"They are very common in all types of biomedical research, but these cells are thousands of generations removed from actual fetal tissue, nor does their use create a market for fetal tissue. I'm more virulently pro-life than most, but this outrage is a bridge a bit far for me."
Thanks, Weirddave. That passes Occam better than the other.
238 "This tops that. Pepsi (and who knows who else) has long used a "flavor enhancer" ultimately derived from aborted fetal tissue. No lie, they admitted it."
Posted by: The more you know
At the grocer yesterday, I contemplated buying some Mexican Pepsi for my son...
Can we get a fact check on thisk Because... urk!
Posted by: mindful webworker - just another day at January 01, 2014 11:13 AM (MBZW0)
It's not true. A company Pepsi hired to do taste research uses HEK 293 stem cells to test the reaction of human taste buds to certain flavors. Note: the additives are being tested on HEK 293 cells, not the HEK cells being added to product. Now, HEK cells were origionally developed from the kidney of a murdered child-40 years ago. They are very common in all types of biomedical research, but these cells are thousands of generations removed from actual fetal tissue, nor does their use create a market for fetal tissue. I'm more virulently pro-life than most, but this outrage is a bridge a bit far for me.
324 I had to chuckle at this headline on Drudge:
Netanyahu Has Polyp Removed From Colon as Kerry Heads to Mideast...
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
Hilarious!
John "Polyp" Kerry
don't why I found it so funny..., but it is:
http://duckcallcarhorns.com/sounds/duck.mp3
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Funny.
Mrs suggests this might result in many dead ducks on the highways... 
I only remembered that the Mrs, from Chicago, introduced this Oklahoma boy to the black eyed peas New Years tradition.
But I asked her, and she said our she first heard about it the first year after she came to Oklahoma, when our then, and current , neighbor asked, were we going to have black eyed peas for New Years? We both said, what?
But Mrs is a master chef, and we've kept the tradition ever since. With variations in recipe this might send some folks here screaming, but always black eyed peas.
We have a new local source for the basic ingredient for our favorite sauce, NM green chili. I'll be adding a dollop of that. Helps make the luck flouresce.
Last thread still dead at a mere #174, poor stomped thing. And after that abundant ONT, too.
No indication of new thread.
This has been your blog report, sponsored by Kaboom.
Time for first beggs & acon of Jan 2014.
My God! It's 2014!
"This tops that. Pepsi (and who knows who else) has long used a "flavor enhancer" ultimately derived from aborted fetal tissue. No lie, they admitted it."
Posted by: The more you know
At the grocer yesterday, I contemplated buying some Mexican Pepsi for my son...
Can we get a fact check on thisk Because... urk!
The pair, together for 12 years, plan to tie the knot atop a giant wedding cake on the AIDS Healthcare Foundation float...
Posted by: grammie winger
The blaribg irony, of course, is, if homosexuals had no sex until quote married unquote and were faithful for life to their spouses, just like heterosexuals ought, there would be no AIDS. Nor other STDs, basically.
Ass Gaskets -OSP
Hah! New 2 me. Funny.
TP use men v women - getting AOAHQ off on the right foot for '14.
My God! It's 2014!
re OSP's youth, Mrs Webworker suggests, he's the old sailor's poet. not the old sailor...
"The Navy's latest carrier has female friendly heads,no urinals." Posted by: steevy
What's "female friendly" about man-pee on the seats?
:/
My goal, not a resolution is to go through 2014 Alcohol free. That's it.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet
Hey, Poet!
I don't condemn people indulging (especially at AoSHQ! 
), but if it's time to quit, quit, and God strengthen the will & the wisdom.
Confession! I had a glass, almost two, of wine at my son's wedding rehearsal dinner. First & only indulgence in more than two years. (And felt it. Booze is a hard drug!) But generally, I learned, the hard way, don't drink while I'm 'on call,'* which is pretty much always how I seem to be these years, almost like when the kids were little.
Just think of it as a drying out period. Drink 'tomorrow.'
*We may all find ourselves on full constant alert all to soon....
What? Wait! I'm confused. (Easily.) We weren't through abusing Andy's thread. And, of course, I had just added a link2selfie
minx.cc/?blog=86&post=346138#c21595341
aw, fuggit. Recycling the comment:
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Hopefulness or cynicism - couldn't decide which New Year's message to go with. So I did both.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/welcome-to-2014
The (maybe kinda large file) animated GIF version:
http://mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/dd20140101.gif
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And coffee helped with my groggy morning headcold. What a miracle drug!
Hopefulness or cynicism - couldn't decide which New Year's message to go with. So I did both.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/doodles/welcome-to-2014
The (maybe kinda large file) animated GIF version:
"Incontinentia"... J.J. Sefton
Funny!
Someone posted a link t'other day to a parody of Beauty & the Beast in da hood which included two little... heh, there's a word used in my youth we don't use now came to mind... yutes of ethnicity... named Lawasha & Ladrya.
My #103: . Big hand, food, big hand!
FOLKS! not 'food'! At least autoincorrect didn't say 'foot'! Although, that would've been funnier.
May 2014 be blessed for you & your brother, Carol. People resign themselves too easily rather than hope. Surely makes it harder to pray positively.
Posted by: mindful web worker - just another day at January 01, 2014 09:10 AM (Jh9QN)
Thank you, mindful web worker.
"I am the only one in the family that hasn't given up on him walking. Everyone else thinks he's going to be stuck in bed or a wheelchair for the rest of his life."
Posted by: Carol
May 2014 be blessed for you & your brother, Carol. People resign themselves too easily rather than hope. Surely makes it harder to pray positively.
"I failed. Only one thing left to do. Pour a big bowl of Kaboom and settle into another year of being mediocre." Posted by: Mallamutt
Award for first use of 'Kaboom' in a 2014 thread goes to Mallamutt. Big hand, food, big hand!
Think I caught a cold or something. What I get for not drinking.
Too much content, Andy. Pace yourself!
Charlie the cat wonders why I'm moving late & slowly. And on such a sunshiney morning!
Walked into last night's ONT party... briefly. Had to leave after they set the barrel on fire. Just can't party like I used to.
Good morning! Happy New Day! Happy New Month! Happy 2014!
LONG LIVE REVIVE THE REPUBLIC!
Thanks & HAP HAP HAP HAPPYS back at Adriane.
Did someone just mention burning the barrel? Now this party is cooking!
