Apparently you have. 'The requested document does not exist on this server'. When you fix that. try to find a more credible source than freerepublic, the Hogwart's of Wingnuttery.

No, I don't see how signing a 400+ page appropriations bill that contains one or two politically unpalatable provisions slipped into it constitutes 'losing one's mind'. If anyone is to blame here, it's Congress for allowing such language to be included in the bill.

It doesn't ban the research, it just doesn't make funds available for it. That's not the same thing. And sourcing the Free Republic? Who are they?

It's entirely too bad that y'all Right Wing Nuts weren't this critical during Bush's reign of terror. If you had only been half as alert and zealous, we weren't be in the mess we're in right now

Lost his mind? This law brings balance to a very touchy issue. I think it's wonderful! Stem cell research and embryo destruction are two completely different things. The research can be done without harming human embryos. Basically what he has done is restrict federal funds to programs that do not create and/or destroy human embryos strictly for research purposes. Because of this law, federal funding is now available to pursue stem cell research without impinging on what a vast amount of Americans regard as the sanctity of life.

Until our President has a line-item veto, poison pills in appropriations Bills will continue. It was either let that one go for now or shut down the gov't.

For that specific bill, yes. Otherwise, funding for stem cell research is intact.

Free Republic is a website for right wing whackos and a whole host of idiots and ignorant prejudiced small mind hateful freaks that feeds itself and others on a steady stream of warped reporting, rumor and innuendo. They are worse than FOX and that's pretty bad... Stem cell research funding was passed many years ago by a then republican dominated congress and vetoed by then Pres. Bush for purely political purposes. It should be mentioned that Bush thought it was fine to use existing stem cell lines for federally funded research just not new lines. Fine idiot logic there eh? No more or fewer abortions will take place as a result of this change. Again, funding for stem cell research is supported by prominent republicans, democrats and independents. I have a great idea. If you find stem cell research so abhorrent please, sign a pledge to never avail yourself or your family of any therapy, treatment, regime, drugs or any other cures for any diseases or disability that arises out of stem cell research!!! It's my bet that the pro-lifers who stomp their feet and cry about how immoral stem cell research is would be at the head of the line to cure themselves or their children from life threatening conditions like MS,cancer, juvenile diabetes or to gain the ability to walk again if they were paralyzed.

I question the spin the freerepublic.com puts on anything. They got that story from The Cybercast News Service, which is a part of the Media Research Center, which is an organization that admits it was created with conservative roots. - If you read the bill that was quoted in the article, it says "None of the funds made available in THIS ACT may be used..." [capitalization added]. That means that funds from this act can't be used for "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." - It says nothing about funds from other pieces of legislation.

It makes me sick to think life is so cheap.

Like I said before: by the time his fans realize what damage he has done to the country it will be too late. Hey Banned, buddy, how are you doing???

The same could be (and has been) said of the Patriot Act. Many legislators rubber-stamped it through and only read it later, often horrified at what they had just passed.

I don't get the problem. He allowed the stem cell research, then he disallowed funding for it to come from cash made available by an entirely separate act of government. He said yes you can legally do it, but no you're not getting the cash from here. So what's the problem?