McHenry County Blog

When our family visited the United States Capitol last year, besides hearing a farewell talk to pages by Illinois Congressmen Danny Davis and John Shimkus, we were taken to the area where states put statues of famous people.

I started seeing symbols of religious activity, so you know what I did next.

Unfortunately, I didn’t keep notes, so I don’t know what people from what states are holding the symbols.

This looks like a Bible and is being held by a man dressed in a frontiersman leather fringed coat.

Whether this would be allowed to be put in the Capitol in this era of political correctness is beyond me.

A Bible and leather.

Oh, my.

Labels: Bible, Danny Davis, John Shimkus, U.S. Capitol

As I was reading the Chicago Tribune while waiting for my swim conference- bound son to finish a two-hour practice, I read an article on page 14 entitled,

AIDS risk lower than thought for circumcised

Maybe it got better play in the New York Times, where the story by Donald G. McNeil Jr.originated, but page 14 in the Tribune struck me as not good enough.

Especially when put into juxtaposition with the coverage given Merck’s “Gardisil” HPV inoculations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which I have been calling the Centers for the Spread of Disease since about 1989, say that vaccinated will be protected against 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, still somehow director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, is quoted in the story thusly,

If we had an AIDS vaccine that was performing as well as this, it would be the talk of the town.

What’s the news you probably haven’t read?

Circumcision reduces a man’s risk (of becoming HIV-infected) by as much as 65%

Seems like the Bible has some good advice quite early on.

Labels: AIDS. Anthony Fauci, Bible, CDC, circumcision, HIV, HPV