Sanctity of Life

"We should not use public money to support the further destruction of human life,"

Okay that's what our fearless leader said about stem cell research. But haven't we used public money to destroy lives of Americans and Iraqis, and quite a lot of money, nearly $200 billion and counting? So it's okay to destroy some lives, but how does one determine which lives are expendable?

I'm not so sure about stem cell research, it all sounds really sci-fi to me. And I am a bit uneasy about the thought of some mad right wing scientist cloning someone like Tom Delay, or Dick Cheney, and allowing them to ferment somewhere in a test tube, until there were so many, that they burst from the labratory and took over the Senate and the House.

Oh...maybe that's how they did it.

On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to replace my worn out brain cells with brand new smarter brain cells, or grow myself a new set of boobs, more upright than my present pair. And it would be really useful to grow some new lungs, maybe a new set for everyone in the country, to replace the old ones that have been damaged from poor air quality and dangerous emissions.

The possibilities are endless.