Thursday, July 20, 2006

The double-standard marches on

At lot has happened in the world since my last post in June. It seems the world is yet again about to tear itself apart. While I definitely deplore (despise, hate, condemn, you name it) the violence in Israel and Lebanon, I've decided to do this post on something else. Before I do jump topic let me say that it is sickening and disheartening that the major governments of the world are idly sitting by while Israel commits hideous atrocities to innocent civilians in a government sanctioned act of aggression. So what's the message? As long as your not Muslim it's o.k. to commit some act of terrorism as long as it's against other Muslims? Let that double-standard example stay in your mind while I move on to my main topic . . .

Good ol' G.W. Bush has finally used his veto power as president. The mispronouncing, golf club-swinging, aggressive cowboy got up off his ass and decided to veto something after 5 1/2 years of being in office. What got Bush moving? Stem cell research.
Ah yes, the evils of science! Knowledge and progress are apparently evil things in this world. Does that mean that universities, cancer research foundations and diabetes research groups are now part of the Axis of Evil?

The veto, itself, didn't really rile me up . . . per se. It did upset me that Bush would stop funding to legitimate, and needed, medical research. It all just proves that Bush doesn't attack so-called military targets but he also goes against social targets too ("No Child Left Behind", a crusade against evil education and now a medical research veto).

What really made me laugh in a "this is insanely ridiculous" kind of way was Bush's statement during a White House press conference. Bush claims that the research "crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect."

Uh huh. So, this moral boundary is nothing like the one that was trampled during the invasion of Iraq? And our decent society is the same that has agreed to The U.S. Patriot Act? As for respect, I didn't know Bush actually understood, much less could pronounce, the word.

So kids, a review of Bush's new moral math works like this:
Military agression and killing of civilians in countries outside the U.S. that speak poorly of Bush = GOOD

Government funding for research to find cures to childhood diabetes, paralysis and Parkinsons disease = BAD

Now class, go review for our next test on Bush ideology: Why Rich People Are Better Than Everyone Else

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