Back in October 2004, Vice Presidential Aspirant and Candidate John Edwards in Newton, IA said

[Reeve, who died Sunday], “was a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him.

“If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

CNN

Once again Stem Cell Research and Therapy is being conflated with Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

My daughter has epilepsy, developmental delays, and has recently been diagnosed with Lupus as well. Stem cell research may one day prove a benefit to her. Adult or cord blood stem cells.

The Anchoress notes that there are 72 successful applications with adult stem cell therapies and 0 embryonic therapies.

There are NO bans on stem cell research of any stripe. Federal (and only Federal) funding of embryonic stem cell research is currently limited to existing stem cell lines. There is nothing to prevent private funding of new lines. Nothing other than success rates in embryonic stem cell research. Private funding brings with it hopes of a return on investment. Federal funding needs no such guarantees.

Appeal to Sympathy is a logical fallacy no matter who the sympathetic figure is.

Via Dave Barry’s Blog comes this Google Maps picture from Canada.

Counter to the Democrats Google Bomb, we are joining in on the Right Wing News countergooglebomb effort!

Since we’re near Chicago, it’s “Da” CounterGoogleBomb, like it’s Da Bears…

Senate

Connecticut: Ned Lamont
Maryland: Ben Cardin
Michigan: Debbie Stanbenow
Missouri: Claire McCaskill
Montana: Jon Tester
New Jersey: Bob Menendez
Tennessee: Harold Ford
Virginia: James Webb

Democrat Held Seats

(CO-03): John Salazar
(GA-03): Jim Marshall
(GA-12): John Barrow
(IA-03): Leonard Boswell
(IL-08): Melissa Bean
(IL-17): Phil Hare
(IN-07): Julia Carson
(NC-13): Brad Miller
(PA-12): John Murtha
(WV-01): Alan Mollohan

Republican Held Seats

(AZ-08): Gabrielle Giffords
(CT-04): Diane Farrell
(CT-05): Chris Murphy
(CO-07): Ed Perlmutter
(IA-01): Bruce Braley
(IL-06): Tammy Duckworth
(IN-02): Joe Donnelly
(IN-08): Brad Ellsworth
(IN-09): Baron Hill
(FL-13): Christine Jennings
(FL-16): Tim Mahoney
(FL-22): Ron Klein
(KY-03): John Yarmuth
(NC-01): Heath Shuler
(MN-06): Patty Wetterling
(NM-01): Patricia Madrid
(NY-20): Kirsten Gillibrand
(NY-24): Michael Arcuri
(NY-26): Jack Davis
(OH-15): Mary Jo Kilroy
(OH-18): Zack Space
(PA-06): Lois Murphy
(PA-08): Patrick Murphy
(PA-07): Joe Sestak
(PA-10): Chris Carney
(VA-02): Phil Kellam
(WI-08): Steve Kagen

Thanks to Kate at Electric Venom for the code.

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Chris Wallace: Very briefly Senator Biden, what’s at stake?

Joe Biden: If the Democrats regain control you’re going to see 12-14 Republicans freed up to to go out and join in a bipartisan way to tell the President we are seriously off course.

If the democrats don’t make gains, it’ll be a reaffirmation that, for this administration “stay the course” and I believe that would be a disaster.

Chris Wallace: And you think there are a dozen Republicans chomping at the bit?

Joe Biden: I think, I know that there are at least three that approached me before we left.

[ed: All emphasis mine]

Joe, you said it. If the Democrats don’t make gains the current administration is right to stay the course it is currently on. It’s a mandate. You said gains too, not just control of either or both houses, gains…

What will you say on November 8th?

Also, Joe, how do you get “12-14 Republicans” from “at least three”? Oh, must have used that methodology from the Lancet study on deaths in Iraq…

Is it me or is has there been a palpable shift in momentum in the mid-terms over the last few days. Last week Hugh Hewitt suggested the Dems hit their high water mark about a week and a half ago. Some accused him of being an RNC cheerleader. But since then we’ve heard about the possibility of oversampling of Democrats in the polls, that the GOTV effort is as strong as ever, the prospect of Pelosi leading the country setting in, the huge Republican cash advantage, with the result that the media doesn’t seem to sound so sure of themselves of a Dem victory any more.

It seems that the Dems and their media enablers may have jumped the gun a tad.

In any event, this election will certainly be interesting.

In fact, I’ll be at the polls at 6 am, right when they open. Hubby needs to catch a train at 6:25 and we were able to accomplish both on Primary day last March.

Mom isn’t happy with one of our GOP candidates, but I persuaded her that undervoting or voting for a write-in or the third party candidate will be a vote for the Democrat.

Laura Lee has a couple of very good reasons not to sit this one out.

Captain Ed says:

When people are dissatisfied with an incumbent in their own party, the time to address that is the primary.

He is so right.

Another reason: “Speaker” Pelosi (or as Don Surber notes: President Pelosi? Go read his column for the explanation) Update: The Anchoress says no way Hillary will allow it!

Update: Kim at Wizbang! links to Tony Blankley’s column about sitting out the election…

Apparently, these anticipated conservative non-voters are annoyed with Republican imperfection. They are disheartened, disappointed, disillusioned, distempered, and dismal — and thus plan to dis the party that better advances conservative principles in government.

They appear to have fallen victim to the false syllogism: 1) Something must be done; 2) not voting is something; therefore, 3) I will not vote. Of course the fallacy of the syllogism is that the second category could be anything. For example, No. 2 could as well read “eating dog excrement is something.”

I rather suspect that they will feel about the same afterward, whether they chose the non-voting option or the scatological one. They are both equally illogical — and repulsive — and would deserve the moniker “Stupid.”

Go read the rest and Kim’s post at Wizbang!

Vote GOP November 7^th

Vote GOP November 7^th

Dafydd at Big Lizards explores the possibilities of the Cloak of Invisibility.

The Dow closed at 12,011.97 today, closing above 12,000 for the first time in history.

Vote GOP November 7^th

His post is here.

Those reading this blog hopefully understand the stakes in this year’s Election (Btw: Thanks Ed for allowing me to post here today).

But just in case you need a reminder, here goes:

If you want to keep your taxes low, defeat the Islamofascist threat to our freedom, and restore sanity to our judicial system by appointing judges who won’t re-write the Constitution every chance they get …

…then my victory in Pennsylvania will help protect you and your family from the radical left seeking to seize control of the United States Senate this November.

Is that important to you? I believe it is. If you think that four years of steady economic growth hasn’t been important to our country…

…if you don’t want a repeat of Bill Clinton’s massive tax hikes…

…and you don’t like the idea of any of our troops in harms way, but you know in your heart that we cannot cut and run from Iraq…

…then you understand fully why I must be re-elected in November. All of this, plus the Supreme Court nominees and other judicial nominees are at stake, truly at risk, and you know from my record that I not only stand up for what’s right, I fight for it.

Go read the rest.