$1.8 Billion - thats Billion with a 'B'

666 5th Avenue in Manhattan recently sold for $1.8 Billion, and I Am wondering what you get for a Billion these days. Charles Kushner is the new owner and apparently, an ex convict. Actually I believe he violated some political fundraising rules, and so I don't really think that we can call him a convict. Can one actually be considered a convict because of political financial 'oversight'??
-But to be fair, his son Jared actually inked the deal
Anyhow - he has a snazzy building in NYC and he only paid about $1,20o.00SF Neat
I am guessing that he is in great need of a future write off.
I am a big fan of the cute idea that God isn't 'making anymore land' but this deal is pretty kooky,
and bloody overpriced. Even if we are to agree with Donald Trump and to enthusiastically believe that NYC real estate is going to hold steady- $1,200./sf is still quite nuts.

The United Nations and Circumcisions

Gentle Reader,
Correct me if I am wrong, but is abstaining from sex not the primary way to avoid
transmitting the HIV virus?
It seems that a new study has convinced the United Nations that the men in Africa, the ones who currently sleep with prostitutes and then bring the virus home to their wives, will be protected by getting circumcised!
Is the UN about to suggest this for western men, or only men who happen to live under governments who care nothing about them as people? Is this dubious remedy one that can actually save lives, or is the United Nations and the evil and feeble minded doctors who support this study simply on a terrible tear to commit widespread genocide.
It is already a fact that millions of men in Africa- uneducated about the nature of this virus, have sought their own remedy by raping young children in order to 'cure' themselves of this death. The UN 'evil remedy' simply tells men to continue living lives filled with debauchery and filth. However they are now poised to publicly deliver a snake oil elixir that allegedly works in 60% of tested males.

My basic problems are:
*that the study was done in South Africa, a country that has turned a blind eye at the atrocity of child rape in that hell hole.

*What about the other bloody 40%

*The trial was 18 months long- and as studies go, how ,many of these men were actually having sex with HIV+ve women?????
How do you guarantee those numbers? Do doctors know that men are risking their lives by sleeping with sick women, and do they simply allow them to continue without humane intervention?
How did they secure the parameters of their study?

Yes - Yes we are all quite sophisticated these days and these questions are so simple, that they border on the embarrassing.
I am at a loss though as to why the participants in the 'great' United nations seem to think that is OK to force people to forget prudence and to skate the thin line toward filth. How many people do we have to see dying on every bloody Christian broadcast before the affected countries in Africa, boot out the learned men and women from the UN.
Circumcision will never stem the deadly tide of HIV/AIDS, it will only serve as a tattered veil over the eyes of selfish and uneducated men who refuse to take sexual responsibility, and their women who sadly have no choice in the matter.

It's Christmas and Mary is Pregnant , is Rosie O' next?

So Mary Cheney is about to bring a child into the world?.
Interesting considering the fact that she is unmarried and she has confessed to being a lesbian.
Conservatives do not want to discuss the fact that the daughter of our "conservative" Vice-President has chosen to indulge her passions in a lifestyle about which God has clearly stated his disapproval. Obviously, the fact that she had fornicated is not a problem either. Yes -I consider the act of getting a sperm- even from the neighborhood "bank", an act of fornication.

OK - I have no problem with the baby, babies are a direct blessing from God, but would my fellow conservatives be equally happy if Rosie O'Donnell impregnated herself?
Nope- they would be livid-
Obviously Mary Cheney has a womb encrusted with diamonds, and such a womb must be filled with life.
Obviously, the conservatives have decided to practice situational ethics????

Maybe they feel that you can't "argue with the landlord".


My point is that parentless children are forced to suffer in this country because lesbians and homosexuals are "not fit" to serve as parents, and the majority of conservatives would rather see a kid shuffled from home to home than loved by those homosexuals. So now I am confused- I am a conservative Republican and again I find myself wanting to vomit of this hypocracy.

President Bush recently said:

“I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child, and I’m happy for her.”
HUH!
Are we for gay parenting or are we against it, because gosh darn it, I am not sure what kind of Mom Mary would make but Rosie seems like a loving Mom??
So are the conservative pundits, bloggers and politicians now 'for' gay parenting or are the gays still going to hell?

Don't get me wrong, I am a strict constructionist when it comes to the holy Bible, but I am a little concerned when there is an additional deck of cards being shuffled by those who 'represent' the 'christian right'.

As a Mom I totally understand a womans' desire to procreate- but if we are led to condemn those who live against God, as being 'not good enough' to raise children who need love, then we should strongly voice our opposition of a woman who clearly violates the law under which this administration claims to support.

If Mary and her gay lover are OK to raise, love and support a child, shouldn't a couple of double income women or men with no kids, be allowed to raise, love and support children whose parents have thrown them away.

This is nuts - it seems that most conservatives are more concerned about how the President looks than about what God knows.

Merry Christmas people- remember Jesus Christ this season, and the fact that he loves and wants the best for ALL children, not only those born under the protection of political power.