Last night during his STFU (sorry, I mean SOTU) Address, Der Chimpenfuhrer declared war against the Werewolves and all their Lycanthrope allies.
http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/years/1943/derfuehrersface.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LycanthropyYes, The Smirking Chimp in The White House called for a ban on "human-animal hybrids."
Werewolves and minotaurs and mermaids, beware! The Republicans are mobilizing their Talibornagain base against you!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Talibornagain"Human-Animal hybrids?" What is Drunken-Fratboy-in-Chief talking about?
He's talking about using therapeutic cloning with animal DNA, or using animal stem cells to treat human diseases.
As usual, The Republicans get an "F" on science, and a B+ on exploiting the fear and ignorance of their base.
http://www.waronscience.com/reviews.phpThis may mean that experiments to that seek cure diabetes in humans by using sheep DNA are now at risk. And so are efforts to cure other deadly diseases in humans using non-human stem cells.
Remember when the only source of insulin came directly from pigs? Some people were afraid of that, too.
What this means is that American researchers will continue to struggle to use a handful of barely useful existing human stem cell lines.
And instead of being able to use animal stem cells, so that human embryos need not be destroyed, the man keeping a seat warm in The White House, who seems to have gotten all his science education from watching B Movies, has declared a Fatwa against The Evil Isle of Doctor Mareau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Dr._MoreauSo, we will continue to destroy human embryos while stem cell research continues in other countries-- such as South Korea, where we just learned a scientist faked his research data to an extent rarely seen before in an otherwise legitimate setting. I don't think an American researcher, peer-reviewed and supervised under our systems, would have gotten away with so much for so long.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10940784And now that Ronald Reagan is safely dead and buried where he can do no more harm , it wouldn't be a bad idea to try and cure Alzheimer's using non-human stem cells. As long as it wasn't used to cure AIDS, and so long as Nancy's Astrologer approved, The Gipper would have wanted that.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/ronald-reagan/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0608-01.htmhttp://www.actupny.org/reports/reagan.htmlhttp://www.parascope.com/articles/0497/reagan01.htmBut if we use sheep DNA to treat Alzheimer's, argues Bush, it will lead us down the slippery-slope toward a world of lesbian werewolves lurking in school bathrooms to rape and eat our daughters.
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/1738.htmlWhy does Bush rail against putting specific snippets of animal DNA into specific body cells under tightly controlled conditions to achieve specific therapeutic results, yet pass laws raising the allowable levels of Mercury and other toxins in the environment which create random and dangerous mutations in humans?
Bush opposes curing diabetes with sheep DNA, but is willing to create a generation of flipper-babies by allowing corporations to pollute without constraint.
http://blog.diggans.com/45861.htmlIf you want to protect the unborn, then you have to protect the environment, and you have to care for the poor.
About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age 5 in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says.
Most birth defects occur in poor countries, where babies can languish with problems easily fixed or even prevented in wealthier nations, according to research released Monday by the organization.
Indeed, about 70 percent of birth defects could be either prevented, repaired or ameliorated, they concluded.
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/birth_defectsPay no attention to the culture of lies, deceit, bribery, treason and corruption that touches nearly every corner of the Republican party! The Republicans are pro-family and anti-werewolf!
http://www.democrats.org/a/national/honest_government/abuse_of_powerWhen you vote, don't think about how to put food on your table, or whether that food is harming your unborn children. When you go to the election booth, just think about gay men having anal sex with werewolves in a world without Christmas, and you'll vote Republican!
Bush is playing to his base. That base is the 39% of Americans who still support him. According to a memo sent between Republican strategist Michael Scanlon and GOP Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, that base is "the wackos" who "get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the Internet and telephone trees...Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-17-bushapproval_x.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wackos.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scanlonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_AbramoffBush's base-- his 39% mandate-- are the simple-minded folks who think Liberals want to ban Christmas and that if gays get married, "Your grandchildren will hear the call to prayer from a minaret," as they proclaimed on a "pro-family" national simulcast.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/22/bush-nixon/
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/21/christmas/index1.html
"Most people's eyes glaze over when you start talking about billions and trillions of dollars," said American Family Association. President Tim Wildmon. "Abortion? Gay marriage? Everyone understands that."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-christians31jan31,0,6073368.story?coll=la-home-nation
Those are the same folks whose eyes glaze-over when you start talking about things like "parts per million."
But they sure get fired-up when you say, "They want to cross people with sheep!"
The Republicans have created another meme to add to their vaporscare arsenal. Something for their base, "the wackos," to come out and vote against-- gay marriage and werewolves. Human-animal hybrids. Give me a break!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VaporScare
We might as well sell them robot insurance.
They're the same people who "had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did." And I don't know what the 2% of African-Americans who approve of Bush are thinking.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900642.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/13/BL2005101300885.html
The 52% of Americans that want to see Bush impeached? How about the 62% of Americans who want to see a time-table to reverse Bush's policies? They're probably gay werewolves who want to ban Christmas.
http://www.democrats.com/bush-impeachment-poll-2
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a6Qmc4rVgCu8&refer=us
The racist, gullible, scared easily manipulated lunatic fringe of 39% is Bush's base.
And I have news for them.
We have already created animal-human hybrids.
We've already crossed people with sheep.
They're the right-wing flock.
They're the Sheeple.
They still live in a Post-9/11 world.
The rest of us live in the Post-Katrina world.
And we say, "Bush Step Down and Take Your Policies With You!"
http://www.worldcantwait.org/