It’s Cocktail Time!
Stephen Lewis is the world’s foremost voice on the issue of AIDS in Africa. He has been the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and is currently running his very own charity called: The Stephen Lewis Foundation, which supposedly uses donated money to promote solutions to the AIDS problem in Africa. Now, Africa has many problems, and one of them is AIDS. That problem has two parts: 1) treatment of people with AIDS, 2) prevention of AIDS. The first part of that problem requires massive amounts of funding from developed nations. The second part is really simple, and that is why every time Stephen Lewis opens his pie hole, and the word “condom” does not come out of it, Solvent wants to ram a Molotov Cocktail into it. He was recently on Democracy Now’s War and Peace news report, and had a lot to say about AIDS in Africa. He did not say anything about condoms. I spent an hour on his web-site and could not find any statement from him endorsing the use of condoms or any evidence that his foundation supports programs that distribute condoms. He supports male circumcision as a way to curb the spread of AIDS, and his foundation funds programs to teach women how to avoid rape, but no mention of condoms. A simple google search turns up articles that call upon Catholics to only support organizations that abide by the Church’s absolutely primitive moral code which promotes unrestrained breeding as a way to out-number those with ideas somewhat more current than the Old Testament. It seems like Mr. Lewis is working for some papal approval … there is no other way to explain his ignorance.
Richard and Sinday Sarazin are fighting for the right to park their RV in their driveway in contravention of a local by-law. Now, don’t get me wrong, I could care less who parks what in whose driveway, but I just can’t get behind the efforts of people who, when getting back to nature need to guzzle as much gas as possible in so doing. I’m sure the Sarazins aren’t aware of the problems that our species’ addiction to burning fossil fuels is creating, otherwise they would never shame themselves by frowning on the front page of the Nugget while attempting to drum up public sympathy for their lazy and destructive camping habit. The Sarazins like consuming petroleum, so they get a Molotov.
It is a good idea that no one in the community goes too long without thinking of the less fortunate. We get a nice reminder from Terry and Janice Tourigny, owners of Casey’s and Greg Briggs of Briggs Financial Inc. this week in the form of a $2000.00 donation to the food bank. For their efforts, a Solvent Martini.
