I'm reminded of a letter to the editor in our local newspaper from someone who admitted she voted for Obama. She said she didn't know that he was opposed to banning partial birth abortion and the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. She was troubled to have found out the truth after the election was over and said she would never have voted for him if she'd known about his stand on these issues beforehand. Why were so many so willing to believe so many lies?

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of the tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. - Ayn Rand

The government is wasting tax payer dollars (hey they're good at it). Even if the technology to clone and harvest embryonic stem cells becomes possible, nobody will ever utilize it.  The problem is that it is extremely EXPENSIVE to clone a human and harvest stem cells from the cloned embryo.

Adult stem cells on the other hand can be harvested from the human nose at a fraction of the cost.  Scientists not on the dole recognize that adult stem cell technology is a viable path. Embryonic stem cell technology will never compete with it in the market place.

At least those words are found in the transcript. There's a big old thread down the page where I'm a troll for pointing out the words in the headline aren't even it the transcript!

You're irrational if you don't want the new president to succeed - Gingrich

Where is it mandated or permitted for the government at the federal level to engage in this funding anyway?  Or, quite honestly, MOST funding that they engage in.  Furthermore, I fail to see where this killing of babies is mandated or permitted within the Constitution.

For our nation to have allowed the Tyranny of the Masses and the free access to our wealth for the purpose of vote buying is unforgivable.  WE are all to blame.  Yes, even those who "did not vote for this."  For decades we have allowed the nation to take steps towards its own destruction, never stopping to remember that the water running downhill does eventually reach bottom.  We have accepted comfort at the expense of Liberty.

The current situation is the result of "democracy".  Do you get a greater sum by adding zeroes? Why is it that the vote of an educated (formal or self) individual who has extensively and exhaustively studied the issues and history at hand (and may have come to a different conclusion than a similar person), a person who has contributed at every level of society by abiding laws, paying taxes, working hard, raised a family, etc., counts the same as a person who drives drunk, beats their wife, doesn't give a crap about education in any way (for themselves or other), doesn't know who all their children are or even if they live, etc?

Why does their vote count the same as yours?  Why does your vote count the same as theirs?  This country was founded as a Republic, with enough looseness to let folks go about their lives and make something of it. It was not founded as a warm body count, because the framers of our nation knew their history, they knew what happened when the plebes figured out that they could vote for their "bread and circus" on someone else's tab.

ALL politicians, both major parties, and all minor parties are guilty of doing this (vote buying) WHEN THEY CAN.  We have taken a great idea and structure (Constitution) and marched it neatly down the road to bankruptcy in all forms; financial, moral, ethical, etc.  The folks running the show have focused on learning how to GET the job (politician) instead of learning HOW to DO the job right.  The administration's double-standard and double-talk is typical of most, if not all, politicians.

Remember also the tactic of "de-humanizing" in order to justify the oppression, murder, and general disregard of another person.  The Nazis said "Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Freemasons, etc. aren't people, they are animals.  It is okay to kill and torture animals."  The left demonize "right-wingers" to be able to consider them less that human. Communists eliminate the "politically incorrect." The same thing is being done when people decide a baby in not a person until a certain time.  Who decides?  When does it end? Where does it end?  Why is the baby only a human after birth?  Am I not a human beacuse I am a "right-winger" and an "evil man-oppressor of women"and all the nasty names I have been called for man, many years? When a person is de-humanized because of creed, color, life-development stage, geography, gender, etc., they become marginalized and fair game for the Tyranny of the Masses.

Now, I describe myself as "anti-abortion."  I know there are some of you who will take exception to that and say that I should use the term "pro-life."  First of all, I do not accept "political correctness" from anyone.  I respect your choice to be "pro-life" and I understand the emotional impact of that label. I use the lable that I do because I am not "pro-life" when it comes to murders, rapist, arsonists, terrorist and the like.  I am also not "pro-life" in regards to socialized medicine, agricultural livestock, hunting, etc.  I hold "pro-choice" to a similar standard.

I believe in a deep respect and honoring of life, to respect that which you need to kill in order to surive (meaning agricultureand hunting.)  To those who have left the protections of society to commit heinous acts, I feel no remorse in the act of insuring they never commit such a crime again.  In combat, a man must kill to see victory for the safety of their people.  A man does not lightly kill any of the Divine's creatures, be it cattle, goats, dogs, etc. A man kills only from necessity, never for pleasure.

I am not, however, interested in using future life to prolong my own.  I will not kill children, those born or unborn for any reason. It is every REAL man's duty and honor to protect at the expense of THEIR life all children (and women for that matter.)  Sexist?  Not if you really think about it. What other greater purpose can men serve?  A womans proud duty is also to protect those very same children.  When it comes right down to it, a society exists as a mechanism by which the future (children) are preserved.  Children represent the goodness and hope for our people. 

Lives and life-spans are at their longest and highest quality in history.  This has been accomplished without ESCR.  Mostly it has occured through folks having enough freedom and wealth to simply eat better food and drink cleaner water.  I do feel deeply for folks afflicted with a terrible health circumstance.  I think it is important for us as a people to help those who need it. Note that I said "us as a people", not the government.  Like all things of this nature, regardless of what the government decides, we still have to do what is right.  The responsibility comes down to us.

Some would ask if I would use ESCR to save one of my children.  The answer is no.  I would not kill another of my children, a copy of my child (who would be their own person) or someone else's child.  I would do what I could for my own with the resources I have, but not at the expense of another's wrongly taken life.

People get wrapped up in the "can we do this" instead of giving attention to the "should we do this."

Ideas such as ESCR and abortion promote that we can borrow from the future of life for the convenience of our present life.  This does not work in ANY area of life. We can't borrow wealth from our children anymore than we can borrow their life and still hope that they will exist. What future does a nation have which kills off its women and children?

"You can have Peace or you can have Freedom; just don't count on having both at the same time." - R.A.H

 "I'll take the harsh reality of liberty over the illusion of security...everytime!" - me