So no wonder that Bush administration views on pro-life, dead Iraqi children = “collateral damage”, and the excessive use of the death penalty in Texas, just can’t be organized into a coherent sentence…

Colonel- I am so happy you love to dance. When your head stops spinning, feel free to leave an intelligent comment.

Josh- Obviously, this president is neither reasonable or rational. And I’m with you- indulgence of unreasonable positions is becoming hazardous to the health of our nation, to say the least. Of course, what is reasonable to me or you may not seem so to another, but some positions just seem so overwhelmingly clear…like this one dealing with frozen embryonic tissue. Not life…just tissue.
Thanks for the comments.

Seems to me that a first stpe in catching up with our global economic competitors in knowledge work, would be for us to elect a president who actually (thank you for at least this, John Kerry) BELIEVES in science.

“Intelligent design? That’s a good theory too!”

The point I’m getting at here is, even reasonable conservatives– well-intentioned, anti-choice conservatives– seem to concede that an embryo is not a person. Seem to believe it viscerally. And for the life of me, I can’t understand why we as a people seem to feel the need to indulge UN-reasonable conservatives.

Bob- Thanks again, as always.

Snave- Yes, pro-life does need to include those of us actually living in the here and now, not just to those who may be born or who are in the “last throes of life.”

I think that your estimation of BUsh’s rhetoric is dead on too. Just more empty rhetoric to whip up his shrinking base. Thanks for your thoughts.

Monika- (rolling my eyes, shaking my head…) If, when I was in the embryonic stage, nature herself decided to abort me I wouldn’t be here either. Do you also plan to rail against that? Besides, we are not talking about embryos that are on the way to life. We are discussing perpetually frozen and/or about to be discarded embryos that will never reach the point of possible life. Stick to the topic if you want to be taken seriously.

Bob- That’s right man. Monika is clearly not capable of grasping the fundamental difference between man made embryos in a science lab and the mixing of sperm and egg in utero. That must be frustrating for her.

Eko- Thanks for weighing in. Does this mean that for Islam, embryo’s created in a lab for artificial insemination are not considered life or sentient and therefore are completely viable for use in stem cell research?

Jeremy- Even 60 Minutes has some thought provoking, well researched stories. And yeah, that guy had me wondering how he got to be in the position he is in. Then I remembered…he was appointed by Bush the Inept.

I almost thought the representative from the Bush administration’s ethics committee was joking when he said that we should have little funerals or cremations for embryos when they’re discarded.