One of the advantages of having a cult like following like this is that the people following you simply accept what you say as the new reality. And God help you if you don’t.
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Lord help me resist earmarks…
Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: economy, irony, obama, reality
Time Lord’s have bills to pay too
Posted: March 11, 2009 by datechguy in doctor who, employment, personalTags: 6th doctor, reality
Was checking out Colin Baker’s blog and found myself empathizing with this paragraph:
If ever I post blogs on this site regularly, you should worry for my well being. It will mean that I have time on my hands and am not working. And not working, while I have two daughters at University and one still at school is, believe me, bad news!
Sometimes people forget that just because someone is on TV they don’t make big money automatically.
Phony stem cell stuff
Posted: March 10, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/newsTags: reality, war on God
You know, embryonic stem cell research was not against the law in the US during the Bush administration but federal funds weren’t spent on it. Adult stem cell research have produced actual benefits and are pooh poohed, but that doesn’t kill humans and thus doesn’t produce the vital ingredient that makes embryonic stem cell research the priority it is.
The vital ingredient is the sin. The sin of murder, the sin of complicity to murder, the sin of being paid to murder and the sin to say that evil is good.
This is the reason why embryonic stem cell research is such a priority, because it produces a sin that can help damn humans. That is all it is good for.
If you are not a Catholic you likely think that is nonsense, you have the right to think that and call me a nut all you want. This doesn’t make it less true.
The difference is people see heaven and hell and God and the devil as an interesting thing to debate and discuss or dismiss. I see and state that it is reality. Like anything that is actually real and exists it needs to be addressed in our lives as much as the snow on the sidewalk.
Update: Via Glenn what a surprise:
Members of Congress and advocates for fighting diseases have long spoken of human embryonic stem cell research as if it were a sure avenue to quick cures for intractable afflictions. Scientists have not publicly objected to such high-flown hopes, which have helped fuel new sources of grant money like the $3 billion initiative in California for stem cell research.
In private, however, many researchers have projected much more modest goals for embryonic stem cells. Their chief interest is to derive embryonic stem cell lines from patients with specific diseases, and by tracking the cells in the test tube to develop basic knowledge about how the disease develops.
Or to put it another way, its all about the tax dollars.
BTW this is listed as an update because this was a scheduled post.
…It is true that we do not yet have two months of the Obama presidency in the bank yet, although Geitner was in place even before that and should have had time to plan on this.
We will continue to disagree on the stuff he is doing, on the economic front June would be a better time to make a more solid decision on if this stuff is working or no.
That won’t prevent me from critiquing and attacking things that I thing are certainly incorrect but it is much too soon to declare the Obama presidency a failure and anyone who does has never read history.
