Comments on: REPORT: Public Strongly At Odds With Bush’s Position on Stem Cells http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:57:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Happy Guy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3149798 Happy Guy Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:43:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3149798 Fix the title of this entry. You people love to leave out the word "embryonic" when saying "embryonic stem cell research". But twisting words is the hallmark of liberalism. If you can't fight with facts either twist the truth or make it up. ROTFL Fix the title of this entry. You people love to leave out the word “embryonic” when saying “embryonic stem cell research”.

But twisting words is the hallmark of liberalism. If you can’t fight with facts either twist the truth or make it up.

ROTFL

]]> By: Valiant Penus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3010903 Valiant Penus Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:49:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3010903 big Pharma doesnt wan't anything "cured" (no money in cures), so they don't want the research done.. dovetails nicely with the biblehumpers amazingly selective concern for human life. they keep up the "its never right to take innocent life under any circumstances"mantra, but anyone who truly and consistently followed that logic would never advocate war. its a talking point and a cheap rationalization of thier moral vapiditidy, nothing more. most religious nuts are control freaks, much like most business sharks.. it only makes sense that they would swim in the same tank.. big Pharma doesnt wan’t anything “cured” (no money in cures), so they don’t want the research done.. dovetails nicely with the biblehumpers amazingly selective concern for human life. they keep up the “its never right to take innocent life under any circumstances”mantra, but anyone who truly and consistently followed that logic would never advocate war.

its a talking point and a cheap rationalization of thier moral vapiditidy, nothing more. most religious nuts are control freaks, much like most business sharks.. it only makes sense that they would swim in the same tank..

]]> By: dixie blood http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3003524 dixie blood Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:04:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3003524 <em>Comment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm</em> <strong>Why do Repuginiscums hate the less than Nazi, Aryan perfect people??</strong> Comment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

Why do Repuginiscums hate the less than Nazi, Aryan perfect people??

]]> By: dixie blood http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3003212 dixie blood Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:53:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3003212 <em>Comment by The Parkinson's Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm</em> <strong>Smart post!!! Right on point!!!!!!</strong> Comment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

Smart post!!! Right on point!!!!!!

]]> By: Bob http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3000686 Bob Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:19:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3000686 This is the collateral damage that's not ok, evidently. Why is a life not quite yet viable more important (at least worth screaming about more) than one already stable and independent? Why are innocent dead Iraqis or Americans or whoever ok as collateral damage but not cells of embri? It seems to me to be hypocritical to call yourself 'pro-life' but you want to decide what life is more important. This is the collateral damage that’s not ok, evidently.

Why is a life not quite yet viable more important (at least worth screaming about more) than one already stable and independent?

Why are innocent dead Iraqis or Americans or whoever ok as collateral damage but not cells of embri?

It seems to me to be hypocritical to call yourself ‘pro-life’ but you want to decide what life is more important.

]]> By: Raymond Funamoto http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-3000618 Raymond Funamoto Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:16:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-3000618 CHIMPya IS A CRIMINALLY STUBBORN, WILLFUL, NARCISSISTIC, PERVERTED, SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHOPATHIC NAZI-FASCIST SCUM----THAT IS WHY HE IS SO CONTRARY TO COMMON SENSE, LOGIC OR REASON, BECAUSE THESE POSITIVES AND ESPECIALLY STEM-CELL RESEARCH, ARE ANATHEMA TO HIS NEGATIVE MINDSET AND WORLDVIEW----CHIMPya IS INDEED A MAD-SAD F*CK WHO SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON AND GUILLOTINED(DON'T FORGET FRANKENCheney and the REST of Bushland Uber Allies) FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!!! CHIMPya IS A CRIMINALLY STUBBORN, WILLFUL, NARCISSISTIC, PERVERTED, SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHOPATHIC NAZI-FASCIST SCUM—-THAT IS WHY HE IS SO CONTRARY TO COMMON SENSE, LOGIC OR REASON, BECAUSE THESE POSITIVES AND ESPECIALLY STEM-CELL RESEARCH, ARE ANATHEMA TO HIS NEGATIVE MINDSET AND WORLDVIEW—-CHIMPya IS INDEED A MAD-SAD F*CK WHO SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON AND GUILLOTINED(DON’T FORGET FRANKENCheney and the REST of Bushland Uber Allies) FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!!!

]]> By: ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2999199 ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:15:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2999199 <em>I’m here. I think I’ve made my views clear though. You have a question for me? Comment by Jake — March 31, 2007 @ 12:49 pm</em> Your views are really clear? We could sum them up with Heil Bush. Right Nazi boy? I’m here. I think I’ve made my views clear though. You have a question for me? Comment by Jake — March 31, 2007 @ 12:49 pm

Your views are really clear? We could sum them up with Heil Bush. Right Nazi boy?

]]> By: NakedEmperor http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2998167 NakedEmperor Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:14:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2998167 Jake, Does KKKarl pay you overtime when you are working on Saturdays? Or like a good fascist republican you don't believe that you have the right as a worker? Jake,

Does KKKarl pay you overtime when you are working on Saturdays? Or like a good fascist republican you don’t believe that you have the right as a worker?

]]> By: Jake http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2997845 Jake Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:49:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2997845 GSD: I'm here. I think I've made my views clear though. You have a question for me? GSD:

I’m here. I think I’ve made my views clear though. You have a question for me?

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2997545 unbelievable Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:33:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2997545 <em>Bush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for THIS… along with all their other crimes against morality. Comment by The Parkinson's Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm</em> Sorry to hear about your condition. I think what the Bush Regime is doing to denyyou relief is criminal. However, I do think that this sort of passive attitude is what has gotten Christianity, and other believers of after-lifes, into trouble - thinking that these people will be dealt with in some unproven afterlife - rather than deal with them NOW in this provable life... I have a good friend who stands up for nothing because he leaves it up to some unprovable diety to impart justice. And when people take -advantage of him, as they frequently do, he does nothing to stop them, so that there is no justice and probably further similar acts towards others. What would the world be like if everyone thought and acted that way on all issues? I don't want to find out... Bush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for THIS… along with all their other crimes against morality.
Comment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm

Sorry to hear about your condition. I think what the Bush Regime is doing to denyyou relief is criminal.

However, I do think that this sort of passive attitude is what has gotten Christianity, and other believers of after-lifes, into trouble – thinking that these people will be dealt with in some unproven afterlife – rather than deal with them NOW in this provable life… I have a good friend who stands up for nothing because he leaves it up to some unprovable diety to impart justice. And when people take -advantage of him, as they frequently do, he does nothing to stop them, so that there is no justice and probably further similar acts towards others.

What would the world be like if everyone thought and acted that way on all issues? I don’t want to find out…

]]> By: The Parkinson's Pundit http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2997267 The Parkinson's Pundit Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:20:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2997267 <strong>I know that this administration could care less what "the people" have to say about anything... but still... If you walked into a burning laboratory and had only enough time to save either a petrie dish full of leftover embryos from an in vitro fertilization -- or a person in a wheelchair -- which would you save? No doubt we'll have to wait until 2009 for this. But there <em>WILL </em>be federal funding for ESCR, and there <em>WILL </em>be amazing cures to be found. For many of us suffering from Parkinson's <em>(diagnosed in 2000), </em>it might be too late. At the very least, it will be eight wasted years. Bush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for <em>THIS</em>... along with all their other crimes against morality.</strong> I know that this administration could care less what “the people” have to say about anything… but still…

If you walked into a burning laboratory and had only enough time to save either a petrie dish full of leftover embryos from an in vitro fertilization — or a person in a wheelchair — which would you save?

No doubt we’ll have to wait until 2009 for this. But there WILL be federal funding for ESCR, and there WILL be amazing cures to be found.

For many of us suffering from Parkinson’s (diagnosed in 2000), it might be too late. At the very least, it will be eight wasted years.

Bush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for THIS… along with all their other crimes against morality.

]]> By: True Blue Liberal » REPORT: Public Strongly At Odds With Bush’s Position on Stem Cells http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2997136 True Blue Liberal » REPORT: Public Strongly At Odds With Bush’s Position on Stem Cells Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:15:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2997136 [...] Read more Stem Cell [...] [...] Read more Stem Cell [...]

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2996801 shane Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:45:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2996801 Comment by bennett — March 31, 2007 @ 11:37 am I was referring to those 30%, true believers. And the people who will vote for the next Republican candidate who will then cater to that Evangelical "base". This is an issue that potentially helps all of us and the religious right stands to obstruct the research needed. Comment by bennett — March 31, 2007 @ 11:37 am

I was referring to those 30%, true believers. And the people who will vote for the next Republican candidate who will then cater to that Evangelical “base”. This is an issue that potentially helps all of us and the religious right stands to obstruct the research needed.

]]> By: bennett http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2996502 bennett Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:37:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2996502 <em>Aging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death. Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am</em> This has nothing to do with baby boomers. If you noticed, most people want stem cell research. Especially the boomers. It is evangelicals who dont want it and they come in all ages. Bush does not represent the baby boomers. Many of your boomers are in California and we passed stem cell legislation. It's time the rest of the world joins us. Aging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death.

Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am

This has nothing to do with baby boomers. If you noticed, most people want stem cell research. Especially the boomers. It is evangelicals who dont want it and they come in all ages.

Bush does not represent the baby boomers. Many of your boomers are in California and we passed stem cell legislation. It’s time the rest of the world joins us.

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2995802 shane Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:24:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2995802 If neocons cared about anybody but themselves Hurricane Katrina would have been enough to turn them against Bush. They don't even really care about the people who died on 9/11. They're only afraid something like it might happen in their areas. That's why they're so willing to send all the brave soldiers, unprepared, into harms way. Because they believe the crap Republicans have fed them about Muslims walking the street of Utah if we don't engage them in Iraq. Anybody who can see what has happened to Michael J. Fox, before and after is documented, and not see how important this research is will never act out of empathy. If neocons cared about anybody but themselves Hurricane Katrina would have been enough to turn them against Bush.

They don’t even really care about the people who died on 9/11. They’re only afraid something like it might happen in their areas. That’s why they’re so willing to send all the brave soldiers, unprepared, into harms way. Because they believe the crap Republicans have fed them about Muslims walking the street of Utah if we don’t engage them in Iraq.

Anybody who can see what has happened to Michael J. Fox, before and after is documented, and not see how important this research is will never act out of empathy.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2995455 Jay Randal Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:17:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2995455 GSD > the Bush lover trolls are still all passed out drunk. Remember last night was Friday and drinking booze is how they are able to post crap on TP. Being intoxicated enables them to defend the Bush Regime stupidity. GSD > the Bush lover trolls are still all passed out drunk. Remember last night was Friday and drinking booze is how they are able to post crap on TP. Being intoxicated enables them to defend the Bush Regime stupidity.

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2995283 unbelievable Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:13:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2995283 <em>Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment. Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am</em> Living in non-Atlanta Georgia, I can tell you that it is true and doesn't stop at illness. They have ZERO empathy for anyone about anything they've never experienced. It's how they can tell homeless people "Get a job" without batting an eyelash, or think there way is the only way and they not only have some right to force it on everyone else, butto actually get offended when the person they are victimizing or oppressing gets upset about it... Disgusting. Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment.
Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am

Living in non-Atlanta Georgia, I can tell you that it is true and doesn’t stop at illness. They have ZERO empathy for anyone about anything they’ve never experienced. It’s how they can tell homeless people “Get a job” without batting an eyelash, or think there way is the only way and they not only have some right to force it on everyone else, butto actually get offended when the person they are victimizing or oppressing gets upset about it… Disgusting.

]]> By: GSD http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2994495 GSD Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:59:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2994495 <strong>Shane said: Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly.</strong> True, true. We heard the Republican right slamming and smearing Latino's for a year up until the election. Now Seedy Gonzales is in hotwater and that bloated, childless, thrice divorced pusball junkie Limbaugh is saying that Gonzales is under attack because he's Latino. No shame. -GSD Shane said: Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly.

True, true. We heard the Republican right slamming and smearing Latino’s for a year up until the election. Now Seedy Gonzales is in hotwater and that bloated, childless, thrice divorced pusball junkie Limbaugh is saying that Gonzales is under attack because he’s Latino.

No shame.

-GSD

]]> By: GSD http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2994326 GSD Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:57:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2994326 Notice the absence of trolls? The trolls must still be watching the Saturday morning cartoons and eating Captain Crunch in their jammies with the slippers attached. -GSD Notice the absence of trolls? The trolls must still be watching the Saturday morning cartoons and eating Captain Crunch in their jammies with the slippers attached.

-GSD

]]> By: shane http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/comment-page-1/#comment-2993617 shane Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:49:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/31/ruy-stem-cell/#comment-2993617 Reagan didn't believe that AIDS was a crisis, but he has alzheimers and Nancy is on the charge for stem cell research. Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment. Many elderly Republican voters are concerned only with their tax dollars and not about the future of the country and the deficits their tax cuts create. Aging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death. Reagan didn’t believe that AIDS was a crisis, but he has alzheimers and Nancy is on the charge for stem cell research.

Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment.

Many elderly Republican voters are concerned only with their tax dollars and not about the future of the country and the deficits their tax cuts create. Aging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death.

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