WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

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...

An October Mega Disaster ( OMD ) struck the White House.  Both Melania and Donald Trump were diagnosed positive for COVID-19 .  Worse, they are not asymptomatic, and the President was already showing signs of fatigue yesterday when he actually went to his New Jersey fundraiser even though he knew that close aide Hope Hicks ( shown here with Trump ) the previous night tested positive.  Signs of a serious cluster loom as several White House staffers have also tested positive. From Joe Biden: In a tweet today morning, Biden said he and his wife “send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.” Biden, Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence tested negative.  Senator Mike Lee ( R-Utah ) also just tested positive, and a couple of days ago met with Supreme Court nominee Amy Barrett ( left ). One point to underscore is that if you have been in close contact wi...

As I'm completing this posting last night soon after the first presidential debate, I'll hope to get reinforced by non-partisan polls, but my sense is that Joe Biden did okay, but Donald Trump bullied himself to extinction.  There will be a VP debate next Tuesday, followed by two more presidential skirmishes, but it would be best for Biden to just move and maybe avoid that travesty.   Trump needed to make a difference to pull in undecided voters.  He miserably failed.  All Biden had to do was hold his own.  That he did.  No need to do it again. The  speculation for extraterrestrial life : Began over 2000 years ago in Greece: Then Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, who had to be careful because of The Church, helped pave the way for these creative thoughts. In 1686 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote  Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds .  A paperback version today from Amazon costs $20. Much of the search even in those days has been ...