Posted on 01/05/2007 3:28:10 PM PST by Caleb1411
Embryonic stem cells have already helped at least one person — Missouri Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, who made medical history when she won a seat in the Senate last month, thanks to the embryonic-stem-cell campaign commercial that Michael J. Fox did to endorse her.
Indeed, last month's sweeping Democratic victory could spell a victory for embryonic stem cell research as well. It's especially important because Fox apparently has decided that having Parkinson's Disease isn't enough for him, and that he also needs the brain tumor that embryonic stem cells create. Recall a study published in the journal Neurology in 1996, in which a Parkinson's patient in China was implanted with embryonic and fetal stem cells. The subject's brain grew bone, skin, and hair — essentially a Siamese twin — killing the man.
I understand Democrats are for euthanasia, but there's got to be an easier way. A gun would be quick and less painful, but — sure enough — they're against those, preferring the drawn-out route instead. We should have seen the warning signs when instead of just injecting Terri Schiavo with something, they wanted her to starve and thirst for three weeks until her swollen tongue protruded like rotting meat, her skin cracked, lips and nose bled as she heaved, vomited, had seizures, and gasped for air.
Stem cells from aborted fetuses were also once thought to be a promising avenue for treating neurological disorders. But in 2001 the New England Journal of Medicine reported on a U.S. study in which patients implanted with fetal stem cells started to writhe and twist about, jerking their heads and flinging their arms, chewing constantly, flexing and distending their wrists, and moving their fingers up and down. One subject reacted so negatively that he now needed a feeding tube
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Great article about a phony, if not dangerous treatment.
It's about the conscription of billion$ of your tax dollar$ - grants, political job$, building grand institutional building$, new federal bureaucracie$, political payoff$, and guilt a$$uagement $urrounding the 'harvest'.
Arnold has started the process out here in CA...with $3 Billion on the table and a dozen person commission appointed.
Adult stem cells HAVE shown treatment potential - yet any news on that front has been ignored and funding is being targeted at embryonics.
It's simply mind boggling.
I am now being represented by clair McKill. I was on campus when the petitions were out to add the stem cell research question to our ballots. THEY DID NOT SPECIFY embryonic or adult stem cell research so I did not sign that petition. Anyone not coming clean is hiding his dirt. Many students did sign it, but did not read the long versions of the questions. My blood pressure rises when I think of where this state is headed, and six years is very long, too long. I am thinking of booking, but I'm from the east, and the cancer there is widespread. I cannot say God Bless America, I have to pray, God Help America, because He can do it, and Blessings are rewards.
This superb biting satire might actually wake up a few folks with
a faint glimmer of a conscience left.
GO GET YOUR MAMMIES GRAMMED
This is hysterical! Make sure you read the whole thing. There is a serious message at the end, but you get to laugh on the way there.
For years and years they told me,
Be careful of your breasts.
Don't ever squeeze or bruise them.
And give them monthly tests.
So I heeded all their warnings,
And protected them by law.
Guarded them very carefully,
And I always wore my bra.
After 30 years of astute care,
My gyno, Dr Pruitt,
Said I should get a Mammogram
"OK," I said, "let's do it."
"Stand up here real close" she said,
(She got my boob in line),
"And tell me when it hurts," she said,
"Ah yes! Right there, that's fine."
She stepped upon a pedal,
I could not believe my eyes!
A plastic plate came slamming down,
My hooters in a vise!
My skin was stretched and mangled,
From underneath my chin.
My poor boob was being squashed,
To Swedish Pancake thin.
Excruciating pain I felt,
Within it's viselike grip.
A prisoner in this vicious thing,
My poor defenseless tit!
"Take a deep breath," she said to me,
Who does she think she's kidding?!?
My chest is mashed in her machine,
And woozy I am getting.
"There, that's good," I heard her say,
(The room was slowly swaying.)
"Now, let's have a go at the other one."
Have mercy, I was praying.
It squeezed me from both up and down,
It squeezed me from both sides.
I'll bet SHE'S never had this done,
To HER tender little hide.
Next time that they make me do this,
I will request a blindfold.
I have no wish to see again,
My knockers getting steam rolled.
If I had no problem when I came in,
I surely have one now.
If there had been a cyst in there,
It would have gone "ker-pow!"
This mach ine was created by a man,
Of this, I have no doubt.
I'd like to stick his balls in there,
And, see how THEY come out!
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