12/31/07

2008
    The new year, in a way, gives us an opportunity for a new start. To turn over some new leaves. How about making a list of the things you'd like to accomplish in the new year. Write the list down. That'll help make things happen for you. I'm in the middle of reading Write It Down, Make It Happen, by Klauser. But I already understand about the power of intention, so I know it works.

12/30/07

The Lab Called
    An old friend who runs a clinic called to say, after reviewing his tests, that I was one of the healthiest of the several thousand people he'd tested in the last couple years. Not just 85-year olds, either. He said my blood and all my organs are in great shape.
    Well, so much for doing my homework and then practicing what I preach.
    He, too, is discouraged at the way people are making themselves sick and slowly killing themselves with their diets. He's been getting people to change to raw food diets and watching them get rid of their diseases. Cancer, diabetes, and anything else. He watched a long time Parkinson's sufferer totally cure himself in one week.
    Those who do their homework know that almost every aisle in the supermarket is loaded with toxic stuff we should never be eating, and is the main reason Americans, despite spending about three times more on so-called health care, are the unhealthiest people in the developed world. And the shortest lived.
    When I see obese people I want to tell them how easy it is to get rid of all that fat by changing to a raw food diet. And, when I see people in the supermarket with diet soda in their basket, or cartons of milk, I wish there as some way to let them know they are making themselves and their families sick. And fat. They'd just get mad.
    Should I just shut the hell up and mind my own business? Well, there's the problem. I've done the homework and for some reason I feel it is my business to help people who obviously need it. We make a big fuss about the killing in Darfur, but turn a blind eye to us, our families and friends being slowly killed by the big food business and big pharma.
    It's all about the money, of course. There's little money in health, but trillions in sickness, which is keeping the medical, pharmaceutical, food, nursing home, and assisted care businesses awash in profits. Oh, and the health insurance, Medicare, and HMO industries, too. Right now we're paying an average of $7,000 each per year for our ignorance. That's $28,000 for a family of four. D'uh!
    Will someone please tell super-brain Steven Hawkins to change his stupid diet so he can talk without a computer and get the hell off that electric cart.
   
12/29/07

Dr. Adey.
    My old friend Dr. W. Ross Adey (look him up via google) died at 82 back in May. His ham call was K6UI and he was a leading researcher in the effects radio waves have on our brains. He'd sent me copies of his published research papers for years.
    As the one, more than any other, responsible for the development of the cell phone industry, I hate it when I see people with them to their ears, knowing this is slowly burning out their brain neurons, which will affect their memories and ability to think. Worse, particularly with youngsters, whose brains are growing faster than older people, they are chancing brain tumors.
    Ross's research proved all this, but the cell phone industry has, of course, done all it can, with the help of the major media, to squelch the alarms.
    Cell phones are fine IF YOU USE A HEADSET and keep that antenna a foot away from your head. And no, the radio waves do not travel up the headset wire, as advertised by the Blue Tube people.
    Ross sent me a video showing what happens to policemen when they mount their radar units between the seats of their patrol cars so the antenna shoots past their head. The video shows policemen with big holes in the side of their heads where the tumors were removed.
    No, I have never used a cell phone.

12/28/07

Your Pet
    It's a lot more convenient to feed your pets dog or cat food…as long as you don't care about their health or how long they're going to live. Hey, what are vets for, right? A big bag of dry food with a scoop and problem solved. Or cans of cat food or Alpo, which they love.
    If you take time before they have to be put down to do your homework on animal health you'll learn the same thing Dr. Bruno Comby did…that in every research project with dogs and cats, those fed cooked food only lived half to two-thirds as long as those fed raw food, and came down with cancer, heart disease, and so on. Dr. Comby, apparently not being totally brainwashed in medical school into solving health problems for his patients with drugs and operations, tried his patients on raw food diets. And the results were spectacular. His patients with cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and so on were all curing themselves. It's all in his Maximize Immunity book.
    Your pet is probably so used to the junk it's been getting it'll ignore meat. At first. So start mixing some in with the dry food and gradually increase the meat. Unless your supermarket has buffalo meat, as do the Shaws stores around New Hampshire, look for meat from a nearby farm. You sure don't want to feed your pet the factory-raised beef and chicken you get in the store. That stuff is poisonous.
    We have two buffalo farms around here, so getting a whole liver is easy. I freeze it and cut off chunks. Liver is easy to fix. I cut it into small pieces, put ’em into my chopper and two seconds later I have minced liver. Some salt and pepper and it's ready to eat. Delicious. For your pets, never mind the salt and pepper.
    If you are like most people the very idea of eating raw liver is a yeechh! Even though you've never tasted one bite of it in your entire life. Talk about conditioning! I'll try anything I see others eating. I won't make a list right now, but having traveled all over the world, I've had some very interesting food experiences.

12/27/07

Baby IQ 1
    Researchers have learned considerably about baby's brains develop. Indeed, parents who are interested in raising geniuses can now do this by applying what's been learned. And America (and the world, for that matter) could sure use a genius generation to bring us better government, arts, business leaders, engineers, and scientists.
    But, wouldn't most parents want to do everything they could to have the best children they could? Actually, it calls for a considerable commitment. You see, the fate of the baby, and then child, teenager, man or woman, they're bringing into the world starts being determined before conception with how healthy the sperm and ovum are. How healthy the parents are. I'll go into more detail on that sometime.
    The birth process is very traumatic for the baby, so this is a time for quiet. No talking. Then the baby should be put with the mother. This is a time of intense learning. The baby's brain and nervous system have to learn how to make the body work and to make sense of what the eyes are seeing, the ears hearing, the fingers feeling, the mouth tasting. And that takes a lot of learning. To help build the brain synapses the parents should read to the baby, sing to it, talk to it,  and play music, preferably classical and some country. No TV or radio, please!
    The baby is going to sleep a lot. Make sure the room is dark and quiet. This is when the baby's brain is busy sorting things out, building memories.
    Carry the baby around. Babies who are carried learn to walk earlier than those who aren't. And breast feed the baby for as long as possible. This helps build the baby's immune system and can make a serious IQ difference over bottle feeding. Some 12 to 15 IQ points!
    Give the baby lots of contact. Touching, massaging, stroking. Massaging helps the baby relax, improves digestion, helps the baby sleep better, and helps brain growth. There are books and videos to help parents learn baby massaging.
    When the baby cries, hop to it and solve the problem. This helps build the baby's trust in you.
    As the baby grows, teach it with love, not punishment. Animal trainers learned about that decades ago. No more whips and chairs for lion tamers. They sleep with them. A University of New Hampshire study proved a strong correlation between teenage suicide and childhood spanking. It's tough on a parent that gets angry at the child not to spank it to "show it a lesson." If you do I can tell you from personal experience that your child will never really forgive you. Always use love to teach.
    There's lots more to tell.
   
12/26/07

Barbarous
    When the haircut price got to a dollar, back in 1962, I bought barber's scissors and thinning shears. And that's the last time I've ever sat, waiting for, "Next."
    For me haircuts started out at 25¢ when I was five. They had zoomed to 35¢ when I was twelve. Well, that's about $7 in today's dollarettes. When my folks were visiting friends for dinner mom would give me 35¢ for dinner at the Chinese restaurant a block away on Avenue M. That got me a bowl of egg drop soup, chicken chow mein with crispy noodles and ice cream for dessert.
    So, every month or so, when I get shaggy, I chop off the ends and thin out the thicker parts. Let's see, forty-five years times twelve months…that's over 500 haircuts I haven't had to pay for.


12/25/07

History
    When the Europeans figured out how to build ships, they began exploring the world. Like Columbus discovering America. And what they found here was a bunch of primitive tribes, hunting and gathering for food, and busy making war on their neighbors. The Europeans had more advanced weapons, so taking over was a given.
    It was the same in Africa. Easy living and tribal wars. A wonderful climate for growing crops. Lots of wild animals to eat. Who needed reading and writing or schools? Duck soup for the Europeans, so in a historic jiffy the British claimed big chunks of East and South Africa. The Germans did too. As did the Belgians, the Dutch, and the French. Italy got there a little late, but did manage to get Ethiopia and Eritrea.
    But, when the British wanted to build a railroad from Nairobi to Mombassa on the coast of the Indian Ocean, they couldn't get the natives to work. Work was for women, so the whole idea of working was out of the question. The British had to import men from India, which was already a British colony, so they spoke English, to build their railroad. Soon the Indians brought their families and began setting up shops.
    When I visited Lesotho, the British ham operator I visited explained the problem. His job was to recruit natives to work in the South African gold mines. The mines, in order to help the workers do better jobs, had schools to teach them to read and write. But they had few takers. The natives only wanted to work in the mines long enough to buy some cattle for their wife to tend, and from then on they'd sit with their men friends and take life easy except for occasional hunting. No real man would learn to read.
    Later, whenever a native would try to set up a shop in a town the Indians would cooperate with each other to put him out of business. I saw this in every city in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Then, when the Europeans got kicked out of Africa, the Kenyans deported the Indians, who had been taking advantage of them. The problem was, they had no experienced natives to replace them. The same with the British who had run the farms. It didn't take long for the farming exports to disappear and the farms all go back to the bush. And the cities weren't in much better shape.
    The natives were angry with the British and the Indians for being wealthy, so they got rid of them. But they had no one to replace them. When I first visited Nairobi I went into the central post office and asked for five seven shilling stamps. The native who waited on me asked some of his fellow native workers how much seven times five was. They came up with several different numbers and finally had to ask the Indian in charge.
    With the British and Indians gone, the economies of the East African countries tanked.
    When I visited Fiji they had a similar problem. The Chinese had come in and taken over and the Fijians were ready to kill them. The Chinese kept to themselves and refused to mix with the Fijians. They made sure no Fijian enterprise succeeded.
    One of my college fraternity brothers, Harry Feick, explained back in 1940 how Hitler had been able to get the Germans to rise up against the Jews. He'd visited relatives in Germany in 1937 and got their story.
    He explained that the German Jews tended to stick together in ghettos and not mix with the Germans. Further, they owned the banks and many of the larger businesses, and like the Chinese and Indians in Fiji and East Africa, cooperated with each other to put competitors out of business. During WWI the Jews ran the munitions industries and were largely absent from the army and navy. So Hitler didn't have much trouble rallying the Germans against the Jews, resulting with Crystalnacht, in November 1938, when one night they burned down over 1,500 synagogues and destroyed Jewish stores by the thousands. It was the broken glass from this that gave it the Crystalnacht name. This was the beginning of the later holocaust.
    When I was young the Jews general refusal to integrate with the other immigrants in America had set them apart. Few non-Jewish owned businesses would hire Jews. And many hotels were "restricted," which meant no Jews. Bethlehem NH, in the 1930s, had thirty hotels and a hundred rooming houses, and they were packed with Jews, mostly from New York, every summer. High on the side of Mt. Agassiz, it was a wonderful hay fever and asthma refuge. A mile down the road was the Maplewood hotel and golf course. It was restricted. That meant no Jews.
    In 1960, when I started my first business using a desk in my bedroom, my first hire was Jordan Polly K2AZL, a local ham friend. My dad was aghast. "He's a…a…Jew!" Having gone to public schools in Brooklyn, where most of the kids were Jewish, I had no prejudices. Still don't. Many of my friends were Jewish. Big deal. I'm ready to make friends with anyone, any color, any religion, anywhere.
    When the Irish arrived they tended to stick together, but they eventually melting potted. Ditto the Italians. But the Jews, for the most part, didn't melt.
   
12/24/07

Ignorance
    It was twenty years ago my mother died. Alzheimer's. And three years earlier dad died of emphysema. If I'd only known to do my homework instead of believing in the doctors my folks might still be alive and able to share the holidays with me.
    If your parents are still alive you can help keep them that way by doing your homework. Get them to change their diets, remove dental amalgam, and stop being conned into vaccinations, Every illness we have we do to ourselves and, if we stop doing it, they'll go away. There are no incurable illnesses.
    I treasure the memories of Thanksgivings and Christmases with my folks. But that was before Dr. Bruno Comby wrote his Maximize Immunity in 1994. And Dr. Lorraine Day cured her terminal cancer when she discovered how any illness could be cured with a diet change.
    I hope I'll be able, with my Secret Guide to Health, to help people avoid the terrible loss I felt when my folks died. We don't know yet how long people can live when they give their bodies the nutrition and care they have been designed to have. I suspect it'll be between 120 and 200 years, barring accidents. And in robust health, not creeping around with a damned walker.
 
12/23/07

Honors
    An obit sent by a friend of the deceased, cited the wonderful things the man had done. My reaction was one of frustration and disappointment. Why did this friend wait until the guy died to write something nice about him?
    One of my readers sent me a copy of a Nova program about Dick Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. I’d seen the program when it originally was shown, but it was fun to see it again. Too bad if you missed it. Even more too bad if you haven’t bought any of Feynman’s books, such as his Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, which I’ve reviewed on page 13 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
    Anyway, Dick explained he had no interest in honors. That resonated with me. That’s one thing about working with Rennselaer that annoyed me. Colleges tend to think almost totally in terms of honors. Phooey.
    Well, since college professors are never going to make much money, I suppose the artificial worship of honors is a good substitute.
    Sure, I’m a past president of the Peterborough Chamber of Commerce. Big deal. But I am happy that as the president I was able to build the membership by over ten times. And when I was on the local hospital board I helped them save nearly $1 million in the building of a new wing. When I was a member of the board of the NH High Tech Council I came up with the program that has been the mainstay of the organization. When Prince Raad introduced me at a meeting as the man who had more of an influence on the country of Jordan than anyone other than the king, I felt more than rewarded. And my part in bringing cellphones and personal computers to the world are justification enough for my present incarnation. The results of what I've done mean much more to me than any honors I could have been given.

12/22/07

Protoversial
    Being a positive type person, I find being contro-versial as too negative. The more I investigate things people believe, the more I discover the world is truly a stage, and we're the credulous audience, watching the puppets, and like young children, believing they're real.
    Like the Muslim kids, who are brought up to believe in 72 beautiful virgins for martyrs, we're brought up to believe in our parent's religion, our doctor/pharmaceutical health care system, our government-controlled public school system, the American dollar, the need for an income tax, oil, our government-protected food supply, our need for fluoridated water, our media, man's activities contributing to global warming, the failure of cold fusion to pan out, the need for more nuclear power generators, and America's greatest 20th century achievement, those Moon landings. It's called faith, which is believing without proof.
    Alas, the more I seek proof of popular beliefs, the more suspicious I get that we're being sold a bill of goods that's paying off big time for the purveyors. The almost three trillion dollar American health-care industry is based on the public not knowing enough to eat healthily so they won't get sick. The trillion dollar American food industry has the same basis.
    If you do some research you'll find that the American public school system was purposely designed to stifle creativity and make us obedient workers and worshipers.
    The great American dollar is issued by a group of private banks and could soon be worth less than a bucket of spit. Hmm, did I spell that right?
    The income tax? That's taking a big chunk out of our paychecks, and it doesn't even cover the interest the government is paying the Fed banks for the dollars congress has so much fun spending. Hey, ask Hillary, the so-called "Queen of Federal Pork" about the $2.2 billion in sneaky little earmarks she's added to spending bills.
    Do you really believe that Arabs had anything at all to do with 9/11? Or that vaccinations can be helpful to your health? Turn off the radio and TV and do some reading.
    If you find me controversial you haven't done your homework.

12/21/07

Christmas
    Even when I was seven my folks kept up the Santa myth, with my dad going out after I'd gone to bed, buying a tree, and then setting it up in the living room with lights and decorations. And piles of presents under the tree to greet me when I woke up Christmas morning.
    I remember getting a workbench and a Chemcraft chemistry set that year. That kept me busy experimenting for months.
    We'd have breakfast…usually waffles for this special day…and then open the presents. And a big turkey dinner late in the afternoon. When we moved to Brooklyn with mother's folks, we'd usually have my Uncle George and his wife, Cousin Dale and his wife, mother's folks, and dad's dad, down from Littleton (NH) for the occasion. What a pile of presents it was!
    In later years, after cassette recorders had been invented, I taped our Christmas dinner conversations. I still have the tapes. They're in a box in the attic. I live in the future, not the past.
    For the last twenty years or so it's just been Sherry and me. No tree. I give her some money and she gives me a few books. Christmas present giving will be over in a couple minutes this year. And no waffles or turkey.

12/20/07

More Bio
    When I landed a job as a TV engineer with WPIX, channel 11 in NYC, with the help of family friend Bob Sullivan, I got permission to set up my two-meter (2M) VHF ham radio station (W2NSD) up on the top floor of the Daily News building on West 42nd Street in Manhattan. I think it was the 37th floor.
    It was Bob and his record collection that, when I was seven, got me interested in classical music and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. In high school I performed in The Mikado (Koko) and Ruddigore.(Major General Stanley). So Bob had a major influence on my life.
    Since 2M radio waves are line-of-sight, the higher the antenna the better, and mine was on top of a skyscraper, so I could reach ham operators all around northern New Jersey, lower New York state, and western Connecticut. It was great fun!
    One chap I met on the air was Bill Hoisington W2BAV, who had his station on top of a fire tower about a hundred miles upstate. I bought one of the antennas he manufactured to increase my range and we got to be friends. Then, years later, when I was living in New Hampshire and publishing my ham radio magazine, Bill started submitting articles on fairly simple construction projects of experimental equipment.
    When, Diamond Horseshoe, the company he'd been working many years for, fired him so they wouldn't have to pay his retirement pension, Bill and his wife Mary moved to Peterborough and made his living writing articles for me. Mary helped by taking in old men as roomers. Then, when they'd somehow die, she'd bury them in the nearby woods and continue to cash their Social Security checks.
    On the plus side, she encouraged me to learn to ski. I lucked out when the Milford ski shop got me to start with short-short skis. I learned to ski that spring in four days without ever falling down. The next winter, when I was 44, I went to Aspen, bought regular skis, learned how to get up after falling down, and after a week of group lessons was handling just about anything they had to offer. I was skiing better than I every thought I'd be able.
    A salesman who was supplying paper for my magazine had a purebred Arab colt he wanted to sell, so I became the owner of two-year old Al Run. No problem, there were a couple of stalls in my barn. With a professorship in horse training from the Beery School of Horsemanship, I knew how to break him to the saddle and start his education. I'd been riding since I was ten, when my folks got me ten lessons for Christmas. I did get thrown once with Al Run, breaking my thumb in the landing, but otherwise it went very well. Soon I had him ridable and able to pull a carriage. I ran a picture of him on the cover of my magazine with me and Bob Cushman of Cushman Antennas in the carriage.
    Mary had a mare she kept, so when I was off on a trip I let her take care of Al Run for me. Which was fine until I got back and found she'd had him gelded because he'd been bothering her mare. And, on another trip her barn caught on fire and both horses died.
    When Bill got cancer, incurable cancer, Mary divorced him and moved to Florida. Instead of dying, Bill went to a clinic in the Philippines, where he was totally cured. While there he married a local woman and brought her back to his farm in Peterborough, where he continued writing great construction articles for me. A few years later he had a heart attack and died.
    And that's the end of that chapter in my life.

12/19/07

You Can Help
    In a couple of ways. Make that three. No four.
    First, I've got two friends, Ken Glanzer and Marcel Le Roi, who send me interesting magazine and newspaper clippings. You know what I'm interested in, so keep your scissors handy.
    Second, you can help me share what I've learned by steering your friends to my site.
    Third, please let me know if you've found a book I may have missed and ought to read.
    Fourth, I tape a few TV shows to watch while I'm eating. But there may be some shows I'd enjoy that I don't know about, so clue me in. Oh, and if you see a movie I really shouldn't miss, let me know. It's been far too long since I've seen a well done movie.

12/18/07

Bio VI
    When I got back from helping represent the U.S. at the 1959 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference I was met with angry phone calls from my CQ columnists and authors. They hadn't been paid in months and I hadn't answered their letters asking about it.
    Letters? Barry Briskman K2IEG, my assistant editor, had been intercepting my mail so I wouldn't find out what was going on. Barry, a school chum of publisher Sandy Cowan's son, had been hired as my assistant, when my previous one moved to Utah. It seems that Cowan was buying a yacht and the payments trumped the payments to my authors. So I started paying them out of my pocket.
    By January 1960 I was over $10.000 out of pocket (that's about $200,000 in today's dollarettes) when Cowan fired me, promising he'd repay everything he owed. Big surprise…I never got  nickel.
    Well, Barry triggered my firing by sneaking into the CQ offices one weekend, going through Cowan's desk and making a photocopy of the true CQ circulation figures, which were substantially smaller than those in Cowan's sworn, notarized statements to the Post Office. Barry gave me the copy of the real figures and then told Cowan I had them, not bringing up how I'd gotten them. Cowan, terrified, drove immediately to my house and demanded the copy of the true figures. And fired me, making Barry the new editor. Which is just what Barry had planned.
    I'd been fed up with Cowan anyway, so it was the break I needed. So, now what should I do? I couldn't think of anything more fun than publishing a ham magazine.  By selling my boat and Porsche I had just enough to print and mail the first issue of 73. And, since all the hams knew me and so did the potential advertisers, my new magazine was in the black, right from the first issue in October, 1960. I solicited articles from authors I knew, handled the subscriptions, and got on the phone selling ads and did the bookkeeping. A one man operation at first. And great fun.
    At the time there were around 350 ham radio stores around the country and they all wanted to carry my magazine. Direct mail brought in hundreds and then thousands of subscribers.
    A year later I got fed up with living in New York and started looking for some place better. It turned out to be Peterborough NH. I'll tell you about it sometime.
   
12/17/07

Smoke Screen
    Yes, we have global warming, but the Kyoto and Bali-hoo are smoke screens, as is all the hoopla about going green. Yes, thousands of scientists say we really, really, must cut down on our carbon emissions. Well, that would be nice, but it has zilch to do with global warming. This is another political cover-up on what's actually going on.
    It's one cover-up after another, while our attention is on ball game scores, Oprah, Hillary, Obama, Iraq, The View, misbehaving celebs, and Dancing With The Stars. Oh, and gas prices and car fuel economy mandates.
    So, what about that secret government major observatory in Antarctica? What's that all about? And what about the underground construction going on around the country? Is that all just conspiracy theory? Though NASA has quietly announced that all of the planets are heating up, you haven't seen any headlines about that. No, we have Al Gore getting a Nobel Prize for his smoke screen movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." My response was A Convenient Lie (#13a $5), which explains about incoming Planet-X, which is the actual cause of global warming. Check Rense.com and see for yourself.
    With Big Oil challenging Big Pharma for profitability supremacy, and with an oil family in the White House, is it any wonder cold fusion has been almost totally made invisible? Non-polluting energy at maybe a hundredth the cost of oil? Are you even a tiny bit suspicious? The health cover-up is the biggest, but cold fusion is a close second, and we're the sheep being shorn. Big time! Suckers!
    Cold fusion would put oil, coal, natural gas and the power grid out of business. No more nuclear plants or dams generating electricity, and wow, would the atmosphere start clearing up! And we could forget all those windmills and solar arrays. It's practical for cars, trucks and trains, but maybe not airplanes, so we might see the huge drop in trucking and train shipping costs, changing things substantially. Think new high-speed railroads spanning the country. Boston to New York in an hour! And another hour to Washington. Coast-to-coast in twelve hours, with stops in Chicago and Denver? And no more smog in Los Angeles and Denver!

12/16/07

The Silver Lining
    The Health Department, the FDA, the AMA, and the media wouldn't lie to us, just for a measly few hundred billion dollars, would they? By endlessly re-electing our politicians, we Americans have ceded control of our country from the people, as envisioned by the Constitution, over to big business. And when big business pulls the money strings, their congressional puppets, via an army of lobbyists, ask how high to jump.
    Over all, the biggest "secret" is that if we'd stop putting poisons in and on our bodies, we'd get over any illness we have and never get sick again. We're spending over $7,000 each a year to support our sickness habit, and unless we start wising up, it's heading for double that in a few years. Isn't there something more fun a family of four could do with $28,000 a year? Or, as George Carlin might put it, "Wise the hell up you dumb-asses."
    But, to be more specific on one major health scam, I'm talking about the value of colloidal silver vs. a growing array of antibiotics…one of Big Pharma's bigger cash cows and their mostly unwitting doctor distributors. You see, the third leading cause of disease and death in America is infectious disease. And these are totally preventable with an antibiotic that costs almost nothing to make on the kitchen counter with a silver colloid generator. Every family should have one.
    Silver has been used for thousands of years to kill pathogens. The ancient Greeks lined their plates and cups with silver. It's why silverware is made of silver. You see, silver kills bacteria in contact with it in a few minutes. Early Americans put a silver dollar in milk jugs to keep the milk from spoiling without refrigeration.
    No known disease-causing organism can live in the presence of even tiny amounts of silver. And, the best part, it's safe to put in and on your body. Unlike Big Pharma's antibiotics, which have one thing in common in that bacteria are able to develop resistant strains, pathogens can't cope with silver.
    So, if silver is so fabulous an antibiotic, how come Big Pharma isn't selling it? That's easy, first, it isn't patentable, so there's no big money in it. They didn't get to be the most profitable industry in the world by selling peanuts. How do you sell something that costs about a penny a gallon to make at home? If the public knew about silver colloid it could knock the hell out of antibiotic drug and vaccine sales.
    Silver has been shown to be effective against 650 different disease-causing pathogens, microbes, viruses, fungi and parasites…including cancer! It's also great for garden use against bacterial, fungal and viral attacks on plants. And as a rinse for any food that might be infected with E. Coli, salmonella, etc. Put some in your pet's water dish to keep them healthy.
    The best part is the stuff is non-toxic, so it's safe for kids, adults and pets. Anything much bigger than one-celled animals like it,
    But, what about the FDA? Can they step in to protect Big Pharma? Alas, colloidal silver is a pre-1938 healing modality, so it's exempt from FDA jurisdiction.
    So, what's this silver colloid and how do we make it? A colloid is the suspension of particles in water that are so fine they don't settle out and we make silver colloid by putting two silver rods into a glass of water and passing a small electric current through it. This knocks nanometer-size ionized particles of silver off the positive silver rod into the water. So all we need are two ultra-pure silver rods, one of those wall-wart power units that provide somewhere between ten and thirty volts, and we're in business.
    Yes, of course I have a silver colloid kit available, all ready to use, complete with instructions. It's #82 in my catalog and only costs $40. At least for now, but with the price of silver expected to double and quadruple, who knows?
    It's great on cuts, rashes, and warts. It's safe to drink in moderation, and best if you swish it around in your mouth and get it absorbed sublingually. It's non-toxic. Sure, Big Pharma has mounted a scare campaign. Argyria! If you drink massive amounts of heavy silver colloid concentrations, you can turn your skin silverish and pass for a European blue-blood. They stayed healthy through the middle-age plagues by ingesting large amounts of silver.
    How about our beneficial bacteria? Doesn't hurt ’em. But it sure boosts your immune system, unlike Big Pharma's antibiotics, which attack it.
   The Germans, in WWII, lined their troops water bottles with silver so they could drink any water safely, while many of our troops were sick and even dying of dysentery.
    On the plus side, it speeds up the healing of injured tissues and promotes bone growth.
    Until Big Pharma/FDA/AMA can figure out how to stop them, health food stores are selling silver colloid for as much as $30 for a couple ounces. Some kit makers, to justify their high price, make a big deal out of particle size. The usual baloney. It turns out that when you put an electric current through silver the particles always break off at the same size, just a bit larger than atoms.
    It's best to make it using distilled water. Well, that's what you should be drinking anyway. And add just a little sea salt solution to make the water conductive. In about twenty minutes you'll have silver colloid, ready to use. It should be stored in a brown or opague bottle because light reacts with silver.
    Put a few drops in your milk to keep it fresh longer, ditto any other foods you're keeping that might spoil. I add about a quarter cup of 20 ppm silver to my afternoon cod liver oil, flax oil, Nature's First Food and vitamin C in raw apple juice and red grape juice supplement routine.
    If any of the threatened terror attacks or global calamities occur, it'll be very handy to have this super-antibiotic on hand. And if the power goes out, which it probably will, you can use a 12-volt car battery to make more colloid.
    Bring on your West Nile, Mad Cow, or anything else, we're ready. And, whatever you do, don't let ’em panic you into getting a flu shot! Researchers tell us that getting ’em three years running will give you a ten times chance of Alzheimer's. Besides, they're all for last year's flu viruses.
    Hmm, if you know someone with Alzheimer's, I wonder what might happen if they started loading up with silver colloid. It sure can't hurt.

12/15/07

Day Care
    Day un-care is more like it, and millions of our babies are having their brains stunted for life by these conveniences for working mothers.
    My 12/4/07 essay pointed out that researchers tell us that one third of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives. And that 80% of American families did not buy or read a book last year. And that 70% of American adults have not been in a book store in the last five years. Worse, the average American spends four hours a day watching TV. And I'll bet that most of that 80% that didn't read a book last year were parked, as babies, in day care, where they were kept quiet by watching Big Bird and Oscar.
    Babies, like all living things, go through stages of learning, and if these stages are blocked during this learning period, the child is never able do that successfully. Children who have been raised by wolves, and then returned to civilization, are unable to learn to talk. Without visual stimulation during the critical period, babies are essentially blind for life.
    It's the same for language. Around one to two years of age babies are able to learn several languages, think in them, and speak with no accent. But only if exposed to them so their brains can build the connections required. It's the same with reading. A baby that's read to builds the brain network to deal with that. Those who just watch TV during this critical period of their lives, don't.
    I was blessed. My mother read to me from my earliest days, so when I finally learned to read I loved it. She read to me during lunch every day. And later my grandfather (Pop) read to me after dinner during the summers I spent at the farm in Bethlehem (NH) with him and my grandmother (Netta). He read Grimm's Fairy Tales, Brer Rabbit, and such. I loved it and could hardly wait to learn to read.
    Once I learned, the Oz books were a favorite. I loved poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson and Eugene Field, memorizing many of the poems. By the time I was ten I'd read all of the Tom Swift and Tarzan books, Booth Tarkington, Mark Twain, Earnest Thompson Seton, and so on. I still read a book or two a week, plus stacks of magazines.
    I've mentioned Sherry's seventeen-year-old grandson who visited. When I tried to interest him in reading a book he explained that he'd only managed to read six books in his whole life and wasn't interested.
    Day care operators should be exposing their charges to languages, be read to, and anything else that will help build the brain connections they need to be successful in life. Right now, I'm afraid that most centers are just baby-sitters.
    It's a tough, competitive world, so the more skills we build the better, and the first baby years are when the foundations are laid for life. There are very few successful ignorant people, and very few well educated poor people. Alas, our government-run public school system is doing a minimum of educating, so kids who can't access the information laid down by the top people in every field in books, are sentenced for life to mediocrity. Or worse.
    Education, ideally, should start during pregnancy, with exposure to classical music and reading. Read The Prenatal Classroom, which I review on page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. This can substantially increase a baby's IQ.
    A baby's first years are the basis for all later learning. It's a period of intensive learning, however inconvenient for the parents. And any aspect that is stunted will be a permanent liability. That's something to think about when you park the baby in a play pen for your convenience. Or, much worse, most day care, as it exists today. And forget Sesame Street.
    Seems to me there's a wide open opportunity for the opening of day learning centers.

12/14/07

Health Savings
    Since employees with health problems cost a company more for health care coverage, why not encourage healthy living for employees by passing along the company savings for healthier employees?
    Like charge extra for smokers, the obese, and so on. If people want to eat lousy diets, avoid exercise, smoke, and so on, why should the company, and thus all the other employees, have to pay the extra costs their health problems are going to ring up?
    And back up the health message by pulling out the junk food vending and coffee machines, replacing them with fruit baskets and a pure water source. Healthy employees are happier and much more enthusiastic workers, besides costing themselves and the company "health care" money.

12/13/07

Skinflint
    I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty. And this is reflected in the clothes I wear…mostly from Haband. I think their stuff is both great and huge bargains.
    On these cold New Hampshire days I'm wearing their Ice-House pants, made in Pakistan, two pair for $30. They're flannel lined and warm. On top, I wear their Tailgater, with thermal quilted lining and a hood with a drawstring for when I go outdoors. It's made in China and costs only $20.
    If you watch my TV shows you'll see me with a blue Weatherman shirt, made in Swaziland and is thick and warm. Three for $30. During the warmer weather you'll see me wearing their golf shirts, four for $30, and made in Mongolia. When I need to dress for looks instead of maximum warmth, the pants are from the United Arab Emirates, $18, and the same Weatherman shirts, which I have in blue, red and black.
    In the summer I'm wearing their $10 shorts, made in Hong Kong.
    Call ’em at 800-742-2263 or check www.haband.com and start getting their catalog mailings and see for yourself. Their stuff wears like iron and the wash & wear pants keep their creases.
    No, I don't get a commission.

12/12/07


Bio V
    One benefit of WWII was the flood of surplus electronic equipment the Army made available. The Navy refused to do this, preferring to take their warehouses of unused equipment and crush it. I knew this first hand because I was teaching electronics at the Submarine Base in New London. There they had a huge warehouse, packed with state-of-the-art transmitters, receivers, sonar, radar and test equipment which had been made to be installed in new submarines.
    When the war suddenly ended in late 1945, submarine new construction was stopped, leaving all this equipment orphaned. I was able to get some for the school, but most of it was put into compactors and crushed.
    The Army surplus was a bonanza for hams, and what fun we had converting it to work on our ham bands. My cellar workshop quickly filled up with surplus equipment. I pushed my CQ readers for conversion articles and took on Ken Grayson W2HDM as my Surplus Conversion Editor.
    Ken had a little MG sports car and was having a ball with sports car rallies, so in 1957 I looked over the sports car field, settled on a Porsche Speedster, and soon was having a fantastic time rallying every weekend. Naturally I joined the Porsche Club of America and soon was voted president. As such I organized a trip to Stuttgart for people who wanted to buy a Porsche straight from the factory. The difference in price was such as to pay for the trip, so in 1958 I led a group of over two hundred new Porsche owners to the factory. Yes, all this time I was also editing CQ magazine, but I had my work far enough ahead so I could take off for adventures. The magazine was, under my direction, making a lot of money for the publisher, so he had no argument.
    The Porsche factory lined up our new cars around a local castle and ushered each of my group to their new cars. They then turned us loose on the five-mile long racing circuit that went past the castle so we could try out our new cars. Wow, what fun!
    A few years ago, when I read that the Zeppelin company was making tourist flights available, Sherry and I flew over and got a Zeppelin ride all around Stuttgart, with me hanging out the gondola window taking pictures, including that castle.
    I drove my new Porsche all around Europe, including a stop to visit the hams at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva. They had alarming news. The next ITU Plenipotentiary meeting was coming up in 1959 (next year) and it looked really bad for ham radio.
    At the previous meeting, in 1948, the US, England and Germany had grabbed the most desirable short wave frequencies, leaving little for the other countries. Now they were calling for a reduction of the amateur radio bands so they'd have frequencies for their short wave stations. The small countries were in revolt. Worse, with the freeing of a bunch of African countries from European control, they were asking for frequencies.
    It didn't help that American amateur groups visiting these new countries to provide hams with "new country," had often ignored the country's power limit regulations, leaving a bad taste for our hobby with local telecommunications departments.
    It also didn't help that the Secretary of the ITU was Jerry Gross, an American ham. And a drunk. The Assistant Secretary was John Gayer, another American ham, and arrogant. I got to know both of them quite well. Then, there was the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the American ham organization. It was led by "Bud" Budlong W1BUD, who insulted the other ITU delegates by bringing local prostitutes with him to their meetings in 1948. And usually drunk. As the editor of CQ I met Bud at quite a few hamfests around the country and he was almost always drunk, so I knew the ITU hams weren't exaggerating.
    When I got back from my trip I called Bud to see if we could work together. He cursed me out and hung up. I guess not. Then I got a call from the State Department, asking if I could go to Geneva for the conference and help Budlong represent American amateurs. Since Budlong was the General manager of the ARRL and the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), they were stuck with him, but maybe I could help.
    I got my editing work ahead again at CQ and took off for Geneva, where I found a small room in a hotel. Budlong was there with a huge suite in the most expensive hotel in town, courtesy of the ARRL members. I looked over the proposals submitted by the ITU countries. It looked really bad. India proposed cutting us down to 25 kHz. Well, they had very few hams, so that was plenty for them. And Australia wanted to cut us down to 50 kHz from the almost 3,000 kHz we had out of the 3,000 to 30,000 kHz short wave bands.
    I talked with the other members of the US team, representing short wave broadcasting, mobile radio, and other services. I took ’em out to lunches and dinners to get the real dope and found that though they were 100% in support of amateur radio, their instructions were that if they faced a loss of frequencies for their service, they were to come from the nearest ham band. Ugh!
    The only chance we had was to get the conference to put off the 3-30 MHz allocation discussions until the next conference in 1969. Only the Netherlands delegate supported this move, so we were in serious trouble.
    When the conference officially opened the Netherlands delegate proposed tabling the 3-30 MHz changes until 1969. The Russian delegate stood up and seconded the motion. Since he controlled all the Soviet Republic's votes, that was a done deal. We'd been saved!
    What had happened was that Krushev had just visited America, including Disneyland, and wanted to show his support of the U.S. at international conferences as a good will gesture. A few weeks later Frances Gary Powers was shot down over Russia in his U2 spy plane and that was the end of cooperation.
    In the next couple of years both Gross and Gayer were tossed out, with the new Secretary General being from Ethiopia. And after him an Indian (25 kHz) and the new Assistant Secretary was from Australia (50 kHz).
    You can get the next chapter in this saga by thumbing back to my 8/25/06 essay, wherein I tell about my visit with the ex-ITU Secretary General in Ethiopia and his help in getting me together with the new Secretary General in New Delhi to see if I could get the ITU to encourage countries to set up amateur radio clubs in their schools to help interest their kids in high-tech careers.
   
12/11/07

Bio IV
    I got my dad to write about some of his experiences which I published as "The Ancient Aviator" in 73 Magazine. I'll have to find a spot on my site for those so you can enjoy them. I wish my grandfathers had taken the time to write about their lives. So, for anyone interested, and maybe my granddaughters interest someday, I'll be sharing my interesting life. And, what a life it's been.
    When old time family friend Bob Sullivan, who was a feature writer for the New York Sunday News, helped me get a job in 1948 with the Daily News TV station, WPIX, Channel 11, which was in the paper's building on West 42nd Street, I got permission to set up my ham radio station up on the top floor (37th), next to the WPIX transmitter.
    The very high frequencies (VHFs) were line-of-sight, so the higher the better. From there I was able to contact hams in lower Connecticut, and down into New Jersey. What fun! But what were those strange beedle-beedle sounds way up on the high end of the band?
    They turned out to be a small ham group, led by Johnny Williams W2BFD, having a ball with old Teletype machines, sending radio-teletype messages to each other. John, who ran a small radio repair shop out in Queens, had made a deal with the Teletype company to buy their obsolete Model 12 machines (from the 1930s) for hams to experiment with.
    I quickly bought a machine from John and got busy building the necessary converter. The system worked a lot like today's email. My signal would automatically turn on the desired teletype machine of any ham in the system so I could leave him a message. When I'd come home I'd read the messages friends had left for me and, as with email, I'd answer them. Not bad for sixty years ago!
    This was so much fun I kept pushing John to do a newsletter on the subject, so more hams could get in on the fun, but he said he didn't have time.
    Meanwhile, the new program director for KPIX in San Francisco visited WPIX and was so impressed with my camerawork that he offered me a job as a producer-director. Wow! You bet! So I quite my job at WPIX and got ready to move to California. A ham friend in San Francisco located an apartment for me just a couple blocks from the KPIX studios and I was ready to go when I got a telegram that the program director had been fired and my job was pfft. Damn!
    I sent résumés to several TV stations and landed a director's job with WXEL in Cleveland, where I produced and directed all their live shows. They were running almost all network shows except for the news, news commentary and sports roundup, which I directed. Well, my Sohio Evening News with Warren R. Guthrie did get broadcast by six other Ohio TV stations, so I was directing a network program.
    The station had a mimeograph machine they weren't using at night, so I started a radio-teletype (RTTY) newsletter, sending copies to the few dozen hams I knew had systems up and running. When I got fed up with the program director turning down my requests to develop more local programming, I quit and went back home to Brooklyn and got after John Karlson to develop his microwave antenna design into a loud speaker cabinet for hi-fi fanatics. I continued my newsletter, getting it offset printed at a local print shop and building the paid circulation.
    It was fun. I got my drafting board out so I could provide professional-looking schematics of the circuits the readers were submitting for publication. And my grandfather's old 5x7 1895-model Pony Premo #5 plate camera took great pictures, which I then halftone screened for the newsletter. What had started with a few pages grew to a 36-page monthly journal with over 2,000 paid subscribers.
    I sent copies to Perry Ferrell, the editor of CQ magazine. I'd known Perry ever since he ran the Radio Amateur Scientific Observations (RASO) project for the Air Force back in 1946. That's when I built a transmitter for the then brand new ham band at 50 MHz (six meters). I put it on the air 24/7 with a code wheel announcing my call letters and location so amateurs around the country (and the world) could see when the band was open and to where.
    Perry liked my newsletter and asked me to do an RTTY column for CQ. Hey, you bet!
    Meanwhile, as I've reported before, Karlson and I came up with a loud speaker enclosure design that provided incredible sound. I borrowed $1,000 on my car to get started, with a local woodshop making the first models. All hi-fi store managers had to do was hear it and I had sales. Ditto hi-fi fanatics who went to the hi-fi shows that sprung up around the country. Within a couple years I had seven factories busy making the cabinets. Karlson, having a wife and kid to support, stayed with his old job at Airborne Instrument Labs.
    I was running ads in Radio News, and then when the publishers, Ollie Reid and Bill Stocklin started a new magazine, Popular Electronics, they needed an editor. I suggested Perry, who was a non-ham editing a ham radio magazine, and was virtually at war with Sandy Cowen, the publisher.
    Just at the time that Karlson, my 50/50 partner (with me doing all the work) wanted to take more money out of the business for salaries instead of putting it into growth, so he threw me out, I got a call from Sandy Cowan, offering me the editor's job at CQ. Wow! Editor of a ham magazine!
    As I've explained, when we incorporated Karlson Associates Karlson, his wife and I were the board of directors. The $200,000 in today's dollarettes salary I was paying us wasn't enough, so he and his wife voted me out and locked the Karlson Associates door. The payback didn't take long. Under John's management the company was out of business in seven months.
    And I was making the same salary doing the dream job for any dedicated ham…editing a ham radio magazine. Having always been interested in the new frontiers of the hobby, and in building my own equipment, it was an ideal fit. The magazine, which had been losing money under Perry, was, within eight months, in the black and growing fast. I was off to a whole new and exciting chapter in my life.

12/10/07

Fakery
    A friend forwarded www.brasscheckTV.com/page/228.html for me to see. It's worth a look for anyone who still believes that NASA put a man on the Moon almost forty years ago.
    After reading several well-researched books and videos, I wrote Moondoggle, my $5 booklet, #32 in my catalog. The Brasscheck videos confirm the fakery by showing the occasional reflections of light on the wires which allowed the astronauts to bounce around, supposedly on the Moon.

12/8/07

The Melting Pot
    Time was when immigrants came here from all over Europe looking for a better life…and finding it. And, by the next generation they were Americans and speaking English. Alas, when you put too much into a pot it boils over and puts out the fire.
    So today we have millions of Mexicans, Arabs, and Chinese here who have shown few signs of melting. Hitler conquered most of Europe with his blitzkrieg army. But, he conquered Norway by infiltrating it with his famous "fifth column." No army needed.
    We saved the lives of millions of blacks by giving them value as slaves, so instead of slaughtering them in tribal wars, the losers were sold and shipped over here by entrepreneurs, a crime Al Sharpton and other race hustlers will never forgive.
    When I went to public school in Brooklyn, the schools were almost empty on Jewish holidays, and closed on Christian holidays.
    The Catholics, mainly from Italy and Ireland, found it particularly difficult to melt, becoming Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans rather than Americans. You don't see many French-Americans, Dutch-Americans, or even British-Americans. Come on guys, let go of the hyphen and melt.

12/07/07

Drinking Your Salad
    The book, Green For Life, by Victoria Boutenko, started out with a green smoothy recipe that looked easy and, according to Victoria, worked health miracles for her and her husband. It's simple, you put several leaves of kale, two bananas, and a cup of water in a blender and you're ready for dinner. Or lunch.
    Sounds okay, but how's it going to taste? Armed with some healthy crackers, a big spoon, and a pint of smoothy, I sat down to "dinner." Hey, this stuff is good! I'm going to be drinking my salad for a long time to come, Well, it's thick enough so I chew each spoonful and get the first part of the digestive system working right.
    I filled a shelf of my fridge with containers of the kale smoothy. Next I'm going to try it with Swiss chard and spinach. Give it a try for a few days and I think you'll start noticing the difference. We don't normally get nearly enough of the dark green veggies, even though we know they're particularly healthy for us.
    I'm using enough bananas so I'm checking the marked down supermarket shelves for over-ripe bananas. They're sweeter, and about half or less the price of regular bananas.
   
12/6/07

Vitamin C
    Linus Pauling was right, vitamin C is one heck of a powerful vitamin, and is in far too short supply in most of our diets, So I’ve found a great source, a pound and a third bottle for $26! It comes in crystals, so it’s easy to add a quarter teaspoon to my afternoon supplement ritual. Wholesale Nutrition, Box 3345, Saratoga CA 95670 -800-325-2664 -wwwnutri.com.
    Start reading up on Vitamin C and you’ll be amazed at what it can do towards keeping you healthy.
    In addition to the C, I stir a heaping teaspoon of Nature’s First Food (www.rawfood.com) into a half cup of apple cider (yes, organic and raw), and have an ounce of cod liver oil and another of flax seed oil, plus a cup of red grape juice.
    I’ll be glad when I can help get New Hampshire farmers to remineralize their land so I won’t need a supplement.

12/5/07

The IEEE
    Since my grandfather Tully Willson was an inventor, not surprisingly, Bob Mariott, the founder of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), later to become the IEEE, who lived a couple of blocks away in Brooklyn (NY), was a good friend of his. Bob and I got to be friends, too.
    Bob almost invented what was later to become the Karlson Enclosure for loud speakers. But not quite. Bob had taped a group of cardboard tubes of different lengths together, with a loud speaker at one end. The tubes each reinforced the sound frequencies like organ pipes, according to their length. What never occurred to Bob was to slice the end of the tubes down a ways on a slant so the tubes would resonate over a small range of frequencies, rather than just one. In that way the longest tube would be cut down in a vee-shaped cut until it was the length of the next longest tube and provide a smooth response from the shortest to the longest tubes.
    Since organ pipes resonate at a basic frequency, according to their length, and then again at each trippling of that frequency, a series of pipes only has to cover one third the audible frequency range, starting with the lowest notes, with their basic length to cover the whole audible spectrum.
    John Karlson, instead of using a bunch of tubes, took one big organ pipe and cut a notch in it down to one-third it’s length, thus making one larger pipe do the work of many smaller pipes. Actually, since he was a microwave engineer, he designed and patented a very wide band microwave antenna using this design.
    As I’ve mentioned, when I was working at Airborne Instrument Labs in Mineola, Long Island, as a project engineer, John was an engineer on one of my radar projects. When he told me about his invention, I pointed out that since microwaves and audio were the same wavelengths, his idea might make a great speaker enclosure.
    In scientific terms, this was a way to provide an air matching transformer between the impedance of the speaker and the air of the room over the whole audio spectrum. When the impedances are matched there is no distortion of the sound, which you can’t help but get with a loud speaker where the speaker faces the room, as with a bass-reflex.
    When I landed a better job as a TV producer-director in Cleveland, I lent John the electronic testing equipment it would take to develop the enclosure.
    After about eight months I got fed up with the TV job. The station was running mostly network stuff, with me directing the local news and commentary shows. They weren’t interested in my developing any other shows, so I went back to Brooklyn and called John. Not surprisingly, he hadn’t done anything yet. So we got some plywood sheets and started building prototypes which we tested in an open Long Island field, pausing when planes flew by.
    In a few weeks we had a winner, and it could be cut from a single 3/4-inch, four by eight foot, plywood sheet. The sound, with a 15-inch triaxial speaker, was spectacular. The unit was small emough to fit in my car to take around and demonstrate to hi-fi stores and the front had a very distinctive shape.
    We got in touch with Avery Fisher of Fisher Labs and put on a demo for him. He was excited by the result and offered to market the enclosure for a 4% royalty. I thought I could do better. And I did. We formed Karlson Associates, Inc., as a 50/50 partnership. John stayed working at Airborne, I borrowed $1,000 on my car and I was in business. Two years later I had seven factories trying to keep up with the orders.
   
12/4/07

Sick Kids
    According to the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, we have almost 70,000 New Hampshire children who suffer from mental health problems and emotional disorders.
    These kids don’t need psychiatrists, psychologists, or psychoanalyists. They don’t need Ritalin, Zoloft, Valium, Paxil, Prozac, Effexor, Concerta, Luvox, or Celexa. Their mothers need to stop feeding their kids Sugar Frosted O’s and Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. No cookies and pasteurized milk after school. For that matter, no pasteurized milk any time. Find a local raw milk source. It’s what they’re being fed, not a lack of medications that causing their disorders.
    My mother knew better 85 years ago. She fed me whole wheat toast with a poached egg (raw yolk), three-minute eggs (mostly raw), hot cereal with cream. No sugar, no jam or jelly. No pop tarts, muffins, and so on. Fresh squeezed orange juice. No cold cereal. No ADHD, and no cavities. My first cavity was only after I’d been in the Navy for four years during WWII.
    Yes, it’s a lot more trouble to feed kids what their bodies need in nutrition. It’s a whole lot more convenient to put out a cereal box, a bowl, and a carton of pasteurized milk. And maybe a glass of pasteurized orange juice from a carton. Maybe a toaster waffle with some strawberry jam. Then the kids are off to school and mom off to her job.

12/4/07

Dumber Than Dirt
    It’s interesting and pathetic that researchers tell us that one third of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives. And that 80% of American families did not buy or read a book last year. And that 70% of American adults have not been in a book store in the last five years. Worse, the average American spends four hours a day watching TV and three hours listening to the radio.
    When one of Sherry’s grandkids visited I was astounded when this 17-year old high school grad said he’d only read six books in his whole life. As soon as I learned to read, when I was six, I was busy reading. I loved the Oz books. A couple years later I was reading Gulliver’s Travels, Tom Sawyer, and so on.
    It’s no wonder Jay Leno is able to find so many totally clueless people to interview during his Jaywalking segments.
    Of the many millions of books in print there are only a few that are really outstanding. Alas, our schools and our media give us little help in finding these gems.
    It’s no wonder the public keeps reelecting the same crooks to congress. Only a tiny percentage have ever learned to think beyond remembering ball scores.

12/3/07

Fluoride
    Dr. Blaylock, in his Wellness Report, points out the adverse effects of drinking water to which your town has added fluorides. Like increased hip and bone fractures, higher rates of bone cancer, lowered IQ in children, elevated rates of Down’s syndrome, abnormalities of the thyroid, reproductive problems, arthritis pains, skeletal deformity, destruction of tooth enamel, and neurological problems. Check www.fluoridealert.org.
    The stuff is causing dental fluorosis, now affecting 32% of our children. And they’ve found that accompanying fluorosis is brain damage, with memory loss.
    A Harvard University study proved that boys drinking fluoridated water between the ages of six and eight were seven times more likely to develop highly malignant bone cancer. And people in fluoridated communities have a 10% higher death rate from cancer.
    This stuff is poison. Government mandated poison. So, be sure you are drinking pure water. Distilled water. See www.steamdistiller.com for a $120 still that will protect your family.
    Parents planning a new baby should avoid fluoridated water well before conception, all through the pregnancy, and during breast feeding. Why take a big chance on birth defects and lowered IQ?
    School boards are okaying the use of fluoride rinses on their students. My advice is for parents to sue the hell out of the school board at the first sign of fluorosis in their child.
    This deadly poisons has never been shown to benefit children’s teeth. That’s another huge scam. It’s both a way to keep people docile and to sell a waste product of aluminum manufacturing for billions.
   
12/3/07

EMP
    That stands for an electro-magnetic pulse. Small ones aren’t a problem, but a big one can wipe out just about anything with a transistor circuit. And nukes give off super-big EMPs, wiping out the electronic circuits within line-of-sight.
    Here we’ve been worrying about terrorists setting off some nukes in some of our cities. They’d do more damage to America if they exploded one about 300 miles above the earth, where it could blast the whole country, along with much of Canada and Mexico, with a huge EMP.  They could do this from a ship borne short range scud missile, and we wouldn’t know for sure who did it.
    That would put our power grid out of business, along with most modern cars. Radio, TVs, and so on, pfft. No power, no radio, no telephone, no trains, and not many cars or trucks.
    Hmm, have you any food and water set aside just in case something like that were to happen?

12/3/07

Socialism
    The idea of everyone working for the common good gets liberals all excited. Let me explain with a simple illustration why socialism is doomed to failure.
    Let’s say there’s a man with a truck load of heavy boxes he wants moved into his store. So he offers me $100 if I’ll do the job. Well, it’s a lot of work, but a hundred bucks is a lot of money for maybe an hour’s work. It’s a deal.
    When I’m done he hands me the $100 and says that by the way, since I did such a nice job he’s got a second truck load of boxes. If I do this work for him he’ll pay the next guy who walks down the street $100.
    Which helps explain what went wrong with the Pilgrim and Jamestown colonies…until they wised up.
    When I visited Sweden my ham friends there explained that they put in an absolute minimum of required work for their government-regulated job, and a maximum on ways to circumvent it. Meanwhile couples getting married had to live with their in-laws while waiting, often years, for an available home or apartment.

12/2/07

America At War
    Let’s see, we have the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on poverty, and the war on cancer. And all this since the War Department was replaced by the Defense Department.
    With drugs more easily available and at ever lower prices, the war on drugs hasn’t been going well. The war on crime hasn’t made much of an impact, except on our taxes. The war on terrorism, with the exception of our excursions into Iraq and Afghanistan, which apparently had almost nothing to do with terrorism and more to do with oil, has been a semi-success. Well, we have two terrorist attacks, the 9/11 deal and the immediately following anthrax attack, neither of which, in looking at the evidence, had anything to do with Arabs.
    There was that guy with a shoe bomb, who’s held us up boarding our planes and provided work for hundreds of thousands of inspectors to body-search senior citizens.
    The war on cancer, declared in December 1971, other than costing hundreds of billions of tax dollars, has been a total failure. Four to six thousand Americans are dying of cancer every day. On the plus side, it’s a bonanza for the cancer research outfits, whose worst nightmare would be a cure, and for the medical industry, which reaps an average of $345,000 per cancer case, mostly from insurance companies. The biggest suckers in this game are the employers, who are paying a hefty share of the insurance bills for their employees.
    The insurance companies are delighted to foot the bills. That means higher premiums and higher profits for them. Doctors win. Hospitals win. Insurance companies win. The drug giants win. Funeral homes win. The food giants who are helping cause our cancers win. The supermarkets, who sell us the stuff that’s slowly killing us win. The magazines, TV and radio stations that handle drug company advertising win. Congress, heavily bribed by lobbyists to look the other way, win. The only losers are us. And, luckily for the industries we are supporting, we have no voice. Few of us have even a clue that we’re being mercilessly exploited.
    The few of us who survive cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and so on, mostly are looking forward to retirement in an assisted living facility, a nursing home, getting your grotesquely obese body around in a cart, or creeping around with a walker.
    Sure, there’s an alternative, but few people care. A few doctors are explaining how easy it is to cure any illness, including cancer of the anything, preaching to empty pews…drowned out by $45 billion in pharmaceutical advertising, and our total belief in the infallibility of doctors.

12/2/07

Invading America
    Three groups are invading America, and they don’t seem to be here for peaceful purposes. The biggest fuss is over the Mexicans who are sneaking in at a million or more a year, and who seem to have little interest in becoming Americans.
    Second are the Chinese, who are also here in the millions, and also seem to have little interest in becoming Americans. They’re working in those tens of thousands of Chinese restaurants. Antrim NH, a town of about 2,000, has one. Hillsborough, with 3,500 population, has three! In my experience, only the waiters speak English, and that’s limited. In the Hillsborough restaurant I visit now and then, suddenly, every year or two, a new family will be there, running the place. The Chinese government is footing the bill for opening the restaurants, and even for buying houses for the people that run them. That’s a great way to quietly infiltrate our country.
    The third group are Muslims, with the Saudis footing the bill to build mosques all around the country. Of the 1,200 mosques, about 1,000 of them are Saudi financed to support the growth of Wahhabism, the most extreme, the most violent, the most separatist, and the most expansionist form of Islam there is. The prison chaplains are, with maybe one exception, all Wahhabis. And so are the military Islamic chaplains.
    With our borders almost wide open, any of the Chinese and Muslim invaders can easily bring in any kind of mass destruction weapons they want and hide them in mosques or restaurants, waiting for the go-ahead.
    The Germans, in WWII, invaded Norway that way. Learn from history? Not likely.

12/2/07

Good Advice
    Dr. David Williams, in his Alternatives newsletter, echoed what I’ve been preaching. “Unfortunately, in this country, as long as we’re alive and kicking, we seem to take our health for granted. Instead of being taught that it takes discipline and willpower to remain healthy, we’ve been lulled into the mindset that it’s normal to be overweight and have such problems as arthritis, headaches, constant fatigue, constipation, high blood pressure, etc. After all, practically everyone else has the same problems and it’s so much easier to “treat” these complaints with modern medication or simple surgery than it is to make changes in lifestyle or eating habits.”
    “Hundreds of millions of dollars are being used to develop new drugs for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, acid reflux, arthritis pain, etc., all problems that result from poor diet and lifestyle habits.”
    Thus, if you do what everyone else is doing, the odds are heavy that you’re going to go the cancer or heart disease route, like they are.
    Yes, it’s more trouble to get out there for a half hour fast walk every day instead of watching a ball game. And, at least during the warmer months, getting out into the sun and getting that vitamin D into your skin and eyes. Remembering to drink the water your body needs every day isn’t easy. And a raw food diet? Lordy!
    It’s your choice. You can do like everyone else and live an unhealthy life, or you can take care of your body (and mind) so it’ll be vibrantly healthy. As Dr. Day points out, it’s never too late to change so your body can start repairing the damage you’ve done. 

12/1/07

College Circa 2020
    Let’s get basic. If we accept that the purpose of schools, including college, is to help kids learn, then the next step would logically be to find out what kids want to learn, and research the most efficient ways of accomplishing it.
    How can we get kids interested in learning? Salesmanship and marketing…explaining the benefits of learning about things. And make it fun.
    Over twenty years ago I tried to interest the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Dean of the School of Management to have some of the management students do yearly surveys of grads, asking them which courses have been most valuable to them, and what courses they wish they’d had. This would be an ongoing product survey which could help the university eliminate useless courses and add needed ones. Plus add valuable testimonials from grads on the value of the courses that helped them.
    It makes sense for any manufacturer to survey the customers on the strengths and weaknesses of the product and be guided by their suggestions.
    Further, the project could make a handy profit for the students involved selling copies of their reports to other colleges. They might even expand to survey grads from other colleges and pretty soon they’d be publishing books on practical education which could substantially change our colleges.

12/1/07

Baby Genius 1
    Every mother has the potential to bring a baby genius into the world. Sadly, very few do. Mostly through ignorance and perhaps the lack of a reliable instruction manual.
    Phase one is preconception, when mothers are growing their eggs and fathers their sperm. It isn’t all that odd that parents who put poisons into their bodies, which are then distributed by the blood stream to the sperm and egg factories, are going to affect them, and not positively. We’re talking IQ loss for the resulting child, and perhaps even more noticeable birth defects.
    Hmm, so what poisons are involved which unsuspecting parents might be ingesting? You know the drill: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, refined sugar, white flour products, pasteurized milk, mercury, medications, aluminum, fluorides, chlorine, flu shots and so on.
    Pasteurized milk? Yep, the process destroys the enzymes, kills vitamins B6 and B12, and diminishes most of the others. It kills the beneficial bacteria and promotes the pathogens. Pasteurized milk causes allergies and knocks the hell out of the immune system. Heating milk ruins it. On the other hand, your kindly government is busy protecting the milk companies, not your health, so finding raw milk sources is difficult. Well, except in New Hampshire. I’ve found two farms supplying it locally. We’ve got to get after our legislature and overturn the law preventing raw milk from being sold in stores…even health stores.
    So, if you as a parent drink pasteurized milk before conception, you’re going to be knocking your baby’s IQ down a notch and perhaps bring it into the world with an array of allergies and asthma. The same goes for mothers during pregnancy and while breast feeding. And, if you screw up the system enough, the kid may pop out with two heads, thus assuring it of a career as a circus freak.

11/30/07           

Coffee  
    With 90% of Americans enjoying the wake-up punch of a cup of coffee, and with Starbucks shops every few blocks in our cities,, alternated with Dunkin Donuts, let’s keep it quiet that cancer researcher Dr. Bruce Ames reports that coffee is the number two cause of cancer today.
    Coffee is a mind-altering stimulant that produces a surge of nervous energy…and then leaves you exhausted, depressed, irritable and short tempered. Caffeine stimulates the brain cortex, causing poor memory, poor balance, fatigue, hand tremors, hostility, headaches and dehydration. Scientists tell us that it takes two or three cups of water to overcome the dehydration caused by one cup of coffee.
    There’s also a proven link between coffee and osteoporosis, breast cancer, miscarriages, high blood pressure and raised blood sugar levels.
    Those are just the short-term problems. Another chemical in coffee (methylxanthines) permanently alters your genes. Mutation damage of the chromosomes that will be reflected in a lowering of your children’s IQs. Thus this national habit is permanently weakening our entire country and messing up our gene pool.
    In my Secret Guide to Health I list caffeine as an addictive poison which anyone interested in health should avoid. Sure, we’re able to get 60 or 70 years of use out of our bodies, even when we poison ourselves.
    Any time you think caffeine isn’t an addictive poison, just try to stop it cold turkey and see what happens. And, yes, it’s a poison…fortunately a slow one…though one drop of caffeine injected into your body will kill you.
    If you’re addicted, look for Kicking The Coffee Habit. I’d advise kicking the addiction right now, instead of waiting until you’re in the hospital ER. One way is to do a ten-day taper off, with one cup in the morning and then a few sips of soda pop in the afternoon if the headaches get to be too much. Mountain Dew™ is loaded with caffeine, as is Coke™.
    If you can stop poisoning your body for a few weeks you’ll be amazed at your body’s ability to repair the years of damage you’ve done. Wait’ll you see what it feels like to get up in the morning, rarin’ to go, with a great outlook on life and plenty of steam. No depression. No tiredness, and a head bursting with good ideas.
    Or you can drink coffee all day long, get diabetes, and die young. Your choice.
    Decaffeinated coffee? It has about a hundred potentially harmful chemical components. Stick to distilled warter.

11/30/07

Doctors & Death
    Right out of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) we find that 12,000 deaths per year can be attributed to unnecessary surgery; 27,000 deaths to errors; 80,000 to infections acquired in hospitals; and 160,000 deaths due to the adverse effects of correctly prescribed medications. That’s 225,000 deaths, the 3rd leading cause of death in America. And that doesn’t count the high percentage found of death certificates faked to protect doctors and hospitals from law suits. Or the surgeon’s “oops” during necessary surgery.
    Dr. William Douglass comments in his newsletter, “If you include their promotion of fluoridated water, immunizations, misdiagnoses, bad nutritional advice, the use of harmful diagnostic procedures (excessive X-rays, mammograms, and biopsies) they are already number one!”
     So, are you still keeping your built-in doctor, your immune system, busy fighting toxic stuff like cooked food, sugar, white flour products, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, fluoride and chlorine in your water, mercury, vaccinations, and medications? Keep that up and you’ll be shelling out big time for a “real” doctor, who hasn’t a clue about how you made yourself sick. He’s an expert on treating the symptoms, and your life is in his hands now. Good luck. I hope you’re insurance covers everything.

11/30/07

Hamming
    When I was thirteen an angel appeared in church one Sunday. Instead of a halo, he had a carton of old radio parts under his arm. My good friend Alfie and I were there for Sunday School. The angel offered the stuff to Alfie, who turned to me and asked if I wanted it. You bet!
    When I got home I looked ’em all over and found a circuit for a cigar-box radio in Popular Mechanics which used a lot of the parts. When the radio worked, I was hooked.
    Family friends, hearing I was interested in radio, gave me their old radios. I took ’em apart, building my parts supply, and spent as much of the next twenty years as I could at the workbench building stuff. Oh, I had to take four years away from the bench for WWII, but nine months of that was in the Naval electronic schools learning how to fix radios, sonar, and radar equipment. Then, from 1943 to 1945 on a submarine, keeping everything running and sinking a lot of Japanese ships. We were credited with 27 sunk…one of the top scoring submarines. If you get anywhere near Mobile (AL) visit the USS Drum and see what I looked like at 20.
    My first amateur radio interest, right off the bat, was pioneering the 112-116 MHz VHF band (2-1/2 meters). After the war they changed it to 144-148 MHz (2 meters). I could write a book about the fun I had just on those bands.
    Right after the war a ham friend of mine invented narrow-band FM (NBFM). I quickly converted my main transmitter to pioneer this new type of transmission. I was one of the first. That’s the standard system used by most VHF and UHF equipment today.
    In 1948 I heard some strange noises on my 2-meter receiver. I had my station on top of a Manhattan skyscraper at the time, so I could hear signals from hundreds of miles away. I investigated and found a small group of amateurs using digital communications with teletype machines and happily typing messages to each other, much as we’re able to do with email today. I bought a machine, built the equipment for it and was off pioneering another new communications mode. Oh, what fun!
    Wanting to share the excitement with others, I started a newsletter. That led to a column in a ham radio magazine on the subject. Then I wrote the first book on digital communications technology. Soon there were several thousand hams all around the world having fun with what we called RTTY (radio teletype).
    My RTTY column somehow managed to get me in a position to become the editor of the magazine (CQ). About this time, in the mid-1950s, a ham invented what was called single-sideband (SSB). Wow, a way to increase the power output by six times, yet using less bandwidth! I quickly built one to get in on the fun. Then I published all the articles I could on it and soon SSB was king on the short wave ham bands.
    When new FCC rules outmoded old taxicab radios, amateurs quickly grabbed the junked radios and converted them to our two-meter ham band. A few ham clubs decided to make it easier for the members to talk with each other by setting up automatic relaying stations atop nearby mountains or tall buildings. The signals on this band are line-of-sight, so a relay station on a mountain made it possible to extend the range of mobile stations up to a hundred or more miles.
    Then some groups began networking these relay stations. When I was able to stand in the street in Las Vegas with my handy-talkie and talk with amateurs in San Diego, San Francisco and Phoenix, all at the same time, I saw the light. I started publishing every article I could on the subject. I started a monthly Repeater Bulletin devoted to this new technology. I published books and a yearly atlas of repeaters. I held repeater symposiums around the country to get our frequencies standardized. I even organized a special FCC hearing to get our rules and regulations more friendly for repeaters.
    What had been around a hundred repeater groups blossomed to over 8,000 around the world. In my editorials I pointed out that since most repeaters allowed us to connect to the telephone lines, I was able to ski the New Hampshire and Colorado mountains while making phone calls anywhere through a local repeater. Hey, everyone in the world will want to be able to do this.
    The hams at Motorola and G.E. went to their brass with my editorials and today we have over three billion cell phone users. In many third world nations, where wires were never strung, this has brought telephone service to their countries.
    Cellphones, bringing personal communications to billions, has changed the world. And I helped!
    When the first computer kit came out for computer hobbyists, I got one, saw the future, and said, “I think I can do it again!” And I did.

11/30/07

The FDA
    An article by Dr. Robert Marshall in Acres USA explained that Harvey Whiley started the Food and Drug Administration because he was convinced that benzene was a cancer-causing agent which had to be stopped. Benzene was being used as a cheap way to preserve foods and drugs.
    In the 1930’s the FDA got rid of Whiley and reintroduced benzene. The FDA became a servant of the drug companies, with its funding depending on “voluntary contributions” from the drug companies they are supposed to be regulating.
    With the current FDA drug approval system taking from ten to fifteen years and costing an average of $900 million…and with the withdrawal of the drug taking three to five years when it’s found that the side effects are killing people by the thousands, it’s easy to understand why we have just a few pharmaceutical giant companies dominating the field

11/29/07

The Candidates
    Though they’re all over the place here in New Hampshire and though the primary date is just a few weeks away, none of ’em have come out with a platform that’s attracted much attention. Ho hum for the lot.
    Ron Paul made some ripples with his promise to get rid of the Federal Reserve system and the IRS. It’s about damned time. Fred’s late entry into the pool gave us some hope that he might have something to offer, but then, with no visible platform he seems to have sunk out of sight.
    Hillary and Obama? Same old, same old, isn’t exciting. Where is a white knight when we need him?
    Romney? Do we want a religious nut? Or haven’t you watched www.zeitgeistmovie.com yet? All the organized religions are as phony as the cancer research groups. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of religions, and each has huge flocks that believe theirs is the only true religion. As I say, belief is a prison for the mind.
    Imagine what would happen if one of the candidates were to propose some of the planks I’ve suggested. Cut our disgustingly bloated government in half in three years with everyone involved cooperating enthusiastically? Reporters and the major talk shows would be hot after someone who proposed that. That was plank #5 in the list I personally gave to Ron Paul…which he never bothered to read.
    How about a practical way to eliminate the income tax, and the IRS (my plank #3)? And a way to make colleges tuition-free, with no government support needed (my plank #2)?
    The way it’s going so far it’s a snorer.

11/28/07

Operation World Wide
    The year was 1959 and I was the editor of CQ, a ham radio magazine. Hey, what could be more fun for a dedicated ham operator? Anyway, I got wind that the Ex-Cel-O company had made a deal with the Air Force to provide a C54 that had been used in the Berlin Airlift for a flight around the world – Operation World Wide. Aboard would be a film crew to document the Military Air Transport System (MATS) operations around the world as well as the Ex-Cel-O Pur-Pak Division’s operations. They make those milk cartons with the top you pry open to use.
    And since Ex-Cel-O’s PR head was Ralph Charbeneau W8OLJ, he’d arranged to have a ham radio station installed. And that called for a couple ham operators. When I heard that one of the two planned operators had a medical problem I quickly threw my hat in the ring. Well, as editor, I had my work all done a couple months ahead, so I could take the time off for an adventure. The next thing I knew Bill Leonard W2SKE and I were boarding the C54 at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, along with the film and Air Force crews on our way for a 24-country trip. Bill, who was an old friend, would later become the head of CBS news.
    What a blast, talking with hams all around the world as we flew. Our first stop was Newfoundland, and from there to Bermuda. Then the Azores, Scotland, Denmark, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Athens, Izmir (Turkey), and Alexandria. Where the Air Force had facilities we were put up in their officer’s quarters. In the other cities they put us up in hotels. It was an all expenses paid world tour, and we had a ball. In Rome we rented Vespas and toured the city as a group. In Athens we visited all the famous ruins. Between sight-seeing and the film crew doing documentaries of the MATS and Pur-Pak operations, we spent two to four days at most stops.
    With Bill and I keeping the ham station going we had ham groups waiting to meet us at many of the stops. Even though we arrived at around four in the morning in Aden, we were met by a local ham and put up at his house. He gave us a great tour, including the Queen of Sheba’s water catchments. Then on to Pakistan, where I was met by a ham friend I’d met in Texas. Ceylon, Viet Nam, Thailand, Philippines, Okinawa, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Guam, Wake Island, Hawaii, and back across the U.S. to McGuire.
    Well, that was almost fifty years ago. I wonder if anyone else from that trip is still alive?
    The opportunity for an adventure opened up and I jumped on it.

11/27/07

Grumble
    So, here we are, in the homeland of Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut…and we’re one of the sickest, shortest-lived, poorest educated, most entertained people in the world. And the best part is we don’t give a damn. Our national mottoes are “What, me worry?” and “Super-size that.”
    Oh well, the big cheese empires come and go down through history: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Venetian, Spanish, and the British. They all had their day and then self-destructed.
    Within my memory the British Empire controlled huge parts of Africa…Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, the Rhodesia’s, Swaziland, Lesotho, Basutoland, etc. In the Americas they had Canada, British Honduras, British Guiana, Bermuda, and a bunch of the Caribbean islands. They had big chunks of the Middle East, like Palestine and Trans-Jordan. India, Pakistan, Burma, Hong Kong, Borneo, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and a few Pacific islands. Now, mostly pfft.
    Step one: take that damned pacifier out of your mouth, turn off the damned TV, and get busy promoting the Never Re-elect Anyone campaign so we can flush that Washington toilet. Look, there’s a good reason why your senators and congressmen can spend millions on their re-election campaigns, and then hundreds of millions running for president. And we’re the patsies footing the bill for this criminal extravaganza.
    What are we getting for our money? We’re setting world records with one of the worst public school systems, the highest priced colleges, the most expensive and least effective health care system, a fantastically bloated government, billions of dollars disappearing from government departments, our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and we’re now the world's most hated country. The worst part is that we’ve let that happen by blindly re-electing about 95% of the incumbents that run.
    We’ve been busy bickering over stem cell research — which would be unnecessary if we’d stop making ourselves sick — gay marriage, abortion rights, queer clergy, and such, while the country is sinking. Talk about being busy re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!
    We’ve let a few super-rich families control our banks, the major media, the White House, Congress, and key industries, while we obligingly jump when they pull our puppet strings.
    Okay, now you can go back to watching Maury, The View, and Do You Want to Be A Millionaire? And either not bothering to vote or, if you do, rubber stamping the incumbents for another pillaging term in office. Half of Americans didn’t read a book this year, and for most of those who did, it was a novel. D’uh?

11/27/07

A Sub Story
    This happened along about our twelfth patrol run. We had a bunch of the new electric torpedoes with us and we thought they were great. Imagine, torpedoes which didn’t leave a wake or be heard as easily as the old ones when they were running! We had a lot of confidence in them—up until we used ‘em. Our old torpedoes ran on steam, so they left a trail right back to us as they ran, and made one hell of a racket.
    The good part was the steam torpedoes were powered by alcohol, so when we had a couple weeks off at the end of a war patrol at a rest camp, the torpedomen converted the coffee urn into a still and rendered the alcohol safe to drink. Whoopie!
    One day we were running submerged, scanning the horizon through our periscope for ships. Suddenly our first target appeared. It was a convoy with three ships, and wonder of wonders, they presented an overlapping target. Wow, there was no possible way we could miss a target like that! We got everything lined up perfectly, fired all six fish from our forward torpedo room, spread so as to hit all three ships. Then we waited for the explosions. A couple of them finally exploded, but so long after firing that we knew they had gone under the ships and exploded somewhere beyond them.
    Their escorts quickly figured this out, and dropped a bunch of depth charges on us for our trouble. We found a temperature gradient to hide our movements from their sonar pinging and got the heck out of there, mad as hell over the new torpedoes. The gradient acts like a mirror, reflecting the sonar signals back to the surface.
    A few days later we were on the surface and came on another ship, complete with an escort. We fired three fish at it, then turned and left as fast as we could. These fish also went too deep, going under the ship. The escort quickly started chasing us. We ran for about an hour, going all ahead flank, but the escort was rapidly closing in on us, so we had no choice but to dive and try to dodge them under water.
    I shut down the radar, jumped down the hatch to the control room to run through the forward battery (and officer’s quarters) on my way to the forward torpedo room to lower the two the underwater sound heads. This was my job whenever we dived.
    Just as I was zipping through the control room I heard the bowplanesman yell that the bowplanes were on jammed on full dive—he couldn’t get them off. This was really bad news, heading us rapidly for the ocean bottom, about a mile away. Or maybe a loop-de-loop—a first for a submarine. I kept running, ducking through the forward battery compartment hatches. When I got to the torpedo room I yelled to the torpedomen to grab a pry bar because the bow planes were stuck on full dive. No one had gotten on the intercom phones yet, so they hadn’t gotten the word. One of the torpedomen brought a pry bar, climbed up over the bunks to the bowplane mechanism and pried the planes loose from where they’d been jammed. By this time we’d taken a serious down angle and were headed for Davy Jones’ Locker. By the time the bow planes were back on full rise and we’d pulled out of our plunge we were down to well over 450 feet. Then we had a steep up-angle and were heading back toward the surface. We broached and then headed down again, this time leveling off at around 250 feet. The Drum groaned, but nothing gave way.
    I don’t know how many of the crew were aware of what a close call we had. Everyone noticed the extra steep down angle, but not a lot was said about the new test depth for a boat designed for a maximum depth of 300-feet. My being in the right place at the right time saved our bacon. Just a few seconds later and we’d have been goners.
    The ensuing silent run and what seemed like an endless depth charge attack took our minds off the bowplane incident. It was incredibly hot because we had been running at flank speed for an hour and the main engines were very hot—which heated up the whole boat. Add to that the nervous heat of 83 men with dozens of depth charges going off around them and you have one heck of a sauna. Before long sweat was slopping around the decks.
    We’d learned our lesson the hard way, so from then on we ignored the rules and started setting the electric fish for zero instead of following the Navy instructions to set them at six feet. Then we finally started getting hits. They did not broach. Clearly something was wrong with the damned things since they seemed to run at two to three times their set depth, making us miss at least four ships we might have sunk otherwise.
    Though we’d made hundreds of dives, we’d never before dived while running all ahead flank. That’s what jammed the bow planes.
    The current custom of thanking our men for their service got me to thinking. You know, I don’t recall anyone ever thanking me for saving the boat that night.
    I saved the boat one other time, but I didn’t know it at the time. Remind me and I’ll tell you about it.

11/26/07

The Silver Bullet
    I’ve been preaching the use of silver colloid for years, so I was happy to see an article about it in the December 2007 issue of Susan Clark, M.D.’s Women’s Wellness Today newsletter.
    She points out that a good way to avoid getting colds or the flu and to build up an iron-clad immune system is to use silver colloid. Silver, when absorbed into your blood, attacks pathogens without harming you.
    She recommends taking a teaspoon or two a day. At the first sign of a cold or flu, step that up to four tablespoons four times a day. Swish it around your mouth for a full minute before swallowing. This helps it get absorbed.
    Silver colloid is also great for rashes, fungus, and cuts. Keep some handy. It’s also ideal as a rinse to get rid of any E-coli or salmonella that might have arrived on your produce or meat.
    And the best part, you can make it on your kitchen table for about a penny a gallon with my $40 kit (#82). The kit has two heavy duty silver rods, a power unit, instructions, and a reprint of an article about making and using silver colloid.
    Susan also recommends upping your omega-3 and vitamin D intake for winter. They’re part of my daily supplement regimen, along with the minerals that are missing from most of our produce these days.

11/25/07

Alchemy!
    That was the screams from the faculty at Texas A&M when Professor Bokris opined that the energy from cold fusion came from a transmutation of elements. They got together and tried to get the university to fire Bokris for such heresy.
    The scientific establishment, as usual, viciously fought the challenge to their beliefs. You would be hard put to name any major development or idea in science or medicine that hasn’t been fought.
    Dr. Huzinga, the head of the Department of Energy, who should have known better, wrote a book, Cold Fusion, the Fiasco of the Century. In his position he could see what this would do to the oil, coal and natural gas industries, as well as the nuclear power plants generating electricity. With trillions of dollars at stake he did what he had to do, including getting the Patent Office to shelve any cold fusion patent applications.
    The transmutation of elements is easy to prove, right on the kitchen table. Just take two carbon rods, such as you find in #6 dry cells, connect them to a battery and rub them together over a sheet of white paper. Some carbon powder will come off. Now get a magnet, put it under the paper, and some of the powder will jump. Some of the carbon has been turned into iron. Take that, you alchemy screamers!
    Cold fusion gets its enormous amounts of heat from elemental transmutation. Nickel is transmuted into copper.
    One of these days someone with the money to develop a practical cold fusion-powered unit will put one on the market, probably about the size of a kitchen dish washer, which will provide all the heat and electricity a family could need, and at a tiny fraction the cost of oil or electricity today. Well, there will go the power grid. Oh, and the Arabs will be back on their camels.

11/24/07

Bio ’33
    In the summer of 1933, when I was ten, Eastern Air Transport (later Eastern Airlines) bought Luddington Airlines from owners Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. My dad, who’d been the passenger and cargo manager, was suddenly out of work. So we packed up and left the apartment on Devonshire Place in Washington DC, went back to Brooklyn and moved in with my mother’s folks.
    But we had fun that summer, with a trip to Maine, where we stayed at the Kennebunk Beach Hotel. I still remember how cold the ocean was that July. But I went swimming anyway.
    Dad had friends at nearby Old Orchard Beach, a sort of miniature Coney Island, where we had fun with the dodgem cars, a merry-go-round and a pier with fried dough, frozen custard, and other entertainments. Two things surprised me when we had dinner with dad’s friends…their three kids and I ate at a separate table from the adults, and we had waffles for dinner…with gravy! I’d never heard of that before.
    In those days, way before television, several times a week my folks either had friends over or went to their houses for dinner and a game. After bridge got popular I didn’t get invited to dinners out, so I was given 35¢ to go down to the Chinese restaurant for dinner. That bought me egg drop soup, chow mein with crispy noodles, and ice cream for desert.
    I’ve never run into the separate table for kids again. Being brought up as an only child I interfaced with adults through my childhood.
    Back when I was eating cooked food I discovered waffles could be fantastic when made with corn meal dough. They’re delicious for dinner instead of muffins, and much faster to bake. Though our immune system is a powerfully strong maintenance and repair department, we manage to overwhelm it on a daily basis with toxic stuff, making sure it is unable to do its job. So we get all kinds of chronic illnesses. I don’t eat waffles any more.

11/13/07

Desert
    Being…er…thrifty, I check out the discounted fruit at the supermarkets for strawberries and bananas. Perfectly good food, if you use it right away. Or freeze it.
    I put chunks of frozen banana and frozen raspberries or strawberries into the blender, add some raw milk, and a few seconds later I have a delicious, healthy desert slush. I freeze the berries my raspberry patch provides that are too much for me to eat as they ripen, so I have several quarts of them in the freezer. I should put in a strawberry patch next spring.
    When I put bananas in the fridge they turn brown, but they’re still just fine for a desert slush. And what could be healthier? No sugar, just raw fruit and raw milk.
    There wasn’t much rain last summer, so the wild blueberries and blackberries were few and tiny compared to previous years. They’d make good desert slush too.

11/22/07

Confidence
    US News ran a poll, asking Americans about their confidence in our leaders. Bottom line: very little.
    Congress got 8%, along with Wall Street. The media got about 6%. Well, the bright side is that the public is aware that the media is lying big time and that they’ve let congress get to be a mess. 77% agree we have a leadership crisis.
    So, of the 63 or so presidential candidates, do you see any white knights emerging from the pack? The position you agree with on gay marriage, stem cell research, abortion rights and other such matters is insignificant compared to the job a new president should be promising to do. We need what New Zealand went through when they threw out the socialists…a total house (and senate) cleaning.
    Clinton and the Bushes have allowed the government to bloat, with few of the bureaus or departments helping us have better lives. Big industry has bought and paid for the regulating departments, as well as congress.
    Just by tapping the yearly dividends from government stock investments instead of rolling them over into more stocks, the income tax could be eliminated. Google CAFR. That would be a big pay raise for all of us, plus get the IRS off our backs. Have any candidates proposed that yet?
    I sure don’t want Hillary or Obama. They both voted against making English the American language. Didn’t want to jeapordize the Mexican vote. And none of the rest, so far, have lit any fireworks for me. Sigh.

11/21/07

Pants On Fire
    They lied to us about Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, but…but…but…they wouldn’t lie to us about Thanksgiving would they?
    Good heavens, can they have they been lying about 911, Oklahoma City, UFOs, chem trails, those 72 virgins, fluorides in our water, fluoride rinses for kids, WMDs, vaccinations, dental amalgam, Mad Cows, Worst Nile disease, and Pearl Harbor? Oh, and cold fusion being a fiasco? The next thing you know they’re going to admit that voting machines have purposely been programmed to be compromised.
    That’s all conspiracy theory claptrap, right?
    Ya wanna know the real scoop on the first thanksgiving? The official story has the Pilgrims coming to America on the Mayflower and establishing Plymouth colony in 1620. It was a tough winter and half of ’em died. But they learned farming from the Indians and the 1621 harvest was just fine, so they held a celebration and lived happily ever after.
    If you’ll read the history you’ll learn that 1621 and 1622 were both famine years. It wasn’t until 1623 that they had enough to eat. And by 1624 they were growing enough to start exporting corn.
    So, what changed? The original system was for, “all profits and benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means,” had to be put in a common stock and, “all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of that common stock.” The result is what you might expect. Many of the people let others do the work and took it easy.
    So, in 1622, after a second lousy harvest, Governor Bradford changed the rules. No more socialism. Now each man or family had their own piece of land and could keep or trade what they produced. The free market was the end of famines and thanksgiving was in celebration.
    The Jamestown settlers in 1607 did the same thing. Most of the men didn’t bother working so by 1610 the 500 original settlers had been starved down to 60. They changed to a free market system and that was the end of hunger.
    It turns out that people are happy to work hard for their own benefit, but less enthusiastic to work for the benefit of all…including a majority who prefer to take it easy.
   
11/20/07

Slow Suicide
    Poison = death. Slow poisoning = misery and then death. So, does it make sense to do what we can to limit the poisons we put in and on our bodies? Alas, with industries and the government colluding to keep us ignorant of the ways we’re being poisoned, we’re in sorry shape and significantly shortening our lives.
    Billions in advertising dollars are effectively silencing the major media. And a little extra grease keeps congress quiet. Since there’s little money in health, until the web came along there was no practical way to reach very many people with honest health news.
    Okay, enough hand-wringing, now the poisons that are doing a job on us. How big a problem is this really? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 76 million Americans get sick every year from the foods they’ve eaten, 300,000 end up in the hospital, and 5,000 in the cemetery. And those are immediate reactions to food, not the long term sicknesses.
    It got our attention when pet food from China killed thousands of our pets because they added melamine to the gluten in the pet food. Cough syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol (antifreeze) from China and mislabeled as glycerin, killed hundreds of people. Toothpaste from China has also been found to contain this chemical.
    Melamine is made of urea and formaldehyde (piss and embalming fluid). Formaldehyde is a powerful poison, so when melamine, and some other serious poisons were found in the gluten from China some 60 million cans of pet food were recalled. Worse, the gluten used had been classed as human grade and fed to three million chickens and 56,000 pigs. I wonder how much of that ended up in chicken Mcnuggets or KFC buckets? With 13% of our gluten imported from China, that puts a new light on eating Chinese. The Chinese restaurants use of MSG is bad enough.
    Formaldehyde is giving us high rates of brain cancer, lymphoma, and leukemia…the same diseases associated with aspartame (the blue stuff), which breaks down to formaldehyde at 86°, like in our bodies. We also are getting it from those plastic water bottles.
    Then there’s the fluoride in our town water, toothpaste and mouthwashes. It’s a powerful brain poison. It’s used to keep cattle docile and in prison camps to do the same for prisoners. It has no benefits whatever for teeth, other than to permanently mottle them. You should be drinking only distilled water kept in glass bottles. You’ll find an inexpensive still for your family at www.steamdistiller.com. And stop drinking water with your meals, dammit.
    Aluminum is another major poison. so avoid any foods with baking powder in them, like biscuits and pancakes. Aluminum pots and pans, underarm deodorants, and medications contribute aluminum. Vaccinations are a real prize with mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde. No wonder we’re seeing autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s blossoming.
    Ah yes, mercury, a deadly poison. Dental amalgam is half mercury, which then gradually is absorbed by your body. Get those fillings removed by a dentist experienced in the procedure. The stuff is also used in cement, so avoid living in a cement house so you won’t get “merked.”
    A good reason to wash your fruits and vegetables before eating them is to wash off any pesticides or herbicides, since these contribute to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and dementia. Even tiny amounts can trigger Parkinson’s in some people. And, if you add some silver colloid to the wash, that’ll take care of any E-coli or salmonella that might be there. You can make the collide for about a penny a gallon with my silver colloid kit.
    Presumably you already know not to eat luncheon meat. It’s got nitrites.
    Unless you’re getting your beef and chickens from a local farm where they are raised free range and organically, these are two meats to avoid. I prefer buffalo, which tastes like beef, and is raised on grass, with no hormones or antibiotics.
    Of course, if you don’t mind heading toward cancer, Alzheimer’s and so on, then poison away. There’s plenty there for everyone. Neither the government nor businesses are going to protect you. You’re on your own.

11/19/07

Boycott!
I’m still furious with Obama and Hillary for voting against making English our official language. But, what can we do about it? Being solution oriented, I have a suggestion.
Let’s start with the Spanish language TV stations by making a list of the companies advertising on ’em and getting the word out to boycott the hell out of them. Maybe we can cut off their revenues and force the stations out of business. Then we can start with the Spanish language radio stations. Then the magazines and newspapers. Hit ’em where it hurts, in their bank accounts.
Let me know about any major companies advertising on Spanish language TV in your area so I can post it. Let’s let ’em know that if they come to America they have to do what all the past immigrants have done: learn English.

11/18/07

Microwaving
    Though I’ve done my best to ignore the bad news about microwaving food, I just can’t ignore the scientific evidence any longer. And I was one of the very first adopters, starting with the unit made by International Crystal some forty years ago. Well, if there was any problem the FDA or some other government agency would blow the whistle, right?
    When two scientists in Switzerland did a well-controlled study of the difference to the human body between food cooked normally compared to microwaved, they found the microwaved food was far more poisonous than regularly cooked food. When they published their findings the electrical dealers association went to court and got a gag order. Further, one of the scientists was convicted of “interfering with commerce,” preventing him from any further publications. It took five years to get that conviction reversed. Money talks a lot louder than health.
    When Russian scientists researched the subject the result was the banning of microwave ovens in Russia. They found that just about anything they microwaved created cancer-causing carcinogens. Meat, vegetables, milk, fruit, grains, and so on. It also decreased the vitamins and minerals.
    They found that microwaved food led to high blood pressure, brain damage, memory loss, decreased intelligence, emotional instability, headaches, dizziness, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, nervousness, hair loss, cataracts, reproductive problems (shuts down hormone production), appendicitis, and heart disease.
    Better replace your microwave with a toaster oven or one of those turbo ovens. I wonder if they still sell popcorn pans.

11/17/07

Oklahoma City
    Most of us remember the bombing of the Murrah federal building and the truck with the fertilizer bomb. If you’ll scan through my postings you’ll see that I refer to the Oklahoma City bombing as a major government cover-up. So, is this another conspiracy theory?
Okay, let’s look at the facts. I’ve had a copy of the local Oklahoma City TV coverage right after the bombing, and I’ve copies available for $10 on tape as my item #54. Now I’ve also got it available on DVD for the same price as item #54D.
    The video shows people who were in the building explaining what happened. They all say the first bomb went off in the building, blowing out the front of the building. Then, a little later, the truck exploded. Next you see the bomb squads coming and taking two unexploded bombs out of the building.
    An air view shows that the truck didn’t even make a hole in the ground.
    Two bombs went off? The local seismographs showed two explosions, confirming this.
    A bomb expert called me, explaining that fertilizer bombs make a terrible stink that hangs around for days. But not one of the reporters or people interviewed mentioned any smell.
    Curiously, the government quickly had the Patriot I Act all ready for Congress to okay.
    If you send for the tape of the DVD you can see the real story for yourself.
    In view of the enormous number of unanswered questions about the 911 attack, which got Congress to quickly okay the Patriot II Act, it’s no wonder conspiracy buffs are raising a fuss.
    One wonders how the White House managed to have the two acts, which had to take weeks to months to prepare, ready at exactly the right time. Fantastic timing.

11/17/07

$1 Million Video
    Hardly any companies are taking advantage of their promotional potentials, and this is losing them a bundle. So I put together a video explaining how companies can generate an extra million dollars in sales just with PR.
    A mention in the new products section of a magazine can normally help generate as many sales as a couple of full page ads. Such an item is accepted by the readers as an endorsement of your product or service.
    As the major publisher in the personal computer field I used to plead with my advertisers to send me new product releases. Few did.
    Even more valuable is a review article in a magazine on a new product or service. A rave review can be expected to provide as many sales as five or six full page ads. But, I often was turned down by manufacturers when I asked for a new product sample for one of my editors to review. They were too busy filling dealer orders to spare a unit.
    My video explains, step by step, how to approach editors for new products mentions, and go on to a full fledged review articles.
    My video is now available for $40 on tape (item #52) and now on DVD (item #52D).
    Several people have liked the video so much they’ve gone into the PR business, helping companies boost their sales significantly.
    A magazine with 350,000 readers normally charges about $17,500 a page for ads. An ad, if its any good, should bring in ten times its cost in sales. That’s $175,000. Times two for a new product mention and five more for a review, and you can expect over $1 million in added sales.

11/16/07

PTSD
    My mother had it right eighty years ago. When I’d burn my hand on something she’d light the fire on the stove and have me hold my hand over the flames as close as I could without burning myself further. She said this would draw the pain out of the burn. And it did, allowing it to heal in a fraction of the normal time.
    Cut to twenty years later and L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics (1950). Hubbard explained that our bodies have a system built in to protect us from dangers, where an immediate response can help. When you touch a hot stove your body doesn’t wait for the pain message to get to your brain so it can decide what to do.
    We have a system built in which records everything that’s going on when something physically or mentally painful, happens. Sights, sounds, smells. Thus, in the future, when any of those sights, sounds or smells occur we want to avoid them. So we have a lifetime of painful moments we’re subconsciously trying to avoid repeating. No wonder we’re so irrational.
    And this not only goes right back into during pregnancy, but even to some past life incidents…particularly traumatic past deaths, like from drowning.
    The Dianetic approach is to regress the person to the painful time and relive the experience, remembering the physical or emotional pain as vividly as possible. And then run through it again, over and over, until the pain has been removed.
    As people relive their experiences, beatings, a car door slammed on fingers, a hot stove, a death, and so on, the person will remember more and more details as they are asked to go through it repeatedly. At first the emotional response is strong, but with repetition it passes through nonchalance to boredom, and finally to laughter.
    As these painful memories are cleared our brains are less tied up with all of these pain equivalents and our ability to think improves. Further, we no longer automatically respond to long lost conscious memories. We’re able to respond to situations by thinking. No more claustrophobia or any other phobias.
    In the case of post traumatic stress disorder, deconditioning the painful moments which cause it gets rid of the disorder. No more PTSD.
    Parents should be aware of this when they get angry with their children and spank them. This is going to have repercussions later in their lives. A study at Dartmouth College showed the correlation between teen suicides and early spankings.
    Alas, psychiatrists and their ilk have no clue about how the mind works, so their approach is to prescribe drugs. Just like our medical doctors, who have never been taught anything about what is causing illnesses, only how to respond to the symptoms.

11/15/07

Right To Lifers
It’s exciting that Fred (08) has signed on with the Right To Lifers. If we can get him elected our government will be able to take a more active role in preserving life. Like eliminating the death penalty in America, no matter the crime. And stepping in when a despot or group in any country sets about mass murders, as in Darfur. And before that in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, the Congo, and so on.
And how about our medical industry, which is significantly shortening our lives? Fred can get the government to eliminate the things that are making us sick like fluorides in our water, pesticides in our food, aspartame, tobacco, coffee, alcohol, refined sugar, white flour products, BGH and growth hormones in out meat, and other well known poisons.
Why should women be permitted to have abortions, or people to poison themselves. Life is precious. Well, human life, that is, not plant, animal or fish life.
We could easily save millions of lives in Africa by ending the ban on the blood purifier, which could be mass produced in China for about five bucks, and each one could save dozens of lives. I published the circuit for this simple, proven device, powered by a single nine-volt battery, in the May 1996 issue of my 73 Magazine. This also quickly cures malaria and schistosomaisis, two other deadly African diseases. For more details on this see my 7/16/06 entry.
Maybe it’s about time to put the screws on China for their one-child policy which has resulted in millions of girls being aborted. And the next time the military leaders of Myanmar (Burma) start massacring monks maybe Fred will send a carrier invasion force and stop the murders. They’ve been pulling stunts like that ever since they took over Burma when the British pulled out, around fifty years ago.
With some of our inner cities far more dangerous than those in Iraq, maybe Fred can get some task forces put together to bring a screeching halt to black and Hispanic gangs murdering each other.

11/14/07

Prank
My best buddy in high school was Charlie Opitz W2MKO. Though I’m sure he was lying, he claimed to have had sex with a girl.
Anyway, one day he explained how easy it was to make a bomb. Just some potassium nitrate and sulfur. Oh, and some antimony trisulphide to make plenty of smoke. My next stop was a chemical company, where I bought the ingredients.
Being into photography, I had some film developer and fixer cans lying around. Just the right size for a small bomb. So I packed one with powder. For a fuse I used a couple soda straws which were heavy on the sulfur and light on the nitrate, so they’d burn slowly, giving me a chance to get away. One straw took about a half a minute to burn, so I stuck two together to give me a full minute.
McBurney high school, being on West 63rd and Central Park West, Charlie and I took my bomb and looked for a good place to set it off. Across the park, on the Fifth Avenue side, was the ideal spot. There was a wall to keep pedestrians out of the park, and an exit about fifty feet from our chosen spot. Perfect.
We set the can in the dirt, lit the fuse, and ran to the park exit. From there we casually crossed Fifth Avenue and walked a little ways on 63rd Street. Some workmen dropped a board with a bang that made both of us jump. Then my bomb went off, sending up a huge plume of smoke. People were running everywhere. Wowie!
We walked around the block and got back across from ground zero at the same time as Mayor LaGuardia arrived in a police motorcycle side car.
Charlie and I got the hell out of there, taking the subway to Brooklyn to my house. Up in the attic I have copies of the Extra editions of all the New York newspapers that afternoon. No, they never found out who did it.
Almost seventy years later I’m still in daily email contact with Charlie.

11/13/07

School’s Open
    America’s mandatory public school system should be outlawed as cruel and unusual punishment for our kids. It’s better that you just shut up and put your kids on the school bus and not know what’s going on, or why.
    Why is education important? Ignorance is not bliss, it’s slavery. You would be hard put to find any uneducated wealthy people (except in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of our oil consumption), nor find many well educated poor people, unless they have serious psychological problems.
    I could go on for pages listing the problems with our school system (and have elsewhere).
    Well, if we’re going to do something significant toward improving our quality of life, we’re going to have to make some substantial changes in education. In doing so, we will not only be doing a great big favor for N’hamsha, we’ll be in a position to provide a model for the country.
    We’re actually in a rather good position to take on a project of this enormity. We have all sorts of pluses. We’re a small state, so we have smaller bureaucracies to fight, both in our legislature and in the school system. Since New Hampshire is not strongly unionized, we’ll have an edge when it comes to trying to bring changes which are stronly opposed by the teacher unions. And one thing we can count on is vigorous union opposition to virtually any changes other than smaller classes and increased teacher pay. Unfortunately, there are no examples of either of these improving SAT scores.
    "There’s nothing very mysterious about why our public schools are failures. When you select the poorest-quality students to be public school teachers, give them ironclad tenure, a captive audience, and pay them according to seniority rather than performance, why should the results be surprising?" (Forbes, 10/14/91). "Lengthening the school year is meaningless unless time spent in the classroom is better spent." (US News, 3/5/90)    I’ve researched this and see how we can make N’hamsha a leader in education. Very profitably, too. Let me know if you’re interested.

11/13/07

Health-care?
    Maybe you missed the Businessweek exposé of American health-care stacked up against those in Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Ours is the most expensive, by quite a margin, and we have by far the highest infant mortality rate, the shortest life expectancy, and the highest percentage of medical mistakes. Our system sucks, and we’re the suckers.
    Reform the $3 trillion fleecing machine? Har-de-har. It’s totally embedded, with Big Pharma, the major media, and The Fed all under one umbrella. Oh, and Congress bought and paid for.
    So, what’s the answer, oh great guru? It echoes down from the guru’s mountain top cave, “Stop making yourselves sick.”
    You mean no more sugar, coffee, nicotine, and the other poisons we’re so addicted to? No more Big Macs, Whoppers and Kentucky Fried Chicken? Well, maybe next month.

11/13/07

An Echo
    Having been a baby boomer…only from WWI, so I was there for the Great Depression of the 1930s. And the cause of he stock market crash in 1929 wasn’t all that different from the situation today with banking.
    The stock market was soaring. Millions were getting rich, and the more stock they owned, the faster they were making money in the market. All you had to do to buy a stock was put 10% down and owe the rest to the broker…called a margin account. Which worked well as long as the stocks were rising.
    But, as soon as a stock dropped by 10% the broker demanded more margin money. So the investor had to sell some stock to cover the demand. But when everyone was selling and no one was buying, the bottom dropped out.
    When my grandfather died in 1936 his Cities Service stock, which had been worth over $1 million in 1929, was then worth under $3,000. And he hadn’t bought it on margin.
    So now we have a similar situation with the sub-prime housing loans. Houses bought on margin instead of stocks. And now, with the manufacturing jobs…the ones which create wealth…moving out of the country, and with the flood of micro-wage Mexicans pouring into the country, housing prices have been plummeting and the margin calls are unanswered.
   
11/12/07

The Free Staters
    With some enlightened leadership the Libertarian Free Staters, who are busy invading New Hampshire, have the opportunity to make one of the lowest tax states, ranked first nationwide as the most livable state and the safest state, and second for child and family well being, into the healthiest, wealthiest and best educated states. Oh, and with a minimum of government.
    Survey after survey has New Hampshire on top as a place to live and a place for Boomers to retire. Well, we have two or three months of fantastic winter, an incredibly beautiful spring, a cool, comfortable summer, and a world-renowned fall.
    As the first and largest publisher in the computer field, New Hampshire helped make Silicon Valley possible. Now, let’s lead the country (and perhaps the world) in revolutionizing our educational system, which is still stuck in a 150 year-old Prussian model. We’re in the age of the hundred-dollar laptop, so let’s dump the rows of desks and bells ringing every hour. Let’s dump regimentation. Socialism has failed in every country that’s tried it, so let’s start dumping the bureaucrats. And the politicians. Two-terms and you’re out, buddy! Well, that’s what Congress did to presidents, so turnabout is fair play.
    Maybe it’s time to start clearing some of those fields which have lain fallow for a hundred years and get our kids started growing organic gardens. We could grind up some of those old stone fences lacing through our forests, memories of a hundred or so years ago when New Hampshire was largely farming country, and put the rock dust on our farm lands so we can grow super-organic crops. And, the kids could sure use the exercise and exposure to the sun instead of the current boob-tube for five or so hours a day.

11/11/07

Body Count
    My old friend René, whose NASA Mooned America, got me busy investigating the Apollo Moon landings, is still fussing about the 2,700 claimed 911 deaths. And, as with the Moon landing hoax, his questions make sense.
    Mayor Giuliani told us that 40,000 people worked in the two towers. That’s about 20,000 each. And that would put around 6,000 or so in each third sections of the buildings.
    We were told that no one above the crash sites managed to escape, and that was about the top third of the two buildings. Considering the narrowness of the three stairways in the buildings, there was room for about two people abreast, and the evacuation could have been no faster than the slowest people.
    Then there was the subway station under the buildings. Anyone there would have been crunched, too.
    The North Tower imploded correctly, falling straight down. But the top 455 feet of the South Tower toppled over into the street below, crushing the crowds that had gathered to gawk and the police and firemen who were there.
    The Hackensack Herald News reported that the City of New York ordered 100,000 body bags from a Hackinsack company two days after the buildings collapsed.
    The videos showed people running in the streets, but none showed anything like 37,000 people swarming out of the buildings.
    Well, just add that to the long, long list of credibility problems with the official 911 story.
    It took over fifty years for Robert Stinnett to penetrate the secrecy around the Pearl Harbor attack. His Day of Deceit exposes how Roosevelt forced the Japanese to attack us. How he knew exactly when and where they would attack, and made sure there were no aircraft carriers or other important ships in danger.

11/10/07

Organic Food
    It’s a new and fast-growing industry. Sales in 1990 were estimated at $1 billion, and by 2005 they were $15 billion, a 20% annual growth. It’s a sign that more and more people are getting interested in not making themselves sick.
    There’s the Whole Foods stores, Trader Joes, Wal-Mart’s organic section, and supermarkets offering organic produce.
    We’ll see a lot more farms offering organic food when the word gets out that remineralizing the land discourages the pests. Pests mainly attack sick plants, and plants grown on land where the minerals are played out aren’t healthy, Plants need those minerals as much as we do for their health.
    It’s not difficult to remineralize a farm. All it takes is powdered rock. Like granite. I’ve reviewed a couple of good book on the subject by Supkow and Hamaker-Weaver.

11/9/07

Crossing the Equator
    The first time I crossed the equator the airline presented me with a certificate. But now, having crossed it hundreds of times, it’s no big deal.
    I’m exaggerating? When I came to the sign in the road at the equator in Kenya I stopped, got out my movie camera, and documented me jumping back and forth across it several hundred times.

11/8/07

Mushrooms
    That’s us! Kept in the dark and buried in manure. We’re kept warm and happy with all kinds of ball games to watch, carefully laundered news, Maury Povich, The View and Oprah.
    Sure, there are a few conspiracy nuts on the fringe, fussing about that 911 Report, a huge health care cover-up, the other bombs at Oklahoma City, and the truth about Roswell, UFOs, ETs, contactees, fluorides, vaccinations, pasteurized milk, mad cow, West Nile, Aspartame, Splenda, dental amalgam, Flight 800, cold fusion, global warming, the Federal Reserve, voting machine fraud, the value of psychiatry, ADHD, those pesky crop circles, AIDS, CAFRs, chem trails, the Moon landings, power line dangers, sonogram safety, cell phone safety, the Pearl Harbor cover-up, and so on. The manure sure runs deep.
    Hey, we’ve got Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts alternating every half mile, McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and so on, who could ask for more? Okay, and Wal-Mart.
    Between the Iraq mess and congressionally supported illegal immigration, we’re disgusted with congress and the administration, but we solve that by not bothering to vote. Heck, they’re all crooks and I’m enjoying one of those big breakfast burritos as I drive to work.

11/7/07

Congress
    With 82% of Americans giving a thumbs down to Congress, and not a lot better grade for the Bush team, can you get some interest in my Never Re-elect Anyone plan to flush that Washington toilet we’ve let back up? Instead of businessmen taking off a couple years to serve in the government, we’ve grown a bunch of professional politicians.
    Obviously the job pays well, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to spend millions on their re-election campaigns. And I’m sure you’ve read about the lavish retirement package they’ve voted themselves…even after only one term in office.
    When they need some extra money all they have to do is threaten some industry with a congressional investigation and the lobbyists line right up, checkbooks in hand.
    There are some excellent books exposing the whole mess, but maybe you’ve been too busy watching ball games or Oprah to read ’em. Like Adventures In Porkland by Brian Kelly, The Government Racket by Martin Gross, Parliament of Whores by P.J. O’Rourke, Malice In Wonderland by John Perkins (see pages 12-14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for reviews of these books.
    The poverty of ideas for changing things from the sixty-some presidential candidates roaming New Hampshire is testimony for the need to get rid of politicians in government.

11/6/07

Fiber
    A hundred years ago Americans ate over twice as much fiber as we’re doing today, and we’re paying the health price. Fiber in our diet helps absorb toxins and waste material, scrubs the intestinal walls, speeds the transit time through the bowels and makes for more frequent and easier bowel movements.
    So I have All-Bran with my morning bananas and strawberries. Plus, for lunch and dinner I love veggie-slaw, made of minced raw broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots, plus some cole slaw sauce for that sweet-sour creamy flavor. I really like my grapefruit turned to slush in my food processor, plus a couple spoons of maple syrup to cut the slight bitterness.
    I sprinkle several kinds of minced raw nuts on my kale-spinach-swisschard salads, so I’m getting my fiber with every meal.

11/5/07

Plastic
    In his Alternatives newsletter, Dr. Williams stresses the importance of drinking pure, distilled water. Just what I’ve been saying.
    Here on the farm, our water comes from a well. Gee, that ought to be okay, right? We’re on top of a hill and nearly a mile from the nearest neighbor. So I distill it and you should see the crud that accumulates in the bottom of the still. Ugh! It sure isn’t anything I want in my body.
    With a still that can take care of a family costing only about $120, forget those plastic bottles of distilled water from the store. Oh, and when you distill your water, keep it in glass bottles, not plastic. My still came from www.steamdistiller.com.
    Dr. Williams warns against using plastic bottles, or drinking water that’s being sold in plastic bottles. It has to do with bisphenol A, which is bad stuff. It’s linked to miscarriages, birth defects, Down’s syndrome, prostate tumors, decreased sperm count, and so on. It’s stuff that migrates from those plastic water bottles, baby bottles, and food can linings.
    Town or city water is worse, with much of it laced with fluorides, chlorine, lead, and other contaminants.
    What about that glass of iced water in the restaurant? Hey, you have no business drinking water with a meal in the first place. That just does a number on your digestive system, diluting your stomach acid so it can’t do it’s job of getting the food ready for the colon.
    With 75% of Americans chronically dehydrated, are you drinking at least eight to ten glasses a day? Even a 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory and trouble focusing on a printed page. Dehydration contributes to cancers, back problems, and fatigue.

11/4/07

Hospitals
    Several doctors have been warning about hospitals being a leading cause of death. Well, I’ve been going to the Manchester V.A. Hospital a couple times a year for a checkup. My most recent visit had my weight and blood pressure in good shape.
    But Sherry suggested I see if they could do anything about my tinnitus, a buzzing in my ears which I’ve had since standing under the twelve-inch guns on the heavy cruiser Baltimore, when I was being transferred from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor in 1943. They were doing gunnery practice on this maiden voyage and they had us passengers all on deck to watch.
    So I dropped a note to my primary care physician and he scheduled a test for me on Wednesday, Oct. 31st. I went in, my ears were looked at and tested. My hearing was fine, except for the higher frequencies, where the tinnitus masked the sounds. "Sorry, there’s nothing can be done about tinnitus."
    The next day my nose was running all day. Since I hadn’t had a cold or the flu in about twenty years, this surprised me. By late afternoon I had a serious sore throat, had lost my strength, and had to go to bed. Despite my bedroom being at a steady 74° temperature, I was cold, so I put on long johns, double-layered “ice house” pants, and a heavy shirt and socks, and pulled a heavy winter comforter out of the closet. I slept all day Friday and most of Saturday, with occasional food and bathroom breaks. Oh, yes, diarrhea, for a short while, too.
    That reminded me of my uncle Dale. He’d do a little fart and then say, “Oops, gravy,” for a laugh.
    Sunday was spent mostly in bed. Will I have the strength tomorrow to drive to Manchester to record the TV show on health?
    This was no cold or flu, this was a virus I’d somehow managed to pick up at the hospital. Even my industrial strength immune system had a battle with this one. If it had been as weak as most people’s I could have joined the millions of people who die of step or staph infections picked up in hospitals.

11/3/07

Fred08
    While in Manchester I stopped by the new Fred08 headquarters to see if I could generate any interest in getting Fred to start adopting the platform planks I've proposed. They seemed interested and printed a copy of Senator Fred Thompson’s report, “Government At The Brink, Volume 1, Urgent Federal Government Management Problems Facing the Bush Administration.” It was dated June 2001.
    The report goes into gory detail on the mess our federal government is in. Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted and/or unaccounted for. Almost no controls. Just as a random sample, there are at least 45 federal agencies conducting federal criminal investigations, and these agencies employ about 50,000 investigators. Many federal agencies maintain their own internal “police departments.”
    It’s the stuff Martin Gross, P.J. O’Rourke, and others have been writing about for years. A solution? I’ll have to wait for Volume 2 maybe.
    Hey, Fred, yes the federal government is a huge unmanageable mess, with thousands of bureaus and departments not communicating with each other and no real fiscal control. Yes, something needs to be done about it. But we’ve heard that crap before and nothing has changed for the better. That isn’t going to get many people into the voting booths.
    Doing away with the income tax, in effect giving everyone a huge raise in salary, that’ll get voter attention. And that’s one of my proposed platform planks. With more people working for the government than in manufacturing, and remembering that all these people and their families are potential voters, it’s politically stupid to threaten a change in the system.
    Yes, the system needs a drastic change, but shut up about it right now and tell the voters how they can personally benefit from electing Fred in 08. No income tax and beloved IRS! No more inflation! Colleges tuition-free! Bigger social security checks! Much better and less expensive health care!
    Every democracy down through history has destroyed itself when the people discovered they could vote money for themselves. So, learn from history.
   
10/28/07

Worth While
    Every now and then I get a letter thanking me. Like a letter from a student in my electronics class back in 1946 at the Submarine School in New London CT. And the other night when I was standing out in the theater lobby to get away from the ear-shattering noise of a trio on stage with a huge amp before the hypnotist act I came to see.
    “Wayne!” “Wayne Green!” It was an employee from a few years ago and she thanked me for the invaluable work experience I’d given her.
    Today it was a letter from a chap who enjoyed my editorials down through the years, and before that the Radio Teletype journal I published while a producer-director at WXEL-TV in Cleveland, circa 1951. That was my first publication.
    Well, I was having so much fun with this first digital communications system that I just had to share it with others, and the TV station had a mimeograph machine just sitting there unused at night. My journal quickly grew to an offset printed magazine with over two thousand paid subscribers. And that got me a column in CQ, a ham radio magazine. And, when I got the CQ editor a job with a bigger magazine, I inherited his job.
    Thanks, Jim Josenhans (W8FVI), for the nice letter…and the memories.

10/27/07

Total Control
    China is growing fast commercially, but their communist leaders still have the reins under their control. But not totally, until recently.
    The Buddhists in Tibet were posing a problem, but the Chinese leaders solved it. “Lamas are no longer allowed to reincarnate without first obtaining permission from the communist authorities.”
    Problem solved.

10/26/07

RFID Chips
    These tiny glass-enclosed radio frequency identification chips are being injected into cattle, pets, and some people so they can be kept track of. Like Alzheimer’s patients, who might wander off. Conspiracy buffs are warning that the New World Order crowd want to have everyone chipped so they’ll be able to keep total track of ’em.
    Alas, there’s a problem. It turns out that some people and animals with the chips have and are developing tumors around the chips, often deadly. Oops!
    Applied Digital Solutions, back in 2004, got their VeriChip approved by the FDA. This was expedited by Tommy Thompson, then the Secretary of Health and Human Services…who soon left to join the company’s board.
    Will the potential for the chip to cause cancer be enough to stop people rushing to the hospital for a flu shot and a chip implant? I doubt it, not with the herd instinct in full sway. Hey, not everyone getting flu shots is spared the flu, and only a few get Alzheimer’s as a result. Whenever I go to the Manchester VA Hospital for a checkup I’m urged to get my flu shot. Never had one, never will. No chip implants offered. Yet.

10/25/07

Senator Judd Gregg
    In August 2006 I sent the following letter to the senator. In return I eventually got a form letter which gave no hint that he’d bothered to read my letter. So here we are a year later with no workable plan in place.
    If you think my proposal is worth while, how about sending a copy to your senators and congressmen, as well as a reminder copy to Senator Gregg, 393 Russell Senate Office Blg., Washington, DC 20510. If he gets enough prompting, maybe he’ll actually read my letter.

An Iraq Proposal
    The Dems want to pull out. The GOPs don’t know what to do. It’s a mess.
    How about looking at history for a clue? Of course, it helps if one’s been around a bit to see history at work first hand.
    The big lesson for me was Singapore. When Malaysia broke away from the British empire Singapore was the pits, with major poverty and millions of Chinese living in tin-roofed hovels clustered all over the hillsides. Malaysia wanted no part of the mess. They broke off into Malaysia, Singapore, and three countries on Borneo…Sarawak, Brunei, and Sabah. I’ve visited and have friends in all of ’em.
    Singapore turned to the U.N. for help. A team was sent in to see what could be done. They first surveyed the raw materials within easy shipping distance. Then the potential markets. Next, they went back to Europe for investors.
    Four years later, when I visited, the tiny country was doing great. The tin shacks had been replaced by high-rise apartment buildings. There were factories everywhere, with cranes busy building even more. There was no more poverty. Unlike the four other ex-Malaysian countries, Singapore had become one of the new Asian Tigers, along with Taiwan and South Korea.
    Now, how can this help us with Iraq? We keep trying to export democracy, when the real American powerhouse is capitalism, where anyone who has the drive and education can make all the money and live in the style they want.
Oh, democracy…the tyranny of the 51% over the 49%…is fine. Just look at the divisiveness of the Dems and the GOPs fighting each other for power. And, once obtained, abusing the hell out of it. We haven’t yet gotten to the extreme of car bombs, like the Sunni’s and Shiite’s.
    What are the nearby raw materials and markets for the Iraqis? Let’s get ’em busy working and making money.
The micro-loans pioneered in India make it so any one or family can start a business, and we could fund a few million of those with what we’re wasting in a single day of occupation.
    How about getting some business incubator groups going to help entrepreneurs get new businesses up and running? This will not only help bring money into the country, but will provide jobs.
    We need to help them with education, too. With around 80% illiteracy in many Arab countries, we can be an enormous help here.
    But, let’s educate them in English, which is now the world language.
    How? By setting up radio and TV stations around the country, providing good entertainment, and keeping the propaganda to a minimum.
    When I visited New Caledonia I discovered that the French had solved their biggest problem with TV. Like most areas of the world, the native tribes had been at war with each other for a thousand or so years. The French arrived, but instead of beating the natives into submission, they set up TV stations. The natives had to stop fighting to make enough money to buy a TV set for their families. From then on they had to keep working to buy the stuff being advertised. And that was the end of the tribal wars.
    So let’s export Lucy, Car 54, Phil Silvers, and so on, along with English lessons and entrepreneurial ideas.
    I see where Thailand is buying a million $100 laptop computers so every Thai kid can be given a computer. With the Pentagon unable to find what they did with over $1 trillion, and billions unaccounted for with the private contractors in Iraq, investing in a mere billion to provide ten million laptops for Iraqi families would be a drop in the bucket. By the way, these laptops have a crank on the side, so they’re self-powered.
    Step two would be to start putting in fiber optics in all the Iraqi cities and towns so the country could go on line like South Korea and Taiwan, and begin to tap the riches of the Internet.
    With a buzz like that going on it’ll be very difficult to recruit suicide bombers.
   The next thing you know, there’s be wave after wave of illegal immigrants sneaking in from Iran and Syria to share in the success.
    What kind of businesses might they start? One favorite of mine is the manufacture of very simple cars…little better than go-karts. Get ’em off their camels. The Deux Cheveaux car got the French off their bicycles after WWII. That’s two horsepower, and an ultra simple $600 car.
    How about growing organic produce for export? With all the commercial American farms poisoned with pesticides, and with a growing public awareness that this is helping make us sick, Iraq has millions of acres of prime virgin land (much of it desert). By using the Patterson patented feeding tubes to the roots, their plants will grow like crazy and use less than a tenth as much water as usual.
    Oh, no Muslin clerics on the radio and TV stations we set up. And no Billy Graham, either. Keep it entertainment and education. And the same goes for the Web sites we set up.
    Maybe we can get ’em to grow cotton in Afghanistan instead of poppies. Again, there’s millions of acres of land that could be developed, and it isn’t desert. Yes, I’ve been there and, as I did in Iraq, drove around a good bit of the country and visited villages.
    Since my pants were made in the United Arab Emirates, there might be a good market for cotton in the Mideast.
Positive people will say, hey, there’s some good ideas, and how about………
    Negative people will find fault with this or that.
    In brainstorming, negatives are not permitted.
Wayne


10/24/07

Those Wildfires
    Hundreds of square miles and over a thousand homes have been destroyed by wildfires. Were any of them set by terrorists? Whether they were or not, al Queda, or whatever Islamic organization is coordinating the thousands of terrorists who have been (and still are) sneaking across the Mexican border, sure missed a fantastic opportunity to take credit for the devastation.
    If they didn’t start the fires they sure missed a golden opportunity to cause havoc at almost no expense. No suicide bombers needed.

10/23/07

Ron Paul
    The Libertarians, what few there are, are all excited about Dr. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. I made a trip to Strafford (NH) to see him a few weeks ago. I got to shake hands and give him a copy of my proposed platform. He was surrounded with other hands to shake, so I got no attention. He certainly never read my paper.
    Well, never say die, so I went up to his Concord HQ and shook hands again. I got copies of my platform to a couple of his key supporters, so maybe……
    The polls don’t show him having much of a chance. If he’d adopt my platform and release a plank once a week he’d make headlines in the media and be on every talk show, week after week. It could save him millions of ad dollars (which he doesn’t have).
    A doctor saying he can cut health care costs by 50%? Wow! And tuition-free college at no expense to the government? A win-win inexpensive solution to the Iraq mess? Eliminate the income tax (and the IRS), and with no added taxes to make up the loss? Cut the government in half? He’d make quite a stir.

10/22/07

Randy Pausch
    Hopefully you’re not wasting your life watching Oprah, but if you are you saw Professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University on her show giving his now-famous death speech. He’s got pancreatic cancer and, after the usual radiation and surgery, his doctors have given up hope and pronounced him a goner.
    Is there any way to get through the protective wall around Oprah or Pausch to get word to him to change his damned diet so he won’t leave his wife a widow and his young kids fatherless? Let me know if you have any suggestions.
    A few years ago I watched the Mayo Brothers kill my good friend King Hussein of Jordan. I tried to get through to him, his wife or his brother, Prince Raad, to let him know about Doctor Henry Bieler’s 100% success in curing leukemia patients, as described in his book, The Incurables. But the belief in doctors is so firmly ingrained that most people are blind and deaf to any alternatives.
    Doc Bieler went into hospitals where children with “incurable” leukemia were there, just waiting to die. He cured every one of them by taking them off all milk products and feeding them minced raw liver.
    That reminds me, I’ve got to call Justin at his buffalo farm in Hillsborough NH and get another buffalo liver. It turns out, contrary to what you probably think, minced raw liver is delicious. And, with buffalo, I’m not getting any of the poisons that are in virtually all beef today. No growth hormone. No antibiotics, No GM corn-fed cattle. The buffalo are raised on grass.
    Dr. Lorraine Day was days from death when she changed to a raw food diet, with lots of pure water. See www.drday.com. And read my health book.
    Maybe you can help save his life by getting him in touch with me. At least try.

10/17/07

Bio III
    My dad’s folks, seeing WWI coming, enrolled him in the New York Military Academy in 1914, when he was 17, so he graduated a lieutenant in the army and joined the Army Air Corps. That was way, way before the Air Force was thought of being created as a separate branch of the armed forces.
    WWII started in Europe on my 17th birthday and the U.S. joined in a little after my 19th birthday. By then I was in my sophomore year in college and prime draft meat. To help do my bit I spent the summer working at Building 89 at General Electric in Schenectady (NY), testing and aligning BC191 and BC375 transmitters for the army. The units were a 1935 design huge kluges, with seven bread box-sized plug in tuning units to cover the different radio bands.
    The three other guys testing and aligning the equipment were turning out three or four transmitters a day. It didn’t take me long to figure out how to speed up the process to where I was turning out ten to twelve  day, and having a ball doing it. I offered to show the other guys how to do it, but they just got mad. Then they started taking my finished transmitters and detuning some of the tuning units. The supervisor insisted I go back to the old, slower way of doing things.
    When the company gave everyone a raise the company newspaper that week didn’t mention the union’s part in getting the raise, so the union passed the word…anyone seen picking up a copy of the paper would get their arm broken. The union dues were taken out of the member’s paychecks by the company and the only way to get out of the union was to watch the city newspaper for a classified ad telling what day and where you could go to resign.
    After that experience I had little interest in ever again working for a big company.
    With the draft getting closer and closer I got busy working on an alternative to the Army. I tried to Air Force, but when I admitted I had hay fever I was rejected. Then Tom Jones who had been working for my dad, but was now back in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, got me in touch with Commander Bourne at the Naval Research Labs in Anticosti (VA), across the river from Washington. I took the train down and interviewed. Bourne wanted me, but first I’d have to go through the Navy electronic school and learn about radar. Great! He asked me to let him know when I graduated so he could cut orders to get me back to his labs.
    I was sworn in and sent to the Navy yard in DC. They were out of uniforms, so they gave me a two-week leave over the Christmas holidays. I took the train back to Brooklyn to be with my folks.
    One day my grandmother and I were Christmas shopping in the city and we had lunch at a gypsy tearoom on Fifth Avenue. When the Gypsy looked at my tea leaves she was puzzled. She said I was in the armed forces, but my not being in uniform was what puzzled her. It was illegal not to wear a uniform then.
    She said a TJ had had a big influence on me recently, and she saw me going into a big building and coming out later with top honors. Sure enough, the big building was Bliss Electrical Institute in Tacoma Park (MD), and three months later I graduated with top honors.
    The next six months I spent at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco. I went in a Radio technician third class and came out an Electronic Technician second class, again with top honors.
    It was time to let Commander Bourne know I’d graduated. But I figured it would be better for some guy with a wife and kids to do the lab work, which was a lot safer. I decided to go to sea. Since I don’t do at all well when people are giving me orders I needed to find a ship where I’d be in charge, and that boiled down to either a destroyer or a submarine.
    A submarine captain gave the school a talk about sub life and that clinched it. I volunteered and soon was on my way to Pearl Harbor as a passenger on the heavy cruiser Baltimore.
    We,, I had to lie a little. When I volunteered for submarine duty I had to get a medical okay. I joined the line at the Infirmary, waiting to be inspected, memorizing the eye chart 20/20 line, like the others on line. DEFPOTEC, and backwards CETOPFED. I was ready.
    When my turn came I didn’t get as far as the eye chart. The doctor took one look at me and said I was too fat. I asked how much overweight I was. He looked it up and said I was nine pounds too heavy to be accepted. I said, today is Friday, if I come back nine pounds lighter on Monday will I be okay? Sure.
    I spent the weekend not eating any food or drinking any water, going over the “grinder,” the training obstacle course. Then off to San Francisco for a few hours in a steam bath to sweat out more water. Monday morning I reported back to the Infirmary nine pounds lighter. The doctor looked me over and rejected me again. Flat feet.
    When I got back to the school they asked me if I’d passed. I lied. Now and then, during particularly heavy depth charge attacks, I asked the yeoman to get out my records so I could see where it was clearly stamped that I was rejected for submarine duty.

10/16/07

Rendition
    The movie sucks. Aren’t there any movies worth seeing? Where’s Owen Wilson when we need him? Or Jackie Chan? Watching a guy being tortured for two hours is a really lousy way to spend a Friday matinee.
   
10/15/07

McKinley Cantor
    I grabbed the copy of his Andersonville when It turned up at our dump’s free library. I met him when cartoonist Bandle Linn (K4LAP) brought him to WSPB, the radio station where I was an engineer-announcer in Sarasota (FL). Being a fellow ham, Bandel and I got to be good friends. When I started my ham radio magazine in 1960 Bandel did the cartoon cover for the premiere issue.
    Bandel was doing a talk program and had McKinley, a good friend of his and a very well-known author, in for an interview, so we had a chance to talk for a couple of hours. Later Bandel told me of the prank McKinley pulled on him when he bought a bunch of old books for a quarter each and had a rubber stamp made offering a reward for the return of the book to Bandel, along with Bandel’s address.
    He stamped the books inside the front covers and left them in hotel rooms and other places as he traveled around the country promoting his books. This kept Bandel busy for months.
    In a town where the mail boxes had admiral so-and-so, retired, and general so-and-so, retired, on them, Bandel’s had Corporal Bandel Linn, Retired.

10/15/07

New Idea Vacuum
    With New Hampshire being smothered in presidential candidates it’s hard to get to all their talks. But they all have one thing in common, none that I’ve heard so far or read about, has proposed any practical plans for solving our country’s more serious problems.
    Like? Well, my favorite, of course, is health care. Having the government pay our doctor, hospital and medication bills isn’t a practical answer. And education, where American kids are coming in at the bottom in international tests. The loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia. And now the white collar jobs are moving out, too. Social Security is not sustainable as it is now. And, global warming or no, we’re making a mess of our world.
   Welfare is a ghastly mess, plus encouraging women to have more babies without fathers to boost their welfare checks. The Federal Reserve banks have given us humongous inflation. The number of government workers has doubled since the first Bush was elected, and few of these workers are making life better for us. Our farms are turning out poisoned food. Our beef is not fit to eat.
    The national debt. The loss of the dollar’s value. The huge mess in Iraq and Afghanistan. The housing and mortgage mess. Oh, I almost forgot the millions of Mexicans crossing the border, lowering all our wages.
    So the candidates are talking about stem-cell research, gay marriages, and other religious matters.

10/15/07

Ancient History
    This all started when I was the editor of CQ, one of the ham magazines. I’d been summoned to the Pentagon for a briefing. Briefing? It was anything but brief. An Air Force colonel obfuscated for over an hour, speaking Air Force jargon, which I translated as best I could into English. It had to do with the Air Force needing to take over some of our UHF ham bands for their radar.
    When he got through, I asked if what I’d heard translated into the Air Force, faced with the problem of the Russians using radar jamming equipment in their bombers, was being countered by their setting up so many radar systems that even a fleet of bombers couldn’t jam then all? That meant we hams would have to give up one of our UHF bands to make room for this mass of radar systems. I forget how many billions of dollars the whole thing was estimated to cost.
    My question resulted in more obfuscation, and a shift to an even higher level of encrypted language. After my asking the question about four times I finally got a yes, that’s about what it all adds up to. I told the colonel he and the Air Force master minds that thought up this one were crazy. I suggested they use technology instead of brute force to solve some of their problems, and that if they insisted on pursuing this I’d raise all the hell I could, and do my best to embarrass them.
    Well, it never happened, though I don’t know if my grain of sand’s worth of resistance had any part in their abandoning the project. So we didn’t lose our 450 MHz ham band back in 1956.

10/15/07

Air-Email
    The airlines, bowing to passenger pressures, will soon be offering wi-fi email and texting connections on their flights. Cellphones are still a way off.
    When the first laptops came out the airlines banned them, claiming they might interfere with the airplane’s electronics. I doubted this, so I put the pressure on through my computer magazine editorials to have this researched. Tests proved I was right and the ban was lifted.
    By the way, the first laptop I used was back in 1980, Sony’s Typecorder. The first real laptop computer was the Radio Shack Model 100, which came out in 1983. I used one for years.

10/15/07

Retiring
    In the U.S. News 2007 list of the Best Places to Retire, Concord NH came in second to Bozeman MT. They cited all the things there are to do in the area and the friendliness of the people. Hiking, biking, golf, swimming, skiing, mountains, forests, and so on. For the adventurous the possibilities are endless, as we point out in New Hampshire ToDo magazine every month.
    Beats the hell out of sitting and watching TV all day.

10/15/07

Pregnancy
    It may come as a big surprise to pregnant women, but scientists tell us what mothers are eating can have a profound effect on their baby. Makes sense, since the baby is sharing the mother’s food. So mothers who eat sweets are probably going to have obese kids. And those on the Atkins-style diet have kids prone to heart disease and diabetes.
    Mothers interested in having healthy, normal kids, should maintain normal weight and eat a very healthy diet. Preferably raw food and none of the known poisons such as sugar, white flour products, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, aspartame, vaccinations, medications, and so on. Oh, and have any amalgam fillings removed by a dentist experienced in that process.
    What a mother eats during pregnancy can mark a child for life.

10/15/07

Bribery
    Big Pharma has been making sure doctors prescribe their pills and shots by lavishing gifts and cushy vacations on them…to the tune of $19 billion every year. Plus they make sure Congress and state legislatures stay in line with their lobbyist gifts.
    Just in Vermont, psychiatrists in 2006 got an average of $45,692 each to assure their writing more prescriptions.
    And we’re the suckers. We totally believe our doctors have our best interests and health in mind, not their next all expenses paid vacation to Acapulco.
    Lost in the snow job are my pleas to change to a healthy diet to avoid this enormously profitable mess. Pharma, the most profitable industry in America, is keeping us buried in TV, radio and magazine ads, very generously bribing the doctors we trust, and making sure the FDA doesn’t derail their gravy train.

10/14/07

Schools
    How bad is it? 70% of our eighth graders are not proficient in reading, and most will never catch up. More that 1.2 million kids drop out of high school every year, and many who do graduate find they are ill-prepared for college, for careers or even for life.
    More than 60% of high school graduates who go on to college say they wish they had taken tougher classes in high school. And among those who go into the workforce, 72% wish they’d taken tougher courses, particularly in math. A national study showed that only 34% of high school graduates had the skills and qualifications necesxsary to attend college.
    So we have states lowering their testing requirements to let kids graduate. It’s not bad enough that American students are coming in at the bottom on international surveys, making us less and less competitive in the world economy,
    There is no research showing that smaller classes or higher teacher pay will change this dumbing down of American kids. Those aren’t what’s causing the problem. We’re using a system that’s been designed to produce workers for factories, who will not ask questions or cause problems. And that doesn’t take a lot of education. The problem with that paradigm is that we’re busy moving the factory jobs overseas as fast as we can, so our schools are producing a dumbed down version of what was needed a hundred years ago, not what’s needed now.
    It is interesting, but not surprising, that our public schools are spending an average of $8,899 per student per year, while the average tuition for private schools is $4,689 per year.
    Many experts have studied the problem and come up with creative solutions, but you’d never know it from listening to the presidential candidates, none of which have proposed any intelligent solutions that I’ve heard about.

10/13/07

Schools II
    Many of the candidates are proposing to spend more money on our public school system as a way to counter the steady drop in SAT scores. Okay, let’s look at the situation.
    The national average spent per student was $8,899. As with all averages, some states were higher, some lower. The highest, by a wide margin, was the District of Columbia, where is was $15,414 per student, In the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests only 12% of the DC eighth graders scored grade-level proficient in reading and 7% in math. No state came close to doing that poorly. The District spent the most money and got the worst results. They spent the most on teachers, too.
    Private schools, which cost about half as much to run, are doing a lot better. But even they are put to shame by the home-schooled students. So what we have is a $462 billion a year proof that socialism is a failure. As Michael Medved says, “Everything the government does it messes up.”
    We have the example of he Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Mass., where there is no curriculum. Where the students study what they want, when they want. And the results are spectacular. No classrooms with rows of desks. Kids, given the opportunity, love to learn.
    Almost 30 years ago, when I opened my computer lab, which had 30 work stations, with all kinds of personal computers, I invited the local high school students to use the lab nights and weekends. They loved it. Some brought sleeping bags so they could sack out when they got too tired. A couple hours later they were back up at it. My crew said the students were like industrial vacuum cleaners in their asking questions and learning to handle the computers.
    Today, between the Web and DVDs, almost anything kids want to know can be made available wherever they are. And, with the promise of $100 computers for kids, we’re about to enter a new educational age. When I predicted, thirty years ago, that we’d be seeing computers advertised on television, I drew a huge laugh. Ridiculous! Well, we’ll be seeing TV ads for learning programs. Lots of ’em.

10/12/07

Ethanol
    It’s baloney. You see, corn fuel takes more energy to produce than it gives. It’s a waste of time, except for presidential candidate blovating. Scientists agree that it takes more energy to grow and manufacture than it delivers. Worse, our cornfields could never supply more than about 2% of the energy we are using.
    Not one candidate has a clue about the cover-up of the potential for cold fusion. I’ve published the peer-reviewed scientific papers proving the validity of this energy source for unlimited pollution-free energy at a fraction the cost of oil. 

10/11/07

Medical Amnesia
    The October 15th Time devoted nine pages and the cover to breast cancer, plus five cancer related pharmaceutical ad pages. Well, with half of Americans giving themselves cancer, it’s a subject the magazine certainly should research and publish an honest report on their findings.
    The article suggests cancer may have something to do with the American diet and our lack of exercise. The incidence of breast cancer in women around the world has increased for those who have adopted the American diet.
    What didn’t get mentioned was Dr. Lorraine Day, the leading San Francisco trauma surgeon who totally cured her breast cancer by changing to a raw food diet (www.drday.com) or Dr. Bruno Comby of Institute Comby in Paris (www.comby.org), who’s book, Maximize Immunity, explains how he discovered that a raw food diet could cure any cancer.
    No surprise, since there’s no money in people curing illnesses themselves. With cancer being the medical/pharmaceutical industry’s biggest money-maker, no media running “health care” ads dares touch this third rail.

10/10/07

Amnesia
    On the Coast show a couple of NASA experts commented how none of the astronauts who supposedly walked on the Moon claim they can remember doing it. Either NASA somehow managed to totally brainwash the experience from their memories or they didn’t really do it. I prefer the simple explanation.
    The main excuse for the Apollo Moon missions 35 years ago was to beat the Russians to the Moon. Well, we not only beat them, they’ve never even tried. However, the reason cited in the Canadian (CBC) documentary was Nixon’s need to take the public’s mind off the mess in Vietnam.
    For those interested in knowing more I have several excellent sources available, starting with Ralph René’s NASA Mooned America (#90), my Moondoggle (#32), Dark Moon (#92), the Dark Moon video (#93), and that CBC documentary (#54).
    The reason we have never “gone back” to the Moon in all these years is we still have no way of keeping astronauts alive while going through the intense radiation in the Van Allen belt surrounding Earth. Even those who get a little too high in low Earth orbit have had to be quickly brought back down to safer levels.

10/9/07

An Ice Age?
    On page 24 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom I reviewed Robert Felix’s 1997 book, Not By Fire, But By Ice. In it he predicts a soon-to-come ice age. And he makes a good case for it.
    Now, ten years later, his predictions of the new ice age precursors are right on schedule. While a few glaciers are melting, as pointed out by the global warming alarmists, Felix points out that 90% of them have been growing. Then there’s the thousands of new volcanoes under the oceans, which have been warming them, bring the world more rain. The weather has been hotter in many places, and intensely colder in others.
    Researchers studying earth core samples have learned that the Earth has ice ages on a regular schedule, one that says another is due. Worse, it doesn’t take hundreds of years for the ice to build up, we could see a major ice age upon us in as little as ten years, once it gets started. Pfft will go New England and a lot of the northern U.S.  Oh, and Europe.
    Last year they had 17 inches of rain in one day in California. Now, if it had been snow that would have been 14 feet. Anyone going to dig their way out of that? Most California houses would be covered. Got some cross country skis handy?
    Well, let’s see how this winter shakes out. With all that rain, our ski areas may be blessed.
    Che-e-ese, with Felix’s predictions panning out, Planet-X in the offing, more and more 2012 books, Nostradamus predicting a major pole shift which could send tsunamis hitting every coast in the world (p.47 of my Wisdom Guide), and so on…whew!

10/5/07

Uh oh!
    With the dollar plumetting our manufacturing being exported, our debt rising, and with the admission by ex-Mexican president Fox that there’s an agreement with Bush to have a North American Union of Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, we’re busy watching ball games while our country is being sold out by Congress and the Administration.
    The prospect of waking up those few Americans who bother to vote is, right now, remote. Our super-controlled media isn’t about to rock the boat, so we’ll see the 95% re-elected Congress continue. And only those American companies that go international will have much of a chance for long term survival.
    I’m old enough to remember when we made all our radios, televisions, steel, machinery, and most of our cameras. The last American car I bought was a 1954 Ford Country Squire.
    It’s going to take a new educational system to bring us a generation of Americans who will both educate themselves as to what’s going on and have the creativity and guts to clean out the professional politicians who are selling us down the river while they feather their own nests. We need to make politics as a profession go the route of the blacksmith. In the coming election, please make every effort not to re-elect anyone.

10/4/07

Iraq
    Maybe you’ve read about the 2.5 million Iraqis leaving the country, and another 2.2 million being displaced, the largest refugee crisis since the Israelis forced the Palestinians out of their homes and country in 1948…an act that’s still haunting them almost sixty years later.
    Well, the Rumsfeld-planned invasion put nearly a million Iraqi men out of work, with almost no hope of getting another job, so counting their wives and children, there’s three to five million people that were in desperate shape. Life under Saddam may have been tough, but at least everyone was working and their families could eat.
    Just as the swarming into America of some 20 million Mexicans, most desperate to work for any pay they can get, has had the effect of lowering everyone’s paychecks, the arrival of a million Iraqi refugees in Syria, a country of 19 million, has to have the same effect on them, only much worse because the refugee invasion has been sudden, not stretched out over twenty or so years. And ditto Iran and Jordan. I note that all three have had to close their borders to refugees.
    So, how much would it cost the U.S. to re-open Saddam’s 200 factories we closed when we invaded, immediately putting over a half million men out of work? And to fund the startup of small family businesses with micro-loans? And medium-sized businesses with business incubator groups? All of those would be investments which would eventually pay interest on the loans, and start putting the country back to work.
    How about forwarding this to your Senator and Congressmen?

10/3/07

Hazing
    Ian Puttit, on the nightly Coast to Coast AM show, mentioned that in college, rather than go through the fraternity initiation rites, he stuck to living in the dorms instead of a fraternity house.
    Tsk and foresooth, Ian. Sure, as a pledge, I had to have a paddle handy and “assume the position” frequently. I’d been hurt a lot worse by my dad with his razor strop or a hairbrush when I angered him. And there was the blindfolded grabbing a very ripe banana in a toilet bowl gag.
    On the plus side I had to learn the Greek alphabet to avoid paddling, and I still know it. Every now and then it comes in handy.
    Late one night two of us pledges were blindfolded, driven miles out into the country, and dropped off on a back country road to find our way home. There wasn’t even a glow in the sky to give us a hint on which way to walk. So we started walking.
    A few minutes later a car came along, passed, suddenly stopped and backed up. “Hey Wayne, is that you?” It was Carmen Miranda, a fellow ham operator (W2MAM) from a fraternity just down the street from our fraternity house. He had just dropped off two pledges from his fraternity.
    We hopped in as he explained that this was a popular place to dump pledges and give them a long walk to civilization. I’ll never forget the look on the brother’s faces when they came in and found we’d beaten them back. I’m still chuckling. Even some extra paddling didn’t get us to explain how we did it.
    Now, let’s see if you can convince me my guardian angel wasn’t working overtime that night.

10/02/07

Boiled Frogs
    Yep, that’s us. My ancestors got all upset when King George laid on a tea tax. It was revolting. So we uprose and, like the cowards we were, hid behind trees to shoot the Kings soldiers, which they cooperatively lined up in rows for us. Those founding fathers should see the mess we’ve made of the country they fought to establish.
    Today we pay federal and state income tax, state and local sales tax, state and local property tax, federal and state unemployment tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, movies, school tax, wedding, car and driver’s, hunting and fishing licenses and a whopping gasoline tax. Many also pay capital gains tax, dividend tax, interest tax, luxury tax, gift tax, and utility taxes on phones.
    We have more people working in government than in manufacturing, and not one of them is turning a profit. Few, if any, are making our lives better.
    And this state of affairs we’ve brought on ourselves by mindlessly re-electing 95% of the professional politicians in Congress every election day. I know, I shouldn’t interfere with your TV watching. Apologies.
   
10/1/07

Wow!
    A friend recommended a 2007 movie I could see on the web. I checked it out and was astounded. This was, by far, the most important movie I’ve ever seen! Wait’ll you see it!
    Aldous Huxley said, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known.” And I’ve pointed out that belief (a.k.a. faith) is a prison for the mind.
    Being a fighter for truth, here was a film that tells the truth about how we’ve been lied to about 911, the Federal reserve, religion, and so on. Fields which I’ve spent years investigating, so I know the film has it right.
    If I can get in touch with the producers I’ll bet they’ll go for a follow up film on the truth about more ways we’re being brainwashed such as health, education, and those Moon landings.
    It’s www.zeitgeistmovie.com for the ride of your life. That’s a German word for the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.

9/30/07

Bio II
    Bob Sullivan entered my life in 1929 when my folks had dinner with Bob and his wife Mary. His Gilbert and Sullivan and classical records instantly clicked with me. Probably something from a past life kicking in.
    Bob was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer and had done a couple articles about Central Airport, my dad’s project. The airport, which my dad designed, built and managed, across the river in Camden, was Philly’s airport for many years. A couple years later we moved from our house in Merchantville to an apartment in Washington DC, when my dad took the job of passenger and cargo manager for Luddington Airlines.
    As I mentioned back in May, the airline was the first regular passenger airline and ran from New York to Washington every hour on the hour. It was owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart.
    A couple years later Eastern Air Transport bought Luddington and my dad was out of work. So we moved back to Brooklyn, this time moving in the my mother’s folks while dad got busy working to start Marine Airlines, which would use flying boats to fly between downtown Manhattan and downtown Boston. Both Eastern and Transcontinental Western Airlines liked the idea of being able to extend their service to Boston via Marine Airlines, so dad had no problem getting funding.
    Meanwhile, Bob Sullivan had gotten a choice job with the New York Sunday News doing “Where are they now” pieces, so he moved to New York too. By this time he and Mary had a couple children, so I’d take the subway out to Kew Gardens and baby sit for them so I could play his Gilbert And Sullivan records. And when the Savoyard Players came to Broadway from London in 1936, Bob took me to see several operettas.
    In high school I joined the Savoyards Club and we put on The Mikado, with me singing the part of Koko…the lead. In the Pirates of Penzance I did Major General Stanley.
    After high school it was four years of college and four years in the Navy during WWII, bringing us up to 1948. My first job out of college was as the chief engineer and announcer at WEEB in Southern Pines NC. Working 80-hour weeks for 50¢ an hour got old fast, so when I heard the Daily News was going to have a TV station I got in touch with Bob and he introduced me to Harvey Marlow, the WPIX Channel 11 project head honcho.
    I signed on as an engineer, but it wasn’t long before I became a cameraman. We rehearsed at a studio a couple blocks from the News Building on 42nd Street until the WPIX studios were finished.
    When we went on the air I had my camera down in the News Building lobby for the opening festivities. What fun it was doing shows with Gloria Swanson, Rube Goldberg, the tune detective Sigmund Spaeth, and Irene Wicker, The Singing Lady. When I was around eight I used to listen to Irene on the radio. If those names are strange, just goolge ’em.
    This was back in the black and white TV days, when our RCA cameras had just one lens, so I developed a fluid camera technique which allowed me to do the one-hour Gloria Swanson show all on one camera. We got to be good friends. And what fun meeting the old timers like Zazu Pitts that Gloria brought in.
    The WPIX transmitter was up on the 37th floor, so I got permission to set up my ham station there. I put up a W2BAV (Bill Hoisington)16-element beam, which allowed me to make contacts out to over 200 miles. Wow, what fun! Around twenty years later Bill moved to my town in New Hampshire to write articles for my ham magazine.

9/29/07
Debacle
    For only $75 I could have a booth at an Independence & Aging Expo. So Daron and I showed up with a respectable booth, complete with posters promoting my Secret Guide to Health and Dr. Comby’s Maximize Immunity. And Daron also had some issues of New Hampshire ToDo.
    During the five hours of the expo dozens of people walked by our booth, many not giving it a first glance, much less a second. I sold three books ($60) and one back issue of ToDo ($2). For that I invested a day and Daron a good part of the day. Oh, and about $10 of gas.
    On the plus side I did get around to most of the exhibits, ending up with a bag full of candy, a pill box, some note pads, an ice scraper, and a couple little key ring flash lights. Since I don’t eat candy any more, I’m not sure what to do with it. But hey, it was free. The Lindt truffles were very tempting.
    Here was a group of seniors, the people who are in the biggest need of my book, and I couldn’t get them to look at it. Youngsters consider themselves indestructible, so I can understand their lack of interest in health. But most seniors have suffered to some degree the results of their youthful carelessness of their health. I suspect that most of them have totally put their trust in their doctor, so they still have almost no interest in actually learning about health. When they get sick they go to the doctor, get pills and treatments, case closed. Well, of course…he’s the expert.

9/28/07
Burma
    With Myanmar in the news, I remembered my visit. It was memorable.
    On my first trip around the world I went from Greece to Egypt, South Yemen, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Thailand and on to the Philippines, etc. So, on my second trip, wanting to visit new places, from Greece I went to Kenya for a hunting safari, and then to Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and on to several Pacific islands.
    In most of these countries I either stayed with a fellow ham operator I’d befriended over the air, or was shown around by one.
    When I went to get a visa to visit Burma I was informed I could only get one if I had an ongoing flight within 24 hours. I would not be allowed to stay in Burma more than one day. So I rearranged my flights to comply.
    I flew from Katmandu in Nepal to Calcutta, with a scheduled flight to Rangoon. I checked at the Thai Airlines desk to make sure my flight the next morning was confirmed. They said the flight had been canceled. Darn!
    Late that night I got a call at the hotel saying the flight would be leaving at seven A.M. On my taxi ride to the airport I was amazed at how many men were sleeping on the sidewalks. Thousands of homeless.
    Around noon we landed in Rangoon, where the customs people went through my bag, listing my camera and lenses to make sure I still had then when I left. I changed some money and took a taxi to the hotel. After unpacking I hailed a pedicab and gave the address if Tara Singh, a ham I’d talked with.
    When I arrived I knocked on the door. No answer. So I slipped my QSL card under the door to let him know I’d been there. That’s a ham radio confirmation card we send to anyone we’ve contacted to confirm the contact. As I was about to get back in the pedicab the door opened and Tara Singh welcomed me. The card had convinced him I wasn’t the police.
   Tara had quite a story. The military had staged a coup and taken over the government. Then they took over businesses and schools, and confiscated all private cars. They’d taken Tara’s car too, but when it stopped working they gave it back. He fixed it well enough to use, but not well enough for them to take it again.
    He’d had a prosperous metal working business, which they confiscated. So he was getting by selling metal scraps they hadn’t bothered to take. Since he was an Indian, they were trying to force him to leave the country.
    Before the coup Tara had been the country’s top golfer. The military closed the country clubs and golf courses.
    When the airline canceled their flight the next day I was able to spend two days in Rangoon.
    This gave Tara an opportunity to drive me around town, including a visit to the famed Schwe Dagon shrine.  He explained that with most business closed people had set up flea markets where they could swap for things they wanted. He asked if I could send him some clothes when I got back. Dungarees preferred. Also, his son was into badminton, so could I send him a couple racquets?
    The next morning I was off to Bangkok for a few days, then to Singapore. There my ham friend, a doctor, was a fellow Bengali…they wear head turbans and are named Singh…so I asked if he could send the badminton racquets to Tara for me.
    When I got back home I sent several packages of clothes to Tara. But then I got a call from his son saying the government had killed his father. I still keep the dungaree jacket, never unwrapped, I was about to send when I got the news. His son explained how he’d been put in prison and released on the basis of his leaving the country within twenty-four hours. He had the Singapore doctor’s return address who’d sent him the badminton racquets, so he flew there. He was now living in Ohio with his new bride, my doctor friend’s daughter.

9/27/07
If It’s In Print…
    …It must be true. Sure.
    John Swinton, the former chief of staff of The New York Times, called by his peers, "The dean of his profession," was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club.  He responded with the following statement:
    “There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
    “I am paid for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
    “The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks…they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
    So here we are 54 years later and nothing has changed with the media, and that includes not only the newspapers, but our major magazines, and the radio and TV networks. This small group owns the banks, and controls our Congress and the Administration. They start and stop wars.
Hey, please don’t tell ’em I’m ratting ’em out on this. I don’t want to suddenly die of “natural causes.”

9/26/07
Dumber and Dumber
    Researchers report that our 14 year old’s vocabularies have declined by 20,000 words in the last 20 years. Like, you know, they aren’t into needing as many, er, words. And this despite a higher percentage of the kids being high school graduates. But then, as I’ve mentioned a few times, since the forced introduction of public schools 150 years ago, we’ve never even come close to the 98% literacy we had before the government got into the act and gave us the wonderful benefits of compulsory schooling. I almost said “education.”
    The good news is that half of our teachers will be retiring in the next ten years and we haven’t found any way yet to replace them.
    Yes, I agree, there are a few good teachers. Damned few. With our teachers coming from the bottom 20% of high school graduates and then going to ed schools, where they learn virtually nothing, just in order to get their credentials, it’s no wonder that, even when they “teach” to the tests, their kids are failing.
    The public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsauken (NJ), Washington (DC) and Brooklyn (NY) were the pits 70 years ago, when I went to them. And since then it’s been all down hill.
    Sending your children to a public school today should qualify as a prosecutable crime.
    More money isn’t going to help. That’s been tried and failed.
    Of course I have a good solution to this situation…I need to finish the book I’m writing on the subject. In the meantime, how about home schooling?

9/25/-7
Burying Their Mistakes
    Didja see the 60 Minutes segment on how hospitals are covering up their doctor’s errors by either not bothering to order a postmortem or even refusing to do one when a patient dies? The Institute of Medicine did a study and found that about 40% of the Cause of Death on the death certificates of dead hospital patients was flagrantly wrong. They estimated that hospitals have been quietly burying around 100,000 doctor-error-caused patient deaths a year.
    Now, when you get sick and go to the hospital, what are your chances of surviving? There are doctor errors, medication errors, the potential for catching something even more deadly than you went in with from some other sick patient, and that doesn’t count the food, which is almost guaranteed to keep you sick.
    Oops, I should have said that when you make yourself sick with your diet and lifestyle, not when you get sick.

9/24/07
Ozone
    Yes, we’ve been flim-flammed again. Sigh.
    First, there’s the Antarctic ozone hole baloney about our CFCs being responsible. Total crapola. Firstly, most of the CFC use is in the northern hemisphere. Secondly, CFCs are four to ten times heavier than air, so most of ’em stay near the ground. We have Dupont to thank for the nonsense about Freon. I’ve read that when their patent was running out they paid ecology groups to push Congress to outlaw Freon so refrigerators would have to use their newer and poorer product. And that’s costing us billions.
    When drinking water is ozonated instead of chlorinated to kill microbes, it was found in Germany that the cities with ozonated water had half the rate of overall sickness.
    Chlorine causes the iodine of the thyroid to be driven out. This causes low energy and fatigue, and it depresses the immune system, making us more prone to infections, degenerative diseases, cancer, arthritis, and so on. Just what we need. Well, you can see why I’m such a nuisance about your distilling your drinking water.
    All Olympic pools must be ozonated and not chlorinated.

9/23/07
Sheep
    Our business leaders, our church leaders, our political leaders all have a strong vested interest in our being ignorant.
    Our business leaders want you to buy their products. Our church leaders want you to sit in their congregations, give money and not ask questions. Our political leaders want you to keep on voting for them while they spend your money and make themselves rich.
    So our schools dumb us down and we’re kept from noticing by endless entertainment…ball games, television, radio, vigorous political arguments, O.J., and Michael Jackson. If you think this dumbing down is accidental you sure haven’t done much reading on the subject. It’s on purpose.
    Is this another wild conspiracy theory? Stop snickering long enough to become unignorant by reading Charlotte Iserbyt’s meticulously researched book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. It’s a huge book…8-1/2x11 inches and nearly 2-inches thick…over 700 pages! You will be excited…and appalled when you read this $30 book. ISBN 0-966707-0-9 from Conscience Press.
    You’ll also want to read John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education, another whopper of a book. My copy is highlighted on almost every page. John is the prize-winning New York City (including inner) who quit, saying that he just couldn’t continue to do that to children. ISBN 0-945-70004-0, Oxford Village Press, $30.
    Or you can grab the remote, a bag of cheeze-puffs, a beer, sit back on the couch like Homer Simpson and watch a ball game. Let someone else worry about how lousy our school system is…and why it’s that way. The President, Congress and the NEA are depending on you to do just that.
    We get all upset when we read about parents who have locked their children in a closet for years, but we don’t blink an eye when the government does essentially the same thing to our children’s minds. Our public school system is designed to produce obedient workers and to stifle thinking and creativity. It is no accident that American students are coming in at the bottom in world educational surveys.
    Fifty years ago Aldous Huxley wrote, “We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.”
    What can you do about it? Heck, start reading. Start getting the education the schools should have given you. My Secret Guide to Wisdom (book #02, $5) has a review of about a hundred books that will get your brain cells off the couch. Or, watch a ball game and be entertained. Or Maury Povich.

9/22/07
Prozac
    Didja miss the Prozac article in the Discover? It covered the benefits and drawbacks of the serotonin enhancers such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Valium, and Effexor. These are the drugs children with attention deficit disorder (ADD), hyperactivity and depression are being given…and often forced to take by school authorities.
    The article listed the common known side effects alphabetically: abnormal thinking, allergic reaction, anxiety, chest pain, chills, cough, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth, flu symptoms, frequent urination, hay fever, headache, inability to fall or stay asleep, increased appetite, indigestion, joint pain, nausea, sore throat, stomach/intestinal disorder, sweating, tremors, weakness, and weight loss. Somewhat less common are abnormal ejaculation, abnormal gait, amnesia, antisocial behavior, apathy, confusion, convulsions, decreased sex drive, extreme muscle tension, fluttery heartbeat, hair loss, hallucinations, hostility, mania, paranoid reaction, slurred speech, stupor, suicidal thoughts, temporary cessation of breathing, twitching, weight gain.
    Well, I suppose it’s easier to put up with those side effects (and school shootings) than to stop feeding a child sugar.

9/21/07
Frustration
    When I attend public events like fairs and see people hobbling around or in wheelchairs, I just wish there was some way to reach them with what I’ve learned about health. Oh, I’ve tried a few times, but they don’t want to hear it. Their belief in doctors and medications is so solid it’s like trying to convince them there’s no God 
    To me, having done my homework, it’s just common sense that if we stop dumping garbage on our maintenance and repair department, our immune systems, we’re not going to get sick. I like the term “nutritional suicide” as a description of the American diet.
    When I see fat people drinking diet sodas, or buying a case of them in the supermarket, I so badly want to get them to understand what they are doing to themselves.
    It’s painful to see people who are hurting that I could help, if I only knew how to communicate with them.

9/20/07
WRPI
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY is celebrating WRPI 91.5 FM’s 50th anniversary…sixty years counting the AM broadcasting years.
    Yep, it was in 1947 that, as president of the RPI radio club, I put together a small carrier current transmitter and, with the donation of some old microphones and a mixing unit from WTRY, the town’s radio station, WRPI began broadcasting. The “studio” was in a freshman dorm building basement (Hunt III), and we had a great time. The activity built the radio club membership from about a dozen to over 200. We did news, interviews, commentary, and even plays, with help from Russell Sage College girls.
    The signal reached out a good half mile, covering all the dorms and quite a few of the fraternity houses.
    It’s gratifying to see something I started so long ago is now the leading student-run activity.

9/18/07
Iran
    They’re claiming the purpose of spending millions on refining uranium is for nuclear power, not to make bombs. Now, I wonder, why would a country with such huge oil reserves have any need for nuclear power plants?
    Of course, with nearby Israel having the bomb, and Pakistan, too, and with Iran president Ahminanutjob making speeches promising to destroy Israel, how long will it be before Israel either takes out the Iranian nuclear facilities, or even drops a big one on Tehran?
    In America’s new job as policeman for the world…particularly where it will benefit the American oil interests…is it our responsibility to invade Iran?
    If Bush were to ask me, which of course he won’t, I’d advise two immediate steps to cool things down. First, undo the incredible stupidity of putting almost a million Iraqui men out of work, as we did with our unprovoked invasion. We can do this by re-opening the 200 factories we shut down, setting up business incubator groups to help finance and form new small businesses, and provide microloans for home business startups. This will put everyone back to work, helping to keep them out of mischief, plus be profitable investments for America.
    Second, invest a couple million or so to develop a practical cold fusion-powered unit for homes which will develop all the heat and electricity a family can need. Then a smaller one to power cars. Pfft will go our need for oil and our interest in the middle east’s problems. It would be nice if those could be made here instead of in China.

9/17/07
iOops!
    Being a known early-adopter, and having wondered when Apple would add a cellphone to their iPod, I was not surprised when Jobs announced, with the usual fanfare and barrage of magazine and TV ads, the iPhone. It was about time. My iPod has allowed me to listen to a daily podcast of the Coast To Coast AM show as well as enjoy some 800 pieces of music (mostly classical) while I’m out fast walking and getting my vitamin D fix via the sun. But, I often thought, how come I can’t get phone calls too?
    However, having been around the high-tech business most of my life, I knew better than to jump at the first release of a new gadget. A year or so later a new model would be out, one with the first unit’s problems solved, and probably at a lower price. So I waited. When the ePhone comes out I’ll probably climb aboard. By then I hope it won’t be nailed to an AT&T $1,400 contract.
    Jobs pulled a huge blunder, in my estimation, when he dropped the price by $200 and then, when the first buyers screamed, offered a $100 credit toward their next Apple buy. A $100 price drop, with the $100 credit probably wouldn’t have created the huge distrust of Apple that resulted. That’s a cloud that isn’t easily going to be blown away.

9/16/07
Art Bell
    The Coast to Coast AM nightly show that Art Bell used to host dug back for this morning’s "Somewhere In Time" (6-10 PM PDT) show, rebroadcasting one I did with Art in 1997. The result was a barrage of orders for my books via the web and a bunch of phone calls. Well, I think there will be a few hundred healthier people as a result.
    At the time I talked about the blood purifier, a.k.a. bioelectrifier, a fast and cheap cure, mainly for AIDS. Since then the FDA got the postal authorities to stop me from sending any information about this in the mail, making sure with the threat of a $25,000 fine.
    They explained that since the purifier is not authorized by the FDA, it is, by law, fraudulent, so I would be sending fraudulent material through the mail. Well, gee, why not get the FDA to approve it, since it’s been proven by a bunch of doctors to work, and this approach to curing AIDS has even been patented by Dr. Kaali of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York. The catch is that it is now costing about $800 million and taking about ten years for the FDA to authorize anything. The good part for Big Pharma is that for that money the FDA seems to have no problem authorizing anything.
    This was frustrating, but on the positive side, what is essentially a diet change to raw food will accomplish the same result. The immune system, once freed from its daily battle with the toxic stuff we eat, drink, and put on our bodies, will quickly clean the blood, get rid of any cancers, rebuild bones, and so on, as I’ve explained in my Secret Guide to Health.
    One of my ham friends has gotten the blood purifier information to the Chinese Government and says they’re testing it in several hospitals. He expects they’ll market the purifier units for around $10 internationally. Pfft could go tens to hundreds of millions of Big Pharma profits on their ineffective AIDS medications.
    Check www.educate-yourself.org/beckdevicesdesc.html for more purifier info.
    If you’re a Coast paid subscriber you can click on September shows, go down Somewhere In Time, and listen to Wayne Green and Art ten years ago.

9/15/07
Amos Blandin
    Both my dad and his dad loved to go fishing in the lakes, ponds, streams and rivers of northern New Hampshire. Trout, bass, perch, and hornedpout (a kind of catfish). And one of their fishing buddies was Amos, a judge of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He was also a wonderful poet.
    But, since much of his poetry was often personal, he didn’t want it published while he was alive. He gave me a copy of his poems, which I’ve treasured. I made them available to New Hampshire ToDo, which has been publishing one every month. The one in the October issue reminded me of the poem Amos wrote about Sidney Day. I have to share it with you. 

Sidney Day

The hill belongs to Sidney Day
Though he's left it now and moved away
In September's blue and November's grey
It will always belong to Sidney Day

The little red house, the big red barn
The three hundred acres of upland farm
The curve of the river far below
Where the current winds so still and slow.

The view to the north through October's haze
When early frosts set the hill ablaze
The sweep to the south on a day in spring
When the warm winds blow and the first birds sing

The pasture swamp on an April night
When the frogs sing loud and the stars shine bright
The splash of the brook, the wet earth's musk
The snowdrift agleam, a ghost in the dusk

The kitchen lamp that shines at night
To the hunter lost a beacon light
I'd be wandering yet, men used to say
Except for that light of Sidney Day

There are other things that are Sidney's too
Through seventy years a course so true
A way of life that was never small
A smile and a kindly word for all

And they still belong to Sidney Day
Though he left last fall and moved away
I hate to go; I want to stay
But I'm too old to farm, said Sidney Day

Yet the rocks and even the winds that blow
Mayflowers in bloom at the edge of snow
The very earth has become in some strange way
No longer a hill but Sidney Day

I wonder when we move away
Will we leave as much as Sidney Day?

9/14/07
Dad
    Dad was born in Littleton (NH) on September 14th, 1897, the son of Frederick Elmer (F.E.) Green, the town druggist (Green’s Pharmacy), and Lillian Sanger Green, the daughter of the town’s doctor, Thaddeus Sanger, a pioneer homeopathic doctor. Dad had a younger sister, Katherine (Aunt Kitty), and younger brother (Uncle George).
    World War II started when I was 17, making me prime draft bait. For dad, World War I started when he was 17, putting him in the same position. But his parents, seeing what was coming, sent him in New York Military Academy, so he was set to become an Army officer instead of an enlisted man. Second Lieutenant Sanger Green graduated and went to Kelly Field in San Antonio for training in the Army Air Corps.
    Back home on leave in 1921, dad and his boyhood friend Herb Pearce heard about a couple of attractive girls vacationing in nearby Bethlehem. Soon Herb was dating Ruth Longley and dad was dating Cleo Willson.
    Bethlehem, high on the side of Mt. Aggasiz and a hay fever refuge, was then New Hampshire’s top summer resort town, with thirty hotels and over a hundred rooming houses.
    It didn’t take long before Sanger (23) and Cleo (20) went off to Woodsville (NH) and eloped. So did Herb and Ruth. With dad’s leave up, he reported to the Army air base in Acadia, Florida, his new bride in tow. There, on New Year’s Eve 1922, I was started. When dad was transferred back to Kelly Field, there were no good accommodations for families, so Cleo went back to Bethlehem to spend the summer with her folks, Tully and Annetta (Netta), who had a summer cottage there. Well, it was once a hundred acre hundred year old farm.
    On Cleo’s 22nd birthday, September 2nd, she reported into the Littleton hospital, with the help of F.E., since dad was in Texas. I emerged Sunday morning, the third, at 6 AM, assisted by Dr. Giles.
    I don’t recall anything of my first year, and only a little of my second, when we were living on the Army Air Force base at Langley Field in Hampton, Virginia. Dad said he took me up in a Martin Bomber when I was three months old. I remember some of the flights when I was two. Loved ’em. I remember mom had a problem with me going around to the neighbors and accepting food from them. She handled that with a note pinned to my shirt saying, “Please don’t feed this child.”
    Considering what she was feeding me, I can understand her concern. No candy. No cookies. Hot cereal with cream, or eggs for breakfast, usually soft-boiled so the yolk and part of the white was still raw, wheat toast and no jam or jelly. So, until I had my first vaccination when I was four, I grew up super healthy, with perfect teeth.
    Once I figured out the note deal mother tied me to the front yard with a clothes line. That didn’t work either. When a salesman or delivery man came along I tell him I’d gotten myself tied up, could he help. Heh.
    Dad was serving at Langley under Capt. Billy Mitchell, who achieved fame when he was court marshaled for claiming that airplanes could sink a battleship. They made a book and a movie out of that. Mother says Mitchell came over for dinner several times. Being two, I wasn’t impressed enough to remember it.
    I do remember playing around the seaplane ramp and making fiends with the firemen, who spent most of their time playing checkers. The firehouse had a pole from the second floor so the firemen could grab the pole and slide down to get on the truck when the alarm went off.
    When I was three dad’s enlistment was up and we moved to Brooklyn on Rogers Avenue for a while, and then found an apartment on Avenue K and East 14th Street, three blocks from mother’s folks.
    That’s where I started going to Sunday school at the Dutch Reform church a couple blocks away. On my own. Not bad for a four year old, who hadn’t learned to climb stairs all that long before. Across the street was my friend Alfie…Alfred E. Lake, 1129 East 14th Street. We both went to Sunday school together. His older brothers were into Harley motorcycles. And, like almost every family, they had a player piano in the living room. This was before radio, much less TV, so the family evening entertainment was playing cards or playing the piano rolls and singing.
    Well, most families had a Victrola, too.
    Dad, who had commercial pilot’s license #89, was working for the Department of Commerce, checking out potential pilots going for their licenses. I remember particularly that he refused to issue Admiral Byrd a pilot’s license because he was a lousy pilot, So Byrd had to hire licensed pilots for his exploration of Antarctica.
    He also went around the country putting together the Department’s first manual of American airports. This experience got him a job designing, building and managing Central Airport, in Camden NJ, just across the river from Philadelphia. For many years this was Philadelphia’s main airport. This was how I happened to be on the first commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York, landing, of course, in Newark…which had a single cinder strip, with a small hut for the terminal. I remember getting up in assembly at school and telling everyone about it. My first public speech.
    From there we moved to Washington DC, where he was the passenger and cargo manager for Luddington Airlines, owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. She used to keep her Lockheed at dad’s airport and come over for dinner now and then. When the airline was sold to Eastern Air Transport, later Eastern Airlines, we moved back to Brooklyn, in with my mother’s folks.
    To be continued…how Roosevelt put dad out of business. Twice.

9/13/07

Colleges
    The latest U.S. News devoted 26 of its 76 pages to colleges, funding, and some college ads. The media has made sure kids and their parents consider college an absolute necessity for success. Without college you ain’t educated. And college costs have zoomed, while the education they’re providing has tanked.
    As I’ve pointed out, a survey of the America’s top 100 entrepreneurs by Inc magazine showed that only a few bothered to go to college (like Apple’s Steve Jobs), and most of them dropped out (like Bill Gates). You see, colleges are not teaching the things entrepreneurs need to know, they’re teaching what’s needed to get a job with a big corporation, and that’s a career path that seldom leads to wealth or freedom.
    In my Secret Guide to Wealth I explain how to get someone to teach you everything you need to know to start a successful business, and pay you to learn. And to do this without wasting four to six years and tens of thousands of dollars on college.
    I’ve also proposed a way to make colleges tuition-free, and with no government help needed. They can do this by setting up an associated business park where the students can work half a day at the cooperative businesses and attend classes the other half. Further, by running the colleges 50 weeks of the year it’ll only take three years. It’s a combination of a practical and a theoretical education.
   Will any of the candidates adopt these ideas? Probably not, unless I can get to spend a few minutes with them. My first try, with Ron Paul, was a flop. I got to shake hands with him for about five seconds, hand him my proposed planks, which he stuffed in his pocket, and then he was off, surrounded by a crowd. Never heard from him.

9/12/07

Fred08.com
    In one of the year’s least surprising announcements, Fred Thompson, on the Jay Leno show, added his hat to his business suit and folksy southern drawl to the presidential race. Whoopie?
    Sure, I’ve enjoyed him on Law and Order, but what else is he bringing to the table, other than a lack luster record as a senator? Has he any platform? With America being one of the sickest, shortest lived, poorest educated of the developed countries in the world, has he anything to promise to keep our country from becoming a has-been, like Spain, Rome, Athens and the formerly “Great” Britain?
    The front runners haven’t offered us much. We’ve got Michael Moore plugging for universal sickness care, a Hillary theme. Abortion, gay rights, and other such truly momentous subjects have dominated the debates.
    The nice thing about a democracy is that those who will benefit most from government largess can be depended on to vote for their benefactors. So, don’t mess with welfare, and other such vote bribery.
    So Fred’s now in the race. Well, they call it a race, but I haven’t seen much action yet. It hasn’t even been a fast walk…more like a stroll from soap box to soap box.
    Have any of the candidates the guts to propose some platform planks that will get the media and the public’s attention? Like some I’ve proposed.
    Heck, we could end the income tax, complete with the IRS, by tapping into just some of the profits from the government’s investments in the stock market. Boy, what that would do for our paychecks! Hey, just google CAFR and wise the hell up.
    Congress has “borrowed” all of the social security funds, replacing them with worthless IOUs. If they’d adopt the Chilean social security system, our seniors could be getting checks ten times what they’re getting now! Read Robert Genetski’s A Nation of Millionaires for the details on how they did it.
    Well, those wouldn’t stir up as much trouble as my proposals to get rid of the Fed, and have the Treasury issue our money, thus ending inflation. Or to teach Americans to stop making themselves sick, thus cutting sickness care costs. Or to develop a practical cold fusion unit which would put the oil coal, natural gas and power industries out of business. Or even a proven simple, inexpensive and fast way to cure AIDS.
    The Iraq pull-out is a hot debate topic. Can we get one of the candidates to go for winning the war through guile instead of killing? Like funding the startup of Iraqi businesses and reopening the 200 or so factories we closed when we invaded, putting almost a half million people out of work with no way to feed their families?
    By using the New Zealand approach, our government could be cut drastically, making it far more efficient and less expensive. One would be hard put to think of any government bureau which is making life better for us.
    If you have any suggestions on how I could get maybe even five minutes to talk with one of the candidates, we might be able to start bringing about some huge changes in America…and then the world.

9/11/07

Anniversary
    The major media did, as expected, observe the sixth anniversary of 911 with due respect. The 911-Truthers were considered just an annoying bunch of placard-waving kooks, and not worth mentioning.
    With so many excellent books out there challenging the official story, I haven’t bothered to write one of my own. I’ve got a dozen books, and there are probably more. I wonder if bookstores or libraries have set up 911 sections?
    I explained where I am on the subject with my 8/16/07 essay. The official story holds water like a sieve. We’ve been snookered again, just like we were with Pearl Harbor.

9/8/07

Those Wetbacks
    Sure, many businesses love the huge influx of low wage Mexicans streaming over our border to the tune of about a million a year.
    Any commodity that sells for a lower price is going to put the higher-priced commodity out of business. The net result of this apparently unlimited source of low pay workers has to be to drive down all wages, right on up the line. With the poor Americans the first to suffer, followed by the lower-end middle class.
    Is it any wonder that Mexico has a small group of very rich and a huge number of very poor, with not much in between? Is that where we’re headed? That’s the story in most of the Hispanic countries.
    So we have Bush and his Administration trying to amalgamate the U.S. with Mexico. NAFTA  was a good start. Now we’re hearing about a corridor from Mexico to Canada three football fields wide for a free flow of traffic. And we already have opened the border for Mexican trucks to go anywhere in the U.S. Hmm, so what’s that going to do to the American trucking industry? You know the answer.
    Big money is pushing all this, helping the rich get richer and gutting our workers and smaller businesses.
    Congress? The smothering cluster of lobbyists busy bribing them are making sure Congress stays docile, kept busy cooking up more and more earmarks to quietly sneak into passing bills. One of the stupidest things the terrorists could do would be to nuke Washington. That would set off a whore-nuts rage with the few survivors.
    Meanwhile, the public’s major concerns are abortion, gay rights, that really stupid senator, the Red Sox, and watching one dumb and dumber movie after another. Oh, and the seemingly endless parade of almost indistinguishable candidates. Rah, Rah!
    On the plus side, I did spend a day going to a Ron Paul picnic, where for $50 Sherry and I got inedible lunches and about five seconds, by pushing through a milling mob, to shake hands with Dr. Paul.
    It’s no wonder they’re thronging over the border every night! We’ve got the golden welcome mat out for them.
    Free schooling, complete with free breakfasts and lunches. Understandably, over 50% are either obese or seriously overweight. Free medical service and day care for babies born to teen-agers as young as 13.
    I see where both Hillary and Obama voted against making English our official language, plus they also voted to give illegal aliens Social Security payments. You really gonna vote for them?

9/7/07

Music-Music
    Printing some more copies of my guide to classical music (booklet #33 - $2), I got to thinking. Y’know, this is a booklet everyone should have. Classical music is far more important than most people realize. It’s a fabulous stress-reducer. You should allow a half hour every day to just sit back and let the music play.
    In experiments with rats and mice, those played classical music got along happily together. Those played rock were soon fighting and killing each other. And in plant experiments, those played classical music grew healthily and fast. Those with rock grew dwarfed and scraggly. Hmm, and what are kids listening to? Could there be a connection to so few learning to read?
    Playing classical music during pregnancy results in higher baby IQs. And this continues after birth.
    With classical music, as with any art form, only a tiny percentage is outstanding. So, if you’re not sure what’s best to get, my booklet will guide you to the best classical music. Even Mozart and Beethoven turned out some clunkers. And, without my advice you could easily miss some marvelous stuff by Gottschalk, Delius and Von Weber.
    My folks had no interest in classical music, so I was seven before I was exposed, when we were visiting Bob Sullivan, a friend of my dad’s, for dinner. He played the William Tell Overture and several Gilbert and Sullivan pieces. I was hooked. It must have connected with something from a previous life.
    This was while we were both living in New Jersey, just across the river from Philadelphia. A few years later, when we were both living in New York City, I would take the subway out to Queens to baby sit Bob’s two kids so I could play his records.
    In high school I joined the Savoyards Club and we put on The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance, with me singing Koko and the Major General parts.
    So get your kids hooked on good music. And if they want to learn an instrument, encourage them.
    Meanwhile, you’ll have some wonderful music to load into your iPod.
    Oh, one more thing. Our brains are not able to multi-process, so when you’re listening to music, do only that. Forget this background baloney, music, TV, or a radio playing while you are reading will scramble your brain. And no music while your kids are doing their homework.

9/6/07

Iraq
    Gee, how come we’re having so much trouble in Iraq? It’s those nasty insurgents. Golly, who could have imagined anything like that would happen? Only someone with a half a brain, something it doesn’t seem anyone on our war management team was able to find, or at least listen to.
    We went in there with a bang and put Sadam and his crew out of business in a matter of hours. Then we immeduiately put some 400,000 men out of work who’d been working for the government and everyone in the military. Pfft, no more police, setting off an instant huge crime spree. We also closed all of the almost 200 government owned factories, putting a half million more people out of work.
    That’s nearly a million wage-earners suddenly with no way to feed themselves or their families. Except for money from Iran, which poured over the border to anyone willing to insurge. There’s 50% unemployment in Iraq today. What would America be like if we suddenly had 50% unemployment?
    The major share of the thanks for this incredibly bone-headed stupidity goes to Rumsfeld, who ignored the advice (and pleadings) of the military, and to the Bush-Cheney team. Well, The White House eyes were on the oceans of oil under Iraq, and the hundreds of billions to be made by Cheney’s old company, Haliburton.
    Did anyone say, hey, putting a million people out of work may cause us a problem? How come no one thought to rush in management teams to keep the factories running, making everything from tractors to toilets? And teams to help all those government workers transition? And the Iraq military, too?
    With what we’re spending there a day we could help a thousand small businesses get started. And with the next day’s spending we could get a bunch of state-owned factories back up and running. Most of the people would much prefer to be making tractors and buses to making IEDs and sniping at us.

9/3/07 (My 85th birthday!)

State Fair
    The Labor Day weekend Hopkinton State Fair was packed this year. I did a little booth duty at the New Hampshire ToDo booth, plus I got around and took pictures of the food and food booth.
    There were rides for the young kids…a merry-go-round, a Ferris wheel and such. There were booths selling jewelry, knives, pellet stoves, God, and so on. But the main attraction was the food, none of it healthy to eat.
    It was weird, standing the our booth and watching the people stream by without even giving the booth a glance. I felt like the invisible man. Every now and then someone would stop, explaining they were a subscriber and telling me how much they enjoyed the magazine. A few even picked up a free sample copy. Even fewer took time to subscribe.  Very few.
    The booth, which was in the middle of a building so people could pass on both sides, had a bunch of back issues on display, plus a copy of my Secret Guide to Health was also on display. The almost total lack of curiosity about my book, even to pick up a pamphlet explaining about it, confirmed my conviction that few people give a damn about their health…until they lose it, then they turn the responsibility over to a doctor. Prevention? Crap, that’s for health nuts.
    So the parade of obese and grossly obese wandered by. Some were so fat they were in electric carts. They could no longer walk. Their carts got them to the blooming onion booths all okay. And the fried dough and funnel cakes. There was one food booth selling vegetables. Fried vegetables.
    It being my birthday, I did share an apple crisp and a cheesecake with strawberries with Sherry. Delicious!
    Kettle corn, lemonade, hamburgers, hot dogs, fudge, fried ice cream, cookies and candy bars, cones, sundaes, frappes, soups, jumbo turkey legs, cotton candy, and even venison, elk and ostrich burgers. Too bad if you missed it.

8/31/07

Ragtime
    When I heard Scott Joplin’s music in “The Sting.” my reaction was, hey, how have I been missing this? So I bought every LP I could find of Joplin’s music. And I played them day and night for weeks, enthralled.
    But, the more I listened, the more I felt that none of the performers understood the way Joplin must have played it. They didn’t “get” it.
    Then one evening, when Sherry and I were in New Orleans for a music conference and we were walking back from a river boat cruise where the performers played zydaco music, as we were walking past a grungy bar I heard Joplin’s piano music coming out the door. Whoa! So we went in, sat down and had a couple sodas while we listened to Joplin’s music being played more like I’d been hearing it in my head.
    The performer was Scott Kirby, a 23-year old OSU grad from Ohio, who played his piano on the street during the day and in the bar nights. So, I brought him to New Hampshire and we started recording Joplin, with me producing and Kirby playing. Our first CD, on Greener Pastures Records, my first release, was a hit. We recorded it in a local church on their Steinway piano.
    The response to that first CD encouraged me to build a recording studio into my barn. It was state-of-the-art digital, with no two surfaces parallel, so there were no resonances. Scott went down to the Steinway store in Boston and tried out several Steinway’s, but when he tried the Young Chang, Korean-made piano, that was the keeper. Somehow we got the seven-foot grand piano into the studio and Scott got busy recording all of Joplin’s rags. Six CDs in all.
    Where before these recordings there had been only one ragtime festival, in Sedalia, Missouri, soon they were sprouting up in Boulder CO, Fresno CA, and other cities…even in Europe. And all with Scott Kirby as the star performer. Soon the other ragtime performers were imitating Kirby’s style.
    While Scott was here recording Joplin he composed some rags of his own. Wonderful rags, like his Bats In The Barn and Broom Closet rags.
    A drive to share, which has guided my life, got me into publishing CD Review magazine, and then into bringing the true depth of Joplin’s music to as many people as I could via Scott’s CDs. Oh, it was fun getting to know all of the ragtime performers personally at the ragtime festivals. Like Frank French, of Boulder CO, who introduced me to Gottchalk’s fantastic music.
    Sure, we’ve had some outstanding American composers like Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould and Ferde Grofé, but Maurice Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) is, for me, the greatest of them all. With Scott Joplin a close second. I still remember where I was driving when I heard Gottchalk’s Tarantella the first time.
    When I felt that the initial CD buying splurge had peaked and people had mostly replaced their LPs, I sold CD Review to IDG and went out of the music business. My studio lies unused out in the barn. The magazine lasted a couple years more before going out of business…mainly through remarkably poor management.

8/30/07

Global Scamming
    Despite Al Gore’s Inconvenient Bunk, the scientists who have actually been researching global warming tell us that yes, the earth has warmed, but no, human activities are not influencing the global climate change in a perceptible way.
    The geological record shows a persistent 1,500 year cycle of warming and cooling going back over a million years. The “scientific consensus” activists and politicians cite is a crock. Science doesn’t operate on the basis of consensus, it depends on facts, and historically most advances have come from a minority, often just one, despite the majority view of the scientific establishment.
    When I was a kid plate tectonics was considered ridiculous by the scientific establishment. And before that the AMA, ridiculing the germ theory of disease, took the licenses away from any doctors caught washing their hands before an operation. Alas, little has changed as far as scientific minds being open to new ideas. Like the situation with cold fusion.
    Oh, by the way, there has been no detected global warming for the last eight years, even though the greenhouse gas levels have increased rapidly. The Kyoto Protocol, signed by every industrial nation except the U.S. and Australia, is a monument to politics over science. When you look carefully at it, this is a great plan to make some people enormously wealthy, without reducing CO2 emissions, not even in theory.
    The big winners have been environmental groups such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund. They’ve been fattening up on multi-billion dollar government subsidies and useless mitigation schemes.
    Few have considered that the warmer climate and the more carbon dioxide (which is plant food) will improve farming and forestry. Northern homes will use less heating fuel and farms will be able to reap bumper crops.
    Can scientific facts be heard over the din of the political propaganda, misinformation which is heartily supported by the major media? Let’s see, when was the last time that good sense prevailed? I can’t think of any examples to cite.

8/29/07

History
    As a living relic of the past I remember things that are unknown today. Like inkwells in our classroom desks and pens with removable pen points which we bought at the five and dimes, Woolworth’s and Kresge’s. Like an Italian down at the corner grinding his hurdy-gurdy, while his monkey collected coins from passersby in a little tin cup. Like the Italian ices horse-drawn wagon selling 2¢ and 3¢ cups of ices. Like a hot dog and a glass of orange drink for a nickel at Coney Island. Like auto-whoopies, which were like a roller coaster you could drive on with your car. It was great for kids on bikes, too. Like airplanes that were wound up to get started. That was before starter motors.

8/28/07

Worst Enemies
    The blacks, a.k.a. African-Americans, Negroes, colored people, etc., while only 13% of our population, are committing over 52% of all homicides, and were 46% of the homicide victims. 94% of the black homicide victims were murdered by blacks.
    Blacks are seven times as likely as other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery, and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime. They are 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white person than vice versa and 136 times more likely to commit robbery. Black on white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse.
    Well, I lived, on and off, for almost thirty years in Brooklyn, and I’m sure glad I got the hell out 45 years ago. My good friend Alan Turoff, the inventor of Boggle, didn’t, and he was murdered one night on the street.
    How come? Buncha factors. Really lousy schools and teachers makes it difficult for kids to be interested in education, so there’s a high drop-out rate. Single welfare mothers with no father figure. Hey, it pays off to have illegitimate kids. The street gang culture. The lure of fast drug money. Black pressure not to “speak white.” If you don’t know nuthin, go steal from those that do. Then there’s that about 15-point IQ deficit, which is unpolitic to mention. Well, you don’t hear much about the Asian ten-point IQ plus over whites either
    The concept that success in this world is very much connected to one’s education, and that no matter how bad the schools, anyone interested can educate themselves. Like spending time in the local library instead of hanging out. As I preach, there are very few wealthy uneducated people, and very few well educated poor people. It is unfortunate for everyone that our government-run public school system is not educating kids. Ignorance is not bliss.
    But, how can a black kid read books when the gang members will waylay him and either trash the books or steal them and beat him up for “being white?”
    In most cases when I present a problem I have a practical solution to offer. The best I can offer here is my sneaky plan to revolutionize education and get rid of our socialist school system. This would give all kids a much better opportunity to learn anything they want, and do it on their own where the other kids can’t butt in.
    I envision on-line and DVD programs aimed at every age and every interest. I’ll bet we’ll be seeing three-year-olds learning to read…because they want to. And deciding which programs they want. There may even be some with old Grampa Green reading Grimm’s Fairy Tales and other children’s classics like the Oz books. Or maybe it’ll be Shrek.

8/27/07

Funny Coincidence
    On September 10, 2001, Secretary Rumsfeld announced that some two trillion dollars was unaccounted for by the Pentagon. Considering their budget was about $250 billion, an eighth that, how’d they manage to lose track of all that money? Rumsfeld asked for an investigation.
    The next morning, shortly after the World Trade Center attack, something, allegedly a 160-foot airplane, punched a 16-foot hole in the Pentagon and went through four concrete walls to destroy the records department…and not much else, that being a newly renovated and mostly unoccupied part of the building.
    Hmmm.

8/26/07

African-Americans
    When did that start, and who started it? We don’t have any European-Americans, Asian-Americans, or even Scandinavian-Americans. We do have Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, and German- Americans. I don’t recall hearing about French-Americans.
    The northern part of Africa is populated with Arabs, but I don’t recall any Arab-Americans. Latin-Americans actually live in Latin America. When they come here we call them Hispanics.
    Used to be today’s African-Americans were called colored, and even black.
    I guess I’m a European-American, although I think of myself as just a plain American. My ancestors all came from England and Scotland, except one branch that got kicked out of Scotland for their religious views. They went to Ireland and became Scotch-Irish. By a strange coincidence, all of my ancestors came over in the 1600s.
    Back in the late 1800s researching family genealogies was popular, so I’ve got books handed down to me on the Greens, Sangers, Kneelands, Blairs, Willsons, and so on.
    If our blacks are proud of their heritage maybe they could call themselves Swaziland-Americans, Zambian-Americans, Nigerian-Americans, etc. Better yet, forget that stuff and decide to be Americans. Let go of those ancestors. I’ll bet not 1% of blacks have a clue as to where their ancestors came from in Africa.
   
8/25/07

Pot
    An ad in a Keene NH paper for the 2nd Annual Live Free or Die Celebration, since it was in Jaffrey, just a couple towns away, got my attention. And my attendance, along with about 75 others I counted.
    Along with a Ron Paul promotion table there was another dedicated to legalizing marijuana. And a speaker, who went on at great length about the thousands of people dying of cancer who would like to smoke pot to ease their pain.
    Hey, I wanted to yell, instead, why not tell the cancer victims about my Secret Guide to Health so they can cure themselves instead of trying to ease the pain of dying at the hands of the medical industry? And let ’em know about Drs. Day, Comby, Malkmus, Mercola, and so on?
    Other than loading our judicial system and prisons with marijuana offenders at around $30,000 a year for feeding, storage, and guarding, which is great for the prison industry, what has been the impact of the anti-pot laws? Like Prohibition, the supply of the banned products are more easily obtained than ever, plus it’s built up a great multi-billion dollar industry. Prohibition gave us the Mafia.
    I lived through that era, The ban on alcoholics made them irresistible to youngsters. My dad had no problem getting all the booze he wanted. He kept a well-stocked bar in the basement, and since he was the manager of Philadelphia’s airport, his pilot and airline friends often visited. Amelia Earhart, who kept her Lockheed at my dad’s airport, came over several times for dinner and a few drinks.
    And yes, I’ve smoked pot. It was in 1948, when I was working as a cameraman at WPIX in NYC. It was a great experience, but it was a one-time “done that.” I can thank my dad for that. He smoked cigarettes and drank heavily, but since he was such a lousy dad I wasn’t about to do anything he did. So I’ve never smoked, and I only drank for a short while so I could be with my submarine crew members when we were on liberty in San Francisco.
    There’s much to be said for legalizing all drugs. It might help cut down on school dropouts. Who needs an education when you can score so well on the street? It might even help cut down the number of illegal immigrants pouring over the border. We already have the infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of drug stores.

8/22/07

Vacant Lot
    Judging from my book sales and the lack of email or even phone calls, my weekly MCAM TV shows have about the same audience as I’d get standing on a soap box in the middle of a vacant lot. So I’ve thrown in the towel.
    Well, after four years of weekly shows I’ve long ago run out of new material to cover, so why beat a dead horse? I’ve talked health, but the sorry fact seems to be that few people have much interest in their health. At least until they lose it, then they go to a doctor to get a pill or shot to make it so the symptoms aren’t so bothersome.
    Virtually everyone believes totally in doctors. The concept of being responsible for their own health has never occurred to them. Burgers, fries and shakes for lunch taste good, are cheap, and are inexpensive. Hey, if there was anything wrong with them the food police at the FDA would alert us, right?
    When I see some of these 300 pound (and up) obesities waddling around, I wonder what, if anything, is going through their minds. I don’t dare ask them, that would be insulting, even if they are so fat they have to get around in an electric cart.
    We’re in the Internet age now, so I’ve got get busy and Youtube myself and forget about cable TV. Maybe a web newsletter and podcasts for people interested in taking their eyes off TV shows and learning things that will make their lives healthier, wealthier, and even happier.
    From the vantage point of 85 years I know how great it is to wake up in the morning, raring to get going. To be in excellent health and with a long list of things that I absolutely have to get done today. Fun things. Well, fun for me, like walking through the field across from the house and counting the number of different kinds of wildflowers. Or swapping funny emails with old friends. Hoping the next movie Sherry and I see will be interesting enough so we don’t look at each other, shrug, and bail out. Or going to the town dump and finding some wonderful books I can save from being shredded.
    Then there’s that huge pile of books that I absolutely must read. Mind-expanding books. There is so much more I want to learn.
    The biggest driving force in my life is my wanting to share the things I enjoy. Books, music, technology, things our government are busy covering up, and fun things to do. It’s so much fun doing things and seeing things. I’ve got to find time to put some slide shows on my site so people can get excited about visiting the pyramids, the lost city of Petra in Jordan, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore, Stonehenge, and all that old stuff in Rome and Athens. Oh, and museums in Paris, London, Damascus, Omdurman, Copenhagen, Moscow, Taipei, and so on.
    With books, I’ve my Secret Guide to Wisdom, a review of about a hundred books you’re crazy if you don’t read. I love the letters and emails from people who let me know how much they’re enjoying the books I’ve reviewed.
    With music, there’s my booklet #33, which recommends an ideal classical music CD collection. Like books, finding the best is difficult, so I like to help by sharing what I’ve learned over the last 85 years.
    And the same goes for making money. It’s easier than most people think…once their deeply ingrained beliefs are overcome. We have it drilled into us all our lives that college is the key to a better life. It’s a way to spend four to six years and thousands of dollars so you can get a nowhere job in a big corporation. Hey, been there, done that. I spent a summer working at General Electric in Schenectady (NY), working as a test engineer on the pathetically outdated radio equipment they were building for the Army. Phooey. Never again. I prefer the freedom of owning your own business. And the opportunity to make big money. Hey, read the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books.
    There’s no way a half hour a week TV show is going to get many people to even consider challenging their lifelong beliefs. So, I’m moving on.
   
 8/20/07

Missing Out
    In the interests of getting the most out of my time, I only watch TV while I’m eating. Of course, since I chew every bite to liquid before swallowing, it takes me twice as long to eat as it does you, so I get to watch lots of TV.
    But, since I tape everything first so I can zip past the commercials, it’s possible there are some great shows I don’t know about, so I’m asking for your advice on any shows I really ought to check out.
    Right now I’m watching the three Law and Order, the three CSI and the NCIS shows. Oh and Jay Leno’s opening monologues. The writing is excellent and I’m used to the casts. Even Fred what’s his name…Thompson.
    My biggest favorite is Boston Legal, the only ABC show I watch. The writing has been wonderful.
    So cue me in via w2nsd@aol.com on what I’m missing.

8/19/07

Coast
    A few friends have taken the trouble to email George Noory, the host on Coast-To-Coast AM, asking him to have me on again, for which I thank them.
    Since they have interesting guests on every now and then I get a daily podcast download of the four-hour show so I won’t miss out. The show airs from one to five in the morning, so there are few young or working people listening, unless they happen to be long distance truck drivers. The audience is mostly insomniac seniors.
    Before the podcasts were made available I used to record the show on a VCR. That’s simple to do with a little $5 kit I put together (#83 in my catalog). But the podcasts have all of the news and commercials edited out, so I don’t have to fast-forward through them every half hour.
    Most of the shows are about things like ghosts, out-of-body, near death experiences, spiritualism, remote viewing, black budgets, big foot, Atlantis, demonic forces, UFOs, and so on. Kinda interesting, hut I’d rather hear experts on subjects that will help make my life better. Like how to get rid of the Federal Reserve Banking system, how to get rid of the income tax and the IRS, how to be healthier and make more money, how to change the Social Security system so checks can be ten times higher, interesting books to read, interesting places to visit and things to do.
    Please give me a hand with an email to grorge@ coasttocoastam.com and ask him to get me back on the show again. I’d love to talk about the real cold fusion situation, which could totally change the world, about two ways to get rid of the income tax, how to be healthy, how to cure PTSD for our returning vets, a great win-win solution to the Iraq mess, the power of intention, the real cause of global warming, and even talk about some of my WWII submarine adventures. Not many of us left. Check around my web site for more ideas.
    I just hate it when George mentions that someone famous has died after a long battle with cancer.

8/18/07

Picnic
    Since an 85-year old guy with no interest in the management aspects of the presidency, and not much money, has less than a zero chance of becoming president. I’ve been hoping to interest one of the candidates swarming New Hampshire in adopting the platform. I’d use if I were running. See 7/14/07.
    My first attempt to get through to a candidate had me driving sixty miles to Center Strafford (NH) to a Republican picnic where Ron Paul was scheduled to give a talk. Since Sherry was with me it cost us $40 for the tickets. In return we got to hear speeches by several presidential candidates, including Ron Paul, and a God-awful hamburger and hot dog lunch.
    I’d gone to the trouble the night before to put together a small sheet with my proposed platform planks for Paul, pointing out that by dropping one controversial plank a week on the media he’d make headlines nationally, thus saving millions on campaign advertising.
    It took a while, but I finally made my way through the crowd around Paul, shook his hand, introduced myself, and handed him the paper. He thanked me, put the paper in his pocket, and turned to the next person.
    Of course the down side of my platform is that anyone using it would quickly have the medical and pharmaceutical industry, a two trillion dollar industry, ready to spend whatever it takes to defeat the candidate. They would be joined by the trillion dollar food industry, and the biggest of all, the oil and power industries. Well, they know full well that if people stopped making themselves sick with what they’ve been eating and if cold fusion were developed, they’d all be out of business.
    The millions of government workers would also do what it takes to keep their jobs, which at least half of them would lose under my proposals.
    With tuition-free colleges, where half the students work in an associated business park mornings and half in the afternoons, the professors, faced with twice the number of students would have to work maybe ten hours a week instead of five, and would rebel. Well, that’s what happened at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute when the president tried to implement the plan. He gave up and resigned.
    Public school teachers would do everything in their power to stop any move toward ending the mandatory school attendance laws, and the promotion of home education.
    On second thought, though my proposals would do wonders for America, no one would have the guts to try them, so I’ll stop going to political picnics. Heck, very few people have any real interest in being healthy or spending any money or effort for it. It’s only when they get really sick that they’ll spend everything they have and can borrow to stop being sick. Cancer prevention? Ho hum, how are the Red Sox doing?
    Hey, let’s have universal health care so we can eat whatever and how much we want, and when we get sick it won’t cost anything to go to the doctor and get loads of pills to stop the pains. Or transplants of organs we’ve destroyed. And who wants to live long anyway?

8/17/07

Lyme Disease
    With the news that the Secret Service had permitted an infected tick to bite Bush, giving him Lyme Disease which, if untreated, can cause serious miseries, I wished there was some way to get through to him about beefing up his immune system.
    Since I walk through our fields almost every day, for both exercise and to count the different kinds of wildflowers, I often pick up ticks. By wearing white socks I can pick most of ’em off before they bite, but now and then one gets through and has to be pulled from his free lunch. A couple of times the Lyme Disease red ring has later formed around the bite, but my immune system seems strong enough so that’s the last of it. None of the usual symptoms have ever developed. Well, a strong immune system is supposed to be able to not only take care of any invading microbes, viruses, or parasites, but to repair any damage done in the past while we’ve been keeping it on overload with cooked food, sugar, and so on.
    So, as long as you don’t mind dying a painful, very expensive death of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and so on, just go on knocking the stuffing out of your immune system…that’s your body’s maintenance and repair department…and make sure you have so-called health insurance that doesn’t have enough loop holes to bankrupt you and your family. And keep your will updated.
    Since your inevitable sickness and early demise are key to the profits of the medical, pharmaceutical, insurance, nursing home, wheel-chair, commercial food and funeral industries, continuing the Standard American Diet (SAD) is the patriotic thing to do. Yes, please make that super-sized. Oh, and a large shake.

8/16/07

911 + 6
    Well, here we are at the sixth anniversary of the biggest event of the 21st century…one that still has conspiracy buffs busy blogging…one that has 36% of Americans more than suspicious of the official story.
    Considering educational surveys show that most Americans are functionally illiterate products of our worst-in-the-world government-run (a.k.a. Socialist) public school system, and are kept entertained with Judge Judy, Jerry Springer, Oprah, Maury Povich, reality TV, ball games, an endless series of really dumb movies, and rock or rap music, that suspicion, in itself, is remarkable. Oh, and I almost forgot being further dumbed down by fluorides in our drinking water.
    Of course, those few Americans who have taken an interest in the World Trade Center attack have raised some questions which no one or group in the government has or dares answer. Obviously being more curious than average, I’ve taken the time to read ten books on the subject and watched videos.
    There are so many questions I don’t know where to start or in what order they should be. Here’s a few and they’ll be random.

  1. Since the four flights were supposedly carrying passengers, how come a close-up of the second plane to hit the Trade Center towers, according to witnesses and a video, has no windows, a large canister under its belly, and there was a bright flash in front of the plane just before it hit the south tower?
  2. How was it that the four not regularly scheduled flights were carrying so few passengers, while other flights leaving at around the same time for the same destinations were packed?
  3. Why have the passenger lists for the flights never been released?
  4. Why have the video surveillance tapes of the passengers being loaded on the four flights never been released?
  5. How was it that the list of 19 supposed hi-jackers was able to be released so quickly after the attack?
  6. How about one on the list being found by journalists to have died before 911 and six were found still alive?
  7. Then there was the video of a woman testifying that when she went to work that morning she found the parking area strangely empty, with just a few cars, when normally it was packed? Further, she said the elevators, normally filled with passengers, had only a few.
  8. Since it is claimed that no one above the floors where the planes crashed managed to get down, and estimates of the number of people normally working on those floors were about 17,000, why were less than 3,000 total people said to have been killed?
  9. Police, fire fighters, and people escaping the buildings reported hearing a series of explosions as the buildings collapsed straight down. This suggests the buildings must have been wired with demolition charges well before the attack, though this has never been acknowledged by officials. Why would they have been so wired and kept secret?
10. The timing of the purchase of the three buildings just seven weeks before the attack for $3.2 billion by Larry Silverstein, complete with over $7 billion of insurance, raises questions.
12. The fact that never before has a steel building been brought down by fire is curious.
13. And that the buildings were over-engineered and designed to take "multiple impacts of jetliners," according to WTC construction manager Frank DeMartini
14. Fire experts have pointed out that the fuel from the planes would have quickly burned out, so the continuing burning and the color of the later flames…the same color as napalm burning, not jet fuel, were not explainable.
15. Further, the temperature at which aircraft fuel burns is far below that needed to melt steel. Yet, days after the attack, the melted steel in the ruins was still far above the fuel’s burning temperature.
16. In photos taken of the massive steel columns shortly after the towers collapsed they looked like they were cut with thermite.
17. Seismographs showed two big spikes just before the towers collapsed which could only have been caused by explosions.
18. I loved finding the passport of one of the supposed hi-jackers in the street unsinged.
19. And two of the supposed hi-jackers being in a singles bar the night before and leaving behind a copy of the Koran…two things no martyrs would ever, ever do.
20. The maneuvers of the two planes hitting the towers took considerable piloting skill, something the supposed hi-jackers lacked.
21. Thousands of “put options” were sold through Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in the three days before the attack on American and United Airlines, betting their stocks would drop. The identities of the investors with obvious foreknowledge of the attack has never been made public.
22. While Flight 175, which hit the South Tower was a Boeing 767 when it left the airport, the CFM56 engine found in the tower wreckage was from a Boeing 737, and not powerful enough for the 767.
23. The JT8D turbojet engine found in the Pentagon wreckage is used in the A-3 Sky Warrior fighter jet and for remotely controlled drones with missiles, not on the Flight 77 aircraft.
24. So what really happened to Flight 77 and its passengers?
25. Was there any connection to the Pentagon’s missing $2.3 trillion Rumsfeld announced September tenth, and the destruction of the computer systems by the crash which could have helped solved this huge unexplainable amount?
 26. WTC janitor William Rodriquez, the last person to leave the WTC alive on 9/11, has testified that he was in the first basement level of the WTC when an immense explosion went off below him in the subbasement level of the building a few seconds before the plane hit the tower high above.
27. Two traffic controllers later said that the flights which supposedly hit the towers took off from the airport, headed east over the Atlantic, disappearing from their radar screens.

    Then there’s Building 7, a block away from the towers, which somehow caught fire and managed to collapse in it’s footprint, just like the towers. No other buildings in the area caught fire.
    Larry Silverstein, the owner, was heard telling someone to “Pull it” just before Building 7 collapsed.
    If the two World Trade Towers and Building 7 were prewired for demolition in secret, why, and by whom? The demolition of huge buildings like those takes days of planning and preparation.
    It was claimed that none of the indestructible black boxes from the planes were recovered, yet two fire fighters, Mike Bellone and Nicholas DeMasi claim they recovered three of them, but were told by federal agents to keep their recovery secret.
    Flight 93, which supposedly crashed in Pennsylvania, was reported on Cleveland TV news that morning to have been taken to a secure area of the airport.
    Though the plane reportedly was crashed when the passengers revolted against the hi-jackers, the debris was spread over several miles, more indicative of its being shot down.
    People in the area reported seeing a fighter shoot it down.
    None of the expected plane parts or bodies were found in the wreckage.

    Then there’s the Pentagon, where there are no eye-witnesses of the Boeing 757 Flight 77 that supposedly crashed into the building.
    The Pentagon, the most protected building in the world, and ringed with surveillance cameras, was supposedly hit by a plane that had turned off its course 45 minutes earlier and was not responding to radio questions, even though there were fighter planes just a few minutes away.
    The tapes from the surveillance cameras were quickly confiscated by federal agenta and have never been made public.
    Further, the tape from a nearby gas station surveillance camera was also confiscated.
    People who immediately went to the crash scene found no bodies, airplane parts, or baggage in the wreckage.
    The 757 had two large titanium engines, which should have made two big holes in the Pentagon. No holes.
    The 160-foot plane somehow only made a 16-foot wide hole, with no engines or wings in the wreckage.
    The part of the Pentagon hit was one where there had been recent construction, so there were few people there. There was no part of the Pentagon where there would have been less damage.
    Though clocks near the Pentagon crash site stopped at 9:32, the official time was reported as 9:37. How come this five minute dscrepency?

    The WTC was a No Fly Zone where any plane off-course within 12 miles was given a warning to change direction. If you came within 5 miles they would threaten to shoot you down. If you came within 3 miles they could shoot you down.
    Though contact was lost with Flight 11 at 8:13am by the FAA, and by 8:20 it was clear that something serious was wrong, NORAD was not notified until 8:40. NORAD scrambled F-15s at Cape Cod at 8:46, at the same time as Flight 11 (if that’s what it was) was crashing into the North Tower.
    I wonder how come the FBI, CIA, DIA, and none of the other government intelligence agencies had a clue that this was going to happen?
    I also wonder why, after six years, there hasn’t been another terrorist attack of some kind? That’s really weird.
    Right after the Pearl Harbor attack there were conspiracy theories saying that some people knew where and when the attack was going to happen. It wasn’t until sixty years later we learned the truth, when Robert Stinnett’s Day of Deceit exposed that Roosevelt not only knew the where and when of the attack way ahead of time, he’s the one who pushed the Japanese into attacking us in order to get us into the war in Europe. Until Pearl Harbor the American people were 80% opposed to our getting involved in Europe, and that had to be changed.
    Our entering WWII made an excuse for substantially increasing the income tax, so instead of paying once a year, the IRS started taking it out of our paychecks, making the tax increase less visible. And, you know, our taxes didn’t go down when the war was over. Congress just found more ways to spend.
    I wonder how long it’ll be before the questions about the World Trade Center attack that the official report didn’t answer will be answered. The attack certainly seems to be amazingly self-serving to the Bush Administration…providing an excuse to attack Iraq and Afghanistan, plus zip through the Patriot II Act…which, curiously was all ready to be submitted to Congress. Amazing coincidence. Pfft, gone were more of our freedoms. Now anyone who even scares people can be arrested as a terrorist and kept in prison with no trial or lawyer.

8/15/07

Library Sale!
    With hardbound books going for a buck and pocket books for a quarter, I’ll drive miles for library book sales. And I usually find some gems.
    But the best source is the Take It or Leave It library at the local dump. Er, Transfer Station. The price is just right for me: free. So I load up the trunk of my car with the good stuff.
    Good? You betcha! Like a brand new copy of Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki, a book every teen should know about, and an eye-opener for people looking for a second career. The rich dad is his friend’s dad, who has his own company. The poor dad is his own, who is a college professor. Just what I preach in my Secret Guide to Wealth. And what I’ve backed up with my own life experience.
    I was doing okay. I wasted a couple years in college memorizing stuff for tests that I then quickly forgot. Then came WWII and four years in the Navy helping drown a few thousand Japanese with my submarine, and back for a couple more years in college, which were more memorable for what I accomplished as president of the radio club than any courses I took. The radio station I started is today the leading student activity.
    Seeing no real future in a big company, I started my :”career” as a broadcast engineer-announcer in North Carolina for 50¢ an hour. Next I was a TV cameraman at Channel 11 in NYC. Then a TV director, first in Dallas, and then Cleveland. It wasn’t until I was 29 that I started my first company, using $1,000 borrowed on my car. Within a couple years I was buying things like a yacht, a plane, an Arab horse, and Porsches.
    Though I covered Europe pretty well, it wasn’t until I was 36 that I made my first trip around the world, visiting 32 countries.
    Oh, back to the books I found. Like, two brand new hardbound copies of Peters’ In Search of Excellence. It’s a must-read for anyone running a business. And The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, which I discussed in my 7/9/07 essay, another important read, so go back and see.
    Better than watching a ball game, by far, would be to read The Magic of Getting What You Want by David Schwartz. And someone threw it away! And someone threw out The Celestine Prophecy, hardbound and brand new! And, with it, the paperback The Celestine Prophecy, An Experiential Guide. Maybe there’s some truth to the predictions that we are entering an age of recognizing the power of consciousness and intention. There sure are more and more books on the subject.
    Hmm, that reminds me, I’ve got to update my Secret Guide to Wisdom, and be sure to review You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought. In that line, another book I just picked up was Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking. Also very helpful to read: Write It Down, Make It Happen by Klauser. Few people even suspect the fantastic power of their subconscious minds.
    And someone threw out a pocketbook copy of Huckleberry Finn. Tsk.

8/14/08

Rush Hour
    Having enjoyed Jackie Chan’s films, Sherry and I reported to the theater on August 10th, the opening day for Rush Hour 3. We walked out in disgust after a half hour. Never in this lifetime will I ever again go to a movie with Chris Tucker in it. Ugh. The story, if there was one, was lame. Nothing even came close to approaching ho-hum. $13 shot to hell for senior tickets. No money back these days, it’s buyer beware. Plus another $13 for gas for the ninety-mile round trip.

8/13/07

Setting The Record
    With David Booth back on the Coast To Coast program, it seems like a good time to rehash the 2004 history that got David and me thrown off the show.
    In 2003, when I saw an ad in the local paper that a farmer in the next town (Antrim NH), a couple miles away, was growing organic crops, I called and met David Booth at his Long Trail Acres Farm. I explained about putting rock dust on the gardens so the plants would have all the minerals they needed to grow big and healthy, making them so they wouldn’t attract insects.
    We got to be friends and I dropped by every now and then to sit and talk. We also got together for walks through my farm’s fields to enjoy the wild flowers.
    In January 2004 Dave asked my advice. He’d a series of visions in 1979 of a plane crashing. He went to the FAA and identified it as an American Airlines DC-10, but he couldn’t identify the airport. A few days later the crash happened at O’Hare airport, exactly as Dave had described. When the FAA released the news of Dave’s visions, he was big news.
    Cut to March 2003 when, for the second time in his life, Dave had another series of visions. This time he was out in space, looking down on North America as a small black body came from the South pole direction and went between the Earth and the Moon. Then, there was a huge explosion in the Western U.S., with a little ripple going across the country.
    Concerned for his family, he bought five of those 10x20-foot steel shipping containers and had them buried next to his home, fitting them out as an underground bunker-apartment. He felt he should try to get the word out to as many people as he could, but needed my advice on how to go about it.
    Further, he’d been in touch with Professor James M. McCanney of Cornell University, who’d written a book, Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes, which predicted that a red dwarf companion of our Sun, which comes through the solar system every few thousand years, would herald weird weather, warm all of the planets, cause earthquakes and volcano eruptions, and shower us with meteors.
    Then there was that unexplained Vatican observatory in Arizona, which might be tied into the Third Secret of Fatima, which the Vatican had never really revealed, but was hinted as predicting a huge catastrophe for the Earth. Plus Nostradamus predicting a pole shift shortly after the millennium which would wipe out about 97% of mankind, and the mysterious death or Professor Harrington, who went to New Zealand to take pictures of Planet-X. Well, I’ve put the whole story in my #13 Catastrophe! booklet.
    My advice to Dave was to go on talk radio shows, since I didn’t think he’d get anywhere with his wild story with the major media. So we did, working our way up to the big one, Coast To Coast AM, which airs on around 550 stations nightly.
    Dave called a couple days after the Coast show to say he’d gotten an email that Sister Lucia in Portugal wanted to talk with him. She was the remaining of the three girls who had a vision of Mother Mary in 1917 at Fatima and were given three predictions. The first two had come off as predicted, but the third had always been a mystery. The Popes had said that it was too terrible to be revealed.
    Dave asked if I’d like to go with him to see Sister Lucia. Well, Dave’s a Catholic, so this was exciting to him. I didn’t have much of an interest in the Third Secret, so I declined his offer.
    When George Noory, who is also a Catholic, heard about Dave’s invite, Dave was quickly invited to be on the show again on the day after his visit. Since I’d been on with Dave on the first show, I was invited to be on with him again. Dave, who was in Paris the next morning, explained to George that in order to talk with Sister Lucia he’d had to agree not to reveal what she said for six months. This was a surprise to George and to me. But George couldn’t stand it, he just had to know about that Third Secret of Fatima. He insisted that Dave break his promise and, when Dave wouldn’t, George threw both of us off the air, saying neither of us would ever be allowed back on the show again.
    Dave was astounded, since he’d explained to the show’s producer about the promise when he was called in Paris.
    After 24 times as a guest on the Coast show I had been excommunicated! And my shows had always pulled the best tape sales for them, plus two of my shows had been repeated as “The best of Art Bell.” No longer could I help people learn the truth about health, cold fusion, and my other fields of expertise.
    Then, a few months ago, George forgave Dave and had him back on again. But I’m still in the dog house.
    I talked with Art about it while he was hosting on weekends, but he didn’t want to go against George’s wishes.    
    I have no idea what, if anything, I did or said wrong. Maybe you can find out for me. It’s george@coasttocoastam.com. Let me know, okay?


8/13/07

Editorials
    It’s gratifying when I get emails and phone calls from readers of my old magazines saying that the first thing they always read was my editorials.
    When I was a kid for some reason I was early on interested in science. I loved to read books about animal’s lives and science things like By Rocket to the Moon, which I read when I was 12. My favorite magazine was Astounding Science Fiction, edited by John Campbell. Particularly his editorials, which were about anything that interested him.
    So, when I started publishing my first journal, I did the same thing, and I’ve been doing it ever since. And since my interests have often been into controversial subjects, so have been my editorials.
    It was an article on Dianetics in Astounding in 1950 that got me to buy the book, and change my life. I read the book. It made sense, so I tried it out with a fellow announcer at the radio station where I was working. Wow! I quit my job, just as I was getting a substantial raise, and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in New Jersey and in a few weeks was an expert.
    Campbell and I soon became friends and lunched together every few weeks. It was like being on a mental roller coaster, with the conversation going from particle physics to radiology to reincarnation to making an atom bomb in one’s basement. John was, of course, a ham operator W2ZGU, so we had that in common.
    I’ve reprinted some of my editorial essays from 73 Magazine, if you’re interested. Almost a thousand of ’em.

8/12/07

Wildflowers
    If you know anyone knowledgeable in wildflowers, please let me know. I’m living in a wildflower heaven and I’d like to know the names of this floral wildlife around me. Sure, I have several books, but there are some flowers I haven’t been able to find in ’em.
    In mid-August I counted 38 kinds of wildflowers in the field across from my house. A virtual arboretum. I wish you had time to go out there with me and count ’em…and enjoy the beauty. You’ve seen plenty of dandelion seed puffs. Wait’ll you see what the Oyster Plant can make! It’s about four times the size.
    Anyway, if you know a wildflower expert put me in touch so I can send photos of the flowers I haven’t been able to identify.

8/11/07

Merv
    Hardly a day goes by without our reading or hearing about some noted person dying of cancer. With Merv it was prostate cancer. How come no one told him to check my web site? Or www.drday.com? Or www.comby.org? Cancer, any cancer, is easy to totally cure…and I don’t mean a remission.
    Heck, Hippocrates knew this back in 4500 B.C. “Let thy food be thy medicine, Let thy medicine be thy food.” And Dr. Henry Bieler knew it over forty years ago when he was curing children of “incurable” leukemia. His 1965 book, Food Is Your Best Medicine is well worth a read by those mesmerized by their belief in medications.
    You can help me get the word out to save more lives if you’ll help me get back on as a guest on the Coast To Coast AM show. Just send an email to george@coasttocoastam.com and ask him to have me on as a guest again. And, if you have any contacts to get me on any other talk shows, maybe you can help save a few lives.
    With most of the media getting a piece of the $45 billion the pharmaceutical industry spends on advertising and promotion, it’s difficult to get my message to the public. Those dollars speak a lot louder than people’s lives or deaths. It’s always the money, isn’t it?
    If you can come up with any ideas on how I can get the true health message out there, please let me know. With two-thirds of Americans overweight, the message of how to lose those extra pounds without ever being hungry a day is important. Plus it’ll reverse any illness in the bargain.

8/10/07

The iPhone
    Despite the $500 price, it would be fun to have one. I get good use from my iPod every day, mostly listening to a podcast of the Coast to Coast program. Well, now and then they have some interesting guests.
    Seeing hundreds of iPhone ads zipping by as I fast forward through the TV commercials, plus a bunch of magazine ads, I can see where at least $100 of that price is going. Even the back cover of The New Yorker!
    So far I haven’t felt any need for a cell phone, but I suppose I could get used to it.
    Anyway, knowing how these things work, I’m waiting for the new, improved model. It’ll have fewer bugs and probably cost less.

8/9/07

Belief
    It was just a little over a hundred years ago the head of the Patent Office wanted to close it because, “Everything that could be invented had been invented.” And he believed it!
    It is not surprising that every major advance in science, medicine, and any other field has been vigorously fought by the experts of the time. When Prof. Edmund Storms of Texas A&M proposed that the reason cold fusion was working was due to the transmutation of one element into another, with a slight loss of mass in the process, which caused the enormous heat being generated, his fellow professors mounted a campaign to have him thrown out of the university. “Alchemy,” they cried! “Off with his head!”
    Even so, our world today wasn’t even imagined a hundred years ago. Satellites allowing us to make phone calls anywhere in the world with a pocket telephone or video phone calls via Skype on my computer; allowing me to sit in my New Hampshire driveway and tell my car map system I want to go to 2737 Devonshire Place N.W. in Washington and have a voice tell me every turn to make to get there; a super-sonic flight to London and back; flying a nuclear submarine 800 feet under the Pacific Ocean; atom bombs; personal computers, email and the Web.
    But we have no more of a clue as to the world of 2107 than did my parents in 1907. Hmm, or do we? There are some hints. People who look into things like precognition, past lives, future lives, out-of-body experiences, reincarnation, ghosts, poltergeists, morphic resonance, the power of intention and so on are nut cases to those with beliefs which don’t include such possibilities.
    Most people take the easy route and believe what their parents, teachers, doctors, the media, the government and religious leaders tell them. And they get upset when someone suggests they question their beliefs.
    If they made soap boxes any more I’d be out there on a corner, with everyone passing by, too busy to listen, asking ’em to start questioning some of their beliefs…in health, education, careers, mad cow disease, global warming, colleges, and so on.
    My “soap box” down through the years has been my magazine editorials. Now, it’s essays like this on my web site.
    Since technology is accelerating, the hints we have of the future will be upon us before as reality we know it. Hey, try to go back and explain the iPhone to your great grandfather.

8/8/07

Education
    There’s this popular myth that when you are a college graduate, you’ve gotten an education. That’s a crock. All that does is put off your education for about 21 or so years. As the survey of the top 100 American entrepreneurs showed, only a couple ever bothered to go to college. Steve Jobs didn’t and Bill gates dropped out.
    An education in any field is easy to get. The top brains have written books which, if you’d read ’em instead of blowing your life on entertainment, you can learn a lot.
    In my Secret Guide to Wealth I advise the readers to pick some field that is so much fun that they feel like they are cheating…like me publishing a ham radio magazine, those computer magazines and my music magazines. There’s a good $12 book, Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow, by Sinetar.
    Let’s say you’re in sales. That’s a good place to be in most companies since the closer you are to where the money comes in the more you can make as a good general rule. Okay, how many books have you read recently on selling? There are some fabulous books. Like, The Sale Start When The Customer Says No, The Seven Secrets of Sales Success, Surefire Sales Closing Techniques, Unlimited Selling Power - How to Master Hypnotic Selling Skills, and How To Close Every Sale by Joe Girard, “The world’s greatest salesman.” (according to The Guinness Book of World Records.
    There are great books in every field, so read ’em.

8/7/07

JDS!
    This is a whole new approach to dieting, one which allows you to eat anything and everything you want. Big Macs, super-sized fries, candy, and at the same time you can lose those extra pounds you don’t want. Bulimics can stop throwing up after their meals. It’s simple and costs nothing.
    All you have to do is keep a small container or bag handy and Just Don’t Swallow! Eating takes place in the mouth. You love the taste and the texture of the food, but once you’ve chewed it, you’re done. So, instead of swallowing that mess you’ve made of that Big Mac bite, when you’re through chewing it, spit it out instead of sending it down into the stomach to knock out your immune system. Save your stomach and the rest of your digestive system for raw food. That, you can swallow.
   
8/6/07

Obama
    At first I was opposed to Obama, but then I got to thinking…always a dangerous activity. And the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea of Obama being elected President. No, he doesn’t have much political experience. And, me being a sort of Republican, his being a Democrat doesn’t sit well. Worse, he voted against making English our official American language. And, worser than that, he voted to give illegal immigrants social security payments. Ugh!
    So, how did I come around to be an Obama suporter? Just think how it would take the wind out of the Islamic sails when we elect a Muslim President! Yeah, I know, he isn’t suposed to be a Muslim any more, but from what I’ve read, it is against Islamic law to renounce Islam, under the penalty of death.
    Suddenly we’d see the terrorism against Americans at least cut in half. I’m not sure whether Obama was a shiite or a shinola…I can’t tell the two apart…but they’ll know. It’d be a huge bridge to the Muslim world and help stop us from being so hated. And we’ll be seeing burkas in Boston.

8/6/07

Governor 5
Dear Governor,
    I’ve come across many articles on the benefits of listening to good music. It substantially helps prenatal babies’ brain development and thus their IQ. It helps children study and learn better. 60 Minutes had a segment on the amazing educational success with slum children in Venezuela when they formed school bands.
    So I was excited when I came across Sharlene Habermeyer’s Good Music Brighter Children, 344p, 1999, Prima Publishing, $16, ISBN 0-7615-2150-X. She makes an excellent case for listening to good music, and even better, learning to play an instrument helping a child with math and science. Considering that by 2010 it’s projected that America will have a shortfall estimated at a million scientists and engineers, we’d better start making some changes if high-tech isn’t going to move elsewhere, taking our economy with it.
    When I was in the third and fourth grades in New Jersey I had classes which taught me how to read music. At PS-99 in Brooklyn there were weekly music appreciation sessions in the auditorium for the entire student body where we learned little ditties to help us recognize classical music selections. Schubert’s 8th had us singing, “This is the symphony that Shubert wrote, but never finished.” I’ll bet the schools don’t waste money on that any more.
    Many of the famous composers and scientists claim that their mothers played music or sang to them prenatally. Even fathers are getting into the act with “pregaphones,” which allow them to talk, sing, read poetry, and so on to their unborn child. Researchers have found profound dramatic development differences in children exposed to what they’re calling a “prenatal university.”
    Children so exposed are starting to talk and sing back simple melodies sung to them at five months, singing short sentences at nine months, and teaching themselves to read at two years of age. Infants as young as two months were able to imitate the pitch and intensity of songs their parents sung to them.
    Take classical music to the hospital and play it while the baby is being born. This helps calm the baby during what otherwise is a very traumatic event. By the way, there should never be any talking during the birth process. Silence, except for classical music. Probably Mozart.
    So what?
    When the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement tested the science proficiency of 14-year olds throughout the world fifteen years ago America came in 14th out of the 17 countries tested. Considering that we spend twenty-nine times more on math and science programs than any other country in the world, this is a most revealing testimony to how crummy our schools are. Since then, I understand, we’ve now sunk to the bottom on international tests.
    How ignorant are our students? Just listen to a few of Jay Leno’s street interviews with them. It’s incredible.
    The three top countries were Hungary, Japan and the Netherlands. So what’s different? For one, extensive music training is part of their curriculum from kindergarten through high school. They study music, music appreciation, and learn to play an instrument.
    Hundreds of studies have proven the role music plays in brain development. So why have we seen music programs eliminated in so many schools? Well, they cost money, and the teachers, administrators and school boards who make the decisions on programs are unaware of the research.
    So what’ve we got? Well the California State University says that 75% of their freshmen needed remedial classes in math and, like, you know, that English stuff. Of course, in California more than 30,000 classrooms are being taught by teachers without teaching certificates…a “no experience necessary” job.
    Our 19th century school system was designed to get kids off the farms and provide workers for factories. Now the factory jobs are disappearing to China, Mexico and Bangladesh and we have entered the information age. We don’t need to just improve our schools, we need to totally reinvent them. Oh, and start the music playing, early and often.
    By coincidence, Schubert’s Eighth is playing as I write…followed by Dvorak’s Largo, both first heard during music appreciation classes at PS-99 in Brooklyn.
    Where’s Harold Hill when we need him to get school bands organized? Put on your Music Man hat and get busy.                               Wayne Green, Ph.D.

8/5/07

Governor 4
    Here’s another letter you can send to your governor to help make your state a better place to live and work.

Dear Governor ……,
    The secret to health…to recovering from almost any illness and avoiding any further illnesses…lies in good nutrition, avoiding poisons, exercise, and reducing stress. Our bodies originally adapted to work best with the nutrients then available to the hunter-gatherers of those days. However, in the last few thousand years we’ve started cooking our food, to which our bodies have not yet adapted. In the last hundred years we’ve really screwed ourselves royally with sugar, white flour products, polished rice, hormones and antibiotics in our meat and milk and pesticides in and on our produce. Even worse, the dozens of minerals which are critical for our body’s healthy operation and which used to be in the soil are long gone out of our food, replaced by chemical NPK fertilizers. The bottom line is that we’re getting sick and we’re living only about half as long as we could with better food.
    So what can you do about this? Plenty! It is neither difficult nor expensive to remineralize our farm land and gardens. When plants get the minerals they need, pests no longer bother them, so no pesticides are needed, and they are more nutritious for us and our farm animals to eat. Cattle grow faster and bigger when they eat remineralized feed. Plants grow faster, are more resistant to frost, their fruit and vegetables taste much better, and they last longer after being picked. When is the last time you tasted a really delicious tomato? Or peach?
    A hundred years ago we were a farming state. My research has turned up at least a dozen ways to grow bigger and better crops…with plants five and even ten times as productive as we’re seeing now. I’d like to see the Legislature encourage our schools to make modern agriculture courses available and encourage our youngsters to start remineralized family gardens and farms. I envision seeds distributed through our schools (like they used to…and probably still do…candy), and a series on Public Television.
    A healthier citizenry will cut medical costs enormously and will raise holy hell with the Social Security system. Tough.
    There are two books reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom which explain the importance of remineralizing our crop lands. One is The Survival of Civilization by Hamaker-Weaver, and the other is a $1.50 book by Supkow, Rock Dust and the Environment.     
    Remineralizing our land will also help counter the CO2 buildup in our atmosphere and make the use of chemical fertilizers unnecessary. Maybe you’ve read about the damage the fixed nitrogen in chemical fertilizers is doing to our atmosphere.
    The cost of the remineralizing gravel could be reduced if a state-wide effort was made to encourage its use. The Legislature might work in cooperation with private companies to provide rock dust for the farms and gardens for as reasonable a cost as is practical. I believe the Legislature could both get a commitment from the rock dust companies to help pay for the statewide promotion and, considering the enormous increase in their potential business as a result of the state sponsored program, keep prices reasonable.
    We might see families from all over coming on weekends to shop at our farmer’s markets.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Wayne Green, Ph.D.

8/4/07

Governor 3
    Here’s another letter you can send your governor.

Dear Governor……,
    How about a way you can make our state colleges tuition-free, and without any added state support? Maybe even a lot less!
    At present a college education is beyond the means of many low income families and can run up big time debts for students. Today’s graduates are an average of $20,000 in debt. Worse, the resulting sheepskin primarily aims most graduates at jobs in large corporations, government, or teaching, none of which are likely to result in their ever making much money or having much freedom. Read Kiyosaki’s best-selling Rich Dad, Poor Dad for the skinny on this.
    My proposal is for state colleges to establish a cooperative business park for high-tech businesses and to have the students interested in a zero tuition education work half of every day in the business park and spend the other half attending classes. This would double the capacity of the school and the student’s earnings at the participating companies would cover their tuition.
    The students would work for a few months at each job, rotating through the associated business, learning sales, purchasing, bookkeeping, shipping, manufacturing, advertising, promotion, and so on. Each job would be held by two students, one working mornings and the other afternoons. The university would provide buses to move the students to and from the business park and the university.
    Now that youngsters are no longer needed to help with the farm work (and haven’t been for a hundred years) the university could go on a 50-week schedule. In that way students would be able to complete four year educations in three. Plus they would get practical business experience which would provide them with excellent résumés…or, better yet, the background and skills to start their own businesses.
    In this way every student would get both a “college education” and a practical business education, and all for free! Participating companies would be attracted by a bargain-priced young workforce eager to learn everything they can. It’s a win-win combo which should make it easy to attract participating businesses.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Wayne Green, Ph.D.

8/3/07

Governor 2
    Here’s another letter for you to send your governor to help make your state a better place to live and work.

Dear Governor,
    To keep our state’s economy healthy we need to do everything we can to encourage small business growth and the formation of new businesses. The more you and the Legislature can do along this line, the stronger will be our economy.
    For instance, we have at least a hundred cities and towns that are plenty large enough to benefit from the formation of Business Incubator Groups (BIGs).
    The concept is simple…in each town organize a group of business leaders who would normally benefit from new businesses being formed…such as a lawyer, accountant, printer, mailing company, computer service company, Realtor, insurance company, and so on. Have them form a Business Incubator Group to help entrepreneurs put together and fund business proposals. They would also act as a board of directors for the new firms as well as get more business for themselves providing their services.
    The actual funding would come from the state, but would be guaranteed by the BIGs, thus insuring the state against any possible loss. Indeed, the state would collect interest on the BIG loans. It’s a proverbial win-win situation.
    Small businesses are the real backbone of America, not huge industries. In my Secret Guide to Wealth I advise youngsters to think in terms of owning their own businesses, not in working at a job for someone else. I explain that there are no schools or colleges I know of today that teach the things an entrepreneur needs to know to be successful…which is why nine out of ten new businesses fail within five years. I explain how they can learn everything they need to know to be successful, with someone else being happy to pay them to learn.
    It is only when you own your own business that you can have the freedom and the money to do things. I was 30 before I learned that. That’s when I borrowed $1,000 on my car to start my first business. Within two years I was going the usual successful person route buying a yacht, an airplane, an Arab horse, and new Porsches every year. Johnny Carson joked on his show that I had front and back Porsches.
    A few years ago, when I was working with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Board of Overseers, RPI Council, and First Executive On Campus), their business incubator heads consulted me on how they might improve their operation. I proposed a similar approach to the above, which they implemented. They recently won a prize as the best business incubator in the country.
    If a hundred cities and towns help develop only five new businesses a year, in four years we’ll have two thousand new businesses. That’s 10,000 to 20,000 new jobs. We’ll see entrepreneurs rushing here from all over the country. Make that ten new businesses a year per BIG and do the math.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Wayne Green, Ph.D.

8/2/07

Governor 1
    Here’s a letter you can send to your governor. All we need to do is get one state to help it’s people lead healthier lives and the move toward health will be unstoppable. Please lend a hand.

Dear Governor……,
    What would be the impact on our state’s budget if state employee’s health care costs could be lowered by 10%? I see that health insurance is up $500 on the average per employee for businesses over last year. Okay, how would you go about achieving a 10% reduction in health care costs for state employees? Any clues? Having researched this field carefully, I have.
    What I discovered is the biggest cover-up…one responsible for the unnecessary deaths of tens to hundreds of millions of people world-wide. I’ve discovered some doctors who have proven that any disease can be cured without drugs and not even a need for a doctor. This has been carefully covered up in order to protect the enormous pharmaceutical industry profits. For proof that I’m not a wacko read Dr. Bruno Comby’s Maximize Immunity (www.comby.org) or check out www.drday.com and see what well-known San Francisco trauma surgeon Dr. Lorraine Day has to say.
    My Secret Guide to Health (see www.waynegreen.com) explains how anyone can reverse any illness, mainly by changing their lifestyle. If copies are given to all state employees at least 10% of them would be motivated enough to make the lifestyle changes needed to regain and maintain robust health. And, a year later, when their fellow employees see how healthy that 10% have become (and are bragging about), they’ll re-read the book and more will change. My $20 book is only $12 a copy in bulk quantities. That’s insignificant compared to the health care savings it’ll trigger.
    Imagine the consequences if the state’s major employers follow this route! It could put the prescription counter of our drug stores (they’re in the back, past the candy and snack-food racks) out of business. Talk about a drug-free state!
    The “secret” is simple. By getting people to stop putting poisons into their bodies, their immune systems will recover from constantly fighting the poisons and repair the damage that’s been done…such as giving them diabetes, arthritis, cancer, heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s, AIDS, and so on.
    Give me a call (603-588-0107) so I can go over the details with you and get you a copy of my book. It can change your life. Once you’ve slashed the cost of health care for state employees, you can get busy encouraging the employers around the state to do the same for their employees. And, money saved goes right to their bottom line.
    The biggest obstacle is getting people to believe how easy it is to cure any illness. As Dr. Day says, “There are no incurable illnesses.” She called to say she’d read my book and “it’s right on the money.”    
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Wayne Green, Ph.D.

8/1/07

Change
    I still remember, when I was two, and the running board of my dad’s Model T came up to my chest. And him cranking it to get it started. And the seven acts of vaudeville at the movie theater every Saturday when I was seven. Yes, they had talkies by then, though I do remember seeing some silent films when I was younger. Like Charlie Chaplin in “Modern Times.” And those were the early days of radio.
    I remember, too, the whine as airplane engines were also started with cranks. Well, my dad ran the airport for Philadelphia, so I spent a lot of time around planes in the late 1920s.
    So today we have iPhones, digital cameras, the Internet, global positioning maps, etc. Enormous changes, just in my lifetime. But we have no more of a clue to what the world will be when our kids get to my age than we did eighty years ago in our predictions of the future.
  One thing we know: There will be changes. Big changes. And most will be fought by believers in the old ways.

7/31/07

Stem Cells
    Ah, the power of belief to imprison the mind! On the one side are scientists, anxious to research the potential of stem cells to help cure some diseases. On the other, people whose religious beliefs make them want to keep the scientists from benefiting from cells from aborted babies.
    If someone could get through to the well-meaning scientists that there really is no good reason for the research, since we already know how to cure any illness with no drugs or stem cells, that might force the protesters to find some new affront for their posters and screaming.
    Then we have a bunch of people like Walt Disney, who’ve had their bodies deep frozen so when a cure for the disease that killed them is discovered, their bodies can be defrosted and cured. Well, we now have the cure for their disease, so let’s start defrosting them.
    So-called “health care” is really sickness exploitation. And “medical science” is really medical dogma. It’s a religion, complete with medical schools and teaching hospitals for churches. It’s also, like religions, a whopping business that’s dependent upon belief. And that belief is almost total. What a great (and enormously profitable) industry to be in.
    Our world of vaccinations, medications, organ transplants, and most surgery are all dependent on our belief in “modern medicine.” How far we’ve come from medicine men chanting, doing dances and administering herb remedies. Yeah.

7/30/07

GM Foods
    The European countries won’t allow any genetically (GM) modified crops or food products to be imported from America. Meanwhile, there have been no tests to find out this stuff’s effects on people, so we’re guinea pigs. And the GM crops are getting into more and more food products. About 60% to 70% of the processed foods in our grocery stores contain oils or ingredients derived from biotech corn and soybeans.
    The latest is rice, where the GM variety has been spreading itself all over the place. If you or your family have eaten Uncle Ben’s, Rice Krispsies, Gerbers, sushi, or drank Budweiser, you’ve been GMed.
    There’s much to be said for sticking to organic food. But, hey, it’s you body and your health, so if you don’t care, never mind.

7/28/07

Suckers!
    That’s us for meekly saying nothing when we read that our tax dollars are buying $20 ice cube trays for the Pentagon. And $20,000 small refrigerators that look a lot like the $99 fridges at Lowes. $1,000 for hot plates? No problem.
    The Defense Logistic Agency has a prime vendor program where the Pentagon buys from a chosen list of companies with no shopping around or bidding. So the $600 toilet seat and $400 hammer system is still firmly in place and we’re the suckers picking up the tab.
    I enjoy the exposé articles and books about Government waste. Waste endorsed by Congress. Thanks, guys. And don’t forget the many warehouses packed with unused Pentagon purchases. 

7/28/07

Second Half
    With millions of boomers retiring, they’re faced with some choices they may not have considered. Like the high percentage of retirees who, if they have nothing much to do, die within two or three years of retirement. So much for a life of golf and leisure. It’s often short.
    On the other hand, this can be the most exciting and fun part of life. A second start on life! Hey, and no K-12 or college blowing 21 years of it. And, if you eat right, you’ll have another forty or more years to enjoy.
    With the Internet you can work for a company in Australia or India as easily as the next town. Better yet, you can run your own business from home, as millions of people are doing.
     Home? Hey, is it time to find a better place to live? You don’t have to be near work any more, so the world is your oyster. Hmm, where are the best places to live? Well, having visited most of the world, I haven’t found a better place than America. Yeah, we have a bunch of problems we’ve let grow and need to be fixed, so let’s get busy with that. Like getting rid of the Federal Reserve, the IRS and most of the government agencies. Oh, and the government’s mandatory public school system.
    Money magazine did a survey and found Hanover NH one of the best places in the country to live. Well, in all the surveys New Hampshire towns seem to be right up there on top. No big surprise since we have breathtaking beauty from one end of the state to the other, clean air, great people, and an endless number of fun things to do. Yet home prices are reasonable.
    When, at the age of forty, I started my first magazine, I looked around for some place better than New York City to live and publish. I looked at the New Jersey mountains, upstate New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont. and then New Hampshire. It was an easy choice and now, forty-five years later, I’ve never regretted it.
    And, the second time out, you can get into a business that’s so much fun you feel like you’re cheating. Like me publishing ham radio and computer magazines. Wow, what fun! And now, New Hampshire ToDo, a magazine all about having fun!
    There are a lot of homes on the market, but if I were going to move here I’d buy a hill with a good view and build a mostly underground home. That would keep the heating and cooling costs to a minimum, and no need to repaint every so many years.

7/28/07

Cheney
    In case you missed it, here’s what The New Yorker had to say about Cheney in their July 16th issue “The Talk of the Town.”
The story of the scowling, scheming, domineering, silently sinister Vice President and the spoiled, petted prince who becomes his plaything is irresistible.
For the past six years Dick Cheney, the occupant of what John Adams called “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived,” has been the most influential public official in the country, not necessarily excluding President Bush, and his influence has been entirely malign. He is pathologically (but purposefully) secretive; treacherous toward colleagues; coldly manipulative of the callow, lazy, and ignorant President he serves; contemptuous of public opinion; and dismissive not only of international law, but also of the very idea that the Constitution and laws of the United States, including laws signed by his nominal superior, can be construed to limit the power of the executive to take any action that can plausibly be classified as part of the endless, endlessly expandable “war on terror.”
They left out his coming into the government from Halliburton, which has coincidentally made billions off the Iraq war.

7/27/07

The Simpsons
    Having watched a few hundred episodes of the show, naturally I had to see the movie.
    It’s okay. I laughed several times. All the characters were there, but few of them were actually used except for Ned Flanders. Krusty, Ah Poo, Moe, Smithers, Grandpa, Skinner, and so on were there in the crowd scenes, but didn’t even have bit parts. If you’re not a Simpsons fan this is probably not going to make you one.

7/27/07

Embassy
    While the media have a field day chewing and rechewing the political parties and candidates proposals for Iraq, there’s been almost nothing said about the new American embassy being built in Baghdad. And, if my informants there are right, it’s going to be the biggest American embassy in the world…about ten times any others.
    It’s on 104 acres and will have 21 buildings, designed to handle a staff of about five thousand. It’ll have its own water, electric and sewer systems, and a concrete wall fifteen thick around it. It’s a billion dollar embassy.
    So much for time tables for leaving Iraq. If you have any ideas in why we’re building a permanent fort in Baghdad, let me know.

7/26/07

Voting
    Only about half of Americans vote in the Presidential elections. Considering the choices we end up facing, it’s a wonder that many bother to vote. Bush? Gore? I think I wrote in Andy Rooney. Or was it Mickey?
    Considering the odds that my vote is going to make the slightest difference, there’s no reason why I should spend the time and effort to be well informed. Too much trouble when there are far more fun things to do with my time. So I’m a sucker for no-think ads in forming my voting decisions.
    Let’s see, do I prefer a liberal woman, an ex-Muslim, a Mormon, an actor? Most of ’em have their opinions based on their pollster findings. None of ’em have expressed a vision of the future that excites me.

7/26/07

Hopper
   When I was 15 a picture in Life grabbed my eyes and I cut it out. It was of an Edward Hopper painting called “Drug Store.” I still have it in my old scrap book. It was love at first sight for Hopper’s work.
    A few years later his “Early Sunday Morning” did it to me again.
    When the Whitney Museum in New York had a Hopper showing about twenty years ago I drove down just to see it, so I was excited when I found that Boston’s Fine Arts Museum was going to have a Hopper show.
    Despite the $23 admission, the exhibit was crowded, with several rooms of Hopper’s paintings. Looking at the original of “Drug Store” and “Early Sunday Morning” brought tears to my eyes. I looked around and noticed that a few others also had their Kleenex out.
    I don’t know why Hopper’s paintings make me cry, or why some pieces of music do too. I’ve written about that recently, where my deep feeling for the music has somehow gotten my iPod to play them for me.
    Back home, I Googled Hopper and found about twenty of his paintings I could download and print out. Including my two favorites. Go to www.edwardhopper.com and download ’em yourself, then print them on good glossy photo paper and see. I hope you can share my love for Hopper’s paintings


7/24/07

Homework
    Those morning and afternoon lines of commuters are gradually thinning as companies wake up to the benefits of having their people work from home, connected by the Internet umbilical cord. Dunno about you, but I sure prefer the ten second commute to my home office to an hour drive or railroad commute. And, I’ve done those.
    When I worked as an engineer at Airborne Instrument Labs in Mineola, Long Island, it was a good hour commute, either by car from my home in Brooklyn via the Belt Parkway and the Long Island Expressway, or the BMT from Avenue M to Atlantic Avenue and the Long Island Railroad to Mineola.
    Today the New Hampshire ToDo staff all work from home, so they don’t even have to live within driving distance of an office. Heck, they could be working from India, like so many of the call-center phone calls I get. Those Dilbert office cubicles are gradually moving to the worker’s homes.
    So what? Okay, it saves on gas and gives us an extra hour or two a day of free time we’ve been wasting on commuting. But, as more and more women can work from home, there’ll be less need for day-care centers. Sure, there are probably a few of those that actually make an effort to teach babies, but most just let TV keep the kids mesmerized. D’uh.
    The sleeper is the growing number of college courses which are available on line and via DVDs. As youngsters wise up to them, and as there are ways to find out which are really worth while, the population of college dorms and fraternity houses is going to dwindle. As will the use of those multi-million dollar college facilities, many replaced by virtual labs.
    Babies, if permitted, are industrial strength learning machines. They’re into everything and driving parents crazy asking “why?” Put ’em into into a play pen and tell ’em to shut the hell up. So, how long is it going to be before we see DVDs that teach a baby to read? And others that help answer all those whys?
    Are we heading into a time when there are no more college football and basketball teams? What a terrible loss! Brain-numbed people who live mainly to be entertained without having to think will have to make do with watching professional teams of millionaire athletes playing.
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), my alma, has just invested millions in a new building. If you’re interested I’ll put some of the letters I’ve sent to Shirley Jackson, the president, about this on the site. No, I’ve never had an answer to any of my letters to her.
    With colleges costing tens of thousands of dollars a year and kids going seriously into debt, I see more than a change, I see a revolution coming. Lectures, memorizing stuff for exams which is soon forgotten, is so 20th century. Force-fed courses of little interest, all to get that sheepskin ticket to a job in a large company? How long can they sell that baloney? You don’t even get a gold watch and a pension when you’ve put in your forty years and retire any more.
    Freedom, which we brag about and fight for, means having your own business or working from home as an independent contractor…like the New Hampshire ToDo staff. And most of the things you need to know to be successful in this 21st century business world aren’t being taught in college. Advertising, promotion, marketing, packaging, purchasing, salesmanship, public speaking, contracts, and so on. Books on all of these subjects, written by the top people in the fields, are available, with more and more info also on line.
    We’re well into the knowledge age. It’s easily available, though not many people are using it yet. Getting across the idea that knowledge is valuable, that there are very few well-educated poor people, and few wealthy ignorant people, translates to using your time more productively than watching Maury, sitcoms and ball games. Or lounging out by the pool.
 
7/22/07

Screwed!
    While I was working at Airborne Instrument Laboratories in Mineola, Long Island, One of the R&D projects I was running to develop an airborne relaying system for floating submarine sonic detectors use John Karlson as an engineer.
    In talking with John he mentioned a microwave antenna he’d invented and patented, one which worked over a very wide range of frequencies…unlike all the other antenna designs, which worked over very limited frequency ranges. I looked at the design and it struck me that microwave wavelengths are the same as for audio, that his design might just make one hell of a loudspeaker enclosure.
    John liked the idea, but he didn’t have any test equipment with which to test enclosure designs, so I lent him my audio lab equipment. I’d taken the engineering job at AIL just to keep busy while I was looking for another television directing job. My job at KBTV in Dallas had folded when the station owner canceled all live shows and went 100% to film and the New York stations weren’t hiring.
    Just as I was ready to work with John on the enclosure design a directing job opened up at WXEL, Channel 7, in Cleveland, where I would be directing all their live shows, with the rest from the network. Off I went to Cleveland.
    Six months later, fed up with just directing the news and sports roundup shows, and the promise of freedom to develop new shows just a come on, I went back to New York, where I found John had done nothing on the enclosure project.
    So we spent the next couple months building enclosures and testing them, mostly on weekends, since John was still working full time at AIL. The result was a relatively small box that produced fantastic sound. Having been a hi-fi nut for many years, I knew this was a winner.
    We took the prototype to Avery Fisher of Fisher Electronics. He listened with amazement and offered us a 4% royalty on sales if he manufactured them. John was eager to sign the deal, but I thought we could do better on our own. So we incorporated as Karlson Associates, Inc., with John, his wife and me as the board of directors. I borrowed a thousand dollars on my car from the bank and set up a desk in my bedroom at home, and we were in business. John stayed with AIL and I got busy planning my attack.
    My first move was to sign up with the Advertising Club of New York for a course in advertising…one of the best decisions of my life. I started having the boxes made by a small woodshop on Long Island. Two years later I had seven factories working full tilt to keep up with the orders…three in California and four in the New York area. I had plywood kits and models in finished woods and blond or walnut Formica. I had manufacturer’s reps covering the country and a Western sales office in Palo Alto. Well, all a hi-fi nut had to do was give one listen and he had to have the box. There was nothing else even close at any price. Our sales had grown to over $2.5 million, which is more like $50 million in today’s Federal Reserve Bank dollarettes.
    One of the reasons for the fast growth was my reinvesting the profits in growth instead of lavish salaries. A point of contention with John, who wanted to quit at AIL and enjoy our success. My bedroom desk had grown to offices in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, about three stops on the Brighton Line from my house. So one day I came to the office and found the lock on the door had been changed.
    I called John to see if he knew what was going on. He said that the board of directors (he and his wife) had held a meeting, I had been fired, and was no longer needed. I was out. Never mind my 50% of the stock.
    It was at this time that, serendipitously, the publisher of the ham radio magazine CQ called to offer me the job as editor, and at a higher salary than I’d been drawing from the enclosure business. Wow, the editor of one of the two ham magazines! I’d been a ham since I was 17 and loved the hobby. Nirvana. Nothing could be more fun!
    John took over running Karlson Associates. It only took him seven months to run the company into bankruptcy. And that was the end of the Karlson Enclosure.

7/21/07

College
    College, I maintain is a ridiculous waste of time and money. But, parents, teachers and kids have it drummed into them from the earliest days that a “college education” is important. Oh, the miseries and crap I went through so I’d be accepted by a college.
    As I champion in my Secret Guide to Wealth, the key to making money and having freedom is to own your own business. And, I explain that around 90% of most small business fail in the first few years because the entrepreneurs haven’t done their necessary homework.
    Colleges are not geared to provide an entrepreneurial education. They have fixed curriculums which are governed by accreditation bureaus. An Inc magazine survey of the top hundred most successful entrepreneurs showed that only a few ever went to college, and most of them dropped out…like Bill Gates.
    College curriculums are geared to the needs of the major corporations. A career path that is unlikely to ever give the graduate much freedom or wealth.
    My high school career advisors insisted that because of my background as a ham operator and electronic experimenter, I should pursue an electrical engineering degree. You know, not one course I took during the four years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has ever been of value to me in the many businesses I’ve been in. I wasted four years of my life memorizing quickly forgotten stuff for quizzes.
    My wealth guide explains how prospective entrepreneurs can get someone else to teach them everything they need to know to start  their own business, and pay them to learn.
    What with four years of college and four years in the Navy during WWII, I was 30 before I wised up. I was smart enough not go the big corporation route, so I had tons of fun for about three years as a radio engineer-announcer in North Carolina, Virginia and Florida. Then as a TV engineer-cameraman in NYC, and a TV producer-director in Dallas and Cleveland. No complaints, but that was working for other people. Then I started my first business. Freedom at last!

7/20/07

Ponder
    Belief. What do you believe? And why?
    How about past lives? Reincarnation? Mind reading? Fortune telling? Ghosts? ESP? Psychokenisis? Precognition? Heaven? Hell? Satan? Demons? Angels? Believe in any of them?
    If you believe, again I ask why? And if you disbelieve, why? And, by the way, a disbelief is just a negative belief.
    Your beliefs, were they formed by your parents? Church? School? Reading? Maybe from radio, TV, movies, friends?
    How about Communicating with the dead? Remote viewing? Communicating with plants? Communicating with living things such as animals and even flies and ants?
    Most people believe in God. Is God judgemental? An old man watching every person on Earth every minute and, like Santa, keeping  list? Or, as she an old black woman?
    What about those Ten Commandments? Good grief, we’re making mince-meat of them all the time.
    Organized religions, the largest industry in the world, are totally dependent on our beliefs. Beliefs are often defended to the death. Beliefs are often firmly held, no matter how much they defy facts. Ask Galileo. Or the pioneers in almost any field.
    Today, despite the resistance of powerful beliefs, we’re learning more as we investgate intention and prayer. Will today’s battles over creationism vs. evolution turn out to be as much of a waste as those over how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?

7/19/07

Prison Bend
    We are so totally imprisoned by our thoroughly ingrained habits and beliefs that breaking out of this prison isn’t much of an option. So, let’s see if we can bend the prison bars just a little.
    My attempts to reason with people about their diets is a good example. Why do heart disease and cancer tend to run in families? Is it genetics? Or could it be because my grandmother loved to eat crackers and coffee, as did my mother…and then me…have any connection? And that goes for many family diets.
    I know you’re going to probably find this almost impossible to believe, but when we don’t put stuff in or on our bodies they haven’t been designed to handle, we don’t get sick. We don’t get cancer, heart disease, melanomas, and so on.
    When the present design was firmed up our ancestors were eating raw food, just like all the other animals. They were out in the sun all day and getting plenty of exercise. No frosted cold cereals with pasteurized milk or Starbucks. No Hershey bars. No Hägen Däsz. No colas or Dr. Pepper.
    Actually, our bodies are equipped to deal with the usual emergencies…cuts, bruises, broken bones, poisons, germs, viruses, and parasites if they don’t overwhelm the repair and maintenance department, our immune systems. Alas, belief has no effect on your body’s ability to deal with poisons. No matter how strongly you believe that coffee is okay, it’s a toxic poison and will slowly shorten your life, making you open to illnesses that you might otherwise shrug off. Like colds and flu. Or cancer.

7/16/07

Boy Scouts
    When I was 12 my old friend Alfie and I joined Troop 34 of the Boy Scouts in Brooklyn (NY). We had fun going on the required twelve-mile hike, and going camping on Staten Island with other Scouts.
    The Troop was broken down into Patrols of about a dozen kids, complete with evening patrol meetings. I got fed up with those after a couple of meetings when the main agenda was to go out and peek into nearby ground floor apartment windows, hoping to see couples engaged in sex.
    I dropped out of the Scouts and got involved as a boy soprano in a church choir, which kept me busy with rehearsals and three performances a week. I also got paid, plus a free month of summer choir camp in Center Moriches, Long Island. No window peeking required.

7/14/07

My 24 Platform Planks (Were I running for President)
    While wandering around the Hillsborough Balloon Festival taking a few pictures I saw groups promoting Ron Paul, Hillary and Obama. I’ve discussed on my TV show a platform which I think would make the candidate a sure winner, but I didn’t have anything with me on the subject. So, when I got home I prepared the following which I now have printed on 4 x 5.5-inch cards so I’ll be armed in the future.

  1. Reduce health care costs by 50%, and make us the healthiest country instead of 37th, and at more than twice the cost of any other.
  2. Make colleges tuition-free, with no government support needed. Run ’em 50 weeks a year and graduate in three years or less.
  3. Cut government departments and bureaus in half in three years with everone involved enthusiastically cooperating.
  4. Eliminate HIV/AIDS totally and inexpensively.
  5. Eliminate need for oil with a non-polluting energy source at less than a tenth the cost of oil. Put those Arabs back on their camels.
  6. Revamp social security for ten times the current payments as they did in Chile - every man can be a millionnaire.
  7. Increase baby IQs by around 50 points and create a generation of geniuses. We need ’em to keep ahead in the world.
  8. Teach children how to read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension. We know how to do this.
  9. Eliminate the need for chemical fertillizer and pesticides.
10. A win-win solution in Iraq - peace through prosperity - get ’em busy working and making money. Fight with brains instead of guns.
11. Make foreign aid pay off big time. Make it an investment instead of a gift.
12. Make prisons truely corrective and at about a tenth their cost.
13. Make English our national language. No more foreign language publications, radio or TV stations, or “second language” in schools.
14. Close the border to Mexico to illegal immigrants.
15. Pull our troops back. We have 1,400,000 in 144 countries and territories. 40,000 still in Japan, 38,000 still in South Korea, 71,000 still in Germany after sixty years! Let’s bring ’em home.
16. Stop poisoning Americans with fluoride, aspartame, mercury in dental amalgam, and thimerosal in vaccinations.
17. Eliminate all vaccinations entirely.
18. We should totally eliminate the income tax. There is another more than adequate source for this money that’s being kept hidden.
19. Decontaminate those thousands of tons of radioactive waste and turn it into energy instead of burying it in a Nevada mountain.
20. Replace the mandatory government school attendance with self education for all ages via DVDs and other distant-learning programs.
21. Encourage small business growth with business incubator groups.
22. End government secrecy on UFOs, 911, Oklahoma City, chem trails, milk and beef safety, those purported Moon landings, etc.
23. Cut Pentagon spending! $400 billion - more than the military budgets of the next twenty top spending countries combined.
24. Extend the two-term limit to all elected polititions, not just the President.
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    These seemingly preposterous proposals have all been carefully researched and are practical. Read my books and the essays on my site, watch my weekly TV show: www.waynegreen.com. Yes, I might even be available as a candidate’s consultant.
    Any candidate interested in actually making America better could adopt my platform and release one plank every week to the media, keeping them all stirred up with front page headlines and thus saving hundreds of millions of campaign dollars.

7/13/07

Balls of Fire
    One summer, many years ago, my grandmother Netta and I were sitting on the porch of “the farm,” her cottage in Bethlehem (NH), eating some baked apples for our luncheon dessert. Pretty soon a black cloud came up and it started to rain, so we went into the house to shut the windows.
    Suddenly there was an explosion on the front porch, and another in the kitchen. Netta and I were out in the summer kitchen by the back door, having just closed a window there when, as I happened to be looking down at the floor, there was a loud explosion a few inches from my foot and about six inches over the floor. It looked and sounded exactly like a cherry bomb explosion, and even had a similar smell.
    My first thought was that my dad hadn’t really driven back to New York that morning and was kidding around. But no, it was ball lightening. One went off in the telephone box on the side of the house, blowing the lid about thirty feet into the yard. Another went off on the front porch, but didn’t do any damage. One exploded under the sink, sending soap powder all over the place.
    Netta said this had happened once years earlier, when a ball came in the window and bounced from one piece of silverware on the table to another before it finally exploded. Weird stuff.
    The guys minding the diesel engines on my submarine during the war said they’d often had balls of electricity come bouncing from the maneuvering room, through the hatch into the after engine room before exploding, And this, even though the huge maneuvering room switches are enclosed in a steel cage.
    Yes, ball lightening exists. I’ve seen it.

7/12/07

What To Ask The Candidates
    New Hampshire is up to here in presidential candidates (and “maybe I’ll runs”), as we provide the country with either our wisdom or our legendary ability to react emotionally rather than thinking, in the country’s first primaries.
    To help what few people are actually interested in making a thinking choice, I’ve prepared a little list of questions they can ask the candidates as they shuttle around the state, addressing groups. My recommendation is for a group to assign one member of the group to ask each question.
    No, these are not the usual pot boilers such as stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion rights, school prayer, and creationism. They’ll have scripted answers all ready for those. Yawn.
    For instance, take HEALTH. With Americans coming in 37th in international health surveys, with only Mexicans having a shorter life span of all the developed countries, and with us spending more than twice that of any other country on so-called health-care, has the candidate proposed any plans for improving our health other than universal health care, which would have us spending three or four times what other countries are spending? 
    Then, EDUCATION, where our kids are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Since there are no studies showing that more money improves the situation, what plan has the candidate proposed to change this situation so our American work force can be more competitive and creative in the world economy?
    Presumably the candidate understands that Congress has spent all of the SOCIAL SECURITY funds, leaving nothing but IOUs (and our children) to pay future seniors. Is the candidate aware of the Chilean social security system which is paying retirees ten times what American seniors are getting? Where even someone who never makes more than the minimum wage in his lifetime can retire with a million dollars?
    Has the candidate opposed the FLUORIDATING our water? Is the candidate aware that Dr. Robert Mick of Laurel Springs, NJ offered $100,000 to anyone who could prove fluoridation is healthful. His reward has never been challenged. In animal experiments with fluoride, cripples were born to the third generations. There is no valid research showing fluorides to be beneficial to teeth. This is just a way to dispose of a waste product of aluminum and fertilizer manufacturing for a profit of billions. It lowers children’s IQs and is used to keep cattle (and people) docile.
    How about our grossly bloated federal government, with more people than we have working in manufacturing? Has the candidate proposed any plans for turning this situation around? Is the candidate aware of the New Zealand solution to their similar situation?
    Then there’s 911. Does the candidate buy the official government report? Has the candidate read any of the growing number of books challenging the official report?
    How about TAXES? Back when the income tax was imposed, when the government had been getting most of its money from import duties, it was 2% on the wealthy. Now, our total taxes are 59%, making it so both husbands and wives have to work, with their children having to be parked in day-care facilities to sit all day watching TV. Has the candidate proposed any plans for cutting taxes? Like BIG cuts?
    Is the candidate familiar with the city, county, state and federal Consolidated Accounting Financial Reports (CAFRs)? These now amount to about $28 trillion, with much of them being invested in the stock market. Indeed, the government owns 70% of American stocks. And if the income from these investments were used to offset our taxes instead of being re-invested, there would be no further need for any taxes.
    Al Gore has made a big deal out of GLOBAL WARMING. Does the candidate agree with Big Al that man’s activities are to blame and we must change our ways? If so, how does the candidate explain that while all the other planets, according to NASA, have heated up as a result of the Sun’s recent violent activity, that this hasn’t had any significant effect on Earth? And that the increasing number of volcanoes erupting and bigger and more frequent earthquakes are due to man’s activities and not the Sun’s impact?
    With college costs going crazy, has the candidate proposed any solution to this problem other than perhaps having the government subsidize more students? Is the candidate aware of the practical plan for making college tuition totally free, with no government expense involved?
    Is the candidate aware of an alternative to our use of oil and coal which could cut our energy costs and pollution…other than wind or solar power? One that could even use radioactive waste for fuel and decontaminate it in the process?
    And that’s just for starters. Let’s give the candidates some exercise rather than just sitting there listening to their canned speeches, applauding, shaking hands, and watching them drive off with their tenders in their stretch limos, or fly off in their chartered jets.
    If they’re interested in practical plans to solve any of the problems I cited, have ’em give Wayne Green a call.

7/11/07

Amelia
    Amelia Earhart is back in the news with the departure of fifteen members of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) heading for Nikumaroro Island for the ninth time to look for evidence that this is where Amelia ended up when she disappeared on her around-the-world flight in 1937. The island is about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.
    Well, I can see why they were unable on their first eight expeditions to the 2.5 mile long island to find anything significant. They could have saved themselves a lot of time and money if they’d read Fred Goerner’s 1966 book, The Search for Amelia Earhart.
. The fates somehow got me involved with the mystery. Back in 1928-1930, when my dad was the designer and manager of Philadelphia’s Central Airport, Amelia kept her Lockeed Orion there. I used to climb into the cockpit and pretend to fly it. And dad had her out to our house in Pennsauken (NJ) for dinner several times. She and Tommy Luddington owned Luddington Airlines, America’s first airline. I still remember being on the inaugural flight between Philadelphia and Newark in 1928.
    In 1936 Bob Wemple, a good friend of my dad’s and Amelia's chief mechanic, came out to dinner at our house and explained that he had just outfitted her Lockheed with larger engines and extra gas tanks so she could, on her around-the-world flight make the hop from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island by way of Truk Island so she could take spy pictures of the Japanese installation there for President Roosevelt, who had earlier been the Secretary of the Navy. The Navy wanted to know what the Japanese were doing there.
    With the more powerful engines she would be able to make the trip to Howland Island via Truk in about the same time as she would have been able to do it flying direct with her standard engines. Bob said these pictures were the whole reason for her flight.
    The trouble was she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were unable to find Howland Island and they and the plane disappeared. The Navy searched for signs of the wreckage, but found nothing.
    Cut to seven years later, 1944, in the middle of WWII, when the Navy had a rest camp for submariners at Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands, with the submarine tender Gilmore there, anchored in the lagoon, to refit the subs while the crews were resting on the atoll beaches. There we talked with the natives, who claimed that seven years earlier a plane had crash landed on the beach with a woman pilot and a man navigator. They said the Japanese Navy came and took the two and their plane to Saipan.
    Naturally, when we stopped off later at Saipan to refuel, I went ashore and asked the natives about Amelia and the plane. They confirmed that she and Fred had been there in a Japanese prison, where Noonan had died. Then, when it was clear that the U.S. was going to capture the island, the Japanese executed Amelia and buried her. When the Americans arrived, they claimed, they burned the plane and the hanger it was in.
    The recruitment of America’s most famous woman as a spy was something Roosevelt sure didn’t want known. Nor did the Japanese want to say anything about their executing the most famous woman in the world.
    When Fred Goerner decided to look into Amelia’s disappearance he ran into constant roadblocks by the Navy. For instance, he called an admiral who was involved and agreed to be interviewed. But, when he got there, the admiral said he had no recollection of agreeing to talk about Amelia. The lid was on.
    The Navy tried to keep Fred away from Saipan, but he managed to get there and talk with the natives. It’s all in his book. I got in touch with him and told him about my experience with Bob Wemple and on Majuro.
    Their flying to the Marshall Islands makes sense. When they missed Howland Island they had a choice of flying west toward the Caroline Islands, which are few and far between, or northwest to the Marshall’s, which are all over the place and couldn’t be missed.
    Well, I hope the guys have a lot of fun on Nikumaroro.
    Bob Wemple was noted for marrying Miss Philadelphia in a plane flying over the city. And Luddington Airlines was sold to Eastern Air Transport in 1934…later Eastern Airlines.

7/10/07

Factory Life
    We’re eating factory-raised beef, chicken, pork and eggs. Virtually all of our food is factory-produced. Made the cheapest, fastest way possible. Cows that used to take five years to grow are now, with growth hormones, antibiotics and stuffed with genetically-modified corn, grown in less than a year and a half. Even our children are factory-raised in mandatory government-run institutions.
    And we, fat, entertained, brainwashed taxpayers are paying for all this with by far the most expensive health-care industry in the world, which has us rated as 37th in health in the world, and next to last in longevity. Oh, and our schools are graduating the dumbest kids in the developed world.
    Hey, is it possible that all that factory-produced food is making us fat and sick? Well, that’s what the scientists tell us, except those working for the food companies. I went into a McDonalds around noon the other day to use their rest room and the place was packed with families sitting there eating Big Macs and super-sized fries, while the take-out window was dispensing more of ’em to the long line of waiting cars. And it’s the same at Burger King, Wendy’s, and all the other fast food franchises.
    If you have any suggestions on how I can get through with a message about healthy eating, let me know. Reason and facts are insignificant when it comes to the billions spent promoting this way of life…sickness and death.
    On the other hand, what would become of TV if food and drug advertising were to dry up?

7/9/07

Vaccinations
    Duncan Roads, the editor of Nexus, mentioned in his July editorial, “Just for the record: vaccines are not safe, have never been proven to be safe anywhere or at any time, and don’t work. They are a huge con.”
    Alas, we (and even our doctors) have been so brainwashed by the media and Big Pharma that we totally believe in vaccinations for us, and even our babies. Get your flu shots. Get your baby those measles and chickenpox shots.
    Here’s the review of a book on the subject from my Secret Guide to Wisdom (page 43):
Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality — Harris Coulter, North Atlantic Books, 300p, 1990, ISBN 1-55643-084-1, $20. Subtitled: The Medical Assault on the American Brain. This carefully researched book makes it clear that childhood vaccinations have been and are causing terrible things to happen to millions of children. For instance, autism was virtually unknown until baby vaccinations. “Childhood vaccinatrions cause various type of mental retardation, ranging from a slight drop in IQ to total idiocy; they also generate dyslexia and other reading disabilities.” The book shows the steady decline in SAT scores and the correlation with the increased number of childhood vaccinations. My copy of the book is heavily high-lighted. The authors make a very good case for vaccinations being responsible for the enormous increase in autism, dyslexia, hyperactivity, allergies, crime, hearing loss, asthma, mental and nervous system disorders, personality disorders, drug use, and diseases of the eyes and ears. The medical bureaucracy’s response to the mess vaccinations are making has been with Prozac, Ritalin, and Zoloft. Our schools have reacted with metal detectors to keep out guns and knives. Please read this book.

7/8/07

Cold Fusion
    Unless you’ve been reading my stuff it’s most likely you’ve accepted the media reports of the failure of cold fusion to pan out.
    Of course, if you’ve read by booklet #20 ($3), which explains in simple language how cold fusion works, then you know this is one of the really big cover-ups. Well, the oil, coal and natural gas industries depend on the word not getting out. And, with all this fuss about messing up our atmosphere, it’s been an expensive job keeping the lid on this source of unlimited, totally non-polluting energy, which is expected to cost a tenth to even a fiftieth that of oil. Further, it would put the power companies and their grid, along with nuclear power stations and hydro-electric out of business.
    It’ll also take the pressure off the need to stay in Iraq, mess with Iran, or palsy with the Saudis. With cold fusion power we can put those arabs back on their camels and sitting in their tents.
    But, hey, check it out for yourself with this 46-minute video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2229511748333360205&q=war+duration%3Along&total=4469&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7  cold fusion 46 minutes

7/6/07

Sleep
    If you’ll check back to last October you’ll see the system I use to get to sleep, usually within a minute. If news of this were to get out to the Coast To Coast AM show (one to five ayem, here in the East) audience, they’d be sound asleep instead of sitting up, listening to talk radio.
    Since they occasionally have interesting guests, before the iPod I used to tape the show on a VCR every night. In fact, I have a little $5 kit with a cable and instructions on how to connect a radio to a video recorder so anyone can record radio shows. Now, with the iPod and podcasting, I get an automatic download of the four hour show, less the commercials and weather report breaks, into my Mac, and from there into my iPod.
    Okay, now you’re able to easily go to sleep, but that isn’t all. By a long shot. It’s important also to be sleeping in the dark, as I reported in my review of the book Lights Out in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. And to sleep in silence, which I covered in an essay last August. None of this going to sleep with the TV or a radio on, unless you don’t mind screwing up your ability to remember things. It’s like Alzheimer’s.
    An article in the August 2007 Discover on the brain brought this to mind, where it says, “…sleep plays a critical role in learning and consolidating memories.”

7/5/07

Responsibility
    We’ve let America get into one hell of a mess. While we’ve been watching ball games and being entertained with 200 channels of TV, plus the Hillary, Obama, etc., political side show, we’ve grown huge asses, our health is down to 37th in the world, our educational system is an irreparable mess, and we’ve meekly let our government and media lie to us about 911, UFOs, cold fusion, and a laundry list of other cover-ups.
    Today, with cellphones and the Internet, we have the ability to reach out and communicate that was unimaginable just a generation ago. We have the means to reach out and help change things. News flash: without your help things are only going to continue to change for the worse. We’re getting sicker, dumber, and losing our freedoms. Hey, wasn’t freedom something our forefathers fought for? Now baseball scores keep our attention, while our most bribed politicians in the history of the country are selling us out.
    You can make a difference. Step one is to be sure of what you are talking about,, and that isn’t easy in this age of propaganda. Step two is to start putting together a group of friends who want to help refurbish America. To make us number one in health and education. Oh, and in freedom! Let’s make America an inspirational model for the world instead of being hated and exploited.
    If you are too busy with interests or problems of your own to help, things will change anyway, just not for the better. There will be more terror, fewer freedoms, cameras watching you everywhere like in Britain, secret police, huge black budgets, bird flu, mad cow, and other fake scares to keep you in line, seeking government protection, no matter the cost.
    Since almost everyone has some sort of health problem, that’s a great place to start. I’ve done the homework for you. My Secret Guide to Health explains how easy it is to reverse any illness and get into good physical shape, and with no medications, shots or surgery. The formula is stupidly simple. If you can just stop putting toxic stuff into and on your body, it’ll rebuild the mess you’ve made of it. Yes, it can do that. Guaranteed. Have you the guts to try something like that? Say, even for thirty days? Or is your addiction to something so totally overpowering that you are unable to stop poisoning your body? Even for a month?
    Once you’re healthy and have saved a couple friends or family members from killing themselves with their lifestyles, you’ll be ready to help enlighten anyone you can reach. Hey, write your own book and sell it. Set up a killer web site. Send an Internet newsletter. Keep at it until we stop seeing all those huge asses in the supermarket checkout lines.
    Step two will be to help me revolutionize American (and the world) education. Yeah, I know how we can do it. We can help our kids be the best educated in the world, and at a fraction of today’s costs. Tuition-free college, and at no government expense. Kids able to read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page. We know how to do these things now, we just have to get the word out. We even know how to increase kids IQs by up to 50 points, giving us a nation of geniuses in the future.
    Is this enough to get you to put down the sport pages, turn off the radio and TV, and get busy changing first yourself, then America?
    Sigh.
  

7/3/07

The iPhone
    With saturation advertising on TV and in magazines, plus feature articles in many magazines, I suspect that a big lump of the $499 for the iPhone was invested in the promotion. So I was really surprised when Art Bell mentioned on the Coast show that he hadn’t heard about it.
    The promotion has worked, with news announcements that many stores instantly sold out their inventory on June 29th, the day it was officially put on sale.
    As a daily iPod user, listening daily to the Coast podcast and classical music, I was wondering how long it would be before Jobs would add a cellphone.
    No, I haven’t bought one yet. Having been in the cellphone and personal computer field from before their beginnings, I know enough to wait a year for the initial bugs to be ironed out and maybe a new feature or two to be added. Other than that, the iPhone is a very attractive gadget, so eventually I’ll get one. Just not this year.

7/2/07

Money Wins!
    It isn’t democracy that’s made America strong, it’s money. Capitalism. Oh, democracy has a good ring to it, but look at what money has done to our American democracy. Money is driving the Administration. Money is in charge of Congress. Informed voters? Not when money is in control of the media and the government.
    Look at what money is doing to communism in China! Money is in charge.
    Money is driving millions from Mexico here, not a thirst for democracy or any love of our country.
    I see where a couple million people have gotten the hell out of Iraq recently. What’ll stop the exodus? What’ll bring the fighting to a grinding halt? Money, of course. So, instead of continuing to spend billions on fighting the war, how about setting up some banks to make microloans to get families into business? And, to grease the skids, instead of the going 31% interest per year microloans are pulling in India and twenty other countries, we could make it more like 10%.
    Loans of $100 to $300 can get a wife or a family into business with a loom, a stove, some chickens, or maybe a camel. The more we help incubate business startups in Iraq, the sooner money can take over and win the war for us. No matter the political or religious systems, capitalism is the winner.
   
7/1/07

NH Growth
    New Hampshire, with almost a 20% growth in the last 15 years, is the fastest growing New England state. And that without any noticeable illegal immigrants.
    It’s no wonder the growth, considering the clean air, the low cost of housing, the endless number of fun things there are to do here, and beauty that won’t quit.
    With millions of boomers looking for places to either retire or have a vacation home, we’ve got fishing, hunting, skiing, golf, motorcycling, bicycling, and farms that have laid fallow for a hundred years that have never been poisoned with chemical fertilizer or pesticides.
    Our Manchester airport has plenty of international flights, and connections anywhere. I don’t have to drive to Boston to travel like I used to.
    You can keep track of what’s going on with my New Hampshire ToDo magazine. If you send for a sample copy be warned that the magazine is very, very addictive. See www.NHToDo.com.

6/28/07

The FDA
    If you are like around 99% of Americans you believe the FDA is helping protect you against bum food and drug products. You also do not read The New Yorker, which exposed what a sham the FDA system is in the June 25th issue (page 40).
    The FDA has drug makers run tests on their new drugs and submit the best of them, a process which usually costs about $800 million and can take up to ten years. The FDA does not run the tests.
    If there are any problems with the drugs there is no system for checking them, once approved. Nor any constraints on advertising and promotions.
    The FDA is the lapdog of the most profitable industry in America, where the top ten drug companies made more profits last year than the other 390 Fortune 400 companies combined.
    All efforts to get any help from Congress to strengthen the FDA have been defeated by the army of lobbyists with fat bundles of “campaign” cash.
    Basically, you’re on your own when it comes to the safety or the efficacy of medications. And no, you doctor mainly knows what the drug company salesman has told him.
    My advice is to pay attention to my guidance so you’ll stop making yourself sick. Beats the hell out of medications, all with side effects, none beneficial.

6/27/07

Monopolies
    Just look at what happened when the AT&T and IBM monopolies were broken up! We got more and better products, and much better service at lower prices. So, with our government monopoly public school system a monumental failure, one that’s robbing our kids of even adequate educations and at a cost that’s the highest in the world, I say whoa!
    Before the government stepped in we had local one-room schools turning out well-educated students. The system was more like the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA), where there is no curriculum. The kids are not separated by age. There are no tests or grades. The kids learn what they want because they want, and the results are spectacular.
    The ignorance of today’s public school kids is amazing. Just watch a Jay Leno Jaywalking segment. Hey, this is the next generation we’re making stupid. Our workers and employers. Our lawyers, doctors, and so on. Oh, and our Congress to come in a few years. America is being slowly scuttled by the government school monopoly.
    According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress only 35% if 12th graders are “proficient” in reading. That’s down from 40% in 1992. 27% of high school seniors are functionally illiterate, and the results are even worse in math. No, more money isn’t going to help. It’s time to get rid of rote “learning” and encourage creative thinking.
    Eighty years ago, when schools were a lot better than today, I hated the system. The regimentation. The boring teachers. The enormous waste of my time, enforced by a mandatory attendance law. I considered myself a slave.
    Most of what I know I’ve taught myself, mostly via thousands of books. In high school I learned how to solve simultaneous equations. And that’s the last time it has ever come up in my life, so that’s totally forgotten, except for the trauma of cramming to pass those tests. Ditto calculus and most of the other stuff.
    School choice may help, but I see kids learning from DVDs and the web as the future. Learning because it’s fun.

6/26/07

Wetbacks
    Whether it’s twelve or twenty million, it’s time to not just stop the insurgence, but to cut our losses. We’re paying big time to arrest, try, and keep in prison hundreds of thousands of immigrant criminals. We’re paying billions in welfare and to school their children at am average cost of $10,000 per student, whether they learn to read or not. True, their 50% dropout rate does save us some money.
    Most of ’em are here to make money, not to become Americans or even learn our language. And a big part of the money they earn goes back to Mexico to their families. They can get Social Security payments, even though they’ve never paid anything into it. Or even paid taxes.
    Congress voted the money to build the 700-mile barrier. Let’s get it built and manned. Let’s stop the smuggling of people, drugs, terrorists and their supplies.
    Then require all illegal aliens to register with Homeland Security to get a tamper-proof ID which would allow them to temporarily work here. Should we give them three or five years to either become American citizens or get shipped back to Mexico? And that means paying taxes, learning English, and staying employed.
    To encourage their leaning our language I’d like to have our media all be in English. No more Spanish radio, TV, magazines and newspapers. English is the American language, so learn to use it or get the hell out.
    Businesses hiring workers without the official IDs would be criminally charged.
    With the border closed we could start shipping back the illegal immigrant prisoners we’re paying around $30,000 a year each to keep well-fed and entertained in prison.

6/25/07

Mom Died
    My mom died twenty years ago of Alzheimer’s. If I’d known then what I know now, there’s a good chance she’d still be alive and well today. The same goes for my dad, who died three years earlier of emphysema. If your parents are still around, and if you can overcome their deeply ingrained belief in doctors and today’s medical industry, there’s a good chance you can put off being orphaned.
    My wake-up call came about nine years ago when a friend recommended I read Dr. Bruno Comby’s Maximize Immunity. That 1994 book changed everything for me. It made both good scientific and common sense. And, you know, I haven’t yet found an earlier book that could have clued me in.
    Like my parents and grandparents, I had accepted doctors as the professionals in the health field. After all, they had to spend years learning their craft. The whole idea that these licensed professionals and we patients were the victims of a massive conspiracy was just too ridiculous.
    For me, conspiracy theories have been fun to investigate. To research. Are they they nut-case clap-trap, or are they on to something? In far too many cases, I’ve found solid evidence supporting the theorists. Cover ups, one after another. But the idea that the whole so-called health care industry was a two trillion-dollar hoax that even the doctors didn’t suspect…wow!
    And the more research I did on health, the more support I found for Dr. Comby. I had to get busy and get the word out.

6/24/07

Home Schooling
    Twenty-five years ago it was illegal in many states for parents without teaching licenses to educate their children at home. Now more than a million kids are home-schooled, and their SATs are outstanding.
    With hundreds of colleges putting their courses on line, we should see distance learning products for kids of any age and on any subject coming available.
    Considering the growing percentage of high school dropouts and the dropping SAT scores of graduates, our public school system doesn’t need fixing, it needs a total replacement. Heck, even when it’s working, it isn’t very good.
    I see a huge potential market for distance learning products, and they’re going to be for kids from around two years and up. We’ll be seeing the kids themselves deciding what they’re interested in learning.
    This can herald in a new era in education, bringing us not only a whole new generation of creative talent, but outstanding people in every field. Maybe even making America more competitive in the world economy. Of course, if some sharp business people start making these products available in a bunch of languages, that could even the playing field.

6/23/07

What’s my Line?
    Tom Walsh, one of my old submarine buddies from WWII, at the recent reunion, was telling everyone about the time he came into his living room when I was on the What’s My Line? TV show, posing as a glider pilot who had strayed into East Germany during a German glider meet, and I said, “My name is Joseph Henderson.”
    Tom took another look and said, “Hell no, that’s Wayne Sanger Green.” And, sure enough, he was right, much to the amazement of his family.
    Well, I was a pilot and had my own plane, plus I’d been to both East and West Germany, so I was a natural for the part. Oh, by the way, I won the first prize ($2,000) when I was picked as the real glider pilot by the panel. Well, that was back in 1960, when I was first starting 73 magazine. That would be more like $30,000 in today’s dollarettes. A brand new Porsche, at that time, cost me about $3,300.

6/19/07

The Candidates
    The media, lacking anything remotely of interest to cover about the myriad of presidential candidates, has been leaping vigorously on Romney’s flip-flopping on abortion, and ditto “maybe” candidate Fred Thompson. The fact is, none of the candidates has come out with anything even remotely interesting to offer as an excuse for our electing them.
    So the theme of my next TV shows, which I recorded yesterday, are the planks I’d use for my platform, were I running. My goal would be the total transformation of America into a healthier, wealthier, far better educated nation.
    For starters, I’d propose cutting our health care costs in half. Actually, my real goal would be to cut them by 90%, but one has to keep promises believable. And, of course, I explained how I would do this…by teaching people how to stop making themselves sick and to reverse any illness they’ve caused themselves such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson’s, and so on.
    Another plank is tuition-free college. And that’s without any need for states or the feds to spend a dollar. And, while we’re messing with colleges, how about going to a fifty-week schedule so kids can graduate in three years? I also proposed ways our educational system can be brought into the 21st century from the 19th, where it’s bogged down, so our kids can get the best educations in the world instead of the worst. Our kids are coming in at the bottom in international surveys.
    Since the federal government has doubled during Dubya’s administration, I proposed a way to at least cut it in half in the next three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. None of the federal employees are making money for us, they’re just helping run up the national debt at a record pace.
    You can get the details on each of these proposals by watching my TV show, which is available on-line at www.mcam.org. Click on Wise Up.
    If any of the candidates were to start adopting some of my proposed platform planks, the media would be all over them and they’d be shoo-ins for the primaries. Right now we’re looking at same-old, same-olds. I can keep the media busy with one outrageous (but practical) proposal after another for the next few months.


6/18/07

Reunion
    I’m just back from a few days in Mobile (AL) for a reunion with my old shipmates from WWII. If you get to Mobile be sure to visit our submarine, the USS Drum, which is on display in Battleship Park.
    About a dozen of us showed up. None of the smokers are left, of course. Some were in wheel chairs. We didn’t have a lot to talk about. We’d gone over our old sea stories so often at past reunions that they didn’t come up. But it was great to renew friendships from over sixty years ago.
    When you go through the boat you’ll see the newsletters I published thirty years ago, with pictures  I took during the war of the guys. I was the one with a camera, a film developing tank and chemicals. So there’s a picture of me as I looked sixty-four years ago, when I was twenty-one.
    The boat looks empty without all the torpedoes in the torpedo rooms and the bunks taken out of the torpedo rooms and the after battery. But, with all the bunks there would be little room for the stream of visitors.
    Our old skipper, Mike Rindskopf, made the reunion too. He was the youngest submarine skipper in the Navy at twenty-six, and went on to be a rear admiral. He was a great skipper, though his daring once got us into a situation that was a very close call. I cover my wartime submarine experiences in my book #10.
    As I looked through the list of the deceased shipmates, I wish I’d kept better touch with them. Many were great friends. I sent them a hello thought as I read each familiar name.
    The trip down was uneventful, except for the US Air flight from Charlotte (NC) to Mobile was two hours late. The Sunday afternoon flight back was canceled, so I didn’t get out until the next morning. That got me into Manchester just in time to get to the MCAM studios to record my next two Wise Up shows. Well, as my dad used to say, “Time to spare? Go by air.”

6/14/07

WSJ
    Not being interested in investing in anything but my own projects, I have almost no reason to read The Wall Street Journal. So I was amused to get subscription offers in two of my mail boxes the same day, one offering me a “Preferred Professional Savings Certificate” of a mere $129 for 52 weeks. The other “Preferred Professional Savings Certificate” was $99 for 52 weeks. Love it.

6/13/07

Those Aliens
    In the past we’ve had waves of immigration from England, Ireland, Poland, Germany, Italy, and so on. But in all those cases the immigrants came here to become Americans. They came here, learned English, adopted our culture, and within one or two generations were more Americans than Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, and so on.
    Now, with the Hispanic invasion, we’re seeing a quite different approach. They are not adopting our culture, nor our language, and a large percentage of them tell us they have no interest in becoming Americans. And we’re going along with them. Our government is dipping deep into all of our pockets to pay to teach their children, to provide medical service, free prison upkeep for around a million of them, generous welfare payments, and even Social Security payments they haven’t contributed to.
    We are busy helping to destroy the America earlier Americans built and fought for with Spanish language newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, and so on.
    Congress okayed the money to build a 700-mile wall to make it more difficult to sneak across the border. So we built two miles of it and stopped. Our Border Patrol has been a problem for the Mexicans, so we cut it from 50,000 to 5,000 to solve that annoyance.
    And if we complain, they come out by the thousands to tens of thousands and protest, flying the Mexican flag, or the American flag upside down.
    According to the L.A. Times 40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and not paying taxes. No green cards. 95% for murder warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles Country are to illegal Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers. 21 radio station in L.A. are Spanish-speaking. Less than 2% are picking crops and 29% are on welfare.
    Immigrants from Mexico can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts. It’s called affirmative action.
    Be sure to tell the candidates, when they come with their canned talks and wishy-washy immigration policies, that you are totally happy with what’s going on in L.A. and can hardly wait for thousands of uneducated Mexicans to spread to your area. Hey, before I changed to a raw food diet I loved Mexican food.

6/12/07

Global Bucks
    A giant card promoting a Global Warming & Energy Solutions conference October 12-13th in Manchester came from non-profit www.cleanair-coolplanet.org came in the mail. Yep, another group cashing in on the global warming buzz.
    Yes, we have global warming, No, human activity may be lousing our air with crud, but that isn’t going to stop the thousands of volcanoes which are erupting, or the heating of the Earth’s magma, which is causing the eruptions and the increase in frequency and severity of earthquakes. All the rest is political baloney.
    The fact is all the planets are heating up, according to NASA.
    We could put a halt to crudding our air if we’d end the political ban on cold fusion development. Here’s a totally non-polluting source of unlimited energy that is projected to cost less than a tenth that of oil and coal. It can provide a home or commercial building with all the heat and electricity it needs, making nuclear plants no longer needed, nor the power grid.
    In the meanwhile we’re going to have candidates rushing around New Hampshire politicizing the situation at least until the primaries.

6/11/07

Newark
    It was eighty years ago that little Wayne, along with some governors, mayors, and other assorted dignitaries, climbed aboard a Luddington Airlines Travelaire for the inaugural commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York City. I remember it just like it was eighty years ago.
    My dad had taken me up flying since I was three months old, so that part was no big deal. He’d built and was the manager of the Philadelphia airport, located just across the river in Camden, so I was around planes all the time.
    Mostly I remember that, unlike my dad’s airport, which had concrete runways, Newark had a cinder runway and a terminal about the size of a mobile home. I was more impressed when, after a brief ceremony, we went on to Lakehurst, where they had huge hangers for the dirigibles. And then back to Camden.
    I remember, too, my first stage appearance in assembly, telling the other kids about my trip. Nope, no stage fright.
    But the Newark ceremonies were modest compared to my being on the first flight between Washington DC and Norfolk VA. That was in 1932 and they had a brass band, a reviewing stand for us celebrities, and I got introduced for the newsreels. Nope, no speech that time.


6/10/07

Still
    With conspiracy theorists scaring the hell out of the more gullible (at least I hope it’s only theories), with a story about our government organizing (or having already organized) a way to direct all of our city and town water systems so a poison is added which will quickly wipe out around 90% of Americans. Well, the New World Order people seem intent, if I’m to believe the theorists, on getting the world down to a more manageable five hundred million. And, hey, we are the most hated country in the world today. Thanks Dubya.
    Even if there’s no intentional poison, the town water supplies are bad enough, with many adding fluoride, chlorine, and the pipes adding lead and other crud you don’t want to drink. Bottom line: you want to distill your drinking water.
    A recent four-page promotion for the Waterwise 8800 still pictures Dr. Blaylock and a warning that fluoride is causing Alzheimer’s, cancer, and impotence. Well, Alzheimer’s and cancer are bad enough, but, gulp, impotence? Hey!
    The Waterwise 8800 is available for a measly $449, plus $20 s/h. Or, you can go the www.steamdistiller.com route and buy a still for $100 which will take care of the family just fine. Being thrifty, that’s what I’m using and I love it. It’s from NutriTeam, 800-775-9791 in Vermont. No, I don’t get a commission.

6/9/07

Missing!
    Yes, we pass endless memorization tests in school, including college. I kinda got the hang of integral and differential calculus, at least for a few weeks. I read and was tested on a couple of Victorian novels, did a bunch of chemistry experiments of which I have zero recall. I think I took courses in economics and psychology. But there was little from K-16 about the real world.
    Like dealing with taxes, IRAs, résumés, job interviews, renting an apartment or buying a house, how to sell, or anything about advertising and promotion, how to give a talk, dressing for success, or considering potential career paths.
    I was fortunate in my going to school back before they got rid of courses in art and music appreciation, and writing poetry. Even from the second grade in 1929 I still know how to scan poetry and have no fear in composing my own.
    Schools, even if it occurred to the administration, would be afraid to go into things like how Congress works, the Federal Reserve banking system, various social security systems around the world, health care, UFOs, dowsing, precognition, reincarnation (wow, the religious furor over any scientific look into this!), and so on. How about a course in how the various religions began? Har-de-har.
    So we’re holding millions of kids captive in mandatory government institutions for twelve years and then releasing them, almost totally unprepared, into the job or college market.
    On the plus side, we do keep them entertained with all kinds of sports and watching four to six hours a day of TV.
 
6/8/07

Arboretum
    The wild flowers are going crazy in our fields. What a sight! I counted twenty-six kinds in the north-west field today. The ground buttercups and the chickweed are everywhere. Zillions of wild strawberry blossoms. Blackberry and dewberry blossoms. Yellow and orange hawkweed. Even the first asters. Daisies, campions, bluets, pussy toes, wow!
    Just in the fields right around the house I counted twenty-two kinds of flowers.
    The wild blueberries are starting to fill out. The raspberry blossoms are being serviced by the bees and butterflies. And I hate to think how many bushels of blackberries there will be in a couple months.

6/8/07

Any Ideas?
    I suffer from collectivitis and need help. Like, back when I was publishing CD Review magazine I got thousands of CDs for review. They’re out in the barn in boxes. I’m sure not going to throw ’em out. I thought I might someday download ’em onto the web so the music wouldn’t be lost. Most are by independent record companies.
    Then there’s about 100,000 CDs, what’s left of about 120 samplers we made to promote independent music, each with the best tracks from around fifteen different independent CD releases.
    My LP collection started out with about 3,000 that I bought down through the years. Then I began salvaging the LPs people were throwing away at the town dump. Well, I hated to see ’em just trashed. So now I have maybe ten to twenty thousand LPs. Piles of ’em.
    It crossed my mind I might someday sort ’em out and, for those where I had three the same, digitize ’em and let a computer pick the two with the same digits, thus getting rid of pops and scratches. An old friend, George Morrow, out in Hillsborough (CA) was doing that with his 30,000 old 78s collection. George was one of the personal computer pioneers.
    I keep checking the books at the dump too. When I see ones I know are good I save ’em. I’ve picked up some real treasures. But, like the other stuff I’ve collected, what should I do with ’em? Oh, I suppose I could start listing ’em on eBay and find homes for ’em. No time for that. I’ve got about 4,000 inventoried so far, with another 4,000 in boxes waiting for me to add ’em to the list.
    These are not junk books. I’ve either read or know are good, or should have read. I’m not much into novels, though I do enjoy those by Clancy, Grisham and Crichton. Oh, and Sue Grafton.
    Any suggestions?

6/8/07

A Health Bomb
    While in some places public employees are covered after retirement for so-called health care costs, many have no provisions for them. And we’re talking billions. Trillions. New York City, alone, is spending a billion a year on retiree health care.
    What a difference it could make to states, counties, cities, etc., if the word could be gotten out about how to avoid making ourselves sick. Sure, many people will prefer to knowingly shorten their lives and keep hospitals and the drug companies profitable by continuing their toxic habits with nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and the other obvious poisons. But, why should all of us be penalized for their toxic lifestyle choices? Why should we all have to foot the bill for their self-induced cancers, heart attacks, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and so on?
    Oh, and cooked food. When Adam and his girl friend Eve stopped making love long enough for lunch, that was before ovens, woks, barbecue and microwaves, so they ate what was around, just like all the other animals…raw.  Heck, even a hundred years ago when 90% of Americans were living on farms, cancer was almost unknown. Ditto most of the other miseries that are killing us today, usually at humongous expense.

6/7/07

Prevention?
    The editors of Prevention magazine published a book, Life Span Plus, subtitled 900 Natural Techniques to Live Longer. Gee, that sounded great…until I looked inside. The host magazine, which is almost totally supported by Big Pharma and Big Food ads, has nothing bad to say about these life-shorteners. Nor does the book.
    Raw food? They never heard of it. How to chew? D’uh? Mercury or aspartame? No mention. But, they do recommend the usual toxic vaccination schedule for kids.
    Sigh.

6/6/07

Sicko
    While Moore’s film doesn’t hit the theaters until the end of the month, I got a good preview on the Oprah show. Attacking the American so-called health care industry was an easy target. We’re rated 37th in the world in that regard, with around 40 million uninsured and 300-plus million busy making themselves sick. It’s a field day for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. A $2 trillion feast, going on $3 trillion. 16% of our GDP!
    But, big surprise, Mike missed the biggest scam of all and concentrated on a tiny part of it with his exposé. Yes, of course HMOs are refusing expensive procedures to save money, even if it kills the customers. And the drug giants are making fantastic profits.
    This whole health care gravy train would pull to a grinding halt if the public learned how to stop making themselves sick. And, every heart attack, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and so on are self-inflicted. Of course it’ll take some time, even after the word gets out, before people change to healthy lifestyles, with no more Starbucks. Dunkins, and so on. Our food suppliers will take a while to change from the junk they’re supplying now to wholesome organic food we can safely eat raw.
    I’ve sent a couple of emails to Mike, but of course he hasn’t paid any attention. Maybe if you get after him too about exposing how we can stop making ourselves sick instead of depending on doctors and Big Pharma to band-aide the damage we’re doing to our selves with drugs, surgery and organ transplants. It’s mike@michealmoore.com. Tell him that Sicko II can be an even greater block buster, helping to blow today’s whole health care industry to smithereens. Have him look me up.

6/5/07

Crazy Wayne
    I’m used to being called crazy. In the early 60s, when I took UFOs seriously, I was called crazy. Then I started promoting 2m FM and repeaters. Wow, did I get called crazy for that one…which brought the world cell phones.
    When the first microcomputers came along and I started the first magazine devoted to them, the computer industry leaders said I was crazy to see any future in those “toys.” An Wang, the president of Wang Laboratories, said I was crazy. DeCastro of Data General said I was crazy. Olson of DEC said I was wrong.
    So, am I crazy to believe that NASA faked all of the Moon landings? Can you find one single person who has bothered to do his homework on the subject that agrees with you?
    Am I crazy when I say that the so-called health care industry is a sham? When I say that virtually any illness can be self-cured by a change of lifestyle? I’m called crazy, again, only by people who haven’t bothered to read any of the books on the subject I’ve review in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Books by Dr. Bruno Comby, Barry Lynes, Dr. James Carter, Walene James, Goodman & Musgrove, George Meinig, Dr. Guylaine Lanctôt, Martin Walker, Dr. Henry Fisher, Dr. Henry Bieler, and Elaine Feuer.
    When I say plants can read our minds, that’s crazy…unless you’ve read Chris Bird’s book, which I’ve reviewed. Or that every cell of our body is in instant communication with every other cell, no matter how far separated. Read Stone’s book on page 5 of my Guide. I say dowsing is real. And so is precognition, psychokenisis, past lives, remote viewing,, and psychics able to communicate with the departed.
    Well, I can understand me being called crazy. It’s a lot easier than taking time to read and learn.

6/4/07

Cold Fusion
    When cold fusion was first announced in 1989 by Professors Pons and Fleischman out in Salt Lake City, I read about it and liked the idea. But the physics involved was over my head. So I waited to see what would come of it.
    Cut to 1993, when a ham in Texas suggesting that since I liked to help new technologies grow into industries with my publications, as I had with cell phones, personal computers and compact discs, how about my doing a journal on cold fusion?
    A cold fusion conference was coming up on Maui in a few weeks, so why not check it out? I left a couple weeks early so I could scuba dive all six of the major Hawaiian Islands, ending on Maui in December 1993 for the conference.
    There I met all of the major players, including Pons and Fleischman. I also met Gene Mallove, who’d written a book about cold fusion called Fire From Ice.
    The papers presented by researchers made sense. Here was an as yet untapped source of unlimited energy that was non-polluting and would cost a fraction of what we’re paying for coal, oil and natural gas. This could pull the rug out from under those Arab royal families and defuse the whole Middle east mess. It would eliminate the need for nuclear power, and even solar and wind power.  Oh, and ethanol, too.
    Okay, I’ll do a cold fusion journal to provide a communications medium for the pioneers in the field. It would also help attract newcomers and bring them up to speed.
    I needed an editor with a good grasp of the physics involved. By one of the usual coincidences, which happen so often in my life, Mallove was both available and lived in New Hampshire, only a half hour drive away.
    The first issue, a hundred pager, dated May 1994, went on newsstands around the country and, despite the $10 cover price, sold out. We had articles by Arthur C. Clarke and physics Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger.
    By the third issue, in July, things were looking bright. Then, one morning, I came in to work and found the Cold Fusion editorial office completely cleaned out. Computers, files, the works. Mallove was gone. No explanation, just gone. And with him went the articles for the next few issues and all contact information on advertisers and contributors.
    Another coincidence(?), Jack Kane, a fellow ham operator from neighboring Vermont, and a physicist, got in touch and was available. Jack moved into a spare room I had next door and got to work. The fourth issue, which had shrunk to a 32-page newsletter, came out in September 1994. We were back in business.
    Much to my lack of surprise Mallove soon came out with Infinite Energy magazine, with him as the publisher. Rumor had it that Arthur C. Clarke was the angel behind it. And there were those missing articles. I didn’t realize it at the time, but Mallove may have saved my life.
    I kept publishing the Cold Fusion Journal as a newsletter until I ran out of submissions. The researchers were disappearing or dying. But I did publish the scientific papers by physicists which explained how cold fusion works, and all the patents Jim Patterson got. Being old, his patent applications went to a special section in the Patent Office which expedited patents for older inventors, who otherwise might not live through the up to ten year process. And this section hadn’t gotten the word to sidetrack cold fusion applications…the fate of all the other applications.
    Mallove was murdered. Of course they never found who did it.
    And Jim Patterson, who demonstrated a cold fusion cell at an energy conference with one watt of electricity going in and a thousand watts of heat coming out for the length of the conference, disappeared. Gone.
    Well, it’s dangerous to threaten the coal, oil, natural gas and power industries. Would you blame them for doing whatever it takes to keep people from buying a cold fusion power unit about the size of a dish-washer for their home, which would provide all the heat and electricity they’d need? Fuel? It uses nickel and water, and not very much of that?
    So, we’re having oil wars, while the Saudi’s are riding high, and we’re grousing about $4 a gallon gas. In Caracas it’s 12¢ a gallon, and under $1 in Saudi Arabia. And we’re getting all excited about how we’re polluting the air. Cold fusion could not only do away with our need for gas, it would put nuclear power out of business too. And, we could even use the radioactive waste for cold fusion fuel and decontaminate it. Jim Patterson demonstrated this on Good Morning America.
    We, the sheep, are along for the ride, being shorn at every turn. They’re getting us for 16% of the GDP with sickness exploitation by keeping the way to be healthy a secret. And they’re doing it to us with oil big time. complete with wars…which are great for business, even when we lose them.

6/3/07

Growing Organic
    As more of the public is becoming aware of the obvious, when you put poisons into your body, you’re more likely to get sick, there’s been a growing interest in organic food. Supermarkets are devoting more and more space to organic products.
    Like the human body, plants need a bunch of minerals to be healthy. If the minerals have been drawn out of the land by previous crops and not replenished, we get sick crops, just as people lacking needed minerals are more likely to get sick.
    And when plants are sick they attract pests. It’s a lot easier to grow healthy plants than to have to pick the bugs and grubs off them by hand every day in order to have an organic garden.
    Fortunately, it’s not all that complicated to remineralize our crop lands. All it takes is adding some rock dust. There are a couple of excellent books on the subject. One is Survival of Civilization by Hamaker-Weaver, and the other is Rock Dust by Supkow, a little $1.50 book. They’re reviewed on pages 23 and 26 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, which explains where to get ’em if your library hasn’t got ’em.
    Until we’re able to get organic food from remineralized land we need to take a mineral supplement. My favorite is Nature’s First Food from www.rawfood.com. It’s all plant-derived, so it’s perfect for the body to assimilate.
    When an area of a pasture is remineralized that’s the first place the cows go to graze the next year. They can tell the difference, and so can our bodies.

5/31/07

Those MIAs
    Every now and then the Coast to Coast program has something interesting. This time it was an interview with Congressman Bill Hendon about his just released book,  An Enormous Crime, The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia.
    The story provides the history of American POW's left behind in Vietnam, including the first full account as to why they were left behind and what they have endured since.
    The product of 25 years of research, An Enormous Crime tells the story of living American POWs held back by the North Vietnamese after “Operation Homecoming” in 1973. Some 700 POWs were unaccounted for, detained after the U.S. government reneged on a written promise by Kissinger to ransom them for $4.5 billion..
    Despite hundreds of postwar sightings and intelligence reports describing Americans being held captive throughout Vietnam and Laos, Washington did nothing. And despite numerous secret military signals and codes sent from the desperate POWs themselves, the Pentagon did not act. In 1988, a U.S. spy satellite passing over Sam Neua Province, Laos, spotted the 12-foot-tall letters “USA” and immediately beneath them a huge, highly classified Vietnam War-era code in a rice paddy in a narrow mountain valley. The letters “USA” appeared to have been dug out of the ground, while the code appeared to have been fashioned from rice straw.
    The book ends with a chapter on how newly elected President Bill Clinton, in spite of the most compelling evidence that the Vietnamese still had hundreds of American POWs, normalized relations with Vietnam.
    Bill Hendon, R-N.C., is a two-term congressman. He served on the U.S. House POW/MIA Task Force during both terms. In 1991 and 1992, he served as a full-time intelligence investigator assigned to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.

5/30/07

Music Memories
     One of the things I treasure about the iPod is the “Shuffle” feature, which randomly selects pieces from the around 800 I’ve stored in it. Well, sort of randomly, as I’ve explained. Sometimes it plays what I’m wishing for, defying random rules.
     But, oh, the memories some music has for me. España by Chabrier takes me back to the USO in San Francisco, when I was going to Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island in 1943. On weekends I’d go to the USO’s music room and play that and Tschaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz. Over and over.
     And the first time I heard Beethoven’s Sixth (Pastorale) Symphony on the radio I rushed downtown and bought the album. Then I sat by the loudspeaker, immersed in the fantastic music, playing it over and over. So, when that comes up on my iPod I’m instantly back on the floor of the Phi-Ep fraternity house circa 1941, leaning up against the speaker, raptured.
     Next, up comes the overture to Ruddigore, and I’m on stage as Major General Stanley in high school in 1939. This, alas, was long before camcorders. Or even tape recorders. Just memories.
     Are there pieces of music that whip you back in time and hold you in a reverie?

5/29/07

PTSD
    That’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a problem thousands of returning vets are suffering. Since psychiatrists haven’t a clue when it comes to mental illness, beyond giving the sufferers some pills, I have a suggestion.
    Fifty-seven years ago L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics, the Science of Mental Health. The book is still in print. The book is right on when it comes to explaining why we have mental problems. It’s right on, too, when it comes to a do-it-yourself how to get rid of the problems.
    Hubbard founded Scientology as a way to keep Dianetics going. So, unless something drastic has changed, Scientologists should be able to easily and quickly help vets get rid of their PTSD.
    As a certified Dianetic auditor (certified by Hubbard, himself), I would have no problem with it. For most cases it might take a couple of hours, at the most. You see, all you have to do is put the person under a light hypnosis and then regress them to the traumatic incident or incidents that are causing the trouble and relive them a few times, This takes the power out of the trauma so it will no longer affect the person. I’ve done it hundreds of times. It always works.
    So, here’s an opportunity for the Scientology groups to be heroes. Volunteer their time to help the returning vets with PTSD problems and show up the psychiatrists for the phonies they are.

5/28/07

Black Silicon
    A doctorate Harvard researcher, wondering what might happen, blasted a silicon chip with high intensity laser light. The chip turned black. Under an electron microscope it turned out that, for reasons no one can yet explain, the surface was now made up of billions of needle-like silicon spikes. Light, hitting the surface, bounces around the spikes, which absorb almost 100% of the light.
    Researchers are hoping to use this new material for far more efficient solar cells, fiber-optic cable systems, and infra-red light detection (night vision).
    I thought you might want to know.

5/27/07

Silly Me
    A reader who adopted the raw food diet reported he’d lost 92 pounds so far, and his cholesterol and blood pressure have both dropped, but he thinks I’m silly to disbelieve our going to the Moon almost 40 years ago.
    Maybe, but then he hasn’t read my Moondoggle book, nor Percy’s Dark Moon, nor watched the CBC or Fox documentaries.
    I’ve got to update my book one of these days. When I got to thinking about how much air they must have had with them for the 16-day trip for three people, I should add that. As a scuba diver I know that a 45-pound aluminum air tank filled with air at 3000 pounds pressure lasts me about an hour. Let’s see, 16 days is 384 hours, times three men is 1152 hours of air.
    But, the LEM had no air lock, so every time anyone went in or out of the hatch, whoosh would go all of the air out of the LEM. They took a lot of rolls of film, and every time they had to go back into the LEM they had to change the film they had to take off their inflated suit gloves to do it. That meant the air in the LEM had to be replaced for every film change or other trip outside.
    Never mind that measurements of the LEM’s hatch have shown it to be too small for the men in their suits to get through. So, where were the hundreds of air tanks? I didn’t see any in any of the photos, nor were any visible on the LEM on display at the Space Museum in Washington. How about all the hoses from the tanks, and a control system? There are almost as many unanswered questions about the Moon landings as 911.

5/27/07

Shocking
    There’s a new technology which uses a shock wave to disintegrate waste—like refrigerators. Stuff that would otherwise be lo-o-o-ng term land fill. I read a paper from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany) describing a research project applying the technology.
    Using a 250,000 Volt supply, and 200 ns pulses of 6,000 Amperes (average power consumption was 5 kW), they’ve been disintegrating all kinds of things. Spark plugs are reduced to powdered ceramic and the metal parts. ICs are separated into metals and plastics. Concrete is pulverized, including steel reinforced concrete. Laminated glass is separated into powdered glass and the film.
    They also have used the technology to drill well holes through granite and boring holes in mines. It goes through rock at the rate of about eighteen feet per hour, so this should be useful for tunneling. Hey, they dug the Chunnel, so when will they start boring under the Atlantic? They had a great movie about that around the mid-thirties. It’s only about 1,800 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland. But if they were to drill from Labrador to Greenland, to Iceland, to the Faeroes to Scotland, the longest ocean stretch would only be about 300 miles. That would only take about five years, even if it’s granite all the way.
    It’s also an inexpensive way to crush rock to separate out metals and gems. In the lab test they used a plastic vessel with a stainless steel screen at the bottom for the particles to pass through.

5/27/07

How Dr. John Roach cost Radio Shack billions.
    If Roach had heeded my advice, which I gave to him personally and also published in an editorial in 80-Micro magazine, Radio Shack might have been the biggest company in the computer industry today. And there might not be a Microsoft and Bill Gates.
    So, what happened? Roach, who had come to Tandy, Radio Shack’s parent, from IBM. And IBM had a long history of being the only supplier of accessories and software for their computers. So, when microcomputers got started, back in 1975, and looked like it was going to be a good market, Tandy unveiled their TRS-80 microcomputer in the fall of 1977. TRS stood for Tandy Radio Shack, and the “80” for the 8080 Intel chip it was built around.
    When I put on a microcomputer (this was before the term personal computer had been coined) Expo at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier in October that year, I used the TRS-80 in my TV interviews promoting the Expo. The operating system was Tandy’s TRS-DOS and the only accessories and software available in Radio Shack stores was that from Tandy, carrying on the old IBM tradition.
    The competition was mainly the Commodore PET and the Apple II, with dozens of smaller companies trailing. By 1979 the TRS-80 had, through being a good system and being distributed through a few thousand Radio Shack stores, gained 40% of the market. It was so popular that hundreds of small companies were selling accessories and software for it. None of them were able to break through the wall and get Radio Shack to sell for them.
    That gave me the idea to start a magazine devoted just to the TRS-80, providing a way for TRS-80 owners to find out what was available for them. The first issue of 80-Micro came out in late 1979 and it was an instant success. Though Tandy advertised in it, the Radio Shack store owners were forbidden from even having a copy in their stores.
    It didn’t take long before Tandy had some objections to the magazine and threatened to pull their ads. Since I have had a stubborn streak going back to my earliest memories, I refused to accept any more ads from them. And the magazine grew and grew. By 1982 it was running 300-400 pages a month, and was the third largest American magazine that year, with Vogue coming in second, and Byte first.
    Ed Juge, an old friend, the head of TRS-80 for Tandy, came to New Hampshire, asking me to let Tandy advertise again. I said, okay, as long as Tandy doesn’t try to exercise any control over the magazine’s content. They were back in. But, not for long, A few months later I got another beef from them and that was that.
    Since our microcomputers had a huge need for software I sent up Instant Software to help supply it. I asked my readers to submit programs they’d written for us to market. I needed more room, to I bought the Peterborough Motel and turned the rooms into offices and the restaurant area into a computer lab with thirty-some computers. I imported several software savvy guys to get the submitted programs ready to be marketed. Within a couple of years we had over 250 programs being marketed. Most were for the TRS-80, of course, but we had dozens for the Apple, Commodore, Texas Instrument, and other systems.
    I cherry-picked ten of our best-selling TRS-80 programs and submitted them to Tandy, hoping they’d distribute them through their stores. There were business, educational and game programs. Roach, then the president of Tandy, would have none of it.
    About this time IBM got off it’s butt and set up a team to develop a microcomputer…their personal computer. As I understand it, they first contacted Gary Kildall to license his CPM operating system, which was pretty much the standard for most of the microcomputers being marketed. When he didn’t get back to them, they called Bill Gates to see what he had. He didn’t have anything but he did know someone who did, so the story is that he bought what he’d call MS-DOS from another group for $50,000 and licensed it to IBM. The rest is history.
    One of IBM’s development team was Chaz Cone, an old ham friend of mine. We’d gone on an expedition to Navassa Island in 1972, taking along a bunch of ham equipment and a few other friends for what’s called a DXpedition. We set up the ham stations on Navassa and made contacts with thousands of hams all around the world who wanted to add another country to their credit.
    Navassa is a tiny uninhabited island between Jamaica and Haiti. It was a German prison island before they lost WWI and the U.S. took it over to use for a light house.
    Anyway. I remember Chaz stopping by my booth at a computer show in New York, where he explained that he had convinced the IBM development team to open the new computer’s system to third party accessories and software. All he had to do was shown them the hundreds of ads for TRS-80 stuff in 80-Micro.
    So the team set about getting in touch with every TRS-80 supporting company and offering to help them make their products work with the new IBM PC. They offered developmental systems and software experts to help.
    Meanwhile, Tandy was busy at computer shows grabbing any exhibitor with a sign mentioning the TRS-80 and taking them right off the floor to court for infringement. I had some inside info on this because the law firm they used for this in Boston was also doing copyright work for me.
    I called Roach and tried to convince him to open the TRS operating system and make peace with the companies providing support. I said it was about time to change that old IBM policy. He would have none of it.
    I followed up with an editorial predicting doom for the TRS-80 if Tandy didn’t change their approach. This did not set well with Roach.
    Sure enough, at the next big computer show in Las Vegas, where the year before most of the exhibitors were offering TRS-80 stuff, this time everything was for the new IBM PC and there was virtually nothing anywhere for the TRS-80. It happened that fast. And that was the end of the TRS-80. Pfft went tens to hundreds of billions of dollars in sales for the Radio Shack stores.

5/27/07

Fluoride
    Are you still drinking fluoridated water? An article in Prevention magazine pointed out that this poison is tied to bone cancer, IQ loss, skin lesions, and osteoporosis. It’s also damaging teeth.
    Why is it added to town water supplies? Well, back in 1939 a researcher reported that rats exposed to fluoride had healthier teeth. Later research, sponsored by Alcoa, showed that fluoride, a waste product of aluminum manufacturing, was beneficial to teeth…followed a propaganda campaign and lobbyists sent to influence state and federal legislatures.
    Unless you’re getting your water from your own well, I suggest you check out www.steamdistiller.com for their $120 still, which will provide your family with pure water. That’s what I’m using.

5/27/07

Amelia
    In case you didn’t miss the PBS show on Amelia Earhart, it was the usual whitewash. Serendipity put me in a position to know the real story.
    Back when I was three years old, when my dad got out of the Army Air Corps, we moved from Langley Field in Virginia to Brooklyn and a house on Rogers Avenue. Dad worked for a short time as a salesman for Hupmoble cars, and then landed a job with the Department of Commerce licensing pilots. He had commercial pilot’s license number 89. I remember his car license plate C89. This was when he refused to license Admiral Bird. So Bird had to have pilots fly him around on his Antarctic trip.
    At air shows dad had to test all of the planes involved, to make sure they were in good licensed condition. As I recall, he had the record for the most different kinds of planes flown by a pilot in a single day.
    Next, the Department had him travel around the country, visiting all of the airports, putting together a book showing their runways and facilities. And this research got him the job of designing, building and managing Central Airport, in Camden (NJ), just across the river from Philadelphia…the city’s new airport.
    Amelia kept her Lockheed Vega there and I had a great time playing in it. She was part owner of Luddington Airlines, the first regular passenger airline, with daily flights every hour on the hour from New York to Washington, with a stop in Philadelphia. The other owner was Tommy Luddington.
    When I was five, lived in an apartment on Samsom Street in Philadelphia. That’s where I went to kindergarten and first grade. I still remember getting up in front of assembly and telling about my adventure, being on the first commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York. In with the governors and mayors, was six-year old Wayne. We actually landed at Newark, which didn’t yet have a paved landing strip, and it’s administration building was the size of a mobile home. From there we flew to Lakehurst, where I got an up close look at the Graff Zeppelin and other dirigibles. Then, back to Philly.
    To be closer to the airport we moved to 1937 Hillcrest Avenue in Pennsauken, not far from Central Airport. This was back during Prohibition, and since most of the people dad knew drank, dad had a bar in the basement and we had many well known pilots coming to dinner and a few snorts later. Including Amelia.
    Then dad got a job as the passenger and cargo manager for Luddington Airlines and we moved to an apartment in Washington, across the street from the zoological park. Three years later the airline was sold to Eastern Air Transport, later Eastern Airlines, and dad was out of a job. So we moved back to Brooklyn, and in with my mother’s folks. This was 1933, in the middle of the worst part of the recession.
    Dad got busy organizing Marine Airways, which would use flying boats and shuttle between downtown Manhattan and downtown Boston. The other airlines were delighted to be able to use the service to add Boston to their destinations, so dad had no problem getting the needed funding.
    In 1936, Bob Wemple, an old friend from the Central Airport days, and now Amelia’s chief mechanic, came out to Brooklyn for dinner. He explained that Amelia’s coming around the world trip was a cover for her taking pictures for the Navy of the Japanese installations at Truk  Island. President Roosevelt, who had been the head of the Navy, had asked for her help.
    Bob had installed higher power engines in Amelia’s Lockheed, extra gas tanks, and cameras, so she could fly from Lea, New Guinea to Howland Island by way of Truk in about the same time as she would have taken if she’d had the older engines.
    Bob, by the way, had made the news when he married Miss Philadelphia in a plane, flying over the city.
    In 1937 the big news was her trip, and then she and navigator Fred Noonan missing Howland Island and disappearing.
    Cut to seven years later, in 1944, when my sub stopped at Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands for a refit. Two weeks rest and recuperation. Two weeks swimming in the lagoon, watching nightly movies, playing ball or Monopoly…or poker. We got to talking with some visiting natives and they told about an airplane crash landing on the beach a few years earlier with a woman pilot and a man navigator. The Japanese Navy, few days later, took them and their plane to Saipan, they said.
    Well, that made sense. When they missed Howland Island, they had a choice of flying west to the Caroline Islands, which are few and far between, or northwest to the Marshall Islands, which are many.
    When we stopped off at Saiplan to refuel I went ashore and asked questions. Yes, an American spy man and woman had been imprisoned there, but they died and were buried.
    Cut to 1966, thirty-one years after Amelia’s flight. Fred Goerner, a CBS radio broadcaster, decided to look into the mystery. His book, The Search for Amelia Earhart, tells about how the Navy tried to block him at every turn. Maybe your library has a copy.
    Goerner traced her to Saipan, where he found that when the Americans took the Island toward the end of the war, American agents burned the hanger in which Amelia’s plane was being kept and confiscated her map case. Well, so much for searching the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for her plane, which I hear about now and then.
    Amelia was an American spy on a spy mission for the Navy. She got caught and was executed by the Japanese. Why all the secrecy? It would have been a huge embarrassment to Roosevelt to learn that he had recruited the most famous woman in America (actually, the world) as a spy. And, to the Japanese for having executed the most famous woman in the world. Everybody was busy shushing and covering up.
    And I serendipitously knew about her spy mission before her trip, and then was in the right place at the right time to hear about her having crash landed in the Marshall Islands.

5/26/07

Predicting the Future
    Let’s say you were looking into your crystal ball in 1899, hoping to get an idea of what the world would be like in a hundred years.
    Since the first tractor factory opened in 1902, our country, which was made up largely of farms, and horses were the the power units, you’d be thinking in terms of horses.
    A study at the time showed that the average farm horse worked about three hours a day, 300 days a year. It took the grain from 72 million of the 325 million farm acres to feed the horses — 27% of all farmland. One farmer, with a string of horses, was able to farm 160 acres.
    Then, along came the farm tractor, allowing a farmer to farm 250 acres, without having to spend an average of a half hour a day per animal caring for them, and without having to share a big percentage of his crops with his horses.
    Radio, television, satellites, atom bombs, integrated circuits, lasers, the Internet, faxes, email, a telephone in every home, and so on came along.
    Now, remember, it was 1899 when the head of the patent office wanted to close it down because everything that could be invented had been.
    Well, I’ve got a news flash for you. Today’s experts, a.k.a. The Establishment, is just as blind about the future. And this, despite abundant clues which they have been sweeping under their mental carpets, refusing to even look at them.
    Yet we see no slowing down of the pace of new developments, so there’s no reason for us to expect anything but anywhere from ten to a hundred more times change over the next hundred years as in the last hundred.
    So, what’s in the big lump under The Establishment’s carpet?
    Many of the things I’ve been writing about will be developed. Like non-polluting cold fusion as a source of energy replacing the burning of fossil fuels. Like a jump of ten to a hundred times in farm crop growth. Like a shift to far healthier diets, with the gross overuse of sugar and white flour products fading into the history books. Ditto milk products. Ditto hamburgers, pizza and soda pop. Like weather modification. Like governments a tenth the size of today. Like instant communication over any distance. Drug addicts? Har-de-har. Prisons with less than 1% of today’s occupants. Like children with IQs of 200 being common, with a resulting flowering of the arts. Hey, we might even be able to trash the politicial bureaucracy, start electing intelligent presidents and get rid of the incredible corruption in Washington.
    And those are only developments which I can forsee resulting from pulling up a corner of the scientific establishment’s carpet.

5/25/07

Advertising
    Having, at one time, published two out of three of the biggest magazines in the country, I had to deal with the major advertising agencies. It was a learning experience. I learned that few of them had anyone on their staffs who had ever studied advertising, nor even read a book on the subject.
    My first move, when I started my first company, was to take a course in advertising with the Advertising Club of New York. One of my best business moves. Billions of dollars have been spent finding out what works and what doesn’t, and the experts, as in any field, wrote books. They haven’t been read by agency people, but for the business person who wants an edge, they’re there.
    A good ad should pull ten times it’s cost in sales. And, a good ad should include something to tell which ad did the sales job. But, even a good ad, the first time out, won’t sell much. My first ad for Radio Bookshop sold four books. A disaster. But, I kept at it, and within a few months the same ad was selling over 400 books a month, raking in the money.
    A big part of the advertising mix is PR. Promotion. Free advertising. Something ad agencies have a huge negative interest in. They’re in the business of getting a 15% commission on the paid ads you run, not in getting you…ugh…free advertising. This is why I put together a $1 million video which explains how a company can generate an extra million dollars in sales just by the clever use of promotion.
    Every time you come out with a new product, or a major change in a product, there’s an opportunity for promotion. As a publisher, I was anxious to do all I could to help advertisers sell more product. When they were making money, so was I. But I found many of them reluctant to provide a review unit of a new product for one of my writers to test and review. They were too busy filling dealer back orders to spare a review unit.
    A new product is only a new product for a short time, so many companies missed getting new product reviews, something which I found was equivalent in sales to about ten paid pages of advertising. Just a new product item in the magazine was an endorsement of the product and equivalent to about four pages of paid ads. Yet I often had to plead to get a review unit to test. And even that failed much of the time.
    My advice to entrepreneurs is to read books on advertising. When I see an ad with white type on a black background I know the guy who made it and whoever okayed it were clueless. It looks beautiful, but hardly anyone will bother to read it. Ignorance is very expensive.

5/24/07

Reincarnation Is Making A Comeback
    My first experience with reincarnation was when I was regressing people under hypnosis to traumas earlier in their lives to help them solve present-life problems. But sometimes they’d go back to a previous life…most often a death. Was this a mind mechanism for dealing with a problem, or real? So I started asking people to tell me about their past lives. I had one walk down the main street of her town, one she’d never been in during this life, and tell me the names of the stores she passed.
    Then I called a ham radio friend who lived in that town and asked him to check with his grandfather. Sure enough, seventy years ago Sibley’s newspaper store was next to Gramby’s market. And next was C. Tabor McLeod’s watch repair…all long gone. It all checked out. Most convincing.
    Since then I’ve read several investigative books on the subject. The more one reads, the less skeptical of reincarnation one gets, no matter what it says in the Bible, Koran, Talmud, Upanishads, or other old texts.
    Norman Moody, who does a psychic show on cable TV, claims I’ve been an engineer all down through history, I’d like to find someone to regress me and get some details. I might be able to do like Taylor Caldwell, and use my past lives to write books about my past life adventures.


5/23/07

Petra
    The cover feature on the current Smithsonian is about the “lost city” of Petra in Jordan. Back in March I mentioned this as one of the world’s wonders worth visiting.
    What’s it going to take to get you out of the rut you’ve made for yourself? And I mean about health, with you slowly poisoning yourself, and in your work, where you’re probably commuting to a job and unlikely to ride a horse or camel through that narrow siq into Petra, a city carved out of the mountains in the middle of a Jordanian desert?
    Heck, have you been to Las Vegas, Disneyland, Walt Disney World,  the Alamo, Alcatraz, the Seattle Space Needle, Boulder Dam, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon yet?
    So, are you so addicted to caffiene that you can’t stop? Alcohol? Nicotine? Could you stop sugar tomorrow for a month? How about your favorite ball team? How much of your life do you spend watching them? Another addiction? Have you the guts to kick some of your addictions? Take hold of your life! Break addictions. Break those habits which are holding you back.
    My TV watching is only while I’m eating, and it’s all taped the night before. I enjoy the Law & Order and CSI shows, plus Jay Leno’s monologues. I listen to the interesting guests on “Coast to Coast AM” on my iPod while I’m out walking. There’s too much I want to do to waste time listening to the radio or watching live TV.
    With my guidance you can be heathy, wealthy and wise, and look out for me when you get to Petra. I’ve only been there twice so far.
   
5/22/07

SNAFU
    The WWII era term SNAFU has endured. Thank heavens The New Yorker has broken the ice, entering the words shit and fuck into our written language. SNAFU was short for Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. No, it was not “Fouled Up.” That was a cleansing euphemism.
    Lost were some other terms of the times such as TARFU…things are really fucked up…FUBAR,