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mayoraaseiAmerica is going to be testing bombs in Australia? WTF?? *Tears John Howard to shreds* The last time this happened people ended up keeling over with cancer.
Bloody self-centred America. Go kill your own people.
Those desperate to get away from Bush can try this. LOL.
And this sums up everything you'd want to say but not hear about the coming Bush administration.
He ran a jihad in the US so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a flock of evangelicals, or "values voters" as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
I wonder how many people opposing stem cell research actually know what it's about and the potential it has in medicine. If at the completion of the research, it means millions of people with incurable cancers, chronic illnesses and genetic disorders can be saved, then I'm all for it. It's alright now to appease any petty morals by attacking scientific research, but wait until you get old and hopelessly sick.
As my bio teacher pointed out smartly, "If you ban abortion, all that's going to happen is that women will be seeking backyard abortions, which is many times more dangerous." Done improperly, it could mean permanent damage to the uterus, and often, haemorrhage resulting in death.
Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice-president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalised our economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." ..."confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.
BWAHAHAHAHA. Poor Fiji.
America is hopelessly self-deluded about its role in the world =_______=;
Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, advocated the death penalty for doctors who performed abortions and warned "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He characterised his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
James DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during the campaign he supported a state party policy banning gays from teaching in public schools. "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."
Capital punishment for abortion. Uh huh. What next? 3 years jail for mentioning euthanasia? =__=; WTF is rampant lesbianism??
And as IF a pregnant single woman living with a boyfriend is going to even register on 8-year-olds. I don't remember my year 3 teacher ever mentioning if she were married, divorced, gay, or necrophilic. (Bless her, she was a nice teacher, sorry about the example ^^;)
One thing's for sure...we're going to be seeing Interesting Times...and knowing Terry Pratchett's definition of Interesting Times...XD
Bloody self-centred America. Go kill your own people.
Those desperate to get away from Bush can try this. LOL.
And this sums up everything you'd want to say but not hear about the coming Bush administration.
He ran a jihad in the US so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a flock of evangelicals, or "values voters" as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
I wonder how many people opposing stem cell research actually know what it's about and the potential it has in medicine. If at the completion of the research, it means millions of people with incurable cancers, chronic illnesses and genetic disorders can be saved, then I'm all for it. It's alright now to appease any petty morals by attacking scientific research, but wait until you get old and hopelessly sick.
As my bio teacher pointed out smartly, "If you ban abortion, all that's going to happen is that women will be seeking backyard abortions, which is many times more dangerous." Done improperly, it could mean permanent damage to the uterus, and often, haemorrhage resulting in death.
Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice-president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalised our economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." ..."confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.
BWAHAHAHAHA. Poor Fiji.
America is hopelessly self-deluded about its role in the world =_______=;
Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, advocated the death penalty for doctors who performed abortions and warned "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He characterised his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
James DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during the campaign he supported a state party policy banning gays from teaching in public schools. "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."
Capital punishment for abortion. Uh huh. What next? 3 years jail for mentioning euthanasia? =__=; WTF is rampant lesbianism??
And as IF a pregnant single woman living with a boyfriend is going to even register on 8-year-olds. I don't remember my year 3 teacher ever mentioning if she were married, divorced, gay, or necrophilic. (Bless her, she was a nice teacher, sorry about the example ^^;)
One thing's for sure...we're going to be seeing Interesting Times...and knowing Terry Pratchett's definition of Interesting Times...XD
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Date: 2004-11-05 11:24 am (UTC)The whole point of stem cells is that they are undifferentiated - so they have the potential to develop into anything. So stem cells are taken before any specific cells form: before any heart or nerves form.
According to my trusty bio prac book, 15% of zygotes fail to develop after fertilisation. That's a lot of (potential) stem cells.
Abortion's okay, up to a point. Shouldn't be encouraged, that's all ^^;
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Date: 2004-11-05 01:53 pm (UTC)Chen.