Comments on: The Fierce Urgency of Tomorrow

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:44:26 +0000

Yes, brave men run in my family!

By: AnnieCollier

AnnieCollier — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:19:18 +0000

eeeewwwww. You are brave. LOL

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:00:52 +0000

I think you have to buy and download the software that lets you do smiley faces, but I’m not sure.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:56:05 +0000

I live on an island with a large concentration of liberals on it. You get used to the smell.

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:54:09 +0000

weird. i will tell Susan.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:51:52 +0000

They didn’t just steal my name, they stole a whole post of mine, then added that last sentence.

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:00:26 +0000

hey you – name stealer!
You are not Andrew191. Don’t use other people’s names, please.

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:59:02 +0000

Someone else posted this. They have a different email address then you do.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:51:07 +0000

All the polls you site use the term “stem cells” not “embryonic stem cells”. I’M ALL FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH, DAMNIT! WHERE DID I EVER STATE THAT IT WAS MY VIEW THAT STEM CELL RESEARCH IS WRONG. Are you too incredibly stupid to see that I was merely presenting the other side of the argument as a way to show just HOW and WHY people who appose EMBRYONIC stem cells feel the way they do?

The polls you cite are MEANINGLESS in this context, because we don’t know what questions were asked, how they were asked, who was asked, etc. If you asked me if I thought it was OK for medical schools to use cadavers in research, I would say SURE. If you asked me if I thought it was OK for medical schools to use cadavers that had come from China as executed prisoners that hadn’t consented to the use of their bodies, I would say HELL NO!!!

Again, using polls in an attempt to PROVE a position on a moral or ethical issue is IDIOTIC! And again, it’s an ad populem argument, and you are lost cause if you don’t know what that means.

Elise, you should from this point forward say nothing bad about Obama, because with your reasoning, a majority of people chose him, so all he does must therefor be correct.

And statistically speaking, the vast majority of people believe in God. So, Miss Statistician, are those conclusive statistics that PROVE the existense of God?

By: elise

elise — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:44:13 +0000

Candy please post a link to your information.

By: elise

elise — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:37:28 +0000

Hey, you sound like Undercover Black Man to me. I think he was the last one to use the race card on nq. I’d like to know what Obama was doing between the election and inauguration when he could have been hitting the books learning about his new job. Taking another vacation in Hawaii? He’s really “overwhelmed” now and can’t get his act together. Does he really know anything about delegating responsibility to someone who could have written up this order in a few days? Why is his new Sec of Treasury all by himself because his assistants haven’t been appointed? Oh yeah! They have to go through this horrible vetting which failed to find out about unpaid taxes by the new Sec., the investigation of his frm appointee for Commerce, unpaid taxes by his frm appointee for HHS. We thought he was ready to go on day one so what happened to that? So you’re a former Clinton lawyer? Bill didn’t make too many mistakes, but you are obviously one calling Hillary supporters racists. BTW was he really born in Kenya as his relatives there claim?

By: elise

elise — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:21:03 +0000

KmX hate to burst your bubble, but research with adult stem cells isn’t going anywhere, but these embryos are going in the dumpster if they are not used for research. Or maybe they flush them down the toilet.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:12:32 +0000

Hi NQ, why is my post reprinted, why is my name in blue, and why does my blue name lead to a site for internet grants for women when I hit on it?

By: elise

elise — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:08:42 +0000

andrew, good lord. The embryos are created in petri dishes not aborted. Your extravagant verbiage is sometimes entertaining, but don’t try to teach statistics to an experienced statistician about polls.

In 2001, a Harris Poll reported that a 3-to-1 majority believed that stem cell research should be allowed. Three years later, a new Harris Poll finds that this majority supporting stem cell research has increased to more than 6-to-1. Other changes since 2001 are a substantial increase in the number of people who have seen, read or heard about the debate on stem cell research, stronger support for arguments in favor of stem cell research and less support for arguments against it.

That latest poll shows 60% in favor of stem cell. Those speaking out in favor include many prominent Republicans such as Nancy Reagan, Orin Hatch and Gov. Schwarzenegger. Fifty Republicans in the house voted with the Democrats to repeal the resolution for restricting federal funding and it was the first time Bush ever used a veto. The religious right in this country is the only group opposing so your views don’t reflect majority opinion.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:53:26 +0000

The point that was quite clear, yet you fail to understand, is that there is a distinct difference between “embryonic” stem cells, and various other stem cells that don’t require abortions. The whole debate has been polluted by an orchestrated propaganda effort that was geared toward ramping up an issue that most people don’t understand, into a political weapon meant to damage Bush. Rarely, if ever, as the MSM coverage raged, were people ever informed about promising stem cell research that had nothing to do with embryos.

And if you don’t understand the fallacy of an ad populem argument, and since you ask “Why should Americans roll over for a minority viewpoint” then you will never grasp logic, or why the syllogism is flawed. And don’t ever, ever, EVER criticise, question, or disparage Obama, or you’ll be a stinking hypocrite. He was after all, chosen by a majority.
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!