In order not to "offend" lesbians and "gays", the U.K.'s National Health Service seeks to ban staff members from using such "offensive" terms.  A taxpayer-funded "study" suggests that instead of employing "offensive" terms such as "mother" and "father", neutral terms such as "carers" should be used.  Orwell would be so pleased.

Last night the advice was dismissed as “politically correct nonsense”.  Correctly.

The document is called Fair For All — The Wider Challenge — Good Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Practice in the NHS.

It says: “Using the terms ‘husband’, ‘wife’ and ‘marriage’ assumes opposite sex relationships only and will automatically exclude all LGB people.

“Using the term ‘partner’ and ‘they/them’ to refer to the partner will avoid this problem. This is also inclusive of all heterosexual couples, regardless of their marital status.”

This would be funny, were it not so pathetic.  Leftists, the very folks who run in and trash your blogs with drool and venom, now complain that Republicans are vicious.  Yet in the midst of their demand for "civility", they state:  So the next time some right winger wants to come on here and demand that we be "civil," let's remember what the Republican Party has become: a home for racists, homophobes and various other borderline personalities. There may be a genuine desire on the part of many Americans for less hostility in politics, but that kind of ignores the smear-based politics practiced by the right.

Well, how very "civil"!

Who wanted to keep slaves?  Democrats.

Who fought for the right of all people, regardless of skin color, to be free citizens?  Republicans.

You Democrats really don't want to go there. 

"The facts have emerged, in recent years and months, from research…".  - Nigel Calder (former editor of New Scientist).  International Wildlife, July 1975.

"There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth."  - Peter Gwynne, Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

"According to the Academy (National Academy of Sciences) report on climate, we may be approaching the end of a major interglacial cycle…" - Science, March 1, 1975.

Scares you to death, doesn't it?  You read this stuff every day.  And that's the whole point: AlGore and the lamestream media want you to be scared to death.  It puffs up AlGore (like he needs any more puffing - he looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy already) and it sells papers.  And it makes you ever so much more compliant.  After all, when you're scared to death, you need someone to turn to.  Thus, we have Global Warming.