this is just reprehensible.
i personally think celebrities getting mixed up with politics is all kinds of messed up. voters in this country are easily confused as it is, they don't need goddamn sean penn fighting crocodiles in the flooded streets of new orleans to distract them from the fact that their senator is a raving dingbat.
but michael j. fox isn't tying himself to a bridge to legalize pot, he's fighting for his life (or at least his mobility) against a terrible disease and if rush doesn't like it maybe he should cure fucking parkinson's. if he's not too busy popping viagra and dragging down the collective iq of the entire country, i mean.
man, i hope mccaskill wins and legalizes stem cell research and they cure parkinson's but the cure actually gives michael j. fox superpowers and he has to stop the evil rushzilla (he was mutated into a slobbering lizard-man by a heretofore undiscovered combination of cialis and johnnie walker green) by throwing him into the sun. twice. fucking lizards hate the sun.
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Oh come on, don't hate on Rush because he's a fan of the little blue pill. I mean, the man has legions of talk radio groupies to think about!
whatever floats his boat, i guess.
I've watched the whole commerical, as well as listened to Rush's FULL radio program on that issue, instead of a selection of quotes.
Fox should be ashamed of himself. Stem cell research is NOT illegal, despite what Fox and liberals across the country would have you believe. It's 100% legal in all 50 states. It's just that the US Government will not fund research that creates cloned human embryos with the purpose of killing them to harvest more stem cells.
That's not so hard to ask, is it? And if you have an outside donor, you can finance all the human embryo research you want, which is how the majority of biomedical research is run in this country anyway.
It's just another liberal tactic to make a non-issue into a mammoth campaign rallying cry, because the Dems don't have any real issues or answers to run on besides being anti-iraq.
fox didn't say it was illegal. he said sen. talent wanted to criminalize it. also, nobody's cloning or killing human anything. the stem cell lines in dispute aren't created, they're harvested from embryos and zygotes (as well as some from umbilical cord blood and adult bone marrow) that are "created for reproductive purposes but are no longer needed" (from the nih website). this usually refers to zygotes created for in vitro fertilization but not used for whatever reason and slated to be destroyed/indefinitely frozen. there are 400,000 such embryos in the US and 22 active stem cell lines that qualify for federal funding. what fox and most liberals want is simply to have the restrictions on creating new lines lifted, so that ethically sound (i.e. no cloning or killing) research can be accelerated. by making the issue about fox and not the disease/treatment, rush is the one who is obfuscating.
If they make it lock solid that people can't make embryos for the sole purpose of harvesting stem cells, I'd be ok with it.
If it's not lock solid, they'll run away with it. Give them an inch, and they'll take "The Island".
even though i don't know agree with Joe (Hi Joe!!), he has a point. "The Island" was bad enough as a movie when i was hungover on a saturday at 3 pm. I don't know if i would survive too long with everyone around me incorporating "The Island" into each sentence they used. :-)
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