I am convinced that The Donald really has no desire to be president. I think he's in it for the publicity. He's still peddling his "brand." What a douche.

I realized today that I feel sorry for middle easterners. Not the ones who try to kill us; they deserve whatever punishment we administer. Not them, the rest. The people who just want to live doing something to earn a living, find someone to share the experience of life with, grow old peacefully while watching one’s family expand. And they get to do that in the middle of sand and rocks, dryness and heat.  Seems like the one thing that makes life out there even possible is the ocean of oil they sit on.

Up to now, the oil has been their ticket to wealth but that flow is choking off. It is a finite resource and societies today seem to be more inclined to find alternate ways of deriving energy.

I see this as a wonderful opportunity for the Arabs to segue their oil money into the next means of energy generation–what they have most of–the sun. Then they should create a bazillion new jobs building solar farms, stringing wiring, storage, transmission, etc.  Hell, they could run wires to foreign places to provide electricity.

Being able to create energy, alter its form, then transmit it from one point to another to do work, is a pretty valuable skill for mankind’s prosperity.

Also, any nation (including ours) that borders an ocean, should be creating new jobs by building desalinization plants. Lots of work for lots of people. Scientists to determine design and location allowing for sea rise, engineers to build, people to construct, workers to run and maintain the plants. The plants would become beehives of economic generation stemming from the ability to turn seawater into fresh; billions will be created by providing the liquid of life in a steady availability.

Virtually unlimited water can then translate into food (and luxury).