#AncientTexan

Look all around, look at the truth that surrounds you. What is, is the ultimate truth. Your description of what is, is your story.

The media, except for Fox, bashes Trump on everything he says and does without discussing and educating us on the subject under discussion. Fox spends all their time praising him which is perhaps even more worthless. We have some serious stuff going on around the world. Let's talk options, our values, and how our action as individuals and a country matter on each subject. Let's not waste all of ou...

MBK and Saudis are our kind of people, rich and ruthless, and a perfect friend for Trump.

Peterson, the policeman that didn't face the shooter at Parkland Elementary, is being charged with five felony counts for not facing the AR15 armed shooter with his Wyatt Earp style handgun. We continue to spread the joy of semiautomatic weapons.

In my parents generation, the cows had to be milked.  If you wanted to eat, you worked hard or you starved.   When my dad died, I had no time for depression.   I had to work and help my mom pay the bills.  My brother, all of 16, was on his own. Today, lots of white males drop out and play video games and don't work at all.  What does it all mean?

As far back as the Egyptians B.C., just wars were being discussed.  What makes a war Just?  Let's compare what "wise people" have said about "just wars" to the wars that America has fought.  Which of our wars would fit the description of a just war?

Everyone wants a quick fix to the drug problem, but there is none.   I've been around drug use about 60 years and here are my observations on how people get addicted, why, and what can we do about it.  Since we are not putting much effort into saving drug addicts, the outlook is not good.   Until we recognize the role of compassion and mental health in solving the drug crisis a...

For those of you that advocate guns existing in our societies, should you also be responsible for the violence that is done by guns in our country? And from a practical viewpoint, gun owners and NRA control the gun laws in this country.  So, with that power, you are also in charge of the laws that control gun ownership,  use and regulations.  With the power, comes the responsibility...

Is Patriotism a story?  Where you are born is the luck of the draw, so should your loyality and  allegiance  dependent on your fate of birth.  So do you believe things about your country based on the fact that you were born there?  Are your beliefs about your country based on objective analysis or just based on patriotism? Do you believe those born in America are superior...

I've noticed that white guys, especially young white men, are disappearing.   From high school, to college, to graduate school, more women are graduating than males.  There are all sorts of special groups encouraging women, black people, gays, etc., but the young white men not graduating from high school and college, who is encouraging them.  There are all black colleges. &nbsp...

We are us and we despise them .   Them despise us .  Some them are democrats and Eagle fans.   Some Us are Cowboy fans and believe some weird stuff.   But, what do we have in common after we peal away the cover and the labels.   What value(s) let us see their hearts, their lives, their stuggles and see them as if they were us ? The Ancient Texan Namaste

John Bolton is a hawk that advocates a pre-emptive strike in North Korea and regime change in Iran.   How does that sit with your values? Do you believe another trillion in wars funded by taxes and debt for our children is consistent with what America values.   Let Congress know what your values are ... 

The labor participation number that's 38% of our working age people to not have a job. How is it that we have only three and a half percent unemployment right now? What does it mean? How can nearly 40% a bar available workers not have jobs?

We all know about the unfair practices of China both in competition and trade. How many Americans are aware of the concentration camps in China which punishs people for being Muslims and the wrong race? Do we think this is wrong? What actions are we willing to take independent of the cost? Are we willing to lose a dollar to follow our values? Or alternatively, is the almighty Dollar our highest va...

As an American do I have the right to feel safe when I send my child to school? Does my child have a right to feel and be safe in schools? Gun owners in America, do you have an obligation to help pass laws and regulations to make our children safer in schools?  If you accept that you should help make our schools safer, what do you suggest?

Do you believe in equal opportunity for all? Do you believe in an equal opportunities for all to good quality education? How do you think we are doing?

Did Trump did something right when he talked with Putin? Why didn't the Press notice? Perhaps their focus is only on the negative. The reduction of nuclear weapons and reducing their full equation is extremely important for our future and our children's future.

Socialism is a buzz word at the moment used by the left and the right.  Neither side actually uses the term correctly and it often distracts from the discussion at hand.  Problems like healthcare can't be solved by arguing about socialism, let's focus on the key questions involved with each issue.

We blame socialism for Venezuela's collapse.  Consider some other causes, such as America's actions.

Most people are very confident, they either think abortions are okay, or they think they are murder.   I find this a very difficult issue to have an opinion on.  I discuss why on this podcast.   Please enlighten me on my question.

Is sex for money immoral? Should it be illegal? Who has the right to decide what a woman (or man) does with their body?

To face and solve the problems facing this country we must learn to listen to everyone with the purpose of knowing and understanding them, not judging them. Namaste, the Ancient Texan.

Land of Opportunity read by the Ancient Texan.    When we say we are the greatest country in the world are we referring to our military, our gross domestic product, or how we treat the weakest among us?

Homelessness endures because he don't think of them as being real and valuable. It cost us more to ignore the problem than to solve it, yet we persist in being inhumane.   About 540,000 people are homeless in America.  25% are children.   The balance are more men.  Most homeless women have jobs, but find it difficult keeping a job without a place to sleep, clean up, g...

If our actions are killing albatross chicks in the Pacific and we value those lives, can our capitalism be altered based on this value?  Chicks are dying from plastic that their mothers are feeding them.  The moms find this plastic waste floating on the ocean.   About one third of the chicks will die from eating plastics that we discard.  If the majority of Americans decid...