#AncientTexan

Vaccines cost $1 per dose and sell for $30 per dose. R&D COSTS? Paid for by U.S. and other governments. Future costs of vaccines, up to $175 per dose. It sounds like greed gone viral.

We are unable to effectively stop global warming in our country because we are unwilling to make the necessary engineering tradeoffs; instead, we simplify complex technology and decisions processes necessary to reach viable alternatives.  We have an unrealistic view of how our decisions are changing the balance of power in the world.  When we go to NIMBY on new mines and technology to me...

My grandchild, my grandson, is making me pay attention to what is happening in the world.  There are some very big changes happening across the globe that we can not be aware of sitting in our isolated houses listening to our self-centered biased news.  But, just because we are not aware of the changes does not mean they are not happening.  They do not need the less than 5% of the w...

Science during my lifetime has given us progress in so many areas it is unbelievable.  It also provided us with a belief that all problems could be solved by science.  That belief is disappearing and the beliefs that we are now considering to take the place of science are going in two directions: one of them encouraging, the other disturbing.

Dr. Pierre Kory, president of the FLCCC Alliance testifies before Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs looking into early outpatient COVID-19 treatment: “It will all be needless death from here on out, given that there is a readily available scientific solution to the pandemic," Kory says. So, is it true what Dr. Kory says?

Independent of which side of the fence you are on, how are your energies going to be spent in States where abortions are no longer legal, for example, in Texas.   New moms and babies are going to appear in places like Texas where the baby is not wanted, or where the mother is not prepared to be a mom.  What is the game plan?  What is going to be your plan for moms suffering fro...

Who should you worry about not being vaccinated?

Story:  I have got into several arguments with my children about the language they use.  In particular, the argument was centered around the word "fuck". My position is that fuck especially when used as an expletive has no place in speech and that I did not particularly enjoy hearing my kids use the word although I grant them that it is their right to choose their words and control their...

Sometimes being prejudice toward immigrants hurts your pig farmers.

The new world direction in energy is chaos.  Energy supplies, deliveries, and policies are scrambled and increasingly non-functional.  Wishful thinking doesn't get it done. And is there no crime that China can commit to make us want to boycott the Winter Olympics?  I guess not. 

Religion is defined as a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. Life is precious, marvelous, exotic, wonderful, sad, scary, everything, and without it, nothing is. It is the most important thing in the universe, perhaps the rarest and most unique thing in the universe. Nothing exists without life to perceive it. Does a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest and no o...

Boots I come up the stairs Headed for my bed Her open door and empty room Stare back A pair of winter boots Cowboy style with fur at the top Guard her door.. She has left three or four times before Moved out to make her mark on the world Stumbled hard a few times Returned Picked herself up And tried again. This is the first time she left Belly full of hope Elijah eight months on Across town with b...

China gone Weird  Single's Day  ○ Black Friday on steroids' ○  Ali Baba who recently was fined 3 billion dollars.  • 10 explosions across country  • Spy plane from U.S.  ○ China chase  ○ Taiwan intercepts  • 31 countries agreed to remove exclusively trading status from China  • Australia sinking China fishing boats.  • 2 large real-estate firms in...

We need to recognize the stories we are being told to manipulate our emotions and beliefs by the media are seldom representative of the status quo of the seven billion people on this planet.  For example, most of us will not feel a difference in our lives from climate change.  An unlucky few will experience dire but slow changes in their existence.  For example, their island will go...

The clouds roll in Usually soft fuzzy ones That do no harm As Thoughts push through them Almost unabated. But when the gray clouds come Words get stuck in them Names of old friends My daughter’s phone number 864-430-7118 That suddenly returns in the middle of this poem. And names of women I have loved fade And only their image remains And sometimes fear pops up And must be cleared For my dad’s mid...

Drug Dystopia,  Drug Dystopia War on drugs War on people Who use drugs. Screwing up your life When you could just say no It's not so much a choice BUT AN ADDICTION Where the drug eases the suffering At least for a bit. What's an addiction But an excuse to be weak Most of us humans Even you, Are imperfect And need your compassion If not your love. Drugs kill Addicts Always want more Causes ove...

Two Americas One for science Believes in climate change One for coal And holding on to the old. One for vaccines One for freedom to choose Unless it is about babies. One for masks And being their brother’s keeper One for liberty And the right to cough unimpeded One believing in ozone depletion One believing in celestial beings And Jehovah of old. One believing in basic income For those on hard tim...

$300 billion in debt 300 million poor still exist in China 30% of China economy is real-estate 70% of Chinese savings is in real-estate Gini coefficient U.S. 41.1 China 38 Property 1.4 million properties in       suspended construction and or not started Ponzi scheme 90 million empty properties.       Prices should fall People who bought...

Dystopia Context America is a big place, heaven and hell is going on at the same time. The hell, the dystopia, that happens for some people can't be captured in numbers alone. But wealth inequality, the bottom 20%, experience various degrees of hell every day. My life growing up was in the working poor… we were one heart attack away from being in the American Dystopia Stories in my life will be pr...

This podcast is just an introduction to the subject of whether or not The United States should be considered a dystopia. Next podcasts will come back with some standards and assumptions to approach this subject as objectively as possible.   I am considering calling Denmark as a working definition of Utopia and Mexico as a working definition of a dystopia ... although I am still thinking about...

It is not just a battle to win an election; it is to win an election fairly and supporting the idea of one person, one vote, as much as possible.  Republicans have been more successful with gerrymandering; that does not necessarily mean democrats are more moral, perhaps they are just more ineffective. 

We like to believe that humans, including us, are logical creatures.  We want to believe the actions we take are based on facts and logic, but that would require us to ignore the evidence all around us.  And of course, we want to believe that we are the exception and that we are not largely governed by emotional responses to the circumstances that happen in front of us.  The Making...

How does wealth inequality impact how you think about your fellow man?   How does it impact your humanity?

Let's look at different situations where we invoke the argument: "it's my body".   1. Taking the vaccine for covid. 2. Abortions. 3. Your fist.

Bennett in Israel is proposing a one-state solution:  do you think he means democracy for all?