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[apocalypsos]

Kerry: Bush Chooses Ideology Over Science

This is the part that annoyed me -- "Only John Kerry would declare the country to be in scientific decline on a day when the country's first privately funded space trip is successfully completed," [Bush campaign spokesman] Schmidt said, referring to the flight of a privately financed rocket over California.

We don't need a privately funded space trip. We need stem cell research.

Jackass.

EDIT: Also, I'm not allowing myself to listen to the Doc Ock theme from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack on the Metro anymore. I get so very, very disappointed when a bespectacled psychotic armed with metal tentacles doesn't attack the train.

Comments

Agreed

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

Right, and what the hell is a government mouthpiece doing taking credit for a PRIVATELY FUNDED spaceflight when the publically-funded one is being trashed? Idiot.

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

We need both really. Maybe it's my liberatarian roots coming out to play, but private funding is key to most scientific advance. So yeah, Bush can't take credit for the flight AND he's inhibiting development by putting laws on Stem Cell research.

What pisses me off is that true conservatives believe in SMALL government, which means NOT making inhibiting laws like this.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'I get so very, very disappointed when a bespectacled psychotic armed with metal tentacles doesn't attack the train.'

i know, don't you hate that?

all those in favor of a bespectacled psychotic armed with metal tentacles attacking bush, say 'aye.'

[foster9563.livejournal.com]

*can't speak due to yesterday's tonsillectomy, but makes affirmative gurgling noises anyway*

What? You try to speak when the back of your throat's just been ripped out.


Adrienne.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

How does this sound — Vice President Hunter Thompson?

Sounds good to me.

[juniper200.livejournal.com]

You've got my vote.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Hunter Thompson? We'd have three hour long press conferences on how there are bats in the White House and the interns want to eat the brains of the innocent and pee beer on the homeless.

Hmm.

Don't see the downside to that.

[akacat]

It seems that they managed to *say* the words 'privately funded', without *understanding* them.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You gotta love how the reporter manages to squeeze the phrase into the sentence twice, as if to point out that at least the writer realizes the guy is being obtuse.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

'privately financed rocket over California'

am i the only one who pictures john hurt in contact going 'wanna go for a riiiide?'

/geek

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

No, you're not.

::loves all over that movie::

[octopedingenue]

I'm not allowing myself to listen to the Doc Ock theme from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack on the Metro anymore. I get so very, very disappointed when a bespectacled psychotic armed with metal tentacles doesn't attack the train.

There are no trains here, alas. Else I might stake myself out by one, looking woefully big-eyed and hostage-like.

*starts humming something that might be "Eight Arms to Hold You" under breath*

[aberrantangels]

The ever-estimable August J. Pollak points out that Schmidt is basically using the Chewbacca Defense.

[mike-smith.livejournal.com]

We don't need a privately funded space trip. We need stem cell research.

Not for nothing, but who's to say what we _do_ and _don't_ need at all? Speaking as a moderate scientist, I'm kind of sick of everyone jumping on the Nancy Reagan bandwagon as if stem cell research will absolutely positively cure Alzheimers and Parkinsons and it'll bring Ronnie back from the dead and make all the terrorists see the error of their ways. Hey, if anyone _knew_ that _for sure_, then we wouldn't need to do _research_ on stem cells in the first place. Maybe Bush is a jerk for stifling the stem cell alley, but there's _plenty_ of other research going on in this country that has nothing to do with stem cells. (F'rinstance, I got a UK alumni newsletter in the mail a while back that suggested a strong connection between Alzheimers and chronic mercury exposure. We don't need stem cells to study heavy metal toxicity.)

So yeah, I think it is a little silly for Kerry to say that in a country where a guy can fly into space on his own dime, we're in a new dark ages just because a pro-lifer is in the White House. So stem-cell research is four to eight years behind what it could have been. Like we're all gonna own flying cars once Kerry's President.

I'm not saying he doesn't have a point, mind you, but it seems to me there's much better points Kerry could be making right about now. Blasting Bush's science policy is like pointing out the splinter in the eye of a guy with fifty two-by-fours sticking out of his ass.

[silent-sybil.livejournal.com]

the poor kittens...

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

only an idiot would say science isn't in decline when the fucking president canceled a space program that several billion dollars had already been spent on preparing.

my syntax is messed up, sorry, it's late. i. hate. bush. i'm sure i would dislike him as a person as well if i knew him.