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filled with laughter

never too old to be young

tooting my horn

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The WordPress photo prompt this week is Express Yourself 

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David Cameron: creating three-parent babies is not ‘Playing God’ – Telegraph

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– if you have enough money – you will be able to buy and design the baby you want under the Tories who will then invest in designing babies that will self-destruct if ever tempted to vote labor or Liberal!

David Cameron denied that scientists were ‘Playing God’ as he voted to allow three-parent babies in an landmark vote in the Commons.

Yesterday Britain became the first country in the world to allow a new IVF technique which uses genetic material from a ‘second mother’ to repair faulty DNA.

Experts from across the world had warned that Britain would be making an ‘historic mistake’ by amending the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and said it could face a legal challenge in Europe.

But the Prime Minister, whose own son Ivan died from cerebral palsy and epilepsy, said there was no danger that the procedure could lead to ‘designer babies.’

“I think this is going to give parents who want to have a healthy and happy baby the chance to have that baby,” Mr Cameron said in an interview with LBC radio, the first time he has spoken about the issue.

via David Cameron: creating three-parent babies is not ‘Playing God’ – Telegraph.

Pope Francis Honors Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Archbishop, as Martyr – NYTimes.com

Pope Francis has formally ratified the martyrdom of the Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero, who was shot to death at the altar as he was saying Mass in 1980 in an act of “hatred for the faith,” the Vatican said on Tuesday.

The step opens the way for Archbishop Romero to be beatified — a process that had been blocked under Francis’s predecessors, Vatican watchers say, because of the archbishop’s leftist political stances.

via Pope Francis Honors Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Archbishop, as Martyr – NYTimes.com.

jerk-off Rand Paul backs off vaccine comments after critics warn he ‘sort of ignores’ science | US news | The Guardian

Kentucky senator Rand Paul backpedalled Tuesday on comments he made about vaccines that quickly drew the condemnations of everyone from medical professionals to senior Republican party members to the formerly quarantined healthcare provider best remembered for calling out Paul’s potential rival for the White House.

Paul’s attempt at clarification landed as Republicans in Washington, from Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to House speaker John Boehner to the dozen or so members of the prospective 2016 presidential field scrambled to describe their views on vaccination.

Following controversial comments by New Jersey governor Chris Christie regarding a measles outbreak spreading across the US, Paul set off another cascade of criticism when he told CNBC on Monday that vaccinations could lead to “profound mental disorders” and that parents “should have some input”.

In his follow-up statement, Paul sought to make a distinction between correlation and causation – the kind of science-minded distinction that some of his critics saw him as abandoning.

via Rand Paul backs off vaccine comments after critics warn he ‘sort of ignores’ science | US news | The Guardian.

This body is not me

Zen Flash

This body is not me.
I am not limited by this body.
I am life without boundaries.
I have never been born,
and I have never died.

Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous true mind.
Since before time, I have been free.
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey.

Birth and death are a game of hide- and seek.
So laugh with me,
hold my hand,
let us say good-bye,
say good-bye, to meet again soon.

We meet today.
We will meet again tomorrow.
We will meet at the source every moment.
We meet each other in all forms of life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Poetry Note #1: Happy Birthday, Mr. Hughes

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Today is the first day of Black History Month and also the birthday of Langston Hughes, the African American poet and social activist. Google has given him a doodle today, which is really nice.

Mr. Hughes' Google doodle. Mr. Hughes’ Google doodle. At his famous typewriter.

Also on February 1, 1960, four black students began a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. But that’s another story.

The sit-in at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, NC by four freshmen at  North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sparked a series of non-violent protests. By the end of the week, 1,400 students turned up at the Woolworth's store! They helped to turn the tide against segregation in the South. The sit-in at a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, NC by four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sparked a series of non-violent protests. By the end of the week, 1,400 students turned up at the Woolworth’s store! They helped to turn the tide against segregation in the South.

Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, Langston Hughes moved around a great deal with his grandmother. He followed his father’s wandering footsteps to Mexico and visited West Africa and Europe, before returning to work…

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