Larry King/McCain Interview

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/lkl.mccain.excerpts/index.html

Think before you ask...

Do I want a proctology exam?
That's what Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber") feels that he has gotten just for asking an elected official a question. Full story.

Quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

I saw these on the Common Room blog...I thought I would share...

Interesting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_money

From what I can understand, McCain is open about who donates money to his campaign; Obama is not open. McCain even lists donors who he is not required to list. Hmmmm....

A Link

Here it is.

I love how a certain political party makes big promises on how they will use our money. They make people feel guilty by saying, "Oh, you can afford to have more taken away from you, really." They forget that the government is the absolute worst steward of money that ever was. Or maybe they don't forget; maybe they want us to forget. My reasons why the government is not my charity of choice:
1) Accountability -- non-existent
2) Efficiency -- non-existent (been to a post office or tag agency lately?)
3) Cost -- how many government officials does it take (do we pay) to change a lightbulb??
4) Personal responsibility -- we don't have to help the poor...that's the government's job

There you go. :-)

Another link...

LINK :-)

Stem Cell Research

I was watching videos on CNN just a minute ago, and I came across this video about Biden's comments about stem cell research (if someone cares so much for special needs kids, why don't they allow stem cell research?).
I wouldn't have thought too much about the comments of the commentators, except that I had been reading about stem cell research earlier today. To sum up, scientists have "turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women's eggs -- the previously essential ingredients that have embroiled the medically promising field in a nearly decade-long political and ethical debate." Of course, the media does not mention this. I guess because that would take away one of their talking points about Sarah Palin and her stance on embryonic stem cell research. An interesting opinion which I read was that keeping the government from funding embryonic stem cell research kept doors open for researching other options which no one considers immoral. Interesting.