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Prions Evolve Despite Having No DNA
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that 'lifeless' organic substances with no genetic material — prions similar to those believed responsible for Mad Cow disease and similar, rare conditions in humans — are capable of evolving just like higher forms of life. The discovery could reshape the definition of life and have revolutionary impacts on how certain diseases are treated."
How'd those housing starts go in November? Oh, down 19%?
8 years of republican rule drow the country to horrible depression and debt. Yes, democrats haven't been able to stop that in a year. Whooppedoo. Whether democrats have done good or bad decisions is nearly irrelevant here. There hasn't been enough time that their policies (especially long-term ones) could even theoretically have reflected to financial sector that much.
There is no way you can blame the current economic situation as a whole on democrats.
How are the continuing job loses going? Oh, another 200,000 jobs lost?
Same thing here.
How's that withdrawal from Iraq going?
I'm with you here. The government should certainly have progressed much faster in getting rid of Bush-era mess. They really haven't done well there. Even so, you can't blame the Iraq (or Afghanistan) mess on current government.
Nice to see our DHS Secretary telling us all how well the system worked when a jihadi got on a plane with a bomb.
And wasn't able to cause any damage... Yeah, it is true that current government should have removed all those unnecessary and inefficient post-911 security stuff from the airports. They (and their voters) should be ashamed that this hasn't happened yet. Even so, you should have hard time blaming democrats on those, either.
I hear Gitmo is going to be closed any decade now.
And just wait until you see the asshattery unleashed when Khalid Sheikh Mohammad et al are tried in a standard criminal court.
This is getting old at this point. "Republicans did something horrible when they were in charge. Democrats haven't cleared all the mess yet. Ergo, democrats are horrible."
Nice to see we have a Democratic Senate Majority Leader who thinks it's great that the President is "light-skinned and doesn't speak with a Negro dialect".
No fucking wonder Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev) is polling about 30 points behind his probably election opponent.
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I'm not even answering to this one.
Think you can come up with a health care "reform" that relies even more on bribery and political payoffs and pisses even more people off?
How about forcing people to buy health insurance even if they don't want it? Where are all the libertarians-of-convenience who got so up in arms over the freedoms lost when a relatively small number of phone calls to known Al Qaeda related phones where intercepted without warrants? Where are all those JACKASSES when Democrats propose laws that would literally unconstitutionally under penalty of jail time force millions of people into private contracts that they don't want and cost thousands of dollars a year?
Private contracts? Well, at least the original drafts included government supported options.
That said... Yeah. The current plan for health care reform is horrible abomination. Not a single country with socialized medicine does it like that. It has the downsides of both systems. They really should ditch it.
Democrats. TOO DUMB TO KNOW THEY'RE DUMB
Aside from that last point about health care reform, your whole post was a collection "Republicans have messed up so througly that democrats haven't fixed those things yet" points. I certainly would think of democrats as the lesser evil based on that.