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Healthcare – Designed by me

…e and the doctor high point usage. We could also steal a model from the electrical companies in which some users actually provide power onto the grid which pays them money!  In our plan, those which serve as midwives would be given extra bonus points and perhaps even make money off the plan if they never ever get sick but have healed others!  Just think, you could study to be a midwife, get licensed and still keep your day job! A great advantage o…

Where White Man Went Wrong

…fe and from one who truly tried to understand new and unique cultures. 1. Main website – http://www.georgecatlin.org/ 2. Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Catlin 3. George Catlin Papers – These papers have been made into a book and can be found for free on the internet if one is willing to look hard enough.  I found my free copies using the Stanza app on the Iphone. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/catlgeor/ Also, a wonderful…

Does the internet make us smart, stupid or just more informed?

…ot really sure how to define “smart” but what I do know is that whether we obtain the information from books, television shows, or the internet the source of information does not matter but what is derived from it and put into our brains does. 3.  Sources of information In the past, I would have thought of myself as “smart” if I knew some obscure fact or was knowledgeable about something that most people were unaware of.    In the past, “book know…

Thoughts on Communism

…ng and governments in both the West and Communist countries engage in this practice to a high degree. In Communist countries we often refer to “corruption.” In the west we also have corruption but also an elevated form of corruption called “lobbying.” In both cases, groups influence the government and the ones with the most money usually have the biggest effect. If a Communist country’s groups paid officials to obtain something, Westerners would c…

Oil depletion, a first post.

…Aramco, the oil arm of Saudi Arabia is using every trick in the book, to maintain the pressure in this oil field, in order to keep it producing. This includes injecting sea water and nitrogen gas. A healthy oil field doesn’t need to be injected with substances, in order to produce. Most of Saudi Arabia’s oil fields, are based on dry land. Between 2004 and 2008, rates for shallow water drilling rigs went from US $30,000 per day, to US $150,000 per…