The DU d'RAT Review
I created this blog as a response to the hypocrisy, nastiness, and negativity at Democratic Underground. The D'RATS do not allow disagreement on their site; they demand their posters tout their party line word-for-word. Any poster who does not march in lockstep is immediately banned. Their cowardice in this, and their calumny towards America's leaders, will not go unanswered as I address the issues of the day--and one of the most negative, detrimental influences in the blogosphere.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
MUST READ: Take Them At Their Word...

NewsMax
Almost as upsetting as the fact that the United States is engaged in a long-term global war against radical Islamists is that a shocking percentage of people seem predisposed against grasping it.
To the perennially oblivious, we are in a war of choice in Iraq, which, among other "elective" actions, is stoking extremism and provoking retaliatory action against us. If we will just cease and desist these actions and otherwise alter those policies giving rise to grievances among radical Muslims, their rage will subside and they'll quit targeting us for extinction.
Those afflicted with this line of thinking not only believe it is our actions and policies that cause terrorists to hate us, but that many of those actions and policies are indeed objectionable.
That is, many of those who think global jihadists can be pacified uncoincidentally also believe they have legitimate complaints against the United States.
To these critics, America is not a shining city on a hill, not a beacon of freedom, not an exemplar of civil liberties, but, under the evil Bush administration at least, a nation that intermeddles in other nations' civil wars and ethnic disputes, systematically abuses and tortures enemy prisoners, spies on its own innocent citizens, runs roughshod over other nations in dictating its will on the international stage and is inhospitable to illegal immigrants.
The critics are projecting their own complaints about the United States on to the jihadists and choosing to believe, despite the overwhelming weight of the evidence and all common sense, that our enemy can be mollified if we'll just quit being a greedy, imperialistic superpower that seeks to impose its will and values on other peoples and exploit their resources.
Of course, these blame-America-firsters are wrong on their complaints against this country. But they are just as wrong about the appeasability of Muslim terrorists.
The terrorists don't just hate us for certain policies we pursue, such as our "occupation" of Saudi Arabia, our alliance with Israel or our stubborn refusal to withdraw from Iraq's "civil war." They hate us because of who we are and what we represent. We could adopt every America-denigrating policy our domestic critics recommend and we'd not make a dent in the enemy's hatred for us.
We can't afford to perpetuate this self-destructive denial of the threat that is right in front of our faces. Our national survival depends on our awareness that short of our national conversion to radical Islam, we are destined for a long-term war against the jihadists.
There is no surer evidence of our enemies' unquenchable malice against us than their own words, which reveal their thinking and sinister intentions. And I've seen no better single, readable source for this than Jed Babbin's alarming new book, "In the Words of Our Enemies."
Based on extensive research, Babbin gives us transcripts of speeches, sermons, interviews and other candid statements delivered by terrorist leaders and the radical sheiks who fan the flames of anti-Western hatred in their mosques. You cannot read them and remain unaware that our enemies are irreversibly implacable and increasing in numbers and resolve.
The radicals believe they have a sacred duty to submit the world to Islamic theocracy, that "it is impossible to make peace with the Jews" and that Muslims "must not enter into a pact with them." "Jihad against them is our worship." "Educating children to Jihad and hatred of the Jews, the Christians, and the infidels … This is what is needed now." They are convinced Islam is invincible, and they will not negotiate with infidels. The West, by its very nature, is an enemy of Islam. There can be no coexistence.
They believe the way we live and project our values around the world, including our respect for and equal treatment of women, constitutes an unappeasable threat to Islam.
America's intractable domestic critics who believe we can mollify the Osamas by withdrawing from Iraq, ending our presence in Saudi Arabia and badmouthing Israel, should read portions from the al-Qaida manual beginning on page 60 of Babbin's book: "The confrontation that Islam calls for with these godless and apostate regimes, does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine gun."
Every other sermon, speech and screed in this book is equally chilling. Purchasing and reading it is one of the best antidotes I can imagine for the ignorance and apathy that could lead to our national suicide.
To find out more about David Limbaugh, please visit his Web site at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/29/100542.shtml
Friday, June 29, 2007
But, Terrorism Is Just A Bumpersticker, Remember

By David Stringer
Police in London's bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said.
The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life"—possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
Jefferson Can Always Teach Him How To Keep It On Ice

NewsMax
Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has put in an earmark request for the Abraham Lincoln National Airport Commission. The trouble is, the airport doesn’t exist – and the commission is run by one of Jackson’s congressional staffers.
According to its Web site, the Airport Commission "has a mandate from its members to plan, develop, finance, construct and operate a commercial airport with passenger and cargo facilities near University Park, Illinois.” The airport would be the third in the Chicago area.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/29/110958.shtml?s=ic
Sounds A Little Like WMD's To Me

By Stewart Stogel
In a wide-ranging comprendium on Saddam Hussein's secret weapons programs, the U.N. Monitoring, Observation, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) reveals that in late 1989, Saddam's military launched a modified Scud missile that could have carried a nuclear warhead.
In a document released on Thursday, UNMOVIC states:
The missile was also believed capable of reaching as far west as Paris.
Another Award Becomes Irrelevant

NewsMax
"It is with such baubles that men are led." Napoleon III
Barbra Streisand performed her first-ever concert in France this week — and was rewarded with a medal of the Legion of Honor.
Heeeeeeeere's Annie!

By Ann Coulter
The Edwards campaign is apparently still running low on donations, so this week they went back to their top fundraiser: me.
I doubled the ratings of the lowest-rated cable news show on Tuesday by agreeing to go on for a full hour to promote my new paperback version of "Godless" -- a mistake I won't make again. As I was walking to the set, minutes before airtime, it was casually mentioned to me that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, might call in.
For the first time in recorded history, the show's host did not interrupt a guest, but let Elizabeth Edwards ramble on and on, allowing her to browbeat me for being mean to her husband. (This delicate flower is very sensitive to rough words, having hired the Edwards' campaign staffer who wrote this: "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit"?)
Say, did any TV host ever surprise Al Franken, Bill Maher or Arianna Huffington with a call by the wife of someone they've made nasty remarks about? How about a call to John Edwards from the wife of a doctor he bankrupted with his junk-science lawsuits?
I think I may have tuned out at some point, so I can only speak to the first 45 minutes of Elizabeth Edwards' harangue, but it mostly consisted of utterly dishonest renditions of things I had said on my "Good Morning America" interview this week and a column I wrote four years ago. (You can't rush Edwards' "rapid response team"!)
more...
http://www.breitbart.com/anncoultercolumn.html
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Cleaning Needed

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-latebrief_28met.ART.State.Edition1.43ac4d4.html
*Democrat Kennedy Flew On Jet Owned By Sallie Mae
http://www.boston.com/news/local/allpolitics/2007/06/kennedy_flew_on.html
*Former Democrat Governor Gets 7-Year Sentence in Bribery Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/us/29alabama.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Leahy's Gotta Whine

By Terence Hunt
President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
The Democratic chairmen of the two committees seeking the documents accused Bush of stonewalling and disdain for the law, and said they would press forward with enforcing the subpoenas.
"With respect, it is with much regret that we are forced down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for mutual accommodation," White House counsel Fred Fielding said in a letter to the chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. "We had hoped this matter could conclude with your committees receiving information in lieu of having to invoke executive privilege. Instead, we are at this conclusion."
Thursday was the deadline for surrendering the documents. The White House also made clear that Miers and Taylor would not testify next month, as directed by the subpoenas, which were issued June 13.
more...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8Q1V3E80&show_article=1
We Know Who the 'Losers' Are...

By James Lewis
Several of my liberal friends have a funny conversational tic: Whenever the talk wanders into certain topics, they abruptly switch off --- change the subject, or urgently go off to do something else. We're friends, so I never try to push them back to that dangerous little "Eeeek!" moment.
But it's just as if they have a little thermometer in their heads, and when things get dangerous, the red line goes way up and all that mercury threatens to squirt out of the top. You can practically see it happening right in front of your eyes.
That's what Sigmund Freud called "signal anxiety" --- or mentally going "Eeeek!" --- there's danger up ahead! Don't let your thoughts run that way! Because, of course, liberals are horribly afraid that they might be wrong --- about abortion, or the war, or whatever secret doubts they harbor in their hearts. It's why they have to shout so loud to drown out other voices.
more...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/free_speech_is_unfair_to_loser.html
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
'King' For MORE Than A Day

By Bernd Debusmann
The Dems Are Going To 'PC' Us To Death

For what is believed to be the first time in its history, the U.S. Senate will on July 12 be opened with a Hindu prayer, the Senate Chaplain's Office confirmed Monday. For more than 200 years, the Senate has opened each workday with a prayer usually delivered by the Senate Chaplain, currently Barry Black, a Seventh Day Adventist.
It is common, however, for senators to recommend religious leaders from their home states to serve as guest chaplains. Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain from Nevada, on will become the first Hindu to deliver the morning prayer. In a statement announcing his scheduled appearance, Zed called the occasion "an illustrious day for all Americans and a memorable day for us."
more...
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200706/CUL20070626a.html
The Leftist's Attack On Free Speech:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/6/26/95419.shtml
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
British Jewry In Crisis

By Isi Leibler
The call for a boycott against Israeli academicians by the British University and College Union (UCU) reflects the depths to which vicious hostility against Israel has become ingrained in British society. It is an abomination for "educators," purporting to be liberal or progressive, to sanction a dastardly resolution boycotting academics from the only democratic state in the Middle East.
It is especially bizarre because Israeli universities are pluralistic with no limitations on the enrolment of Israeli Arab students. In stark contrast, many Palestinian Arab "universities" promote a cult of death, suicide bombers and the destruction of the Jewish state.
It may be politically incorrect to describe such boycotts as anti-Semitic rather than anti-Israel. But the time has now surely come to call a spade a spade.
more...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409638498&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Monday, June 25, 2007
Look Forward To Anger

By Christopher Hitchens
If you follow the link, you will be treated to some scenes from the strenuous life of a professional Muslim protester in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar. Over the last few years, there have been innumerable opportunities for him to demonstrate his piety and his pissed-offness. And the cameras have been there for him every time.
Thanks, Al...
Scientist Implicates Worms In Global Warming
ShortNews.com
Worms are being used commercially to compost organic material and is in preference to putting it into the landfill. The German government wants 45% of all waste to be composted by 2015.
"Everybody... thinks they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming. People are looking into alternative waste treatments but we have to make sure that we are not jumping from the frying pan into the fire," said Frederickson.
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63227
With Friends Like This...

By Judi McLeod
It's Monday and 'little man Lott' and 'little man Lamb' have got this not so little problem: radio talk show kings Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are back on the airwaves.
Crazy AND Dangerous

NewsMax
President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.
Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort—Venezuela's military nerve-center—before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armored vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!"
"We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti- imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday," said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation's immense oil reserves.
U.S. officials reject claims that Washington is considering a military attack. But the U.S. government has expressed concern over what it perceives as a significant arms build-up here.
more...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/25/75325.shtml?s=ic
Sunday, June 24, 2007
What D'RATS Want In A President:

1. I am looking for someone who can and will end the fiasco in Iraq.
2. I am looking for someone who can and will restore the Fairness Doctrine.
3. I am looking for someone who can and will win the election.
4. I am looking for someone who can and will hold Bush and his fellow criminals accountable.
5. I am looking for someone who can and will restore honesty, integrity, and transparency in the voting process.
6. I am looking for someone who can and will impeach the felonious five on the USSC, as well as others who have destroyed the Constitution.
7. I am looking for someone who can and will make universal healthcare an American institution.
8. I am looking for someone who will be a true uniter.
9. I am looking for someone who can and will restore our country's image to the world.
10. I am looking for someone who has foreign policy experience.
11. I am looking for someone who is anti-war, because they have seen firsthand what war really is.
12. I am looking for someone who has a humble background.
13. I am looking for someone who can and will restore the U.S. Constitution to it's pre-Bush state.
14. I am looking for someone with bipartisan appeal.
15. I am looking for someone with diplomatic experience.
16. I am looking for someone who is a true progressive, liberal Democrat.
17. I am looking for someone who believes that everyone had a right to a college education.
18. I am looking for someone who will honor our veterans.
19. I am looking for someone who will not discriminate.
20. I am looking for someone who can and will make the minimum wage a true living wage.
More to follow, I'm sure... (Dinger)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3336803
A Bit Of Good News...

Associated Press
Two decades after Iraq's military laid waste to Kurdish villages, the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and two others to death for their roles in the bloody campaign against the restive ethnic minority.
Al-Majid, a cousin of executed former president Saddam Hussein, was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some 180,000 people during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
more...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19394865/
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Jabba the Butt

By Michael C. Moynihan
And that's not all. Government officials, the Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine director told reporters, are so anxious about his paean to Cuba's health care system that he stashed the master reel in Canada, lest the Bush administration try to seize it.
But the administration needn't worry about Sicko. As with much of his previous work, Moore's latest film is, by turns, touching, naïve and maddeningly mendacious, a clumsy piece of agitprop that will likely have little lasting effect on the health care debate. Moore is right that the American system is sick—on this, there is bipartisan and public consensus.
The United States has the highest per capita health care spending in the world, with comparatively disappointing results. But his radical prescriptions, which include a call for a British-style, single-payer system, will likely have little resonance with viewers.
Indeed, according to a recent ABC News/Kaiser Family Health study, insured Americans are overwhelmingly (89 percent) satisfied with their own care, while broadly concerned about rising costs of prescription drugs and critical of the care others receive.
Sicko starts off rather well, with an effective montage of health care and bureaucratic nightmares, from insurers slithering out of active policies and denying coverage retroactively (with conditions as insignificant as a previously undisclosed yeast infection used as justification) to the rejection of new applicants for reasons both bizarre and abstruse (like the 6'2", 135 pound applicant turned down for being "too thin"). But as is often the case, Moore quickly overreaches, implying that such horror stories are de rigueur, a uniquely American problem that could only be solved with further government intervention.
more...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120998.html
Friday, June 22, 2007
What the Dems Think Of 9/11 and America...
From DU: Are You Still Terrified From Sept. 11th, 2001?
It was a terrible day, and what has happened to America since then has also been terrible. I was terrified on that day, we all were, are we still? I am not however terrified of Osama bin Laden because he seems to be utterly forgotten, I am now terrified of dick cheney and his plans for us all. Is the nine eleven mojo still working on you? Are you more terrified or less terrified now? (Philosoraptor)
DUers Chime In:
--I don't know - Katrina seems just as scary.
--Isn't it incredible how the fear and paranoia spread? Every time a plane passed overhead, I got a little anxious. It was like wildfire. I was terrified for weeks. This is why when people talk of a conspiracy, I have to say "hmmmmmmmmm"..... Bush's word was gold. The government could do no wrong. Everybody flew the flag. It was a neocon's dream.
--Really? Were you really terrified for weeks? I was very annoyed with people who were saying, "Thank goodness Al Gore isn't president!"
--I remember that some people reacted with fear, but many did not. I was asking a lot of questions that day, like, where is the president? My then-husband and I instantly knew that Osama bin Laden was responsible.
--To be honest, the whole thing never scared me that much. I watched everyone around me turn into raving paranoid nutcases, but without having the TV, I didn't get the subconscious programming that everyone else did, and I never got overly scared.
--I had TV at the time and I still wasn't scared.
--No, I was not terrified on that day. I didn't get scared until POS Bush started to turn our country into a secretive, police-state agitprop-driven aggressor nation.
--Not terrified, except of my gov't.
--No, in fact since Oct. 2001 and the Patriot Act, I've been far more frightened by the actions taken in response to it. Everything done in the name of 911 is hogwash perpetrated by authoritarians seeking to use it to gain power.
--I'm not terrified. I'm damn well pissed off at those who use it to further their nefarious plans. And I'm pissed off at everyone who buys into their meme, wringing their hands and saying "whatever it takes to keep us safe." Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? Not anymore.
--If I had known how bad things would get under Bush's fascist regime, THEN I would have been afraid. But the attacks of a handful of terrorists, while horrible, were not that unusual.
--Yes. I am petrified about what horrendous shit the evil fucking bastards occupying the White House are going to do to us next.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1159487
Sorry, I Had To Laugh Like An Ape At THIS One...
Jane Fonda Wants Bush, Cheney Impeached
NewsMax
Jane Fonda and a number of other prominent liberal figures have joined a campaign to impeach President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "war crimes.”
An organization calling itself The World Can’t Wait has taken out a full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times seeking donations and announcing upcoming town meetings in several cities.
more...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/22/105250.shtml?s=ic
Miss War Crimes Of 1972 has the nerve to accuse ANYBODY else of them! Only on the Left would folks be so arrogant--and so clueless.
The First DU d'RAT Review TRAITOR AWARDS!

I don't actually say the words, but I pronounce it "poss" ('POS'). After taking a huge dump, I sometimes will say upon leaving the restroom "wow that was a lot of Bush".
Yes, I teach them to DISRESPECT 'the president". The man is not worthy of an ounce of respect, and yeah, I'll say it - neither is the office. Respect is something that is EARNED. Just winning an election and surrrounding yourself with flags and trappings does not make a person or even his office worthy of respect. Only deeds can do that.
My kids are 7 and 9, and I have taught them since they were very small that George Bush is a liar and murderer and the worst person to take the presidency in American history. They have seen the photos of what Piece-Of-Shit Bush has done to Iraq, and they know the lies he told so he could do it.
Here in the public library they even have two excellent CHILDREN'S books about the devastation Piece-Of-Shit Bush brought upon Iraq, as well as the bullying and starvation campaign that was in effect ever since the FIRST Piece-Of-Shit Bush's war against them.
In spite of those things, I taught my kids not to hate this horrible man, because even he might possible somehow see the error of his ways someday and become a human being. I'm not holding my breath though...
My kids know they can love their country and still condemn its "leaders" when they are corrupt and traitorous.
I teach my kids these things because it's important for them to know, and I won't apologize for it. (Matsubara)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1148973
This post from Democrat Underground, the Democrat party, Leftists, and Liberals is the very essence of what they are all about. It is why they are bad for America--it is why we say they hate this country--and how they prove that they do. That anyone could teach their children these things reveals their thoroughly evil intentions; these comments speak to nothing else.
Vote for a Democrat in '08 and this is who you will be empowering.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Like Gore, Edward's Causes Benefit HIMSELF Most
John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff.
Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he had assets of nearly $30 million, came up with a novel solution, creating a nonprofit organization with the stated mission of fighting poverty. The organization, the Center for Promise and Opportunity, raised $1.3 million in 2005, and — unlike a sister charity he created to raise scholarship money for poor students — the main beneficiary of the center’s fund-raising was Mr. Edwards himself, tax filings show.
more...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/us/politics/22edwards.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Libs, Dems, MSM = Bad For America

By Investor's Business Daily
Last fall, when the jobless rate hit a five-year low of 4.4%, Vice President Cheney was asked by ABC's George Stephanopolous why the administration didn't get more credit for it. "Well," said Cheney, "you guys don't help."
ABC reported on the "exceptionally low" rate, as Stephanopolous described it — albeit 19 minutes into its evening newscast.
"The big broadcast networks have buried the good economic news under an avalanche of bad news stories," MRS concluded. "While the real world offered good news, the networks presented pain."
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=267229438173731
Liberals Want End of 'Right-Wing Radio'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/21/103732.shtml?s=ic
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
An Appalling Argument From the Dems

Once again, Mr. Bush panders to his dwindling base at the expense of millions of lives that could be saved as a result of stem cell research. Yet around 40% of Americans still believe the lie that destroying zygotes is tantamount to destroying a human life.
There is no debate here. The scientific facts regarding this issue are crystal clear. If you are one of the people who believe human life begins at conception because of so called "religious" reasons, I have to wonder where in the Bible it says or when Jesus or Allah or God or Zeus or whatever imaginary being you worship said the words "Thou shalt not remove DNA from thy zygote"
Your religious "leaders" are lying to you. A zygote is not a human being. A zygote is a cell with genetic information that has the potential to grow and develop into a human given the right environment.
Similarly, a sperm cell and an ovum also have the potential to grow and develop into a human, given the right environment, (eg. Close proximity in the latter environment), which, if followed to the religious fundamentalists' "logical" conclusion, makes every single menstruation and ejection of sperm (whether through masturbation or urination) the "killing of a human". It is absurd.
It angers and saddens me to see America - once the world's hub of scientific enlightenment - reduced to this. What happened to the America that invented the light bulb, the America that cured polio, the America that put a man on the moon?
Now, in the year 2007, there are creationist "museums", disclaimer stickers on biology textbooks regarding evolution, Arabic translators being kicked out of the military because of their sexual orientation, and the President of the United States vetoing scientific research because he and FORTY ONE PERCENT OF AMERICANS believe that a zygote is a human being.
How and when did America become a backwards theocracy? (lynyrd_skynyrd)
DUers Chime In:
--These people are a bunch of phonies, and I wouldn't be surprised if drug companies don't have some vested interest in preventing actual cures for things like diabetes, which they probably make a ton of money off of. I've seen George Bush send thousands of people to their deaths, he turned a cold shoulder to Katrina and more than a thousand people died, he's shown himself to be completely lacking in morality and compassion, despite his proclamations of being a "compassionate conservative". I know he doesn't give a damn about these embryos, he's just trying to play to his base and/or protect the big drug companies.
--Our bodies shed DNA 24/7 and don't see it as significant. Logically, that's no BFD.--I do not murder other human beings not because I believe that all life is sacred, but because I believe it is not. Humans are a complex organism, and each individual has their own unique experiences, fears, personality. And yes, I've been "warned before" about the danger of my placing a value on sentience, as opposed to "life", but that's how I get through the day. It's why I do not have a moral objection to abortion, or euthenasia, but do oppose unnecessary wars.
--Point is, the elements that would do the most good are going to be disposed of, what difference does it make to a person of no interest? What difference does it make to the zygote?
--Yes, destroying a zygote is killing life. But its no big deal because life on its own is not what we value. Life is interesting and all. But its not the thing we give rights to. A petri dish full of skin cells cannot vote. It can't be murdered. It can't own things. Thats because it doesn't have a mind.
--Potential beings are not actual beings. Potential people have no rights.
-- Let's say bush has a stroke, but This may have been treated if stem cell research had gone ahead full steam. Years down the road, and bush, already debilitated, by the effects of said stroke, finds out he could have been cured if he had allowed said research to go on, but in his arrogance and complete misunderstanding of science, now lies in a bed, soiling himself and unable to change the channel on the TV, and the story gets looped as the greatest find in medical history, and it was so simple in retrospect, it would have been found in weeks.
This would be Justice.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1149175#1149236
The idiocy of these posts is so sadly apparent. That these dopes thinks a fertilized egg--one that, absent intervention, would develop into a human being--is not a 'life' is totally absurd. This is the hippy flipdip thinking of the Leftists, the Democrat party, who rationalize all kinds of B.S. to further their own aims.
Their lack of scientific knowledge--or plain common sense--is staggering. Their lack of moral direction is disgusting. Vote Dem in '08, and this is what you get.
Hillary Clinton Tape Reveals 'Felony'

By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com
A videotape shows New York Sen. Hillary Clinton committing felonies and should be admitted as new evidence in a California civil case, a forthcoming legal brief to be filed by Friday argues.
The tape shows Clinton - currently the leading Democratic presidential contender - speaking in 2000 with Peter Paul, a Hollywood mogul, and comic book icon Stan Lee about a massive fundraising event for her 2000 Senate race. Paul spent about $2 million of his own money to produce the event. The legal contribution limit to a candidate then was $2,000.
"The evidence is of that rare type that captures the very commission of a crime, namely, that of knowingly soliciting, coordinating and accepting federal campaign contributions far in excess of the legal limit of $2,000," says the brief to be filed by Paul's attorney with the Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District arguing in favor of including the tape as evidence.
more...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/20/82937.shtml?s=ic
Hillary Booed Again at Liberal Conference
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/6/20/110216.shtml?s=ic
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Sleaze Move By the Democrat Party Thwarted

NewsMax
The government in Broward County, Fla., has given up on efforts to sever relations with a local radio station because it also carries Rush Limbaugh’s show.
Michael Moore's ‘Sicko' Stunts

By James Hirsen
Can we expect Moore of the same from "Sicko?"
Zimbabwe's Ball and Chain

The Standard Online
Like or hate him, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shares a passion with British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, golfer Tiger Woods and tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams — blacks breaking into a white men’s world.
His widely criticised and economically dangerous move to repossess land from whites and redistribute it to landless blacks was audacious and unprecedented.
The 1980s’ debilitating structural adjustment programmes are cases in point.
Stupid Idea; the Left Is PCing Us To Death...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nine firefighters died in South Carolina fighting a blaze that swept through a furniture warehouse Monday night, collapsing the building's roof upon them, in a disaster the mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom or quantify."