Cancer is an act of GOD!!!

You heard it here first people. God is a cancer-giving A-HOLE. Condoms help transmit AIDS and so does "pornographic" material (whatever the fuck she meant by that).

I HATE THIS FUCKING IDIOT SO MUCH. SHUT UP ALREADY!!! SHUUUUUT THE FUUUUUUUUCK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP!

*wtf. I can't stand this lady's *lies

Invocations (lies, wtf) cannot be called by GenjiKilpatrick because GenjiKilpatrick is not privileged - sorry.

And yet, once again, she's right.

HIV and AIDS are not among the ten leading causes of mortality in the U.S., yet receive considerable amounts of federal research dollars. Compared to the number of lives that cancer and heart disease claim each year, HIV/AIDS research received a disproportionate amount of federal funding. The federal government should reduce AIDS research funding and divert money to research programs fighting more pressing diseases such as heart disease and cancer, which claim hundreds of thousands more American lives annually. Furthermore, unlike many other diseases, a majority of HIV/AIDS cases can be avoided by abstaining from promiscuous sexual contact and intravenous drug use.

* Around the globe, 2.6 million people died of AIDS in 1999.

* It is estimated that 16,000 people are newly infected with HIV each day throughout the world.

* In 1997, 16,516 Americans died of AIDS.

* In 1997, heart disease claimed 726,974 lives.

* Between 650,000 and 900,000 Americans are currently infected with HIV.

* For fiscal year 1999, the federal budget allocated $6 billion to AIDS research and education.

* The National Cancer Institute's 1999 operating budget was $2.9 billion.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Newsweek, National Center for Health Statistics



You've a right to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

Was waiting for her to link AIDS and masturbation. Maybe it's the lust in your heart that causes cancer. Have you noticed the more people disagree with her, the harder she grins?

You forgot the first and possibly most important line from the quoted paragraph.

"U.S. taxpayers are not responsible for solving the world's health problems."
>> ^quantumushroom:

And yet, once again, she's right.
HIV and AIDS are not among the ten leading causes of mortality in the U.S., yet receive considerable amounts of federal research dollars. Compared to the number of lives that cancer and heart disease claim each year, HIV/AIDS research received a disproportionate amount of federal funding. The federal government should reduce AIDS research funding and divert money to research programs fighting more pressing diseases such as heart disease and cancer, which claim hundreds of thousands more American lives annually. Furthermore, unlike many other diseases, a majority of HIV/AIDS cases can be avoided by abstaining from promiscuous sexual contact and intravenous drug use.

I wouldn't disagree with her factual assertions, but I would suggest that;

1) Folks who contract AIDS are not pampered with no consequences. It's a terminal illness.
2) The numbers @Quantummushroom offered are interesting, but indicative of very little. $2.9 billion for a National Cancer Institute is less than the amount of money spent on AIDS, however we should consider the TOTAL amount of money spent on Cancer, not just the amount spent by a single Institution. $30 says it's far, far more than AIDS spending.
3) If so many people who had (or were at risk for) heart disease lost weight, exercised, and quit smoking as she claims, why are so many people still dieing of it every year? Could it be possible that morality and good common sense are not the only things that contribute to or mitigate Heart Disease? Cancer? Why is AIDS different? The only discernible difference I see is that it's sexual in nature.

It's almost as if O'Donnell doesn't want people to have sex....

her and palin deserve each other

She's like a normal person with severe head trauma.

Shorter O'Donnell: "If you'd all just stop being so gay we could stop AIDS".

So how does one get heart disease? Who doesn't know that smoking, drinking and not exercising contributes to heart disease? Personal reponsibility, people.

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