WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

Here is a summary from The New York Times showing that the COVID-19 pandemic in our World is getting worse. More revelations from President Trump’s tax records The latest Times investigation into the president’s tax data   and other records found that more than 200 companies, special-interest groups and foreign governments had patronized Mr. Trump’s properties, funneling in millions of dollars, while reaping benefits from him and his administration. “As president, Mr. Trump built a system of direct presidential influence-peddling unrivaled in modern American politics,” writes an investigative team that has been covering the president’s finances and taxes for almost four years. Here are the investigation’s   key findings   and   a note from our executive editor , Dean Baquet, that includes links to all of the team’s work. You think President Donald Trump has been evasive about his true health condition?  From TNYT : In Britain,   Prime Minister Boris Johnso...

My desktop is full of Trump jokes, so today, I'm dumping them on you.  This posting will be presented bass ackward, starting with where The Donald needs to be dumped today, Lake Charles, Louisiana.  It was exactly 50 years ago when I last visited this city.  Well not quite, for a city needs 100,000 residents and Lake Charles then had a population of almost 80,000.  Want to guess what it is today?  Approaching 80,000. Why should Trump be in Lake Charles?  Well, don't presidents visit sites suffering from catastrophic damage?  Sure, almost always it's after it's safe, but if he can so quickly get over COVID-19, a mere Category 2 hurricane should not be a problem for him.  The middle of Hurricane Delta 's eye will actually pass over Lake Arthur, located around 40 miles east of Lake Charles, early this evening. Next, my song #81, and here are the finalists, all popular during my teenage years: Love is a Many Splendored Thing :  The Four Aces The ...

It was damning enough that the boorish performance by Donald Trump in his debate with Joe Biden last week hurt his cause.  Then soon thereafter Trump contracted COVID-19.  He could have blamed Biden, but it was all too clear that the unmasked nomination ceremony at the White House of Amy Barrett to the Supreme Court was probably the super spreader source.  More than 20 people working there have now been infected, and it is the world hotspot, in cases/million, for this disease. Wonder why Amy Barrett escaped this ambush?  No Neanderthal gene?  ( scroll down to my previous posting ) Not sure, but the primary reason is that she already suffered from this coronavirus a few months ago.  Oh, an aside, she is (was? ) a church leader for a secret church society known as People of Praise , which is severely anti-abortion and where only men are ordained to head family and church.  The Democrats will have some fun if enough Republicans can stay healthy for the c...

Dr. Phillips works at Walter Reed.  Donald Trump tweeted:  Do not be afraid of Covid .  How can the leader of our country continue to be so dumb and irresponsible?  How can his supporters continue to support him? Let me go on to something from The New York Times : Outbreaks are again increasing in the U.S.   The number of new cases per day has risen   more than 25 percent   since mid-September. “Covid-19 is spreading again across most of the U.S., hammering rural America and smaller cities and raising anxiety in New York,”   Bloomberg News reported yesterday . The outbreak connected to the White House is responsible for about 30 known cases so far — more than the average daily number of new cases recently in all of Australia . Further on Trump versus Biden: Oct. 15, New Scientist : “The green economy has grown so much in the U.S. that it employs around 10 times as many people as the fossil fuel industry — despite the past decade’s oil and gas boom...

On 23 September 2020 I presented the scientific view of why we are here .  Today, from the religious perspective.  One of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings is,  Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going? At the heart of the issue is the age-old question, what is the meaning of life?  Read this  Wikipedia summary, where, after traipsing through all of history with the most eminent philosophers of their day, a passage appears: In  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , there are several allusions to the meaning of life. At the end of the film, a character played by  Michael Palin  is handed an envelope containing "the meaning of life", which she opens and reads out to the audience: "Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations." [213] [214] [215] Good an expla...