One more reminder:: Bush wants NO CURE for Diabetes/Alzhiemers

[opihimoimoi]

Nerve Damage, repair/Parkinsons/ etc. He wants the status quo...not see advancement in Medicene.

Catering to Fundies, he opposes STEM CELL Research....which has all kinds of promise re the above maladies. This is sickening....Politics BEFORE Cures???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If everybody gets cured, how will the drug companies make money?

[opihimoimoi]

2. Change focus and solve for CANCER/The Common Cold/Flu/etc.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Does this response from this cold,sociopathic one-silverspoon from a

serial-killer surprise you?

[opihimoimoi]

4. The guy is pathetically IGNORANT

[CJCRANE]

5. This kind of research

could even help him in his later years.

[oscar111]

6. From 1O yrs research, down to ONE DAY

if we muscled all our wealth into NIH research, the time to find a typical cure would shrink down from ten yrs to ONE DAY.

of course that is in theory, and in reality it would shrink to more like nine months, since labs take time to build.

1O9 trillion is the US wealth. Current NIH research budget is 3O billion. Do the math if you like to.

PS bush renegged on his promise to triple NIH funds. Now there is NO expansion of them to the best of my knowledge.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Typical Bush, say something nice and later renege...he is full of BS

[opihimoimoi]

9. Obviously, he thinks himself a GOD, ........INVINCIBLE

Sheer unmitigated, unabashed Arrogance.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. A person can recruit their own stem cells. If children who

are victims of fetal alcohol syndrome can do it... so can others.

http://editorials.arrivenet.com/hea/article.php/4401.html

Stem Cell Breakthrough: Can You Now Make Your Own?
Research has begun to establish a connection between a new form of nutrient and stem cell production. Case histories cited.
Distribution Source : Article Warehouse

Date : Friday - April 29, 2005


David Lear (Article Warehouse - Apr 29, 2005) -- Over the past few years, stem cells have been getting a lot of attention. What makes them so interesting is their ability to stimulate the production of many types of healthy cells. That means that a single stem cell can turn itself into brain cells, liver cells, skin cells, pancreas cells, and so on.

In February of 2003, an article about stem cells was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center reported, for the first time, that undifferentiated donor stem cells were able to cross the blood brain barrier and morph themselves into neuronal cells.

This was an especially important finding because, of all the cells in the body, neuron cells are the most advanced and complicated. This is significant because it means that if stem cells can morph themselves into brain neurons, then, chances are they can transform themselves into other types of cells too.

In a separate but related area of science, there is a growing body of evidence that a specialized area of nutrition called ''glyconutrition'' is very likely responsible for causing the body to manufacture its own stem cells from its own bone marrow. This research is being overseen by Dr. Reg McDaniel M.D. at the Fischer Institute.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Science at its best...when left alone while doing GOOD....

Bad science is when the results are BAD

[blondeatlast]

8. Senate could vote on stem cell research NEXT WEEK. Call your Senators.

Please, if you can spare a few minutes on Monday, call your senators.

This is the e-mail I received from the American Diabetes Association, note the list of COFIRMED YES votes link and suggestions of how to prepare for the veto fight:

Now is the time to demonstrate your support for stem cell research. ******

Thanks to your active support, the US House of Representatives passed HR 810 on May 24th by a vote of 238 - 194. Now the Senate is expected to vote on HR 810 -- as well as several alternative bills -- as early as next week. Some of these alternatives are being proposed to take support away from HR 810; we cannot let that happen.

***The only way to ensure we get what we want is to support HR 810 without amendments.***

Help us do that by acting on these items:

* Call your Senators. The projected vote count in the
Senate looks favorable, but it is by no means a given that this
legislation will pass there. As always, your phone
call expressing support for HR 810 holds the most value.
Your Senators and their phone numbers are listed below.
Find out where they stand on HR 810 here:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/R?i=RDG2ELPSwGK5NfFykjXrk... ..

Get pointers on what to say here:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/R?i=IddYDdeGEcrLMhq6F6ve2... ..

Your Senators:


* Help us increase our numbers. We can't do what we do
without you, but we need more people like you. To
help us accomplish this, please try a new feature of
our site, an eCard, to help us get more diabetes
advocates. The eCards are easy to use; just fill in your
name and e-mail address and send it on to as many people as you
can. The eCards provide an opportunity to become a
diabetes advocate and the artwork and message of the
cards are great, too, so you'll be proud to send them
around! And don't forget to encourage new advocates to
support HR 810!
Check out both eCards below:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/R?i=d7n2SVg_lhzdU0nMhDBKP... ..
http://main.diabetes.org/site/R?i=thnWP-MdPqQd8m6sfw9NX... ..

* Begin to prepare for a Presidential veto. One way for
us to do this is to continue to get names on the Don't Veto
Hope petition, available here. If we are successful in the
Senate and the President continues to oppose this legislation,
we will deliver the petition to the White House, affirming our
position that this legislation and this research equal hope for
people affected by diabetes. The petition has more than 2400 names now; is yours on it?

Get on the petition here:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/R?i=tuIu7Xf2cgJzPQiet8g0N... ..

* Let us know which of these activities you did and how it
went at [e-mail] .

And, as always, thank you for your continued support!{/b}

Thanks from a longtime insulin-dependent diabetic who has worked on the issue for years!

[opihimoimoi]

11. Thank you very much for the POST...quite welcome...

As a diabetic...and so are many others, I am appalled by Bushies stance re this very important issue.

The Fundies hold him in check to do the right thing. By caving in to them, he has revealed his bias....and its not good.

We are missing out the boat by holding back research. Bush will go down in History not as a great Leader...anything but....more likely, a Major Dufus of the worst kind....

[blondeatlast]

13. You might want to sign up for ADA Action Alerts:

http://advocacy.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AC_homepage

They keep tabs on the federal and state level of legislation relating to diabetes.

I've been an IDD since I was seven, so I ccling to every hope I have!

Good healthy, friend!

[opihimoimoi]

17. Mahalo nui loa, appreciate it...

Sending fish and poi, smoked ribs too.

[blondeatlast]

18. Wonderful! Went to Hawaii for my honeymoon,

I'd go back at a moment's notice.

The food was incredible; I'm drooling now!

[Riddler]

14. These "people" use words like "ethics" and "morals" ....

to justify their ignorance and penchant for imposing their own narrow-minded views on the rest of the populace. My question to them is this: what could possibly be less ethical and more immoral than watching someone die of a disease you had the ability to stop? These "people" make me sick and if for no other reason is justifiably a reason to purge our political system of such closed-minded idiots. Anyone...ANYONE with a modicum of common sense who votes for anyone opposed to stem cell research deserves to perish by the very diseases their ignorance could have stopped.

[Pryderi]

15. Economics uber alles. Pharmaceutical companies would lose billions if

there were cures for maladies. Right now they make a fortune treating the symptoms.

[blondeatlast]

16. As an advocate for SCR for over a decade and an insulin dependent diabetic

since age 7, I think you are right on in your analysis.

I have decent health insurance; I pay through the nose for COPAYS alone. I know the costs, at retail, of my treatments, too. My treatment costs are OVER my annual salary without insurance.

That's just for the diabetes; after decades of diabetes, I have secondary complications; CAD among them. Add in the cost for that, and I've paid for someone at Pfizer's Mercedes--IN 1-2 YEARS.

I did the math several years ago, it's too depressing to update my calculations.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. Thanks for posting. This issue important to so many...

often seems to get buried among so many other issues.

[blondeatlast]

20. Please note post 8, Senate will be voting soon.

I've posted in as many forums as I could and am getting little response, so I'm taking every opening I can!

Thanks.