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- Dumbledorito, on 12/27/2007, -8/+111Come on. You expect me to believe that Bush read a book?
- diggstown, on 12/27/2007, -5/+101If Lefkowitz had only read him some passages from 1984 that day...
- yakimushi, on 12/27/2007, -8/+94Don't let Bush see The Matrix or he'll ban the internets and take away our tubes!!!
- Tex, on 07/28/2008, -10/+92I wish this were satire, but it's not.
Hell, I wish this even remotely surprised me. - inactive, on 12/27/2007, -15/+89It's a lot more simple than that. He's a clueless idiot.
- theshrew4, on 12/27/2007, -11/+71Just like how "The Last Starfighter" inspired him to get into politics.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28239 - smacksaw, on 12/27/2007, -11/+59You know what this always reminded me of? Organ donation.
Think about the logic here. You can't use an aborted foetus to save lives. But you can use a dead person for organ donation or for science. It implies that we'd somehow create pregnancies for abortions to provide foetuses for research, yet I don't see a thriving industry of murder for organs, except that old story about the guy waking up in a bathtub full of ice after two hot women stole his kidneys.
No, the real reason Bush is against it is that he's a logic-impaired hayseed. I detest abortion. But if it's going to happen anyway let's at least be pragmatic about it. I'm against people dying in car accidents, but that doesn't mean I'm going to deny the seriously ill their organs because I think people should live. - Baku, on 12/27/2007, -6/+53There's no ***** way Bush has read "A Brave New World"... Unless there's a popup version, or it was acted out by sock puppets.
- pintomp3, on 12/27/2007, -6/+48zygotes and stem cells = precious and worth saving
american soldiers and iraqi civilians = collateral damage
could the conservative pro-lifers be any more hypocritical? - Dumbledorito, on 12/27/2007, -13/+48Then I'm guessing he's a creationist because "2001" freaked him out?
- noahhoward, on 12/27/2007, -3/+33It never ceases to amaze me how many people, who joke about Bush not reading, don't read. The passage from the book that scared him was read to him.
- floppytaco, on 12/27/2007, -3/+32"I was elected to lead, not to read."
- pintomp3, on 12/27/2007, -2/+30maybe he did, except instead of a warning he thought it was a manual.
- inkhead, on 12/27/2007, -12/+39No actually George Bush said on several occasions, he was against Stem Cell research on Aborted Fetuses. You do realize that these are fetuses that are going to the dumpster already right? What's better than recycling? People were just appalled because it reminded them that fetuses are being throw away, so if we LOGICALLY play STUPID and pretend the fetus doesn't exist and let them go straight to the dump, then it's just fine.
I remember when heart transplants first came out, most people thought it was ungodly, taking the heart of somebody recently dead and putting it in another person, how awful! Now it happens everyday. - sonnybobiche, on 12/27/2007, -11/+34There's a difference between accidental death and abortion. Making the best of an accidental death is well within moral norms for most cultures. Benefiting from what some would call murder is typically not.
If you're about to digg me down, please reread what I just wrote and make sure you actually disagree with it before you do so. - smthop3, on 12/27/2007, -4/+26Everyone here who is bashing Bush for not funding stem cell research "consistently" realizes that Ron Paul probably would cut off even more funding to it? I only say it because mostly everyone on Digg is a humongous Ron Paul supporter.
- InferiorWang, on 12/27/2007, -3/+25Just in case anyone missed it in the comments:
>>Apparently no one has taken a copy of “1984″ into the oval office.
>>-G - roflcopterdown, on 12/27/2007, -2/+20Oh my dear Ford, I was scared by Brave New World, too. But it wasn't because everyone was a clone. When I read Brave New World, I was scared because everyone in that world was a self-centered, hedonistic philistine hopelessly addicted to the constant barrage of hype they were being systematically fed, and then I turned on the news.
- HotWingBias, on 12/27/2007, -14/+31Lies! Everyone knows this man cannot read.
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -29/+45Warning: The following facts may cause your head to explode.
1. Bush IS against using tax money to fund embryonic stem cell research.
2. Bush is NOT against using tax money to fund adult stem cell research.
3. Bush has NOT banned ANY type of stem cell research, and embryonic stem cell research continues.
4. Adult stem cells produce the most useful, predictable, and controllable results.
There's lots of other types of research that the government doesn't fund either. I don't get gobs of tax money mailed to me every time I ask. Do any of you? - Fullvinyl, on 12/27/2007, -0/+16Well, they need those zygotes and stem cells to grow into adults to fight and die in more meaningless wars. They're precious in terms of supply.
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -1/+17He already has a copy. Although it's been relabeled as "Dick Cheney's Playbook".
By the way, not liking this week's cut in chocolate rations. - ManyAsOne, on 12/27/2007, -2/+18There actually was a case in 2006 where a doctor deliberately sped up the death of a patient in order to try to harvest his organs, but he lost his medical license for it and is now doing jail time. So while it's not by any means a thriving industry, it's not quite an urban legend, either.
- OwdenBowden, on 12/27/2007, -3/+17Seriously - Stem Cells are the Future for us all. There is a company called Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. ( http://www.pluristem.com/ ) That is dedicated to the commercialization of non-personalized (allogeneic) stem cell therapy products for the treatment of several severe degenerative, malignant and autoimmune disorders.
It is unfortunate that the people in government cannot seem to keep to the separation of Church and State. Frankly, it is the Christian Right that is behind all of this crap. Lest they forget What Would Jesus Do? HE WOULD HAVE BEEN USING STEM CELLS TO HEAL EVERYONE. - inactive, on 12/27/2007, -1/+14Yeah, maybe his adviser used a really scary monster voice when he read that part. Bush probably pulled the covers over his head.
- Tex, on 07/28/2008, -3/+16I stand corrected.
- gendjinn, on 12/27/2007, -0/+13Iraqi civilians didn't volunteer.
- bubba9999, on 12/27/2007, -2/+12It's almost as bad as blindly believing anything that you're told without questioning it, then towing the party line, isn't it?
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -3/+13i really wish the daily show was back with writers. this sort of stuff is meant to be splayed on cable tv.
- bunker6, on 12/27/2007, -4/+14It was a book on tape
- Beatmiser, on 12/27/2007, -1/+10I saw 1984 filed in 'US History' at Borders the other day. Some enterprising jokster? Or haunting mistake...?
- akilleen, on 12/27/2007, -3/+12The sad part is, he didn't even read the book. Someone just read a passage of it to him.
- janeuner, on 12/27/2007, -0/+9Instead of 37000 copies of the Constitutions, he should have been sent 37000 copies of 1984.
- wandywalsh, on 12/27/2007, -1/+10Apparently you cannot either. Read the article again.
- Jok3r, on 12/27/2007, -6/+14Oh but i bet he loves that great book 1984
- MaximusPryme, on 12/27/2007, -1/+9NEO... CON!
Not even a pity laugh? - Chirp08, on 12/27/2007, -2/+10whats funny is if you take any one person who is against this, have them parent a kid with one of these diseases, and present them the choice between "praying for your child who will eventually die" or "saving your child with stemcells so they can live a normal life", guess which way they would go.
- Miche1987, on 12/27/2007, -2/+10It was read to him by his advisor.
EDIT: And I need someone to read these comments to me. I totally didn't notice noahhoward's comment right above mine. - gegroff, on 12/27/2007, -9/+16It makes sense considering Bush bases his entire life on another fictional book.
If there is a hell, I will be there. - heypetray, on 12/27/2007, -1/+8RTA. A passage was read to him.
- ozydingo, on 12/27/2007, -0/+7And the non-suicide bomber Iraqi civilian casualties? Do they not count because a couple Iraqi citizens were suicide bombers?
- nebion, on 12/27/2007, -2/+9Note however that Bush's policy bans any federal funding for any institution that performs embryonic stem cell research...so this effectively means that any institution that gets federal funding for *any* project can't perform such research unless it is willing to give up federal funding for *all* of its projects? That effectively eliminates all US universities etc...
Additionally, to those people who think that human life begins at fertilization - a large portion of fertilized eggs end naturally. Many birth control methods (including the usual pills and IUDs - not just "day after pills", which for some reason get all the attention despite similar mechanisms) also tend to often avoid pregnancy after fertilization.
If you're going to present embryonic stem cell research as such a problem (or "day after pills" for that matter), you had better be against any birth control besides condoms and spermicides, as well, if you want to be consistent. - datarefuge, on 12/27/2007, -3/+10nonsense. He refuses to fund EMBRYONIC stem cell research. There's plenty of funding out there for adult stem cell research. And indeed, adult stem cell research has actually produced results.
- dullly, on 12/27/2007, -4/+11no, you too are a moron, and an idiot. Read some freaking science and you will learn that embryonic stem cells are now totally worthless. They can now manufacture them more efficiently from adult cells. "This is truly the Holy Grail: To be able to take a few cells from a patient -- say a cheek swab or few skin cells -- and turn them into stem cells in the laboratory," said Robert Lanza, a stem cell pioneer at Advanced Cell Technology.
- SpyDerMann, on 12/27/2007, -4/+11Quick. Somebody handle him a copy of 1984. Who knows, might just work :)
- bowens44, on 12/27/2007, -1/+8Point out the lies.
- bowens44, on 12/27/2007, -5/+12Nonsense. Of course the government should fund it. Are you one of those guys who thinks Ron Paul should be president?
- localzuk, on 12/27/2007, -0/+7Wow, way to RTFA...
- Thuktun, on 12/27/2007, -0/+6Life imitating The Onion. Scary.
- Smoove, on 12/27/2007, -1/+7I support privately-funded research and oppose publicly-funded research. The news here is that Bush is basing major policy decisions on scary bed-time stories read to him by lobbyists.
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