Thoughtless for the Day

Our Libertarian friends over at Reason (in the interest of balance, I should point out that there's an excellent piece over at CounterPunch in which Ralph Nader offers George Bush six measures to help end the current crisis in the Middle East without ever once telling the Commander-in-Chief to pull his head outta his own goddamn ass) link to a heartwarming tale of one grammatically-challenged family's attempt to rid their neighborhood of a giant, rock-throwing, retarded child (the first person who posts "take him to the zoo" in the comments section will be banned from RATYHTL for life. Speaking of comment sections, the one for this story on the Reason site is a comedy goldmine as is the comments section for the original piece.).

Caution Retarded Flip-Flopper Ahead

On Sunday's edition of On The Media, guest Jake Tapper of ABC news pointed an interesting contradiction in the Bush Administration's statements regarding the President's policy on embryonic stem cell research. Here's creepy Frankin-Spokesman Tony Snow on the day that Bush veto a bill expanding stem cell reseach:

"The president believes strongly that for the purpose of research it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder. He's one of them. ... He thinks murder's wrong."

Now, here's a White House document from 2001:

"President Bush Is The First President To Ever Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research... President Bush's Stem Cell Policy Has Made Federally Funded Stem Cell Lines Widely Available To Scientists."

George Bush: Friend to the Scientific Community or History's Biggest Baby Butcher. You decide.