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This Bush problem stems from cells







October 28, 2004

All politics is local. I am sitting in a restaurant in Flushing Meadows on Tuesday night, watching the lights of planes taking off from LaGuardia. I am going to Cleveland to write about the election, I decide.

A relation, Barbara Myers, had called from Cincinnati to say that there are computer telephone calls with Ed Koch saying to vote for Bush because he is best for Israel. That's wonderful. He was elected around here because he ran on race. The first time, he ran a municipal race using capital punishment. He said you were allowed revenge. The lousiness worked. Now he is out campaigning for a right-wing Republican who has tried to bury this city.

Now another plane with lights blazing races into the night. Jacksonville, I say to myself. They will settle Florida in Jacksonville. Koch is there in person. Soon, Giuliani. He became a national hero by living on television after the Trade attack. He didn't pick up a piece of metal. He stayed far from fire. He went on TV day and night. He declared the attack site to be his personal property. He brought big names down to see it. Only big names. Nobody else was allowed. He campaigns for George Bush.

Koch and Giuliani are at ease with Bush. There is not a nonwhite within a mile. I'll write of blacks in Jacksonville. And here at the microphone at this dinner in Flushing Meadows is Kathy Kenny, looking to be way younger than her 53, light-haired. She was raffling off what she thought was the great prize of the night. Stem cells.

She and her fiance, Seymour Fineman, had bought the stem cells from the stem-cell registry in Phoenix. It was from a placenta a couple had given to the registry before their baby was born. "How could you not be for it?" she asked.

Kathy Kenny's grandson, age 2 days, had just died. The funeral was on the next day, Wednesday. The mother told Kathy that she had to go to this dinner because it was her work.

The stem cells from her dead grandson also had been saved.

"Sometime, in the family or somewhere, the stem cells can be part of the baby's legacy," Kathy said.

She was at a dinner of the Walter Kaner Children's Foundation. Kaner wrote a column at the old Long Island Press and that paper was gone in the '70s, and Kaner's column is gone, too, but he left a work that still goes on. Some from that old paper did pretty well. Nobody did as much as Walter Kaner, whose foundation has helped children for decades. The dinner on Tuesday was at Terrace on the Park. And of her stem cells, Kathy Kenny announced, "Anybody with half a brain knows this is the future."

She meant that the one without half a brain is George Bush. Somewhere out there on Tuesday night, and then last night and as he will be on all the nights left before this election, George Bush was in his shirtsleeves to look like a working man and he flailed and whined and lied and lied. They are missing 400 tons of major explosives? What 400 tons? He is an embarrassment to the country. He cried out against stem cells because he said they are sinful. You are taking a life to perhaps save a life, he says. He sees armies of women having babies and then chopping them up like chickens for the stem cells. He is opposed to embryonic stem cells, which come from a fetus that has been fertilized in vitro. His wife says the stem cells couldn't save her father from Alzheimer's, which means nobody should have them. They get their views from a Dust-Bowl Bible left by Elmer Gantry. Fifty years from now, people will look back on this year in America and be amazed that the country was run by an obvious nitwit.

And when I got home on Tuesday night, my cousin, Ryland Kelley, called from Palo Alto, Calif., totally unexpected, to tell me that he just had attended a lecture by Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist.

"His lecture was on stem-cell research," Rye said. "He is part of getting this initiative on the ballot to raise money for stem-cell research to replace the money Bush has withheld.

"He said that they have two genes identified for breast cancer. He thinks some direct therapy can knock it out. Can you think of that? This is a man with a Nobel Prize telling you that the stem-cell research can end breast cancer. I sat there with my mouth open. To hear that, after what all of us have been through.

"You listen to him. It is absolutely idiotic to oppose this. What can you possibly be thinking? The people in the audience had pads and pens. When he said that this can be used against diabetes, they were taking notes. I guess everybody there had a daughter or son with diabetes. I wonder where Bush's family stands?"

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"He cried out against stem cells because he said they are sinful. You are taking a life to perhaps save a life, he says. He sees armies of women having babies and then chopping them up like chickens for the stem cells"

That is the furthest thing from the truth that George Bush feels about Stem Cell research. There is no "ban" on stem cell research. He is the first president in history to allocoate and allow any federal tax dollars to be used for stem cell research. (Your beloved Clinton refused to even though he was advised to)... He does have a restriction that federal money only be used to do research on the lines of stem cells that have already been created. There is no such "ban" or limitation on any research done in the private sector.

Ignorant statements like those above are ridiculous and people should be smarter than that to read bull at face value.

I am a Bush supporter but also a strong believer in stem cell research. There is nothing Bush has done to slow down the progress of stem cell research. Before he took office, it was exactly as it is now, EXCEPT there were no federal tax dollars going to the research, so if anything he helped move it along.

electricparadise

Human Embryo Research Panel (National Institutes of Health)

This panel was formed by the National Institutes of Health in January 1994. The group classified human embryo research into three categories: acceptable, needing additional review, and unacceptable. It also drafted guidelines for the review and conduct of acceptable research. The Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH unanimously approved the report, but President Clinton issued a statement saying, "I do not believe that federal funds should be used to support the creation of human embryos for research purposes, and I have directed that NIH not allocate any resources for such research."

* Volume 1 (Sept 1994) Here we go again ,bringing up Clinton . He's not the one with the purse strings now and 25 milloin dollars is doo doo when you are talking about a line of research that might have the potential of curing a vast array of deseases. If you read the scientific papers the scientist are saying some of these lines are contaminated and can't be used .
Here this might help people on exactly what stem cell can do Stem Cells and Diseases
The Promise of Stem Cells

Studying stem cells will help us understand how they transform into the dazzling array of specialized cells that make us what we are. Some of the most serious medical conditions, such as cancer and birth defects, are due to problems that occur somewhere in this process. A better understanding of normal cell development will allow us to understand and perhaps correct the errors that cause these medical conditions.

Another potential application of stem cells is making cells and tissues for medical therapies. Today, donated organs and tissues are often used to replace those that are diseased or destroyed. Unfortunately, the number of people needing a transplant far exceeds the number of organs available for transplantation. Pluripotent stem cells offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Have human embryonic stem cells successfully treated any human diseases?

Scientists have been able to do experiments with human embryonic stem cells (hESC) only since 1998, when a group led by Dr. James Thompson at the University of Wisconsin developed a technique to isolate and grow the cells. Moreover, Federal funds to support hESC research have been available since only August 9, 2001, when President Bush announced his decision on Federal funding for hESC research. Because many academic researchers rely on Federal funds to support their laboratories, they are just beginning to learn how to grow and use the cells. Thus, although hESC are thought to offer potential cures and therapies for many devastating diseases, research using them is still in its early stages.

Adult stem cells, such as blood-forming stem cells in bone marrow (called hematopoietic stem cells, or HSCs), are currently the only type of stem cell commonly used to treat human diseases. Doctors have been transferring HSCs in bone marrow transplants for over 40 years. More advanced techniques of collecting, or "harvesting," HSCs are now used in order to treat leukemia, lymphoma and several inherited blood disorders.

The clinical potential of adult stem cells has also been demonstrated in the treatment of other human diseases that include diabetes and advanced kidney cancer. However, these newer uses have involved studies with a very limited number of patients.
Participating in Research Studies

Scientists are testing the abilities of adult stem cells to treat certain diseases. You can search for clinical trials using stem cells (or other methods) to treat a specific disease at ClinicalTrials.gov. You are shrub lover , man "I will feel your PAIN"when you find out what a loser he is. ( see I also brought Clinton into this)