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“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” -Henry David Thoreau Happy Thanksgiving to all.   This is the day of the year where we often eat too much and watch too much football. It is also a day to give thanks.   So, before the turkey is served, and before the games begin, I count the many blessings in my life.   First, comes my family.   With me or without, my family is a wonderful group of folks.   All are good people doing good things, working to be better, sacrificing for others, and helping their friends. It is my honor to be among you.    I am always grateful for my parents, both good people who helped me no end in those early years, pointing me in the directions of good works, morality, honesty, and strength of character. The second is my life, as in I still have one. Because my dad died so young, I thought the same would be my fate.   But now decades later I’m still here, and with a detour or two have my health – which I do appreciat

Did you know that is a remote German valley, it was noted that four-thousand-year-old genomes show deep roots of social inequality?   Read the article. See, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03046-w You should not be surprised with this “scientific” discovery. In fact… Ever since there was not enough to go around, there was social inequity. “Not enough to go around” is the origin of greed.   Applies to all predator species – even today. Then came wealth, power, prestige, pride, and thus more inequity. However, it is not without value the discovery and validation of the obvious. Anyone pledging to eliminate social inequity is delusional – or lying. Anyone who believes the pitch is something close to stupid. Just a moment's thought reveals how important a family is to many.  It is a place where all are taken care of with some equity.  When it doesn't there arises the concept of patriarch or matriarch. 

Does practice make perfect? Not always. While the US and Europe practice all forms of birth control, their enemies practice procreation. Guess who will win this game? We are witnessing the final years of the West, for now.   As in ancient Rome, t he quest for wealth and dominion fuels population expansion; having wealth does quite the opposite. This makes wealth an alternate form of birth control.   

Many cities such as San Francisco have a multitude of unsolvable problems such as poverty, ineptness, homelessness, and squalor. Yet each has a small population of wealthy and rich people with guilt problems. It is possible such localities have taken to heart the nature of “sanctuary” for the similarly impoverished group of aliens, sympathetic but small enough to manage as a substitute problem.  Cleansing guilt through sanctuary this way is little more than throwing crumbs at the real problem they are indisposed to solve.

How rich is Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com?   Well, the latest data gives his worth to be about $105 billion.   That is a lot, and it make him the richest man on earth.   Here is one data point to illustrate his worth in terms of the GDP of the eight   Least Developed Countries, which are Nepal, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Niger, and Malawi.   For them, the total GDP is about $101 billion.   The combined population of these countries is 235,240,000. It is one thing to be the richest person on the planet; it is another to understand his relative worth in comparison with the poorest countries.   Not just one poor country, but eight of them combined! Table of actual values from nationmaster.com. COUNTRY GDP (billions) GDP per capita POPULATION (million)   LAND AREA (sq km) Bangladesh $115.61 $1,384.53 163.65                        130,17