Legalize needle-exchanges for addicts in Texas?

[TeyshaBlue]

ing magnets!

[Yonivore]

Or there's another possibility.
It's called thread subscriptions. It's really easy. Look into it.

God no; the last thing I want is you people flooding my inbox.

[TeyshaBlue]

God no; the last thing I want is you people flooding my inbox.

Protip: It has nothing to do with your inbox.

[CosmicCowboy]

needle exchange for addicts? This isn't anything that excites me one way or another. However, if it keeps the ing idiots out of the emergency rooms with hepa is, aids, etc. then fine, by all means give the morons clean needles.

[vy65]

self-righteous bull judgmentalism

[Pelicans78]

I'm leaning towards yes.

[LnGrrrR]

Wow RG.... All that work. You need free needles or something?

I don't care how many studies you find. If I made the effort, I'm sure I can find studies that support my opinion.

Here is the bottom line for me. We should not take tax dollars to help people who make a choice to engage in dangerous activities. If you want to start a charity to do a free needle program, then have at it. But stay out of my wallet.

We have too many programs that rob the working class of their hard earned money. We have working people who do not live as well as people on the government take. That simply isn't right. I am against all government programs that give to people who can help themselves, except for short term help. The exception to this is those who cannot support themselves because of some disability.

All the social programs out there rob support to the people who legitimately need it!

Again, if you believe in such programs to help others, do it as a charity. Don't expect the government to do it. If you with to live as a socialist, then please move to a socialist country and leave this great nation alone.

WC, why do you ask for facts if you're just going to dismiss them when confronted with them?

[baseline bum]

needle exchange for addicts? This isn't anything that excites me one way or another. However, if it keeps the ing idiots out of the emergency rooms with hepa is, aids, etc. then fine, by all means give the morons clean needles.

That's pretty much the reason. Cheaper to just let them kill themselves than spread diseases all around.

[DMC]

them. When are we going to stop financing these dip s? Let them die. Nature finds a way to off these clowns to keep them from breeding and humans come along and thwart it.

[DMC]

I have a problem with buying someone a needle to shoot up with, but that pales in comparison to how I feel about addicts passing along HIV because they don't have sterile syringes.





Maybe you can get the free needles if you can prove that you are living in abject poverty.
<careful ex>

Whoever is ing a needle sharing addict needs to go as well.

[RandomGuy]

Is this place the only home you know? It's like you remember every obscure thing anyone has ever said in here.

, I can't even remember what you said in any post before today. It's not just you, there's a number of posters in here that either write down and keep it hand or have no real life that bumps this crap out of your brain when you're not logged in.

Dude, the lightbulb thing is A#1 classic comedy gold.

It doesn't get more illustrative of ed right wing hysteria than a chain email about how the gubmint is coming to git yer litebubs.

How the does someone forget about that funny?

As for this thread... it was the only thing that came up when one searchs "teen pregancy rates".

I only remembered dimwit saying something truly, monumentally stupid like this, and a search engine did the rest.

One of the things that makes stuff like this stand out in my head, is that I actually dig down for actual data behind claims. I prefer, unlike you right wing propaganda regurgitators to have opinions based on things like facts and science, with reasonable conclusions. When you do that, things tend to actually stick around. Being informed is like that. Try it sometime.

I see so much of what you believe as self-righteous bull and things that you read on some website that gives you all warm fuzzies about being superior to other people, that when I find stoopid , it sticks in my mind.

Call it my confirmation bias. Call it the fact that I have a pretty good memory all things told.

Whatever you want to believe to make yourself feel better about being a hack, and the other right wing hack crazy uncles that you want to kid yourself are rare on your side of the isle.

Sorry to be the one to burst your bubble. Aiken isn't as rare as you want us to believe.

[RandomGuy]

them. When are we going to stop financing these dip s? Let them die. Nature finds a way to off these clowns to keep them from breeding and humans come along and thwart it.

You didn't really read anything in thethread other than the le, did you?

(sigh)

[RandomGuy]

self-righteous bull judgmentalism

Speak of the devil.

Protested any rape victims today?

or maybe you finally discoverd the difference between legal and moral?

[Wild Cobra]

There was another thread we expanded this discussion on. Your old link is not longer valid. I will still contend that unplanned teen birth rates are higher in recent history than in the 60's and 70's. I have not been able to find complete data that specifies unplanned. Any idea where that other thread is?

[Wild Cobra]

Random, consider something please. These studies you find are including marriage age adults. Does it break down how many are married and how many are not? How many are actually unplanned pregnancies?

Here is my contention, poorly worded before. I say that there are less pregnancies to unmarried high school girls in the 70's than today. I will add the specificity of unmarried and of high school age. We can add Jr. high if you like. Stop with the studies that include married women and those who are 19 and 20 years old.

[Wild Cobra Kai]

RG, you and the studies, are more than likely correct. But
I, like Reed, have a thing about doing something that
is not authorized by law. If it really is that good for
society, then legalize it. Like tobacco, if the damn stuff
is so bad for you, outlaw it. It is just a thing with me.

If everyone were like you, they'd still be prosecuting witches in Salem.

[Wild Cobra Kai]

Random, consider something please. These studies you find are including marriage age adults. Does it break down how many are married and how many are not? How many are actually unplanned pregnancies?

Here is my contention, poorly worded before. I say that there are less pregnancies to unmarried high school girls in the 70's than today. I will add the specificity of unmarried and of high school age. We can add Jr. high if you like. Stop with the studies that include married women and those who are 19 and 20 years old.

It's your premise, YOU ing prove it. Even if RG were to provide those numbers, you'd only move the goalposts again.

[RandomGuy]

There was another thread we expanded this discussion on. Your old link is not longer valid. I will still contend that unplanned teen birth rates are higher in recent history than in the 60's and 70's. I have not been able to find complete data that specifies unplanned. Any idea where that other thread is?

Not my job to support your statement.

If you can't find the data, then logic dictates a rejection of your statement.

[Wild Cobra]

Not my job to support your statement.

If you can't find the data, then logic dictates a rejection of your statement.

Well, you are the one worried about this four year old argument. I'm not. Are you still butt-hurt from me catching you on your confusion between ozone and smog you never admitted?

[RandomGuy]

ing dolt.

Let me google it for your dumb ass.

http://www.google.com/search?q=teen+pregnancy+rates

So let's see what the most current reports show.

Something quite remarkable has happened to teenage pregnancy rates in the past few years. They’ve reached a three-decade low, down by 40 percent since 1990. Teen births and abortions also have fallen respectively by one-third and one-half.

Better sex education, though a sensible practice, doesn’t deserve the full credit. Teen pregnancy is often blamed on some states’ promotion of school-based “abstinence-only” education, which neglects contraception. But the recent drops in teen pregnancy were present across the country, in states with comprehensive sex education (like New Jersey, where annual teen pregnancy rates dropped from 11 percent to 7 percent) and those without it (like Texas, where the rate is higher but fell by about the same relative amount). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 40 percent of teens didn’t use a condom at last intercourse, and that sorry figure doesn’t vary much by state. And between 1995 and 2010, depressingly, the substantial percentage of teens who used no contraception at all remained unchanged nationwide, indicating that teens didn’t suddenly start using birth control.

Part of the explanation is that teenagers are waiting longer to have sex. According to federal surveys of teenage girls, 49 percent reported they were virgins in 1995, but 57 percent said they were in 2010. (The trend was even more pronounced among black teens, whose rate of abstinence rose from 40 percent to 54 percent.) However, these modest changes don’t fully explain the dramatic drop in teen pregnancy.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/health..._to_iuds_.html

Give young girls free birth control pills, and you get another predictable result.

Keep looking for data supporting your stupid ideas, by all means. My search was not lengthy or detailed by any stretch. I was merely curious to see what was there.

Shockingly enough, your idea about what the country is/was is based on nothing but what makes you feel good. Emotion over data and pragmatism.

[RandomGuy]

Random, consider something please. These studies you find are including marriage age adults. Does it break down how many are married and how many are not? How many are actually unplanned pregnancies?

Here is my contention, poorly worded before. I say that there are less pregnancies to unmarried high school girls in the 70's than today. I will add the specificity of unmarried and of high school age. We can add Jr. high if you like. Stop with the studies that include married women and those who are 19 and 20 years old.

I will consider it.

I consider it a blindingly stupid obfuscation on your part, of the kind that Cosmored tries to pull when you corner him in his bull .

Your ing mediocre mind grasping at irrelevant straws that do nothing to change the context under which the data as we know it exists.

[Wild Cobra]

How many of these teens are 19 and 20 years old, or married? More people married right after HS four decades ago than today, and that is using data 3 decades back.

[Wild Cobra]

I will consider it.

I consider it a blindingly stupid obfuscation on your part, of the kind that Cosmored tries to pull when you corner him in his bull .

Your ing mediocre mind grasping at irrelevant straws that do nothing to change the context under which the data as we know it exists.

You get to be a real asshole when you get frustrated.

Must be that you cannot defend against what I said.

[RandomGuy]

Well, you are the one worried about this four year old argument. I'm not. Are you still butt-hurt from me catching you on your confusion between ozone and smog you never admitted?

The problem you have here is that I freely admit when I am wrong.


THat particular case was you hanging your hat on a spelling mistake, when cornered.

JUST LIKE YOU ARE DOING HERE, YOU DUMB ASS.

[RandomGuy]

You get to be a real asshole when you get frustrated.

Must be that you cannot defend against what I said.

I am not frustrated.

I'm just tired of your stupidity.


Quit responding to my posts and find some data to support your moronic thesis, you ing hack.