Jan 31
Teutonic pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. is lobbying in 18 states, including Texas, for a state law requiring girls as young as 11 to receive their Gardasil vaccine which can protect women from the most prevalent causes of cervical cancer. Some conservative groups oppose the law because they say it would encourage girls to have premarital sex. Also, they would be forced to admit that their precious little girls have hoo-has.
Who to root for here, Big Pharma, which by the way, stands to make billions should states pass these laws, or religious conservatives who still think that STDs only happen to gays, brown people, Jews and Catholics (women only)?
Merck spokesman Dr. Merkwürdigeliebe claims that the vaccine would go a long way towards reducing cervical cancer rates, the second-leading cancer among women worldwide. He then jerkily stood from his wheelchair and said, “Mein Führer! I can walk!”
Focus on the Family spokesgelical Kitty Farmer says her organization is prepared to admit the existence of the cervix, but not its role in any disease or activity other than a virgin birth.
To me, this lobbying effort feels sneaky and dishonest. Everyone knows that with issues of public health, the best approach is for people to educate themselves via half overheard television commercials for name brand drugs that send them scurrying in a panic to their doctor to level demands for a prescription… provided of course, that they have health insurance. The rest can continue to rely on prayer.
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Everyone has HPV. Now whether or not you are a silent carrier or not is the real determination. You can have one outbreak and never have another one. As a virus, however, you technically have it forever. Also, women from ages 20-26 are more susceptible to cervical cancer than any other age. There’s a lot of unprotected, drunken sex going on during those years for both genders. I say screw em’ both.
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My vote is for Big Pharma. It’s important to give as much money as possible to the Vioxx Legal Defense Fund.
Merck would have wanted it that way.
Kitty Farmer… heh heh heh…
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I have no idea how ‘hoo-has’ made it through ITPT’s dirty word filter.
That HPV vaccine is expensive! Taking care of these hoo-has sure costs a lot of money. I propose hysterectomies and ovary-extraction at age 10–would solve so many problems!!
We used to watch Hoo-Haa on NBC when I was a kid. I sure miss Buck Owens.
“Hoo-Haa!!” —Lt. Col. Frank Slade, U.S. Army (Ret.)
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Re: 6. Roast
I was fond of Junior Samples.
/BR549
Re: 8. NOITALL
Love the band BR549 but never realized that was where they got their name. You’re just a bottomless pit of fun facts, BC. Thanks.
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Your Lushness:
That was Junior’s phone number at the used car lot on Hee-Haw..
There’s a county commissioner in Lamb County who has an authentic Texas specialty BR549 license plate. It’s proudly displayed in his office (actually a shed) and I would pay damn good money to call it my own. He made it clear that certain things simply are not for sale.
/gloom, despair and agony on me
/deep dark depression, excessive misery
/if it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all
/gloom, despair and agony on me
Re: 10. NOITALL
In my younger, wilder days, I’d have offered to procure that plate for ya.
/’Cause we had heard for years how she was so well reared
/How was we to know they meant the way she was built
In some countries they ban pharmaceutical advertising of drugs….Of course, these are the same that also have other drugs made legal…
BR549 was the phone # to the dorm room of a girl I dated in college.. imagine the phone calls !
HEEE HAWWW