More Money On Injustice

   Here's one on Bushco's plans to build a new facility at Gitmo. You know, for all of those illegal military tribunals and such.

Estimated cost: $75 million to $125 Million and to be completed in July of 2007.

Time for a math lesson here from wikipedia

Most of the detainees still at Guantanamo are not scheduled for trial. As of November 2006, according to MSNBC.com, out of 775 detainees who have been brought to Guantanamo, approximately 340 have been released, leaving 435 detainees. Of those 435, 110 have been labeled as ready for release. Of the other 325, only "more than 70" will face trial, the Pentagon says. That leaves about 250 who may be held indefinitely.

Let's be generous and round "more than 70" up to 80, shall we? And based on past experience, let's assume the upper end of the cost range -- $125 million (although like the proposed border fence, this boondoggle undoubtedly will metastasize to 15 times the initial estimate). That means this construction will cost more than $1.5 million per detainee

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Stem Cell Adoption

The families here today have either adopted or given up for adoption frozen embryos that remained after fertility treatments. Rather than discard these embryos created during in vitro fertilization, or turn them over for research that destroys them, these families have chosen a life-affirming alternative. Twenty-one children here today found a chance for life with loving parents.

I want to thank Nightlight Christian Adoptions for their good work. Nightlight's embryo adoption program has now matched over 200 biological parents with about 140 adoptive families, resulting in the birth of 81 children so far, with more on the way.

The children here today remind us that there is no such thing as a spare embryo. Every embryo is unique and genetically complete, like every other human being. And each of us started out our life this way. These lives are not raw material to be exploited, but gifts. And I commend each of the families here today for accepting the gift of these children and offering them the gift of your love.       George Bush

 

   Let me get this straight. If you use stem cells for research then you are taking a life? If you use frozen embryos to become pregnant then you aren't taking a life?

    For those of you who do not know it, the chances of becoming pregnant on the very first try are slim. Most of these women go through quite a few embryos before getting it right. My point is, are the ones that do not work not being killed?  This must be a different kind of murder!

From DailyKos

 

Couples like Paige and Stuart Faulk of Alexandria, Virginia brought their children to the White House in an effort to show what an embryo, not used for research, can become -- their two-year-old daughter, Noelle.

Noelle is a "Snowflake Baby" born through embryo adoption. The term "Snowflake" -- created by the first adoption agency to arrange embryo adoptions, Nightlight Christian Adoptions -- highlights the uniqueness of each embryo. The label can also be attributed to the fact that each of these children's lives started, well, frozen.

Noelle's parents experienced infertility for over five years. They took the usual measures to conceive both naturally and then through in vitro fertilization, only to learn that Paige, her mother, had premature ovarian menopause. During in vitro, the Faulks made it clear to their doctors that they did not want them to over-fertilize and freeze embryos; any that were created, were implanted in Paige's uterus. Unfortunately, none survived.      MORE