Condoleezza Rice flew to Beirut and met with Lebanese and Israeli and Syrian diplomats all week to try to stop the war and bring peace to the region. Neither Syria or Lebanon or Israel has any oil. Every now and then we take on charity cases.---- comedian Argus Hamilton
 

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Subject: Stem cells vs whole people

If stem cell research can use embryos that will be destroyed anyway, then why not use them? I think I know why the Bush administration says not to, contrary to what they say...

First, there is a huge profiteering business in disease treatments and drug sales. Anyone who stands to profit largely from that industry might be tempted to think twice about allowing cures to be developed that could put them out of business. I've heard that there have been cures for cancer that have been destroyed and buried by "Big Medicine" just to keep it from taking away their profits. And there are herbal treatments for cancer that the AMA refuses to endorse. So, it seems to me that there must be medical profiteers that want to resist stem cell research because of the promise of curing diseases with it.

Second, the twist of the truth here is really quite clear. All that is needed to prevent stem cell research from encroaching on otherwise good and promising childbirth is laws that restrict its use to embryos that would be discarded anyway. In that case, no one has to die just to make scientific research possible. But Mr. Bush would have us think we are descending on the dark ages of medicine again when stem cell research is in fact just the opposite. AND these are embryos we are talking about, Mr. Snow-job, NOT fetuses! There is quite a bit of difference.

Ok, I don't know exactly where life really begins, but if there are lots of living people today whose suffering can be eliminated by stem cell research, then why not put those discarded embryos to good use? Perhaps the host of one of those embryos will be told in Heaven some day that he/she helped bring about the ultimate eradication of the AIDS virus. Maybe.

Jim

Thanks for writing Jim.

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New York authorities are investigating the discovery a severed horse's head in a councilwoman's swimming pool.

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Floyd Landis cruised into Paris Sunday to win the Tour de France. He is from a strict Pennsylvania Mennonite family. It was an especially impressive feat when you consider that during the last stage of the race he stopped to erect a barn. ---- comedian Argus Hamilton

 

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A keeper measures a newly-born panda cub at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center, in China's southwest Sichuan province, Monday, July 24, 2006. A 16-year-old panda named Bai Xue gave birth to the 160-gram female cub on July 22. The panda cub was the first to be born at the Wolong center this year. (Photo/Color China)

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