If you want a cautionary tale made flesh, look no further than Hollywood’s own Charlie Sheen. The former “Two and a Half Men” star told NBC’s Today Show this week that he was living with HIV. “It’s a hard three letters to absorb,” said Sheen. “It’s a turning point in one’s life.”
Sheen said he’d spent more than $10 million over the last four years in a futile effort to keep his diagnosis a secret. He also revealed that the diagnosis had little effect on his behavior. Since learning about his illness, in fact, he has gone on to have unprotected sex, though he insisted that he told every partner he was with that he was HIV positive beforehand. One can only imagine the desperate souls who would intentionally sleep with this pathetic shell of a man after hearing that.
And while he claims he has changed his outlook on life, there’s very little evidence of that. He even mentioned that his only reason for coming forward was to put to an end the ugly tabloid rumors about his health. “I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories,” he said.
In other words, it’s still all about Charlie Sheen.
That’s too bad, because living solely for Charlie Sheen is exactly what got him into this mess to begin with. It’s tempting to look at these stars – Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Lamar Odom, etc. – as if they are victims of the Hollywood lifestyle. But you don’t have to be rich and famous to contract HIV, become a drug addict, or waste your life chasing one meaningless pleasure after another.
We’ve completely lost sight of what’s important in this garbage culture. You don’t have to shoot up to be an addict. You don’t need anything more than an internet connection, as a matter of fact. As long as you think that happiness comes from things that happen to you, you’re giving yourself very, very slim odds of ever being really happy. And since that describes so many Americans today, we embrace a culture of distraction. More movies, more internet, more video games, more drugs, more sex, more shopping, more, more, more, more.
This isn’t about denouncing technology or telling you that you should give all your money to a homeless shelter. You can be rich and happy. You can play video games and be happy. You can, perhaps, even do drugs and be happy, although we’re once again in “slim odds” territory.
But when you get it twisted and start thinking that these distractions ARE happiness, you’re on the same path Sheen traveled. Maybe your fate will be HIV as well. Maybe it will be an overdose. Maybe it will be a life filled with empty pleasure that leaves you bored, depressed, and even suicidal.
Conservatives get a lot of flack for being selfish, greedy, unsympathetic, and all the rest. But ours is a philosophy of freedom. The freedom that comes when you realize that happiness is something you earn each day by the sweat of your brow. It doesn’t matter if you fail. It doesn’t matter if you never get your hands on that oceanfront mansion. It doesn’t matter if you never see your face on the silver screen. All that matters is that you did your best. That you took the hard road. Not for a goal, but for the intense happiness that comes only from within.
You would think that an endless river of drugged out, depressed, reckless, dead celebrities would be enough to show us the insanity in our thinking. But as long as our culture tells us to “Work hard, because then you can…” instead of just “Work hard,” the lessons will never sink in.
What must his family be thinking now that Charlie Sheen has contracted HIV? I still remember him from his role as Matt in “Red Dawn”, among other roles such as White House advisor Bobby in “Shadow Conspiracy”. Oh how are the mighty (good actors) fallen!
Did he say he got the HIV from needles or homosexual activity. ??
2 and one half men never struck me as worthy of mention.
I have always said “if you get HIV/AIDS it’s because you deserve it” and here is a
classic example, he probably got it from one of those filthy porn actresses that had
sex with a homosexual.
Homosexuals work in the porn industry for the money only, anal sex with other men
is what they lust after and it’s what spreads AIDS in the first place.
Homosexuals who have a AIDS related death sentence spread AIDS to other
people without telling them they have it and it’s because they are from
Satan.
Howard, you do know that straight men and women can catch HIV/AIDS without homosexual activity. Drug use and accidental HIV infected through blood transfusions. But blood is screened better now. Charlie Sheen does live on the wild side but you need to read up on HIV/AIDS since your rant is not accurate any longer.
Very rare that HIV is contracted without a link to some type of homosexual component. All of the “straight” porn HIV outbreak scares have been linked one way or another to homosexual sex. Many of the female porn workers in “straight” porn that Charlie was sleeping around with have sex with men who have sex with men. Sheen was also into transsexuals, who are men who (wrongly) think or believe they are women.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/dr-paul-church-support-page/male-homosexual-practice/936958219711147
Sorry, when the initial outbreak was finally recognized in the USA, about half were from gay sex, and HALF were from drug addicts sharing dirty needles. I was working as a nurse in those years, and IV drug abuse was right up there as one of the prime causes of HIV/AIDS.
How many of the drug users had a queer some where in the PILE before shooting up???
It only takes one, when people are sharing dirty needles. MISSED all the major cities that were doing, & may still be doing, needle exchanges, to cut down on the rate of infection? Turn in old dirty needles, get NEW, sterile ones? There was lots of news coverage at one time, before the liberal media took the program to their bosom. When the first outbreaks were correctly ID’ed, the vast majority of those on the West Coast were d/t gay sex, and the the vast majority on the East Coast was d/t IV drug use, with some overlap of both segments. There were also those hapless victims who received contaminated blood transfusions, contaminated organ transplants, contaminated clotting factor for hemophiliacs, etc. THIS was before a test had been found to check exposure to HIV virus. And, it still happens a lot in poor countries where re-using needles for immunizations are routine.
I do know that 22% of all new HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S. are because of I.V. drug users that are infected by homosexuals, and the other 66% of all new HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S. are from homosexual men having anal sex with each other.
It’s your rant that no longer applies with your lies.
Yes. Anal sex is what initially spread the disease from ‘Patient Zero’. It has since spread into the needle sharing addict community but the real culprit was anal sex.
Of course the left and their media running dogs tried to present it as everybody being at risk. This was mainly to get the stigma away from gay men. It didn’t work but what it did do was allow the disease to spread much quicker after being politicized. The result? Thousands of dead gay men and other unsuspecting people who got a tainted blood transfusion.
The were born “Liars”, they have lived their entire pathetic
existence lying to themselves and everyone they come
contact with.
I’m hoping there is a reemergence of the deadly
AIDS virus in the homosexual community that
proves to be absolutely devastating.
They deserve it.
Neither is yours.
Don’t throw barbs at me about my name, asshole. You are the one fixated on the gay side. Besides, it only shows that you may be on the hunt for a butt buddy. Move along Fancy Nancy, move along…
Hey slut butt, just remember, if you get AIDS, and I hope you do, it’s because you deserve it.
Listen jerk, sorry you think I am gay because I most definitely am not. My wife and 2 sons and 3 grand sons can back that up. You know nothing about me. I will not get aids since I am not gay, I don’t do drugs and do not know any gays. But I cannot say the same for you. So why din’t you just drop your smart assed comments and move on as I have had enough of your sarcastic remarks. So,
Then take what I’m saying as words of warning fool.
You have homosexual tedencies.
HEY ASSHOLE, TAKE WHAT I AM SAYING. YOU ARE A CRAZY MENTAL CASE. YOU ARE ONE SORRY ASS CLOWN. AS FOR ME, I KNOW WHERE MY LIFESTYLE IS AND IT IS NOT GAY LIKE YOU. YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE REEKS OF IT. I CONSIDER YOU A DANGER TO SOCIETY AND YOU SHOULD THINK BEFORE YOU ACCUSE PEOPLE OF WHATEVER COMES INTO YOUR SICK LITTLE MIND. THE RESULTS COULD BE A PROBLEM FOR YOU I FEAR VERY LITTLE AND DEFINITELY NOT YOU OR YOUR SICK, DUMB SHIT ATTACKS. YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER MUST BE PROUD THEY RAISED A FOOL. THEY SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT GETTING AN ABORTION. YES, I CAN BE THE MEAN AND EVIL BASTARD THAT YOUR FOLKS WARNED YOU ABOUT BEFORE YOU CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET, FOOL! NOW, GO AWAY.
The time is comming soon when you will no longer be able to help yourself and you will leave your wife to have anal sex with another man.
And the funny thing about it is that you were a homosexual from day one.
You just wouldn’t admit it.
In all fairness, that (anal sex with other men) is not the only thing that spreads it.
Intarvaneous drug users infected by homosexuals are responsible for 22% of all new HIV/AIDS cases
It’s a staggering 88% of the total of all AIDS cases in the U.S. are caused by the filthiness of homosexual activity.
They are disease carriers and they spread it willfully.
It’s is sickening.
AIDS = Anally Infected Death Syndrome
GAY = Got AIDS Yet?
Gay hockey player = AIDS on blades
One last thing: You should never hit a gay person. Because if you get cut, then he gives you AIDS.
All true.
They are the disease of humanity.
Filthy carriers of different types of
infections related to homosexual
behavior.
Howard, NO, REALLY, the main cause of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, we believe, started with humans having sex with monkeys, but now it’s mostly carried from cheating on one’s married partner with other heterosexual humans, in the immoral African society. But, for all practical purposes, it’s a Gay man’s disease in America in the beginning in the USA, but mutating into a younger age High School and College, heterosexual disease, also needle sharing drug fiends, etc. That is where we are right now in 2015, from all that I read. I also write a Christian-based Blog: TOM’S JOURNAL.
We don’t know for sure what causes it, but we do know
for sure who has it.
Damn right. There is a reason the Red Cross traditionally banned blood donations from gay men. And now, thanks to these gay-loving liberals, the Red Cross is lifting the ban and endangering the public welfare.
Gays in the military typically gang-rape straight men and infect them with HIV, like they did to Steve Stovey on board the USS Gary. His career and life are ruined. His perpetrators got away with it due to Gay Supremacy in the military. This is typical in the modern “gay-friendly” Navy.
For some reason your post reminded me of that movie “deliverance”.
Some things never change, especially the behavior of homosexuals.
They are satanic.
Ha! I am too old to run [and too disabled…] so I carry a gun, with a CCW permit, and my fine wife has that permit too. We learned so much from that gun safety course, and I thought to myself in the beginning… “what can THEY teach ME, a helicopter door gunner with 2 tours in Vietnam??” But I was wrong — I did learn so much, and now I share that knowledge with others.
At “Shooters Grill” in Colorado, everyone, including the very cute, feminine, Christian girls who work there are carrying
weapons in holsters, imagine one of these girls taking
your order and she’s wearing 45 at the same time.
If you want to see a picture of them, and it will bring a smile
to your face, go to the search engine on the LA Times website and run it.
“shooters grill”.
Was it not from people eating meat from a certain monkey? I thought I read somewhere that it was the Blue Monkey species?
In all fairness, it is still disgusting unless you are a perverted liberal.
Howard, This is most likely a “black day” for all the Homo groups in our country who push their form of ‘sin with dire consequences’ and perversion. Sure, I realize that in Africa that HIV/ AIDS is transferred more so by heterosexual cheaters and in Thailand, with all the extra marital affairs, secondary wives and hookers — part of their culture [I was in Bangkok twice on R and R, while serving in Vietnam… young and foolish]. Blood Transfusions and a tainted blood supply are to blame too. But in the USA we can really blame the so-called ‘Gay Agenda’ for most of that disease, here, IMHO. What ever you do… ‘don’t read the Bible’…. you might learn the TRUTH !! [That’s sarcasm]. Visit: biblefortoday.org
Homosexuals are satanic priests.
Charlie, the messiah of the me first, I am my own god, generation. Obama is a member.
Sicko Sheen should be tried for attempted murder for his actions. How many of the bimbos he had unprotected sex with will say nothing and pass it on to others? Chuckles got what he deserved he now has to be segregated from healthy normal folks. He brings a new low to the term loser.
“Charlie Sheen’s Sad TAIL”…………….LOSING!
Oh, “Butt” wait, I thought he was “winning?” 😉
That is what has happened to a lot of swingers who live for sex at any cost.. And drugs , and booze are aiding in the process of loose sex… KYPIYP is the right way to think….
Sheen complains he has had to spend over $10 million to keep his positive HIV status a secret and that has taken money from his five children and one grandchild. He never thought that spending $10 thousand every weekend week after week since the early 1990’s on prostitutes and cocaine was taking money from his family. Try to sit through one of his movies and most anyone must come to the conclusion he has no acting talent and has only found success because of his father. Sheen and other Hollywood self important narcissist’s like Sean Penn who spend fortunes on drugs and hookers should be looked upon with pity but instead given our pathetic culture they are glorified and praised. Hollywood wasn’t always this way but of course there was once a time when Americans were trying to evolve into a nation that lived up to the high standards set by our Constitution and our founding fathers. That time is long gone and will never return. Our Constitution and the Rule of Law have become more irrelevant with each passing year. Sheen will die without ever coming to understand how much good he could have done with his celebrity and riches.
PBH, Just think of how many Soup Kitchens and clean beds he MIGHT HAVE provided for good folks who fell thru the cracks in our run down society. He will some day meet his Maker and have to account for all his foolishness… just like we all will do.
I always wondered where the heart of most Liberals was when it came to living their own dream life while Lecturing all of us little people on how we should give and not complain about the high level of taxes and the waste surrounding government social programs. While I roll pennies to go to the grocery store Charlie has the money and means to worry about his “Public Image”
If he has infected anyone else I hope that there is a way to hold him criminally responsible, if not then in a civil court.
Well, how much did Obama spend to keep his records secret? And whose money did he spend to do it?
As far as Charlie Sheen goes…he is a pathetic little man who is not worth an iota of my time.
I agree with you. Why do we all give that little fornicator a spot light and a forum. If all it takes is ONCE to get STD/ and AIDS, Sheen did enough and prob spread that ilk all over Hollywood, and so what ? ! ? I don’t think all their $$$ will help them, in the end. I am happily married, and my pretty wife is in Rehab, after knee replacement surgery.
I hope your wife’s knee responds well to therapy. I, too, am happily married…53 years and I cannot imagine a better life. Charlie can keep his money and his diseases.
Thank You, Marilyn. My email: tschuckman@aol.com
He spent bow much on drugs and other stuff like that, he deserves what he has, his own lifestyle brought it on, there are many that knew that 8n some way he was a homo, this 9nly proves one more time you cannot spit in GODS face and get away with it. If he repents GOD can heal him, but you know charlie he likes what he is doing to much to change.
Right On, Bandit ! ‘God is not one to be mocked…’
The 1/2-man was Charlie Sheen-not the kid. God keeps warning us about what we do. Everything we do has consequences-even cosmic consequences. Sin affects the universe in ways that we can’t detect-or don’t detect until it’s too late. The Church has taught this from the beginning. That’s why confession with a repentant heart, atoning and serving penance are so important. They help undo the cosmic damage of sin. Sheen’s financial wealth helps insulate him from some of the effects of the consequences, but it’s just a matter of time when living with HIV is going to take its toll-something that wealth can’t stave off completely or forever.
Sorry, Guys, I just don’t have any sympathy for godless losers so full of themselves, and then Sheen continued spreading his loathsome disease… duh ?? The good Lord put His laws and statutes into force was for our own happiness and PROTECTION !! “The fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God.’ ” The wages of sin — is death. As a Disabled Vietnam Veteran: 68-70, I would rather die with my dignity and honor, in service to Jesus Christ, my Lord and Master. NOT Satan. But I realize that I am a lowly sinner man, I also know for a fact that I am “saved” by the blood of Christ… and can hardly wait for the Rapture ! email: tschuckman@aol.com
i hope he get sued for every thing he has , for have sex with women and not telling them he had hiv
Once sex became entertainment, when it had more to do with lust than love, society went downhill. Girls think they have sexual freedom, but it is actually sexual slavery. You are a commodity to be purchased for a dinner a couple of drinks and a dance. It is like giving a circus monkey a peanut for doing a trick. Girls pride now days is in how much flesh they can show without being kicked out of school. Or how her ass looks in tight jeans. I know there are still some girls out there who believe they are worth more than a tumble in the hay. When you hold yourself so cheaply, something inside you dies and your life becomes a vicious circle of one failed relationship after another, sometime ending in disease and death. Sex is one of the methods in the communist handbook. Get the young people involved in sex and they will be yours. Turn them away from Church, mock their religion so they feel foolish clinging to those old ideas. Soon they will do or believe anything you tell them. Nikita Khruhschef said we will take over your country though your young people. We do not have to go to war with you. They will give it to us. Our young only think about themselves and their pleasures. they have abortions at the drop of the hat, never thinking they are murdering a living human being. They worry more about political correctness than the enemy at our gates. So, I guess he was right. Young Americans don’t care about their country or moral decency, or the freedoms which are being eroded by the government. All they care about is what’s happening to “me” and the hell with everyone else.
You certainly poses wisdom and prob. live in the Mid-West, because of the way you write. I would like to get to know more about you. I am happily married and live in the U.P. –Frozen Tundra. Email: tschuckman@aol.com –Have a great, safe, incredible day ! — Tommy Schuckman, Disabled Vietnam Veteran: 68-70. Jesus is Lord.
Thomas Shuckman, I was born in Buffalo N.Y. Lived my whole married life in Wyoming. Now reside in Tennessee. I grew up in a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. When most girls were virgins when they got married, because they lived at home till they got married. Families went to Church on Sundays, Stores and saloons were closed on Sundays. And a stranger was a stranger until you said hello. Sure there bad people, but they were the exception, not the norm. We sat around the dinner table every night, not in front of the TV. Of course when I was little we didn’t have TV. Not until 1950, (when they had all the bugs worked out and a screen larger than 6 inches.) We took family vacations and all the married kids came home for the Holidays. We said Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah, depending on who you were talking to.We lived in a “melting pot” of various ethnicities. I learned many of their traditions and thought them interesting and in many cases beautiful. I miss the kinder gentler days of my childhood. The war raised our patriotism. My sister-in-law was a welder in the Curtis Wright airplane factory. My sisters husband went in the air force. My dad was in the Navy assigned to a mine sweeper. We all bought Savings Stamps and when we got a full book, we turned them in for war bonds. We thought when the war ended, there would be peace. When I got older, I realized that what the Bible said was true. “there will be wars and rumors of war” It seems man is on the road to self destruction. We must hold close to the faith and try to help others to find their way. I fear, though, there will be few who will listen and fewer who will heed. God Bless you
Hi Joyce, I was born in Milwaukee, in 1949, but we shared pretty much the exact same values. Dad was in the Navy, WW-2, and I joined the Army in Aug. ’67, served 2 years in Vietnam: 68-70, got home and started my own family and worked all my life, now retired from Chrysler, in Kenosha, WI after 30.5 years. I have studied the KJV Bible seriously for the past 40 some years, and am Saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, and can prob answer any question about the bible for you, and teach you much…. I love it ! Email: tschuckman@aol.com
My Husband was a Marine. Joined in 48. After we got married he left the corp got his DD214 in ’56. We moved to Wyoming and he was a Firefighter for 20 yrs. Worked various jobs on his days off to make ends meet. He didn’t want me to work. But every year I got a job in the department store over the Christmas holidays and worked until inventory was over. We have 1 daughter Lost three boys in my second trimesters. My husband loved the outdoors and grew a vegetable garden and lots of flowers. Our lawn looked like green velvet. People used to stop and look at it to see if it was real. He died 15 yrs. ago this Christmas morning. I live with my daughter and her husband (a 20 yr. Navy vet) in Tennessee.I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior and was immersed when I was nine. I too have studied the Bible since I began to read. I asked a lot of questions like what is this word. But all in all did pretty well.
Email: tschuckman@aol.com Have a great day.
Charlie ought to be in prison–I thought it was against the law for someone who knowingly has AIDS or HIV to have sex with someone without first telling said person! He deserves all the misery that is coming to him!
What should we expect from a loser like Charlie Sheen? No sympathy for him.
Maybe he would have been better off dying for his country with honor in “Platoon”.
I’m a live and let live kinda girl, not my place to judge, not my business, but you reap what you sow. More of these types of announcements will happen in the coming year. It will shock you.
I’m actually hoping for a reemergence of AIDS in the homosexual community that
proves to be absolutely devastating.
It’s the best thing that could happen.
So, all the gossip magazine’s want to know: Did you do/doo it with Bruce Jenner? *smacks gum* America wants to know…
I’m a serious journalist of the left, you know….*stamps foot*
Good Ol Charlie should be sent over to Syria to all those little Fags that call themselves Isis warriors. They’re all a ss hole bandits.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life” (Galatians 6:7-8). For any whom he has infected afterwards, the same passage applies to them (except, of course, for anybody that he may have raped, although it does not seem as though that was ever an issue), as they consented to sleep with him.
You choose sin, you may reap consequences.
I guess there actually is a down side to being super-attractive to women. It is a power which can turn against you if misused. Sort of like being wealthy and politically powerful enough to buy illegal drugs without any legal repercussions.
I agree with the article totally. We do live in a hedonistic society that brags about how many kids a man has by multiple “baby daddies” and we brag about how much we can “get away with”. And we are very selective with our compassion. Everyone says “Poor Charlie” and “Poor Magic Johnson”, but no one felt sorry for the millions of gays who died of AIDS. No, because as many said back in the 1980’s: “they deserved what they got “.
The !! WHITE !! TRASH!! deserves just what he got!! After what he did to Denise Richards.
I guess that MIGHT explain his drunken rant about TIGERS BLOOD and ADONIS DNA!!! Now ONLY he can get this cured because HE is so SPECIAL!!!! I am sssooo relieved Charlie is on this!!! How much cocaine can Charlie do? Enough to KILL 21/2 men!!!!!
I can not believe that people still see this jerk as a star and worthy of a Today Show w/Matt Lauer interview admitting that he is HIV positive. He makes me sick compared to all the people who have been accidently exposed by the blood of HIV positive people. Doctors, nurses, paramedics and unknowing intimate partners. What about them????
Actions do have consequences….I mean what kind of sissy coward, coked up and drunk, leaves a gay bar and smashes into someone’s car and leaves the scene of the crime? A complete low life, that’s who! What’s funny is this person claims to be upstanding…buawhahahahahaha! LOSER!
It is said that the disease, Syphilis, was first transfer from sheep — to humans. God’s Laws in the first 5 books of the KJV Bible forbid that perversion, and now we know why. Well, however, some times we DON’T understand all the reasons WHY, how come, what for…. but God has all the Wisdom, and it can be found in His Word, the KJV Bible, which is written on a 5-6 th grade reading level, friends. Smile.
I have no sympathy for him. He is paying the price for his actions. He thought he could get away with his kind of life style, with drugs, women at who knows what else. So he comes on the news and want to see our reaction. Well I bet he didn’t get the reaction that he wanted. ———SORRY. He was warned by his father and his x-wife. Now you paying for it.
Hey Charley ! Say hi to Liberace and Rock for us, OK ?
I hammered home the idea of actions having consequences to my kids as they grew up. I emphasized the fact that any action has positive or negative consequences, and they needed to think about those consequences before acting. So far it has worked well.
I heard him trying to explain himself with some interviewer and it sounded like he had a verbal form of Parkinson’s disease, what a mess.
Just think how stupid and perverted these fools are, nothing but drugs and sex with filthy infected porn stars.
He got what he deserved, he probably has AIDS and isn’t telling anyone.
It’s too bad because his father Martin Sheen is a decent man.