That's versus "closed," or the conservative vision that government should step in and use the threat of force to coerce individual or social moral decisions.
Government is stepping in by not funding? Sorry, but that makes no sense.
Yes, there are legitimate moral issues surrounding stem cell research. No, government has no business taking those moral choices away from researchers, academics, and everyday joes.
Since government has no business taking the moral choice away from joe average then government should not be grabbing joe's wallet.
One of the main tenets of the prolife movement is that individual human life begins at conception. Embryonic stem cell research entails the willful destruction of the product of conception.
Tell you what, if you're so opposed to "your tax dollars" subsidizing research, how about you just don't partake of any new drugs or therapies that result from it? After all, you wouldn't want to be a... hypocrite, would you
I've already paid for it. Not hypocritical in the least.
Tell me how many new drugs and therapies resulted from my tax dollars exclusively (no private money at all). Also, how many of these drugs are given away freely, since, afterall they have already been paid for?
I'll pay to support research, I will even donate to support research, but I will not ask the government to force others into paying for research.
Granted, there's the issue of these 60 lines viability, but at least it's not a total federal funding ban, as was widely expected.
I don't understand at all why the federal government should fund this or any other research. Let individual states subsidize the research. Or better yet have individual citizens donate directly to the companies that do this research. Why must everything be funded with my tax dollars? And why is the issue always framed such that denying companies my tax dollars is equated with outright banning of research?
For as long as I can remember, I have been able to repulse objects. When I step up to a woman, *bammo*, she starts moving in the opposite direction. At first I thought this was an explainable force having something to do with "my face" or "my bony frame." But recent tests seem to indicate that the force is of unknown origin, a force, that perhaps, runs contrary to all known laws of physics. Too bad I was unable to publish my paper before this bozo. Mine would have been a lot more entertaining.
It is very sad that Lucas has chosen to go negative in his campaign against Senator Palpatine. The Senator only wants to use embryos, that will be discarded anyway, to harvest stem cells in an attempt to find a potential cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's disease and certain neurological disorders.
By poisiong the debate with such senseless propaganda as "Attack of the Clones" he does injury not only to an honorable public servant with only the public's best interests in mind, but he also places in jeopardy the lives of people needing a cure. To eliminate the hope of these people is a crime against humanity.
That is exactly what I say, and that is exactly what was done. The constitution was not reinterpreted to fit these groups in, it was amended. The amendment process is the proper way to change the Constitution, not reinterpretation based on the whim of whatever the SCOTUS finds in fashion.
This doesn't seem to different to me then wanted posters. Police post wanted posters with pictures of known criminals, and others then compare that photo to the faces of people around them. The difference in this case is that the process has been automated.
Past Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes is the chairman of this organization. Right now they are focusing their efforts on "The Founding of America" bill in Ohio, which
would revise Ohio law and require that all high school students study the
Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
before graduation.
Texas has a similar bill, HB 1776, that established "Celebrate Freedom Week" during
September. Students from grades three-12 study the
Declaration of Independence and the history of America's founding during that week.
I always thought it was very sad the way Alan Keyes was ignored during the presidential primaries or written off because he was a "religious extremist." He was constantly referencing the Constitution and why this or that was unconstitutional. The Bible didn't get any mention at all from him as I remember, but he mentionioned God a few times and people pigeonholed him.
I noticed a couple people saying that Mozilla is faster than IE, but it seems to me that Mozilla loads pages before all images are rendered by default, whereas IE waits by default and then renders everything. Is this true of the latest Mozilla build too?
Tolkien is fundamentally at odds with modern culture, which is why he is being usurped. The same goes for Lewis. Both these men were very devoted Christians, and this showed in their works.
"'The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out practically all references to anything like 'religion,' to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and symbolism." (from a letter in 1953 to Robert Murray, a Jesuit priest, in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1981)
And there are libertarian arguments against abortion:
http://www.l4l.org
To view the issue as a "religious issue" is as incorrect to view slavery as a religious issue simply because many of the arguments surrounding its practice in the US were religious in nature.
Some website had scanned copies of flyers being passed out by some prochoice organization which did list names and addresses of people. I'm sure the info is on the web someplace.
Slashdot Mirror
I run win2k off of a p200 with 64 megs of RAM. It really isn't slow at all once you use tweakui and disable all the pretty windows options.
Government is stepping in by not funding? Sorry, but that makes no sense.
Yes, there are legitimate moral issues surrounding stem cell research. No, government has no business taking those moral choices away from researchers, academics, and everyday joes.
Since government has no business taking the moral choice away from joe average then government should not be grabbing joe's wallet.
If you want to talk priorities then please sell your computer and buy a one way plane ticket to Angola. I hear they need help farming dirt.
Funny how every milestone of Mozilla or every release of Netscape gets mentioned on here. Slashdot posting that a new IE was released? Hell no!
One of the main tenets of the prolife movement is that individual human life begins at conception. Embryonic stem cell research entails the willful destruction of the product of conception.
Does ginko do anything?
Tell me how many new drugs and therapies resulted from my tax dollars exclusively (no private money at all). Also, how many of these drugs are given away freely, since, afterall they have already been paid for?
I'll pay to support research, I will even donate to support research, but I will not ask the government to force others into paying for research.
I don't understand at all why the federal government should fund this or any other research. Let individual states subsidize the research. Or better yet have individual citizens donate directly to the companies that do this research. Why must everything be funded with my tax dollars? And why is the issue always framed such that denying companies my tax dollars is equated with outright banning of research?
For as long as I can remember, I have been able to repulse objects. When I step up to a woman, *bammo*, she starts moving in the opposite direction. At first I thought this was an explainable force having something to do with "my face" or "my bony frame." But recent tests seem to indicate that the force is of unknown origin, a force, that perhaps, runs contrary to all known laws of physics. Too bad I was unable to publish my paper before this bozo. Mine would have been a lot more entertaining.
By poisiong the debate with such senseless propaganda as "Attack of the Clones" he does injury not only to an honorable public servant with only the public's best interests in mind, but he also places in jeopardy the lives of people needing a cure. To eliminate the hope of these people is a crime against humanity.
For shame Lucas! For shame!
How much government funding did Edison receive?
That is exactly what I say, and that is exactly what was done. The constitution was not reinterpreted to fit these groups in, it was amended. The amendment process is the proper way to change the Constitution, not reinterpretation based on the whim of whatever the SCOTUS finds in fashion.
Then donate the money you get back from your "tax break" to NASA. Is anyone stopping you?
Then donate your $300 to NASA. Is anyone stopping you?
It's too early for me to be typing. Sorry about the grammar (to/too and then/than).
This doesn't seem to different to me then wanted posters. Police post wanted posters with pictures of known criminals, and others then compare that photo to the faces of people around them. The difference in this case is that the process has been automated.
There is a group called the Delaration Foundation which does exactly that.
Past Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes is the chairman of this organization. Right now they are focusing their efforts on "The Founding of America" bill in Ohio, which would revise Ohio law and require that all high school students study the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights before graduation.
Texas has a similar bill, HB 1776, that established "Celebrate Freedom Week" during September. Students from grades three-12 study the Declaration of Independence and the history of America's founding during that week.
I always thought it was very sad the way Alan Keyes was ignored during the presidential primaries or written off because he was a "religious extremist." He was constantly referencing the Constitution and why this or that was unconstitutional. The Bible didn't get any mention at all from him as I remember, but he mentionioned God a few times and people pigeonholed him.
I noticed a couple people saying that Mozilla is faster than IE, but it seems to me that Mozilla loads pages before all images are rendered by default, whereas IE waits by default and then renders everything. Is this true of the latest Mozilla build too?
Yes, but GIMP isn't exclusively Linux.
Doesn't any action by the government against the Nazi sites just play into their whole "Jews control the government" line?
Ashcroft can talk about video games all he wants. Not once did he mention legislation against them.
There are athiest prolifers: http://www.godlessprolifers.org
And there are libertarian arguments against abortion: http://www.l4l.org
To view the issue as a "religious issue" is as incorrect to view slavery as a religious issue simply because many of the arguments surrounding its practice in the US were religious in nature.
Some website had scanned copies of flyers being passed out by some prochoice organization which did list names and addresses of people. I'm sure the info is on the web someplace.
The citizenry will never be sufficiently aware of technical issues. It is best to elect representatives who are.