Perhaps It’s Time That Someone STOPPED the “Stop AIDS” Project www.joefire.com
	joefire.com is the hot new, brassy political commentary web site in San Francisco that is beginning to force the mainstream media into doing serious investigative reporting, and not just spooning up pablum to the masses. joefire.com has single-handedly caught many media outlets with their pants down: joefire has exposed that several so-called news stories were filed by “dateline” reporters who weren't in attendance at the events they claimed to be covering.  joefire's perspective on the Stop AIDS Project (SAP) is important because a political insider in SF (joefire himself) has called for pulling the plug on SAP's Federal funding. Expounding on the Stop AIDS Project, joefire.com's inaugural debut featured reporting on the saps at SAP.  joefire himself wrote, scathingly:  “I am slowly beginning to think that the folks over at the STOP AIDS Project have just too damned much money.   I'm serious.   I'm coming to believe that all of the international acclaim has simply gone to their heads.  You think that all these fear campaigns they've promoted actually did something to drive down the death numbers and seroconversion numbers in certain sectors so now they have license to do whatever they darn well please! …” and then writes:  “I FULLY INTEND to research just which legislators are out there trying to pull the plug on your State and/or Federal dollars and I intend to do whatever I can to promote their cause. ” There are multiple reasons to disagree with joefire.com (see below) about whether SAPs advertising campaign is “reality-based” (and, therefore, useful) or “fear-based” (which everyone agrees is wholly not useful).  The fact remains that the Stop AIDS Project’s usefulness as a prevention intervention is a proper subject for debate.  Here’s joefire’s take on the issue.  Where you can find it …