Texas leads nation in abstinence education dollars | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | News: Education

AUSTIN – Texas spent a nation-high $17 million last year for abstinence education programs that continue to stir debate about whether classes promoting virginity before marriage work in public schools.

Federal statistics in June showed that 52.9 percent of Texas students in ninth through 12th grades had sexual intercourse, compared with 47.8 nationally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that Texas youths are less likely to use condoms.

All that money and effort wasted on another Bush policy that didn't work. His education policy, a failure, His foreign policy in Iraq, North Korea, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and just about every where else, a failure. His war on terrorism, a failure. His economic policies, a failure. His USSC appointments, a failure. Failure, failure, failure!

The only things Bush does well are take vacations and make up excuses for why he's failed yet another time.

I wonder if all those people who voted for Bush have come to realize just how great a disappointment they are....with Bush's near perfect record of failure, I wonder if they still think that either Gore or Kerry could possibly have been worse? Clarabell the clown couldn't have been worse.

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And follow the money to see who is employed in the abstinence program. They are usually fundamentalist Christian Republicans. It is a program that shows no success, but that doesn't matter. It is really an employment and subsidy program to the fundamentalist right wing of the Republican Party.

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If I were you two, I wouldn't vote for Bush in November!

Another way to look at it as a method of pumping taxpayer dollars into Christian religious organizations...

You see, Bush wants to make the Reagan speech, "Tear Down That Wall." Only the wall Bush is talking about is the one between our government and the Christian Church.

But the thing is, abstinence just doesn't work...another "God" backed policy that has proven to be a failure.

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Nor McCain't who is just four more years of failure waiting to happen.

BTW: Not voting for Bush doesn't fix the problem. We are still left with having to fix all of his failures plus what do we do with the knuckleheads who voted for him?

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The Raw Story | NATO forces abandon Afghan outpost after deadly attack

NATO said Wednesday it had abandoned an Afghan outpost days after it was stormed by militants who killed nine US soldiers.

The soldiers pulled out of the outpost in Wanat village in northeastern Kunar province on Tuesday, Afghan officials said.

And Bush racks up another failure as the surge continues to fail....

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I didn't even know he could run again....

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Oh well good thing the surge is over, and has been over. Oh and your missing one other little tidbit..... The surge was in Iraq not Afghanistan. Good game though, we will see you out there.

And last time I checked the President did not tell states what programs they had to run. But maybe I am wrong and he micromanages.

In all fairness, he didn't actually fail with North Korea... although he was an appeaser... giving concessions before results and to think, he condemned the democrats for wanting to do talk to Iran...

I wouldn't doubt it, Michael.

brilliant... simply brilliant... Grim17, you should offer your wit and services to the McLame camp... you're far too sharp for here...

apparently kids will continue to be kids and will do whatever it takes... afterall, when I was a cub, sex was all I thought about, too... why would it be any different today? because bush wills it so?

true... true... true and how about we draft them and send them off to Iraqistan and bring home some of our weary troops... let them, the troops, have some much needed rest and let them (the knuckleheads) duck...

that sure sounds a lot like Viet nam where the army or marines would be sent to take a hill, then they'd give it up and be forced to take it again... and again... and again...

the only ones that made out in that exchange were the arms dealers and those who made body bags...

he can't... he can however declare martial law and suspend the elections becoming just another third world dick-tator...

The surge has kept much needed forces out of Afghanistan which has resulted in the taliban's resurgence.

well, you could very well be wrong and of course he does...

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Well let's see how many things you get wrong.

The beginning level of troops was 135,000 and now it's at 150,000. I don't know who told you the surge was over but they lied to you.

That's one thing wrong.

I see, so if we forced the violence out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, you'd think that was a victory. However, now that the Taliban has reorganized and reinserted itself into Afghanistan, it is a threat to Iraq. So nothing has been gained.

So that's another thing you got wrong.

You like getting things wrong? Oh well let's continue...

Whether the States agreed to it or not, this is Bush's policy and it ain't working. It is failing....

That's three things wrong.

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