• Adult stem cells cannot be induced to develop into any cell type.
• Adult stem cells are difficult to identify,
• Adult stem cells may not exist for some tissues, including insulin-producing cells.
• Cell-replacement therapies such as islet transplantation require an unlimited source of donor cells to have widespread success—which adult stem cells cannot provide.
• Embryonic stem cells have potential to develop into any cell type.
• Embryonic stem cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods.
• Embryonic stem cells can easily be grown in culture, and scientists are improving the methods by which this is done.
• Embryonic stem cells represent the earliest stages of cellular development, allowing scientists to see when things first begin to go wrong to lead to disease.

BTW, Fox’s symptoms as presented in the ad are apparently a result of his medication and not Parkinson’s. Apparently the chronic use of of dopamine agonists results in such broad movements whereas untreated Parkinson’s leads to much smaller tremors and even immobility.

Another fun tidbit, Fox did a similar ad for Arlen Specter a year or so ago.

So much for Fox being a partisan tool.

Someone comes up with a “system” for shooting down a missile. Of course, they don’t run rigorous double-blind studies to prove it, they just trot out some rigged, non-real world test to say that it shot down a missile with lots of nice marketing lingo. Then they charge $100 billion bucks for it, and of course, it won’t work for at least six-months, and if you forget to pre-program one decoy, you have to start over!
But people buy it…because they are desperate not to get killed by the nuclear missiles republicans keep telling us all about. And when you give them alternatives, (all of which have potentially nasty side effects, like nuclear proliferation, but may in fact FIX the problem), they get mad at the liberals and say we are just “pawns” of the Islamo-facists or something.

Hope is a powerful emotion in desperate voters, and it takes a really evil person to profit from that hope when they know it is futile.

The republicans are doing just that. Taking a something that has not as yet been useful for anything, and trying to stir that up to get votes.

To play on the hopes of the desperate to gather a few more votes is despicable…

We have no timeline for the norks to destroy us. Yes, the democrats are weak on defense. It is not the same as having an axe hanging over your head.

Paul, look up “concrete thinking” in a good psych textbook…cause you are the poster child.

I take it you DID get booted from your PhD program….!

The 6th Congressional District in Minnesota and the 7th Congressional District in Colorado are two of the most crucial races in the battle to keep the House out of the control of San Fran Nan Pelosi and John Murtha.

Michele Bachmann is ahead but is the target of a furious and deceit-filled negative campaign.
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If you are reluctant to part with a contribution equivalent to another night-on-the-town, just reread Nancy Pelosi’s take on national missile defense from her 2003 speech accepting the Alan Cranston Award:

“The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental “

Pedro, conservatives ARE saying vote Republican or the North Koreans will kill you — all based on research that, in your own words, “has not as yet been useful for anything.”

Let me put this analogy in missile defense terms for you paul, since that seems to be what you are perseverating about…

Lets pretend the NORKS have promised to nuke L.A. on Dec 1. And we, because we have a bunch of lefties around, aren’t allowed to nuke them first…but, if we get a missile shield up, we can protect all those fine upstanding angelenos. Now, the republicans come in and say “if you don’t vote for us, you are atomic dust, cause Paul and his leftists don’t believe in researching missile defense, Vote Republican!”

THAT would be the analogy. The democrats are taking people with life-threatening illness and promising that if it just wasn’t for the evil republicans, we could have all the stem cell research we want and we would have a cure…! Never mind that the republicans SUPPORT stem cell research (just not embryonic stem cell research).

Clear yet?

“Taking a something that has not as yet been useful for anything, and trying to stir that up to get votes.”

Republicans use their support for missile defense as a reason why they’re better on national security.

But research into missile defense “has not as yet been useful for anything.”

So tell me why Bush isn’t also a “really evil” person.

Bone marrow transplant using adult hematopoetic stem cells

Cardiac stem cell transplant for cardiomyopathy.

There, now I have doubled the number embryonic stem cell based cures given me by my leftist collegues…

And okay, his illness – which he never actually mentions directly in any of the three ads I’ve seen – works to underscore, or illustrate the point he’s making. But none of the ads are actually about the illness.

What everyone else is doing is attacking him for milking it. Anyone who’d say something like that on national radio should be fired, in my opinion.

However, the charge that Fox doesn’t really have a shaking problem, that’s baseless. THE PERSON MAKING THE CHARGE IS THE PERSON NEEDING TO PROVE THE CHARGE. And saying that Fox is an actor is NOT proof of this.

There’s fair game, and there’s baseless accusations.

Talk about playing partisan politics.

You do get an A for Trolling Effort tho Dugger. Not many people would be so brainless as to try the angle you just pitched.

Nonsense.

Fox’s critics aren’t taking issue with what he had to say. They’re engaging in an ugly smear. They’re saying he’s faking. They’re saying, in essence, that he’s lying about his condition by portraying it falsely.

Where are the cons who are willing to take on Fox’s ad honestly?

That is exactly what is happening. And I’m sorry, if you are going to play mean partisan politics don’t go hiding behind your condition when somebody debates what you say or criticizes you. How typically progressive. Fox can say what he want and because he has a disease, it must be true.

Bullsh*t.That dawg won’t hunt.

Can you name 3 for us?

When even a gradual student in movie making places that many modifiers in a sentence, you know it is a failing argument. “It may….lead to something hopeful..” Paul you demonstrate exactly what I am talking about. You take something that “may” someday, be “hopeful” and turn it into a bugaboo that the republicans are single-handedly crushing out the hope of the chronically ill! Talk about playing on fear…and at the same time, you ignore the fact the republicans are supporting tons of stem cell research that are arriving at life altering cures today!

Yes paul, you and your liberal buddies are those “evil people”

I should note that the only two of whom I had heard before this were Caveizel and Heaton, and Caveizel is more famous for his role. He is probably better known as “Jesus from that Mel Gibson movie” (you know, I almost typed “Mel Brooks” instead of “Mel Gibson”) than by his name. I’d even go so far to say that his mom probably calls him “Jesus from the Mel Gibson movie” than “Jim.”