Is it me? Or?

Is this a real dichotomy?

Or am I jaded?

Yet in some circumstances it seems that people consider lying and deceit signs of strength while being humble and honest are signs of weakness. I am not saying everywhere or in every circumstance, and yet does enough of this misconception exist; that it is a problem?  If you ask me being honest nowadays takes more strength than ten men can handle.   Or am I just jaded?

Just got back from a short long trip. Headed out for a weekend and had car incidence along the way. I will have to follow through on some things and hopefully we will get our money back. This took away a night and half a day.

Otherwise the weekend went well, too short. The better half did get to see friends and family in large quantity for such a short time there. We were running the whole time.

And yes I did see what happened this weekend. Too much news and too much noise. And Truth?????

Hope your days and New Year are going well. I was reminded this weekend the importance of being open minded.  So will try.

Cheers

A bit of a crazy night tonight

I went off on a tangent and as of now decided not to post a certain document. I have saved the document and titled it “Why not” I reserve to post this at any time and hold that this document would backdated till today’s date of 01/18/2017. My sanity would come into question pretty quick if I published, yet it is overall a very positive and reflective document of what I want for humanity going forward. Similar to my recent post, but a bit more.

Why not. Anyway, been busy, trying not to read too much on the internet. The inauguration is Friday and the anti-Trump articles are starting to get old even for me. I like to read the news so searching hard and wide to find information to read. It isn’t too hard since the internet is full of all sorts of garbage. The hard part is scrolling through so much information that does not interest me to find what does interest me.  And all the posts on the Trump stories have truly broken down to just the Trump haters vs. the haters of the Trump haters. I am stuck phrasing it this way knowing it sounds weak, but Trumps supporters seem to have backed off and only the name calling, disaffected posters who want to bash the Trump haters seem to be posting. Extreme amounts of toxic waste that needs to be avoided, yet scares me and holds me in morbid fascination at the same time.

There is a story I do want to read and it was published in the actual newspaper. I want to read it and then share it with you. Based on the first few paragraphs I did read it represents the problem with individuals trying to hold our government accountable or at the very least open the eyes of elected officials that there is a problem that needs to be addressed.  And the problem actually affects us locally significantly. Hopefully I can sit down and read it thoroughly and share my thoughts. For those of you who do follow local politics and events this might be a nice specific situation to discuss the importance of getting involved with what is going on in your community. The paper is now a week old and belongs to someone else so I need to let them be done with it. The story carries on.

I must refocus on reality. There is still much good in life.

And out of the blue I hear the comment, “you know who I do not like?” and I ask a “who?” “Paul Ryan because he is like Trump’s lap dog”. Why this was said I have no idea. I probably should not have responded, but that is the depth of despair this household is going through since we did not want Clinton or Trump as President or even on the news in the first place. Yes, true, most of my family has succumbed to my ramblings about this past election. Overall though I think they are not as anti-Democrat or Republican as I am, just the last two candidates. Oh well cannot win them all. Also, the continuous cloudy days are taking their toll. Here in Texas we are accustomed to regular sunshine; maybe not every day, but regular doses of sunshine so once we get to a third day of dreary, (and we are past that) the mood gets a bit droll.

They are promising sunshine soon. I hope some finds you in your life.

Hillary supporters need to quit validating Trump

And his trolls posting on the internet

Okay folks, time to face reality. I know it is easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar, but sometimes some truth needs to be told.

As an independent conservative I am none too happy with Mr. Trump. Yet the democrats have got to face some reality. And you didn’t listen to me two years ago, when I suggested you nominate her or you were sure to lose. The only reason it was close is because the Republicans nominated Trump otherwise this could have been a real ugly landslide.

First you need to understand why Ms. Clinton lost. There are a multitude of reasons and here are three.

The democrats who supported her had no idea how much people in this country never trusted her and this had nothing to do with any emails.

She had no platform. She had a mishmash of 40 years of democratic verbiage she promoted as a platform in 2016 speak. Again, there was no real platform. She communicated nothing new and everything she said especially to middle America was exactly what they did not want to hear. It was DC speak out the yahoo and Trump’s drain the swamp (which he won’t do) resonated much stronger than anything she said. People are tired of the same ole same ole.

And she had no energy. She was boring, tired, cliché, and a host of other adjectives that have more to say than her. She cannot communicate, she cannot motivate, and she certainly cannot energize. Heck a 74 year old man no one had heard of before 2016 did a much better job of talking to people than she ever had or could.

Just saying we need a woman President is not enough to elect Ms. Clinton. My wife to my youngest daughter found her to be undesirable and not exactly the woman they wanted to be a woman President. Just saying Mr. Trump and his supporters are deplorable are not enough to elect Ms. Clinton. You had to make people want her to be President and ooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmggggggggggggggggg that didn’t happen.

So, what next? Well if you want to do something you will need to do something. No one really wants Trump to be successful except billionaires, the alt right, and the Russians. Most people just didn’t want Clinton. So again, you didn’t listen to me about not nominating her, maybe you will at least think about what you need to do. And actually this goes for everyone who cares about our country.

So quit whining and start acting. Write your Representative and Senator whether Republican or Democrat and write often. Write your state legislature, your Mayor, etc,,, heck run for office, but communicate to our elected Representatives anything he says should not be passed. Write and write often. Do not let them rest till our Representatives get the message they need to stand up to him religiously. Again, write the Representatives from both parties. No matter what party they label themselves, they represent you. And all you democrats who are really good at name calling, remember the Republicans remember this fact much much better than you do. So, think about that for a moment. Republicans care and show it. So, if you want some action, you need to get up and take action. So, quit whining and start doing.

As an independent conservative, there are many of Trump’s proposals I do not like and for different reasons than the Democrats so I will espouse those. I do not want to hear any more whining or name calling on the web until I see some action directed to our representatives. I will argue my case. What say you?

And another oooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmggggggggggggg  what the hey Rosie O’Donnell you want marshal law. Be very careful what you ask for. The last thing we need at any time is marshal law, and even more so when a narcissist, head strong, valueless plutocrat is about to take office. My goodness gracious this is off the charts stupid. From the worst election imaginable, this is the worst idea to follow. 

Some strange thoughts on this wild card weekend

First, is it me or what, but doesn’t it seem the more technological advances we have the more vulnerable we become in our human existence and human lives?

Remember in the old days if you were fat that meant you were well off. It was sign of prosperity. Now it is the poor who are fat due to cheap food with no nutritional value and lack of education to nutrition and the rich being fit since it is expensive to eat healthy food.  Food for thought since the Republicans continue to want to cut off aid to the poor when in the long run, it will cost us more in Medicaid bills or worse since diseases will run rampant through society. Add lack of a good education to the mix and we have no people able to take on high tech jobs in this country and more and more people in prison dragging on our productivity and development.

Next, we have John Tamney writing in Forbes “All Hail Donald Trump’s Team of Billionaires” in which he tries to convince the reader that Trump’s billionaires are going to be a benefit to the country. These people will be the people who will convince Trump of public policy that will put in place great economic development with new tax cuts that are well basically for themselves. He writes extensively how their investments based on having tax breaks will lead to much new prosperity for all.

Well Mr. Tamney I do agree billionaires do invest and do well, yet is mainly for their benefit only. This is why they are billionaires. They spend their whole lives expanding on their wealth. They do not spend much time working on good public policy for all. I am just wondering why you think they are going to have some epiphany and create a new investment world where the economy turns around for all. Mr. Tamney billionaires can be billionaires. A strong economy can benefit the majority of us, yet I do not see why these people being in charge is good for public policy. It isn’t in their nature and I do not expect it to be. There is a reason you have a Republic that is supposed to vote for leaders that take in the whole picture. Unfortunately, we, the people, failed ourselves. Please do not try to sugar coat the economic horror the middle class has self-inflicted on ourselves.

From Shakespeare…sort of

American People:

“O common sense, common sense wherefore art thou common sense? Deny our forefathers and refuse thy Constitution; or if thou wilt not but be sworn back to us and I’ll be no longer ignorant

Oligarchy:

(aside)

Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

American People:

Tis but my own greed that is my enemy, thou art thyself though not a member of the people now. What’s people? It is a worker or charity or family or struggle or any other part belonging to a society. O be some other name. What is in a name? That which we call a dollar by any other word would work just as well, so common sense would were you not called common sense retain that dear perfection which you owe, without that title common sense doff they name and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all from myself

Especially since we take it away from ourselves

And for wild card weekend….. sheesh those Cowboys better be prepared. Green Bay looks up to the task. And looking at the 7day weather forecast welcome to Texas, a few days of unusually warm weather during the week, then when the Packers arrive a bit of their weather. Only in Texas.

It is Epiphany all.

Let’s be optimistic, really optimistic

Why not? It is the New Year and we all want to look forward to something. So why not be really optimistic? Take ideas to the extreme; come up with so much new and a promise of a future that is somewhat unbelievable, or at least at this moment in time.

Yes, this will be wild, much of it will have holes in it, more than swiss cheese. This is dreaming at its best because it offers a possibility for real ideas to develop. If you feel the dream is impossible you need to rethink how you dream. This is all in fun and all in seriousness. The holes you can shoot down or exploit to try and nix the ideas, yet if you do that you are nixing what are the real possibilities even if you cannot think of them right now. So much of this is off the top of my head and some of it is crazy ideas I have had over the years so here goes. Here is humanity’s plan for the next millennium.

And how to start? I could try and put a real-time line to this or just work through it and let the time line develop; and this latter is probably easier since I am just writing to just put the ideas all out there.

So, let’s talk about colonizing Mars first. What would happen if we tried to create global warming on Mars? There are all these theories about what is happening on Earth. Why not take what our theories are here and amplify them on Mars. Does this mean we mine the heck out of coal here and build colonies on Mars powered by coal fired power plants? We would still have to live sheltered, but the long run plan would be to start putting CO2 in the atmosphere.  Once Mars starting warming up we work on outdoor agriculture. Remember plants live off CO2 and through photosynthesis produce glucose and oxygen. (The chemical formula is 6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy = C6H12O6 + 6O2. Just in case you were curious)

Now solar power is possible on Mars which means sunlight could produce some photosynthesis. Working with the right plants or breeding new plants would allow us to create photosynthesis so over time could we create or synthesize a different atmosphere on Mars. Now we don’t want to pollute Mars, just build power based on CO2. We would of course build filters etc to trap particle and pollutant waste. Hey why not do it right for the long run.

One problem to overcome is the current problem of getting huge payloads off Earth to transport anywhere. There has been much discussion in the NASA realm about how to accomplish this task. Space X, other private firms, and even other countries are all working on this idea. Let’s presume we are going to have to develop something we don’t have in place or can nuclear power be used to shoot large payloads into space. Imagine the power of a nuclear bomb concentrated in a singular direction that pushes large bulk freighters through our stratosphere into space. Once these payloads reach a certain distance from the gravitational pull of Earth they can then be transported to the Moon’s orbit for preparation for long journeys in space. Colonies on the Moon would have the sole purpose of maintaining launch prep. From here we could use a variety of potential power sources to travel to Mars and then the asteroid belt.

Mining the asteroid belt allows us to start building multiple large space stations to orbit in between Mars and the asteroid belt. This may sound strange but all the colonies from the Moon to Mars to the asteroid belt can be protected with mesh nets that orbit around the colonies collecting space debris. And of course, collecting the debris also means we potentially are collecting more resources.

Needless to say, we have created an enormous amount of new jobs. There you go Mr. Trump, we can still use globalization, American ingenuity, American companies to make America greater. We just need you to start the process to acquire some investment here at home. Now where does this money come from? It cannot come from taxpayers. Maybe some, but not the vast majority. So why don’t you get Congress to step up and start offering incentives for companies/Wall Street to invest all the money they are hoarding or throwing away in mergers to work with inventors and entrepreneurs to start working on each step. People do not like throwing money away so public policy would need to encourage long term investing and still allow them to continue to work on actual profits. I am using the term “actual profits” meaning companies make money from products they create. They are not manufactured profits through accounting tricks or tax breaks or trading, but from real goods. Real goods, mean real trade, means real jobs, means real economic development. And by the way rich people can still be rich, they just end up being productive also.  Some people may think I am being sarcastic here and I am and at the same time being completely truthful of what we need in our country to continue to be great. And we can take the whole world with us.

People who are inspired have less time to be destructive. This goes especially for removing ignorance around the world and start educating people more profusely than we ever have before on planet Earth.

And all this is just the start.  So, we find ways to move large payloads off the Earth. Massive amounts of jobs especially high tech and manufacturing created. Now we need people to build. People in space. This is going to take large amounts of education to train these crews. So now we have high tech and low tech teaching jobs available. Where do these people come from?

Well back on Earth we have been working on solar power, desalinization, new agriculture in the deserts maybe using green houses, developing new ways to transport large amounts of people such as high speed trains, (there are some new ideas being developed already) one such idea I read was the use of tubes similar to the old drive in bank lanes where the small tubes were sent from your car to the teller. This is farfetched, but hey, that is what this is all about isn’t it? As we develop these ideas, we can then transition them to the Moon, Mars, etc…. Everything we learn from these developments we now can use to teach people to make the next steps in space. A high-speed train on Earth is now possible on Mars. Especially since nuclear and solar power would be reliable energy sources on Mars. Both have their drawbacks, yet both are possible.  Mining the asteroid belt gives us the resources to build cities and infrastructure on Mars.  (I still like my coal fired plants just a bunch of work to get coal there. If we can get the large payloads going though, it would be a great start to building more atmosphere on Mars)

And if we get started now in 2 or 3 hundred years all this is starting to come to fruition.  Boy that sounds like a long time. Just remember it whether you believe in new Earth or old Earth theory homo sapiens have been around 10,000 + years. (there is an interesting coincidence around this time frame. The Bible says more than evolutionists believe and more than New Earth people believe. How does that work? hmmmm)  In this time we have come from being hunters and gatherers to space explorers. The last 150 years have produced technological advances in leaps and bounds. There is no reason not to expect we cannot continue this development.

So here we are in the year 2400+: Mars is colonized, ships transport goods between the Moon, Mars, the Asteroid belt and Earth. Unfortunately, everything we know about Venus says we aren’t going that way. Too much to overcome.

So now what?

Well it is time to begin the plans to develop interstellar travel. Why you ask? Well because it is there to quote George Mallory. And there is a reason it is there. And with our curiosity, need to grow, and the inevitability of human growth means we need to go there. So how do we start this process. Unless we discover the worm holes of science fiction or some other types of portals we basically start the same way we colonized Mars. We start building orbiting space colonies outside of Pluto’s orbit. Once we have built the supply lines from the asteroid belt to these colonies we start building the ultra large vehicles that are needed to move large populations across the galaxy. We will be mining resources throughout the solar system as we move to the outer orbits. And isn’t that what we do well, exploit found resources and build new technologies. So, we don’t change as humans, we just become better at doing it for the benefit of all.  And everybody gets rich. (more or less)

So, there you are folks, in a thousand years the beginning of interstellar travel. So, got any better ideas for humanity for the next millennium?

https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity

A quick New Year’s thought

I hope today finds you feeling well.

To start this New Year I was thinking about people. There are people who do well. We can applaud those who are successful, who make great discoveries, create, work hard, and accomplish all types of wonder.

We can hold people up as examples of success. We can teach our youth the importance of success.

We can never judge people. We never know who has reached their full potential or in the process of trying or maybe not knowing what their full potential maybe. Some may never find their best. Yet in no circumstance can we say one person is better than another. All people have the same value. Many may give more and yet all have value. Some person’s value or contribution may never be known and not even by themselves. Some may be lost. Many may feel inferior, yet they need to overcome. Humility or being humble is good. It is good to be successful and not acknowledge it. It is good to be acknowledged for your success. It is okay for someone to acknowledge your efforts. Just remember it is all fleeting. Enjoy accolades, yet staying humble will win you greater respect, however, if ever you feel you are better than another person; have more worth than another person; then you are demeaning your own worth.

In today’s world, many many people will disagree with the above. I know this. It is still correct. I have posted similar before. With the New Year, though we need to be reminded of the simple things. We are all equal in worth, in value, no matter how great we succeed or how little we do. If we fail, we fail ourselves and the world, yet at any given time anyone of us can succeed and again we may succeed at any time and sometimes no one may know what is the success. Still no one is better than another person. If ever a person says to you I am better; ask yourself are they saying I am a better businessman or better athlete or artist, yet never ever let them say I am better than you as a person.  If they say or think such, please quietly go on your way. Do not let this ever affect you as a person.

In the grand scheme of things no one is more important than another.

You are a person and you are blessed.

And on that note I hope the New Year brings you great blessings. Just remember to be grateful for all you do receive.

Happy New Year