Hummingbird

-- by Dave Buhlman

It was reported this week that one in four teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and that this results in about three million infected teenage girls.

How did this happen?

When we older ones were growing up as teenagers in the sixties, sex was a big deal. Outside of Woodstock and the hippie culture, getting any sexual activity for a guy was difficult. Girls were quite careful about giving in, in part due to a concern of earning a reputation as a loose or easy girl. Of course, another aspect was fear of pregnancy. This was before abortion on demand and birth control became the norm. It was also before the government school system started immersing school kids in all sorts of sexual indoctrination. This latter scheme was a permission slip to go out and do whatever it pleased you to do in the sexual realm.

There are a number of expensive medicines that have been produced to counter the ill effects of this raging promiscuity to treat or prevent some forms of STD. Abstinence would work better, but that is scoffed at by those who control the government school system. On another front, to purportedly prevent cervical cancer, drug behemoth Merck is trying to mandate through state governments that its product - Gardasil - be introduced into the young bodies of female children as young as nine years old. Nine years old! The fact that a number of deaths have been attributed to Gardasil does not slow this greed-fueled freight train one bit.

So I guess too many people, except the parents and grandparents of these kids, is happy with sexual activity being so prevalent. But there has been a reaction, as indicated by some kids who have tried the free sex (though, of course, protected, protected, protected sex) encouraged by the government school system and many advertisers, and found it wanting. This group of girls and boys has pledged to hold off on sex until marriage. If this group grows too large, drug company’s sales and profits will suffer, which would be a shame. And shame is an uncommon emotion these days. Ask Elliot Spitzer and others.

So the whole circus of encouraging sexual activity and then pushing drugs to solve the inevitable problems, along with yet more sexual “education”, is akin to a circular firing squad. Of course, in politics, as we should know by now, nothing happens by accident and, as one wag stated, problems and solutions are oftentimes cooked up in the same government laboratory.

Or, it’s like the hummingbird who flies around in ever-decreasing concentric circles, until it flies up its own a..

This hummingbird is also flying around gas stations in America in echoes of past calamities. In post-WW I Germany (pre-Nazi, around 1923), Germans would try to buy bread early in the morning because the hyperinflation caused by the bad treaty that ended WW I (and assured there would be a WW II) resulted in the price of bread increasing dramatically during even one day. Some Americans are proceeding similarly with buying gas. Get it in the morning, for it will likely be at least a couple of cents higher per gallon by nightfall. See you at the pumps.

Dave Buhlman is a former New Hampshire State Representative and published author who favors returning our government to the Constitutional Republic created by the Framers.