Reuters- Washington D.C.

President Bush, looking confused and disoriented upon his return from the G-8 summit, responded to reporters questions about the stem cell research bill recently passed by the United States Senate. Mr. Bush said "I don't know how else to put it. We support a culture of the living. ". When reporters reminded Mr. Bush that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and American's have been killed or wounded in his pre-emptive war in Iraq, he responded "When I say 'culture' I mean the kind of culture where you have a small clump of cells on a petri dish....That's what I mean by culture... and on this I stand firm. I am for protecting the culture of these small clumps of cells living in petri dishes. They have rights too.".

I wonder, then, who he thinks killed the estimated 60,000+ Iraqis who have perished since the invasion.

Stop there, Farhad, and you've asked the appropriate question for just about any topic. Answer: no.

Heavens! Snow is a Fox News idiot. As for our imbecile of a President, always expect him to veto legislation that is grounded in scientific research. This Administration is psychotic about science. They cannot understand it because they are fundamentally stupid, therefore they must slander it.

This country was once the leader in medical (and other) research. Not any more. We are now living in the Bush country of ignorance, stupidity, and corruption.

Scientifically, the U.S. has now regressed to the Middle Ages. (Just watch the "debate" over evolution).

This illiterate, stupid, Administration, needs to be kept in check over the next two -- miserable -- years that we have to deal with the Idiot - in - Chief. Otherwise, we'll be back to the "Flat Earth Society'.

Vote for the Democrats! You'll be voting for people who have more than half of a brain in this country.

...who mocked Karla Faye Tucker? "Please, don't kill me"?

...who grinned when he was asked about Texas's high excution rate, said he was proud of it, and said he'd just have to disagree with Jesus on that one?

Astounding.

Clearly it's much easier to demonize "Culture of Death Scientists" then it is to demonize "Culture of Death Hopeful Infertile Couples." I hope someone makes a nasty attack ad this next election utilizing Bush and Snow's comments to suggest that the R's consider IVF to be murder and a tragedy.

...and yet it is still being funded by taxes from people like me who opposed it from the very beginning. Not to mention generations to follow who will have to ante up to pay the balance due, since some of it was fought on credit from the Chinese and others.

A war to be paid for by future generations?! Now that's really taxation without any kind of representation. Moral or fiscal.

Hypocridiot!

Pharisee Raff Reed, smug choirboy and water carrier for the whores on the farthest of the far right, has lost convincingly in the race for Georgia Head Hangman, or whatever the hell those confederates call it. Nice race, Raff. White. Pure white. As in surrender. Goodbye, and fuck you very much for your K Street pubic service.

With the Cheerleader-in-chief, it's all about pandering to higher income groups. In vitro fertilization costs tens of thousands of dollars; heterosexuals who have that kind of money expendable in furtherance of uncertain outcomes are a natural Republican constituency. Bush will offend that group when pigs fly.

This anti-stem cell research argument is about as credible as the anti-abortion version. Come on: any normal human being who honestly thought that hundreds of fellow human beings were brutally murdered every week at a neighbourhood Planned Parenthood facility or fertility clinic would be doing everything in their power to stop it, rather than preaching about morality from the safety of their DC podiums. Why aren't these guys out in the streets instead of yapping for the Congressional Record?

I certainly can't condone the violence perpetrated by some extreme "pro-life" activists, but in a way I respect them more than the craven vote-seeking political robots that make up at least one-third of our representatives - you know, just cast a vote against the supposed murder and your immortal soul will be just fine!

On the other hand, how can you respect another one-third or so of Congress who have just recently realised that most citizens are strongly in favour of the research that could save their own children or grandchildren one day? Or the right-wingers that have a particular family reason (a la Nancy Reagan) to retool their "deeply held moral beliefs" on the sanctity of life to make an exception and vote in favour of allowing soon-to-be-rubbish embryos to possibly benefit the future of humankind?

Any way you look at it, it's pretty disspiriting - about politics and a great deal more.

George W. Bush is a person with the IQ of a gear shift in an automobile with an automatic transnmisson. He is capable only of repeating what his "handlers" require him to say. Otherwise, they instruct him to keep his mouth shut. So when he gets his script from Karl Rove's office, he shifts into DRIVE GEAR and lisps the words written on the sheet of paper in front of him.

On those occasions when they fail to maintain complete control over him, such as at the G8 conference, the only thing that issues from his mouth is " Sh _ _ ". Notice that "Yo Blair" did all the talking, and little moron was out of the picture.

So he has been instructed to call for Condi to bail him out because he can't handle talking to intelligent people without embarrassing himself and the USA.

That is our "chief executive", the exhibit of a moron chosen by Dick Cheney neocons to "head up" the executive offices while they see to it that they corrupt the entire system of US government, fill their pockets with lobbyist money, break all the laws they can manage, and run it into the ground - - with the help of the only constituients they have left: the corporations and the whacko Fundamental "Christians".

So the little moron will, of course, want to veto the stem cell bill because his miniscule intellect tells him that they are Fundamentalists like him and he has been told that they like Republicans.

But if Karl Rove tells him the it's a bad thing to do, and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of "Christian" Americans like me tell him he is an idiot to veto the bill, who knows, maybe he may shift into REVERSE and sign the bill.

But he may be too stupid to react so quickly unless Rove or Cheney shout "SIGN THE DAMN BILL, YOU IDIOT, WE HAVE AN ELECTION COMING UP IN NOVEMBER ! "

Well, then, there's chance the moron might come out of his customary stupor and react.

BUT DON'T COUNT ON IT. He's still in DRIVE gear.