Oh wow, the hypocrasy of the Republicans

Background --- Santorum(R-PA) apparently compared the Democrats and their support of the filibuster to the Nazi party during WWII today. I state right now, that I did NOT vote for Mr. Santorum. (I did however vote for Specter).

ETA---so you can see Santorum's stupidity for yourself:
"Said Santorum: "What the Democrats are doing is "the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It's mine.' This is no more the rule of the senate than it was the rule of the senate before not to filibuster."

From the DailyKos:
This absurd anti-filibuster, we-must-break-the-rules, Democrats-are-like-Hitler argument really has reached the heights of stupidity. The seat Bush seeks Owen to fill is only open at all because Senate Republicans blocked both of President Clinton's nominations for the same position without ever allowing them a hearing, much less a vote.

Is there anyone on my flist that doesn't visit www.dailykos.com regularly? Cause you can tell me to stop posting asides that you already read if you like;)

*Claps*

Okay..Okay..I know you guys are sick to death of me spamming your flists late at night w/ politics, but I have to put this in:

"I think it would be a mistake to eliminate all the rules of the Senate dealing with the filibuster...There's real wisdom in the fact that the Senate is a more deliberate body, that- not all legislation that we pass is good, and sometimes it makes good sense for us to look at it, and so, no, I wouldn't favor reducing the 60-vote margin to, basically, eliminate cloture or eliminate filibuster."
- Sen. Don Nickles, CNN, 1/5/95

Sorry, given the current crazies that my former home state managed to elect this past november, I felt the need to point out that I'm not the only intelligent product of OK and that in the past, my former home state did indeed manage to vote for politicians with a bit of common sense. (Granted, Nickles was always the crazy fanatical senator and Boren was our staid, calm moderate, but hye, sometimes people mature w/ age. Frist, look at this!!).

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Article on msnbc about csi

see, I don't only spam w/ politics

House article -- from May 12 -- spoilers for this past week's amazing episode as well

some thoughts on the embryo cloning debate

So, I'm sure that you've read the articles citing the press releases of the advance of British and South Korean researchers in cloning. The British have succeeded in cloning a human embryo while the South Koreans succeeded in using skin cells from adult patients to "clone" patient stem cells by transfering the skin cell nucleus to that of donor egg to create stem cells genetically identical to the adult patients.

This is sure to increase the furor in Congress over the debate (FYI a Republican --Mike Castle, R-DE, has joined with a democrat to introduce a house bill to allow once again for research on new embryonic stem cell lines). Additionally, I have seen increased debate in various areas of the web about the need for true ethics debates over both embryonic stem (ES) cells and therapeutic cloning.

One of these individually cited themselves as being ethically oposed to therapeutic cloning and ES cell research because (and I quote): "Placental blood or another human source seems ok to me, but I see a distinction to be made with human embryos. How are we to keep from viewing humans as just another comodity to be put into the extraction of profits stream?"

To him and others like him, here is my comment: Humans are already a commodity in the world economics game. Ask any true economist and you will recieve lectures ad infinitum about the importance of the commodity of "labor". ( Additional comments by me )

Note --- I am leaving this entry public currently, so feel free to link. Hopefully no trolls will appear to make me reconsider. I think that debates like this need to be had. These are simply my views as someone intricately involved in research and who actually knows individuals who works on stem cell research (though they focus on cats, not humans).

uggghh

Okay...my stomach can stop churning any time now. If i went all winter w/ just one cold only to catch the flu lalte, I'm going to be pissed.

to make myself feel better, i bought season 3 of the shield. I really hope I like it as much as I did season 1 (season two...just uuugh, not much love. not bad, just didn't enjoy it enjoy it.)

*pokes flist*

hellooo...anyone still awake?

Brain still in completely flighty mode and absolutely no energy. Anyone got any fic to rec to take my mind off of it? Y'all probably know my fandoms....Farscape is the one you are most likely to easily rec me something that will be new. And I'm generally not a huge slash lover unless it has lots of other plot in it.

gaaahh. It's a sad state when friday night of sweeps sucks this bad. I miss Third Watch. Wait a minute, it's friday. Why the hell ain't Numbers on?? Fuck.

ETA...gorram daytime emmys. Why the hell ain't that aired during the day when the people who watch it are the only ones tortured?

Yes, I'm cranky too.