smores’bore
- Starbucks doesn’t like the word “Laissez-Faire”.
- FairTax petition.
- “The world is filled with evil. Always has been. The biggest difference today is that, thanks to communications, we are far more aware of much of it.”
- “What is more scary than any particular candidate or policy is the gullibility of the public and their willingness to be satisfied with talking points, rather than serious arguments.” (TV vs Radio)
- “It’s a good thing – they should pay their fair share.” (translation: rich people have the money to pay for the train.)
- Tax dollars not going to the public good? Really?
- National DNA Warehouse bill passed by the US House. Some are in favor of this bill.
- Website of the week: taxday08
- Favorite Line of the week: “There’s really nothing like a dose of condemnation from a moral relativist.”
- What’s the Huckster up to?
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April 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
National “DNA Warehouse” bill passes; Americans citizens to become unwilling subjects of genetic research
CCHC calls on President Bush to Veto the Bill
Minneapolis/Saint Paul – Yesterday, in a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to authorize the creation of a national DNA warehouse and broad-scale genetic research on the American public. S.1858, passed by the U.S. Senate last December, has been sent to the President for signing.
Twila Brase, president of CCHC, makes the following statement:
“We are asking President Bush to veto this unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional bill. Congress has voted to strip citizens of genetic privacy rights and DNA property rights. The bill also violates research ethics and the Nuremberg Code.
“Soon, under this bill, the DNA of all citizens will be housed in government genomic biobanks and considered government property for government research. The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research.
“The public is clueless. S. 1858 imposes a federal agenda of DNA databanking and population-wide genetic research. It does not require consent and there are no requirements to fully inform parents about the warehousing of their child’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research. Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the Minnesota “DNA warehouse” have been subjected to genetic research without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
“President Bush should not sign this bill.”
Twila Brase is president of Citizens’ Council on Health Care. She can be reached at 651-646-8935.
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Citizens’ Council on Health Care supports freedom for patients and doctors, medical
innovation, and the right to a confidential patient-doctor relationship.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I’ll try to beat Josh to the punch: favorite line of the week is a quote; who said it?
April 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Nice. You’re funny.
Oh, some college professor named Mike Adams. It was just a funny line to me in something he wrote, but the rest of the article wasn’t that important.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Ah… in his article confirming all of his conclusions about feminists. Got it.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Oh, do you read his stuff regularly too?
Without the article, I thought that line on its own was pretty funny.