German cocks and Dickey-Wickers

El Rude-o on Obama's reversal of the Dark Ages of stem cell research.

First off, it's just gotta be pointed out, for no other reason than it's just damned funny, that the name of the rider to various bills that's been used to limit or ban federal funding of embryo creation for stem cell research is the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. And, if you're as goddamn tired and filled with scrips as the Rude Pundit's been the last few days, just saying "Dickey-Wicker" out loud will make you giggle like a Japanese schoolgirl. Dickey-Wicker (c'mon, that's hilarious) has been renewed every year since 1995, although interpreted differently by Presidents Clinton and Bush, but with President Obama's announcement that federal funding can be used on existing embryos, Dickey-Wicker might fall.

I get a visual of a stolen road sign on the wall over the bed: "Watch out for falling Dickey-Wickers!"

Yes, it's hilarious!

Predictably, Obama's executive order created a hategasm on the right. [...]

The fuckers are scared shitless that something'll get discovered that puts the lie to their phony christian and social misconceptions about everything they think came directly from their Sky Monster, disregarding and constantly trying to roll back everything that has been discovered since the last Dark Ages.

Finally, past the evangelical flat-earthers and the paranoiacs, you get to the fuckwads, like Charles Krauthammer, a man who could stand to benefit from a few stem cells. He was invited to the signing ceremony, but declined for a few reasons, one of which bespeaks a man whose mouth is so firmly planted on the former president's ass cheeks that even remoras tell him to give it a rest. Also on Fox "news," Krauthammer (translation: "German cock") said that Obama "had a memorandum which he signed in which he talks about restoring the scientific integrity in government decisions, which was is an outrageous attack on Bush. I disagreed with where Bush ended up drawing the line on permissible research, but he gave in August of 2001 the single most morally serious presidential speech on medical ethics ever given." Yes, nuance and seriousness were the hallmarks of the Bush administration. Even though he agrees with Obama for the most part, Krauthammer continued, "So I think it was disrespectful. And in pretending, as Obama did, that there's never a conflict between ethics and science, he was wrong."

For those among you who may not know, Krauthammer is confined to a wheelchair. I don't know exactly what's wrong with him - physically, that is - but stem cell research might help him. The only other thing that might ease his suffering is a quick trip down the Capitol steps. I have volunteered many times to assist him on this short journey.

Strangely, the Rude Pundit agrees with Charlie Kraut on this last point. It's just that the conflict's been between science and backwards ass ethics and morality. It's been an irrational conflict, not a science-based one. That difference now is a huge leap forward, an evolution, if you will, in America's attitude towards what is possible to explore.

The conflict between ethics and science lies in how the science is used. Knowledge benefits us all. Except the wingtards, that is. They believe in suffering and want us to believe as they do. By law if necessary, for their perception of our own godless commie fuck good. Fat chance. If God wishes to dupe me into ignorance, She can come down here and do it her own goddam self.