Things Worth Pondering 1

This is a sobering piece regarding humanity losing its grip on the meaning of life and who the culprits responsible are.   Quote: "If you want to understand a human being or the human condition, what is the single most important question you should ask? Most religious people would probably ask, "Do you believe in God?" The most important question most secular people, especially progressives, could imagine asking is probably a policy question. Today it would be "Do you support Donald Trump?" Otherwise it might be "Do you support abortion rights?" or "Do you support gay marriage?" As important as all of these questions are, in attempting to understand human beings, especially large groups of human beings -- i.e., their society -- the most important question to ask is "What in life gives you the most meaning?" The answer does not explain everything, of course, but it explains the human condition better than any other question. The reason is this: After food, the greatest human need and human desire is meaning. Even more so than the ability to reason or even to speak, this is the great divide between human and animal. We share all other needs with the higher animal species and share many needs with some of the lower animal species. Like them, we need food, shelter and companionship. But, while human beings seek and need meaning more than anything except food (and companionship -- but for human beings, companionship usually provides some meaning, and sometimes enough), no animal needs or seeks meaning. As an aside, this is one of the reasons I believe in God, the Creator. There is no evolutionary explanation for the need for meaning. Meaning is not a biological need."    https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/02/04/the-question-that-explains-almost-everything-n2560662?

Another sobering item. And, the culprit is the same one as above. Quote: "Democrats may declare the Trump impeachment a victory for righteousness, but the anger and outrage, the moans and groans now coming off the editorial and op-ed pages and cable TV suggest the media know otherwise. History, we are told, will vindicate what Pelosi and the Democrats did and stain forever the Republican Party for voting to acquit. Perhaps, but only if some future Howard Zinn is writing the history. Reality: The impeachment of Trump was an attempted -- and failed -- coup that not a single Republican supported, only Democrats in the House and their Senate caucus. The impeachment of Trump was an exercise in pure partisanship and itself an abuse of power.

What was the heart of the Democrats' case to remove Trump?   https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2020/02/04/failed-coup-of-a-failing-establishment-n2560643?

Here is yet another sobering item and yes the culprit is the same as in the previous two items.  Quote: "You’d think someone who longs for the day when every human on Earth is dead would be treated as a moral monster like Mao, Stalin, or Hitler and ostracized by anyone with an ounce of reason or conscious, but Les Knight is treated with respect in many circles because he echoes the horrific anti-humanism lurking in the environmentalist movement. If you consider yourself an environmentalist, you have a life or death decision to make here. In 1991, Knight founded the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. The premise is that “When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth’s biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory …” The Guardian recently ran an article authored by Knight titled, “I Campaign for the Extinction of the Human Race.” In it, Knight declares, “Procreation today is the moral equivalent of selling berths on a sinking ship.” Though he acknowledges that “society would be greatly diminished without children,” he goes on to assert, “it isn’t right to create them just because we like having them around.” He then doubles down on his excuse, stating that “if we go extinct, other species will have a chance to recover.”  And,  "Let’s get our moral principles straight. There are no values without a valuer—a creature with a rational capacity and volition, that can make choices—and a standard of value. Humans are that creature—at least on this planet—and the standard is our lives. “Nature” and the “environment” have no inherent value, only value in relation to us. A forest is of value because we can walk through it and enjoy its beauty or harvest some of its trees to build houses for our survival and comfort. When a cheetah kills a zebra, it is neither “good” nor “evil.” It just is. When an asteroid hit the earth 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs, it was likewise neither “good” nor “evil.” It just was. A world without humans would not be “magnificent” or infused with “glory” because such notions are human evaluations."  And,  "If you value the environment because you want humans to survive, prosper, and flourish in the best world possible, you need be get past the climate hysteria and seriously question the science on which it’s based. You need to acknowledge that the benefits of a moderately warming world—e.g., record crop yields and fewer deaths from cold, the latter of which kills far more people than heat—are good for humans, and that damage from proposed solutions to the alleged warming crisis—such as hyper-high energy costs and radically reduced living standards—are not. Most importantly, you need to clearly and loudly reject and shun those who hate humans so much that they would have us all dead for the benefit of mosquitoes, frozen mud, and a “natural” world of predators and prey bereft of all value because it’s bereft of humans."    https://townhall.com/columnists/edwardhudgins/2020/02/03/todays-environmentalists-must-make-a-literal-life-or-death-decision-n2560621? 

Anyone who watched President Trump's State of the Union on 4 February 20 saw Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats misbehave throughout.  It was an embarrassing show of their lack of decorum and respect. Nancy was miffed by Trump's refusal to shake her hand after she recently pronounced that he would soon not be our president was fidgety throughout and mumbling to herself at times. What did she expect after trying to impeach him, obstructing his efforts at every turn and routinely verbally lambasting him??? As the speech concluded she proceeded to tear in half the copy of his speech she had been fidgeting with throughout. She was a total disrespectful and distracting spectacle the entire time, childish even.  Trump's detailing of accomplishments contrasted with the ugly, disrespectful and unethical behavior the Democrats have displayed over the past three and half years continued throughout his speech.  Their obvious and most unprofessional disdain for him will continue into the future.    https://flagandcross.com/dems-refuse-to-applaud-economic-success-stay-seated-for-young-black-girl-who-received-scholarship-videos/  And,  https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-snubs-pelosi-handshake-at-sotu?  And,  https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/02/05/nasty-nancy-pelosi-tries-to-justify-ripping-up-trumps-sotu-speech-white-house-responds-883164?   And,   https://www.westernjournal.com/seconds-trump-finished-pelosi-grabbed-speech-tore-pieces-air/?   This is a brief assessment of Trump's speech.    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/the-morning-briefing-trump-knocks-sotu-out-of-the-park-making-dems-very-bad-week-worse/?   Another item detailing Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrat pal's most unprofessional and disrespectful behavior.   https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/nancy_pelosi_throws_a_public_temper_tantrum_and_other_democrat_misbehavior.html

Yet another Obama era example of rank dishonesty.  His FBI claimed to have no information regarding the Seth Rich murder and found nothing. That was another egregious lie. Quote: "As we reported last week, Attorney Ty Clevenger reported to the courts on Monday that despite numerous assurances from the FBI that they had no information related to Seth Rich, the FBI had been caught and therefore was lying to him all this time. (See timeline below).   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/breaking-exclusive-fbi-claims-previously-undisclosed-peter-strzok-and-lisa-page-emails-on-seth-rich-are-redacted-to-protect-investigation-they-claim-never-happened/?  The abject lawlessness of the Obama years is absolutely stunning.

This is an excellent assessment of the differing views of wealth held by both of those on the political right and left. For a hint as to its contents here is the title of the piece: "Wealth: Don’t Lower the Ceiling, Raise the Floor." Quote: "Davos showcases the wrong way and the right way to address income inequality. The World Economic Forum each January lures earth’s government and business elite to the small Swiss ski resort of Davos, where they fret about the planet’s woes. One recent worry is “income inequality,” a phrase the Left chants more often than Catholics say “Hail, Mary.” Oxfam picked Davos as the right occasion to unveil a report supposedly chillier than an Alpine breeze. The liberal NGO complained that the world’s richest 2,153 people own more combined wealth than do the poorest 4.6 billion people. While that datum is eye-popping, what, if anything, should be done about it?  Oxfam CEO Amitabh Behar told Reuters: “We need to end this, and certainly end this billionaire boom.”  Wrong!  The Left typically would narrow the income gap by making the rich less rich. This thought experiment exposes this approach’s dangerous folly."  Read and you will understand why that is folly.  Here is a taste of what Trump reported: "And those who toss and turn over income inequality finally can get some sleep. As Trump observed in Davos: “Workers’ wages are now growing faster than management wages. Earnings growth for the bottom 10 percent is outpacing the top 10 percent . . . Since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by plus-47 percent — three times faster than the increase for the top 1 percent.” In short, as Trump deservedly crowed: “Years of economic stagnation have given way to a roaring geyser of opportunity.” The president elaborated, “For three years now, America has shown the world that the path to a prosperous future begins with putting workers first, choosing growth, and freeing entrepreneurs to bring their dreams to life.”  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/world-economic-forum-income-inequality-wrong-way-right-way-to-address/

This is an interesting take on the ongoing global coronavirus scare. Given all the hype by medical professionals and the media it is hard to understand just what is true and what is conjecture or what is not. This piece suggests they don't know so they make up a story to pacify us that they have a handle on the matter. See what you think.   https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/02/03/big-one-origin-story-of-china-epidemic-falls-apart-completely/   Here is more by this author.    https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/02/05/my-bottom-lines-on-the-china-epidemic/