:twisted: GEORGE BUSH

HAS NO CLUE.
HE IS A SELFISH CAPITALIST WHO HAS NOT KNOWN SUFFERING LIKE MANY OF OUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN , NOR DOES HE CARE WHO LIVES OR DIES...HE IS REDUCING THE EXCESS POPULATION.




Hello

My father had Huntington's aLso. I wenT through genetic counseling a few years back , diclosure, and I do not have it. Happy Day, well....

I was swimming laps at an indoor pool and had what looked like a heart attack, it was my pulmonary artery rupturing over my lung.

Later a kidney, chronic fatique and now an aorta hanging by a loose thread.

I have 1/3 the amount of collagen needed to hold the cells, organs, arteries and veins togethr. really really fragile..

NIH has worked with me for about 5 years until the fundin is pulled
and the VETO squelched all research and test to getto the treatment via STEM Cells...the results are just sitting there at NIH.
The enzyme can be controlled with cells that grow and divide to make my levels normal...


Re Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome see www.ednf.org

I have spoke with Senaator Ted Kennedy yesterday on this serious matter.
President Bush's VETO has hurt everyone, none more than myself and my children. There is no help here.

I have applied for Accelerated Death Benefits for the Terminally Ill
An enzyme is eating the colagen that forms th ewickerwork of the body.

There are very few individuals with our Rare form of Connective Tissue Disorder of which there is no treatment. Only two families in the US with this mutated gene.

::key word Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. or EDS Type IV

Both my children suffer from this RARE disorder. We are three. .

We need the STEM CELLS now

If anyone has ideas or information I will applaud and thank you.

Remember, the federal goverment cannot spend our dollars on it, but private surces can...

www.ednf.org
key word Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. or EDS Type IV
It is so frustrating to have to deal with his menial mentality...

Forgive me but I hate him and Laura Bush...

From
Barbara M. Bellehumeur,
3406 Plaza Drive
State College, PA 16801
1-814-234-4361
ericberg@dejazzd.com office
barbbellehumeur@yahoo.com[color=blue][/color]

Sorry I am new.
Are these trick names or something??

I can assure you I ain't no Virgin.
the only blundering I will be doing is when I struggle toward DC and the podium to speak re Stem Cell TREATMENT.


Strange days indeed.

Found a guy with a motorsiclkle but no pickle or cigar.....

Patch Adams is in State College soon at $1k per plate dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn...
Think I could get that for my beautiful English China Plates.
That might buy a few stem cells.....

I have plans for tossing them at a few politicians soon....
Bye

Barbara Bellehumeur

Amen to that, Barbara! We all really need to get on our representatives' cases, and make sure that stem cell research is not thwarted! (I've got some plates to throw at the Shrub, too... though they aren't $1000 each!)

I don't have any answers, but I truly wish you and your children the best... many blundervibes are heading in your direction.

As for your "Blundervirgin" status...
Hang around... post a few times... you'll be 'de-virginized' in no time!

Welcome to the forums!

I am so sorry about what has happened to you. I think he is against them getting them stem cells ffrom the unborn babies. Hopefully they can get them from elsewhere to help out people like you. May God be with all the stem cell patients...

Good Wishes and Happy Trails to all of you. Thank you one thousand x 8....

Barbara M Bellhumeur


I knew that I would get responses here like no where else...
Arlo's words went forth and multiplied...his songs and verse carry us also
Thank you for your support....

We are alive today and life is good. I awake to this thought each sunrise.
I remember the Native American saying with pride, "This is a good day to die", and
go forth to face each foe.

I think we should learn from this by example.

People need to be strong, band together, push, and get things done themselves.
Invest money in corporations that are really doing the things that we need in our daily lives.

This realy blew me away,

In the last local election a total of 92 persons came forward to vote in my precinct . Yes only 92...
Go see your totals, you will be amazed how few even care about the Vote.
every time I go vote I ask my polling number....I go at the end of the night to get a total of all my neighbors who voted, (I know who is naughty and nice each election.)
I should post the names in the newspaper and on corners.
A lot of people say they voted and will argue politically, but zilch, only 92 actually VOTED...

The bottom line here is MONEY.....
Quote a New Your Times Cartton,

"Of Course, it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem Cells."
zegler


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We can get alternative stem cell treat ment but the cost becomes extremely prohibitive. Had the Governemnt allowed the research and treatment in the US by now the cost might be spiraling down like other consumer products and medicines..

We are organizing a Battle of the Bands in State College, PA, challenging and engaging corporate sponsorship to raise funds.
I will keep all of you posted.
I pray my energy holds out...
Even now, so few come forward...

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from Forbes.com

BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Medicine & Markets
Despite Bush Veto, Stem Cell Research Abounds
Kerry A. Dolan, 07.21.06, 10:30 AM ET http://www.forbes.com/2006/07/21/stem-c ... print.html


BURLINGAME, CALIF. -

Never mind Wednesday's presidential veto on expanded federal funding of stem cell lines. Stem cell research is alive and well at a host of small companies and academic laboratories in the United States.

In Irvine, Calif., a tiny company called PrimeCell Therapeutics has taken adult stem cells found in testes, reprogrammed them, and created human heart, brain, bone and cartilage cells. This marks a breakthrough in developing what are known as "pluripotent" adult stem cells–cells that can be turned into most other cell types. That pluripotent ability, and the fact that stem cells self-renew, is the main attraction of stem cells from human embryos. One challenge with embryonic stem cells, however, is preventing them from creating tumor cells. So far, the PrimeCell researchers have been able to reprogram the cells they extract from testes without any tumor growth.

Plenty of other firms are active in the stem cell field. Stemnion, a small biotech firm in Pittsburgh, is working on using stem cells found in the placenta for healing wounds. Cellerant Therapeutics of San Carlos, Calif., will soon start a human trial using highly purified adult stem cells found in bone marrow to treat patients with Sickle Cell disease, a genetic blood disorder. Osiris Therapeutics of Baltimore has several trials under way using adult stem cells to treat the intestinal inflammation known as Crohn's disease, repair damaged tissue following a heart attack and prevent the progression of arthritis. And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.

Outside the U.S., adult stem cells have been used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes in Argentina, heart disease in countries including Germany, Thailand and India, and babies with malformed hearts in Japan. Success rates among these treatments are all at least 68% or higher. For the diabetics treated in Argentina, more than two-thirds were able to stop taking insulin and diabetes medications following the stem cell treatment.

"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field," says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Patel has been called by venture capital firms to consult on potential investments. Bush's veto of the stem cell bill on Wednesday "may slow down embryonic stem cell research" adds Patel, but he's optimistic that research will continue nonetheless with private funding. Adult stem cell research will be unaffected.

Patel has pioneered the use of adult stem cells to treat heart disease. He worked with surgeons in Thailand last December to treat Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Ho's own blood-derived adult stem cells were injected into his heart to treat heart failure. Ho's health has improved so much that he has returned to performing.

Patel is particularly impressed with the work done by PrimeCell using what are called "germ line" stem cells–cells that will turn into sperm. Patel says he divides stem cells into thrift-store cells and designer cells. "PrimeCell's cells are like the Prada of cells. They've taken an adult cell and reprogrammed it," he says. "The potential of their cells is incredible." One advantage of these cells is that they do not age as a human ages.

A group of German researchers replicated PrimeCell's proof of concept in mice, and published the results in Nature in March. But PrimeCell appears to be ahead of the German team because it's already moved from mice to human cells. PrimeCell has $10 million in private funding from two sources: an unnamed investor and Thomas Yuen, chairman and chief executive of PrimeCell's parent company, PrimeGen.

Large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Merck have so far steered clear of stem cell therapy. For historical reasons, Novartis owns a small stake in Cellerant. Big pharma "is letting the smaller companies work and realize the potential. Now is the time for small, nimble entities," says Dr. Hans Keirstead, an associate professor at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the University of California at Irvine.

Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury. He has received funding for his lab from Geron, which has an exclusive license of Keirstead's patents and aims to start human trials on spinal cord injury as soon as next year.

Lost in the news of Bush's veto of stem cell bill was the fate of a separate bill sponsored by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) to encourage the National Institutes of Health to fund research of stem cells that are not embryonic. The Santorum/Specter bill passed the Senate but did not get the two-thirds vote needed in the House on Tuesday. [color=blue][/color]

Barbara, I cerainly wish you and your children all the best. George's term is almost over (power of positive thinking)...

As for the low turnout (92 people), I have found over the decades that those who complain the loudest are the ones who've never voted. This "statistic" seems to hold true whether one is complaining about education (attend a school board meeting), the sale of a synagogue to a Korean Church (not members of the synagogue, of course) and voters in this country.

OMG,

Thank all of you many times over.
Some days and nights I feel like a single cell life form in a dish/////
Pretty alone with this.

I am not sure what prompted me to post here but I am very glad I did.
eEverytime I hear Arlo's music I get uplifetd or sad, or search for the human element in all of us. It is always GOOOOOD

The expansiveness of his wondrful song and ballad is to be marveled at.
He has exceede where no song writer and performer have gone before.

The simplicity of some of the songs tell more than a hundred bands and alll the music with mp3

I quess I want to say thanks for your wqrds and kindness

Barbara Bellehumeur

This is what he has done to us,,,,settled our souls
Good people are hard to find....

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been vocally pro stem cell research, contrary to his party (Republican) and G. W. Bush. On the day after Bush vetoed the federal stem cell research bill, Arnold ordered $150 million be freed up to loan to the state's stem cell research institute.

"We can no longer afford to wait to fund this important research," Schwarzenegger wrote in a letter to his finance director. "I remain committed to advancing stem cell research in California, in the promise it holds for millions of our citizens who suffer from chronic diseases and injuries that could be helped as a result of stem cell research."

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/015372.html

Even "Conan the Republican" thinks Bush is an asshole!

I ealize that most of CA is pravtive re Stem Cells.

A company names Medra is located there and ha been workng with Stem cells for about 10 years.

They do not give the treatment thee but have locatede Clinics to the Dominican andIsreal.

They are treating many diseases that otherwise have a death sentence.

I am consulting with them now.

My bottom line is 30k of which 25k is for the cell treatment and 8k is for the followup.

I am collectively rasing funds from insurance investments, mutual funds, IRA'a and my pigggy bank...

The whole thing is geting to me now....

My anger comes aout at Bush for not allowing us all to have this opportunity. It helps me stay focused and override the pain.

Mad for me right now is good.

I appreciate your post very much
You are right,
CA will acheive the treatment first I am sure

Thank you,
Barbara Bellehumeur

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