Letters to the Editor
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This is simply too bizarre
...to be real.
I can't believe this isn't intended as some kind of a joke. It's just too over the top, and the non-English opener is the kicker.
I doubt any of these people intend for us to take this seriously.
"Stop Stem Cell Research Now!"
It's just hard to believe anyone thinks like this.
I remember the Good Old Days when we used to refer to kooks like this as "John Birchers." Ah, those were the days...
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Oh my God
Republicans are so fucking stupid.
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Yeah, this is so incredibly dumb that it's below contempt
How stupid do they think people are?! Wait...
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Limbaugh
You should really put the video of Rush Limbaugh mocking Michael J. Fox up as well. It's horrifying!!
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JIm Caviezel
My Aramaic is a little rusty, but here is the translation: "Mel Gibson died for your sins."
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patricia heaton's a right-wing nutjob?
never knew it.
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My Favorite part...
...aside from the completely non-sensical Aramaic speaking Jesus-actor, was the complaint that California has spent $6 billion dollars on stem-cell research, yet no cures will be available for the next 15 years. Well, what do you propose? Not spending ANY money on scientific research so that no progress can be made now, or ever? Reality does not yield to petty demands of instant gratification.
By this same rationale, he should be completely up in arms over "progress" in Iraq. No flowers and candy? Not greeted as liberators? No oil revenue paying for things that get blown to bits by us and the insurgents? Billions of dollars a month for an indefinite period of time, for an undefined (and perhaps undefinable) goal, for dubious political arguments about peace and democracy. Does anyone else remember when we were supposed to be in and out in under 6 months? If you want to talk about a terrible waste of human lives, let's start here, pal.
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Send in the Hitlerbots!
An addendum to the ad as presented by, oh, anyone who listens to a bit too much Rush:
"And stem cell research will lead to cloning, and then cloning will result in mad scientists setting up cloning facilities in their underground lairs, and they'll clone a bunch of Hitlers, because I saw that movie "Boys From Brazil". And then there'll be a Fourth Reich, which is like, one reich worse than a Third Reich, but at least Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld can send in Navy SEALS to destroy the underground cloning lairs, but not before all the Hitlers and their Hitlerbots destroy the west coast (but who cares anyway because it's San Fran and LA and all those limp-wristed latte drinkers.) But what if the Hitlerbots blow up Kansas or Alabama or some other God-fearing parts of the country? What if they blow up Branson or Dollywood or Jesus over Six Flags? Where will I take the family to vacation then? It's all the fault of those evil, stupid liberals who ramble on and on. So, uh, stop stem cell research, because if God didn't want you to have cancer He wouldn't have given it to you anyway."
Seriously, anyone get the feeling the right-wingnuts are this close to claiming The Almighty wanted Michael J. Fox to get Parkinson's?
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Patricia Heaton, Nutjob
Yes, she is. I found that out during the Terry Schiavo fiasco. She went on Entertainment Tonight and accused Michael Schiavo of abuse and cover-up. She's a pod person.
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Aramaic translation
Let's see, I get, "LaBara nashbi nasheq" And though I don't have an Aramaic dictionary, I do have a Hebrew one, and Hebrew roots should apply, so I get, "To create my blowing bites." Seriously.
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Aramaic Translation:
"I'm not Jesus, I just play him in the movie."
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"Believe in George Bush, or else it's Parkinson's."
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"Mel, now that YOU'RE out, can you bail out Warner"?
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"Everyone doesn't love Raymond's wife."
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Science?
Where exactly are these statements coming from? It's not "according to...", they're just spewing statistics and statements from no verifiable source. Then again, the Intelligent Design folks aren't big on actual science anyhow (what was I thinking?).
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Patricia Heaton...
...is on the advisory board of Feminists for Life, which gets big money and services from Chief Justice John Roberts' wife. They believe that abortion should not be available in any case; they have argued that teenagers who have abortions do so to fit into their prom dresses. Heaton uttered the following line, which invalidates any decision a woman might make about her reproductive future: "A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy." Your joy and your choices are, as it turns out, determined by a third-rate actress.
Katha Pollitt's take on this follows:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/pollitt
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We are taking down the names...
of these people, right? So, in 15 years when breakthrough treatments are available for debilitating diseases, they aren't getting any.
Who's keeping the list?
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Who are those people?
The only person I recognize is Heaton, who has sold herself out for Albertsons Grocery stores. So, naturally, she holds very little merit or value. The rest are all men with no obvious disease, so they hold no merit and or value.
The fact that the commercial was filmed inside an "echo chamber" convinces me that the producers hold very little merit or value.
So, I can say with certainty that I'm now (and have been) in support of using stem cells, which were to be discarded anyway, NOT FARMED(stupid Patricia Heaton).
as for the money issue, how much is a human life worth? That's where the hypocrisy once again, shines it's light all over the Republican party. If Patricia Heaton had Parkinson's Disease, she would be singing a different tune.
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Can You Say "Limousine Conservatives"??
Not one of these fuckers will ever have to deal with the fall-out if stem cell research is ended or severely curtailed. And yet there they are, running their yaps, interfering with the health potential of others.
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If only we had this thinking in 1961
Can you imagine what the world would be like if we had similar thinking in 1961, when we really embarked on another path of scientific discovery?
You want to spend $22 billion on the Apollo program? And it's going to take how many years to actually land a man on the moon? Who's going to want to pay for something like that and wait so long, especially when it may not even be possible?
Who knows what stem cell research could lead to. It could be a cure for several diseases that it's currently being targeted for, it could lead to some completely unforseen advances, or yes, it could lead to nothing. That's what reasearch is for, exploring the unknown.