Letita James is fifth in line behind governor, lt. governor, president of the senate, and speaker of the assembly.

1. Governor - Andrew Cuomo
2. Lieutenant Governor - Kathy Hochul
3. Temporary President of the Senate - Andrea Stewart-Cousins
4. Speaker of the Assembly - Carl Heastie
5. Attorney General - Letitia James
6. Comptroller - Thomas DiNapoli
7. Commissioner of Transportation - Marie Therese Dominguez
8. Commissioner of Health - Howard A. Zucker

And so on...

Why do we have one hole for eating drinking and breathing? It leads to people choke to death.

I can ask the same question about evolution. How did evolution move towards this as a 'better model?'

I understand that the idea of evolution is gradual changes over thousands of generations. The problem is the gradual in between stages. Using my example, what happens to a lung that is gradually shifting from the ability to process oxygen out of the air to one that can process oxygen out of water? As the lung starts changing to a new system, the old system gets less and less efficient. It can't process either substance well. How does that organism survive? As the ability to get oxygen into the blood decreases, the creature is going to be a sickly weakling for its whole life. This just gets worse with each generation. How is this creature not eradicated by predators and poor system function? The two end points of the change work, but the in between stages are null and void.

Another point I will make about this slow change between breathing systems is that in the end it all comes down to genetics, which goes back to my silly breathing water example. A body is made according to what is programed into its genes. How does the external world affect the DNA inside of cells? How does a random genetic mutation slowly push the whole creature to go from one breathing system to another? Then the genes in later generations just keep mutating in a very specific way as to reorganize whole body systems? Do you realize the probability of this actually happening just by chance?

It's like taking the code for a computer game and randomly changing one line of code. Then, if the game is sill playable, you randomly change another line and play it again. This happens forever until you finally get a vastly different game. But what are the chances that they game can be played to completion after every random code change?

I guarantee a team of human engineers could come up with a better system given a God's powers and knowledge.

Perhaps they could, or they could come up with something like the FIU bridge, the Tacoma bridge, or the 1971 Ford Pinto. Just because the designer didn't design something to your liking or without faults doesn't mean that there was no designer.

I agree with natural selection and what is termed 'micro evolution' - small changes in the body. One just has to look at dogs to see that. But all these changes have yet to mutate the body so far as to change their genetics so that they cannot mate together. Dogs can still mate with wolves after countless generations.

Some people can get by on "I don't know." Some people can't. I have found God the best answer so far.

After spending just a little time digging into how a cell functions, all the millions of processes that go into making it work, and trying to calculate how even a part of that could have occurred by random chance, I was pretty much sold on the idea of intelligent design.

As for evolution: If I took 10 huge lungfuls of water every day for the rest of my life and had my children take 10 huge lungfuls of water every day of their life from day one, and they have their children take 10 huge lungfuls of water every day of their life from day one, and we continue this forever, how many generations do you think it would take before one of my decedents would be born with gills? How many generations of breathing water would it take to alter my DNA?

If there is no God or higher power beyond us, then how did we come into existence?

Should I believe instead in the astronomical impossibility that is chance and evolution? I call Occam's Razor on those mental gymnastics.

Yes, God has the power to stop pedophilia and all the other things people do that displeases Him and goes against His wishes.

What else should he stop then? Murder, theft, and rape are big on the human list of evils, but what does God declare to also be evil? Adultery, lying, and disobedience would be next. Could you imagine not being able to lie? How about not even having the option of being disobedient so someone? A person could not even physically be able to have sex outside of marriage.

Not believing in God and worshiping idols is actually number one on God's not-to-do list. God could stop you from not believing, and if He wanted to take control of our lives, then He would probably start there.

But God did not want automatons. He wanted people to choose Him. He wanted us to experience and understand what the alternative to Him is and turn away from it ourselves.

I have struggled a lot with the idea of God creating a person with the knowledge that the person will never come to Him and be lost forever. I don't completely understand, because my knowledge and intellect is like that of an ant when compared to God. But I do wonder if people would come to God so readily if they did not see the alternative on display in the lives of others. It is similar to the wonder I have about the Old Testament; would people have accepted and followed Jesus if the Old Testament had never happened?

The book of Job is all about people trying to understand the workings of God.

I almost died.

Yes, because the deeper you dig into the nursing home scandal, the worse it gets.

You might start looking at what really went on in NYC hospitals during the epidemic.

Cuomo also restricted potentially life saving medicine!

Executive Order 202.10 (around March 24):

No pharmacist shall dispense hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine except when written as prescribed for an FDA-approved indication; or as part of a state approved clinical trial related to COVID-19 for a patient who has tested positive for COVID-19, with such test result documented as part of the prescription. No other experimental or prophylactic use shall be permitted, and any permitted prescription is limited to one fourteen day prescription with no refills.

I actually agree with everything you said. Didn't mean to imply that there was no benefits to the mom, but the mom needs to have those benefits as their priority, not other life perks.

There are those that can't imagine reducing their spending by quitting their job and staying home. There are those that find their kids an annoyance and can only take them in small doses.

There are those that don't believe they could ever teach their own children, so would never contemplate homeschooling. The truth is, they can do it. It is a lot of effort, but it can be done.

I really get frustrated when someone says, "I could never do that!" (for just about anything) Sure you could (for the most part), it takes practice and time, but in the end you could, if you wanted to do it.

I wish Wegmans would spread further across the state. Price Copper is still stupid with the COVID craze. I refuse to shop there.

In NY they repeal liqueur licenses. It has happened to a bunch of small businesses, but I guess Wegmans is too big.

I'm worried that this 'vaccine' is designed to make people have a worse reaction to the next pandemic.

3/4 of my high school friend's parents were divorced. My parents were divorced. I didn't want to get married because I didn't want to go through a divorce. It seemed a natural outcome of getting married. That is why I kept going through school. I didn't know what I was going to do after school though, and I drifted.

I am lucky to have found a man who convinced me that marriage didn't have to be that way.

Girls need better role models. PERIOD. You don't see the home makers because they stay at home.

Staying at home is NOT glamorous. It tends to be the opposite of exciting. A person won't be satisfied with staying at home if they are addicted to the pleasures in the world.

Staying at home and raising a family is a SELFLESS act. It is done for the benefit of others, not the mom. A person cannot do this if they put themselves first.

You need to train women to be based, secure in who they are, and with the desire to serve others before themselves.

We NEED competing platforms. People are so focused on Facebook, Twitter, etc., but there are other less known areas where there ARE NO alternatives.

For example: Ravelry is the ONLY place online for knitters, crocheters, and other fiber workers. It has ALL the patterns and yarn in its database along with a great platform setup for forums. There is NO competition. Based fiber people are adrift.

That is the ugliest thing I have seen in a while.

I looked it up. It IS Robert Kennedy, 'artist' Robert Berks.

It has the word 'like' in it. They can't even type without it! The sentence makes no grammatical sense.

I also find it 'funny' that multiple drug companies around the world came out with a COVID shot (I refuse to call it a vaccine) at about the exact same time. And don't they all pretty much work exactly the same way (mRNA)?

Dang. I will never unsee it now. :P

Just because Cuomo can't do these things by himself, doesn't mean they will not happen. NY Legislature is swampier than DC, I swear.

But legislature politicians are easier to primary.

I still want to know what happened to that nurse who 'fainted' on camera after getting her first COVID shot.

"Patients should be screened prior to receipt of each vaccine dose, and persons with a contraindication (including history of a severe or immediate reaction following the first dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine) should not be vaccinated." -Straight from the CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/managing-anaphylaxis.html

Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

All straight from CDC, so they shouldn't be able to argue that much.

I was right! Pig legs.

Really desperate to bury grandma now!