Posted on 07/12/2004 4:10:27 PM PDT by Howlin
By Wesley J. Smith
The pattern in the media reportage about stem cells is growing very wearisome. When a research advance occurs with embryonic stem cells, the media usually give the story the brass-band treatment. However, when researchers announce even greater success using adult stem cells, the media reportage is generally about as intense and excited as a stifled yawn.
As a consequence, many people in this country continue to believe that embryonic stem cells offer the greatest promise for developing new medical treatments using the body's cells — known as regenerative medicine — while in actuality, adult and alternative sources of stem cells have demonstrated much brighter prospects. This misperception has societal consequences, distorting the political debate over human cloning and embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) and perhaps even affecting levels of public and private research funding of embryonic and adult stem-cell therapies.
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The media continue to imply that embryos hold the key to the future. But increasingly, it looks as if our own body cells offer the quickest and best hope for regenerative medicine. The time has come for the public to insist that the media stop acting as if adult stem cells are the "wrong" kind of stem cells, and report to the American people fully and fairly the remarkable advances continually being made in adult regenerative medicine.
The way Democrats are embracing Michael Moore and the left fringe, this convention could easily become a far-out-there Wellstone-"funerally" type situation, minus the funeral. I suspect the American public might be repulsed by it if it's over the top. Any possibility Kerry would have a convention free fall rather than convention bump in the polls?
This sounds like pay-to-play.
Did Kerry promise this to Ron Jr., in exchange for him talking at the convention?
This has me concerned.
What else is he promising to the elite but won't discuss with the rest of America?
His father is probably rolling in his grave.
You mean to tell me that the media is lying by omission? AGAIN. LOL
He spent exactly one,ONE semester in college and then dropped out.
Guess we know which side you're on. Fetal stem cell research is immoral and President Bush is on the right side of that issue.
I would love to see Michael Reagan run for office here in CA. That would give him enough experience and exposure to possibly run for president in the future.
William Casey is dead and has been for many years. You're thinking of another guy that was, I believe, a member of the Kitchen Cabinet and whose name escapes me (darn it) at this moment. He also held some major position in one of the Reagan's admin.
His wife is his shrink. He is as gay as it gets. She is a front.
But they won't get prime time..it's only an hour for the big threew..unless..the nets allow them to run over...hmmm?
If you are truly interested in bettering the plight of those struck down by Alzheimers and other aliments then please go to folding.stanford.edu and download the distributed computing client that attempts to crack the code by which certain cancers and aliments like Alzheimers are developed. It's a great program and will not effect the way your computer performs.
This is a good thing for the GOP, although extremely sad for his mom.
The little ballerina is going to cost Kerry a lot of votes.
First act would be an Executive Order? The only Executive Order should be to repeal ALL previous executive orders and shut down this constitutional runaround.
The Legislative Branch makes the laws in this country.
ADOLF REAGAN
Larry Kramer
The Advocate - June 2004
(The following piece will appear in The Advocate issue dated July 6th, which will be on sale from June 22nd.)
Our murderer is dead. The man who murdered more gay people than anyone in the entire history of the world, is dead. More people than Hitler even. In all the tributes to his passing, as I write this two days after his death, not one that I have seen has mentioned this. The hateful New York Times (“all the news that’s fit to print”) of course said nothing about this. We still are not fit to write about with total honesty in their pages. Not really. Just as we were not fit for Ronald Reagan to talk about us. What kind of president is that?
I have been writing a long work of history which I call The American People. I chose this title because in every speech he ever made Reagan went on and on about “the American People.” We of course were never a part of his American People. And we knew it. Year after year of his hateful and endless reign we knew we were not a part of the American People he was President of. He would never talk about us, of course, or do anything for us except murder us. There were no social services for us. There was no research into our health. Even as we were dying like flies. How could he not have seen us dying? The answer is he did see us dying and he chose to do nothing. There was no representation in his government of us. There was never anything for us but his ignoble dismissal of us. All of Washington, indeed the world, knew that Reagan hated us. How could they not? Most of them did, too. And when Daddy doesn’t love you, who is there who will stand up to Daddy? This is a trick that Hitler used and which I believe the young Reagan learned from him. He never had to say much out loud himself about his hatreds; but everyone knew what they were. Gays were as hated under Reagan as Jews were under Hitler. It is a trick that both George Bushes have carbon-copied. We have not been included among their American people either.
I could never understand why Reagan’s hatred of us was so intense and manifest and never-ending. Some of Nancy Reagan’s best friends were gay, the self-loathing Jerry Zipkin, at one time her principle “walker,” chief among them. It is said he taught her how to dress. In my play, Just Say No, I dramatized my own theory of why she and her husband kept gays off their agenda as if we were the plague, which of course, as in some hideous self-fulfilling prophecy, we became. Ron Reagan, Jr. That is why. It was no secret in an ever-widening circle that Ron Reagan, Jr. was suspected of being gay. In his freshman year at Yale (I believe this was his only year there; perhaps there were two) I have been told he had numerous gay experiences. I am well known at Yale. Indeed, I have established the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale to document the evil acts that American “history” has performed on us.
And just as damning of the son’s reputation of course, because it could not be hidden, was that Ron Reagan, Jr. was a ballet dancer. This did not look good and was obviously exceedingly embarrassing to a father who rode so many horses. So off with the tutu and on with a wedding ring. Junior was married off and sent to far-off places in positions of low visibility. I have gay friends in Hollywood, equally closeted, who knew him and know him and protect him. To know him is to be sworn to some sort of pact of secrecy. What a hideous life Ron, Jr. must have led all these years. To be denied a life and to have been so utterly gutless about fighting back. (Well, we know all about that.) While his own mother was gallivanting around with some of the biggest fairies in the world. What hateful parents to have had in the prime of your life, “the great communicator” of a father out there communicating how much he hated you and his wife out there going along with this. I suspect by now Ron Reagan, Jr. actually believes he is straight. By now he may very well be. He may well have been all along. He just looked so suspicious, and of course it was this perceived suspicion that, one way or the other, is what caused his father to murder so many of us. Why does history not recognize this monstrous and never-ending history of hatred and the inestimable number of deaths it continues to cause?
People magazine called me for a quote on Reagan’s death. “I wish he had died before he was elected” is what I told them. I wonder what they will run.
It is remarkable that two of the so-called “greatest presidents” have also allowed the greatest perpetrations and perpetuations of mass murder. Franklin D. Roosevelt was shamefully inept in dealing with “the Jewish question,” (see my play The Normal Heart), most ironically since so many Jews were his most loyal supporters, the Jerry Zipkins of their day. No one really writes about this. Roosevelt is one of history’s great gods. Just as no one really writes about Reagan and “the gay question.” These two major murderers so far have got away with helping to cause the two major holocausts of modern history. Just as Jews are asked to never forget their Holocaust I implore all gay people never to forget our holocaust and who caused it and why. Ronald Reagan did not even say the word “AIDS” out loud for the first seven years of his reign. Because of this some 70 million people, so far, have become infected with HIV/AIDS. I wonder what it feels like to be the son and the wife of a man responsible for over 70 million people so far becoming infected with a virus that has killed over half of us so far. I wonder what it felt like while he was alive to ponder this. For surely he must have thought about it. How could he not? He has been called the consummate actor who came to believe all his lines. Does this not make his legacy even more grotesque? It should.
Hitler knew what he was doing. How could Ronald Reagan not have known what he was doing?
But of course no one is writing about this. Reagan too is one of history's gods.
So far he has got away with murder.
John Kerry won't allow embroinic stem cell research. He's a good Catholic.
You can bet Ron Reagan, son of the hated Ronald Reagan, WILL get prime time at the DNC party.
The GOP should counter by letting Michael Reagan speak at the convention.
I meant to say Ron Jr.
Nobody can deny that some lives would be improved. That doesn't necessarily make one pro stem cell research.
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