Large Numbers

 

I stated a long time ago that when a group of people realize that their numbers are greater than the numbers of the people controlling them, DEMOCRACIES will NEVER WORK...

For example, highway patrol cars cannot enforce the speed limits if there are a pack of 100 cars exceeding the speed limits collectively.

This is true even when radar is used because there is no telling which one of the cars is being checked.  Lawyers would have a field day in court with this.

Similarly, if 50% of the population refused to pay taxes, the Federal Government would not be able to put all of them in jail.

When the people realize their power as a whole, the only way to control them is through a DICTATORSHIP or MARSHAL LAW.

A real time example of this is witnessing the crime and violence that is happening in the streets of our larger cities, especially when ICE officers come in to remove illegal immigrants.

If ICE starts arresting too many people, then we do not have the prisons to hold them until trial, nor do we have the money to feed, clothe, and provide medical services while in custody.

And the last thing ICE wants to start doing is shooting the protestors.

In large numbers the people do have POWER...

Somewhat Political

 

New surgery tool at Vanderbilt helps surgeons isolate, remove cancer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Last month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center identified a life-saving way to improve medical procedures in real time.

In a brand-new clinical trial, the Head and Neck surgery team at VUMC is using an intraoperative PET-CT scanner inside the operating room.

Inside an oral cancer surgery, Dr. Michael Topf explained that the use of the scanner — which shows the cancer in its entirety — is making history. His team is the first to introduce it into the OR in the United States.

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Wonderings 13

 FREE WILL

the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

It is my belief that free will, however powerful and/or believed, is non-existent...

Let me start by asking these questions:

Did you have a say so in your own birth, that is to say, were you given a chance to choose your parents or your birth location?

Obviously, the answer is NO...

Do you think or believe that outside of suicide. you will have the free will to choose when you die and/or how you die?

Obviously, the answer is NO...

AND YET...

many of us believe that we have the free will to make decisions for all those moments in between those two events.

• We do make choices and decisions.
• Seemingly we make those on our own.
• If we have FAITH, God makes those decisions for us.

HOWEVER,,,

if we presuppose a creator, then that creator controls our birth, our death, and all those moments in between those two events...  BY DEFAULT...

Think of it this way...

Who controlled or controls the EVOLUTION of human beings?

Do you think the COMPLEXITIES of EVOLUTION just came about haphazardly?

That does not even make sense LOGICALLY.

What events might have been set into motion...  and when... that resulted in the current peace between ISRAEL and HAMAS?

OR...

the 2024 election of Donald Trump?

OR...

the invasion of Ukraine by Russia?

OR...

Judas betraying Jesus?

NOTE:  think about this a moment or two.  Without the betrayal of Jesus, there would have been no crucifixion of Jesus on the cross and no creation of Christianity in the wake of his death.

JUDAS HAD TO HAVE BETRAYED JESUS...

Judas HAD NO FREE WILL...

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SCOTUS seems poised to limit Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court seemed open to curbing the use of the Civil Rights era law to allow states to consider race in drawing electoral maps during a second round of oral arguments yesterday in a case over the creation of Louisiana’s second majority-Black electoral district. The court’s conservative majority questioned whether using race as a factor in determining Congressional districts, which the law permits to remedy the suppression of Black voters, should have an end point in time. If the court finds that it should, the change could help Republicans win more seats in Congress. But despite current redistricting battles, it might not impact the midterm election cycle since a ruling is unlikely to come before this summer.

Judge temporarily blocks firing federal employees during shutdown. A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from firing government employees as the government shutdown drags on. In a case brought by two labor unions, the judge said the firings are illegal, and the administration had used the shutdown “to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on the government situation that they don’t like.” The decision came soon after President Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, said the administration planned to eliminate more than 10,000 roles.

BlackRock and tech giants to buy data center company for $40 billion. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but there was a major deal announced yesterday in the AI space. A consortium of investors that includes BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Nvidia, Microsoft, and xAI, among others, is buying Aligned Data Centers. Aligned, currently owned by Macquarie Asset Management, designs and operates data centers in North and South America. The deal, expected to close next year, comes amid a race to build more data centers as AI models hoover up computing power.—AR

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My aging, Trump’s aging
He’s 10 days older than I am, but I'm years younger. Here's why.





Friends,

I recently had a minor health scare — not unusual when you’re pushing 80. Everything is fine, at least for now.

But it got me thinking.

Trump is 10 days older than me. He doesn’t look the model of robust health.

Even though we’re almost the same age, Trump has one big health problem I don’t have: his hatefulness.

“I hate my opponents,” he says.

Hate is a corrosive. It eats away at one’s health. It attacks a hater’s central nervous system by releasing stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. It compromises a hater’s cardiovascular system with high blood pressure and heart disease. It weakens immune systems, making the hater more vulnerable to all sorts of illnesses. It weakens gastro-intestinal systems, causing stomachaches, nausea, and other digestive problems. It leads to difficulties falling and staying asleep. It causes muscle tensions that harm the jaw and neck, such as clenching and teeth grinding, and contributes to headaches and migraines.

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Experts share 65 essential children’s books.

The two numbers making math teachers miserable.

How HBO became one of the most influential networks in television. (via YouTube)

Why some get a "second wind" at bedtime.

The rapper 50 Cent, adjusted for inflation.

ChatGPT to soon allow sexting for verified adults.

... and how people around the world view AI.

The origins of witch symbols like hats and broomsticks.

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Historybook: Marie Antoinette executed (1793); Author Oscar Wilde born (1854); The Walt Disney Co. founded (1923); Actress Angela Lansbury born (1925); Tony-, Academy-, and Emmy-winning actress Shirley Booth dies (1992).

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Amazement

 

There is always something happening in the world today that amazes me...  so, recent events should not surprise me...  and yet, they do.

President Trump has negotiated a tentative peace deal between Hamas and Israel that has resulted so far, in the remaining hostages being released, and all the Palestinian prisoners being released as well.

The WORLD has stated quite unequivocally that this would never have happened under the administration of any other President...

AND YET...

The Biden administration is now claiming credit for laying the necessary foundation that, in and of itself, was necessary in order for Trump to accomplish this magnificent feat.

What a stockpile of GARBAGE...

THE DEMOCRATS...

HAVE A HATE FOR DONALD TRUMP

so deep

they cannot stand it when he accomplishes anything, so they resort to the claim that it started with them...

How untrue is this.,

In Trump's first term he laid the foundation for this to happen in the middle east with the Abraham Accords.

No Democrat ever thought about doing something like that.

No Democrat ever GAINED THE RESPECT of middle eastern leaders that Trump has gotten and those LEADERS in the middle east will be the first to tell you that.

The hypocrisy and the LIES that the Democrats continue to spout out of mouths is astounding and provides constant fuel for my amazement.

Somewhat Political

 

China unveils ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot that resists dust, rain, heat

Chinese technology company Deep Robotics has unveiled the DR02 humanoid, an industrial robot designed to function in all weather conditions.


The Hangzhou-based company also claimed that it’s the first humanoid robot in the world to achieve an IP66 protection rating, capable of resisting dust and rain.


Most robots in the market struggle to work in real-world conditions with temperature changes, which limits their practical use.

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Wonderings 12

 What is our purpose?

I don't think we are here to serve God, believe in Jesus, and get into Heaven for the rest of eternity.

Although,

the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rules are excellent as well as outstanding tenants to follow.

I also don't think that we are here to become wealthy and/or powerful, acquire as many assets as we can, or advance technology as quick as we can.

Those are smokescreens and diversions...  odd as that may sound to you.  I think they were put here intentionally to see how we would deal with them.

AHHHHH, 

did you catch that?

They were put here...

That assumes that someone or something put them here.

So, who would that be?

The Bible's God or someone else?

I vote for someone else...  with the understanding that this someone else is an EXTRATERRESTRIAL.

I also believe that the Bible's God, and our Creator are extraterrestrials from another spacetime or perhaps from another dimension or universe. (SEE WHITE HOLES)

This/These extraterrestrials created by setting into motion events that lead to the creation of our universe.

HOW?

Well...

project yourself millions of years into the future and imagine an extraterrestrial race that had evolved from evolution.  These extraterrestrials were alive just before the universe ended...

OR...

just before the universe reached that point of singularity where the end connected to the beginning.  It is inside this point of singularity where spacetime stands still.  It is at this point of singularity that a black holes entropy creates a white hole and a brand new universe is formed...  that we refer to as the BIG BANG.

The last person living inside that singularity, that extraterrestrial (what humans might have evolved into) becomes the GOD/CREATOR of this new universe...  and rules and guidelines are shared in the hopes that this new universe will somehow benefit from the old one's experience.

This never happens.

So, our purpose is to just live and want for nothing except that for which you really need to survive.