http://onthewayhere.com Some thoughts on why we are who we are or at least think we are. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:07:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://onthewayhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/feeds1.png http://onthewayhere.com 88 31 Some thoughts on why we are who we are or at least think we are. http://onthewayhere.com/2009/02/my-favorite-republican/ http://onthewayhere.com/2009/02/my-favorite-republican/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:10:12 +0000 Martyrdog http://onthewayhere.com/?p=690 Not for what his career (can’t really forgive him for that), but for what he did last week. Cancer survivor Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania traded his stimulus vote to the Dems for $10 billion in increased funding to the NIH (which had been starved of funding during recent years) most of which will go toward funding 15,000 additional research grants (34% increase). Specter, who has been publicly threatened by Republicans with a primary challenge for doing so, was unapologetic when he said, “I think it’s scandalous that we haven’t done more to cure cancer.” Bravo. Way to go Arlen. This is a big deal. Doing something of tremendous importance toward curing the diseases that are truly non-partisan. As a reward, I promise to try and quit pronouncing your name “Sphincter.”]]> http://onthewayhere.com/2009/02/my-favorite-republican/feed/ 1