Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 10/30/2006 8:01:03 PM

I don’t understand the hoopla about embryo stem cell research. When all is said and done, it would be foreign cells injected into one’s body to be attacked by the immune system.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 10/30/2006 5:32:29 AM

In MJF’s previous appearances before Congress, he admitted not taking his medication, so that his symptoms would be evident, and have a greater impact on his testimony. In these current ads, he has admitted to over-medicating, which causes the exagerrated movements.
He wants to pull that s#*t, fine! He shouldn’t be surprised that there was at least one person, with a national voice, that would dare call him on it.

Comment posted by vimto
at 10/30/2006 2:30:30 AM

Up early to set out on the road.

Very happy for you to take the thread over for a issue that is close to my heart as well. I don’t know if it is true but there was a post on FR that said Fox had come off his medication to induce the more frank signs of the disease. How ture that is I don’t know. Nukes recent ‘Scrappleface’ video was a good reposte.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 10/29/2006 9:48:11 PM

Okay, gonna consider this an open and dead thread, with all due respect to vimto, and his family vacation, I’ve got to rant a little.
Michael J. Fox.
I’ve never watched any of his tv shows, ever, but enjoyed many of the movies he made during the 80’s, and am completely sympathetic with the terrible disease he, and millions of others, suffer from.
However, his actions recently, in shilling for the dhimmicrats in ads, while admittedly over medicating, so his Parkinsonian symptoms would be more exagerrated, have finally produced the last straw, for me.
In his ads, and his current interviews on different tv news shows, including the one today on Fox, have thoroughly pissed me off. I don’t watch his current tv show, but those that have or do, have told me he doesn’t exhibit any of the movements they have witnessed on his appearances recently. What’s more, one of my client’s wives told me last week, that when they were in NY for the U.S. Open, as USTA officials, they escorted Fox, and a group of young people, on a tour of the facilities. Guess what, he didn’t exhibit any of the shaking, gyrating, or gait, normally associated with Parkinson’s disease, and according to her, other than appearing to be not well, he seemed normal.
This infuritates me for many reasons. One, that he his using his condition to promote a political victory for a party I believe is a greater threat to the American way of life, than Al Qaida, and secondly, there are many thousands of people in this country, that have Parkinson’s so bad, there is no medication to aid them. In addition, I was involved in extensive research on Parkinson’s, as an undergraduate, developing animal analogues for humans using rat brains, creating the same conditions in their brains that are found in humans with the disease, and then testing the effect of specific drugs, and developing psychological tests to measure brain activity and rates of recovery…if any. So, I have been intimately involved with research on the disease, have witnessed first hand, the devastating impact of Parkinson’s on human’s, and their loved ones. I still have sympathy for MJF’s condition, but despise and loathe him for manipulating his condition, to promote his political agenda. IMO, Rush handed his ass to him last week, and most deservedly so. When the votes are counted after the mid-term elections, I hope the dhimmis and especially MJF, will go *PUAR*.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 10/29/2006 11:57:03 AM

If the image is any indicator, I would say the vimto family is going to Paris for a week.(?)
Well, enjoy the time away with the family.