I continue to see television commercials about the BIG BAD oil companies needing to diversify into all kinds of different energy sources.  Why?  Oil companies are experts at finding oil… why would they have to diversify?  If they choose to diversify… okay fine, but to stupidly suggest that “oil companies MUST deversify” just smacks of socialism.  Would anyone suggest GM start making helicopters?  After all, GM is in the transportation business, so why not demand they make helicopters?  It is the same argument, but the general public has once again been conditioned to say and think absurd things about “BIG OIL”… without these companies I would hate to think what this country would do to power its economy.  Oil is the backbone of our world.  Oil is even more fundemental than water.  Without oil, there is not the energy to pump water to our homes.  Sure oil companies make lots of money today, but what about 10 years ago.  Oil was under $10/barrel and not a single sole was saying “oil companies need to diversify”.  It is only now that the business cycle has shifted, that all the sudden everyone is outraged.   At $10/barrel most American production was being sold literally at a loss, but if the production ceased the company would lose the lease.  So oil was pumped into the market at a loss and it was subsidized by refining and snacks at the gas station.  Amoco learned 20 years ago that they could make more money selling twinkies than gasoline… and they pioneered the convenience store.  Of course today Amoco makes a fair return on its oil production, but refining margins are minimal.  Hell the government takes more money out of the value chain than the refiners.  So next time someone says: “Oil companies must diversify”… ask them why?  Why would we want these efficient and expert companies to start making wind mills or solar panels?  Why?

Nancy Pelosi has to be the highest ranking dumbell in the entire world.  This woman has literally no idea what she is doing.  She is so partisan… can’t she suspend the partisan politics for 30seconds.  So I refer to her as Dumb… now, Dumber is Harry Reed.  Does this guy have a pulse?  How in the world did this guy get to Majority Leader.  He wouldn’t stand out at a convention of “deaf mutes”… his feeble voice and insane comments make me want to puke.  Dumb and Dumber don’t know the difference between a punch bowl and a toilet bowl.  I wish Americans would wise up and kick every single incumbent out of office.  No matter who they are… kick them out and replace them with their opponent.  Let’s just get brand new blood in there regardless of party.  Just get rid of the bums… they are stupid beyond imagination.  I understand economic theory and practice better than the dim-wits in Congress that are making laws regulating and manipulating our economy.   Dammit… when are Americans going to wake up?  We need to start the rebellion against our government by first dumping Dumb and Dumber… then get rid of the rest of the bums in next first opportunity!!!!  Are you with me?

But rather what your Country can do for you seems to be the new mantra.  But just 40 years ago those profound and memorable words espoused by JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”… ignited an explosion in innovation, philanthropy and extraordinary achievements in the United States.   But these days… those eloquent and uplifting American principles have been turned upside down.  We are a society of whiners and entitlement freaks.  I am not that old, but I remember a time when if someone from the government stopped in to help, most people said politely: “No thanks”…. people solved their own problems.  Nowadays, if someone has literally the smallest setback, people want government intervention.  It is utterly and absurdly outrageous that any American would consider they are entitled to anything other than the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…   All I do these days is just shake my head in utter disdain for the lazy, poorly educated uncaring youth of this country.  Sadly the Generation X group will likely see a lower standard of living than their parents… but that is what happens when you rely on someone else to solve your problems rather than taking responsibility for your problems and solving them yourself.  Enough said!!!   I think you get the picture

My god… is there no limit to what politicians will promise to give you if you vote for them.   Who in the hell is going to pay for all these giveaways?  If you look at the “true” national debt which includes IOU’s to Social Security, our debt is $53 trillion.  Who in the hell is going to pay for this?  And every day there is a new giveaway program being offered as a solution to every little problem American’s might endure.  My god what are we thinking here?  This is just pure and outright absurdity.   We gotta cut spending dramatically if we have any hope of getting our financial house in order.  Instead, all I hear is about new programs to help every little problem that comes along the road of life.  Whatever happened to “self-reliance”?  This has got to STOP!!!  Enough is enough!  Grow up people… life is hard.  And sometimes your problems are because you are just STUPID!!!  We can’t solve stupidity… but what I hear today is that we now are expected to solve stupidity.  I give up… Forest Gump was right when he said: “stupid is as stupid does”  Forest Gump was a true American even if he was fictional.  Forest Gump imbued the values and determination of real Americans.

I love to talk with people.  And the more I talk with people the more I wonder if there is something seriously wrong with me or if people are just plain dumb.  No matter where I am… no matter who I am talking with I find people who say things that they pass off as factual when in reality they are merely an opinion.  And often the opinion is based on what they hear others say or what they hear on TV.  Even news stations chronically make statements that suggest they are espousing factual information to the listener, but in reality it is merely their opinion.  An opinion requiring almost total suspension of reality.  Let’s take one of the most fraudalent statements I hear on news channels… “there are 47 million uninsured people in the United States”.   Well let’s analyse this just in a cursory manner.  There are supposedly 15 million illegal immigrants in the US.  So that reduces the uninsured to 32 million as clearly the United States has no obligation to solve this medical problem.  Now of those 32 million how many simply choose not spend money on healthcare in favor of spending money at the casino… or cigarettes… or beer.  My guess is that 25% of the 32 million fall into that category which leaves 24 million… and I can go on and on.   My hunch is that the true number of uninsured not by choice… here in the United States is probably 10 million which is less than 3% of the total population.  There is a point of diminishing returns on almost everything and my suspicion is that is what we are dealing with here on healthcare. 

Now back to my point.  The opinions thrown out as fact are distorting reality for all of us.  The population of the US is so dumb, it will believe anything it is told especially if it is negative news and there is a chance of some type of conspiracy.  I rest my case.

One of the basic laws of science is “Conservation of matter and energy”.  Basically nothing can be created or destroyed, but rather transformed from one state to another state.  For example water can be a solid, vapor or liquid.  If one assumes that humans are a complex interworking of electrochemical reactions… among other things, then when one dies the electrochemical reactions change into another state.  The other “state” is the after life.  And if you start researching this topic you will find more and more scientists discussing a convergence between science and religion.  The Bible was in large part the “science book” of its time.  And it was not able to explain things in cold hard scientific laws, but relied on faith.   But today one really doesn’t need faith to know there is life after death.  Science tells us that there is indeed life after death.  What exactly life after death is… is not clear, but death is not simply a “dead end”.