A Shot in the Dark

I was just checking some personal email–culling it, really.

Without prepping myself for the topic by reviewing today’s Senate shenanegans first (a bad idea) I fired off a note to citizenlink@family.org, an on-line offshoot of Focus on the Family Citizen, a greatly written and well researched little monthly.

In the spirit of spontaneity, here it is:

    Senate Bill 1, Hate Crimes legislation, etc. Rights continue to be assaulted, arrogant people in power seem to think they can “just do it” when their turn at crafting law comes around, and “we the people” are supposed to go along with it.

    So, let’s just wait a minute here. Why is this happening? We the people, way back yonder, refused to ratify the original Constitution until even more controls were put on government. Hence the Bill of Rights. Once that was incorporated as the first ten amendments to the Constitution states began signing on and we soon enough had a working Constitution as our foundation. (more…)

Published in: on January 16, 2007 at 9:50 pm Comments (0)

Left Elbows

You have got to read this! No kidding. In case you missed the link, here it is again: * I’ll be here when you get back. Honest. I’ll wait. You gotta read it.

Back? Good for you. Now, imagine something. You’re talking with an old and trusted friend, someone whose company you enjoy and look forward to just spending good time in good conversation. After a half hour or so of uplifting (or sometimes maddening) discussion of life, love, or the world at large, there is a tap on your back and a grimey left-wing elbow gouges its way between you and your friend. You are informed that your first half-hour is up and that you now have to listen a half-hour of opinion from someone who opposes everything in the entire makeup of your life and that of your trusted friend.

Who? Well, the federal government believes in “fairness,” (ie censorship) and has re-established the Buttinsky Fairness Doctrine. It doesn’t matter that the left elbow opinion can’t breathe on its own–no one cares, you see–the Fairness Doctrine is there to make sure that if no one will to the soapbox-in-the-park then, by God, the soapbox will come to them.

I guess what’s got me up in arms–actually, I’m always armed in one sense or another–is that the usual whiners are involved, as you will have already seen if you followed the above link.

But the killer in illegal legislation like this is what the newly-elected liberal Congress is trying to do to your rights to free speech and to your right to petition the government. Thanks to thomistic.blogspot.com/, whose DumbOx Daily News is a real treat (more…)

Published in: on January 15, 2007 at 10:11 pm Comments (0)

Update: Stem Cells

It’s a beautiful morning on Colorado’s Continental Divide!

As promised, here are a couple of links of interest that demonstrate the truth of the fact that long-established research programs into adult- and live-birth stem cells are, scientifically speaking, “hot stuff.” These programs, very unlike embryonic research programs whose greatest success to date is the consistent production of tumors, are producing very, very successful laboratory testing results. See “New Stem Cell Study…” for excellent comment from Pete Winn, associate editor with citizenlink.org. Hopefully this will lead you to question the absence of similar information in our very trustworthy mainstream media.

Also highly recommended is a brief yet highly informative article by bioethics analyst Dawn Vargo. The article displays a fascinating array of in-progress adult stem cell programs that have proven to be either successful in treating /curing ailments or, at the least, are extremely promising and underway in lab tests. What fascinated me is that the article, which (again) is brief, is rivaled by its footnotes. It is a very well documented piece, if proof titillates you like it does me.

The first article referenced above pretty much isolates another of the bountiful proofs of the MSM’s overt disdain for the truth and it’s utter contempt for your ability to handle the facts:

Dr. David Prentice, senior fellow for life sciences at the Family Research Council, said the research is very exciting news, indeed.

“They found that they could get adult-type stem cells from amniotic fluid — the liquid that cushions the baby as it’s developing — and from the placenta, the afterbirth,” said Prentice, a former university biology professor.

“The exciting thing is that these cells show all of the positives that people are looking for: They are so flexible in being able to form virtually any tissue of the body; you can keep them growing for a long time in the laboratory; they don’t form tumors — it looks like they might not even cause transplant rejection.”

Carrie Gordon Earll, senior analyst for bioethics at Focus on the Family Action, was also encouraged by the news.

“This is one of a number of studies in recent years showing versatility and promise from using live-birth products — amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood and placenta,” she said.

“It’s ironic that while some members of Congress and scientists are fixated on destroying human embryos for research, we continue to see that young humans are more valuable to science alive than dead.”

Researcher Atala said a stem-cell bank with 100,000 specimens could theoretically supply 99 percent of the U.S. population with “perfect genetic matches” of organs for transplantation.

The news is all the more poignant because on Thursday, the newly reorganized House of Representatives will consider a bill to expand federal funding of research that requires the killing of human embryos.

Sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., H.R. 3 would dramatically increase the number of stem-cell lines eligible for federally funded research grants. In 2001, President Bush approved federal funding for research on only a very limited number of stem-cell lines left over from in-vitro fertilization — and already scheduled for destruction.

Earll predicted the amniotic research will be talked about on Capitol Hill over the next three days.

“This will cause a ripple preceding the vote on Thursday — and will put some pressure on some members of the House to take a good hard look at whether destroying human embryos is necessary,” she said.

The MSM, ever supportive of unrestrained federally-funded abortion, feeds on the devaluation of life in general. It’s failure to disseminate real news with objectivity is repulsive to thinking people, and please tell me when you have once seen encouraging and supportive reporting on adult or live-birth stem cell research.

I have never seen it. Not even once. When mentioned, adult stem cell research always places a distant and unworthy second to the unproven yet preferred option of embryonic sourcing.

I cannot suggest strongly enough that you read both of these articles and pass them along. If you are one to contact the generally worthless powers that be, here is a link to help you find out which ones you own.

Oh! By the way, I promised you an update on the Denver Post headliner. Here’s the link to the “news” that you don’t have to kill a kid to harvest stem cells. What isn’t told is that adult/live birth stem cells consistently out perform embryonic stem cells.

The “score” to date? Adult and live birth stem cells treat upwards of 60 ailments. And embryonic stem cells? Well, uh, actually it’s zero. But we just have to pump a lot of federal (your) money into a lethal program while keeping the non-lethal and already productive alternative in the private sector. And for God’s sake don’t tell anybody!!

Published in: on January 9, 2007 at 8:42 am Comments (0)

Well, Slap My Head!

Today’s Denver Post featured a first page, above the fold headline that said “Stem-cell find skirts fray.” The related article gushed about the “discovery” that stem cells derived from amniotic fluid collected during routine amniocentesis contain, basically, miracle cures.

I’ll follow up on this soon, hopefully tomorrow. But be advised, if you need to be: this is not news! As proponents of the non-lethal harvesting of adult stem cells and umbilical/amniotic/placenta and birth blood stem cells can testify, these stem cells have been treating nearly 70 diseases for a number of years. Details will follow.

The MSM deceit behind a front page non-news flash is a withering attack on the intelligence of the American people, though, and I will work on getting links to the article for you very, very soon.

Published in: on January 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm Comments (0)

And Before These We Shrink?

It is New Year’s Day, 2007. A very appropriate time to launch a new blog. So may this, my first post, intrigue you and be an open invitation to honest thought and the ongoing exchange of opinion.

At this early and vulnerable juncture I’d like briefly to introduce you to my point of view which, in reality, will be an ongoing endeavor for as long as the medium is available. You likely noted when you came to my site that the subtitle is “An Extended Discourse on Deception.” That’s the key to my blog and my invitation for you to read and opine, in the word of a current actor. As for its being “extended,” that is for as long as WordPress chooses to give it air to breathe.

“Deception”: misleading with forethought and disregard for truth–or, even worse, misleading by rote, with no thought, and a total absence of regard for truth of any sort.

An example, if it’s really needed? How about a wirey little rat-faced weasel named Joe Goebbels, who whored himself out to the Nazi regime as Minister of Propaganda. The only thing honest about that whole situation was that the Nazis at least called it the Ministry of Propaganda.

In every exercise of propaganda there is truth involved to one degree or another. Those tidbits are what make the rest of the trash seem believable. But it is the propagandist himself who is frequently most aware of the truth, for typically only the aware can twist the truth with grand finesse. And Joseph Goebbels proved the veracity of this thought when he gave us this following, and most frequently misquoted, piece of historical leakage:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Think about that for a bit. Think of what the ACLU, People for the American Way, George Soros, Planned Parenthood, and the hundreds if not thousands of others we’ll visit about in the future would have you believe about your own country, your own freedoms, and your own Constitution and the rights it outlines.

We’ll visit soon as this journey continues.

Published in: on January 1, 2007 at 10:13 pm Comments (0)