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To: LLCF who wrote (165)	3/18/2009 12:33:11 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

Another helpful proclamation by the Catholic Church... you'd think there might be other potentially helpful policies the church could suggest that are a bit more pressing : <<YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Pope Benedict XVI said condoms are not the answer to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and can make the problem worse, setting off criticism Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent where some 22 million people are living with HIV. Benedict's first statement on an issue that has divided even Catholic clergy working with AIDS patients came hours before he arrived in Cameroon's capital — greeted by thousands of flag-waving faithful who stood shoulder-to-shoulder in red dirt fields and jammed downtown streets for a glimpse of the pontiff's motorcade.>> news.yahoo.com I wonder if one might extrapolate the Church's policy to blame them for aids deaths given the obvious data on condom use?? Sounds familiar... hmmmm. -ggg- DAK

To: LLCF who wrote (165)	3/18/2009 11:08:53 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

OK, now Obama is proposing research projects... keep digging. Nice straw man. I didn't say he's doing the research himself. He made a change in policy to allow funding it. So his change will cause the funding to happen, increasing the amount of such research. Which means that, Obama very much has "something to do with it" Except that isn't important in the process of proposing research. He's not writing up the research proposals, but he's playing a major role in determining what research happens. Writing up the proposals is an irrelevant issue. <<Not in the most direct sense,>> Which is my point. A meaningless point. If you hire a hit man you didn't pull the trigger, but your still responsible.