of privacy or something!



Do you know what he did to his first wife?

Served her divorce papers when she was recovering in the hospital from
cancer surgury. There's compassionate conservatism for ya!


Bingo again!


Don't forget that the whole thing opened up when a "nice" republican
lady that Monica thought was a friend went to the people that so badly
wanted to discredit him. So she didn't keep the indiscretion discreet.


Kinda dumb on Monica's part, don't ya think?

Imagine her perspective. She prpobably felt she HAD to brag to someone!


Reminds me of the story of the old guy in confession....


HAR! I liked that one....


For more on that:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/G...220_Tripp.html

Two interesting things here.

This person is *surprised* that no one wants to hire her?


Actually, given the way things often go in Washington, it *is* a bit
surprising.

Look at where she was working Jim. Blabbing is not appreciated.


bwaahaahaa


In the Pentagon?

No, the people she was blabbing about. It's permissible in that case. ;^)


Ah. Exactly.

73 de Jim, N2EY


- mike KB3EIA -