Britain’s Hurtles Towards Future Of Big Brother, Frankenstein, and History

So many shocking news stories coming from Britain:

• Government wants access of yearly 3 billion private Internet email and 57 billion private text messages.
• Science gets support for research to create half human – half animal embryos.
• Catholic Labour Party not allowed to vote on monstrous issue.

Gordon Brown last night faced a direct challenge from the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales over his refusal to let Labour MPs vote with their conscience over laws on genetic research.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said Catholic MPs must be granted a free vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

Former cabinet minister Stephen Byers also warned that the public would “look on in disbelief” if MPs could not follow their convictions.

Downing Street and the whips’ office maintained that they would not allow Catholic MPs to vote against the legislation when it returns to the House of Commons next month.

At least one cabinet minister is believed to be preparing to quit rather than support the Bill, or take the compromise option of abstaining offered by the Chief Whip, Geoff Hoon. The Bill would allow the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

In his Easter Sunday sermon, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the head of Scottish Catholics, will describe the plans as “monstrous” and urge Mr Brown to allow a free vote.

The Bill would allow scientists to transfer nuclei from human cells, such as skin cells, into animal egg cells that have had almost all of their genetic information removed.

The resulting “hybrid” embryos, which would be more than 99 per cent human, would be grown for a maximum of 14 days, then harvested for stem cells – immature cells than can become many types of tissue.

Maybe that’s why two million Britons have left their homeland in the last ten years?

Britain’s Brain Drain.

Record numbers of Britons are leaving – many of them doctors, teachers and engineers – in the biggest exodus for almost 50 years.

Over a quarter of qualified professionals who have moved abroad had health or education qualifications

There are now 3.247 million British-born people living abroad, of whom more than 1.1 million are highly-skilled university graduates, say the researchers.More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).No other nation is losing so many qualified people, it points out. Britain has now lost more than one in 10 of its most skilled citizens, while overall only Mexico has had more people emigrate.

The figures, based on official records from more than 220 countries, will alarm Gordon Brown as tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money is spent on educating graduates. The cost of training a junior doctor, for example, is £250,000.

The most popular destinations are English-speaking countries such as Australia, America, Canada and New Zealand and holiday areas including France and Spain.

Almost 60 per cent of those leaving take jobs, although hundreds of thousands of retired people live abroad.

But then there’s this socialist perspective: Let all the professionals leave – we’ll just replace them with non-English speaking “skilled” immigrants.

Danny Sriskandarajah, a migration expert at the IPPR think-tank, said: “There is a long-term trend of British people lured abroad by a slightly better lifestyle. They are actively targeted by countries such as Australia and New Zealand.”

The emigration was leading to a rapid change in British society as large numbers of highly-skilled immigrants moved to this country to replace those leaving, he said.

“Britain has been lucky – although it has lost substantial numbers of people, it has attracted more than a million skilled immigrants to replace them. If they stop coming then that would be a problem.”

Figures from the Office for National Statistics last year, suggested that 207,000 Britons – one every three minutes – left in 2006. The emigration rate is at its highest since just after the Second World War.

The term brain drain was coined in the 1950s following the mass emigration of scientists and other experts to America. Tens of thousands of people also left the country to escape the industrial unrest and high taxes of the 1970s.

Gives a whole new meaning to bare-back riding.

And then there’s the modern day Lady Godivas letting it all down in Hyde Park for the new Lady Godiva film.

Archaelogists may have found 660-year old glass window of Lady Godiva.

More Than 32,000 Scientists Deny Human Intervention In Global Warming

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has announced that they have received over 32,000 signed petitions stating denying that human activity is the cause for global warming. Scientists, 9,000 with PH.D’s, include disciplines such as physics, climate research, mathematics, and engineers.

Global Cooling Documented.

Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld (thankfully) the Child Protection Act on banning child pornography but also criminal charges for promoting child pornography even if you don’t have it. United States Congress voted yes on the law but it was struck down and moved up to the Supreme Court for a final hearing. The law passed seven to two. The two judges who dissented? Liberal Supreme Court judges Ginsberg and Souter, of course. You remember Ruth Ginsberg? She’s the judge who:

• Co-authored the book called Sex Bias in the U.S. Code in 1977 with a feminist, Brenda Feigen-Fasteau, for which they were paid with federal funds under Contract No. CR3AK010
• Called for the sex-integration of prisons and reformatories so that conditions of imprisonment, security and housing could be equal.
• Called for the sex-integration of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts because they “perpetuate stereotyped sex roles.
• Insisted on sex-integrating “college fraternity and sorority chapters” and replacing them with “college social societies.”
• Casted constitutional doubt on the legality of “Mother’s Day and Father’s Day as separate holidays.”
• Called for reducing the age of consent for sexual acts to persons who are “less than 12 years old.”
• Asserted that laws against “bigamists, persons cohabiting with more than one woman, and women cohabiting with a bigamist” are unconstitutional.
• Objected to laws against prostitution because “prostitution, as a consensual act between adults.”
• Wrote that the Mann Act (which punishes those who engage in interstate sex traffic of women and girls) is “offensive.” Such acts should be considered “within the zone of privacy.”
• Said that the concept of husband-breadwinner and wife-homemaker “must be eliminated from the code if it is to reflect the equality principle.”
• Called for “a comprehensive program of government supported child care.”
• Demanded that the United States “firmly reject draft or combat exemption for women,” stating that “women must be subject to the draft if men are.”

Thank you, President Bush for nominating conservative judges, like Judges Scalia, Alito and Roberts, who don’t make the law but enforce laws and protect the Constitution.

Past history: ACLU Claims Victory In Getting Free Speech Rights For Child Pornographers

John McCain and Barack Hussein Obama: Two Views of the Supreme Court.

It’s The Onion For Goodness Sakes…

I received my weekly AgBioWorld newsletter this week which helps promote the issues of GMO’s and use of biogenetically modified foods throughout the world. Reading to the bottom of the scientifically sound newsletter was a post from an article in The Onion about a tomato genetically modified to be 31% more expensive and will wipe out four species of ladybugs. Somebody is going to believe this as factual. How many thousands of environmental whackso will read this and start a mission to banish this non-existing tomato from the earth?

Before the panic starts, before Sean Penn starts his week long fast, folks it’s The Onion! Back off, people, it’s a satire.

Huckabee Wants To Be Number Two

No wonder he’s so being so nice, Mike Huckabee, former 2008 Presidential candidate, said he wouldn’t mind being on the ticket with John McCain. He might be the moderate VP that Raegan Democrats and moderate Republicans would vote for.

Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister popular with the religious right, told NBC television: “There’s no one I would rather be on a ticket with than John McCain.”

He said that during his unsuccessful primary campaign against McCain, “there was no one who was more complimentary of him publicly and privately” than himself.”But whether or not I do the best for him, that’s something that only he can decide,” added Huckabee, 52. “I’m going to support him because I think he’s the right person for America. I think he has the kind of seasoning and maturity that this country needs.”