Considering the severe and immediate importance of solving the AIDS/HIV crisis, I'm praying that this news will lead to well funded, results driven and results producing research.

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VOA News - Reseachers Identify New Targets to Disrupt HIV Lifecycle

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And I shall pray along with you for funding and a breakthrough in reserch..

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"Destiny must be shaped and not left to mere chance."..Spencer Collins ..

I agree with the latter part of your commentary, but the first part seems a little strange...

The "the severe and immediate importance of solving the AIDS/HIV crisis" has been going on for two decades...To say that now seems a bit on the overkill side of things...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Far from overkill. This disease is killing people every day. Currently the US is fortunate when it comes to AIDS as it primarily targets their 'undesirables'. The same is not true in Africa. The reason why there is such a severe and immediate need is the mutation some call "Super AIDS" is essentially on the doorstep of America. We must act quickly before we are hit even harder by this new strand.

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Missing my point...

Saying "It's a crisis" NOW gets me to ask the question "When WASN'T it a crisis?...

For that answer you'd probably have to go back to 1988...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

I guess that we often don't treat it as a crisis... I think that was my point.

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It's certainly not looked at as a crisis.

There's Huckabee who takes the opposite extreme and thinks people with AIDS should be quarantined (who also believes in modifying the constitution to be more Christian), but I don't think that's what we're looking for. That's treating people like cattle, not that there isn't an element of that going on in general for people anyway to a small degree.

People just don't want to spend the money it takes to get enough research done to get something done about this. I mean, it means raising taxes, something that unfortunately RIGHT NOW we can't afford.

The big problem is, right now the drug companies aren't pushing it too much because the ones on the top of the drug companies make money off the fact that there's no cure. The more things they can get people to have to take the rest of their lives, the better, in the eyes of the CEO's--quite contrary to the eyes of the ones doing the research. To the CEO's, if they can have an inefficient operation for those kinds of things that they get government funding from, they can make more money all the way around.

It's truly unfortunate that more research isn't done in these areas. A lot should have been done once it was first found out about--Reagan was deplorable in his actions--or lack thereof. Now there's the bacterial thing that people are having to worry about.

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That was an answer to a question from 1992...

To say thats what he THINKS instead of that's what he THOUGHT are two VERY different scenarios...

In 1992 I was against the dealth penalty but now I'm for it...

I guess I take "the opposite extreme", too...

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"You get the respect that you give" - cnredd

Fair enough. I guess it was a cheap shot on my part.

Still though--one COULD take that kind of route, but that's not what we're looking for.

I've changed my position on a lot of issues.

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