David Fernandez

Can't they see the harm its doing to our youths? The government spends billions of tax-payers dollars a year toward teaching abstinence in school, and sex-ed is banned from most schools. A couple of statistics for you:

Teens that are only taught abstinence are 1)prone NOT to use a condom if they do engage in premarital sex. 2) Are ten times more likely to engage in oral or anal sex, and 3) these kids are not taught about sexually transmitted diseases and how to protect from them. Apparantly abstinence is the ONLY prevention for them. It's like driver's ed teaching that the only way to avoid a car accident is to stay at home all the time. In the era we live in, saying condoms fail 90% of the time is ridiculous. Planned Parenthood address abstinence in all their programs and literature, but don't fail in educating on sexually transmitted diseases and OTHER ways to prevent them.

I read an article on the Chicago Suntimes today about religion in Spain. Once a very Catholic nation, Spain seems to be on a different course now that it has "legalized divorce, promoted sex ed, decriminalized abortion, accepted drug possession for personal use, gambling in public, prostitution and gay marriage". So how has this affected the country? "Spain is now 10 times richer per capita than 30 years ago. With a good secular and free kinder to university education system, Spain has less violent crime, fewer people in jail and fewer policemen per inhabitant than the mostly religious US". The difference? "In Europe more people behave ethically than in America, not because they fear God, but because they personally believe in doing what is right". Can it work in the USA?

With a LGA775 socket and 945G chipset.

I currently have 1GB of RAM and a PentiumD 2.8Ghz Processor. I run Iolo System Mechanic every now and to recover memory, but my PC and Internet still slows down drastically. Would more RAM help?