Do we next need a new language, indeed, a whole new discussion about WHO is THEM and WHO is US?

I stuck these words on the notice board outside my church, just for Christmas, “No more them and us, just we”. Those words just won’t go away. They’re like biblical writing on the wall in Babylon (Babel!)

This poignant story below from Louisiana raises the question “Are embryos US?”

The 60 students blown up outside Baghdad Uni raise the same question: “Are they co-lateral damage or are they US?”

Rupert Murdoch says EVERYONE in the world should be enabled to connect with EVERYONE via the www.

Then the curse of Babel will be reversed and we can get on with the next episode of human history. Bob.

Noah’s ark brings joy amid ruins of Katrina

Louisiana
January 18, 2007
Source: The Age

A woman whose frozen embryos were rescued from a flooded fertility clinic weeks after hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans has given birth.

Before the caesarean section on Tuesday, mother Rebekah Markham had decided the baby would be called Noah — if it was a boy — “because God put it on his heart to build an ark”.

Before Katrina struck, Mrs Markham had been evacuated with her toddler Witt. Her husband Glen, a New Orleans police officer, stayed to work.

Mother and son actually evacuated twice. When the storm toppled 12-metre-tall pine trees and cut electricity across south Louisiana, their first refuge became a poor place to care for a toddler. So they went to her sister’s home in central Louisiana.

A mobile phone text message — “R U OK?” — the day after the storm told her that her husband had survived.

Mr Markham, 42, never got his wife’s answer to his text query. His phone battery was dead. “It was about two weeks before I found out that they were OK,” he said.

It took longer than that think about the embryos. When Mrs Markham called the Fertility Institute of New Orleans, she learned that 1400 embryos, including hers, frozen in liquid nitrogen, had been rescued.

Dr Belinda Sartor and lab director Roman Pyrzak had led seven Illinois Conservation Police officers and three from Louisiana State Police on a rescue expedition to the institute in flat-bottomed boats.