A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a trial judge’s preliminary injunction that blocked government funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells, a significant legal victory for the Obama administration.
The U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling, said the National Institutes of Health reasonably concluded that government funding for embryonic stem-cell research is not prohibited by a 1996 law that bars the use of federal money for research in which an embryo is destroyed.
Crack open them embryos, boys! We gonna party tonight!
This is a good thing for science and humanity, probably. (Until the stem cells join together to form a giant brain that shoots fire. But until then, terrific!) [WSJ]
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Embryo shooters at Skeeters tonight! Two-for-one special!
Perhaps now they'll find a cure for Rush Limballs.
Rush is a known fetus phucker.
Yay for science and rationality – I know it is a temporary victory but I'll take what I can get these days.
Stand by for the Righteous Indignation of various Right-Wing Preachers, Fucktards and Assorted Douchnozzles in 3…..2……1……
And the Supremez 5:4.
Wouldn't Kennedy really love some additional time with the family? Soon? Maybe NOW?
Don't know about Kennedy, but Scalia is well overdue for a dirt nap.
That almost sounds like a union:
The International Brotherhood of Right-Wing Preachers, Fucktards, and Assorted Douchnozzles, Local 666.
But more disciplined.
And with weird initiation rites involving wetsuits.
Hail Aqua You-Know-Who!
It will be inspiring to watch staunch pro-lifers deny themselves medical treatments derived from these stem cell lines for the sake of ethical consistency. Because that's totally going to happen, I'm sure.
Can I bring the popcorn?
As Ron White said, "There just ain't no cure for stupid"
Maybe there is. But it takes stem cells, see? And where would the GOP be if they let science cure stupid? Think about it.
Double plus good for the "santorum is flogging himself today" tag – though isn't that true EVERY day?
YOU get a stem cell! YOU get a stem cell!
So now can I break out my old stem cell phone again?
I already have all the "stem cells" and "seed cells" I can stand. What I need are some "righteous green leafy bud cells."
I for one welcome our potential information superhighway's new trails blazed by not-so-supersized micro-lords. Let the healing research begin!
Wingnuts shall demand embryo's long form birf certificate any second now.
This is a good thing for science and humanity, probably.
Well, duh. Why else would Republicans oppose it?
Until the stem cells join together to form a giant brain that shoots fire.
That's commie union talk, right there.
Probably a movie by Toho
Downfisters making donuts again.
So if I upfist your comment (which of course I did), am I downfisting the troll or upfisting the downfisting?
I haz a brain hurt.
Good now I'll go eat myself a delicious fetus!
The miracle and curse of stem cells: They can become a brain or a Trump.
Hooray D-Fister on patrol, running up the page count gold.
Would that be a riot? DownfisterBot (go ahead and take it for a name if no one has yet) brings down our meaning P, but it increases the number of page views, the data of which Ken can use to bring in advertisers.
My own observation is that the downfister's appearance has even had a net positive effect on the average Wonketteer's P. There appears to be only one organized downfister, but his appearance galvanized the Wonkette community into being more vigorous with upfisting than they were when the P system was first introduced.
Agreed…ain't it great?
Nothing like a little adversarial action to galvanize the otherwise unherdable cats here at Wonkette.
I owe all my powerful P to the appearance of the Downfister.
Sometimes you have to break a few eggs.
Now I can take big hits of them–without drawing the blinds first!
Hang on liver! Help is on the way!
My personal fave stem cell project is the one where they're trying to replace the microscopic hearing-hair cells that die out with time and exposure to noise, causing eventual deafness.
(And no, Alanis, the fact that a music lover and musician like me has gone nearly deaf is not 'ironic.' It's just plain sucky.)
Fisting in solidarity; I share your affliction.
Me too. I can't hear anything in the Rebecca Black range.
In your case, the cure is probably worse than the disease.
nope…just fire them up more.
Well yes, but I hope Dick Cheney doesn't get wind of this.
I think the infusions of babies blood are what's keeping that Dick alive.
Exactly. I feel like he probably bypassed the stem cells and just had a live baby sewn up inside his rib cage. You know, for morality.
Shoot, now what am I gonna do with this freezer full of black-market embryos?
Silly trial judge. Just because the stem cells have a higher IQ than the Bush clan doesn't mean you have to ban testing on them!
Subway would be good too
Five dollah
Five dollah
FIVE DOLLAH FETUS!
Excellent! Now I can institute my plan to return Ann-Margret back to her 60's visage and keep her (and I) around for another 70 years.
VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!!
Prediction: House GOP immediately devotes all its time on coming up with a law to counter the decision, drops the ball on raising the debt limit, world financial markets crash, worldwide food riots break out, flames, destruction, abandoned cities, etc.
That's wonderful news. Now, with the across-the-board cuts to NIH funding that were just implemented following the Boner-budget, there are a whole lot of wonderful experiments that won't get done because of staffing cuts!
Did Trump announce yet that when he is President, stem cells won't just be free, they'll be fucking free?
One embryo shake to go please.
Hopefully they will not use any embryos having birthmarks on both heels.
Like they could do worse. . . .
Don't worry,
anti-abortionistspro-lifers:Opus DeiSCROTUS will strike this down.Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's. George H.W. Bush has Parkinson's disease. Cheney has no heartbeat. Trig has Down syndrome. It's as if God is personally communicating to Republitards that they should support stem cell research. But will they listen? No.
This may be a first! Good news from Wonkette, with no wingnut crazy!
Ken's slackin'.
I can't wait for the stem cell bars to reopen so I can have a cool refreshing stem cell spritzer.
Wrong, you will never leave here. Never.
It's too late–you've already gone to the dark side. Besides, you'll be getting your heart fixed–not removing your brain (which is what it would take to stomach redstate & Breitfart's sites).
Stop with the clever scientific/medical references, it confuses the Trolls – they don't know which way to thumb.
Free-range, organic stem cells for everyone!
Wasn't that the clever catch phase of one Jimmie Walker??? Good times.
Did they rule on stem cells who want to visit each other in the hospital? Civil unions for stem cells, film at 11.
</snark> researchers at the University of Minnesota have grown a whole new rat's heart by putting the stripped cartilage of a heart in a solution with living stem cells. The cells saw where the were supposed to go, built the heart and it started beating. Maybe you could have then make you a human sized one,
I hate to say this, but this is great news for Dick Cheney.
The picture was worth a million dollars of the look on the wingnut faces when Nancy proclaimed that embryonic stem cell research could of saved St. Ronnie's life.
But then, he wouldn't have been granted wingnut Sainthood if he wasn't a martyr for The Cause.
Now if we could only legalize marijuana.
What would all those cops and prison guards do?
Trump is gonna be seriously conflicted here… he's gotta appeal to the wingnuts, but then there's this: http://www.hairfolliclecells.com/hair-follicle-st...
Considering what he probably spends on the dead squirrel he wears on his head, I'm sure he could afford to dissect a fetus or two.
Good luck, I have some dead guys kidney in my gut and things are working out great for me. Back to work and living a normal life.
I like my stem cells spread over a fancy cracker, or a fine piece of toast, personally.
Mmmm…sounds like a tasty cereal by General Mills.
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