I have a pet peeve about nothing. So I wonder…am I making something out of nothing? NO! I am making something out of SOMETHING!
When learning to count, my grandchildren proudly recite: 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10 Great…but where is zero? Zero, this immensely important concept, acts as nothing more than a placeholder in the number ten. The mathematical term "zero" is neither counted, nor accounted for, nor expressed in its proper place. After all, when counting backwards from ten, we always reach zero triggering a rocket to blast-off! So I encourage my grandchildren to count: 0…1…2…3…4…5…6…. 7…8…9 Zero---the boundary between the “real” and “abstract”. Zero---the factor that changes something to nothing…5 X 0=0. Zero---the gatekeeper of infinity…5/0=∞. Zero---an important key to the calculus of the infinitesimal. Zero---shunned by the Church for more then a millennia, its forced sabbatical resulting in the decay of mathematics, science and technology...a significant victim, perhaps partly a cause, of the Dark Ages. Zero----a concept ironically easy and yet difficult to understand…a concept necessary to modern science, a concept that our children should be comfortable with and hopefully comprehend…a concept that needs to be a part of their earliest learning of numbers. From nothing comes a vast something… So we all should count… Zero…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9
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Limited vocabulary, not a "reader", primary source of information is television, disorderly thought processing, meager ability to understand situational subtleties., did not pursue advanced degree, repetitive statements, ill-informed....does Trump have a learning disability?
President Trump announced today that all Federal elections, including Presidential elections, in the United States are suspended. This action, Trump stated, is necessary to protect the citizens of our country. As Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser, has previously declared, "Our opponents, the media and the whole world will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the President to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned."
Skyscrapers around the world enblazened with President-elect Trump's name have a high probablity of being targets for terrorists. The name Trump on these towers may be the bull's eye for a major attach like 9/11. If Trump's buildings are attacked, it is predictable that people willl be reluctant to stay or work in them resulting in potentially significant negative impact on Trump's financial bottom line. So as President will he use America's military force to protect his business interests?
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