Shocking Michael J. Fox Ad in MO Senate Race

I forgot my policy is to basically ignore you, so ... we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.

 

Translated that for you.

 

Drop dead, asshole.

 

Classy, Lyman. You've got a way with words.

 

Do you even know what the word "ignore" means?

 

Might as well cut through the bullshit and get to the point.

 

There's no point in explaining this, so I will anyway.
The NEA doesn't "fund" anything. It makes grants to local groups, museums etc. and they fund projects. Funding the arts is something governments have done since there have been governments. Aristotle thought it was a good idea, so did a whole bunch of popes, but what did they know, and so did most of the Founders, who also were very high on government-funded scientific research. (Madison wanted a national university, so did George Washington.) It is part of the common wealth.

 

You mean "can't get enough of" as in, "Mommy, what are those soldiers doing in our backyard?"

 

OK, point taken, but as was the case with JR, we are now quibbling over pre-existing lab space that is going to be funded one way or the other no matter what research is taking place there. That's a lot different than pouring billions of extra taxpayer dollars into a specific type of research that's both controversial and far from guaranteed to produce any fruit.

Anyway, how about Viagra? Did any taxpayer money go into that glorious breakthrough? If so, I wouldn't brag about the government's success in hard-on research.

 

Jack
The answer is, yes, British taxpayer money went to Pfizer who didn't even start out to come up with this medication.

Viagara --as a hard-on pill--was discovered purely by accident. Pfizer was working on a drug for hypertension and the little blue pill was an offshoot.

And Pfizer in the U.K.--as do most drug companies--receives government funding directly and indirectly for its research.

But, nice try.

 

You must have missed the wink icon, Mr. Serious.

 

By the way, the Fox ad is not a tough ad.
THIS is a tough ad.