Comments on: Christians die amid neocons’ stab at ‘Democracy Building’

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:44:58 +0000

her inane natterings about “Marian Apparitions”

If you believe Marian apparitions are impossible, then you must think the notion of Jesus rising from the dead is really out there. Ditto for anything supernatural, huh? Which would make you an atheist.

It must be a cold dark depressing existence thinking everything will end with your own death. That may explain the pessimism of the far left.

By: Art Hill

Art Hill — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:16:57 +0000

“…it is basically cat AIDS”

FIV is cat AIDS. It’s not pretty.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:58:37 +0000

The question was never about being an epidemic IN the United States known specifically as AIDS. And we’re displaying more than enough “fairness to Suzie” by not crushing her for her little “God invented AIDS to punish promiscuous Africans” theory. That little nugget of idiocy, combined with her inane natterings about “Marian Apparitions”, are now what this thread has become about.

By: J.M. White

J.M. White — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:35:52 +0000

FIP is a mutant variant of FECV (Feline Coronavirus) and the only similarity it shares with HIV is that they’re both RNA retroviruses. FIP is not contagious in that it develops in macrophages that aren’t shed by the body. In order for it to make the jump to humans, someone would have to get infected with FECV somehow and then have it mutate inside them. Even then, it’s unlikely that in the form of a macrophage that it would be contagious.

But yes, in fairness to Suzie, AIDS was not technically an epidemic until the ’80s. That is a far cry from claiming that it was unknown. The pathology of a new disease coming out of Africa was known widely in the medical community for about a decade before 1982, though. I was acquaintances with a virologist (now deceased) who was studying HIV-1 in the late ’70s.

By: applewood

applewood — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:47:06 +0000

Those dastardly facts just bounce right off of those utopian bubbles, don`t they Gdad ? What are they made of ? The cost is a lifetime of `Worry`, and that seems like a steep price to pay.

By: gdad

gdad — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:55:49 +0000

“…and noted how the predictions came to pass.”

Pretty much the same as suzie declaring a true prediction five years from now when somebody writes a disparaging column about Coach K.

By: gdad

gdad — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:51:03 +0000

MarkJ, at one point suzie essentially said the disease didn’t exist until it was called AIDS. It’s just fin to mock her when she does this stuff.

As for ebing fair, suzie posts lies, makes stuff up, insults posters, and twists people’s words, so I see no reason to be “fair” to her. Especially not when she goes back into full “look at me” troll mode like she is now.

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:08:49 +0000

In fairness to Suzie, I think we can all agree that AIDS did not become an epidemic until well into the 1980s.

The fact that something similar was lurking and evolving for sometme earlier, doesn’t change that.

By the way, there is a cat disease called FIPS which has been around for a long time and I understood from several vets that it is basically cat AIDS but has never crossed over to other species. Hmmm.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:11:52 +0000

I will not believe in Marian apparitions because being sent by God to attempt to influence the will of man is antithetical to giving us free will in the first place.

Man’s free will isn’t curbed by Marian apparitions. He’s given a choice on how to act. What he does is up to him.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:05:44 +0000

The way the left addressed the AIDS crisis was so typical. First and foremost, their focus was on fleecing people of large amounts of cash. $26 billion federal dollars went to AIDS research in 2010, far outstripping spending for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, prostate cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hepatitis B and hepatitis C combined.

The simple and moral solution that would have virtually eradicated AIDS wouldn’t have cost a dime: No sex outside of monogamous marriage. But the leftwingers wouldn’t have dreamed of advocating that.