A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-20-06....Military Monday

Billie, The Mayor

[The Mayor]

Victoria, That pic is awesome!

[The Mayor]

Thanks, Maggie poste the pic last week, I just added the text.

[The Mayor]

Amen Dave, isn't that the Truth!

[The Mayor]

Your Welcome PAL!

[The Mayor]

Hopefully he will get an education!

[The Mayor]

That is so cute! Thanks Meg.

[luvie]

You're welcome. How was your holiday? Did you have to work? I read your article on stem-cell research, and it was very well presented. Makes more sense than the embryo stem-cell proponents' argument.

[The Mayor]

No I worked.. I am finishing up a paint job.

Thanks on the stem page page, I did alot of research on it because our state is ready to spend 400 million to fund it.

It sickens me.

[luvie]

It does me, too, Rus. You have to be very vocal on this issue and make people realize what they are doing to real humans when they go down this road! You have the ability to articulate it well, and people know you and how passionate you can be.

[LadyX]

Pssst, Your Honor - - Maggie here in the back room watchin' the ice dance skaters at the Olympics!

Betcha didn't know some of us 'member when Sonja Henie from Norway became the first famous woman ice skater...won Gold Medals in '28,'32 and '36...'course we only saw the last one...kinda...

Okay, already..hafta admit we couldn't actually *watch* her on our console radios...but there were Fox Movietone Films when we were older at our matinee theaters!!

Reminds me of the time in Fairbanks in Eielson AF Base Housing when I instigated creating our very own ice rink behind our eightplex..the whole length of it.
We checked out skates from Special Services - children skated in the afternoon, but from 7 p.m. on, it was **Adults Only,** - so we wouldn't get run over..:))

Turned on all the back porch lights - had vats of hot chocolate for *refeuling missions* - and I did a good imitation of..of..a female Dumbo??!!
LOL

It soon became too cold at -30 to use it, so I rounded up everyone on our court to convoy out to the Base Ski Slope with all our sleds, to play on the Bunny Course.
[again had vats of hot chocolate and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows]

Of course boys will be boys, and Mommo here nearly had a heart attack when she saw the men watching two figures sledding down the VERY steep main ski run - those 2 figures were MY TWO SONS, ages 10 and 11, getting up to 70 mph before they glided to a stop at the bottom!

Buncha angels were in charge, though, for No Bones Were Broken..:))

It was my Most Favoritest Olympic Event...

[Majie Purple]

Thanks for sharing that memory with us...I'm glad your sons were not hurt during that zooming sled ride!

[The Mayor]

We were a little suicidle when we were young too.
Not quite that fast though. We used to love to toboggan through back yards..
And we were a little nuts sledding, spray down the course with water and when it froze we flew!

[The Mayor]

I don't know if we can stop it.. Our voices are just not loud enough.

[Diver Dave]

Those boys of yours seem to stimulate the ol' heartrate. Sledding and manning the cockpit. Hmmm. Anything else?

[LadyX]

Thank you so much, Sweet Kitty.
Remember the promise I made to you a l-o-n-g time ago?
The Stirring is present, and I'm about to add to it a bit,
and *WILL* mail it all to you...

[LadyX]

""Chesty" still stands and assist in "Guarding The Streets On Heaven's Scenes."
God Bless America. God Bless the Marine Corps."

Amen to that, Dubya.
I have the unique position of having been in several shoes - a Marine myself - a Navy wife - and then married a Marine veteran of Korean combat who later went into the AF during The Cold War, and served a year in combat in Southeast Asia -'67-'68...

Can't wait to meet our "Chesty" one fine day!!

[and, no doubt, our TC...]

[luvie]

Rus...you just have to keep preaching it...one voice becomes two, three, twenty, more. Be persistent and be informed and be graphic as to what is actually taking place. You are the one who is there to do it!

[The Mayor]

I just sent this out to a ton of people and the media!
Stop the Insanity!

We have got to stop this insanity, they are throwing away literally 100's of Millions of dollars on failed research so they can make money on patents and on failed research..
We have got to get very active to stop this issue. I will get together a list of emails and phone numbers to all our state Reps. This insanity has got to stop.
Read my page on stem cell research.
http://www.rusthompson.com/TheTruthStemCellResearch.html

Health institutions seek to 'cell' Legislature on stem-cell R&D
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11454448/
Other states' commitments to stem-cell research have made this year New York's "last, best chance" to retain supremacy in the field, the presidents of the state's leading health research institutions say.
The scientific and academic leaders, including Albany Medical Center President James Barba and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, said private donations and institutional funding is not enough to support the most advanced stem-cell research.

They are calling on the state Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to untangle the political and ethical issues around stem-cell research, particularly those involving embryonic cells, and commit hundreds of millions of state research dollars to New York institutions.
"We need to send a clear message to the global research community that New York state will be a leader in stem-cell research, including embryonic stem-cell research," Jackson said.

Scientists at Rensselaer's Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies are currently using adult stem cells in research on restoring and regenerating human tissue. The institute is seeking scientists of international renown to take that research a step further using embryonic stem cells, said center Director Robert Palazzo.

"We're prepared in terms of commitment and support capability here at Rensselaer," Palazzo said. "But we need to have the appropriate atmosphere in New York so that these researchers feel comfortable and where they know support will continue in the future."

Among the other health institutions in the coalition are Columbia University, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Rockefeller University, New York University and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

[luvie]

There needs to be more education on the fact that adult stem-cells or even umbilical stem-cells can do every bit of what embryonic ones do without killing something to get them! You're the voice for those untold numbers of babies!

[MEG33]

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