John Smith Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I don't think he was chewing them, but I could be mistaken. Recreational users like to crush & snort otherwise the buzz is time released while snorting gets the buzz NOW! Remember way back when he was suffering his hearing problems? One of the side effects of oxycotin abuse is hearing loss. So it made perfect sense that once he got caught and had to stop his use his hearing came back. Also remember the McNabb comments while working for Fox Sports? They occured the same week (Sunday McNabb, Tuesday or Wednesday for his bust) he was busted. Call me a cynic, but I am positive that he made those comments to delibrately create a stir that 1) would get his people all frothy with joy and 2) would provide a smoke screen cover and help obscure his legal problems. We love our sports in America so his legal problems took a back seat to the McNabb comments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/27/fox...c.ap/index.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/27/fox...c.ap/index.html"The irony of it is that I was too medicated," Fox told Couric, Rush pointed out that possibility the day this whole shitstorm started, to be fair. As a result, I'm sure, of getting flooded with correspondence from victims of the disease, their families, doctors, etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Did Rush mention that Fox has also run ads supporting Alren Specter? He simply supports people who support the research. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest tandylacker Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 He was exaggerating. Mikey Foxey is a faker! Oh, yeah, I'm cool. I can't believe I just said that. I've brought my family shame. I guess I'll just dance my problems away. The four faces of my current emotions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I almost hate to even bring it up, but this whole incident has the makings of an upcoming South Park episode. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I almost hate to even bring it up, but this whole incident has the makings of an upcoming South Park episode.Mr. H! Yeah,you can almost hear the gears turnin' in Matt & Trey's brains right now.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jhc Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Just because we had them at conception doesn't mean we want them now. During conception, their growth and differentiation is regulated. If you put them in the wrong environment (such as an adult body), controlling their growth is a real problem. And as the articles you posted pointed out, adult stem cells are not the same thing as embryonic ones, so the ones we have now are not the same ones that cause teratocarcinomas.  I am supposedly a med student, not premed, and none of the biology classes I've had from high school through college covered teratocarcinomas or even very much on stem cells. The first lecture that covered them was about two months ago in med school, and the professor that gave the lecture actually thought that adult stem cells had more therapeutic potential than embryonic stem cells. And considering he also advocated therapeutic cloning, he wasn't just some "prolife whacko." I haven't heard too many people calling for simply injecting undifferentiated stem cells into people (except for those wackjobs in Barbados) for therapy. I think the idea is to differentiate them first. As for adult stem cells, their potential to differentiate into different lineages is very unclear at the moment. The early reports in mice which were so excitedly received at first turned out to be experimental artifact due to cell fusion, not transdifferentiation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
street spirit Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Rush got owned on Colbert tonite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Can we just pin this thread? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Of course since this does nto agree with the republican party line it therefore must be accused of being liberally biased. From the New England Journal of Medicine... The Politics and Promise of Stem-Cell ResearchRobert S. Schwartz, M.D.  On July 19, 2006, President George W. Bush exercised his constitutional prerogative to veto a congressional act for the first time in the 6 years he has been in office. The bill, passed by a Republican-controlled Congress, would have allowed a modest extension of embryonic stem-cell research. It called for federal funding to enable the derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from fertilized eggs that are stored in freezers and already tagged for destruction. In his veto message, the President explained that, "stem cells . . . can be drawn from children, adults, and the blood in umbilical cords with no harm to the donor, and these stem cells are currently being used in medical treatments." According to the New York Times, Karl Rove, head of the White House's Office of Political Affairs, has declared that embryonic stem cells aren't required because there is "far more promise from adult stem cells." Yet the notion that adult stem cells have the same developmental potential as embryonic stem cells, let alone "more promise," is dubious. It seems that the White House received this idea from David Prentice, a senior fellow for life sciences at the Family Research Council and an advisor to Republican members of Congress. In a report of the President's Council on Bioethics, Prentice claimed that adult stem cells can effectively treat more than 65 diseases. Not only is this assertion patently false, but the information purveyed on the Family Research Council's Web site is pure hokum. Prentice is not alone, however. A search of the Internet easily turns up dozens of companies offering cures involving adult or cord-blood stem cells. Prominently featured on the Web is the case of a woman, bound to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis, who received cord-blood stem cells in a private clinic in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Within minutes, she allegedly recovered her ability to walk. Such anecdotes are lures used to trap hapless patients into a treatment that has no merit whatsoever. There is evidence in laboratory animals that an adult stem cell can differentiate into a cell that normally belongs to a different lineage Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Nah....Limbaugh is not a big, fat idiot. He is a hidebound ideologue with no sense of proportion or decency who has sold his soul for a series of morally bankrupt Candidates who have betrayed the very core of their beliefs. These 'conservatives' are opportunistic theocrats. True conservatism would never countenance the kind of crap we see espoused from these 'neo-cons'. Limbaugh is a very talented broadcaster, but he has coarsened our political discourse and led to an atmosphere where bluster is more important than fact, personal attack is more important than enlightened discourse. I am a old school conservative and I despise what passes for 'ideology' these days. Publicity seeking hack. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 ist. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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