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Lake Superior State University List of Banished Words

See http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Here’s a classic:

UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN -- "If they haven't followed the law to get here, they are by definition 'illegal.' It's like saying a drug dealer is an 'undocumented pharmacist.'" -- John Varga, Westfield, New Jersey.

HT: Donna W.

World faces hottest year ever: El Niño combines with global warming

From the U.K. Independent:

A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned.

As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge.

The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to global warming and its effect on humanity.

Professor Jones said the long-term trend of global warming - already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf - is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific.

Combined, they are set to bring extreme conditions across the globe and make 2007 warmer than 1998, the hottest year on record. It is likely temperatures will also exceed 2006, which was declared in December the hottest in Britain since 1659 and the sixth warmest in global records.

Professor Jones said: "El Niño makes the world warmer and we already have a warming trend that is increasing global temperatures by one to two tenths of a degrees celsius per decade. Together, they should make 2007 warmer than last year and it may even make the next 12 months the warmest year on record."

 

 

 

Animal Sacrifices Maim 1,400 in Turkey

OK, someone will have to give me some background on this one. I understand that this is an annual event, but I don’t recall reading about all of these injuries in the news before. Perhaps this happens annually and the MSM is just starting to pick up on it. Or perhaps there is something new and different going on this year.

From MyWay:

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals.

At least 1,413 people - referred to as "amateur butchers" by the Turkish media - were treated at hospitals across the country, most suffering cuts to their hands and legs, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Four people were severely injured, crushed under the weight of large animals that fell on top of them, the agency reported. Another person was hurt when a crane used to lift an animal tumbled onto him, the agency said.

Three other people suffered heart attacks and died while trying to restrain animals, CNN-Turk television reported.

Muslims sacrifice cows, sheep, goats and bulls during the four-day religious holiday, a ritual commemorating the biblical account of God's provision of a ram for Abraham to sacrifice as he was about to slay his son. They share the meat with friends, family and neighbors and give part of it to the poor.

Islamic 20 Year Plan

Think of the diversity that Islam brings.  I know that this will make our “progressives” (who still cannot tell the difference) very happy.

From the World Tribune:

The Pentagon’s Joint Staff is very secretive but it is coming out of the shadows to better promote the idea that the global war on terrorism will be a "Long War" of perhaps 100 years’ duration. [DMC: See the Quadrennial Defense Review Report for more info]

A Joint Staff briefing, entitled the "Long War," is given five or six times a week within the Pentagon to various public audiences and as many as 60 times around the country. The goal is to help the American people and leaders better understand the nature of the conflict, the enemy and its actions and the U.S. strategy and tactics for defeating them.
…
The briefing discloses a 20-year Al Qaida plan to create an Islamist extremist homeland in the Middle East. The seven-stage plan

• Began with the September 11 attacks as "The Awakening,” “Eye-Opening,” in 2003 when U.S. troops took Baghdad. The plan will continue with the “Arising and Standing Up” in 2007 with a new focus on Syria and Turkey, and also more direct confrontations with Israel to try to gain more credibility among Muslims.
• By 2010, Al Qaida plans on the “Demise of Arab governments.” All this will culminate in an Islamic caliphate in 2013, when Al Qaida and Islamists gain powerful new allies such as China, and Europe declines into disunity.
• The “Total Confrontation” period will commence from 2015 to 2020 with the creation of an Islamic Army that will begin a worldwide fight against believers and nonbelievers.
• The "Definitive Victory" will be reached in 2020 when the Islamists will assume power globally.

And our progressives want to fight this with secularism?

HT: Dave G.

14-foot Python attacks handler during show in Tarpon Springs

From Tampa’s Channel 10 News:

Tarpon Springs, Florida - Tarpon Springs Police officers say a 14-foot Burmese Python attacked a female handler at the Tarpon Springs Aquarium this afternoon.

Officers arrived at the facility just before 2:00 p.m. at 848 Dodecanese Boulevard at the west end of the sponge dock tourist area.

They say the beast, named Chloe, attacked 18-year-old Alison Cobianchi of Holiday during a show.

Cobianchi was supposed to remove the snake from its cage and talk about the animal. Today, the snake became aggressive, wrapped itself around her arm and waist and bit her on the right hand.

A manager and another handler tried to separate the snake from Cobianchi as she was being pulled into its cage. People in the show also tried to help and were unable to get her free.

An officer deployed his Taser on the snake. After a few seconds, Chloe released her grasp and allowed Cobianchi to get free. The Python then  retreated to her cage. The victim was treated by paramedics and taken to Helen Ellis Hospital for treatment.

My wife wouldn’t let me get a python when the kids were young. She said we should have no pets that can eat our kids.

Good call.

2006 Darwin Awards are out

Go check out the 2006 Darwin awards.

There are some good ones this year. The Hammer of Doom is the best.

Dining Alone

This harkens back to the picture I posted of Kerry dining alone in Iraq.

And is also a great slam on the Democrat’s 2004 choice for President insulting the troops.

Yea, now there’s a Presidential candidate who represents supporting our troops.

Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Cellphone Video of Saddam's Execution

Someone took a cell phone video of Saddam’s execution, and (of course) it’s posted to the web.

If you want to watch Saddam hang, you can see it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7532034279766935521

Be advised: this is graphic.

Breeding out Homosexuality: Science told: hands off gay sheep

Of course, this entire article rests on the assumption that homosexuality is biologically based and not acquired.

From the U.K. Times Online:

Scientists are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.

The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes.

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It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the “straightening” procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.

Bird Flu Update

For those of you tracking the bird flu, here’s an update:

• 21 Dec: South Korea says fourth bird flu case confirmed — A fourth case of bird flu has been discovered in South Korea after culling of poultry from earlier cases, a government official said on Thursday, raising concerns that quarantine measures had failed to control the outbreak.
• 22 Dec: More Nigerian states hit by bird flu infection — The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread in the last few weeks to two new states in Nigeria and reappeared in two others where it was believed to have been contained, officials said on Friday.
• 27 Dec: Egyptian man dies of bird flu — A 26-year-old Egyptian man died of bird flu on Wednesday, the third member of his extended family to die of the virus, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told Reuters.
• 29 Dec: Vietnamese family in hospital with bird flu symptoms — Four members of a Vietnamese family have been hospitalized with symptoms of bird flu after eating sick chickens in the country's south, where the disease re-emerged in poultry earlier this month.

Jewelers see Veiled Threat

Even in the Middle East there are some concerns with the veil. This from Mumbai.

Of course, this doesn’t even address whether the shop owners have a right to deny service to anyone they chose.

Shops in California and Florida don’t allow customers to come in who don’t have shoes and a shirt on. Why can the shop owners not say “you’re free to wear a burqa; you’re not free to wear it my shop”?

Via Reuters:

Women wearing the burqa and other face-concealing veils could be banned from jewelry stores in a west Indian city after a spate of thefts involving burqa-clad customers, jewelers said on Thursday.

More than a dozen thefts have occurred in jewelry shops in Pune in Maharashtra state in the past two months, with at least three cases of women wearing burqas spotted by surveillance cameras as they stole gold ornaments.

"Police could not find any clue about the women's identity because their faces were covered," Fatehchand Ranka, head of the Maharashtra Jewelers' Association, told Reuters.

Pune's jewelers, who deny targeting any religion, say they have written to the authorities asking for permission to stop serving customers who refuse to show their faces to surveillance cameras from January 1.

But the move has angered a section of India's Muslim community which says the attempt to profile customers on the basis of their attire is an attack on their freedom of religion.

"It's up to a Muslim woman to decide if she wants to shop in a burqa," said Naseem Siddique, head of Maharashtra's minority communities panel.

"Next they will say they will not allow a Sikh in a turban because he could be hiding a pistol under it."

HT: Dave G.

New twins makes Spaniard world's oldest mum at 67

In one day she doubled the average number of births a woman in Spain has.

Via Reuters:

MADRID (Reuters) - A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest new mother on Saturday when she gave birth to twins, a Barcelona hospital said.

The woman, who became pregnant after receiving IVF treatment in Latin America, gave birth by caesarean section, a spokeswoman at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i San Pau told Reuters.

Both the woman, from the southern Spanish region of Andalucia, and babies were in good health, the hospital said, although the new-borns had been placed in an incubator.

The unidentified woman, who was giving birth for the first time, is one year older than Romanian Adriana Iliescu who had a baby girl in January 2005 at the age of 66. She had been pregnant with twins, but one died in the womb.

WMD Found Hanging from Rope in Iraq

From Scott Ott over at Scrapple Face:

The Pentagon announced this morning that a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) was found today in Baghdad, hanging from a rope on a platform.

“This particular WMD,” a Pentagon spokesman said, “is known to have killed thousands of Iraqis, as well as Iranians, Kuwaitis and some U.S. troops.”

The weapon is described as “a nasty, corrosive agent which kills indiscriminately and without warning.”

“A lot of folks — including Hans Blix, the United Nations and the Democrats — said there were no WMD in Iraq,” the Pentagon source said. “Perhaps they were just looking in all the wrong places.”

According to Iraqi government sources, the WMD has been contained, neutralized and prepared for burial.

The Left's Battlecry: Cut Saddam Some Slack

Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

The Man Who Filmed Saddam's Execution

From MSNBC:

Ali Al Massedy was 3 feet away from Saddam Hussein when he died. The 38 year old, normally Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's official videographer, was the man responsible for filming the late dictator's execution at dawn on Saturday. "I saw fear, he was afraid," Ali told NEWSWEEK minutes after returning from the execution. Wearing a rumpled green suit and holding a Sony HDTV video camera in his right hand, Ali recalled the dictator's last moments. "He was saying things about injustice, about resistance, about how these guys are terrorists," he says. On the way to the gallows, according to Ali, "Saddam said, ‘Iraq without me is nothing.’"

Google's Logo for the Day?

From Picasa

For my Readers who are Bibliophiles

Update: Douglas D. comments:

I'm afraid that the flow sheet is flawed at least with respect to the unmarried bibliophile, suffering as it does from the fallacy of the false dichotomy. A true unmarried bibliophile's decision flow sheet would lead, however torturously, to only one conclusion.

It is generally correct for the married bibliophile, however. At least in my experience. And this is, at the end of the day, a good thing.....

Recall that Erasmus wrote:

-“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”

This flowchart may be helpful to those of you who collect books   

Moscow man, 41, charged with growing marijuana

As reported in today's edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

A 41-year-old Moscow man was arrested Friday morning on one count of manufacturing a controlled substance.

James R. Conklin was arrested after police searched an apartment in the 300 block of South Blaine Street.

According to a press release from the Moscow Police Department, a tenant staying at the apartment contacted the police on Thursday about a possible marijuana growing operation.

Officers went to the apartment at 6 a.m. Friday morning to stand by while the tenant retrieved her personal belongings and moved out of the apartment.

With consent from the two occupants, officers then searched the residence, according to the press release.

In one of the bedrooms they located 17 marijuana plants in nine pots. They also found a glass jar containing marijuana seeds, a fluorescent lighting system, a water container and potting soil, according to the press release.

Conklin could be sentenced to up to five years in prison and fined as much as $15,000 if convicted of the offense.

Always Winter but Never Christmas

Ed Iverson has a column in today's Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

The Christmas wars are grinding to a halt for yet another year. It is only a temporary cessation. We can expect a renewal of hostilities by about All Saints Day 2007. There will be renewed demands from the community of the sensitive to ban Christmas trees from airports. Christmas trees are “dangerous” in that they may remind fastidious souls that the evergreen, (a formerly pagan symbol) was Christianized many centuries ago. Among other things, evergreen trees symbolize the unending life that broke in upon this wintry Earth with the birth of the Christ-child.

There will be increased efforts to secularize this holy day and downplay its Christian significance. Christmas-deniers will bring greater pressure to bear upon major retailers. More employees will be required to substitute an insipid “Happy Holiday” for a sturdy “Merry Christmas.” Continuing a trend that became evident this year, the mainstream media will feature more articles on the winter solstice, commenting with a perfectly straight face upon its ancient (pagan) symbolism. Schools will let out for “winter break” and, if there be any remaining public institution foolish enough to offer a “Christmas vacation,” they will soon be whipped into line.

One of the major cities in our area sponsors a spectacular Christmas lighting that we look forward to every year, anticipating the enjoyment it affords. It was spoiled this year. Apparently, some sour soul or some cranky organization got to the city fathers. The lights were just as numerous, the colors just as spectacular and the display just as imaginative. However, as you drove into town you were confronted with the new title of the display: Winter Spirit.

So what is “Winter Spirit?” I understand “Celebrate Snow.” And although it is rather poverty stricken as greetings go, I even understand “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings.” But “Winter Spirit?” What is that? Is it meant to convey the deep religious symbolism inherent in the pagan celebration of the rebirth of the sun? Probably not. More likely it is a confused capitulation to crotchety secularists, ever vigilant in their fanatic determination to root out all vestiges of Christian America.

The ACLU and its bed partners insist that this is all being done as part of an effort to respect every tradition. In truth, its goal is the secularization of society. Ours is not the first society to banish Christmas. Since the birth of Jesus, there have been repeated attempts to smother its significance beginning with the attempt of Herod to murder the child.

In our own time, communists in the former Soviet Union went to great lengths to eradicate Christmas. Fearing an uprising, they proceeded incrementally, but eventually all Christmas commemorations were banned. Grandfather Frost replaced St. Nicholas. This Stalinist creation wore a red cap and the long white beard of Santa Claus but delivered gifts to children on New Year’s Eve. Christmas trees were also banned. Soviet communism folded all Christmas celebrations into a New Year celebration.

In the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan gave a number of speeches extolling the bravery of Soviet Christians who confronted communism’s campaign to castrate Christmas. Citizens continued to trim their trees. Defying the ban on Christmas carols, Ukrainian Christians sang in the street, knowing that by so doing, they risked arrest and imprisonment. The Soviet Union is now gone and here and there, Christmas is again breaking through.

Meanwhile in America, we are edging toward the condition that the White Witch designed for her joyless Narnia. In Lewis’ book, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” the story opens with Narnia under the wicked rule of the White Witch. By her magical powers, the usurping witch arranged things so that it was “always winter, but never Christmas.” As happens with all tyrants, the witch’s power eventually began to fade. One of the first indications that she was losing control was that Christmas began to break through into that frigid land. Must we be forced to allow winter to crush Christmas? Say it isn’t so.

Ed Iverson is the head librarian at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow.
He earned a master’s of library science at the University of Southern Mississippi
and studied theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC.
In 1990, he ran for the Idaho Senate as a Republican from Mullan.
He lives with his wife at Viola.
They have two children and six grandchildren.

PARD’s dubious achievements

The following letter to the editor appeared in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News:

It is time to acknowledge the dubious contributions of T.V. Reed and his cohorts of the Pullman Alliance for Responsible Development:

• Effectively distracting both the residents and Pullman City Council from realizing Bishop Boulevard needs two traffic lights and several crosswalks now.
• Preventing employment for people who need a job, any job, now.
• Attempting to dictate to us all where we may shop and what we may buy now and in the future.
• Including in the name of their group “responsible development” without doing anything to bring other businesses to Pullman. [DMC: Burma, you need to know that “responsible development” is code for “no development”.]
• Generally aggravating those of us who believe in free enterprise and know that Wal-Mart’s conduct of business isn’t all that different from the conduct of some other retailers in Pullman.

We know who stole Christmas — and it isn’t the Grinch.

Burma Williams, Pullman

Moscow comments on Hawkins Companies’ proposed development

As you read this, ask yourself: are these reasonable observations/comments? Or are these the grasping attempts of the no-growth crowd to keep retail from going in over in Whitman County?

You have got to know that the thought of retail growth occurring just inches over the state line and their being powerless to stop it has got to be driving the no-growth Moscow “progressives” crazy.

As reported in today's edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

Moscow submitted a document to Whitman County officials Thursday outlining its concerns on a proposed 650,000-square-foot shopping center that would butt up against the city.

The comments focused on water, stormwater runoff, traffic, wetland mitigation and placement, air quality and pedestrian and public safety.

This isn't the first time Moscow has weighed in on the proposed retail facility.

Moscow filed an appeal with Whitman County commissioners in March citing potential hazards and pollution from the proposed development. Hawkins Companies withdrew its application before a hearing on the issue took place.

Moscow voiced concerns throughout the permitting process over having a large retail center on the outskirts of Whitman County, just across the Idaho state line and outside Moscow city limits.

Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney said Moscow wants to encourage smart growth in the region to balance the need between economic growth and the area’s fragile natural resources, particularly water. [DMC: Recall that for Chaney—smart growth = no growth.]

Moscow wants to give Hawkins Companies a chance to address its concerns before it considers any additional action. Chaney and city officials haven’t decided whether to appeal the process.

“That’s what this is, a comment,” Chaney said.

Chaney said the city wants to demonstrate regional cooperation. Besides the comments listed in the document submitted to Whitman County, she said Moscow has concerns on how the development would impact its concept of a ring road that would divert traffic around the city center. [DMC: this is interesting. She has kept out retail developers; and if a ring-road goes in, downtown Moscow will be gutted and there will be no retail on the ring-road either. Great foresight!]

Chaney said the region is connected through shared resources, transportation, water quantity and water quality, and it is wise to make sure each entity shares its concerns.

“We need to engage in productive dialogue,” Chaney said. “We need to cooperate. Ultimately this is a regional issue. We need to talk as people, not as perceived caricatures.”

Chaney said she plans to talk in person with Whitman County officials at the region’s next quarterly breakfast.

Both Whitman County Planner Mark Bordsen and Public Works Director Mark Storey were on vacation and could not be reached for comment. Representatives from Hawkins Companies also could not be reached.

Saddam Hanged

Good riddance.

Trump and Rosie, with apologies to Neil Diamond

A Touching Kodak Moment: Kodak is Back

This is a video created by Kodak supposedly for internal use only, but its employees loved it so much that they released it to the public. It's hysterical ("we're going to turn the schmaltz back up to 11!") and innovative and it shows that Kodak may not be the dinosaur company that everybody thinks it is.

Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves 2 Dead

“The stupid shall be punished.”

From Breitbart:

"Ghost riding the whip" — a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat — has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called "hyphy," the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube.

"It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. "We could see the potential for great injury or death."

Two crew die in US submarine tragedy

What makes this newsworthy is that is happens so seldom. Being on submarines is one of the safest jobs in the military.

From the BBC:

Two crew members of an American submarine have died after falling overboard in Plymouth Sound.

They were among four crewmen who were working in poor weather on the outside casing of the USS Minneapolis-St Paul off the Devon coast.

A rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose, a tug boat and a lifeboat were sent to the men's aid while they were tied on to the side of the 110m (362ft) vessel.

…

A spokesman for Brixham Coastguard said: "The four got into difficulties while on the outer casing of the submarine.

"They were unable to get back on board, they were tied on but getting battered about by the weather."

Two of the men appeared to be breathing with difficulty and were given CPR as they approached the shore.

Riding around on Tourist Caterpillar

Kate asked the following about the Columbia Ice Glacier in British Columbia:  

In 1972 I rode around on this glacier in a tourist caterpillar.  Are they still doing that?

Yes, they are. And although this was probably the most expensive thing we did on our vacation, it was also the high-point and most memorable.

Here are some quick pictures. If you went in 1972, you likely rode on the one in the second picture below.

Ancient ice shelf snaps and breaks free from the Canadian Arctic

From Breitbart:

A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.

The mass of ice broke clear from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole. Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, travelled to the newly formed ice island and couldn't believe what he saw. "It was extraordinary," Vincent said Thursday, adding that in 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice.

"This is a piece of Canadian geography that no longer exists."

The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometres away picked up tremors from it.

Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor.

"We think this incident is consistent with global climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 per cent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906.

Personally, I don’t think there’s any doubt that the earth is experiencing global warming.

Here are some pictures I took in Canada this summer at the Columbia Ice Fields. This discusses the retreat of the Athabasca Glacier. The mini ice age ended ~1844, and the earth has been in a warming cycle since then.

IMO, what cannot be demonstrated by the alarmists today is that it is mankind that is causing the global warming. All of their stated reasons make no sense since the warming started in 1844; and it makes no sense when you look at the natural cycles that the earth goes thru.

Thoughts?

Housework cuts breast cancer risk

Here’s certainly a case of correlation not implying causality.

From the BBC:

Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.

The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.

Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job.

The women in the Cancer Research UK-funded study spent an average of 16 to 17 hours a week cooking, cleaning and doing the washing.

FDA's OK May Spark 'Clone-Free' Labels

From MyWay:

Meat and milk from cloned animals may not appear in supermarkets for years despite being deemed by the government as safe to eat. But don't be surprised if "clone-free" labels appear sooner. Ben & Jerry's, for one, wants consumers to know that its ice cream comes from regular cows and not clones. The Ben & Jerry's label already says its farmers don't use bovine growth hormone.

"We want to make sure people are confident with what's in our pints," company spokesman Rob Michalak said. "We haven't yet landed on exactly how we want to express that publicly."

For food that does come from clones, the Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to require labels, officials said.

The FDA gave preliminary approval Thursday to meat and milk from cloned animals or their offspring. Federal scientists found virtually no difference between food from clones and food from conventional livestock.

The government believes "meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day," said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. Meat and milk from the offspring of clones is also safe, the agency concluded.

Officials said they did not have enough information to decide whether food from sheep clones is safe.

If food from clones is indistinguishable, FDA doesn't have the authority to require labels, Sundlof said.

Companies trying to distance themselves from cloning must be careful with their wording, he added.

"If the statement implies that that particular product might be safer than another product, FDA would not allow that," Sundlof said. "But there may be room for providing a contextual statement that is truthful and not misleading."