How to get abstinence funding from the Bush administration
It's bad enough when the Bush administration awards tax dollars to abstinence-only programs that don't work. It's worse when our money goes to far-right abstinence groups based on their political connections.
And it's even worse still when these same abstinence groups get more money than they even asked for.
An organization that promotes sexual abstinence for teens received a federal grant of over a million dollars, twice what it had requested, despite the skepticism Department of Justice staffers had about the group and the fact that it refused to participate in a congressionally mandated study.
So why did the Best Friends Foundation receive the grant from the Justice Department's juvenile justice office even though dozens of competing organizations were rated higher by the office's own reviewers? Current and former staffers say it was because of Best Friends' powerful president and founder, Elayne Bennett.
Not only is Bennett the wife of Bill Bennett, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and conservative political commentator, but she is also personally close to the chief administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), J. Robert Flores.
DOJ staffers were deeply skeptical when Best Friends applied for a grant of around a half-million dollars last summer. For one thing, the organization had backed out of a congressionally mandated study to examine whether or not abstinence programs are effective.
Then there were the DOJ staffers own internal reviews, which placed Best Friends behind dozens of other competing organizations. Out of 104 grants in their category, Best Friends ranked 53rd.
It's quite a controversy; read the whole thing. Our friend Murray Waas, who worked with ABC News on this story, has more.
It has been proven that abstinence education does not work and leads to more unwanted pregnancies and more abortions. Why can't we hammer this point in?
By the way, here's my new video, a review of Barefoor Gen.
Here's the solution
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I started a campaign locally called "F*cking for Virginity"... we're still awaiting our first donations, but the free time is being put to good use...
Who needs money for abstinence programs?
Just show the little buggers
Nekkid pictures of
barbara boosh.
Mother Nature begs to differ. She will trump any law or ban on her requirement for sexual reproduction time and time again. I wonder, does anyone even have a clue these days WHY females have menstrual cycles and WHY they begin at their most fertile about preteen age? We're constantly seeking impregnation, which can't happen without mating behavior, courting behavior, sexual receptivity, selection, doing the dance...it's WHY people are always "all about relationships" day in and day out - we've got a continuous mating season here. Biology wins over myth and ignorance.
Mother Nature could care less about how much money they throw at her to back down. All she needs is a backseat and two horny teens and it's game over. Perhaps instead of attempting the impossible (fearmongering people out of being naturally sexual) we should refocus our efforts on educating people about how they function and why, and how to properly raise offspring so when another 14 year old gets pregnant she doesn't dump the child in a clothes dryer then think she can vanish and nobody will have noticed. Some of our great grandparents were little older than 12 or so when they gave birth and they knew how to care for children and raise a family and gasp - take care of themselves without any support whatsoever from any government body or nosey officials.
Here's reality: humans cannot prevent sexual behavior in humans, EVER unless it's by way of killing humans. So why not bring these kids out of highschool with some comprehension as to how they function, what these "feelings" and these desires are actually all about and how to make productive choices in selecting behaviors. Enough with the religious myth nonsense.
Not gonna stop natural behaviors built into us FOR OUR SURVIVAL...so learn and gain proper advantage.
This subject is laughable
Bush himself screwed around to his heart content but for some reason he doesn't want others have the same fun. LOL
PS that hack a lock video was a trip. Thaks for the heads up. Now I gotta go try it to see if that actually works and if so, get rid of all my combo locks since they're utterly useless now ;-p
These programs are useless! What was it that Stewart said? Guys have God Rods and girls have shame caves. The people who pay the price for this crap are young teenage boys and girls. These programs try to shame girls for their sexuality. What a waste of money.
Hehehe - I'm going to start my own branch, and call it "Best Friends (With Benefits) Foundation." Look for it on craigslist soon - as soon as the grant money comes pouring in. (:>
Bill Bennet -- isn't he a serial gambling addict?
Sounds like his wife knows how to keep the money in the family!
Do as I say, not as I do.
Guilty
Of
Perversion!
Abstinence makes the hard grow fatter.
how long and how many times are bush and cheney
going to ride the American Citizens dry and hard.
we need a spanish inquisition to clean out the whitehouse and congress!
lafin gas @ 13:
and last longer, and more often too.
Congress can, and should impeach these Bush cronies so they can never befoul a government office again. If they won't start at the top, they should be chipping away at the bottom. If they don't, it will be an invitation to more corruption down the road. It was Congress' failure to route out the Reagan regime over Iran-Contra that enabled the worst of that crowd to come back under Bush.
JoeMarasmus @ 1:
So, you want to,uh, "hammer the point in"? Isn't that the original problem?
P.D. @ 9:
It angers me to no end that tax money goes to promote abstinence programs to begin with, let alone reading this. I work in a school and can tell you certainly they have not worked, do not work and will never in the future work.
What shames me is how much of our HIV/AIDS effort is spent on abstinence programs instead of condoms.
Gretchen, Excellant point. The rate of sexually trasmitted diseases is exploding. I love how the right blames the liberals and our basic culture, when they promote ignorance. Sigh!
Sexism is alive and well in the U.S.A.
Boys-Boymen need to be taught that a womans "sacred space" is just that.
The brazen "cheap sexuality" and "ho" mentality being promoted by the MSM and Madison Avenue is the biggest culprit.
It's pathetic. Disgraceful.
As the last quote stated in the 4 page article by ABC.."The fix was in by this
administration". Enough said? This is sickening and dispeciable.
P.D. @ 19:
Its a failure on both sides. L.A.C has a point as well @20 about our MSM and Madison Avenue. Our society can't get enough of that. Our children are exposed to that every day, no matter what parental controls we may have over the TV at home. Our society is, literally, killing our children. They grow up too fast. 10 year olds are now what the norm was for 14 or 15 just 30 years ago. We need to do some serious thinking.
On the other hand, the right wants to believe that they can stick their collective heads in the sand and it will all be OK. If you don't have it in the home your kids will be OK. If you tell them to wait they will do it. These people need to do some serious thinking as well. Like stop thinking their children are innocent, or brainless. I'm not saying parents shouldn't tell their kids it is better to wait, but they should also be telling them the WHOLE picture in case they decide against the waiting.
I would like for my daughter to wait. However, I do not want to see her with an unplanned pregnancy or serious disease. I do not want her to be ignorant.
This Abstintence Only program is one of those "pork barrel" Entitlement Programs that is totally unnecessary if PARENT took a responsibilty and did what they should. In fact, I think it is better referred to as a "huffing and puffing" waste of taxpayers monies.
Sexual prohibition is a tool of control.
Burton.
Abstinence programs don't need studies.
They're faith based.
We know the reason why it received double...Bill Bennett doubled-down!
Why embrace abstinence when you can get re-virginized...a surgical procedure where they stitch the hymen back up. That's what all the religious people are doing these days...to hide the fact that they've been 'sinning' before marriage. I guess they forget that God can see all.
The Immaculate Infection
Hoo boy, this one stinks to high heaven.
From the Best Friends Foundation website:
It turns out that "5335 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 440, Washington, D.C. 20015" is the law office of Petrillo & Powell, who:
(from their profile at lawyers.com)
Now if that doesn't say "cares about the children," nothing does...
:(
it's funny you guys think this program has been a failure. Looks to me it's been twice as effective at what it was designed to do. Shoveling government money to people who funnel it back into Republican coffers.
Have you noticed the lock is attached in a way that will not prevent anyone from getting into her pants?
wow, nice chastity belt. they used those when women were property in medieval times. why don't they just put a burqa on that girl too while they're at it?
also, that skank is wearing tight low rise jeans. shes going to burn in hell with all the other liberal heathens!
Too bad Prescott Bush wasn't into birth control .
In the picture it looks like this guy shot his wad of "abstinence" on his jeans in the form of a "NO"! BWAhahah
What slays me about that picture is that the lock is always on the woman's "gear", not on the man's.
This is merely misogyny wrapped up in a new package.
Kreskin @ 34:
Just inbreeding. And fascism.
Jeff @ 33:
Where's her thong?
L.A. Confidential @ 20:
Actually, it's about depriving women of their sexuality so men can trace which children go to which father for the sake of patrilineal inheritance and keeping the man's name alive, although only boys inherited.
There is a mistake in the quote from the article by Murray Waas. The Principal Wanda Fox is quoted about her Brighton Elementary School students. There is no Brighton, it's Brightwood. If the name of the school wasn't checked did they check the rest of the information attributed to Ms. Fox? Are the students all pre-adolescent? Did they do a longitudinal study to see if they stayed in school and not pregnant? Did Ms. Fox say this at all? If ABCNews didn't call and I'm assuming they didn't because they would have corrected the name of the school if they tried to look it up. I know I'm assuming too much, but I'd like editors to do their jobs.
and the combination to the padlock in the photo is known only by the preachers and ministers....
Okay, after a night's rest I had an "on second thought" moment...
While my original comment stands, there is an upside to these programs = only the supremely brainwashed and stupid will actually believe it and take extraordinary measures to "remain chaste for Christ" - they'll be weeding themselves out of the genepool they deny exists in the first place.
Then again, maybe it's a cool government conspiracy - the govt already recognized these are droneish sorts of people so they put these out there and the one braincelled idiots flock to and support it...wiping themselves out in the process. Kinda like USG setting up Darwin Award traps ;-p
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