Michael J. Fox has a new ad out in support of Ben Cardin in Maryland. WaPo:
Opponents of embryonic stem cell research who heard about the ad said they found it sad.
"To me, this is a shame that they're exploiting someone like Michael J. Fox for something that the scientists say is not going to do anything," said Douglas Stiegler, executive director of Maryland's Family Protection Lobby.
Steele campaign spokesman Doug Heye agreed, saying he considered the ad "in extremely poor taste."
That would be the same Michael Steele who compared embryonic stem cell research to the holocaust when speaking before a Baltimore Jewish group. Yes he really should be lecturing us all on "poor taste."
Then over in the Wingnut Welfare pavilion, noted Duran Duran scholar KJ Lopez "thanks" Fox for a "misleading emotional message" and his "embryos or nothing position," calling the ads "blatantly dishonest" and saying:
Claire McCaskill, Ben Cardin, and anyone else who chooses to play on voters’ emotions with these misleading ads… ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Meanwhile "Pills" Limbaugh — who yesterday accused Fox of "acting" — was on it again this morning, saying Fox is being "duped" by Democrats. Because, you know, only a sap would actively work in favor of finding a cure to a debilitating disease from which they suffer if it meant jeopardizing a big November happy for the GOP.
Maybe they can just get Barbara Cubin to go give him a good kicking and teach him some Republican values.
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Jane!
Christy!
1,314 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND …
FITZ AND GORE!!!
Am I number 1 or number 0?
They are upset because they thought he really WAS Alex Keaton.
A medical professor in MD said that Fox’s shaky demeanor is due to the medication he takes for his Parkinson. If he didn’t take it he would be inarticulate and mostly immobile. Looking for the link currently…so RUSH…SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU DON”T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
LOL @ “noted Duran Duran scholar KJ Lopez”.
Cracks. Me. Up.
Maybe she’s a Rhodes Scholar.
Nick Rhodes, that is.
We’re workin’ hard here in Maryland to send Michael Steele, Bob Ehrlich, and the rest of the Republicans packing. Things are looking pretty good.
Good luck in CT.
peace,
jim
So, let me get this straight: If you actually have a disease which might be alleviated or cured by stem cell research, and you speak out on the topic, you are 1)acting; 2)pathetic; 3)playing to the sympathies of the constituents. Jesus, even Oren Hatch is for stem cell research. Hopefully, no cells will come from the genetic lines of Limbaugh, Steele, Hannity, Coulter, et al.
gchaucer2 @
9
Bingo!
Check out the disease
http://www.drugs.com/enc/parkinson_s_disease.html
(still looking for link….)
Apparently Michael has also done a version for the Wisconsin Governor’s race that will begin airing shortly in Milwaukee, Green Bay and Wausau. He says that Wisconsin “holds a special place in his heart” because stem cell research began here (James Thomson at the University of WI Madison made some of the initial discoveries)…
Doyle is leading his challenger Mark Green but not by lots, I fear. Green voted against stem cell research in Congress and wants to restrict it more.
I hate the “science haters” that many repugs have become. Life only when it’s still in the womb. After that, forget it. It’s still shocking to me, but it shouldn’t be.
Jim Preston@8 — Good luck in MD. I’m a displaced Baltimoron and I love that state — regardless of its tradition of corrupt politicians. Of course, I am fond of Willy Don — can still see the glassphalt in the road at Charles and Madison.
Tim Grieve hedging bets at Salon.com War Room
sorry about my “shorthand”: Jim Doyle is the current Dem gov of our state. He’s been incredibly supportive of stem cell research and understands the economic benefits that this science can bring to our state as well as the medical benefits. Mark Green, current congressman from 8th district in WI is his repug challenger.
Gosh, Jane, you actually brought me to tears [of rage, wearyness, sorrow] with this sentence:
Maybe they can just get Barbara Cubin to go give him a good kicking and teach him some Republican values.
I am sick to death of these wretched people. We have to take back our country.
Jane @10 — Why, thank you. I’m frequently just a lurker here but find that most of the commenters give great responses and helpful links. Timely pieces here and thanks for all the support for our next senator, Ned Lamont.
Biodun @ 3
Yes, you are. Congratulations.
What scientists say that? The only thing I hear or read scientists saying about this research brings to mind that Alan Greenspan phrase “irrational exuberance”. It might be easier to make a list of the things they don’t think can be cured using stem cells in some way. Basically, just about any tissue in a human body that’s been injured by either trauma or disease may one day be restored or at least repaired using stem cell research. Here’s the Wikipedia entry, which has many links to external sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments
It’s one thing to say that such research is wrong for ethical reasons. I can respect that, at least to a degree. Lying about what the facts are, however, deserves no respect at all.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=51219
Found it…
“A few clicks led me to William J. Weiner M.D., professor and chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He’s also director of the Parkinson’s clinic there.
Even better, it turns out Dr. Weiner has a phone. When I reached him, he said he’d seen the ad earlier in the day and was fairly surprised to hear about Limbaugh’s reaction. Here’s why:
What you are seeing on the video is side effects of the medication. He has to take that medication to sit there and talk to you like that. … He’s not over-dramatizing. … [Limbaugh] is revealing his ignorance of Parkinson’s disease, because people with Parkinson’s don’t look like that at all when they’re not taking their medication. They look stiff, and frozen, and don’t move at all. … People with Parkinson’s, when they’ve had the disease for awhile, are in this bind, where if they don’t take any medication, they can be stiff and hardly able to talk. And if they do take their medication, so they can talk, they get all of this movement, like what you see in the ad.
Wiener was careful to disclose that a researcher in his center recently received a grant from the Fox Foundation. But he assured me that he was on solid medical ground. I take him at his word, but I’ll try to get some further confirmation later.
In the meantime, Wiener also pointed out something else I hadn’t considered: Fox was actually being commendably nuanced in the ad. The actor could have said stem cells will lead to a Parkinson’s cure, but he said merely that it gives patients hope — which is accurate. There’s no way to know for sure what stem cells will do for Parkinson’s, or other diseases, but they have the potential to do so. The only way to find out for sure is to do the research that Limbaugh and his allies are bent on blocking.
–Jonathan Cohn “
SteveNS @ 6
Jeez, I wish I understood half the allusions this woman uses. It’s humbling. Every.Damn.Day
http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=51219
Check it out..
“Compassionate Conservatives” don’t want to see the disabled, the maimed or the suffering. When they say it’s “in poor taste” they mean don’t make me look.
scarecrow @ 20
strange – KJ Lopez does not have that effect on me.
NeoJoe-
Just use the Google.
1,314 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher and Firedog Patriots:
It is interesting that when faced with reality (real people suffering unnecessarily because of irrational political and psuedo-religious positions) the fascists can only attack the victims in broad daylight in the middle of Main Street. This appeal to “the base” is meaningless when “the base” only makes up 17-20% of the voting population and is so disgusted that they’re gunna stay home. The only rationale for this obscene attack on Michael Fox is to deflect the argument and to hope that the rest of the fascist corporate media can convince the mass of voting population that the election is close enough to steal.
CNN is advertising tonight’s segment on “America’s broken politics” as an expose on why the Democrats can’t change things, the argument that is bein’ presented as analysis is that the Democrats are either too weak to get enough votes or just don’t have any ideas to solve the problems. In addition to analyzing our “broken politics” they are gunna investigate our “broken borders”.
Put this up-front propaganda attack next to the incumbant Democrats including John Kerry who refuse to put the money into winning back the congress and we see just how fucked we are…the Democratic Party is completely corrupted!! Obama is being advanced by the corporate voicebox to eliminate any alternative to Mrs. Clinton and the marginal majority of Democrats in Congress will be weak enough to insure that the we will all be longing for the 109th Congress.
We have this moment and this moment only…we’ve gotta get a big majority in the House and take the Senate and then fight the final battle to overturn the fascist enablers in the Democratic Party elected leadership.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, LOSING IS SIMPLY NOT AN OPTION!!!
This was posted over at the official Lamont blog (by Lochness). I think we should participate:
ACTION ITEM: Call Barack Obama
I just got off the phone with a staffer in Obama’s office, and clearly they are thinking about doing something for Lamont.
Let’s get on this, people! Help from Obama and other prominent Democrats could help us pull this one in for the good guys!
(202) 224-2854
Tip: Mention the slush fund. They were very concerned about it..
Despicable creeps.
My answer to Limpbaugh: just watch me proudly vote for Claire McCaskill Nov. 7!
Cathy at 25
The Thanks are in order for The Google
OT – stunning chart showing the discrepancy in who support the troops. DKos:
I think there must be a number of races in which a Fox ad would be very beneficial. One nearby that comes to mind is in Minnesota’s 1st CD, where Tim Walz is making an unexpectedly close race of his attempt to unseat Republican Gil Gutknecht. MN 01 stretches across the extreme southern end of the state; its largest municipality is Rochester, home to both the Mayo Clinic and a large IBM facility. Rochester is historically heavily Republican but with a lot of world-class science and technology people there Fox’s stem cell pitch will resonate strongly.
Maccabbee kos diary, worth a recommend.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/24/151124/57
Detention/torture numbers worse than we thought.
punaise –
If there is any justice in the universe, one day they will honor you with the Medal of Gleedom.
Rush has become a total joke. There was a time when he was a “change agent”- speaking out in a satirical tone about what was wrong with america- and lots of people listened and agreed with at least some of what he was sayin.
He’s now a pathetic echo chamber for a failed administration. Some are undoubtedly still tuning in- but he’s on the downside of a shabby career. Even goopers smell the rotting flesh.
PS re #31 (Got interrupted by an IM from my daughter and accidently prematurely posted.)
Is there some mechanism whereby suggestions or request for Fox’s services can be channeled?
scarecrow @ 32
if it gleeds, it leads… :~)
Neo Joe — thanks for the link. Limbaugh wouldn’t know what it would be like to be off medication since he never is.
The Republicans are running out of groups to hate. They need more scapegoats to get them to November 11th.
-GSD
*xyz @
27
He asked me for my ZIP code. Wonder what that’s about…
1,314 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOES ON AND ON AND…
XYZ:
Fuck Barak Obama…Ned can win without ‘im. If Obama goes to Connecticut it will be to help Obama (and Mrs. Clinton) NOT to help Lamont. We need to take the feet out from under Barak at the knees and force Mrs. Clinton to send Big Dog down there and give up a few million in her war chest to Webb and Ford and the woman in Missouri.
KEEP THE FAITH AND KNOW WHO THE ENEMY IS!!!
Balrog @ 40
They ask for zip codes so they can track constituent calls versus calls from outside their State.
If everyone could take a peek at this DKos diary from the Dem candidate running for Secretary of State in Ohio — and give it a recommend — I’d very much appreciate it. Thanks!
Balrog @ 40
Tell them you’re an American.
Is this the only way we are going to be able to get rid of the bloated and stinking carcass that is Rush Limp-balls?
Thar He Blows.
-GSD
Christy Hardin Smith @
43
there and back already
They know everybody loves Michael J. Fox and his message is damned powerful and convincing. So, they attack him. Wow. Just wow.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 51
amen.
rwcole @ 34
I do hope you’re right – the only rabid Rush fan I know – an old goat good ole boy – had a stroke he has yet to recover from. I do hope Rush Limbaugh goes away. We California central coast golf fans will not soon, if ever, forgive Clint Eastwood & Peter Uberoth & AT&T for letting Rush play every winter in Bing Crosby’s old “Clambake” pro-am golf tourney in Pebble Beach. You can’t imagine the Ditto Head following we must suffer each year. Why is Rush still on the air?
jani @ 4
Thanks for the chuckle.
And you know, these folks really beleive themselves.
selise at 48 — that is one race that Dems really need to take. The Ohio electoral system needs some serious cleaning — after Blackwell, we need a Dem in that spot to see that it is done properly and in accordance with the law.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 12:55pm (#41)
I share your opinion about Sen. Obama, but I think an appearance or two by him would be helpful. I’d rather see Bill Clinton there, though.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 43
Done. This person will supervise the 2008 Ohio Presidential election. Piece of cake.
On a happy note, maybe a high B flat, egregious actblue has just passed 1,000 page visits and $10,000!
People here wanting to promote other non BlueAmerica candidates can easily set up an actblue page. Linky on How To. Try it, it’s quite addicting! Probably several hundred of those page visits are me checking all the time :)
Cujo359 @
19
I don’t know of ANY scientists who say that stem cell research “is not going to do anything”. You can probably find quite a few who will say that it’s not going to do anything in the United States, though. No one wants right-wing nutjobs going after their lab. The simple fact of the matter is that, in much the same way that the radical right-wing has been able to shut down abortion providers, they have been able to steer US scientists away from embryonic stem cell research. It’s just not worth the trouble.
I got an e-mail from Russ Feingold this morning, and the Dem. candidate running for Secretary of State in Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, is “our newest Progressive Patriot”.
Considering she would replace Blackwell …
punaise @ 45
Me too! Would follow you two anywhere, anytime! ;~D
Oh, and while we’re on the topic of embryonic stem cell research, I expect that the scenario in the US will be similar to that of RU-486. The first embryonic stem cell therapies will be barred from the US market.
Christy’s “Heart of the Matter” gets top billing at the Daou Report
Frank Probst @ 1:04pm (#54)
One certainty, I think, is that if this ban goes on long enough we will be seeing the U.K., Korea, India, and other nations take the lead in the biomedical field. Our recent immigration policy changes have hurt us already, since it’s now harder to attract talent from other countries. With the U.S. being the only nation of any significance that isn’t supporting this research with government money, it’s likely that we will see more of our own biomedical talent moving elsewhere.
Jane, you temptress!
My sister, the rabid limbaugh fan is always daring me to “Send me the link! Send me the link!” of some odious quote I’ve repeated. Too far gone; she’ll never change her mind, a link won’t help – but this opportunity is pretty hard to pass up.
I SO want to send her the link and say, “SEE?! This is who you waste your time listening to every day!…” but I have to have a civil relationship with her (and her son), and it is getting close to the holidays.
My 90 year old Dad languishes in a nursing home, ravaged by the cognitive consequences of a half-dozen years of increasing dementia. Let me pose a hypothetical coupled with a firm promise:
Were [1] a stem cell based therapy to become available that might get this honorable man meaningfully back to me and my family, and [2] were someone to come up and argue to my face that proper moral piety regarding the “civil rights” of some blastocyst constituted an imperative that we forego engaging such a regimen, [3] I fucking guarantee that such a proponent would himself be in need of therapy to repair his brain damage resulting from my first ever felony act.
I live at 8210 Creek Water Lane, Las Vegas, NV 89123, in case anyone doubts for a second the foregoing declaration. Bring it on.
Limbaugh, maybe you’d like to be the first.
_
Christy Hardin Smith @ 42
It’s done, and I will be voting for Ms. Brunner (hopefully by absentee ballot…I just got my voter registration card in the mail yesterday).
I saw an ad from the Rethuglicans over the weekend, attacking Ms. Brunner for letting some sex offender off with a light sentence.
Sort of a Willie Horton redux.
It had to be a trully diabolical person who coined the expression “compassionate conservative” for Bush and the Republicans. When these people denigrate a man suffering from MS you know they are totally devoid of compassion. They’re full of HATE. If Hell exists I hope there is a special place reserved for hate-mongers like Rush Limbough.
Google bomb the election:
–NC-08: Robin Hayes
–NC-11: Charles Taylor
Direct Democracy Google bomb page
Cujo359 @
59
You missed the big one: Singapore. They’ve been actively recruiting top notch scientists for years. They just got my boss’s old mentors from the National Cancer Institute. Remember when people wanted to come to the US to do top-notch biomedical research? Now they’re going to Singapore.
Frank Probst @ 54
Not just stem cells and abortions. I’m writing a paper right now with a doctor who runs a prominent New England infertility clinic. He says everyone in the field is terrified of the moment “when those Christians figure out what we’re doing”.
I am so sick of the American Taliban.
How about this:
1. If you are morally opposed to abortion, don’t have one.
2. If you are morally opposed to stemcell research, don’t use the medicines that result.
3. If you don’t believe in evolution, you can have all the old antibiotics and leave the new ones for me.
4. If you don’t “believe” in gay marriage, don’t enter into one.
I’m feeling discouraged today. I’m just tired of how stupid and cruel and unrelenting the reichwingers are.
In the fields of science and education if the Republo-fascists keep it up. In the words of Dan Quayle “we’ll be going past to the back”.
-GSD
Keep in mind that almost 100% of all persons who oppose stem cell research for “moral” reasons would completely change their position on the issue if themselves or any of their family or loved ones came down with a disorder that stem cell research might one day cure.
What does this tell you?
People who oppose stem cell research are throwing other people’s lives away because they only care about themselves and those close to them.
Once it gets outside of this sphere of close family and friends, human life becomes a game to these people – a game in which they can wax poetic about the potential of blastocysts and how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, while disregarding the deaths and suffering of other living humans.
That’s it. It really is that simple.
Are you still here, punaise?
Ohio should dance with the one that Brunner.
Hmm, unlike that RNC terror ad that came out recently.
Sheesh. Tom Delay (on MSNBC) looks like even HE doesn’t believe his own BS anymore…
A significant majority of americans are in favor of funding stem cell research- Clusterfuck advocated a loser issue in order to get religious right support. Cold calculation- and apparently it paid off in 04.
LindaR @ 66
Cheer up, LindaR…look, Dark Santorum!
And one of the comments really made my day:
Ricky’s really screwed the pooch this time!
LindaR @ 67
Hang in there, friend. These jerks have always been there, but in the shadows. For the past six years, their guy was in the WH and the opposition was silent. We are silent no more, and those on the dark side are about to get their butts kicked — and that’s just the beginning. Wait till the hearings begin.
Spotlight, GOTV.
Big Denny Hastert testified today following significant remodels to the hearing room.
“We added about fifty four tons of reinforcement to the floor and brought in a chair from the local zoo to make certain that the hearing would be safe for all involved”, said a maintainence contractor. “The chair Denny used was last used by an agin male elephant named “peaches”.
BobbyG @ 61
I sure missed ya, Bobby G. Glad you’re back. :)
Frank Probst #65 — and it’s bigger than just stem cells. Any field as large as stem cells creates its own economic ecosystem, attracting investment in itself, and in parallel supporting science and technology. If specialized equipment, devices, chemicals are needed during stem cell research, those fledgling industries move to where the research is located. Adult stem cell technology and research will also follow, since it becomes more cost effective to be close to the source than farther away.
It’s already been happening in other fields for other reasons, like computing technology; so many companies chose to offshore because labor was cheaper that there is no real investment in the U.S. in research and technology. It’s now predominantly in Asia — and their far larger pipeline of engineers who are discouraged from coming here out of terror- and zenophobia are likely to keep the bulk of research in Asia.
We are a net importer of technology now, in nearly all fields. Like that’s an improvement on our national security, eh?
I must say, GSD, rwcole and BobbyG are on fire today. Go gettem’ boys!
LindaR @ 67
And check out this post from Glenn. The darksiders actually believe they’re the majority, but they’re about to be disabused of this quaint notion:
See part I of this post by Glenn
digby pegs Rush Limbaugh better than anybody yet. give hullabaloo a pop and scroll down to “Swine”. wicked awesome, as they used to say in boston …….
kemo @ 79
This dissing of Michael J. Fox is just SO scummy. Maybe I oughta pop another lisinopril for the BP.
_
Hypocritical motherfuckers. Who the hell is the GOP to lecture anyone on exploiting emotions in order to turn out votes? Or have they genuinely become so full of their own rhetoric that they do not see their “we’re here to protect and now we’ll show you how Democrats are going to get you killed” fearfest is predicated on one of the most powerful of all emotions. I know that after six years I should not be shocked anymore or outraged. You’d think I’d be able to write it off as part for the course.
I suppose the scope of my ambivalence is little match for their potential for the outrageous.
If it were announced that stem cells could be used to make Oxycontin, Rush would change his tune in a heartbeat…
Jacob M @ 83
I suspect you’re right. The supply of the latter appears to be inexhaustible.
Knowing how people suffer with debilitating disease, I know as a real Christian I shouldn’t wish anything tragic or life-altering on those I perceive to be my enemies, and forgiveness is divine.
Having said that, it is hoped that someday, Limbaugh and his ilk get the most aggressive form of neuromuscular disease yet created by God just for the sheer joy of pointing at him and yelling “FAKER!”.
You can’t make this stuff up
More @ crooksandliars
Off-hand I’d say this is a joke, but I’ve run across guys like this at times
SusanD @
23
or Iraq, or global warming, or Guantanamo, or Katrina, or what’s his name Foley.
We are the reality based community after all……
I get so sick when I hear Steele mention ethics. Why isn’t anyone posting about his attempt to de-fraud Mike Tyson out of millions of dollars when Steele’s sister filed for divorce from Tyson. They had a pre-nup agreement but Steele’s sister wasn’t satisfied. (this was back when Tyson had money). Well Steele showed up and tried to threaten Tyson, by saying he was a lawyer and was going to sue and get his money. Well Tyson, in one of the few times he checked, he found that Steele was not a lawyer, had never been to law school and I don’t think he even at that time had gone to a college.
Since Steele was his brother in law Tyson refused to prosecute. What would have happened if he did. But that didn’t stop the republicans, they are fraught with crooks, they made him the chairman of the RNC in Maryland. AND THIS GUY STEELE SPEAKS OF ETHICS.
Let’s see–
GOP airing Osama bin Laden-vote for Republicans or you will die ads is okay.
Dems airing Michael J. Fox-support stem cell research to help save lives ads is “in poor taste.”
These people are beyond being out of touch. Let’s put them out of business!
I sure hope these compassionate conservatives can cure Nancy Reagan of the delusion that stem cells might have helped Ronnie during the many years he suffered from Alzheimer’s.
They might not have time to get around to it, though. Being as compassionate as they are is so very time-consuming.
Soonerthought @
29
Good for you. Wish I could. That’s one of the toss up races that could give the Democrats a majority. It may well decide who the next supreme court justice is. I just gave a bennie to Claire. Anybody else want to pony up?
Frank Probst @ 1:17pm (#65)
I wasn’t aware of Singapore as a biomed hotspot until now. I’m not a biologist, so I only get my information from the usual sources. It doesn’t surprise me too much, though. Singapore is all about commerce, and this is going to be the big business of the twenty-first century, I think. It will be like computers in the late twentieth century and airplanse in the first half. And we’re pissing it away to appease a group of halfwits who couldn’t even tell you what a stem cell is.
Where’s Nancy Reagan in all of this? Isn’t she still an advocate of stem cell research? She could be instrumental in helping James Webb, a former employee of her husband’s, win a Senate seat.
Everybody says that the Republican war on science is a bad thing. I got a really sweet deal on a used Civic from a human genetics researcher who was in a hurry to get back to work in Singapore.
I’m now consulting with the Underpants Gnomes on how to turn this into a business plan. Watch for the IPO!
Incumbent Rep. James Walsh (R, Weasel, NY 25) is mailing out campaign literature listing his “legislative accomplishments,” claiming he voted in favor of stem cell research (even though he opposed federal funding for new stem cell lines). Nearby, Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-Pederast Enabler) is running TV spots claiming his Democratic opponent Jack Davis will mess with your social security benefits. It’s Rovian black-is-whitism at its finest here in western NY.
BobbyG @ 82
Tell me about it. Eleven years ago my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, which forced her early retirement. Of course, the GOP came along and took away all our hope.
She is fading now, and it’s not an act.
op99 @ 96
hmmm I odn’t have TV signal but I was speaking to a friend about the hit piece that Randy Kuhl just sent about this subject and she said he is running TV ads about it as well. The basic premise is Eric massa (in this case) will lower your social security checcks and is a liberal to boot.
I wonder if its a similar campaign-same source of $$, same source of advertising?
From the MSNBC article on Hastert: “The Speaker said he also told the panel it needed to move quickly to get to the bottom of the issue.”
Not TOO quickly, I bet. How much should I bet that the committee will issue some obscure report on November 10 at 4:45 pm.
Mallory and Tina Yothers could bust this election wide open. Talk about your October surprise– get the whole Family Ties clan back together (including Skippy, but not Courtney Cox) for the next ad. Maybe Christopher Lloyd for the one after that.
kemo
Bless you and BobbyG and your loved ones. My mom’s journey through Parkinson’s lasted a little longer. We didn’t notice much at first, but then we saw the little signs of lost memory and confusion and watched them grow. The disease slowly shuts down the brain, and with it gradually but inexorably go memories and coherence and in later stages, control and functions . . . I cannot think about the last six months, or about my Dad, who took care of her and watched the changes in his beloved wife of 60 years every day. She died several years ago, around Thanksgiving.
Iran is also heavily invested in stem cell research.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave it his blessing.
This attack on Michael J. Fox is more than reprehensible. He has been fighting a desperate and reasoned fight for a long while now and has testified before the Senate.
George Bush took away hope while surrounding himself with snowflake babies. He is a creep beyond measure. There is so much blood on his hands, it will be impossible to remove for eternity.
gchaucer2 @ 13
The glassphalt is still there, but Willy Don is out of politics for the first time decades (it was time).
Michael Steele was referred to by The Baltimore Sun, when it endorsed the Dem candidate for governor in 2002, as an “empty suit,” and nothing I have seen since has done anything to change that impression. He has refused to speak on actual issues, saying, for example, that his stand on abortion was “moot.” He is not running one ad where he is identified, or identifies hinself, as a Republican. He has been bought and paid for by those in the national party who raised money for him: Rove, Cheney and friends. And he has resorted to the kinds of outright lies about Ben Cardin that we have come to expect from the GOP.
I am working as an election judge on Nov. 7., so I will not get any info on this race until we close the election and they let me go home. I am keeping my fingers crossed that by the time that happens, they will be calling the race for Cardin.
Ben Cardin is a smart, caring individual who has his head screwed on straight and who has worked tirelessly on the right side of the issues that matter to all of us; he is a real Democrat, not afraid to be a Democrat, who will work hard for Maryland and for the nation.
Please give him whatever support you can!
As a huge Duran squared fan I say loud and proud, Lopez, we Duranies leave you on your own.
What I would like to know is what people like Bob Dole (A REAL AMERICAN HERO),think of SCR.
Stems cell research may be VERY important for our VETERANS returning from War. Call me immoral, if You want to, but I believe that those who have been born, served this Nation,
should have all the support they can get.
VETERAN/100 PERCENT CELL IN DISH/Respect
This is not meant to make light of the rest the
people SCR could help.
If the same Logic by those who oppose SCR where
used today, All the science that has been used
to save life since 1900, would be null.
By the Way, If You only Chat, and Do not vote or right Your REPS YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
CC
ruffian @ 98
My favorite attack of Kuhl’s against Massa is that he’s a carpetbagger – I guess that’s one way for a draft dodger to attack a 24 year Navy veteran.
scarecrow @ 101 — thanks for that, and sorry for your loss. Our situation started out simple enough too, as we noticed she couldn’t quite finish reaching the spoon to her mouth when she ate.
Now, when she says she’s “not as bad a Michael J Fox”, it breaks my heart.
Marge @
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Can you provide some specifics about this?
Such as: What is Tyson’s wife’s name? When was this? Do you have any links?
Steele’s campaign is a blatantly dishonest campaign. It is abundently clear in what he is trying to do is to dupe African-Americans into voting for him – that is why he does not mention that he is a Republican in a single ad.
His attack ads where he says he is an outsider are ridiculous, like any sentinent human being should know that, were he elected, that the GOP would retain the majority in the Senate!
I have stated this to some of my GOP friends who just smile and say that it’s just politics and he’s just doing what he has to do to win. Says all you want to know about the GOP and Michael Steele.
Rush Limblob has reached a new low
in gutter politics!
PILLS Limbaugh? I am laughing my delicate derriere off.
That darn DNA double helix won’t amount to anything…
(overheard in a bar around mid 1950’s)
Gosh, it’s really nice of all those GOP folks to look out for Michael J. Fox. He’s such a stupid, brainless guy that he needs the (drunk) daddy party to watch his back for him.
Apparently Fox thinks that, just because he has Parkinsons and has been dealing with it for years, that he knows enough about it to advocate for a certain type of treatment.
Sure, he’s probably read some books and articles on the issue. Maybe he’s talked to some big-name doctors about it, since he has the money to hire the best.
But he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. Not like Limbaugh and K Lo. Stem Cells are bad.
Unless of course you could use them to cure impotence -
Major breakthrough of the day is- DA DA- Clusterfuck gets General in Iraq to lie to the american people for the purpose of furthering the political ambitions of the Republican Party..
US Military- the few- the proud- the whores.
Four years ago, I was the recipient of a stem cell transplant for treatment of my Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. While I’m reluctant to say “cured”(don’t want to jinx myself), my doctor freely uses the word.
Though my treatment did not use embryonic stem cells, I owe my life to stem cell research.
If anyone has a problem with my continued existence on this planet, they can just sod off because I don’t care.
What does Rush know? He’s gone blind from taking Viagra and jacking off.
has this been posted already ?
this is CNN/The Beard exposing Limpballs in a big way
http://americablog.blogspot.co…..ed-by.html
Obviously, the fact that the shitheads are whining about it shows the ads are effective. And the fact that the morons are attacking an extremely popular and sympathetic celebrity with vicious, but easily refuted, lies shows just how far they have jumped over the shark.
The Dems should be applauding Limbaugh — he’s single-handedly kicking away a Missouri Senate seat.
Go Rush. Go!
My great-uncle Al suffered from Parkinsons. It’s simply a terrible disease. These brave sufferers become more and more rigid as the disease ravages them. Their facial muscles stop responding no matter how funny the joke or how much they are amused. Their bodies are cruel, unemotive shells of the supple characters you once knew them to be.
It’s only after they start taking the drugs that their motion is more “uncontrolled”. In order to counteract the horrific rigidity of the Parkinsons, the best drugs manage to basically force the nervous system into an over-compensatory mode that offers movement over immobility but only by way of over-stimulation.
It nauseates me that some suggest there’s something fake about MJ Fox’s movements. It’s all too familiar if you’ve ever seen it in all its “Parkinsonian Glory”. It’s also infuriating that clueless yahoos would stoop to so carelessly malign a man so obviously suffering.
The Youtube “response ad” to MJ Fox was what really inspired me to come out of lurkdom and say this.
Hey- he’s a CANADIAN don’t you know. Probably commie, but no doubt wants Hillary’s socialized health plan.”Let the bastard die in his spastic misery ” is what Rush and Sean really feel, but they are total cowards and we should call them out daily. As much as it hurts, we should listen and monitor these asholes daily.
Adso818,
Welcome. Hope to hear from you often.
I have a young uncle who suffers from Parkinson’s. It is a complete nightmare. He was an athlete, brilliant, active and engaged in life. Now his lifeforce is being sucked away by the hour.
How anyone could demonize Michael J. Fox…it defies imagination. What a brave man. Bless him.
TR @ 114
WE are happy you are alive. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. I hope it will help a lot of people.
Thanks, Egregious.
I’d like to think that the people who don’t support stem cell treatment have bought the propaganda that it’s all theoretical and don’t know there are treatments for different diseases already but I’m a realist and know that some of the ban supporters simply don’t care.
Rush makes me embarassed to be from Missouri. I assure you that, while we have our share of unmitigated asshattery, he is in no way representative of all of us.
Oh, and I actually called McCaskill’s campaign and Fox’s foundation for a post I wrote tonight for my site.
Turns out that MJF was the one with the idea for the ad. He produced it, and then sent it to McCaskill for her to run.
So when Steele, et al, talk about how the McCaskill campaign is just using Fox’s disability, they can blow it out their ass.
Local news (ABC) in Chicago just showed Limbaugh physically mocking Fox – very ugly and far more emotional impact than the transcript. It was quite clear that everyone is appalled by Limbaugh.
It is really sad that anyone can say that Michael J Fox is faking these tremors and shakes (specifically Rush Limbaugh). My sister had Parkinson and I see the exact same symptoms in Michael, as I did in my sister Laura. Laura died last October from complications from Parkinson’s and the medication (which became addictive and she was toxic). I love Michael and what he stands for and I pray that one day I will see a cure for Parkinson’s, so others may to able live a normal life. I have already lost a daughter, my father, nephew and another sister to various diseases and I cannot stand silent anymore.
My son said this at Laura’s funeral “My aunt Laura may have not been able to move, but she moved a lot of people”