The idea that they should not steal other people's property, or beat up and rob passers-by, appears to be as weird and outlandish to them as the suggestion that they should fly to the moon.

These youths feel absolutely entitled to go 'on the rob' and steal whatever they want. Indeed, they are incredulous that anyone should suggest they might pass up such an opportunity.

* More than 18,000 people with AIDS still die each year in the United States.

* Through 2007, more than 576,000 people with AIDS in the U.S. have died since the epidemic began. That's more than one-half million dead due to the allegedly "gay" behavior.

* While the CDC estimates that men who have sex with men (MSM) account for just 4 percent of the U.S. population age 13 and older, the rate of new HIV diagnoses among MSM in the U.S. is more than 44 times that of other men.

MENE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

UPHARSIN: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and the Persians.

This is the message our markets, and the invisible hand behind them that shapes us like a potter shapes the clay, have for the kings and rulers of this earth, the Davoisie and the bankers, the economic sages and the lords of finance:

"I was fired as a vendor by Cisco for my conservative beliefs about sex and marriage even though my beliefs were never expressed on the job," said Turek, a periodic columnist for the conservative paper Townhall.