June, 2002

Nut Hunting

The "nuts" continue to fall from the trees of our "anything goes" culture. Just when you thought you had heard it all, here is a new one for ya.

According to the August edition of the American Legion magazine, there is a group of "cell-preservation" goofs who have found a company called Clonaid.

Those weirdo's, headed up by a dude who calls himself Rael, claim that life on Earth was created by space aliens through genetic engineering and cloning technologies. His group reports a membership of 55,000 in 84 countries.

These "cats" describe themselves as the first human-cloning company and are offering to preserve the cells of American soldiers deployed in Afghanistan so if they die in combat, they can have kids produced with the same genetic code. (This must be wonderfully reassuring to our military personnel.)

A spokesman for this Montreal based company says that: even if the world rejects cloning, they will operate a boat in international waters to carry on their mission.

Should this happen, some of us might rent a submarine with a good periscope and torpedo and go "nut" hunting. Ha!