Special People, Special Exemptions

[Mestral]

Carl Sagan was at least intelligent enough to know there is an intelligent designer.
Unlike Bill Nye and Hawking. Bill spouts stuff that has already been debunked,
and many people spout theories that even Hawking eventually admitted didn't hold water.

[Mestral]

Now back to our regularly scheduled cop bashing:
Oh, wait, I have something good to point out:

Cop doing good:
http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Off...485788511.html

(KWTX) An off-duty Copperas Cove local police detective is credited with rescuing two children from a house threatened by fire as well as alerting other nearby residents and urging them to evacuate.

Felis Reyna spotted a fire burning near a fence near trees and a house at around 8:40 p.m. Sunday on Greenwood Avenue in Killeen.

He made contact with two of the occupants of the house and had them evacuate, Copperas Cove police Sgt. Kevin Miller said Monday.

Then he went to neighboring homes to alert residents and to urge them to evacuate, as well, Miller said.

Reyna then learned there were also two children in the first house.

“Detective Reyna went in the house and carried one juvenile out of the house while another juvenile followed,” he said.

Might seem minor, but I have always maintained that anyone
going into a house on fire to do something good, is something of a hero.

[Dagobert II]

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Carl Sagan was probably the most ardent pro science, God is not real person I have ever seen. His final conclusions come pretty close to what we call the divine design theory today.

I especially liked the ending of the movie Contact where they find a series of coded numbers when the value of Pi is taken to millions of calculations. Like the very fabric of the universe and all reality as we understand it has been engineered.

Also saw a very interesting science show yesterday that posed a new theory some scientists are starting to take seriously that we might, in fact, exist inside what is called a black hole. Now, just thinking about that possibility is mind twisting enough on its own, much less considering the ramifications if it is actually true.

The possibilities include eternal life, existence without time, and infinite possibilities to reality.

Here are a few of the infinite possible realities.

[just2cents]

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Yep, people change over time... It is called growing up and maybe learning a thing or 2.

In the mid 60s, I was the long haired guy carrying the signs and burning my draft card. And, my entire family were died in the wool democrats. I voted that way because it was the way my folks did, and it carried over into my thinking.

That lasted until I got my first job and I saw how much of my hard earned cash Uncle Sam was taking away from me. That and the state of California. One tour of VN and a year or 2 in the army changed my mind about the way I looked at politics and war in general. After a tour or 2 of the border in Germany, and availing myself of a first hand view of what communism looked like, I decided it was better to live in a country that needed a wall to keep people out than one that built one to keep 'em in. Had to be a good reason for that. I figured it out. Especially when I learned just how badly the military did under a democrat administration as opposed to a republican led nation.

Now, I am amazed at how many people are trying to change America into what the East Germans were trying to escape from. The whole peace, love, drugs culture was living in a dream world, and not the real world. It always was, and it took a long time for me to figure out that the real world does not respect weakness or apathy. It is a shame that we couldn't live in a world of peace and harmony, but the nature of humans is to seek power and control over other humans. I am beginning to think it all stems from the primal human instinct to have food on the table for an entire lifetime. Maslows hiearchy of needs and its base of the pyramid is what drives mankind to its harsh ways of dealing with others. And until there is some magic way where everyone is assured of having good health, prosperity, and security, it will always remain a harsh world. So far, a sound market based economy and the life of liberty are the closest thing that we have found that comes close to self assurance. The systems that promise these things through the collective effort conducted through the auspices of an all powerful state government have failed miserably. Yet people are still aspiring to that system even though it fails every time it is tried.

This is what kills countries like NOKO, Germany, Cuba, DDR, and all the rest whose people traded their freedoms for temporary security of government control. Basically, selling their souls for food on the table and health care. Now they have neither.

You had a draft card in the 65? Dam you are old!

[Night Owl]

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You had a draft card in the 65? Dam you are old!

He's not the only one here that had a draft card.

[Ricky]

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You had a draft card in the 65? Dam you are old!

His social security number is 8.

[Ricky]

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He's not the only one here that had a draft card.

So I guess your social security number is 4.

[CenTexDave]

Hell, mine's 7.

[Ricky]

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Hell, mine's 7.

I think Mac was given a stone tablet to carrier around.

[Night Owl]

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So I guess your social security number is 4.

No, it was 23. I'm still a youngster compared to ST, Mac and Ludwig. And Dave.