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So, I believe you. NOT reading Ann Coulter is a badge of honor is most quarters… Indeed, WR, both Newton and Leibniz seem to have invented the calculus at almost the same hour, and quite independently of each other. It can happen.

As I said before, subscribing to the central animus and irrational beliefs so prevalent on this board, I prefer to believe with the others here that Mr Obama didn't just kill the program. He killed the actual children, in the basement of the White House, near the Nixon bowling alley, Lane 4.

Feel free to tell Glenn Beck.

Without any intent to have the "last word", I appreciate the tone and trait of these last posts. (I thought the thread was over.) There's no reason you should believe me, but I supervise a medical research lab. We often work at night (like now) when a particular line is running. Our specialty lies in recombinant DNA, and its possible application to certain forms of auto-immune disease. This may all come to nothing, or it may — years from now — save or prolong the lives of those afflicted by MS, ALS, Parkinson's (we suspect, but do not yet know), de-lamination, and neuro-muscular disease of all sorts, among other horrors. Our work is ENTIRELY experimental. It takes many years, and a great deal of investment. "Your tax dollars at work."

I value rigor and clarity because, without it, science would be a shambles. No finding would stand any test, and no sick person would ever be helped.

I was one of them. When a kid, I contracted a rare cancer. Nothing conventional worked. My parents enrolled me in an experimental protocol. And, you've guessed the rest. I've given my life (except for friends and family) to medicine and science by way of thanking people I never met who, years before, saved the life of someone they never met.

In my world, cooperation is a higher principle than any other.

In my world, our findings must be able to withstand the tightest scrutiny and analysis, test and trial. Without such logical and articulate rigor, measured in a hundred ways, no progress would ever occur — and yet, many of the most important discoveries in medicine happened almost by accident. You know about penicillin, and no doubt many more. It's always amazing.

And so, we live in both worlds: luck married to intuition, and the sheer laboriousness of testing and testing and testing. We now find that 6 oz of pomegranate juice has a beneficial effect in the control of prostate cancer. Who knew?

I go on about this so that (for what it's worth) it may be clear why people like me feel so strongly about just trying to get things right, based on disinterested incontrovertible fact, presented without bias, in order that human beings might suffer less, and perhaps even love more.

Thank you for listening.

Psst… trent… this is a conservative site, You were expecting the typical olbermann lovefest?

According to you, the president has a mandate to tell chldren how to behave. One of the things I admire about BO is the importance he places on being a good father, but that does not give him the right to try an grab a captive audience of kids who lack critical analytical skills and give them some idea that he is an authority figure when it comes to their educational motivation. p.s. Reagan spoke to high school kids in the middle of the Cold War, BO spoke to K-6 prior to the newly declared Day of Service.

BO was raised as a stereotypical black kid? When did that happen?

For the last, whatever. See P#1