Archive for April 17th, 2009

Obama Shakes Chavez’s Hands

bacvezVenezuela quoted Chavez as saying, “I’d like to be your friend,” while Obama reportedly expressed thanks. What a great picture, two Anti-Bush/Americans shaking hands. No, here’s some background: Chavez: Bush ‘devil’; U.S. ‘on the way down’, he loved that statement, Hugo Chavez tells the U.N. he can smell the stink of Bush, “the devil” Chavez blasted the United Nations, calling the General Assembly “merely a deliberative organ” that meets once a year. Chavez told his U.S. counterpart and his U.N. hosts the General Assembly that its system is “worthless.”
Chavez said “The devil came here yesterday,” referring to Bush, “And it smells of sulfur still today.” He said. “The Soviet Union collapsed. The United States empire is on the way down and it will be finished in the near future, for the good of all mankind.” He said the U.S. government was the “first enemy” of its people. Chavez told reporters that Bush is not a legitimate president because he “stole the elections, He is therefore a dictator,” He said of Bush, “With this cowboy you can’t even talk … the Texan who walks around shooting from the hip.”

President Obama had a mentor like relationship with Frank Marshall Davis, a well known Communist. Davis warned Obama not to forget his “people” and not to “start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that s**t.” Other mentors of President Obama are
Father Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright, radical leftists. Now the two are shaking hands while Chavez as saying, “I’d like to be your friend,” and  Obama expressed thanks.

Obama Stem Cell Policy ?

stem1President Obama signed an executive order allowing the federal government to fund the full array of embryonic stem cell research on March 9, 2009 this was Monday. “Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident. They result from painstaking and costly research from years of lonely trial and error, much of which never bears fruit, and from a government willing to support that work,” Mr. Obama said as he signed an executive order. On Wednesday, two days after, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicitly bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death. The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed, known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996.

Now Obama’s Embryo Snitchers at the National Institutes of Health intend to make research money available to scientists who work on stem cells made from embryos that are no longer needed for fertility treatments and would otherwise be thrown away. This draft only diverts federal resources to unethical stem cell research that has not treated a single person for any disease. This is another one of Obama’s Magic Tricks, he make a run to the Fifth Summit of the Americas while the NIH make the announcement, on a Friday, this way it will not be headline news for monday.

The proposed policy would make it much easier for scientists to work on hundreds of new cell lines. NIH believes the President’s executive order allows them to fund such unethical research to these ‘leftover embryos,’  They are also looking for federal funding to make stem cells that are genetically matched, called nuclear transfer or therapeutic cloning.  Those on both sides of the embryonic stem cell issue are aware of the Dickey-Wicker amendment and understood the legal obstacle for federal funding. I mentioned this in my March 9th post, ‘Easy As Taking Cell From An Embryo,’ embryonic stem cells are harvested from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst a few days after fertilization, can you see where this is going? The NIH draft guidelines will do nothing to advance stem cell research for near term suffering patients, but the Instead, taxpayers will foot the bill. What Do You Think?

The “Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009,” which includes the Dickey-Wicker language that  President Obama signed Wednesday, after he signed the executive order, Monday. H.R. 1105. The text of Section 509 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, reads as follows:

SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). (b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

Obama Makes $2.6 Million

150Obama earned about $2.6 million from the sale of his books, “The Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams From My Father,” in 2008. Sales from these books represented the majority of their income. Obama and Michelle, paid about $855,000 in federal taxes. They would have received a $26,000 refund. They also reported wages of about $200,000 and a small amount of investment income. Obama paid about $78,000 in taxes to their home state of Illinois. Obama donated $172,050 to charities. No donations were reported to the Trinity United Church of Christ, the Chicago church of Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Vice President Biden and his wife, Jill reported income of about $270,000. Biden paid about $47,000 in federal taxes and donated $1,885 to charity. Biden reported about $9,500 from audio book “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics.”

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