RochesterRob

I just don't think that there are enough supporters behind the scenes for Mayor P. Big money Dems have to be in a panic over the poor finish of Biden. Probably the best they can do is hope that Bloomberg magically finds some momentum.

For the vast majority of us we should be looking forward. Some priest that diddled some boy back in 1955 or 1960 at the very least has one foot and soon to be two feet in the grave. There is nothing that any of us here can do about it short of taking the law into our own hands. Would we be so fired up to drag a one time Cub Scout leader that had been accused of violating a half dozen, one dozen, or more young boys through the same type of punishment. The Church survived scandal such as selling indulgences and The Inquisition because humanity willed its way forward. It's time to push forward once again.

I don't think that anybody would say that bad decisions were not made by the Church. I would say fix the problems and move on. Let married men become priests and possibly women as well. Some say once you pick and choose what you want to practice that you no longer have the church you started out with. I don't know that I agree with that. It was always said that the Church forbade marriage for priests because it would make church assets subject to divorce settlement. I don't know how much I believe that as women had little social standing prior to the 19th Century. Anyways, here we are in 2020 and before it gets done there will be little in the way of assets to go for divorces. I don't know how many riches the Church needs in the 21st Century anyways. It would be one thing if they were used for the poor or education but I see little of that done. The existence of the Catholic Church was a bulwark that protected quite a number of traditional social ideas and actually a few modern ones. Would they be protected in another system as well? Would there be any less persecution?

Yep, this is not just a Catholic problem but a societal problem. The kids have not been in church for decades so the predators have moved on to other parts of society.

Up until the Post WWII years most people worked most of their waking hours just for the very basics in life including food and shelter doing very menial work. The products that came out of the Industrial Revolution allowed for more discretionary time. I doubt any farmers shed a tear when the scythe was replaced by the reaper. I don't believe human advancement should be unlimited. I remember people chortling during the 1970's about whether any device from Star Trek would ever come to be. We stand here in 2020 with a few of those devices in the cellphone and I pad. It would scare me chitless if everybody in society had the equivalent of a hand phaser at their disposal. I still think that self driving cars will be a cluster puck for at least the first several years until the bugs are worked out. Then there is the subject of pleasure robots or androids................. Yep, I am hardly a whiny liberal but automation may cut a much larger swath through the economy at a much faster pace than imagined. What is to stop a lawyer in a firm from eliminating positions for humans in favor of robots that will work much cheaper than the going rate for humans and are not prone to illness or need time off.

That and he loses his paycheck from the leftist think tank.

If the pursuit of money is paramount then I could easily see the US losing 6-8 teams. It won't be limited to the Bills but Bengals, Browns, Packers, Titans, etc.. If money is king I could see the Jets, Falcons, and a couple of others going. London, Berlin, Rome, Mexico City, Tokyo, etc.. would be desired cities due to large populations and virgin markets.

Just remember that in her mind as well with her fellow media the solution in their minds is to dispense with fly over country participation in the nomination process as well as the election process. If outright elimination cannot be done then do middle America after NY, CA, FL, and IL have had their events.

Anyways, between your home and your business it sounds like you are in a good situation. There are ample alternate routes around Eastview and the Village of Victor if you so choose.

Bernie knows something in regards to 2016 that would destroy the Democratic Party if the information was made known to the general public. That is the only reason to allow him into their process. An "accident" or sudden "suicide" would be impossible to explain away other than an attempt to silence someone with extremely damaging information. The Dems maybe are finally learning that there is no way around a mess if you dance with the devil.

Some engineers are that arrogant that a test will not be performed ahead of the time a product is needed. I've seen it happen.

So you did catch the lunchtime flight to DesMoines after all.

I don't live there or close to there but I know from people who lived in the area long before Cobblestone Creek came along that it is beyond uppity. Even if I did not know much about it driving down Gillis Rd I just don't feel any attraction to it as I pass. I've been down Turk Hill and it seems very charming. You must be near the farm there which is about the only one left around that vicinity.

For quite a long time Victor had a very strong reputation in terms of its school district. Before online retailing became common place Eastview Mall was a destination for many shoppers that did not want to go to a Grants or Nichols City. If you go to the Cobblestone Creek developments there were home properties there that sold for 750,000 dollars which was shocking for the day nearly 15 years ago. I can't fathom what it is like to have property taxes 15,000, 20,000 or more dollars per year. I kind of miss the small town charm that Victor had decades ago. It was also the home of a very hot woman I lived in the same dorm with for junior college. I wish I had acted quite a bit more mature around her. Anyways, I probably have a fairly good idea where you are in terms of your business is based on what you said. I have a fairly good idea of what was built around Farmington and when.

If you go by some of the "educational" shows there are scientists at least working on the theory and have been for years. What is going on out of the view of the general public is anybody's guess in terms of development. I am not saying with certainty that it will be introduced within the next 25-50 years. In fact I would put the probability very low but not at 0 or no chance at all. A far greater probability is propulsion at near half the speed of light within 25-50 years.

Two billion years seems a rather short life cycle but yes a system with planets and star(s) could have come and gone in the span of several billion years. The signal could be out there yet to be received by us but due to distance it may take thousands or millions or more years to finally get it.

Given the players here this probably will get moved to PPP at some point. I don't wish cancer on anyone but it seems to me that he was a heavy smoker at times in his life. Having witnessed people suffering from that while I was pretty young was the deterrent needed so I never took smoking up myself.

Yes, I agree that propulsion systems many time fasters than the hydrogen fueled rockets used on the Saturn V are being theorized and development work being done. We could possibly see some kind of primitive warp drive before most of us die. Time will tell.

Less than a week away at Warp 6. Got the course layed in yet? Not too many stars as AC is binary the last I knew. There is very little known data for a planetary system 50-100 light years away never mind 10,000 light years distant. What data are you using?

Tell me how you reached the conclusion that there is no other intelligent life in the universe. I have given you the possibility of what our science says is needed including the presence of basic elements and the action of things such as lightning present in an environment to combine compounds into more advanced compounds such as proposed by Fox and Miller.

The point is that intelligent life could derive from lower forms of life that lack the fundamentals which intelligent life has but is not limited to such as having a central nervous system for example. And you flat out don't know if there is not other intelligent life in the universe. There are so many variables to that including the choice by that life form not to make contact with other life forms

" Math has clearly told us........spawn and maintain intelligent life." I disagree with this notion. The last estimate I saw by the scientific community was there were most likely trillions of worlds in our universe. The building blocks of life namely nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen even if only found on a tiny percentage of those worlds still means millions of planets where those elements were combined into compounds that would in turn spawn life. Then there is the possibility of life by elements and processes currently unknown by science. One event could certainly end all advanced life on Earth but lower forms including bacteria could survive. Even relatively higher forms of life survived the Yucatan impact. It's possible humans could reappear after the next bellwether event even if it takes 10's of millions of years. The down side would be all the lessons learned by humanity in the last 5000 years would have to be re-learned as records from previous times most likely would not last 50-60-70 million years or more for the next crop of humans to use.

Another gem was the advice given out the first day of class freshman year. It went along the lines of if you are not here for reasons other than your own self purpose then save yourself many years of misery and go get a degree in something that you can be satisfied with. Too many kids are there for a law degree or some other discipline because that is what dad wanted them to do versus something that the kid would be happy doing. It does not mean pissing away your time at college with something you can't use but just survey the landscape and choose something that can be used to support yourself and be happy at. Don't want to be a lawyer but would enjoy teaching kids then get the degree in education!

.....is what YOUR shrink told you at your 8AM appointment this morning. It's been fun but I am thinking that an ignore by me is in your future. If you hurry you can make the lunchtime flight to DesMoines.

The Brexit will have very minimal impact if Britain is the land of 10,000 no-go zones for its non-Muslim citizens.