Arnold Under Attack for Health Cuts

California senate president pro tem Darrell Steinberg announced that he will sue California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over his alleged liberal use of line-item veto authority.

Following the announcement of Steinberg v. Schwarzenegger, the senator said in a release, “We elected a governor, not an emperor. In making these line-item vetoes the governor forced punishing cuts on children, the disabled, and patients that he couldn’t win fairly at the bargaining table. And in doing so, he overstepped his constitutional authority.”

Schwarzenegger’s cuts would have a major impact on health and welfare programs; some determine state-funded HIV/AIDS support.

While California faces major budget deficits, the state’s Legislative Counsel Bureau issued an opinion that said the governor violated the system of checks and balances outlined in the state’s constitution. The bureau said Schwarzenegger could use the line-item veto on appropriations, but only current ones, not those that had already passed through the legislative process—which were the kinds of cuts the governor made.

The suit will address the governor’s constitutional authority and will be paid for by Steinberg’s campaign funds.

Top Ten Dick Cheney Excuses

Sherri Shepherd Gets Bikini Wax On "The View"

“People continually look at us to say, 'What are you doing to fix this problem that is terrorizing neighborhoods?'”

DENNIS ZINE, Los Angeles city councilman, advocating the ban on selling aerosol spray paint to anyone under 21 in an effort to reduce the city's rampant graffiti

Prostitute-Frequenting La. Sen. Vitter Wants Return to ’Conservative Values’

Apparently adhering to the old maxim that "he who can, does; he who can’t, preaches," Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter is scolding fellow Republicans for allegedly being too forgiving on social issues.
Vitter was responding to GOP Ohio Sen. Geroge Voinovich, who told a newspaper that his party was having trouble resonating with voters because it’s perceived as dominated by white Southern men.

"The party’s being taken over by Southerners," he said. "What they hell have they got to do with Ohio?"

That didn’t go down well with Vitter. He told the Washington Times. "I’m on the side of conservatives getting back to core conservative values. There are a lot of us from the South who hold those value, which I think the party is supposed to be about. We strayed from them in the past few years, and that’s why we performed so badly in the national elections."

In 2007, Vitter was discovered to have frequented the "D.C. madam" and availed himself of the services of her "girls" many times. Then a local New Orleans madam came forth with the news that Vitter was also a very good client of hers.

There was one tiny ray of good news in all this: The rumor that Vitter had a diaper fetish was not true--or at least has remained unproven. Vitter was a vociferous critic of Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He is adamantly opposed to gay marriage.

Even the commenters in the ultra-conservative Washington Times are subjecting the senator’s comments about core values to ridicule.

"Thank goodness for Sen. Vitter and his commitment to core conservative values," wrote one. "He has the decency to hire hookers instead of cheating on his wife with a mistress like so many others."

"With all due respect, how does sticking your married penis into a prostitute constutite ’conservatives returning to core conservative values?’" asked another. "Evidently core family Republican values include diapers and whores," wrote yet another.

Vitter is being opposed in the GOP primary by a well-known female porn star.

Clinton Supports Gay Marriage

Former president Bill Clinton said in a conference for progressive students that he supports gay and lesbian couples' right to marry.

"Yeah," Clinton said when asked after a speech at the Campus Progress National Conference, according to The Nation. "I personally support people doing what they want to do. I think it's wrong for someone to stop someone else from doing that [same-sex marriage]."

In 1996, Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned recognition of same-sex marriages at the federal level and gave individual states the right to refuse recognition to such marriages even if performed legally in other states. He also approved the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" law, which barred openly gay personnel from serving in the military.

In a 2000 interview with The Advocate, Clinton said that "people who have a relationship ought to be able to call it whatever they want. And insofar as it's sanctified by a religious ceremony, that's up to the churches involved."

He added about the fight in Congress over DOMA, "I think what happened in the Congress was that a lot of people who didn't want to be antigay didn't feel that they should be saying that as a matter of law, without regard to what various churches or religions or others thought, that the United States policy was that all unions that call themselves marriages are, as a matter of law, marriages. I don't think we're there yet. But I think that what we ought to do is to get the legal rights straightened out and let time take its course, and we'll see what happens."

Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R) says Earth is 6,000 years old.

Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen (R) voices support for opening up uranium mining in the state. Sen Allen responds to statements by environmentalists by assuring them that the "Earth is 6,000 years old..." Twice.

2010 Prop 8 Repeal Effort Up in the Air

Time is running out to get a repeal of Proposition 8 on the California ballot for 2010--and GLBT leaders are not yet certain whether that’s something they want to do, or whether they would rather wait for 2012.

As Joe Garofoli explained in his political blog at the San Francisco Chronicle, which was carried July 25 at SFGate.com. a majority of GLBT equality advocates convened at a San Bernardino meeting that same day voted for a non-binding resolution to move forward for a 2010 ballot initiative.

But that is not the last word on the question. Now the heads of the various organizations represented at the meeting will need to present the question to their groups; organizational structure will need to be developed and implemented; funding strategies will need to be developed, and plans laid for training volunteers to help move the process along.

All of that has to happen starting now, even if the initiative doesn’t get onto the ballot until 2012; the ballot initiative that rescinded marriage rights for gay and lesbian families in California last year involved a bruising campaign battle and about $80 million dollars, half of which was raised by anti-gay activists.

The organizational challenges of mounting a push to repeal the resulting constitutional amendment, which targets gay and lesbian families for exclusion from legal family parity, will be enormous, and the re-match likely to be just as heated, not more, than the campaign to pass Proposition 8.

Frightening Forecast for US: Hot, Dry, and 3.66 Million Acres Will Burn Over Next 6 Months

Researchers have a dire forecast for the next six months in the western US: it'll be exceptionally hot, very dry, and 3.66 million acres will be scorched by fires.

Palin's support still strong among GOP

Sarah Palin's bombshell that she is resigning as Alaska governor actually has boosted her a bit among Republicans, a nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, though it also has dented her standing among Democrats and independents.

Two-thirds of Republicans want Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2008, to be "a major national political figure" in the future. Three-fourths of Democrats hope she won't be.

Independents by 55%-34% would prefer she leave the national stage.

The findings underscore how polarized opinions of Palin were even before Friday's surprise announcement. Seven in 10 polled say their views weren't affected by her decision. Among those whose opinions shifted, Democrats by a 4-1 ratio and independents by 2-to-1 view her less favorably. Republicans are somewhat inclined to see her more favorably.

"For independents and Democrats, she's already not their candidate, and with Republicans her support is not based on her record as governor of Alaska," says GOP consultant Alex Castellanos.

The poll Monday of 1,000 adults — including 321 Democrats, 323 independents and 316 Republicans — has a margin of error of +/–3 percentage points for the full sample and 6 points for the partisan subsamples.

Palin's complaints about unfair treatment by the news media resonate with many respondents. Three-fourths of Republicans, more than half of independents and a third of Democrats say coverage of Palin has been unfairly negative.

When it comes to a potential presidential run, the USA TODAY Poll displays Palin's strength in the Republican base and weakness among swing voters, who traditionally decide national elections. Republicans by 71%-27% say they'd be likely to vote for her if she ran for president in 2012, while independents by 51%-44% would not.

"Don't know what the future holds," Palin said Tuesday on ABC. "I'm not gonna shut any door. That — who knows what doors open?"

Washington Referendum Signatures Counted

Opponents of a Washington domestic partnership measure granting marriage-like rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples submitted 137,689 signatures seeking a referendum to overturn it, according to a raw count reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The secretary of state completed the initial count of the signatures, which were turned in Saturday, and determined the number was 14% more than the minimum 120,577 needed to qualify Referendum 71 for the ballot. However, the signatures still need to be verified, and with an average error rate of 18 percent, it remains unclear whether the referendum will qualify.

The expanded domestic partnership measure is suspended pending the outcome of the signature verification process.

Toyota to Sell a Yaris-Based Hybrid for Around $15.7k in Late 2011

Should have Better MPG Than Prius

There's a new kind of arms race on the road, except that this one doesn't involve bigger vehicles and more horsepower. Instead, the goal is to make hybrids with higher MPG and/or lower prices. The cheaper-than-the-Prius Honda Insight was the first salvo, even outselling the Prius in Japan in February, and coming down the pipeline is the even cheaper Honda Fit hybrid. Preliminary reports tell us that Toyota's counter-attack will take the form of a next-generation Yaris-based hybrid. Read on for more details.

El Nino, Sea Lions Don't Mix

Scientists think the weather phenomenon El Nino may be to blame for making sea lions sick along California's coast.

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach is filled to capacity, with more than 90 seal and sea lions in need of medical attention, the Orange County Register reported:

"The only time when I have seen that is when there’s no food. We've never seen this many rescues," the center's medical director, Dr. Richard Evans, told the newspaper.

Now, we may finally know why. Climatologists are pointing the finger at El Nino.

Marine biologists say surface water in the Pacific Ocean is warming up. That drives plankton and smaller fish deep into cold water, where sea lions can't swim, causing them to starve.

El Nino is a temporary weather cycle that hits Southern California every seven years or so.

There are roughly 240,000 sea lions living along California's coast, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.

Huge Solar Power in the Sahara Project Moving Forward

Utilizing the vast solar power potential of the Sahara has been a twinkle in the eye of many a European politician for a while now. Even though the logistics of building huge solar power arrays in the desert and then transmitting that electricity back across the Mediterranean isn't exactly simple, to say the least. Well, a consortium of German companies wants to turn that dream into reality and is raising money to make it happen:

UK Quakers Approve Gay Marriage

Quakers in the United Kingdom voted to approve same-sex marriage on Friday and called on the government to provide full and equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, reports The Times. The approval represents a first for a mainstream religious group in Britain, where same-sex civil partnerships, but not same-sex marriages, are allowed.

More than 1,600 Quakers voted at their annual meeting in York "to treat same sex committed relationships in the same way as opposite sex marriages.” However, the Quakers also agreed that the question of legal recognition by the government is “secondary,” and declined to require Quaker registrars to disobey the law by marrying same-sex couples. Quaker meetings will be urged to petition the government to change relevant laws to recognize same-sex couples.

In the immediate future, the Quakers plan to rewrite their prayer book to give same-sex
couples the same status as married heterosexual couples.

Rockstar Makes Good With Gays

After taking a drubbing from the gay community, Rockstar Energy Drink CEO Russell Weiner -- son of antigay shock jock Michael Savage -- announced on Thursday that his company is donating a total of $100,000 to a slew of gay rights groups.

The move comes after several gay websites reported that Weiner was Savage's son; many assumed that Savage helped fund Rockstar and played a role in its business dealings.

In a statement, Weiner worked to separate his company -- which produces one of the country's most popular energy drinks -- from his father. Savage's wife, Janet Weiner, serves as Rockstar's CFO, but according to the following release, does not share her husband's disdain for gays and lesbians.

"It has recently come to Rockstar's attention that there might be a misconception about our company's policy and my personal support for LGBT rights," Weiner said in a release. "We apologize for that misunderstanding, and want to make clear today that our company fully supports our LGBT employees and our LGBT customers."

The Las Vegas–based Rockstar will be splitting a $100,000 donation between the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, the Trevor Project, and a new group called the National LGBT Bloggers Initiative. The company, which has offered its employees domestic-partnership benefits since 2000, will now include an LGBT component in its corporate diversity training, as well as provide company resources for employees to start LGBT workplace groups.

Russell Weiner went out of his way to say he is not his homophobic father: "Some have erroneously associated our company with offensive language directed at LGBT people, specifically statements coming from Michael Savage, who is not and has never been a shareholder or officer of Rockstar Energy Drink. On behalf of our company and directors, including myself and CFO Janet Weiner, I would like to take this opportunity to disavow any offensive statements directed toward LGBT people, including statements from Michael Savage. Rockstar assures our customers and the general public that our brand will never be associated with any language that does not affirm the essential dignity of every person in our diverse national community."

South Africa launches new AIDS research

South Africa launched a new HIV/AIDS research initiative Tuesday aimed at stimulating scientific studies into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

South Africa had about 5.2 million people living with HIV last year - the highest number of any country in the world. The government is under pressure to show its commitment to combat AIDS after years of official denial, neglect and unscientific responses that fueled the world’s worst AIDS crisis.

The South Africa HIV/AIDS Research and Innovation Platform (SHARP) aims to back research including studies on new or improved treatments, drug design, gene research and vaccines.

The Department of Science and Technology has pledged 45 million rand ($5.8 million) over the next three years to fund nine research proposals.

South Africa launched an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers last week but the proud moment was marred when it emerged that state funding for the trial had been halted.

Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday denied that the government had “dumped” funding AIDS vaccines but said it wanted to take a broader approach to the problem.

“The actual development of an effective vaccine will take many more years and the collaborative efforts of our country’s best scientists,” Pandor said. “In the meantime, South Africa is investigating every possible avenue to beat the virus.”

The health department, not the science department, said it will spend 12 million rand ($1.5 million) on the vaccine initiative.

Research into an AIDS vaccine has run into so many problems that some experts have questioned sinking scarce funds into developing a vaccine, saying the money might be better spent on prevention and education.

Miso Soup Kelp is Consuming the California Coast

An invasive species of seaweed has invaded the California coastline, where it's set about blocking out much-needed sunlight from native the native kelp. Now it's endangering entire marine ecosystems that call California kelp forests home, and it's spreading fast. Really fast--the Asian kelp, which is called wakame, and is the stuff used to make miso soup, is considered one of the world's 100 worst invasive species. And no, it doesn't mean Californians will soon be enjoying delicious Japanese soup whenever they please--it means the state's coastal habitats are in big trouble.

Harvey Milk and Billie Jean King given Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Barack Obama today named gay civil rights pioneer Harvey Milk and tennis great (and open lesbian) Billie Jean King as two of 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom is awarded to individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

From the White House press release:

“This year’s awardees were chosen for their work as agents of change. Among their many accomplishments in fields ranging from sports and art to science and medicine to politics and public policy, these men and women have changed the world for the better. They have blazed trails and broken down barriers. They have discovered new theories, launched new initiatives, and opened minds to new possibilities.

President Obama said, “These outstanding men and women represent an incredible diversity of backgrounds. Their tremendous accomplishments span fields from science to sports, from fine arts to foreign affairs. Yet they share one overarching trait: Each has been an agent of change. Each saw an imperfect world and set about improving it, often overcoming great obstacles along the way.

“Their relentless devotion to breaking down barriers and lifting up their fellow citizens sets a standard to which we all should strive. It is my great honor to award them the Medal of Freedom.”

President Obama will present the awards at a ceremony on Wed., Aug. 12.”

Other awardees include Nancy Goodman Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s leading breast cancer awareness organization; Stephen Hawking, the internationally-recognized theoretical physicist; Sen. Edward Kennedy; Desmund Tutu; Chita Rivera; Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland; and Sidney Poitier.


Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King was an acclaimed professional tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s, and has helped champion gender equality issues not only in sports, but in all areas of public life. King beat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, then the most viewed tennis match in history. King became one of the first openly lesbian major sports figures in America when she came out in 1981. Following her professional tennis career, King became the first woman commissioner in professional sports when she co-founded and led the World Team Tennis (WTT) League. The U.S. Tennis Association named the National Tennis Center, where the US Open is played, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in 2006.

Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official from a major city in the United States when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. Milk encouraged lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens to live their lives openly and believed coming out was the only way they could change society and achieve social equality. Milk, alongside San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, was shot and killed in 1978 by Dan White, a former city supervisor. Milk is revered nationally and globally as a pioneer of the LGBT civil rights movement for his exceptional leadership and dedication to equal rights.

Hawaii Coach Asks Media Not to Cover His 'Faggot' Slur, Apologizes

Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin repeatedly used an anti-gay slur at a media preview on Thursday and then attempted to persuade the media to not report on it, the Idaho Statesman reports:

"Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin said Thursday at the WAC media football preview that Notre Dame did 'this little faggot dance' at a banquet the night before last year’s Hawaii Bowl. McMackin used the term 'faggot' three times while explaining why Notre Dame was so fired up to play Hawaii in the game, which the Fighting Irish won 49-21. McMackin responded to the Notre Dame clapping tradition by having his players do the ha’a, an intense Polynesian dance and chant the Warriors do before games. McMackin said Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis got up at the banquet and told the crowd, 'We do something special at Notre Dame.' 'And they get up and they do this little cheer, like this,' McMackin said Thursday, doing a rhythmic clap. 'You know, this little faggot dance.' Once McMackin saw Notre Dame’s team demonstration, he gave his players the signal — the shaka — to do their ha’a."

McMackin apparently pleaded with the press not to report on the slur: "I want to officially, officially apologize...Please don’t write that statement I said as far as Notre Dame. The reason is, I don’t care about Notre Dame. But I’m not a — I don’t want to come out and have every homosexual ticked off at me. You know what I mean. Because I don’t have any problem with homosexuals. But I apologize for saying that and I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t run that word. If you said dance, that’s OK. But don’t use the bad term that I chose, please. Thank you."

The paper adds:
"Once it was clear that McMackin’s comments would be reported, he made another statement to the media. 'I would sincerely like to apologize for the inappropriate verbage, words that I used,' he said. '… I’m really ticked off at myself for saying that. I don’t have any prejudices and it really makes me mad that I even said that and I’m disappointed in myself. … What I was trying to do was be funny and it’s not funny and even more it isn’t funny to me. I was trying to make a joke and it was a bad choice of words and I really — I really, really — feel bad about it and I wanted to apologize. I’m going to apologize to my team. I’m going to apologize to the people in Hawaii.' A Notre Dame spokesman said the school likely would not comment."

NOM's Newest Ally: Santorum

Rick Santorum hasn't been a senator in over two years -- Pennsylvanians booted the right-wing Republican from office in 2006 -- but that hasn't stopped the National Organization for Marriage from enlisting him to further their campaign against marriage equality.

Santorum sent an e-mail blast to conservative supporters asking for help to stop President Obama promised repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. Under the logo of the National Organization for Marriage and their campaign "2 Million for Marriage," Santorum asked, "I need you to be one of 2 million Americans working to STOP Washington from repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Will you help?"

The former senator, who has publicly compared gay relations to bestiality, warned that ending DOMA could lead to same-sex marriage spreading like a "grassfire... across America." Santorum goes on to say that same-sex marriage is being pushed by the gay elite and Hollywood insiders and that, "This elite has been plotting to take away our right to define marriage as a husband and a wife... and then to use legalized gay marriage to indoctrinate our children in school."

At the end of the missive, Santorum implores his readers to lobby Congress, donate money for antigay commercials, and "recruit" millions to the cause.

Domestic Partner Bill Passes House Subcommittee

A bill that would grant spousal health benefits to domestic partners of federal employees cleared a House subcommittee today by a five to three vote. In June, President Obama granted some benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers but said he could not grant full benefits without legislation.

The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act would, in addition to health benefits, extend retirement and disability plans and life insurance to same-sex partners.

About Being Transgender

Anglican Church may have ’two track’ structure to support gays

The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy and same-sex unions, the Archbishop of Canterbury said Monday in a bid to keep the church unified.

Rowan Williams outlined his thoughts on the future of the deeply divided church body on his Web site in response to the recently completed General Convention of the Episcopal Church, the communion’s U.S. branch.

At the meeting, Episcopalians authorized bishops to bless same-sex unions and research an official prayer for the ceremonies. The church also voted to effectively drop a pledge that it would act with "restraint" when considering any more openly gay candidates for bishop.

The moves dismayed more traditional Anglicans, and Williams, the communion’s spiritual leader, is now trying to keep the communion unified.

He wrote that "a blessing for a same-sex union cannot have the authority of the Church Catholic, or even of the Communion as a whole," but suggested there may have to be a "two-track" model where the church allowed different viewpoints on certain issues.

He said there could be "two styles of being Anglican, whose mutual relation will certainly need working out, but which would not exclude co-operation in mission and service of the kind now shared in the Communion." He urged that such an arrangement not be spoken of "in apocalyptic terms of schism and excommunication."

The 77 million-member Anglican Communion is the third-largest grouping of Christian churches worldwide, behind the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches.

The Episcopal Church caused an uproar among some Anglicans in 2003 by consecrating the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, and Williams has struggled since to keep the church from splitting.

Four conservative U.S. dioceses and dozens of individual Episcopal parishes have voted to leave the national denomination since 2003. Many have affiliated with like-minded overseas Anglican leaders. The Anglican Church of Nigeria started a Convocation of Anglicans in North America, including breakaway Episcopal churches in Virginia.

Anglican leaders had pressed Episcopalians for a moratorium on electing more gay bishops, and asked the church not to develop an official prayer for same-gender couples.

But the Episcopal Church noted last week that a growing number of U.S. states allow gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships, and gave bishops in those regions discretion to provide a "generous pastoral response" to couples in local parishes.Williams said in his article that homophobic violence and prejudice was "sinful and disgraceful," but that the church’s Bible-based teachings on homosexuality could not be overturned easily. He compared the state of those in gay relationships to heterosexual couples living together without being married.

"Whatever the human respect and pastoral sensitivities such persons must be given, their chosen lifestyle is not one that the Church’s teaching sanctions," he wrote.

Williams’ article drew a mixed response in the U.S.

The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity, the Episcopal gay advocacy group, said she was disappointed that Williams portrayed the U.S. moves toward inclusion for gays and lesbians as "solely a political or rights-based position" when the Episcopal Church has cited a theological basis. But she welcomed keeping the communion together in a way that would not classify branches as superior or inferior.

"What the archbishop is really stating is the reality: that the structures that have served the Anglican Communion historically need some work," Russell said. "The 21st century is different than the 16th century."

Canon Kendall Harmon, a traditionalist leader in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, said while there are positives in Williams’ latest attempt to hold the Communion together, the Anglican leader left unanswered key questions about how a two-tiered system would function.

"It’s going to increase the chaos in the province of the American church, and in the Anglican Communion," Harmon said.

With Line-Item Vetoes, Schwarzenegger Wipes Out CA AIDS Services

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised budget in the amount of $85 million after "additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts."

Rex Wockner says the Governator "decimated" AIDS services. He explains:

"Although the cuts curtailed state funding for HIV-related education (an 80% cut), prevention (80% cut), counseling (70% cut), testing (70%), primary medical care (50%), home care (50%) and housing (20%), one cut stood out in particular: the termination of all funding for the Office of AIDS' Therapeutic Monitoring Program. For some 35,000 working- and middle-class Californians whose HIV care is paid for by the state, that program pays for viral-load testing and drug-resistance testing. Viral-load testing is mandatory in HIV care, as it is the only way to determine if a particular HIV drug cocktail is working in a given patient. Drug-resistance testing comes into play when a drug cocktail that had been working stops working in a given patient. The two types of testing together guide a doctor in getting a patient on a new drug cocktail so the patient's viral load again becomes undetectable. Patients whose viral load is undetectable are very unlikely to develop deadly HIV-related opportunistic infections, and they are dramatically less infectious than those whose virus is not suppressed."