I just mailed in my medicaid recert forms to the company that supplies me my health aide today.
They should get it tomorrow in Virginia location. There's difficulty I'm detecting in getting my medic-aide person, because I've got a terrific health aide.
Thanks, but I need some help now!
I was able to prove that there is such a thing as aprior knowledge. But if there is, how was the human ingrained with it? Another way of putting the same statement is, "Where does it come from?" "Who put it there in the skull of the human being?" Oh well, as the Christian Bible says, "We see through a glass darkly." (or some such!)
The causal connection that is shared with lower animals is the most obvious item. But the connections made by those studying the sky for millennia past knew the same thing--i.e., the human is 'given' with knowledge written in his brain.
The 'big bang' theory in astronomy is just another indicating-belief. There could be thousands, once the phenomenon is accepted and pursued scientifically. I don't know how extensive this realm might be, only there are these fragments of knowledge we intuitively "know" somehow. Epistemology is to my way of thinking the study of such a realm and access to this realm of knowledge.
Well, it's taken nearly my lifetime to catch just this glimmer of what we are impregnated with in this field of knowledge. I know it comes through feelings, not intellectual apprehension. But it is shared among all humans; and therefore, verifiable.
Enough now.
I think we're closer to achieving a longer period of peace in the history of the planet!--since mankind has arrived. We humans on this planet are making a difference.
This meeting of the major powers coming up will tell how close we are. Thanks to the military. You know, we've pushed dramatically ahead of every country in the world, and that's what's getting us so close. I can only tell you--hang on for the next turn in the roller coaster ride of existence! May God grant us the power to continue pressuring our leaders in this direction.
We've moved past infantry supremacy to air force and outer space exploration. The navy's role now is front and center as the world is, primarily, water-surface.
Merry Christmas.
I'm working as hard as ever! Peace on earth, goodwill for everybody.
Without a strong military to cover all the bases in the world, we'd be subject to what'er befall the planet! Mankind--"we want peace!"--needs to make the difference--my opinion.
You can hear it from across the Atlantic Seas--"We want UK back into the EU fold!"
But just now democracy needs strong leadership that the presence of the UK, together with the USA, should provide in the presence of serious threats issued by world autocrats and dictators, no matter what havoc be the cost they make upon the planet!
Carry on in the democratic spirit to spread goodwill and peace all over, you leaders of the democratic world!
P.S. It looks like the situation of starvation in Somalia is responding finally to the pleas of the United Nations for remedy to the conflict.
On December 10, 2021, the Cato Institute presented online the French Ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, to speak on the topic of European Defense. Peter Goettler, President of Cato, welcomed him to the podium; and Justin Logan of Cato served as moderator with Professor Joshua Shefrinson, Boston University, and Rachel Rizzo, the Atlantic Council, offering their comments along the way.
The honorable Etienne referred to French President Emmanuel Macron's explication of the phrase European sovereignty to grasp the extent of European power in defending itself in the cause of peaceful co-existence. For in the context of international relations, the EU has withstood emotion and anger by exerting its power to check the Chinese thrust onto the world stage, the migration crisis, various challenges to the rule of law proffered by world autocratic leaders, while maintaining through it all an economic greatness to realize a steady economic growth foretelling a world future of prosperity for the many nations on this planet.
Its leadership in the world, the EU with NATO, has been noted by the present Queen of England, who in a recent talk praised both Europe together with the United States in calming the world to emphasize a quiet co-existence among all who will but seek it in the affairs of trade and tribe.
President Trump, in his assessment of NATO, seemed to laud this unitary approach to European military security commenting, Europe pays but a small price for what it gets in return!
The Ambassador also praised NATO in its current attempts to resolve the dispute between Russia and Ukraine by urging them to the peace table rather than to the military battlefield in settling what separates the two: If the oil pipelines that bring this commodity from Russia to western European countries should be controlled by Russian technocrats, perhaps that can be a matter of negotiation at the bargaining meetings between the two disputants.
In any case, the presentation by this Ambassador heralded the presence of a calm voice on behalf of prosperity at a time when there are loud cries from those who would foster division and chaos among us all.
I am hopeful that what will occur at the 2-day seminar on democracy is that mentors in democratic processes will make themselves available to national leaders of countries willing to experiment with democracy. Your citizens will love the experiment!
If only countries thinking about trying the democratic model of government will learn by partnering up with known democratic governments. This two-day experience offers such an opportunity.
Thank you, President Biden. I am so proud to participate as a citizen of the United States, one of those democracies in the world.
Answering this question as Russian troops stand at the border to Ukraine were the participants of this discussion--Rachel Rizzo, Atlantic Council, Benjamin Haddah, Atlantic Council, Kristi Raik, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, and Geovanna De Maio, Brookings; and the moderator, Thomas Wright, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe. The event took place online December 8th, 2021, Wednesday, 10 AM.
Because of the timeliness of the topic due to the swarming of Russian troops at the border, the centralized point for discussion was what would be the response of NATO and would this military organization designed to protect the European nations that belong to it with the United States taking the lead differ in any announced fashion from what the individual states belonging to it take as a independent policy decision of theirs to the Russian's pending hostility toward Ukraine.
Frankly, no one seemed inclined to predict what the reaction will be by NATO forces. Several pointed to President Biden's claim that should Russia proceed to invade Ukraine, Russia would incur harsh sanctions, certainly; and noted that the United States is prepared to arm further Ukrainian forces.
Mr. Wright proclaimed, "Events are happening so fast!" But certainly, the United States is already acting in consort with the other several NATO members on the matter.
Why is the Russian President proceeding to act aggressively, endangering the peace of the region? Some discussants pointed to Russia's defense of the Syrian President as precursor to a massive move of stirring chaos in the world. The Ukrainian threat but yet another sign of Russia's stirring up fear of war wherever. Certainly, the discussants discerned Putin's build-up of forces is a deliberate act to shift the balance of power in Europe toward the East.
Several speakers raised the question how US foreign policy will be affected subsequently. It had been shifted to Asia, away from concerns in Europe. Will it somehow be shifted back? Especially, in light of other events occurring regionally in the East--Belarus and Poland squabbling over whether migrants should be allowed into EU territory, for example.
'Basically, the discussants were in agreement that the right of Ukrainians to be independent of Russian domination must be a central political theme to any series of actions the EU countries, severally, and NATO, as its defensive aggregate force, should take.
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My take to the discussion.
The discussion did not broach the seriousness of what Putin has done. To my mind President Putin has boxed his country in a corner in his extending both pipelines to Europe--through to Germany and across the entire length of Ukraine--beyond regions he has control presently. These oil pipelines are not in Russian territory; and they could be shut down easily before any more oil would reach its intended customers in Europe. His reach into Ukraine would grant him control of the pipeline to Europe through the heart of Ukraine, at least.
I listened carefully to the news-analysts summaries of the Putin-Biden talk today.
I came away with a sort-of-confirmation of my opinion: Putin wants control of that pipeline running through Ukraine. He could have raised vociferously before the point he now makes that Ukraine is within the Russian sphere of influence. Why raise the obvious now? Because he's hiding, in my opinion, his feeling of desparation: he wants control of that pipeline.
Maybe, he is also distrustful, now that Merkel's stepped down, that he has little control of the oil he destines for Germany!
Think of life as a continuum of adventures. That is to say, your life's experiences can be led by God, if you want Him to!
The communion service is the taking of the bread and the wine. It's a symbol that God is giving us the strength to carry on with the next sequence of adventures. It's a reminder that God is with us as we go on life's journey.
There's one feature of our life in Christ, as a member of His Kingdom, that is usually downplayed in most churches: God's physical presence in the Church. In typical cathedrals and churches in South America, the priest may symbolize the physical presence of God among their parishioners. Truly, a Priest, to my way of thinking, can display a facial glow of the eternal presence. So, You, the parishioner, may look at him, the cleric, and come upon the Spirit of God within the church!
I had forgotten this marvelous revelation I experienced while in South America--in the Catholic churches I attended some years ago. Truly, I felt that I had come upon a group of clerics who conveyed the Christian message of hope in their facial expressions! But now, I'm attending a little recognized Episcopal Church in Georgetown, where its interim Pastor, Rev. Rick, displays that religious fervor for adventure in life and the facial mien I attributed to some typical Priests I ran across in churches in South America. Such clerics seemed to know they were chosen for the part of being ministers so as to symbolize God's physical being within the church's walls! And, convey to us that we are walking throughout our life in Christ's footsteps.
President Putin has wanted to assert Russian prowess, but against Russians?
Eastern Ukraine is primarily populated by Russians, but I think they're not wanting to be annexed to Russia. On the hand, Crimea has not traditionally been Ukrainian territory. Russians there may want Russian citizenship.
The various schemes--like hacking corporation and business datafiles and programs, helping friendly leaders stay in power, e.g., in Syria and in Venezuela---have done little to increase Putin's international reputation. He, along with his political ruling friends have bogged down in the mire of few tangible changes and disturbances that increase mean to him greater power and prestige worldwide.
I think he's looking for a big score over Ukraine, what he regards as his Ukraine. I think he wants to retain that pipeline to Europe through Ukraine!
My opinion.
They want the woman who's pregnant to carry to term the baby--not a child, just a physical thing.
Traditionally in Christianity, a human being is composed of body, mind and spirit. There is no human being in just the physical, living body-tissue: except according to some right wing groups of various religions.
While some groups in the Southern states oppose the pregnant woman's right to abort the fetus, be it noted no such restriction is being placed on the medical profession acting on behalf of the state and society, should it be determined the pregnancy would give birth to a "seriously deformed" or "inhuman" baby etc.
No provision or promise is being offered to the pregnant female that an unwanted pregnancy would be accepted in her community, its needs being met from state funding. Nor is the Catholic Church making promise to educate a child from an unwanted pregnancy. The only responsibility being incurred by law is that of the mother--to carry the fetus to term.
Note that for millennia, pregnant women and mothers of babies did have the right to abort or terminate the human growth at that primordial stage of its existence.
I sense there's a hidden injustice in making the woman a scapegoat for an act that society fails to accept
its own participation in, viz., an unwanted birth.
The Hon. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Tree Area, was the welcomed speaker at a Brookings Institution online event, November 29, 2021 10 AM, last Monday.
Questioners and discussants were H.E. Landry Signe, Brookings and the moderator, Aloysius U. Ordu, also of Brookings on the topic "The State of African free trade agreement and strategies for greater integration."
As each contributed to the discussion, I felt the rush of enthusiasm emanating from the monitor! This new organization bringing together as many African nations that wish to participate in a free trade arrangement of its members for African states only! Of course there are many organizations around the globe that espouse reduced or free trade: notably, the World Trade Organization, the TPP organization of Asian countries, and NAFTA for North American countries under its new name. But this one is for African nations to benefit from and among themselves.
Off to one side is China's current incursion into the African Continent, bringing much needed investment and loan money, and technical expertise onto its shores. And there's yet the European nations who have spread their cultures onto African soil and made trading partners of the African nations they had colonized in previous centuries but now have become significant equals in trade and commerce with their European "progenies."
But now there's a coming of a business enterprise geared to bring together the whole Continent of nations whose rules and regulations are established ways trading partners are to act. Its rules may be extended to nations each trades with abroad. Mr. Mene noted that nearly all the countries that are to participate in this trade organization have agreed upon the multitude of rules they have formulated among themselves.
Hopefully, there will be many benefits that accrue to its participants. 1) improved governance procedures at home; 2) reduced or no tariffs upon goods in trade; 3) gradually, bring citizenries out of poverty;
4) prevent undue, perhaps unwelcome, foreign influences; and 5) establish a groundwork for subsequent projects among these cooperating African nations. But each will lose tax money generated by the several tariffs the countries will no longer collect.
Ultimately, the free trade organization should reduce the costs of doing business and engaging in commerce wherever. Be it noted, many countries are woefully in debt, which makes the Chinese partnership model beyond the realm of practicality for some African nations suffering already from poor GDP numbers.
Good luck!
