if only bush applied morality universally...

king george vetoed a bill that would have helped give hope to millions of people suffering from heartbreaking diseases. his excuse...this would "sacrifice human lives" for the "medical benefit" of others. yea george, it must be a lot easier to sleep at night when you claim being able to move below the waist again as a "medical benefit"...or not slowly dying of cancer as a "medical benefit"...or not having to slowly lose your mind to the horror of yourself and those around you as a "medical benefit"...or being able to physically control your own body as a "medical benefit"...or even the hope of living as a "medical benefit." it is also much easier to ignore these "medical benefits" (i.e. saving and bettering millions of lives) when you lie about stem cell research "ending life." and when you lie to people that adult stem cells hold more promise than embryonic stem cells. (a lot like with things like global warming...instead of finding serious scientists to back up such a claim, they rely on folks that have no scientific background to show that adult stem cells will be better anyways).

if this was really bush's concern...or even if bush was able to universally apply his absolute moral truths to himself...we might here lines such as this...

"fertility clinics will hereby be illegal as unnaturally producing human embryos and throwing thousands of them in the trash to possible create one human child is wrong. it is ending thousands of lives for the possible creation of a child benefit to a couple." afterall, a whopping 150 were adopted (actually less) compared to hundreds of thousands that have not been adopted and will

"israel shall not be allowed to slaughter civilians of another nation to save the lives of a lesser number of israelis...especially considering israel was not being attacked by hezbolah missiles until after it launched a bombing campaing of it's own."

"we will not kill iraqi civilians, even as 'collateral damage', to maybe, possibly save the lives of americans at some phantom threat down the line."

this one is a classic from the white house..."it is inappropriate for the federal government to finance what many people think is murder." (t. snow - talking for the president on stem cell research). but he forgot the important "...unless of course it is capital punishment, or the murder of civilians in a far off land that we can cover up by refusing to count "enemy dead" in war...or unless that murder is based on a 'life' that came into being before 2001, an arbitrary line which we have drawn, because god talks to george when he has time off from his conversations with pat robertson."

the white house declared it will not spend more tax dollars on the destruction of life when it comes to embryos...this coming from the government that has spent over 50 trillion dollars on military spending since the end of world war II. 50 trillion dollars...think about that for a minute. 50 trillion federal dollars on the machinery of death and destruction of human life that actually has done such things as become human...tax dollars spent that way according to the white house, totally fine...tax dollars spent instead on "destruction" of a cell that may some day become a human life but is totally incapable of doing so without unnatural help and implantation (and of course even then, only 150 out of about 400,000 have done so) and with the possibility to save and better life in the future, yea, that's no good.

"what we are all trying to do is give that prime minister the ability to control his own territory." (j. bolton, white house cheif of staff). excuse me if i tilt my head scrunch up my forehead look at you like you are nuts mr. bolton and proclaim "arrr?" more impeccable logic from the white house...by destroying the infrastructure of a country we are enhancing their ability to control their country. hmmm...but i thought that bombing campaigns like this were used against iraq and afghanistan to cripple the ability of those governments to control their territory (side note - yea...that was not the best of ideas to begin with seeing as how now we want to control those countries and the infrastructure crucial to that process is gone). apparently lebanon is a magical place where destruction leads to order.

all of this makes me wonder, yet again...do these people listen to themselves? how can anyone listen to their logic and think it works?

"free elections are no guarantee of a democracy." (t. russert). exactly tim...just take a look at this country. or even at this country's refusal to recognize legitimately elected governments.

america...the land of the free and of opportunity, in a just and truthful way...but where the president is never black, female or gay.