UPDATE: Allah points out that British educational institutions are having quite a field day.

Good News! Britain’s University and College Union, the union for British professors, has voted to boycott Israel. They even went as far as calling Israel’s existence an “occupation”.

Britain’s University and College Union (UCU), which comprises of university lecturers, voted for a boycott of Israeli academics at its conference in Bournemouth on Thursday evening.

The resolution, passed by 15 8 votes in favor and 99 against , “notes that Israel’s 40-year occupation has seriously damaged the fabric of Palestinian society through annexation, illegal settlement, collective punishment and restriction of movement… deplores the denial of educational rights for Palestinians by invasions, closures, checkpoints, curfews, and shootings and arrests of teachers, lecturers and students.”

They even take it a step further, and intend to work with Palestine against Israel.

The resolution condemned “the complicity of Israeli academia in the occupation, which has provoked a call from Palestinian trade unions for a comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli academic institutions,” and instructs British academics to “circulate the full text of the Palestinian boycott call to all branches,” and to “encourage members to consider the moral implications of existing and proposedlinks with Israeli academic institutions.”

Hear that? In the distance? You can imagine speakers in London, broadcasting the rhetoric of the local sheiks. You know, for educators, they’re not too smart. They believe the propaganda of the Palestinian, extremist-owned media stations. Sad day.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian once helped other people kill themselves. His actions brought to the table battles over assisted suicide in many states.

Now he is preparing to leave prison on June 1 after serving more than eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence for the death of a Michigan man. Kevorkian will find that there’s still only one state that has a law allowing physician-assisted suicide — Oregon.

In Oregon the law took effect in 1997. Oppenents have stopped the other states from passing such a law.
Opponents defeated a measure in Vermont this year and are fighting similar efforts in California. Bills have failed in recent years in Hawaii, Wisconsin and Washington state, and ballot measures were defeated earlier by voters in Washington, California, Michigan and Maine.

Kevorkian’s release will create a whole new round of efforts to legalize physician assisted suicide.

Jack Kevorkian’s style was to leave bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and he videotaped one death that was broadcast on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” One of the driving forces of the Oregon law was to prevent that kind of suicides from happening, keeping such activities safely in a hospital, according to Kate Davenport, a communications specialist at the Death with Dignity National Center in Portland, Oregon, which defended Oregon’s law against challenges.

Kevorkian fell under criticism for not only performing these heinous acts, but for his unconventional practices.

He used a machine he’d invented to administer fatal drugs and then dropped off the bodies at hospital emergency rooms or coroner’s offices. Sometimes he even left them to be discovered in the motel rooms where he often met those who wanted his help.

Oregon law allows terminal patients who are mentally competent to self-administer the life-ending drugs, and they must make that request once in writing and twice orally.

Since the law took effect in 1997, 292 people have asked their doctors to prescribe the drugs they would need to end their lives. That averages out to about 30 a year. The majority of the people who used the process last year had cancer, and their median age was 74.

Opponents of assisted suicide claim that the solution is not to kill people who are getting inadequate pain management, but to remove barriers to adequate pain management so that they can better tolerate their pain.

Kevorkian has promised he’ll never again advise or counsel anyone about assisted suicide once he’s out of prison. But his attorney, Mayer Morganroth, said Kevorkian isn’t going to stop pushing for more laws allowing it.

“It’s got to be legalized,” Kevorkian said in a phone interview from prison aired by a Detroit TV station on Monday. “I’ll work to have it legalized. But I won’t break any laws doing it.”

Yes, the 9/11 conspiracy film, which promotes theories like the government planned 9.11, and some ultra-secret, discreet CIA agents, somehow planted enough explosives in the WTC, to bring the towers down, for what isn’t clear. Bryan thinks it’s dangerous, and I agree. The film presents the idea that there actually isn’t a terrorist threat, but that the biggest threat in the modern-day world, is our own government.

Here’s the info, Girgin Valactic, er, Virgin Atlantic released on the conspiracy film:

LOOSE CHANGE 2:

Warning: Contains disturbing scenes.

Was 9/11 a government set up? You decide.

Everyone’s talking about it so we thought you’d like to see the film that started out as a home movie and became one of the most downloaded documentaries of all time. Was 9/11 a government set up? Were the twin towers brought down in a controlled explosion for an insurance payday? These questions and more are posed in this controversial film, seen by millions, derided by many. Now it’s your chance to make up your own mind.

Now, I’m sure it won’t be long before the same Liberals that forced PBS to drop a documentary that looked into the ongoing spiritual battle in Islam, claim that we’re trying to censor a pro-conspiracy, anti-American film. However, here’s the email address for their customer relations: customer.relations.us@fly.virgin.com.

Virgin Atlantic: Dog Sh*t Be Upon Them.