Posted on 11/24/2007 8:50:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
Amazingly, Prop 71 was so bad that even FairOpinion opposed it! I think it was a first. ;-)
No way! FO actually opposed something that was endorsed by his-holiness-the-great-GOP-God-like-sultan-of-all-knowledge Arnold Schwazenegger? Get outta here!
FO must have had a nasty bump on the head that day to oppose Arnold's "brillant" leadership for California.
I know—it’s hard to believe, ain’t it? At least she *started out* opposing it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249395/posts?page=26#26
A few posts later on the thread, she says Arnie is just naive.
Maybe before the election she changed her position entirely (I don’t remember.)
Thanks for that explanation in layman’s terms. Should it also include that the “new and improved” technique results in cells that are not rejected by the body — whereas embryonic stem cells, or donor cells (from someone other than the intended recipient/patient) could have rejection problems? Again, this is just my layman’s understanding that this development is better on several counts, not just ethically but medically as well.
These murderers will ALWAYS demand the “right” to embryonic stem cells. It must be continued to keep their efforts going to devalue life in all things—abortion, euthanasia, cloning, etc.
Scientists and companies that are to benefit from this government money will sue to get the money promised them, regardless of whether there exists better technology or if it is even worth spending money on.
If you haven’t already, I think it is reasonable to thank God for this breakthrough. The blessing of saving the pre-born and the blessing of the potential to do so much good for those of us out of the womb.
(And thank the researchers and those who funded them, of course.)
Less than a week later the Democratic Congress of NJ with the help of Corzine tried to put a bill through that would fund the building of one of their research centers.
I hope this will stop the whole nonsense in its tracks, but I fear some folks are already so well entrenched as far as money is concerned that they are not going to let this died the ugly death it deserves.
I always follow the money. Take any issue, no matter how controversial or good sounding, can always be traced back to its beginning by following the money.
I was an engineer for a company that specialized in the creation of technological answers to environmental problems. What we hadn’t figured out at the time is that it was an issue and not a problem. Even though we came up with working and proven processes, we were unmercilessly attacked by the environmentalists we strived to help.
We subsequently realized the only thing we were helping them with was lighteneing their wallets since they no longer had an “issue” as a means to raise money that went to “raise awareness” of their personal bank accounts. It operates the same way many charities do by only giving a small portion of the donations to the issue they represent while most goes to “administrative costs” and “processing fees”.
We also learned a sizable monetary support mechanism for these groups were none only than the corporations or businesses who would have lost a revenue stream should the “issue” have been resolved by one of our projects.
This also applies to government agencies.
Schedenfreud
Ah - a smart man connects the odts - first one on the board. I had a thought a couple hours ago that some smart REPUBLICAN(oximoron?) would start a series of commericals about stem cells and global warming and say something like, “We believe in the power of creative people and that good intentions do not mean good science. Look at stems cells developed from skin tissue - most people did not think it was possible, they thought you had to kill embroyos. They think you have to kill business, cars and families or else we will destory the planet. I say they are just as wrong about the planet as about stem cells.!!”
Fine. Let them sue. But if there is no destination then the freeway doesn’t get built.
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