BUSH Council On Bioethics-No More Eating Ice Cream In Public

[kpete]

BUSH Council on Bioethics

The most anti-science administration in history has reached its ultimate manifestation of idiocy and it's got over 500 pages

President Bush created a Council on Bioethics in 2001 to examine issues such as stem cells and cloning. 21st Century medicine is examined through the lens of Bible stories. Living longer is considered a bad thing because the Greek gods lived "shallow and frivolous lives." There is a "mortal danger" with the idea that "a person has a right over his body." And what's "worst of all?"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/26/154933/782/623/523150

Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. ... Eating on the street--even when undertaken, say, because one is between appointments and has no other time to eat--displays lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. ... Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. ... This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.

more at:
http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd

[Bozita]

1. "21st Century medicine is examined through the lens of Bible stories." -- killer line

[MountainLaurel]

3. Baroo?

:wtf:

[juno jones]

2. How can there be greek gods if there has only been THE ONE?

That right there should tell you we are dealing with a crew of morons.

Besides I thought the old testament patriarchs lived longer lives because of their virtue. More fool I. And the shame thing. Ask me again why I am not a christian....

[NV Whino]

4. Makes me want to run right out and buy an ice cream cone

and I don't even particularly like ice cream.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Betcha Methuselah sucked the marrow right outta those sheep bones

Right in front of his harem.

[Prophet 451]

6. This is fro0m The Onion, right?

Please tell me this is from The Onion.....

[Arctic Dave]

7. Welcome to the new "Victorian Age".

With even more absurdities then the first.

[MisterP]

8. Bush is being advised by

Filostrato?

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Insane