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the_ignored
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 Posted - 11/11/2008 : 01:25:59
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From this article.
Barely a week since his momentous victory, US president-elect Barack Obama is bringing joy to long-suffering stem-cell researchers.
For years, US progress has been crippled by restrictions introduced in August 2001 by president George W Bush, preventing federally funded researchers from working on all but a few sources of embryonic stem cells - the cells from embryos with huge medical potential for repairing organs and tissues.
Now, those restrictions will be among the first of Bush's executive orders to be swept away, probably within the next 100 days. The news emerged on Sunday from an interview on Fox News featuring John Podesta, the head of Obama's "transition team", which is managing the switch to power. |
Well, at least he's making some positive steps.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
Edited by - the_ignored on 11/11/2008 01:28:10
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/11/2008 : 06:34:56 [Permalink]
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Excellent! And now we await with glee the howls of outrage from the usual, spiritual buffoons.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 10:52:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Excellent! And now we await with glee the howls of outrage from the usual, spiritual buffoons.
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He's a real gem isn't he! |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 20:34:11 [Permalink]
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| It is very strange to think I might actually like this president. I don't know how I feel about liking a politician. Hmmmm. |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
Check out my art store: http://www.marfknox.etsy.com
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 20:45:17 [Permalink]
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| Ok... So I died and did not notice. Fair enough, why not. What really surprises me is that I ended up in heaven... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2008 : 03:39:33 [Permalink]
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| I sincerely hope that he will be able to make all the positive changes he has proposed. I wonder what it says about the fundies and the conservatives that they dislike him as much as they do. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2008 : 04:37:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Maverick
I sincerely hope that he will be able to make all the positive changes he has proposed. I wonder what it says about the fundies and the conservatives that they dislike him as much as they do.
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Oh, they have their reasons:
A: He's black.
B: He's educated and a lot more intelligent than his detractors.
C: He's going to work in favor of people other than themselves.
D: He's wildly popular.
E: He's black.
That about covers it.....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 11/15/2008 : 07:26:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Maverick
I sincerely hope that he will be able to make all the positive changes he has proposed. I wonder what it says about the fundies and the conservatives that they dislike him as much as they do.
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Oh, they have their reasons:
A: He's black.
B: He's educated and a lot more intelligent than his detractors.
C: He's going to work in favor of people other than themselves.
D: He's wildly popular.
E: He's black.
That about covers it.....
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F: He has a funny name that rhymes with Osama. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2008 : 08:27:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Siberia
Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by Maverick
I sincerely hope that he will be able to make all the positive changes he has proposed. I wonder what it says about the fundies and the conservatives that they dislike him as much as they do.
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Oh, they have their reasons:
A: He's black.
B: He's educated and a lot more intelligent than his detractors.
C: He's going to work in favor of people other than themselves.
D: He's wildly popular.
E: He's black.
That about covers it.....
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F: He has a funny name that rhymes with Osama.
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G. He completes sentences and doesn't think with his gut which puzzles his detractors. |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2008 : 11:05:37 [Permalink]
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I'd like to adopt the phrase "Hallelujah!" here for secular use. "Amen" also, but I'll just say "Hurray!" 
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Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Obama plans to remove stem cell restrictions
