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   harleyquinn said, 8 months ago

   It is not the ideology that gals me it is they fact that they want to use Tax money to do it. So there goes more of my tax money down the drain. If it is such a good idea let the private sector run with it. Let them take take the heat over whether or not it is ethical to use aborted babies! Leave my tax money out of it! Further more I want Stem call research but it has been shown Adult stems cell work better.
   Oh well yet another fluff me up moment for the Big O, bowing to his creators who put him in office!

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   believecommonsense said, 8 months ago

   I’ll be glad to see the Bush war on science come to an end.

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   motivemagus said, 8 months ago

   harley: No, adult stem cells do not work better. You’re listening to Republicans again. Bush and his ilk waged an active war on science – not to mention giving taxpayer monies to religious organizations, which I REALLY object to.

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   senorbullwinkle said, 8 months ago

   All those micro baby’s would be so much better off ,flushed down a toilet,I should know,I’m a scientist. I have a PHD in toilet’s and I know what you can flush down a toilet,and they’ll go!Drug companeys don’t want to cure you! That’s why the goverment needs to take the “money” aspect out of it. So when they find a cure for what ail’s you, you can just say HELL NO,& just stay sick. It’s too bad, for all the knowledge you have on the subject,NO ONE wants to hear you ! So go cry quietly in the corner. Good day ?

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   senorbullwinkle said, 8 months ago

   And,Oh yea,Do you have any idea of how much money the goverment gives to drug companeys? R U kidding! do you know how many lobbist the drug companeys have? And then the drug co.’s pay some of it back to congressmen and senator’s. We don’t need drug companeys. They ARE the problem.

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   Simon_Jester said, 8 months ago

   The embryonic stem cells that will be used are leftovers from fertility clinics, ones that are going to be be discarded anyway.

   So, what’s the problem?

   Oh, and since when is healing Parkinson’s and giving paraplegics a shot at the use of their limbs ‘tax money down the drain?’

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   cdward said, 8 months ago

   HQ almost had some truth in there. Scientists have recently made great strides with adult stem cells, and they do have some real advantages over embryonic stem cells. However, most scientists also say that the need for embryonic stem cell research is great.

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   claudermilk said, 8 months ago

   Re the toon: HOORAY! Reason and common sense finally trumping ideology. It’s been a long time.

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   Corosive Frog said, 8 months ago

   Before 2005, I had my reserves on stem-cell research. I too thought it was weird to use embryos as spare parts to fix other peoples…

   But something happened.

   In the fall of 2005, I was at Moncton university. I revolved pretty much around the Aigles Bleus, the guy’s hockey team (I was pretty much of a puck bunny and had a huge crush on one of the guys, teehee!). Well, I was at a game once and saw a body check gone horribly wrong…for the guy who gave it. I, like the rest of the audience at the game, saw him lie on the ice for long minutes and the paramedics took him to the Dumont Hospital. His name was Sébastien Savage. He has been paralyzed from the neck down since then.

   The story made headlines across Canada. I still think growing “spare parts” from clones is weird, but I couldn’t stand before that guy, his family and his teammates and say “we have the technology to make you walk again, but we won’t use it because of ideological reasons”, I just can’t do that.

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    HUMPHRIES said, 8 months ago

    Ms Frog, You’re not alone with your feelings. Most people can find grounds for looking over or reevaluating their convictions when events intrude upon personal lives.

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    harleyquinn said, 8 months ago

    Ok senoer bull tell me how they “take the money out of it” and I would agree with you. And if I am wrong and if it is left over from fertility then cool. But I still do not like the idea of my tax money going for something like this. Shoot I am against spending my tax money on just about anything that private sector can do and most likely do better.

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    Dale Hopson said, 8 months ago

    harleyquinn states “It is not the ideology that gals me it is they fact that they want to use Tax money to do it.”

    Freedom isn’t free… and taxes is not capitalized, so had a small “t”.
    NEXT?

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    fritzoid said, 8 months ago

    senorbullwinkle says:
    “And,Oh yea [sic],Do you have any idea of how much money the goverment [sic] gives to drug companeys [sic]? R U kidding! do you know how many lobbist [sic] the drug companeys [sic] have? And then the drug co.’s pay some of it back to congressmen and senator’s [sic]. We don’t need drug companeys [sic]. They ARE the problem.”

    Until you learn to spell, nobody’s going to take you seriously in a public forum. If you don’t know (or care to find out) how to pluralize a noun, why should anyone imagine that you know (or care to find out) anything at all?

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    deadheadzan said, 8 months ago

    Ask Nancy Reagan about the need for stem cell research. Anyone with a friend or family member suffering from Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injuries, etc. Wants scientific research done.

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    chromosome said, 8 months ago

    Simon_Jester, claudermilk, Corosive Frog, etc. who agree with Mr. Auth,
    I agree. As a technologist who works on diagnosing cancer, I feel we should use these cells, which would be discarded otherwise. We also need to keep the sensationalism out of cloning research, which (in my opinion) is best used toward understanding cellular systems and the development of tissue and organ transplants.

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    oldlegodad said, 8 months ago

    More fat for this fire.
    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pelosiexcommunication/2009/03/06/189394.html?s=sp&promocode=7BD3-1

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    NoFearPup said, 8 months ago

    Any scientist or science institution could have done and did do this research before without government money. This is an abomination on humanity - that should be enough to make any wise citizen question the propriety of experimenting on Human embryos. And it is furthermore a “bailout” for bad scientists and corporations and organizations that traffic in human embryo and fetal tissue research, i.e. the Abortion Lobby. There is very little noble in this quest to harvest human embryonic material. We all will be held accountable for our actions on this earth. Are you willing to except the consequences of violating your God-given conscience?

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    jkshaw said, 8 months ago

    Oh happy day. Another link for us to read, and from Newsmax, the news organization beloved by the right wing crazies.
    Also, the cells that will be used in stem cell research are left over from in vitro fertilization and would otherwise be destroyed. Understand? Destroyed.

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    NoFearPup said, 8 months ago

    It is appointed once for a man to die and then the Judgement. Hebrews 9:27; 2 Corinthians 5:10. “These embryos are going to be destroyed anyway” does not sound like a good enough excuse to me.

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    NoFearPup said, 8 months ago

    And remember “Answering that (when life begins) is above [his] pay grade.” So what is Obama doing involving himself in this issue at all?

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    LLeRay said, 8 months ago

    Mr. Pup - many avenues of investigation take too long for private money to run the risks involved in the research, plus many diseases are not profitable enough for the companies to spend money on them. Government has to pick up the tab for progress to be made.

    You worry about the embryos that would be disposed of anyway. Would you keep them frozen until there’s a power outage? Isn’t their ‘life’ better spent making the rest of better off? Wouldn’t you die to remove a disease from humanity?

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    tracht47 said, 8 months ago

    Just curious. All you people who claim to be concerned about the sanctity of life, how many of you plan on adopting an embryo?

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    DianeKovacs said, 8 months ago

    Harleyquinn you are ignorant. Do you not care if people who have diseases like Parkinsons, Diabetes, spinal cord injuries may be able to live full lives again? Costs a lot less for them to recover than it does for us to pay Medicare or the costs paid by families to take care of their people. People get to choose to donate their embryos to scientific study or not. Not the government and not by default. Pro-Choice IS Pro-Life.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 8 months ago

    Harleyquinn,If I may,Drug companIES aren’t in it for their health,or your’s. Their in it for the money YOU will pay them. Why cure you when I can sell you a pill tomorrow and 2morrow &2marow.The gov. dont have to worry about stockholders & ceo’s. there findings can used by others(shared),and not be kept from,or have to pay paten rights. They look for cure’s, not drug’s to sell you. big diff.AND,Oh,I’m SO EMBARRASS FRITZ OID !You’ve found me out. I’m a F student, a drop out from the 10th grade.Now does that make you feel superior ?I’m sure it does,but no one’s going to accuse you of being an intellect for reading cartoon’s.This Dyslexic has got your noun hanging with a couple of past participle’s. Good Day ?

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    Simon_Jester said, 8 months ago

    Yes, the fact that they were going to be destroyed anyway IS a good reason, sockpuppy.

    Because then they go to help alleviate the suffering of others.

    And btw, in case anyonw here thinks that instead of going to stem cell research, these embryos should be donated to ‘loving parents’, I would remind you of this little story:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5290BU20090310

    As for youy Harley…where were you and all the rest of the ‘no-pork’ righties when Bush was handing out no-bid contracts like Christmas favors to Bechtel, Halliburton, and Blackwater?

    And no, I don’t how do you feel about it NOW…I’m talking about why didn’t you speak up while it was going on?

    In my opinion, you only consider spending government money on stem-cell reserch to be ‘wasteful’ because a DEM is pushing it, that’s all.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 8 months ago

    And GOD grabed up a hunk of mud and breathed the breath of life into adam and he became a living sole, SO until it breathes it doesn’t live.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 8 months ago

    Harley- the private sector can’t run with it. MS, Parkinson’s, and cancer research is aimed at people who are by definition sick and can’t work to pay for expensive privately developed drugs. Government funding implies that discoveries will help all, and not just those who can afford it.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 8 months ago

    Bullwinkle- I’ve often thought the same thing. After the death of a good friend, it occurred to me that life sure as heck stops when you’ve taken your last breath, and doesn’t get started if you don’t take your first.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 8 months ago

    In general, science is always supposed to be about cold, objective truth, but has always been influenced by politics, at least as far back as Galileo being persecuted by the Catholic church for claiming that the Sun was the center of the Solar System, and not the Earth.

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    senorbullwinkle said, 8 months ago

    At one time, you were going to hell if you cut open a dead body ! Religious fanatics love a crusade no matter how ludicrous.