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President Bush talked about his alcohol use with former prisoners at a faith-based program, calling his alcoholism an addiction for the first time and sharing the role faith played in his recovery. Here’s a video of the men’s response.
GodTube is tapping its pool of 250,000 registered users and taking an unscientific presidential election poll. Mike Huckabee wins the Christian vote, and Obama comes in second.
The Pew Forum finds some common themes in this year’s raucous presidential primary. The election matters to voters, Republican turnout lags behind Democratic turnout, independent voters are playing a big role, and for Democrats, race and gender matters more than issues.
It’s the Super Bowl Blitz, and companies are exploring ways to expand the impact of the $2.7 million they pay for a 30-second Super Bowl ad. This means taking ads online, so check Yahoo, Google, YouTube and MySpace this Sunday.
The world’s aging population will have an effect on international politics. Researchers say a high youth population and high unemployment rates can be an environment to breed resentment and terrorism. As the youth population gets older, areas like Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are due to stabilize soon.
A family buried their son, only to discover years later that they’d left his brain behind in the hands of a coroner. Their lawsuit may change the way we treat the deceased.
American scientists have taken a step towards creating artificial life. They have created all the genetic material for a synthetic chromosome. If they can successfully insert it into another bacterium and make it reproduce, they can claim to have created life. Controversial scientist Craig Venter says, “It puts a lot of power in the hands of humans.”
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Creating “life”, huh? Excuse me, but the bacterium is already alive–it’s just having it’s genetic material exchanged. I want to see someone create life from no live ingredients.
I think any man big enough to acknowledge an addiction is a big man indeed.
How easy it would have been to conjure up all sorts of euphemisms
I agree 100%, Sawgunner. I’ve heard a little of his story, and I think it is quite profound.
This is why I admire George Bush and always will. (Maybe he can do something with this after he leaves the White House.)
What I’m wondering about this bacterium: do we have drug to kill it if it gets out?
@3 Sawgunner,
It takes a fair, decent and honest man to acknologe his addictive vice. It takes a real big man, with God’s help, to overcome his addictions and live free of them.
Actually the Dub looks kinda drunk in that picture. And look at the darkness that surrounds him. I hate to say it, but it’s so appropriate.
Two firsts for Bush. First, under his stewerdship, the budget passed two trillion dollars for the first time ever. It took more than two hundred years for the president to submit a 2 trillion dollar budget. And this week, Bush proposed a 3 trillion dollar budget. He wasn’t about to let another 200 years pass.
#1: I want to see someone create life from no live ingredients.
Not me. What if they create a life that sees us as snack food?