Everyone I just got a wonderful surprise. My son Pedro has been given a full professorship in zoology at Concordia University in Montreal. After getting his Ph.D. in zoology in 2002, he held several positions with increasing responsibility at various Canadian universities. He was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Month: November 2016
New York Times Readers Are Feeling Pessimistic After The Recent US Presidential Election
House Speaker Paul Ryan Plans To “Gut” Medicare-He Might Succeed!
A Thanksgiving Message Of Thankfulness
This is a day for all of us to reflect and give thanks. I’m most thankful for the wonderful family that I have including Elena, Luah, Cida Stier, Anna Chagas Matheus Fahel, Pedro, Miguel Torello my sister, Aunt Beverly Walters my Kelly niece and all of the family members of the Walters, Helms, and Patterson families. I’m thankful to still be a homeowner. I’m thankful that my wonderful medical care detected a possible dangerous growth on my left lung and later found that it was not cancer. I’m thankful to have wonderful friends like Chris Alexander, William Baldwin, Ananth Narain, Latha Narain, Barbara Assadi, Khossrow Assadi, Mandy Findlater, Monty Heying, Carlos Mendez, J.P. Chimienti, Ariel Toribio,Djenane Santos, John Santos, Scott Davis, Pablo Gallyas Puffe, EddyGallyas, Valentina Gallyas, Elizabeth Farfan Peña, Josie Borain, Sacha Stel, Liliana Pacelli, Anna Silva, Rob Walker, Jeff O’Malley, Haim Feigenbaum, Sara Feigenbaum, Наталия Жмерик and Patricia von Klettenhof. I’m thankful for the incredible legal team of Mike Comfort, Geoff Wiggs, Robert Brooks Martin, Cason Benham and Alan Sherman who have pulled Elena and I through several crisis moments. A thanks also goes to Claud Knoesen who has been my lawyer and friend for 25 years.
I’m thankful for Ed Edward Vinces of Pacifica Computer Pros who keeps our computers going. I thankful to Will Dea and the team at Stewart Chevrolet who keeps our old cars running so well.
Jeri Fink and the team at State Farm Insurance I’m thankful to all of you for the wonderful guidance and service that you’ve given me over the last 18 years.
I’m thankful to Facebook and Instantcheckmate for reuniting me with many old friends who I had lost touch with for so long.
I’m thankful to wonderful people like Robert Zubrin, Artemis Westenberg, Chris Carberry, Debbie Cohen for raising my thoughts to Mars and the Heavens. I’m thankful to Seth Shostak and the team at Big Picture Science for keeping my mind stimulated and my interest in science keen. I thank the entire team at The Planetary Society, where I have been a member for 20 years for constantly educating me about the sky above and possibilities.
I’m thankful to Life Moves (formerly Inn Visions) and Rebecca Snyders Darr for giving me shelter and hope when I was homeless.
I’m thankful for my spiritual adviser, Pastor Samuel Nandakumar
I’m very humbled on this day. I have survived so many hard times and deadly situations. (I was badly injured and came close to death three times.) I think of my dear friends who died in Vietnam and died later.
And I think of my father, Vasco L. Walters, who left us all in January of 1976. He’s up in Heaven watching me. He’s proud of me and happy that I’ve done well (finally).
A Happy Thanksgiving
My family and I have a lot to be thankful for. May this holiday be special for all of you.
Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas
On Thanksgiving, the United States celebrates the Plymouth Colony, but few know that New England’s colonization was a response to major geopolitical pressures.
Source: Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas
Some Good News From My CT Scan Yesterday!
By the way I got the results of the CT scan from yesterday and it’s wonderful news. They had discovered a nodule 1 cm in diameter at the top of my left lung. My primary care doctor and the lung specialist were very concerned because most growths like this are malignant and cause lung cancer. Elena spent 16 years as a cancer doctor. She looked at the scan results from 3 months ago. She did not believe that I had cancer. (Cancerous growths have speckles on them and around them.) She believed that I had a scar on the lung due to an encounter with tuberculosis in Africa. I got my test results from the CT scan yesterday. The growth was noted as “stable.” A cancerous nodule would be growing and spreading. This one is not growing. I was told to come back in six months for another CT scan.
I’m so relieved. Two dear woman friends of ours in their 50’s; a doctor and the mayor of Milbrae, California (a lawyer), died of lung cancer.
President-Elect Trump Decides Not To Prosecute Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump has decided that there will be no further criminal investigations of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Now he is showing some good sense. Some thousands of years ago the Romans pioneered the concept of being magnanimous. Instead of humiliating a defeated foe and “rubbing their face in he mud,” the Romans would treat them decently and even help them to get back on their feet.
A criminal trial of the Clintons would attract the full attention of the country and the world. Such a trial would last for months. It would cost a lot of money and tie up many people. These resources could be better used to solve the huge problems that this country has.
In all fairness, a good team of lawyers could carefully go through Hillary’s things and find some technical violations of the law. Of course that same team of lawyers could go through any of our things and find something technically wrong.
A Fun Sunday Afternoon Hiking The Wavecrest Trail
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