Nude protesters storm Boehner's office

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

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LOL.

[NVGonzalez]

Total FF's

[Incipimus iterum]

ooooook this is wierd

[hopper]

Just stupid I mean nudists oming into the Speakers office

[Svensson]

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If I had a nickel...

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Naked political manoeuvring. We shouldn't pay any attention to them.

[Maxwell]

Boehner prolly liked it.

[© tweed]

there's an easy joke to be made here

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Boehner probably wanted them out before he lived up to his name.

[tik 🪀✨]

I hope they call themselves Dick Army.

[The Mikado]

The Speaker's Office?

As someone familiar with the buildings involved, the logistics of this are mind-boggling.  I wonder
if they were wearing their ID badges and nothing else? 

[badgate]

I wonder if he cried?

[Supermariobros]

Boehner probably wanted them out before he lived up to his name.

[dead0man]

We spend WAY more on AIDS funding than we do on cancer funding on a patient per patient basis.  Like almost 10 times as much.  And if we consider how one normally gets AIDS and how one normally gets cancer, it's even more unfair to the cancer patients.

[afleitch]

We spend WAY more on AIDS funding than we do on cancer funding on a patient per patient basis.  Like almost 10 times as much.  And if we consider how one normally gets AIDS and how one normally gets cancer, it's even more unfair to the cancer patients.

We spend WAY more on AIDS funding than we do on cancer funding on a patient per patient basis.  Like almost 10 times as much.  And if we consider how one normally gets AIDS and how one normally gets cancer, it's even more unfair to the cancer patients.

Cancer is not a contagious disease. Contagious diseases have always received targeted funding with a high spend across the world for that very reason. It just so happens that in 2012, contagious diseases that ravaged the population as little as 60 years ago have all but been eradicated excepting influenza, which is a big killer. In 2009 there were only 600 deaths in the USA from T.B and just 2 from measles. The top 3 mortality rates in those with a contagious disease are influenza, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.

[opebo]

We spend WAY more on AIDS funding than we do on cancer funding on a patient per patient basis.  Like almost 10 times as much.  And if we consider how one normally gets AIDS and how one normally gets cancer, it's even more unfair to the cancer patients.

What the heck?  You think how someone gets something should have a relevance to treatment decisions?  That's horrific.

You realize that the reason more is spent on HIV is because people simply have to take ridiculously expensive drugs for decades, right?  With cancer it is sometimes medium term, but often not, while with HIV it is usually very long term, so you end up with large numbers of people continuously taking this expensive drugs.  Considering the alternative is to kill them, its actually good news, I would think, n'est-ce pas?

[dead0man]

We spend WAY more on AIDS funding than we do on cancer funding on a patient per patient basis.  Like almost 10 times as much.  And if we consider how one normally gets AIDS and how one normally gets cancer, it's even more unfair to the cancer patients.

Cancer is not a contagious disease. Contagious diseases have always received targeted funding with a high spend across the world for that very reason. It just so happens that in 2012, contagious diseases that ravaged the population as little as 60 years ago have all but been eradicated excepting influenza, which is a big killer. In 2009 there were only 600 deaths in the USA from T.B and just 2 from measles. The top 3 mortality rates in those with a contagious disease are influenza, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.

By that logic we should spend many many times more money on the flu than AIDS, yet we don't.  

And AIDS and polio are a little different.  It's pretty freaking easy to not get AIDS, granted, it would have been fairly easy to not get polio either, but avoiding AIDS seems much easier.  Plus, for most of AIDS existence, we've know how to avoid it, the same can't be said for polio.

Look, if you got AIDS in 1984 and are somehow still alive, I feel for ya.  If you got AIDS in 2012 through no fault of your own, I feel for ya.  If you got AIDS in 2012 because you did heroin with a needle you found on the ground or you stuck your scratched weenie up a hundred butts (the reason for the vast majority of new AIDS cases in the US), I have a lot less sympathy for ya.  I have much more sympathy for the 12 year old dying with leukemia.  I have much more sympathy for the 38 year old mother of 2 with breast cancer looking at 10 months of nasty treatment.  And I think that is where the majority of our R&D funds should go (or wherever science says the money will do the most good for the most people, if that can be proven to be AIDS research, fine, but I'd like to see that research before I change my mind).

[Knives]

The amount of money put into cancer through donations I'd expect to be around 1000x than that spent on AIDS. Don't act like people do nothing for cancer victims.

[dead0man]

you got a cite for that strawman?

[Vosem]

The reason cancer funding "should", in all fairness, be a greater amount than AIDS funding is that more people suffer from it; no more, no less. How you get a disease shouldn't matter.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The Speaker's Office?

As someone familiar with the buildings involved, the logistics of this are mind-boggling.  I wonder
if they were wearing their ID badges and nothing else? 

My thoughts exactly.......I'd swear someone picked up on an Onion story.

[angus]

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LOL.

Wow.  I hadn't heard this.  Some guys get all the luck.  I almost never have groups of nude protesters busting into my office. 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

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LOL.

Wow.  I hadn't heard this.  Some guys get all the luck.  I almost never have groups of nude protesters busting into my office. 

Almost?

[Speed of Sound]

Hey, hell of a lot more press coverage than being regular protestors will get ya. Smart move and unusually well executed, apparently.

[CountryRoads]

lol