As much fun as it has been, I am glad to say it is finally over. Future Presidents may not be perfect, but at least they won’t be you.

I was just over on fox.com, which I consider more entertainment than news. Anyway I saw this article where some patriarch of a huge family in the West Bank was quite impressed with the reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush. So impressed in fact that he has offered one his daughters to him as a bride with a dowry of $30,000. 

The daughter 20 had this to say: 

“This is something that would honor me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero.”

Check out the article on: Reuters, Fox

John McCain is telling us what his true feelings are on stem cell research.

We could be looking at 4-8 more years of set backs in embryonic stem cell research…

Under President Bush’s policy, SCNT is denied federal funding, but still legal. McCain would make it “a federal crime for researchers to use cells or fetal tissue from an embryo created for research purposes.”

Republican presidential nominee John McCain would criminalize a promising branch of stem cell research, according to a statement issued by the candidate’s campaign. Though such legislation would probably not survive Congress, he might extend President Bush’s much-criticized limitation of embryonic stem cell research.

“He cannot be trusted to be a supporter of embryonic stem cell research,” said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan. “He is moving toward a straight pro-life stance and this sort of answer can only be read as such.”

Read the rest at Wired