#AncientTexan

Margret Atwood says she has two personas: Margret, the writer, and Peggy, who does the laundry. We all have these alternative egos, personas, or different sides of ourselves. So, why not use those personas in some way to improve how you choose and carry out your activities through life? For me, there is Robert, the engineer; Roe, the poet; Ancient Texan, the preacher; and Wiley Fox, the wild side...

Our current legal system used 25-year-old memories to convict someone in the present for alegged crimes decades ago. In what universe is this based on logic and our understanding of human memory?

The debt limit is about to be crossed by the U.S. government at which time, we can no longer continue borrowing money, at least legally, to fund our addiction to large government spending. Indirectly, that will probably curtail all debt creation and life as we know it in the U.S. and world financial markets. We are addicted to spending and not paying for it in Congress. Debt payments will soon exc...

The largest illegal group of aliens, up to 250,000, can be found in Liberty County 40 miles northeast of Houston, Texas. Imagine a world run by drug lords where police tread there lightly and let AR15 go off all night and consider that normal. You can picture this place from the point of view of the Americans from Honduras, El Salvador, etc. that want to raise families here, or from the drug lords...

What is an existential threat to humanity? How do the various existential threats rank compared to others? Is global warming and existential threat to humanity? Can we justify spending trillions on global warming because it is an existential threat? Bjorn Lomborg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZ7Ktr6Juc

The rich and powerful have picked Sleepy-Joe for the democratic candidate for President. They are going to control the nomination process not to tire poor-Joe out in the primaries and make him weaker. They don't really care what is good for America. The green revolution is making a lot of people rich while we do green projects that is not really doing much for green-evolution, but that is anot...

I think my efforts here have diluted my podcast and both have suffered. So, I am suspending my youtube channel. Today is Earthday... everyone believes we are now more connected. We condemn industrialists and those that use fossil fuels. Fossil fuels that have made the world more prosperous for millions we condemn, but what do we offer in its place that is cost-competitive for the poor? https://spo...

Is Xi Suicidal over Taiwan? If you don't follow China closely, you may not realize how bad a shape China is in. The real estate sector has collapsed, their customers are leaving China as a manufacturing center, they have enormous national and local debt, and their demographics stink; they may be the first country that gets old before they get rich. With all the problems China is having, the la...

If you don't follow China closely, you may not realize how bad a shape China is in. The real estate sector has collapsed, their customers are leaving China as a manufacturing center, they have enormous national and local debt, and their demographics stink; they may be the first country that gets old before they get rich. With all the problems China is having, the last thing they need is a war...

Let's see how energy usage has increased for the Western World over the last sixty years.  Now, the other half of the world wants to be prosperous like us with food, cars, houses, appliances, etc.  In the next fifty years, our global energy supply will have to double to make that happen.  If we double the status quo, that might happen in 50 years.  Trying to make it happen prim...

Steven is a respected climate scientist.  The book covers what climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters. This book will challenge what you think you know about climate science.  For example, did you know forest fires have declined since 1998 when records were started?  Did you know that bad storms are no more common than they were in 1900?  Did you know hum...

There is a belief that the fossil fuel industry are the bad guys in carrying out its mission to find fossil fuel deposits and make products out of them.  This ignores that fossil fuels drove the greatest rise in prosperity in human history.    There is also the belief that we should suppress the production of fossil fuels and let the Putins of the world dominate the supply chai...

When is making mistakes good?  Perhaps when you learn from them?  Perhaps when you go a new direction and it becomes obvious that it is a better path than you were on before.  For example, California is moving toward EV's and renewable power very rapidly.  I think this will waste a lot of the money of the citizens of California.  They will get higher electricity bills for...

It takes much more mineral resources to go Green than to maintain the Status Quo.  Resources the world does not have and resources that NIMBY and our liberal legalism do not allow us to access.   Much of the resources we do have are controlled by China, Russia and other places that are not friendly to us.     Plan A to go green is not going to work.  Does anyone...

When you fill out a form that asks for your race, do you fill it in or do you chose not to answer?  Are you saying race is an important issue and do you fill it in so they won't think you are black.   Does the phrase 'black lives matter' imply that race is important?  Let's discuss it.   What personal values do you use to decide your what you think about the phrase and the...

A poem, a lyric, by Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlisle, "A Beautiful Noise" speaks of us joining together to create a beautiful noise for all those whose voice needs to be heard.

Allegedly, the CCP in China uses organ transplants to allow many party members to live to a hundred or more.  Reportedly, the supply of organs comes from harvesting organs from Uyghurs, "excess boys" from the street, and those unfortunate with rare blood types.  The few hundred officers that are granted this fountain of youth create a significant demand for organs that often exceeds the...

We look at the assumptions in Greta's How Dare You Talk in 2019 and propose that humanity needs to agree to two concepts:  1) We need to spend our money efficiently on global problems with the goal of doing the most good for humanity with our limited funds, and  2) We need to rank global warming among the world's problems and spend money according to the relative need versus the other pr...

With what is happening in Nigeria with energy, population, and deforestation, do our energy policies in America make sense?

How do our climate change policies impact food and energy production on the planet?  Who does this impact? Is it moral to sacrifice people today for people who may be impacted in the future by climate change? 

May you all get to see and appreciate your families and remember those that are missing.  May America remember that we are all a big family, worst and all.

The question is often whether you should speak your truth with tactful kindness or brutal honesty.  Perhaps, that is the wrong question.  Do you actually own the truth or even a part of it for someone else?

Loving Too Easy If I have a fault, It is loving too often and Loving too easy. Was often told It was wrong To fall in love with nothing more Than a smile passing between the woman and I. And before the smile could even dry Falling for another With sunshine in her soul. Only two of the women I've loved Loved this trait of mine One is my wife and The other is her bookkeeper. Roe 11/18/22

There are two sayings among the youth in China: Laying Flat and, Let It Rot. These two phrases get to the heart of a country in serious economic, social, and political trouble.  The problems facing Xi and the communist party are immense and possibly endemic to communism.   Will Xi be able to save the country?  Well, the jury is out on that question.

The chief mission of both parties is to convince you that if the other party gets elected, the world as we know it will end.