[frogjerk]

This is just going to energize the moral, values voters of the GOP. Thanks Mike and the DIMS!

[river rat]

There was wisdom in previous centuries -- when folks considered "actors" as undesirables and had them keep their distance and their "place"..

In most cases -- they've been proven correct.

Semper Fi

[Zetman]

Is Michael J. Fox the Christopher Reeve of 2006?? Have the democrats no shame whatsoever??

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

The president's executive order only limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It did not prohibit the research itself. In fact, privately funded researchers are free to destroy as many embryos as they like in their pursuit of embryonic stem cell research — but they must conduct such research with private, not public funds. Therein lies the rub.

The reason that embryonic stem cell researchers are agitating for taxpayer money is that their private funding has dried up. Private investors and venture capitalists are not investing in embryonic stem cell research because they perceive it to be a pipe dream unlikely to produce any progress and, hence, investment returns, in any reasonable time frame.

Researchers aspiring to be on the dole and investors whose money is mired in floundering stem cell research firms are looking to federal funds for relief. Such groups already hoodwinked California voters for $3 billion last year with Proposition 71 — a sum that pales in comparison with what Congress could slop in their troughs.

The bottom line is that if embryonic stem cell research had real promise, private investment would be overflowing into biotech companies. But it's not.

"We urge Congress to deal with this matter on its scientific merits without raising a laundry list of other speculative scientific approaches that serve only to confuse the issue," wrote Berg.

Berg is correct that Kass' suggestions for embryonic stem cell research fail to help resolve the debate. On the other hand, embryonic stem cell research and Berg's article are the epitome of scientific speculation and rhetorical confusion, respectively. (Stem Cell Smoke and Mirrors

[MPJackal]

I feel bad for Michael J Fox, but at the same time, to be willing to kill babies so you can have your "cure" is the height of selfishness. Mr Fox is saying, in essence, that his life is more valuable than a baby.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

BUMP

[VOA]

CRIMINY!
I just saw Michael Fox in a short clip on NBC Nightly News (I think
it was while he was on the road today).
And he was NOT doing the duck-and-weave that was shown in
the TV advert!

I feel sorry for anyone with Parkinsons (well maybe not in the case of
one A. Hitler).
But I feel a bit digusted towards someone that won't honestly promote
their point of view on how it should be conquered (e.g., with embryonics
instead of adult stem cells)

[VOA]

link to advert in response to Michael J. Fox...to be aired during 4th Game
of World Series:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725184/posts

(probably it will run just in the Missouri area due to the Amendment 2 contest)

[edpc]

Are we supposed to sit in wonder of someone who has the "bravery" of showing his illness before a national audience? This same "brave" person did everything he could to hide it during his departure from Spin City.

[gabidale89]

Michael J. Fox is just the latest victim to be used by the Democrats to promote their awful views.

They always need a victim because they know real Americans won't support their heinous ideas.

I find it absolutely sickening. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Reeve, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha, and on and on and on. I still don't know of Republicans using this many victims to promote their policies - or any at all.

[edpc]

Perhaps the most gauling aspect of the research, aside from some of the source material, is the demand for public funding. Many of the talking heads and celebrities clamoring for this research have the means to privately fund the research. Why pull public money for endless research and trials? The answer is simple. Leftists are not results oriented. They would rather take money from taxpayers, throw it down a rathole, and claim they're trying to do something. In a privately funded world, people want to see something from their investment, or they pull out.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don't feel sorry for Fox. Anyone who will go off their medication just to make campaign ads to get DemocRATS elected are blithering, moronic idiots and Fox is their poster boy.

[harpo11]

Apparently, the democrats and old media pals are all in a huff over Rush Limbaugh's analysis of the Fox campaign ad. Rush has just as much right to discuss these matters as he views it just as Fox had in doing this absurd misleading ad.

I'm also thinking no one should criticize Rush Limbaugh, after all, he does have a disability as well. Without his cochlear implant, he could not hear. I mean if that's the way the crazu left wants to play it.

[shield]

It's great RUSH let folks know this was mostly a act my MJ Fox. Even before this was brought out...I didn't buy it. I kinda knew Fox was acting. When he's not acting he hardly shakes. That new med he's on has done wonders for him & his shakes.

Michael stop drinking the diet sodas...aspartame is bad news...especially for you.

[Grampa Dave]

The link below is an interesting one with interviews with Fox and Ali.

http://www.veotag.com/player/Default.aspx?pid=b48abfb4-aa12-43e5-99e2-1bf3a47fa464

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726267/posts

The Wrong Tree Embryonic stem cells are not all that.
http://www.nationalreview.com/ ^ | May 13, 2004, 8:58 a.m. | Wesley J. Smith


Posted on 10/26/2006 7:32:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave


http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/smith200405130858.asp

May 13, 2004, 8:58 a.m. The Wrong Tree Embryonic stem cells are not all that.

By Wesley J. Smith

Once again the media are trumpeting the call among many in Congress, pushed by millions in Big Biotech lobbying money, for President Bush to reverse his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research (ESCR) to those lines already in existence on August 9, 2001. Fronted this time by the grief-stricken Nancy Reagan, and boosted by Hollywood celebrities such as Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, and Mary Tyler Moore, we are warned darkly, as a recent New York Times editorial put it, that the existing federal-funding restrictions "are so potentially damaging to medicine" that the administration is encountering opposition to its policy even among its "own conservative supporters."

We have heard this mantra many times before but repetition does not make it true. A great deal has been learned about the potential of regenerative medicine since President Bush reached his "compromise" decision ending the stem-cell debate of 2001. And indeed, perhaps the time has come for us to revisit this issue, albeit from a different angle than suggested by ESCR boosters. Perhaps the problem with the Bush plan isn't that it provides too little federal money for ESCR, but too much — at least if our national goal is to find cures to diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, and Parkinson's in the shortest period of time.

The media is so excited about the supposed potential of embryonic stem cells that it gives far too little attention to the many and serious problems associated with this potential source of regenerative medicine. Listening to the hype, one might think that ESCR is on the verge of tremendous success. But the hard truth is that it does not appear likely that embryonic stem cells will soon become the panacea that fervid supporters of the research often claim. For example:

In animal studies, embryonic-stem-cell treatments have been found to cause tumors. In one mouse study involving an attempt to treat Parkinson's-type symptoms, more than 20 percent of the mice died from brain tumors — this despite researchers reducing the number of cells administered from the usual 100,000 to 1,000.

Tissue rejection is another major hurdle to the use of embryonic stem cells in medical treatments. This is why ESCR is known as the gateway to human cloning, since one proposed way out of this potential dilemma is to create cloned embryos of patients being treated as a source of stem cells, a process known as "therapeutic cloning." Not coincidentally, many of the same proponents who are now urging increased funding for ESCR also advocate that we legalize and publicly fund therapeutic-cloning research, which many find immoral because it creates cloned human life for the sole purpose of experimentation and destruction.

Besides being immoral, therapeutic cloning also looks to be wildly impractical. For example, a recent report published by the National Academy of Sciences warned that it could cost in the neighborhood of $200,000 just to pay for the human eggs to derive one cloned human embryonic-stem-cell line.

The above is an excerpt. Please go to the full thread for an excellent rebuttal to Fox and the other lying liberals:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726267/posts