Author: Joel Gross

We are currently at an overall historical low temperature here on Earth. Sure, temperatures have ticked up slightly over the last two hundred years, but overall it’s near an all time low.

During earlier eras, the planet was far greener overall as the amount of carbon dioxide (plant food) in the atmosphere was far higher. Temperatures were much warmer, so water evaporated off the oceans in higher quantities and there was far more rainfall.… read more “World History Theory”

War is one of the constants of history and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html

Summarized from FB discussion in comments:

Demanding more funding is a common approach of dictators; stopping funding and returning money to tax payers gives the power back to the people. Then if you want to fund universities, you can. If I want to fund food production, I can. I like to make my own choices, don’t you?… read more “Far left ideology and it’s effects”

Gallup polls show the largest ever increase in satisfaction with the state of the nation by a party subgroup.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/657353/record-surge-republican-satisfaction-state-nation.aspx

Republicans are happy with Trump’s performance so far as he is one of the few politicians who is doing what he promised to do. Some of this work will remove special privileges a few have enjoyed at the expense of their fellow citizens.… read more “Gallup poll”

We have all heard many stories of waste and corruption in the federal government, and how federal worker employees unions get politicians elected in exchange for higher pay and less work… all at our expense. And this has been going on for so long that it has spiraled to insane levels. Simple forms of accountability like typing a 10 minute email saying the five things you did this week are now being treated like people are being water boarded.… read more “Waste and Laziness in the Federal Government Bureaucracy”

The loser of a lawsuit should be forced to pay the winners’ fees. Otherwise the legal process is abused. Also – we need a far cheaper and more efficient legal system. Small claims lawsuits should go to $50,000 and be resolved with a twenty minute hearing. Medium claims lawsuits should go from $50,000 to $1 million and should be resolved with a one day hearing.… read more “Legal System”

I have been caffeine free now for sixty days. The chemical changes you more than you think. It is nice to be me again.