Who weaseled out of military service while most of our fathers were getting shot up in a southeast Asian jungle, just used the veto for the first and only time during his entire presidency in order to block a nominal amount of spending that could potentially save millions from undignified and torturous diseases and ailments then walks into a bar and says:
"I personally have ordered to events leading to torture, the deaths of tens of thousands of foreigners, and thousands of our troops, but this stem-cell shit just crosses a goddamn border: VETO'D!"
neilbert said at 4:58 PM 07-19-2006: I don't know why this is such a hot button issue. California is spending $3 BILLION dollars on stem cell research and 50 venture capital firms have put up big bucks just recently. There is a lot of money in the private sector and a lot of interest in the private sector for this research. How much more funding is necessary? The vast majority of medical and scientific breakthroughs in this country's history have been accomplished by the private sector. There's no reason for stem-cell research to be any different.
However, there are other problems already in regards to stem cell research. Apparently a group holds the patents regarding stem cell research. "Three patents held by a Wisconsin alumni group may throw a bigger roadblock into stem cell research in the United States than federal funding restrictions, a leading stem cell scientist said Tuesday.
Some researchers believe the patents essentially give the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation rights over all human embryonic stem cell lines in the United States.
If that holds true, that means that anyone who wants to derive medical therapies or other commercial products from embryonic stem cells may have to obtain permission and pay royalties to the foundation, which is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin.
As a result, scientists are going overseas where their research can occur unfettered, said Jeanne Loring, who directs human embryonic stem cell research at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, Calif.
She fears the patents will pose a serious impediment to California's $3 billion stem cell research program, already delayed by lawsuits challenging its constitutionality.
"The patents are impeding our research," Loring said. "They're more important than what's going on in the Senate right now.
"It is making scientists go overseas to do this sort of research," she added. "It isn't the funding that's sending us overseas. It's the patent issues."
josh [email] said at 5:46 PM 07-19-2006: neil, i don't know how many times people have told you to not paste big chunks of articles without at LEAST mentioning where it's from, or maybe even throwing a link... however many times, here's one more... don't do that.
neilbert said at 10:55 PM 07-19-2006: Josh, it's like seven sentences, sorry, I did not consider posting the link story. I have been posting links or stating where the story I quote from for a while now.
brandon [email] said at 9:22 PM 07-19-2006: All I'm saying is that I'm probably incubating a good case of melanoma and possibly lung cancer here, by the time this shit presents itself, we could've had stem-cell gargle and inhalers.
But NOOOO.
Oh and Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve (waves hands)
kiche [email] said at 10:07 AM 07-20-2006: so when is bush going to start encouraging pro-life women to implant all these "snowflake americans" so that they just don't get dumped in the trash instead of being used for life saving research?
