Wont Anyone Think About The Embryos?

Wont Anyone Think About The Embryos?

So yesterday a judge ruled against Obama's stem cell expansion in such a vague way that it's not actually more restrictive than Bush. The best part is that the suit was originally filed on behalf of "embryos."

See the worthless NYTimes article here.

With the case back in his court, Judge Lamberth ruled that the administration’s policy violated the clear language of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, a law passed annually by Congress that bans federal financing for any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

Some change we can believe in. It's actually very funny that this ruling arose from a slap fight between the stem cell community. The case was brought to the judge by Scientist and not from the frothing moralists.

They were working on adult stem cell research and didn't want to compete with the embryonic stem cell community for funding and so they went ahead and got them shut down. Which is really surprising to me in a move to make.



I realize it's all part of our capitalistic society to crush the competition, but adult steam cell research in general is better because it goes around the touchy moral issues, but the results it generates are also far better. How did any of these places have trouble getting funding when there's a whole body of literature support them?

The judge is correct in his reasoning and shockingly, it's Congress and Adult Stem cell Researchers which are the piece of shit here. And as much as he was the president while I grew up more aware of the political system, Bill Clinton shares a bit of the blame here.

The Dickey Amendment (also known as the Dickey-Wicker Amendment) is the name of an appropriation's bill rider attached to a bill passed by United States Congress in 1995, and signed by former President Bill Clinton which prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes or for research in which human embryos are destroyed. HHS funding includes the funding for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. Technically the Dickey Amendment is a "rider" to other legislation, which amends the original legislation. The rider receives its name from the name of the Congressman that originally introduced the amendment, Representative Jay Dickey. The Dickey amendment language has been added to each of the Labor, HHS, and Education appropriations acts for FY1997 through FY2009.

And now I believe "Dickey-Wicker Amendment" is probably my new favorite amendment name. Because, really. It's just all sorts of kick ass.

Though what is real bullshit here is that the whole "On behalf of the Embryos" shit is just out there. Embryos aren't citizens until after birth. By no means should they have any legal standing. But I hope you noticed a key component there.. they're making a law on behalf of a citizen... the embryos. So does that mean that any embryo in the united states should be considered protected?

Just think about it.. We're now dealing with terror anchor embryos!



Maybe if we just use Mexican embryos nobody will care. Nobody important, at the very least. It's not like we need embryonic stem cell research anyway. Who cares about advancing modern medicine and improving the quality of life to those who suffer from some potentially curable sickness.

I just don't understand how abortion can be immoral and yet hormone based birth control is perfectly fine to the religious right. I guess it really isn't since birth control implies that sex is happening, which is icky and totally not what the church is down with.



You know, anything that implies sex for something other than having your 18th ignorant future Nascar watching child, which is kind of selfish when you think about it. Wanting so much of you around that you're willing to crank out DNA copies of yourself.

So anyhow, I do find it sort of ironic that the main backers of this is Alliance Defense fund being as they are a pro-christian-speech advocacy group funded primarily by Erik Prince. Yes, that's right kids, if you're not paying attention at home, that Erik Prince - of Blackwater.. Or as they like to avoid media attention now under the name XE.

I suppose it's okay to kill embryos if you kill the woman they're inside of too. You go ahead and sip your nutrients through that umbilical cord and be smug about winning this time, Embryo. Just you wait till the next time we meet on the field of science!

If You're In California, You Might As Well Get Gay Married

If You're In California, You Might As Well Get Gay Married

I realize it takes time to plan a wedding, but let's just get it out there - the window for this gay marriage thing may be a little small, so hurry up and get your flowers all set up already because you see Judge Vaughn R. Walker essentially lifted the stay so gay couples in California can get married again.

RT @freedomtomarry: BREAKING: Judge Walker lifts stay, and same-sex couples now have the freedom to marry in CA #Prop8 – Please RT! #lgbt

You hear that noise? It's the sound of 24 million Yes on 8 dollars that just went down the drain. Vaughn R. Walker is not only gay, but he's also awesome. Though he's probably going to get hot by some other judge who will then claim insanity or something.

I mean, marriage is still state-subsidized rape and all, but oh well, good for the gay community now. The nuclear families are the cells of the capitalist cancer when you think about it.. Remember that movie "I pronounce you chuck and larry" where in the trailer they were supposed to be fake gay married and someone was all like "why don't you kiss" and then they were all "ewwwwwwww"

Yeah, millions of people laughed at that unironically.

According to the media pundits, it's now only days away till they also lift the ban on dog marriages and my taboo love for my welsh corgi can finally be publicly consummated.

Just FYI, the stay has been extended for at least another week, so gays can't get married just yet but then again, I'm not even gay and I half want to marry some other guy just because we can. Or should I take it one step up? I have this horse I want to marry, they should be able to help me out on this one, right?

You know that the Yes on 8 will file an appeal to the 9th, and a three judge panel there will determine the standing issue. If the prop 8 supporters are denied standing by the 9th, then they have to appeal to the Supreme Court. Who will then determine standing and send the case back to the 9th as necessary.

While all this is a bit confusing and not very helpful without a singing and dancing bill to help guide you through the process, it still shows that Walker's stay decision was a long "Fuck you" to the Prop 8 supporters and strongly spells out their lack of standing on the matter.

I'm all but prepping for the "in a 5-4 decision..."/"in a 6-3 decision..." headline now for my eventual blog post about it. Enjoy your window of opportunity while you can, gay readers of my blog.

I do find it amusing that the case is going to be called "Perry v Schwarzenegger" because I like the idea of Arnold's name being enshrined in history books next to Brown v Board. He deserves it after vetoing marriage equality bills twice now.

Do you remember when Prop 8 was first put on the ballot and Arnold said "That will never happen. I will fight it" and then it as put on the ballot and he didn't do shit about it.. and then it passed. Yeah, good times...

I want him to fling a knife through a gay activist, pinning him to a pride float and saying "Stick around". Or perhaps he'll just slide over to a man in a towel on Sauna bench and let out "Hey Bennett, let off some steam"

I guess to his credit he's not defending it and also was part of the petition to the judge to life the injunction. In fact, the fact that the state didn't even bother trying to defend the amendment in court was an important part of the ruling because then the only people fighting for it were the random activists who don't have standing.

Fuck it, I'm just going to go gay marry a Mexican dude for the $$ and citizenship and we'll have gay anchor terrorist babies together. Exactly how? I do not know. But fuck you, America!

Judging Judy

Judging Judy

Did you know that Judge Judy makes twenty times more than all the supreme court justices put together? Yup, that's right.

Combined annual salary of Supreme Court Justices: $1.8 million
Judge Judy Sheindlen's annual salary: $45 million

I would like to apologize to all my female readers, I don't mean to use such complicated math here, but it's pretty clear that $45 million is more than 1.8 million, but you should look past that issue and see that we clearly have something wrong with our capitalistic system and free market when the person who looks over court cases of complete morons gets paid more than people who are eventually going to be faced with trying to over turned


We may all be awaiting her judgment on the case of Grumpy neighbor v. 14 year old minority child.

I have to say Fuck the supreme court. With no more barriers to direct corporate donations to presidential campaigns, presidents are gonna earn mo money for their campaign from corporate sponsors on a daily basis than all those people combined. Sure they don't make as much but the benefits are great. All expense paid duck hunting trips with Dick Cheney and Exxon executives.

But before you think I'll cry out Death to America, let's look at this from an outside perspective. Judge Judy deserves it more than the current Supreme Court. We should actually put Judge Judy on the supreme court. Judge Judy is actually correct in her judgments and is entertaining. I suspect if she was on the supreme court and got on people like she did on her show, our country would be a lot better.



Clearly her services are much more valuable than the supreme court. Judge Judy is a huge liberal and was disgusted that prop 8 passed. Can't say the same for the current supreme court. Fuck them. Besides that, Judge Judy would not take any of Scalias shit. She wouldn't let anyone interrupt her because she is always louder than anyone who steps into the court room. Some one raise her voice to her and she would go EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME I AM TALKING, I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM TALKING, I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAM TALKINGGGGGGGG. That'll shut up anyone trying to derail this shit.



What other reasons are there that she would rock?
-supports gay marriage
-supports stem cell research
-she's pro-choice
-supports the patriot act
-opposes legalizing marijuana
-voted for Obama

Okay, Okay.. so she's not VERY liberal, but she's liberal, she's like an Obama liberal but that's why you have judge Greg Mathis and Joe Brown to push the socialist agenda we want. Just no more white male supreme court judges, please..



One day that I had off and I went to visit my now retired father, he was watching Judge Judy and felt that watching the shoe was much more important than talking or spending any time with me. So it's clear that if she was on the supreme court, a lot more people would be open to actually giving a fuck about the issues in our world today.

Judge Judy would own corporations like she owned the cell phone scammer and call them idiots and berate them for like an hour or more. You think she'll be lenient on the issues? Pfft, she usually judges people on other factors. Like those times where there's really no evidence but she's already made up her mind and mocks them for 7 minutes before making a judgment for the plaintiff. Again, you can predict it like afternoon rain in Florida. "Excuse me! Don't interrupt me! EXCUSE ME. EXCUSE ME. EXCUSE ME!!!!: Judgment for the plaintiff.



Though I guess it may not always work. You really haven't seen Judge Judy till you've seen an episode in which she has made up her mind in favor o one party because the other came in dressed like trash or wouldn't spit out their gum. If you wanted to prevent that, the supreme court justice should make $10 billion a year so they can't be motivated by business interest.

"Yeah, try and by me off, fucktard, I'm already loaded!" - Clarence Thomas.

If Judge Judy, Judge Greg Mathis and Judge Joe Brown were the supreme court then America would be a utopia. In fact, I would gladly have Scalia and Thomas paid $45 million a year to get off the supreme court and settle tenant disputes on cable.



If the supreme court judges made a giant amount of money their decisions would become biased in favor of their business interest, I suppose. They would issue rulings on certain cases that have such broad scope that it would be very hard to say when a conflict of interest was happening. Maybe it's better that you pay the public servants a living wage and nothing more. You probably shouldn't use the patronage system. We should restrict the fuck out of lobbying and campaign finance. Record everything, make it available to everyone.

There's some good in government. Me saying that right now is a rare instance. Judge Judy is the only judge left we can trust.

Thinks about it. Judge Judy is binding arbitration that the parties enter into, so much like the Supreme Court, you cannot appeal Judge Judy's rulings to any highr court. Judge Judy IS the Supreme Court.

Now this is just a perfect way to end this: