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.
