The cat-people will improve people but deteriorate cats (thank you Mark Twain), and will also severely erode world capitalism, the Protestant work ethic, the military and sports, seeing as cat-people will not team-play, follow orders, or compete.
I, for one, welcome our new kitty-overlords.
One word: Manchilla!
Anyway, back to being serious… Sure, a dog with a human brain might not be the smartest thing to make, but how about a pig with a human pancreas? There’s some possibilities there. Or a goat that makes human breast milk, or a pig that has human eyes suitable for transplantation…
Not all hybrids involve a human brain.
It’s the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you. That’s the problem.
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Pfui. I’ve had one for years. 
For some reason that bothers me. Silly, the pancreas does not, but eyes do.
I suddenly forsee a futuristic world where man-chimps and lady-tigresses are common, but people think that the new-fangled man-pigs are just going too far.
Jeeves, have you met Bertie Wooster?
This is new how? I’ve got two of them and they’re tough but fair.
Personally, while a little off topic, I’d like to see a pig-elephant hybrid.
Not huge, elephant-sized pigs(through that would be cool) but rather pig-sized elephants for people to keep in their homes.
Maybe the President had been watching Bill O’Reilly. He was the one who warned us, “And 10 years, this is gonna be a totally different country than it is right now. Laws that you think are in stone – they’re gonna evaporate, man. You’ll be able to marry a goat – you mark my words!” Bush is just trying to nip it in the bud.
I beg to differ. No self-respecting goat would marry Bill O’Reilly.
Why don’t you work on genetic engineering that will actually help humanity, like a five-assed monkey?
Perhaps because a temporarily hypoglycemic pig with an insulin pump atttached to his back is not as disturbing as a permananently blind pig with empty, accusatory eye-sockets.
Ick. I’m up too late. I’m creeping my self out.
Well, now I can’t stop laughing about the pig with the insulin pump, becuase Mr. Jeeves has an insulin pump and works about a a block away from the LA Farmer Johns pig processing plant.
So, after today, I am still not able to find any raging controversy over AHH’s, so it still seems a strange thing to include in the SOTU.
Personally, I think that we should be able create AHH’s for medical need, IFF we make sure not to create sentient animals. Thats were I draw the line, I already have one kitty overlord, and I don’t want to have more telling us what a lousy job we are doing as lords of all creation.
BIIIIRRRRRRRDMAAAAAANNNN!!!
I have no idea why I needed to type that.
I have anothre sugguestion. While I’m generally against creating animals with human brains simply for fear of their own suffering, I have a feeling, since animal suffering counts for nothing with most of Bush’s philosophical big wigs, that the real fear here is how utterly and totally human animal hybrids, especially in the brain, would undermine the house of cards that is the conservative moral position on abortion, stem cell research, and so on. Once non-human species demonstrate mental and communication capacities that show them to be worth granting protections and rights, the whole “uniquely genetically human is what matters regardless of functional capacity!” idea collapses.
They phrase it in their heads as “messing with the specialness of human life demeans humanity!” but the fear underlying that incoherent mess is the above.
Too late to ban him, now that he is an attorney, he is fighting for his rights and the rights of others like him.
And they are just so damned attractive! 
We’d have to fight Phil Foglio for the concession.
Or the best-planned lays . . .
How about if the pig grows the human eyes on its back and gets to keep its natural pig eyes? Better?