12/31/10

The Mess
    While we'  ve been busy watching the Red Sox and Oprah, our country, led by the presidents and Congress we've elected, has been going to hell in a handbasket. And we've been too busy being entertained to stop the carnage. It's like them watching the lions eating Christians while the great Roman empire was being disintegrated. Well 2011 is here, will this be the year we start turning things around?
    We're in desperate need of a revolution like the one in New Zealand in 1984. See my 11/17/06 entry for the details. The shape the progressives got New Zealand into was much like the one we have…and a reform party election turned the country around.
    Of course, if you don't mind Congress running up bigger and bigger deficits every year; accelerating inflation; our public schools graduating the poorest educated kids of the developed countries; us being 37th in health and 49th in longevity, and at by far the highest cost; our having the highest percentage of our people in prison, and spending some $60 billion on ’em; unemployment exploding; the  government bloating; our industries moving to Asia; not winning a war since WWII, despite spending more than the rest of the world combined on our military…with bases in 130 countries, yet helpless to win in our two current wars; some 20 million illegal aliens enjoying hundreds of billions of our hospitality, while driving our wages down; our blindness to the fast-growing Muslim threat; our blindness to the Hispanic newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations…press #2 for English; gee, what have I forgotten?
    We're being kept entertained with mythical flu and saars epidemics, supposed global warming, abortion-rights, queer marriages, etc., while our ship-of-state is sinking under us. Oh, a few passengers are grabbing for gold as an inflation life-jacket.
    If you'll look through my writings you'll find I've proposed practical solutions for all of our problems. Like how we can be the healthiest country in the world, living 120 and more years in robust health, and cut our so-called health-care costs by about 90%; how we can graduate the best educated kids in the world, and at about 50% of what we're spending today; how we can get our industries back; how we can cut our government by about 70%, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating; quickly end the unemployment misery by helping a few million small businesses get started, and at no cost to the government; how we can put a stop to inflation; how we can quickly end the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and help those countries get back on their feet; How we can cut our military budget by about 80%; how we can cut prison costs by around 90%, cutting recidivism; make our country English-speaking, and send the illegal aliens back home; cut our energy costs by about 90% or better, putting the OPEC camel-jockeys out of business, and shut up all that global warming propaganda.
    Think of schools running 50 weeks of the year, with kids able to go on vacations any time them want. With no tests or grades. With no curriculums, and kids able to study anything they want. With colleges tuition-free at no cost to the government and enormously more educational than today. Heck, we might even start inventing and developing some new technologies, like we used to. The last two big ones, cell phones and personal computers, I got started.
    Okay, what's your response? Mmph? Can't be bothered?

12/30/10

Crazed By Drugs
    With the confirmation by the autopsy of Eric Harris, the leader of the shooters at the Columbine High School, that he had Luvox in his blood, my first suspicion was confirmed. Maybe we need drug control more than gun control. Or, even some control of what's causing doctors to drug our children with stuff like Ritalin, Zoloft, and Luvox.
    Doctors, interviewed by the Washington Post and CNN claimed there is no connection between Luvox and aggressive behavior. Were they lying, or just ignorant? The 9/91 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry said, “…that this drug can induce mania in some patients when it is given in normal doses.” A drug expert testified that “According to the manufacturer, 4% of the children taking Luvox developed mania during short-term controlled clinical trials. Mania is a psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose, highly elaborated destructive plans...”
    Hmm, will the doctor who prescribed Luvox for Harris be indicted for manslaughter? Or sued by the parents of the dead students for his part in the massacre?
    From my viewpoint the whole medical industry should be indicted. This giving of drugs as antidepressants, drugs with well known mania side effects, instead of finding the cause of the depression and stopping the lifestyle activity which is causing the problem, is criminal.
    I’ll be very surprised if Harris wasn’t reacting to a high sugar intake. Frosted somethings and pop tarts for breakfast. I used to love pancakes or waffles for breakfast, with plenty of that fabulous New Hampshire maple syrup. But I found that within a few minutes I’d be knocked for a loop and have to lie down to rest. Instead I should have taken a pep pill, right? No, I stopped the waffles.
    For heaven’s sake, I reviewed Lick The Sugar Habit for you eons ago and I’ve included it in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, so you should understand how addictive and destructive sugar is, and what it’s doing to us. It’s a key element in most of the illnesses killing us these days…such as heart attacks, cancer, etc.
    Just as cigarettes are so powerfully addictive that millions of people keep right on smoking, doing their best to ignore the fact that they are giving up 30 to 60 years of healthy life, and are headed for emphysema, heart attacks, and lung cancer, our addiction to sugar keeps us from even reading the books on the subject. We don’t want to know. Now let’s have a big bowl of ice cream with Hershey’s chocolate sauce while we watch TV. Hey, where's that can of whipped cream?
    Hmm, feeling depressed? Okay, check for my chocolate ice cream recipe. It's delicious, but has no sugar. It's made with bananas, raw milk, and chocolate whey protein.

12/29/10

Genome Piffle
    Wow, bi-i-g deal, they’ve done a rough outline of human genes, a project, according to the press, on the level of our putting a man on the Moon. Well, you know what I think of that hoax, so ask me what I think of the value of the genome project.
    Glad you asked.
    Piffle.
    Yes, certain illnesses do tend to run in certain families, and I don’t doubt that genetic differences will exacerbate the problems for people. And, yes, scientists may be able to repair these “defective” genes.
    For that matter, parents screw up their children’s genes by ingesting poisons such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, NutraSweet, aspartame, and so on prior to conception, damaging the genes in their sperm and ova. Plus further damage during pregnancy, and so it goes. We know that, just by doing the right things at the right time, it’s possible to increase a child’s IQ by 40 to 50 points over not knowing what to do, when.
    But, curing most of our illnesses with gene therapy? Nonsense.
    I’m convinced that miseries such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, heart trouble, and so on can be eliminated by treating our bodies better. I go into detail in my Secret Guide to Health. My mantra is simple: stop poisoning your body, give it the food it has been designed over thousands generations to use, plenty of pure water, lots of sun and exercise, and keep stress to a minimum.
    We eat pop tarts. coffee and Danish for breakfast, Whoppers with fries for lunch, and pizza for dinner and then try to blame genes for the mess we’ve made of our body? Phooey!

12/28/10

An Expensive War
    And one we lost in a big way. That’s Johnson’s War On Poverty. Welfare reform in 1996 got a good boost from the fact that illigitimate births had increased by 600% since 1960, and the number of single-parent families had increased by 300%. We were dunned over $5 trillion in taxes to “aid the poor,” yet the poverty rate never changed. Could you have found a better use for the $20,000 that exercise in futility cost you and every member of your family?
    Before the government got into social engineering the poor were taken care of quite well by local charities. But that didn’t put a premium on going on welfare as a way of life, it had the local community working with the poor to find them work.

12/27/10

Dr. Page
    An ex-employee of mine, who died of fatness, swiped my treasured 1949 copy of Dr. Page’s Degeneration—>Regeneration, so I was delighted to come across his Your Body Is Your Best Doctor. This 1991 reprint of Page’s 1972 book, Keats Publishing, Box 876, New Canaan CT 06840 (0-87983-540-0) runs 236p.. Get it.
    Page, a dentist, noticed that one of the early signs of degeneration of our bodies was dental caries. That’s a sure sign that you’re eating wrong…wrong as far as your body is concerned, though probably “right” as far as the food experts on TV, radio, and in magazines are concerned. Plus around 95% of the stuff in our supermarkets. We’re digging our early graves with our teeth…at least until we lose them. Page echoes with his research what Dr. Henry Bieler (Food Is Your Best Medicine) discovered. And Dr. Weston Price (Nutrition  And Physical Degeneration).
    If you can read the Page, Bieler, and Price books and not make a major change in your diet you are either monumentally stupid (like smokers), or seriously addicted to sugar. These all confirm what I’ve been preaching, are the basis for my Secret Guide to Health. Through over 99% of our development over the last 3 to 4 million years, humans ate raw food. Our systems haven’t yet adapted to cooked food, refined sugar and flour, hydrogenated fats, and so on. These things are slowly rotting our teeth and then killing us.

12/26/10

Gaia
    I really should include James Lovelock’s Gaia in my wisdom guide. If you’re not familiar with his theory, it has to do with the Earth being considered as a living thing. Indeed, as Lovelock showed, our Earth seems to have a consciousness and able to heal itself when wounded. Thus, it manages to keep things in a remarkably stable balance.
    Many years ago I read a wonderful book, long ago stolen from my library by an employee. It was titled, A Religion for Scientists. The concept was most interesting. It pointed out that each of us is made up of billions of cells, each demonstrating an awareness of and communication with its neighbors. Somehow this collection of cooperating cells has developed an awareness. The Gaia principle suggests that the Earth has somehow developed some sort of awareness…an awareness that we individuals are no more aware of than each of our cells is aware of our awareness.
    I hope I haven’t lost you…I’m going somewhere with this.
    More pieces of the great puzzle.
    But, as more and more pieces of the great puzzle are fitting together, it seems that Gaia can be considered the collective consciousness (awareness) of all living things. Further, just as recent research has shown that our individual cells are a lot more aware of our thoughts and actions than we ever suspected, and their collective consciousness is able to communicate with any living thing in some way (and maybe, hold your hat, with non-living things too).
    When I experienced the feeling of being at one with everyone and everything, for me that included rocks. Psychically sensitive people can sense feelings that have somehow been imprinted on places where something has happened.
    Then we have dowsing, where experienced dowsers can search (and find) anything they set their mind to. Water, minerals, lost objects, bodies, animals, and people.
    We have the mysteries of water. I’ve watched an experiment where a magnet drastically changed the surface tension of a large jar of water. And then I saw it being again affected by a psychic a thousand miles away.
    Neal Slade has explained how anyone can influence the shape of clouds. Art Bell’s audience clearly demonstrated that their collective will could make it not just rain, but virtually flood both Texas and Florida.
    Pieces of the puzzle.

12/25/10

Christmas
    Now check my 7/11/09 piece on how to ruin Christmas. I hate Christmas.

12/24/10

Diabetes
    You must know at least one person with diabetes. Well, wise them up and make 2011 the best year of their lives.
    Several raw food fans claim they cured their diabetes in just two weeks. I have a DVD showing eight diabetics who went to a raw food retreat for a month and all cured themselves.  Google it and get one for any friend with diabetes.
    This came to mind when I got a call from a ham in California (N6QQM) who thanked me for getting him on raw food. As a result he's lost over 200 pounds without dieting, and beat diabetes.
    Or diabetics can continue with daily injections and live a much, much shorter and miserable life.

12/23/10

Schools Get An F
    With nearly two-thirds of the 8th graders in New York City failing the statewide English test, and more than three-quarters failing the math test, these kids did so badly, according to the New York Post, that “they can barely add and subtract.” Well, when I went to P.S. 199 and P.S. 99 in the New York City school system, back before teacher’s unions and educational fads, the classes were large, the kids unruly, and the teachers pretty lousy, yet the results were far above what’s being accomplished today.
    This is particularly a kick in the head for disadvantaged children, who need the best help they can get to overcome their home environments.
    There are complaints that it’s the fault of the parents, who are not taking an interest and aren’t spending time working with their kids. My parents never worked with me, nor did they show any interest in what was going on in my schools. They never even asked. Of course, I never did well in school either. I just barely got by in most subjects, but I had plenty of time to spend down in the cellar building electronic and radio equipment. I had time to read a lot of books, to sing in the church choir, complete with rehearsals on Wednesday and Friday nights, go to a Boy Scout meeting once a week (Troup 34), sing with the school choral club and give concerts, play one of the lead parts in The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance, do endless darkroom work as a member of the camera club, and hardly ever miss seeing a new movie.
    School, for me, was enormously boring, so I did just enough to get by, and spent my time on things that were more fun. In my K-12 years I remember only one teacher who got me excited about the class, and that was Mr. Dockett, who taught art in high school. He made it exciting and fun. I understood why my mother, who had had him as her teacher a generation before, had chosen to go on to Pratt Art Institute, where Maxfield Parish was a classmate of hers.
    There are a few outstanding schools in New York City, but the teacher’s unions have been fighting hard to stop their unorthodox approaches to teaching.
    Then there’s the example of the Sudbury Valley School, which costs less than half as much per student to operate as other local schools, and who’s students score through the roof on competitive exams.
    Our public schools can be enormously improved if we (a) break the throttle hold the NEA has on them; (b) get the government the hell out of the school business; (c) draw on the successful examples of schools that are working.
    The only area where our public school students excel is in feeling good about themselves. 

12/22/10

Global Poverty
    Since there isn’t anything that any of us can do about it, what do we care if 73% of the people in Mali earn under a dollar a day and 58% are illiterate? Or Pakistan has 57% illiteracy? Or that most of the third world isn’t doing much better?
    These people need education and a way to make money. In that order. And this is something that the world’s only super-power (us) could easily handle. And it sure would be a lot cheaper than getting involved with more wars. Better yet, the pay off would be more markets for American products and technology.
    By making inexpensive first rate education available via interactive DVDs we could sow the seeds of success. Then, with micro-loans for really small businesses and larger loans available through business incubators, we’d start them building the small business foundation that is the real strength of any country.
    What would it cost for us to start setting up baby-care centers in third world countries where babies could be taught their native language, English, and maybe a few other languages during the year or two when they’re able to easily learn them?
    Well, you get the idea. Beats going in with an army like we did in Iraq…killing thousands and driving millions out of the country. I like my way better.

12/21/10

Lawyers
    As Shakespeare said, “First, kill all the lawyers.” Despite my losing a few friends in the process, and the problem of moving thousands of tons of bodies for burial to Nevada, along with the radioactive waste, it could clear up a lot of our problems and enormously improve our personal financial situations. It would also pretty well clean out Congress, which is almost justification in itself for the project.
    On the positive side, this could provide a source of organ replacement parts for people who have destroyed their livers, hearts, and so on through really lousy nutrition, dehydration, and ingesting toxic substances.
    Tort reform? When this is a zillion dollar industry with the fox running the hen house? Snicker.
    Michael Freedman reported in Forbes that 42% of obstetricians are leaving the Las Vegas area now that 76% of them have been sued. 40% of them three or more times!
    You want to know why we have so many lousy teachers? Because it’s so difficult and expensive to get rid of the rotten apples. In New York State it costs an average of $194,000 in legal bills to terminate a teacher. In Detroit it’s a seven-year process.
    Now, where do you think all of the money is coming from to pay for these law suits, settlements and awards? We’re all being shaken down. It’s we suckers who are paying for the most expensive and least productive school system in the developed countries. And ditto our sickness exploitation system. All of us have to pay when a McDonald’s customer spills coffee in her lap and sues. And we have to pay, one way or another, whether she wins or loses.
    Are we totally helpless pawns in the escalating extortion, or is there something we can do about it?
    Hell’s bells, just go to step two in your thinking. If lawyers are feathering their nest with laws made by lawyers we have elected to state legislatures and Congress, then STOP electing these buzzards. Never, ever, contribute one dollar to a lawyer’s election or re-election campaign. Ever! Whenever a lawyer runs for any office, get out there and do everything you can for his opponent, even if he’s a…a…Democrat.
    If we can’t legally kill ’em, we can at least stop letting them take us to the cleaners by electing businessmen who will start undoing the mischief the lawyers have done…and we'll (except the lawyers) benefit.

12/20/10

Nostalgia
    Okay, all you old timers, time to test your memory. At what time did Amos and Andy come on every night? Which series had Poor Butterfly for its theme song? Who said, "Wanna buy a duck?" How about, "Okay, Colonel." What was The Singing Lady's name? Who was Ukelele Ike? Vic and who? Who wrote the radio play, The Loblies? What was the theme song for Chandu The Magician? Who was the warden at Sing Sing? What was the theme song? And who was Your Host? What product sponsored the Sherlock Holmes program? What product sponsored Orphan Annie? How about Jack Armstrong's sponsor? The Little Theater just off where? Who always said, "And so long until tomorrow?" H.V. who? Floyd who? Myrt and who? Who was Hairbreath Harry's girl friend? Who said "Fap?" How about "Gloryowski, Zero?" Remember Joe Bftsplk? Hans and Fritz? What fairy godfather said, "Cushlamacree" and used a stogie for a magic wand? Buck Rogers' sponsor? What "hit the spot, 12 full ounces, that's a lot?" How much were 12 Marlin Blades? What song had "fooderyackasaki" in it? Who played the bazooka? What was the title of the Popeye cartoon? The Maggie and Jiggs cartoon? Skeezix cartoon? What poisonous food product sponsored The Lone Ranger? How about Singin' Sam? What product did he promote ("no brush, no lather, no rub in")? Who's cabbage patch? What was Buster Brown's dog's name?
    There, that ought to hold you old buzzards.
    Okay, one more. How many of you turkeys went to Saturday matinees where, for a dime, you saw two feature films, two serials, seven cartoons, the newsreel, plus a drawing for prizes? I, who had no interest in playing baseball, naturally won a catcher’s mitt.

12/19/10

Oh, Canada!
    Maybe you saw the TV exposé on seniors taking bus trips to Canada to buy their medications? The same drugs are available there at one half to one third their US prices, so it makes sense for people in our northern tier states to visit Canada every month or so and stock up on their medications.
    All of which gives you an idea of how thoroughly the pharmaceutical companies are screwing us on drug prices. Why, they’re almost making as much profit as the illegal druggists.
    Of course, if I could get these people to read my health guide and change their lifestyles a bit, they wouldn’t need any drugs. But since that approach would gut the whole medical industry, it isn’t going to happen…at least not soon.
    Did you read where American kids are now going to Canadian universities, where our kids are getting a higher quality education at a fraction of US university prices? How about $7,200 at McGill University in Montreal?
    A few years ago, when I was researching our university system, I had to visit Waterloo University (near Montreal) to find a university that was using personal computers productively.
    At McGill the freshman live on campus, but the upper classes mostly live in town. It’s like that at Rensselaer, my alma mater, where they have a large freshman dorm quadrangle and much smaller upper class dorms nearby for the geeks. The rest of the frosh are pledged to the fraternities, which have their fraternity houses all around town. There are the Greeks and the Geeks. My fraternity, Sigma Chi, bought the old governor’s mansion in a posh section of town. I helped find the mansion when we decided to move from an old brownstone downtown near the railroad tracks to a more upscale area.
    Okay, how come the same drugs are a fraction of US prices in Canada? How come Canadian universities are able to operate at a fraction of US universities? The drug situation comes from the far more than cozy FDA-pharmaceutical-insurance company relationship. We’re being screwed, my friends. Systematically fleeced by three big industries which have bought the power to screw us via congress. So we pay up or take a bus to Canada.
    If you want to know more about American universities, please read Roche’s The Fall of the Ivory Tower, which is reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom (p.9).

12/18/10

Quicksilver
    Mercury is one of the most toxic substances known. One drop will send you to the emergency room. A thinbleful will kill you. A half gram in a 10-acre lake warrants a fish advisory. In 1994, Minnesota banned running shoes with lights in their heels because the shoes contained a half gram of mercury.
    The average amalgam “silver” filling contains a half gram of mercury. What’s dangerous for a small lake is safe in your mouth?
    Dentists are placing over 100 million amalgam fillings a year. The American Dental Association says they’re perfectly safe, despite overwhelming medical evidence to the contrary. Like the tobacco and asbestos industries, they’ve been denying the dangers. And dentists who have had the courage to prove conclusively that amalgam fillings are causing serious illnesses have had their licenses taken away to shut them up.
    The average person with amalgam fillings is breathing up to 29 micrograms of mercury a day. Chewing food, gum, grinding your teeth, and high acid foods can up that to 100 micrograms a day! In 1994 the U.S. Public Health Service said that anything over 0.28 micrograms of mercury vapor per day constituted a health risk from the vapor.
    As I’ve mentioned before, 98% of the people with multiple sclerosis have tested high on mercury. It’s been shown to contribute to chronic fatigue syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease. Talk about dis-ease!
    Amalgam fillings are being prohibited in a growing number of more enlightened countries in Europe and Scandanavia.
    I met dentist Hal Huggins several years ago at a science conference and watched his amazing video. He showed patients arriving crippled up in wheel chairs to have their amalgam fillings removed, and then a few weeks later walking around in good health. One was out there playing tennis! The ADA, of course, pulled his license.
    My Secret Guide to Wisdom reviews both the Huggins’ book, It’s All In Your Head, and Dr. Lydia Bronte’s The Mercury In Your Mouth. Lydia wondered why she was so sick and discovered that if the mercury in her 17 fillings had been put on her living room floor the EPA could have quaranteened her apartment.

12/17/10

College Grads
    Okay, you are now “formally educated.” But that doesn’t mean you’ve learned much of practical value to your career. Or, have you really had a career in mind? Or have you just been going with the flow?
    Your college teachers, with very few exceptions, are people who’ve never worked in the business world. They’ve forced you to memorize the same stuff for quizzes that they had to memorize when they went to college. Stuff out of pretty much the same text books.
    With the job market for grads in the pits these days, just sending out résumés, no matter how creative and exaggerated they are, isn’t working. Grads almost always look for jobs with large companies. Alas, today most large companies have moved their manufacturing to Asia, and along with them, their supporting jobs.
    The free ride on your parents is over. Or, worse, you’ve gone thousands of dollars in hock to get that degree. Either way, you’re now expected to enter the job market and start making money on your own.
    It’s almost time to start giving some thought to building a career. So, what’s it going to be? You’re now facing one of the most important choices in your life. One that you postponed four years earlier when you opted for college. Now, you have to make a major choice. Will it be a job? Or back to school for an advanced degree, putting off that career decision again.
    If you keep doing this you’ll end up a professor with students short-term memorizing the same stuff for quizzes that you did. And learning almost nothing of any practical value…as you did.
    I went through college, never giving any thought to what I might do later. I was kept busy memorizing for tests, and the cram sessions re-memorizing again for the finals. Suddenly I was out. Well, I had one advantage, in my sophomore summer (1942) I worked for G.E. in nearby Schenectady, testing transmitters for the Army. That had the benefit of convincing me to never, ever, again work for a large company. So I opted for a job as a broadcast engineer/announcer at a small radio station in Southern Pines NC. Well, the owner had worked for my dad, so I knew him well.
    Working for a large company generally means you are never going to make a lot of money or have much freedom. So, for three years out of college I worked in radio and TV, having a wonderful time. Then I started my first company and soon was buying a yacht, an airplane, a Porsche, and stuff like that. Which explain why my Secret Guide to Wealth advises against spending four to six years and tens of thousands of dollars on college, and offers a practical alternative to the good life.

12/16/10

Those Riots
    Well, it was seventeen years ago when the blacks rioted over the acquittal of the police who so brutally beat Rodney King. Hey, how come the jury did that? I’ll bet you’ve never heard the real story. I know I hadn’t.
    The acquittal was the result of the jury seeing the entire video tape of the event, not just the little segment shown endlessly on TV. Yes, the news shows had the whole tape to work with, but showing the whole thing wouldn’t have been as shocking (newsworthy).
    If you’ve watched any of the cop shows you know that suspects are often ordered to lie on the ground with their hands behind their backs. Cops have found by hard experience that this is the safest way to keep from getting shot or stabbed.
    When, after a high speed chase, King was finally stopped and ordered to lie down, he refused. The other men that were in the car with him all complied and gave no trouble. When the cops tried to force King down he fought them. He was too big and strong for them, so they tried electrified darts to immobilize him. They didn’t faze him. Twice he got back up and charged the cops. When they finally managed to get him down he wouldn’t put his hands behind him and was still struggling to get up. It was the last few seconds of their efforts to subdue King that the media showed. And showed.
    When the jury saw the whole tape they acquitted. More than 50 people lost their lives in the ensuing riots.
    The media may have our attention, but it doesn’t make much of effort to be honest.
    How much have you seen in the main stream media about the reality of cold fusion, UFOs, crop patterns, and so on? I guess these things just “don’t sell papers.”

12/15/10

I Believe
    Okay, let's check on some things you may or may not believe. (1) Childhood vaccinations are beneficial. (2) The 911 attack was by a group of Muslims. (3) NASA put men on the moon some 40 years ago. (4) Cold fusion didn't pan out. (5) Amelia Earhart was lost at sea. (6) The Pearl Harbor attack came as a surprise to President Roosevelt. (7) The Oklahoma bombing of the Murrah federal building was caused by a bomb in a truck. (8) Diet sodas help you lose weight. (9) Microwave ovens are okay for warming food. (10) Root canals are a good way to preserve infected teeth. (11) Hospital delivery is safer than home delivery of babies. (12) Fluoride in our water helps our children's teeth. (13) Pasteurizing milk makes it safer to drink. (14) A college education is well worth the time and money. (15) Mad Cow disease is a threat. (16) Global warming calls for our action. (17) Chemo is the best therapy for cancer.
    For some reason, possibly due to an errant gene or, more likely, a past lives history of being a scientist or engineer, I've gone through life not seriously believing in anything. Sunday school, starting when I was four, and going on into my teens, didn't do it. My approach was to be open to new data on any subject. I neither believe, nor disbelieve…so what new data do you have for me.
    In this I seem to be an anomaly, for in every field the hierarchy has historically been vigorously resistant to new data. In medicine every new idea has been resisted. Ditto in every other scientific field. Beliefs prevent the acceptance…even the consideration…or new data. Like when Semmelwise tried to get doctors to wash their hands before operations. So the AMA then said that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would lose his license.
    In religion, beliefs are often defended to the death. Indeed, until war became so profitable for business, all of our wars were religious.
    Poor old Stephen Hawking, trapped in his cart and unable to even talk, totally believes in allopathic medicine…and the Big Bang. I'll bet he believes the speed of light is a fixed number…and has no real clue as to why we have gravity. Sigh. The prison of belief.

12/14/10

A Major Publisher (From a 2003 73 editorial)
    Many readers of my Secret Guide to Health have been pushing me to get a major book publisher to help market the book…complete with book tours and TV interviews. I’d sure like to help millions of people be healthy instead of only thousands, but I’m worried that the impact could cause an even worse recession than we have now.
    You see, if the word ever really gets out about what I’ve discovered it could: Put hundreds of thousands of doctors out of work; Close down 90% of our hospitals; Put almost all assisted care facilities out of business; Close down most nursing homes; Bankrupt the pharmaceutical companies; Severely impact drug stores; Put most medical schools out of business; Severely depress the funeral business; Bankrupt today's food industry giants; Destroy the sugar industry; Put most dentists out of business; And dental schools; Bankrupt the soda pop industry; Bankrupt the tobacco industry; Bankrupt the beer, wine and liquor industries; Put a million liquor stores out of business; Wipe out cancer and other illness-related research organizations; Destroy the Social Security system as we know it; Wipe out HMOs; Wipe out the health insurance industry; Wipe out the fast food industry as we know it; Put Kleenex out of business; Bankrupt the TV networks; And hundreds of drug ad-dependent magazines.
    Just think what this could do to the American economy. And then Europe and around the world. Icons like Coca Cola and their hundreds of thousands of workers would be history. Ditto McDonalds, Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Wendy’s (unless they bring back their salad bars).
    Let’s say you’re a small employer, like I was a while back. I had about 250 employees. Today I’d be paying over $1 million in health benefits for them. Next year it would be $1,125,000. Would I buy 250 copies of my health guide at $20 a whack, a $5,000 outlay, in the hopes of cutting my health care bills? In an instant. Further, I’d blow another $10 for a video of Wayne Green explaining the benefits of changing one’s lifestyle. I’d also get rid of the candy and coffee machines in the employee’s lounge. I’d replace them with bowls of grapes, cherries, apples, etc. Oh, and water coolers with big bottles of distilled water.
    A bigger company’s CEO, with 10,000 employees, faced with spending $40 million a year on health benefits (which have been lately going up at about $500 a year per employee), might be interested in investing $120,000 (bulk discount) in my books to help his employees be healthier. If not, his board of directors should fire his ass because the savings would go right to the bottom line, increasing the company’s profits (and its stock price).
    Would corner bars like Cheers and Moes be replaced by sashimi bars? I sure hope so.
    So, do you know any publisher interested in a book which could be the biggest seller yet? In 50 or so languages? The second edition of my health guide will be ready for publishing soon.
    On the plus side, with people no longer getting sick and living twice as long, we'll need a bunch of new industries to supply healthy food and drink, and more activities. Saving some $8,000 per person a year in current sickness costs will allow much of that to be spent having fun. Skiing, horseback riding, scuba diving, and travel. 

12/13/10

Madness
    Those professional politicians you have been unable to prevent yourself from re-electing to Congress are now spending over $650 billion a year maintaining a world-wide military empire, with some 700 to 800 military bases in 156 countries. Plus we're maintaining over 500,000 military personnel and their families at these bases.
    Do we really need 40,000 in South Korea, 40,000 in Japan, and 75,000 in Germany? Plus another 40,000 spread around Europe in other countries? No wonder our military budget is more than that of the rest of the world combined. A lot more.
    Look, dammit, we're broke. Congress eliminated the duties on imports, making it cheaper to manufacture everything in lower wage countries, so we've lost most of our major industries. The only way we've been able to afford the luxury of a huge military, despite the need for it being close to zero except for wars we've started for not yet disclosed reasons, is by borrowing the money from China…with no possible way to repay it other than by them using it to buy more and more of America. Which, by the way, they have been doing.
    Raise holy hell with your Congress people to cut our military budgets, forcing the closing of those US. foreign enclaves. There are no credible threats calling for us to build more and more carrier fleets, or to support near a thousand overseas military bases, complete with the military's own airline servicing them.
    The Chinese don't have to fight a military war. They're in a business war with us and they're winning that one hands down. Business is war. Sure, we beat the hell out of Japan 65 years ago, so they came along and took away our electronic industries, then our car industry.
    While we're at it, let's dump NATO too. The war threat with Russia is over, guys. Hello, is anyone awake there in Congress? Please stop wasting billions on NATO.
    And while we're dumping, are there any major benefits to continuing hosting the UN? Hey, a few hundred billion saved here and there mounts up. And now that we've let Congress squander our power house manufacturing base, we've got to learn how to live within what means they haven't yet killed.
    If we get busy and start shipping those millions of illegal aliens back to Mexico at, say, a thousand a day, not counting daily new arrivals, we'd have them out of here in about 55 years. Hmm, better make that 10,000 a day. Let's see, that would be 1,000 an hour, ten hours a day…including Sundays. Of course Mexico will just truck the returnees right back to the border. Many would only miss a day or two of work.
    We sure don't need to build more prisons for those caught twice, so maybe we can come up with another solution. Like, how about cutting an inch off their dicks on the second time, and an inch more for each time they come back after that?

12/12/10

Hands On
    An email from my good friend Bevy Jaeger says that if you hold a penny in your hand, in about 20 seconds you’ll get a blood taste under your tongue. A silver coin will give you a clean and sharp taste. Gold will be buttery. A sandwich coin, like a quarter, will taste greasy. A nickel will taste nasty.
    Is this something like psychometry, where you hold something in your left hand and let your mind relax and see what comes up to tell you about the object? Bevy has a book explaining how to do that. The first time I tried it, it worked for me, much to my amazement. Bevy also has a psy training book you should check out. It starts out teaching you how to sense colors with your fingers.
    But Bev may not be into weirdness as much as you may suspect with the coins. We know that if you put some DMSO on your skin, within a few minutes you can taste garlic. And we know that more and more drugs are being administered either via patches on the skin (trans-dermal medication) or under the tongue (sub-lingual medication). Either way we have stuff going through the skin. We also have that with bug sprays and anti-perspirants, both of which introduce poisons into our bodies. So the idea that our fingers, our primary organs of touch, might be able to sense metals isn’t all that weird.
    By the way, if you read about my psychometry experiment, did it go in one eye and out the other, without ever reaching your brain? Or did you do some experimenting for yourself? If you didn’t, why the hell not? What do I have to do to pry open your mind a couple of angstroms? How am I ever going to be able to explain something like how life got started if I can’t get you to take even one step off the beaten path?
    Get a catalog of Bevy’s inexpensive books and get started opening your mind to things which will get you labeled as crazy. Bevy, 9633 Cinnabar Drive, Sappington MO 63126. Say hello from Wayne.

12/11/10

Dr. Bieler
Walter Chamberlin, an old buddy from my 1950 ham teletype days, stopped by with his wife Sally. Naturally our conversation got to health. I was surprised to find that Sally’s father was Dr. Henry Bieler, who wrote Food Is Your Best Medicine back in 1965. The good doctor had discovered what I’ve discovered in my research…that all degenerative diseases are the result of poor nutrition. And that includes dental problems as well as arthritis, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and so on.
The book, published by Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-35183-5, 236p, 1992. So, if you won’t take my word for the only way you are going to repair the years of damage you’ve done to your body through ignorance, and “doing what everyone else does,” read Dr. Bieler’s book and get busy rebuilding your body.
Walt was kind enough to send me a copy of another Bieler book, one which is not currently in print, The Incurables. In it he goes into detail on his treatment of youngsters with leukemia…kids the hospitals and other doctors had given up as incurable and would soon die. Step one was to stop all milk and milk products. Step two was to feed the kids pureed vegetables and either pureed raw liver or liver juice (for babies). The results were spectacular! As I’ve mentioned, I happen to love raw liver. Mmm, it’s good! Well, as I’ve explained. However, you are probably so conditioned that you won’t even be able to try it. The yu-u-uk factor.
Hmm, how strong is your yuk factor? Would you rather die than even try liver my way? Probably. Anyway, get the book and see if you can help some friends to stop poisoning themselves, even if you are unable. Go thou and heal!
Remember what Hipocrates said: "Let they food be thy medicine. Let thy medicine be thy food."

12/10/10

Dowsing
    Okay, what do you think about dowsing? Can people really find water underground dependably? Your answer will probably be determined by how knowledgeable or ignorant you are on the subject. It is easy for people to hold strong opinions on things of which they are ignorant.
    Some time ago I reviewed Vibrations by Owen Lehto. This is one of the most practical how-to books I’ve found on dowsing. But Owen doesn’t waste a lot of time trying to convince the ignorant. Christopher Bird does in his monumental The Divining Hand. Once you’ve read this book you will no longer be a skeptic. You won’t even be on the fence. Bird goes over the history of divining, which goes back at least a thousand years. Then he covers the scientific research done in the field. And there’s been plenty.
    One scientist set up an experiment with two iron posts in the ground. He fed a small voltage to them to see if dowsers could detect it. He found that 80% of the people he tested could invariably detect a 20 mA current. A few could detect currents of 1 mA, and one chap was able to detect 1 µA of current without fail.
    This chap was also able to direction-find any radio station while blindfolded. They gave him the frequency and his dowsing rod would point to it.
    There are well-drilling companies who use dowsing to find wells and charge nothing if they fail to provide water at the rate of flow they guarantee. They’ve never failed.
    Experienced dowsers can find water veins and tell you how far down they are and the flow in gallons per minute to expect. They can even do this working with a map. They can reliably find lost objects and people. They can dowse for metals, oil, coal and natural gas. With oil they can tell how far down the top of it is, the size of the deposit, and its depth.
    Dowsers can diagnose illnesses and locate the site of the trouble. They’ve found that many, if not most cases of arthritis and cancer involve people sleeping over several veins of water. When their beds are moved to a place where there are no underground water veins they miraculously recover.
    Well, if something coming from the water is making people sick, then it should be possible to detect it scientifically, right? They can! Using a gamma ray detector. In some way the moving water projects a narrow beam upward which, over time, can generate many different illnesses. But you don’t need a gamma ray detector when a simple pendulum will do the job.
    An experienced radiesthesiatist can use a pendulum to find the cause of an illness and to find the best medicine to cure it. They can even do this from afar! And it works on animals as well as people.
    By shielding a dowser’s body they’ve been able to locate the areas of the body which do the detecting, with one being located in the head by the pineal gland and the other by the adrenal glands.
    If you’d like to become an expert on the subject get the Bird book. It’s $30 and is available from several sources. It’s a big, glossy, well illustrated book.

12/9/10

Cooling Fooling
    According to Accuweather, the company businesses turn to when they need dependable weather predictions, the Earth has warmed up 0.45° C in the last hundred years. However, in fact, for the last 18 years they report that it has been cooling! The political pressure, particularly from the Clinton-Gore administration, was to impose restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions by American businesses as a way to decrease the global warming threat.
    It’s interesting that these limitations will only apply to industries in the major developed countries, and not to the developing countries such as Mexico, China and Russia! If the administration and Congress implement this limitation the effect will be to move more and more of our major manufacturing to countries such as Mexico and China, which are not bound by the emissions restrictions. It’s bad enough under the current situation, where lower wage, better educated workers, and no tariffs on imports have been making it profitable for American businesses to move their manufacturing out of the country.
    The global warming political pressures are continuing despite a petition signed by over 17,000 scientists, saying that there is no evidence to support the global warming theory.
    So, where did all this global warming nonsense come from? Mostly from computer modeling which didn’t take enough factors into consideration. Add that to the media’s need for bad news (good news does not sell papers), a bunch of Chicken Little ecologists, and you have Al Gore and company ready to spend billions toward cutting American industrial CO2 emissions.
    You can get the straight dope on this hoax by visiting www.freedom.org.

12/8/10

Afghanistan
    Without much of a real excuse, we invaded the country. There's good reason to suspect it had more to do with being able to run an oil pipeline across the country than stopping terrorist activities. Anyway, after several years, several hundred billion dollars, and a bunch of American lives, there's little, if anything, accomplished we can point to with pride.
    The people running the government are thoroughly corrupt. Outside of Kabul, most of the country is being run by war lords, and poppies are still the country's biggest crop, supplying 90% of the world's heroin.
    Not that we're doing much better, with by far the most expensive health care system in the world, yet coming in 37th in health and 49th in longevity. With the most expensive school system, yet graduating kids that are coming in at the bottom on international surveys…below Albania! We have the highest percentage of our population in prison of any developed country…of course at the highest cost per prisoner. Our government is totally bankrupt. We've exported most of our major industries, so we have little anymore to sell. No wonder we're up to here in unemployment. Despite our spending billions on our war on drugs, they're cheaper and more readily available than ever.
    Now, what was it we were going to do to help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Was it to export democracy? Har-de-har.

12/07/10B

Breast Feeding
    In addition to increasing the baby's IQ some 12 to 15 points over bottle-fed, researchers have found that the longer babies are breast-fed, the lower the chance they will have weight problems in their teens.

12/5/10

Data
    75% of the countries getting U.S. aid voted against us in the UN.
    As of 2000, since 1960 our population had increased 48%, violent crime was up 467%, the number of state and federal prisoners up 463%, out-of-wedlock births up 461%, the number of children living in single-parent households up 300%, and SAT scores had dropped 59 points.
    In constant 1998 dollars we spent $2,400 per student in 1960 vs. $6,900 in 1998, and now it's $9666, and teacher/pupil ratios have dropped from 26 students to 17 per teacher. Clearly we don’t need more money or more teachers to get our schools to perform, despite the massive propaganda by the NEA claiming this. We are in desperate need of a major school reform.
    The “Little Ice Age” of 1550-1700 was caused, say scientists, by the sun’s output declining one quarter of one percent. With just a little more output from the sun Earth could be as dead as Mars. With a tiny bit less, we’d be icicles.

12/4/10

Early Americans
    There’s a good deal of controversy over when and how the first people arrived in America. If you read much about this you’ll find that our scientists have, as usual, been busy covering up data that doesn’t agree with their beliefs…and with their published papers, of course.
    There’s the old saw about the early arrivals coming from Siberia via the Bering Sea land bridge, when the oceans were much lower than today. One serious problem with this theory is that in order for the sea level to be that low, it would have to be during an ice age, where the sea water was piled up in huge glaciers. And where would those glaciers be? Up north, where we keep the Bering Sea. Such a trip would have taken months to walk, fighting the cold weather and storms all the way. They couldn’t have taken enough food along to last and, lacking grass, there wouldn’t have been any game to kill. It couldn’t have happened that way.
    People keep finding artifacts which suggest that people have been around here in America for millions of years, not just since the last ice age. Historians dismiss these finds as anomalies, and sweep them under their bulging mental rugs. You’ll enjoy reading Forbidden Archeology by Cremo and Thompson, which cites human artifacts in the New World which date to 100,000 and 200,000 years ago.
    The scientific world has managed to keep these annoying discrepancies to a minimum by dismissing and black listing archeologists who report anything but the accepted dogma. They also boycott the publisher and accuse the offender of mental illness. So much for the objectivity of scientists.
    I’ve been watching the exact same response in the cold fusion situation. When Professor Bockris suggested that the cold fusion effect might be due to the transmutation of elements, his fellow professors at Texas A&M ganged up to try and have him fired for such a crazy heresy.
    If you’re interested in learning more about our early inhabitants, you’ll enjoy Vine Deloria Jr’s Red Earth - White Lies, from Fulcrum Publishing, 350 Indiana St. #350, Golden CO 80401, 800-992-2908. It runs 271 pages, 1997.
    The Indians are still upset about us Europeans coming over here 300 years ago and taking over. Well, that’s what happens when a higher technology group moves into the neighborhood. Europeans did the same thing in Africa, splitting most of the continent up between France, Germany, and England, with a little for Italy, Belgium, and Portugal. Ditto the middle east, where England and France were the big players. England grabbed most of the Caribbean islands, with France and Netherlands getting a few that were left over. Spain didn’t do badly with Cuba and Puerto Rico. And so it went. England did well in Asia too, with India, Burma, Australia, Malaysia, and big bunches of the Pacific islands. Oh yes, Hong Kong. The French managed to get New Caledonia and the Tahitian islands.
    I’m a little fuzzy on South American history, but I think most of that would have been grabbed by the European countries too if it hadn’t been for Simon Bolivar.

12/3/10

Deserted
    Maybe you read about the growth of deserts world wide. About 40% of the world’s land are now deserts, or becoming deserts…due to forest destruction, overgrazing and the lowering of water tables, mainly due to population growth.
    Most deserts will spring back to life if water is available. It’s too bad some of that water that’s been melting at the poles couldn’t be salvaged instead of adding to the oceans, threatening to flood our major cities.
    One way to make better use of our deserts would be to use Jim Patterson’s filament plastic pipes to water crops directly at their roots, thus avoiding the evaporation which lets only a small percentage of irrigated crops actually use the irrigation water. And by adding ground kelp to the water the plants would grow faster, bigger, have better tasting, hardier fruit, and we’d get the minerals which have been missing from our commercial crops for the last 70 years or so.
    Another approach that’s very saving on water would be to use the Sonic Bloom system of using sound to first open the pores of the leaves and then spraying the leaves with kelp-enriched water. Sonic Bloom grows plants about seven times normal size. And better tasting produce too. The inventor of Sonic Bloom is a great guy, but he’s not a marketing genius, so one of these days some enterprising person will come along and make billions promoting the product. Google Sonic Bloom for the history.
    These techniques might be usable to open up millions of acres of now unusable land in the American west. When I fly over the western part of our country I’m amazed at how little of it is being used.
    Well, immigrants, legal and illegal, tend almost entirely to head for our cities. Most of our commercial crops are being produced by huge farming corporations, with the smaller family operated farms being squeezed out  of business. So there’s little incentive for farmers to pull up stakes and move to what has always been a desolate area to try a new farming technology. And even less incentive for city people.
    Perhaps, as the organic raw food demand is ramped up by people wising up about health, the megafarmers will have to change, or go out of business.

12/2/10

Continental Airlines
    Continental, which had its problems early on, has turned out to be one of the best run carriers. I travel on Continental whenever I can, and an incident with them a while back just confirmed my confidence.
    I sort of inherited Continental. It started for me in the 1930s with Luddington Airlines, which my father went to work for around 1930 as the passenger and cargo manager. Then, in 1934, when Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart, the owners of the airline, sold it to Eastern Air Transport, I started traveling on Eastern.
    Eastern was great, with specials which made it ridiculously inexpensive for Sherry and me to visit Colombia, Guatemala, Martinique, Saint Martin, and so on.
    Next, Eastern was bought by Continental, so I continued buying their yearly passes, which kept the cost of my flights anywhere in the country down around $50 each, one whale of a senior's bargain.
    When Eastern and then Continental issued credit cards, Sherry and I ran as many business expenses as we could through them, making possible free flights to Europe…first class!
    On a trip to El Salvador, when I got home I discovered that someone along the way had unzipped my suitcase and stolen my two cameras (one for fast film, the other slow). I put in a claim to Continental, but I didn’t expect anything to come from it but perhaps a letter of regret. Instead I got a check covering the cost of the cameras, plus vouchers to upgrade us to first class on future flights. Wow!
    But then I’ve always enjoyed Continental. Their service is great and their food just fine. Also, they sure cover most parts of the country.
    One of these days, when I get some time (well, I suppose that’s just a dream), I want to make a trip through the Pacific islands on Continental, scuba diving at Majuro, Truk, a few other islands, and then go on to Bali. It doesn’t cost a lot to make a trip like that these days.

12/1/10

Computers
    In the computer field just look at the billions being made by the mail order retailers! PC Connection started in an old farmhouse in Marlow, a small New Hampshire town of 500. They sold by mail order, using a warehouse in the midwest. Now they’ve taken over and rebuilt a large shopping center in Amherst NH, with hundreds of employees. They sell by mail, using frequent catalogs, and they’ve pretty well put most of the computer retailers out of business. I saw that coming a few years ago, and sold the chain of 58 computer stores I’d built up to someone else before the disaster hit. Not long afterward the impact of PC Connection, PC Mall, PC Warehouse, and so on hit and my old store chain disintegrated.
    The next retailing giants are going to be web based. We’ll see how well PC Connection and the other mail order sellers weather the coming sea change in marketing. They'd better get busy adapting…or else.

11/29/10

On The Rocks
    Our ship of state, under the leadership of our captains (the Presidents) and their crews (Congress) is on the rocks. Alas, I doubt we, the passengers, will do anything to change our destiny of poverty.
    It was our manufacturing capacity that made us the most successful country in the world. It allowed us to win those two world wars, where we out-produced and invented our enemies. The key turning point, historically, was in 1913, when a democratic majority in Congress, together with President Wilson, made three decisions that headed us toward self-destruction.
    One was the taking of our money from the Treasury and handing it to a group of world bankers, the Federal Reserve Banks. That triggered the first inflation of the dollar, which had stayed steady in value for the previous 137 years…since our country was formed. When I was a kid a nickel bought me a hot dog and a glass of orange soda at Coney Island. 3¢ for a trolley ride. The subway was a nickel. A Chinese dinner was 35¢ from soup to ice cream for dessert. 25¢ for a double feature, cartoon, and a newsreel. Just 50 years ago a brand new Porsche was only $3,300.
    Another, was instituting the income tax, which started at 2% just on the wealthy, and today is around 60% for most of us.
   The third, and by far the most devastating, was the eliminating of tariffs on imported goods. Until that time import duties were the sole revenue source for the government, with no other really needed. That put our American workers in direct competition with those in foreign countries, forcing manufacturers to move their factories to lower-wage countries to be competitive. A situation exacerbated by our worker unions driving up American wages.
    In the last ten years we've lost some 42,500 factories, along with the millions of jobs. And this is gutting our once wealthy, by most country's standards, middle class.
    Meanwhile, we've been kept entertained watching ball games, TV, movies and rock concerts. Our public school system has, as planned, intentionally kept our last few generations from learning to think for themselves or be creative. Like Rome, where the public was kept busy watching games while their once powerful empire crumbled.
    So, are we going to let America follow the Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish, and British Empires, into the history books…turning the world over to the Chinese, where, with our borrowed money, they're fast building a new middle class?
    Okay, there's the problem. While we are busy watching TV seven hours a day and spending billions to make the inrush of illegal aliens comfortable, our country is going down the toilet. Probably permanently.
    My suggested solutions are to first re-institute duties on all imported goods. Let's start with 10% the first year, 20% the second, 30% the third, and let me know when you think we should stop…and why.
    Next, at every election be careful not to re-elect anyone. Or elect any more lawyers. We need to have our ship of state run by people with business experience, not by professional politicians.
    Third, end the income tax, essentially doubling our earnings. I've pointed out three ways the government could replace that revenue without losing anything.
    Fourth, get out of the military might business. With nukes, ballistic missiles, and germ warfare weapons, the days of the aircraft carrier fleets are as obsolete as battleships were by WWII.
    Next, get our states busy helping entrepreneurs start new small businesses…by the millions. Oh, and encourage our schools to offer entrepreneurially-aimed courses.
    No, I'm not done yet. It's way past time for us to wise up and trash our present public school system. We'd save billions and, by getting the word around on how to do it, we could build a new generation of genius kids. Let's do that before the Chinese wise up and beat us to it.
    We could also save a wasted five or six trillion dollars a year by educating our people to stop poisoning their bodies with cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine. Those trillions we're spending on addictive drugs and so-called healthcare, could be put to much better use.
   
11/28/10

Fat
     With some two-thirds of Americans overweight, and around a third now considered obese, it's about time we wake up to the fact that fat is a pernicious, deadly, slow-acting disease. Maybe you haven't noticed, but there are no old fat people.
    One of the things our bodies do when we give them the nutrition they're designed for and stop loading them down with poisons, is to take off the excess weight. Another thing our bodies do when fed right is to get rid of any other illnesses and not get sick again.
    Every time I go to the VA medical center in Manchester for a checkup I marvel at how many really fat doctors, nurses, and other help they have. "Have you had your flu shot yet?" they ask. And these are the people supposedly trained to keep us healthy?
    Sure, a few people live up into their eighties…even nineties…but very, very, few are truly healthy. None are fat.
    The great part of it is that when you eat right you can eat all you want without gaining weight. Unless you've wised up, the odds are you're taking better care of your car than your body.

11/27/10

Leukemia
    By chance, this morning I caught a half hour commercial by St. Jude's hospital, showing their treatment of babies and children with leukemia. Dozens of bald-headed children, all being subjected to chemo and radiation therapy.
    That damned hospital should be boarded up and the doctors put in prison. Alas, they are the result of the total control the pharmaceutical industry has over the so-called healthcare industry. Dr. Henry Bieler proved, over forty years ago, how simple it is to cure leukemia, and any other cancer, with no drugs and no treatment. But no word of his discovery dare be mentioned in the medical schools or medical journals. It's all about money, of course. The money is in extended treatments, not in cures.
    Hypocrites, some 2,400 years ago, pegged it right when he said that food is your best medicine. Well, as Dr. Bieler explained in his The Incurables, every sickness we get comes  from our diets. A healthy diet allows the body to fight off any invading germs, viruses, parasites, or fungi. A perfect diet gives one perfect health.
    Dr. Bieler went into hospitals where there were children dying of leukemia. He took them off all pasteurized milk products and fed them minced raw liver. The result was total cures. But, there's little money in curing illnesses. The money is in turning off the warning signals, called symptoms…and extended (very expensive) hospital stays so, of course, Dr. Bieler had to be barred from hospitals.
    Check my 8/9/08 entry about Dr. Marshall, who discovered a simple cure for ulcers, which was a major money tree for doctors prescribing Tagamet. The medical journals ignored him.

11/25/10

Sinking
    The American Ship of State has been steered on the rocks by the Congress we elected and trusted. The ship is sinking in a sea of red ink, and taking us with it.
    By Congress eliminating tariffs on imported goods they've forced American manufacturers to move their operations to lower wage countries, thereby losing our means of making money selling our goods to other countries. So we've been borrowing to make up the difference. With no visible means of support, how long before our creditors pull the plug? And then what?
    In the last ten years we've lost almost 43,000 factories and 32% of our manufacturing jobs. No wonder we're suffering record unemployment, with no sign of any improvement ahead! We've lost almost six million manufacturing jobs in the last ten years…without finding anything much to replace them except hiring more government bureaucrats. No wonder we're seeing about 60% of our earnings being taken as taxes.
    With another election coming up in two years, how about asking your Congressman and Senator what they're going to do to try and save our economy from the wreck Congress has made. Well, at least they can be proud of the humongous military they've built up to protect our country from…?

11/24/10

Our Little Stick
    Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy was for the US to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Today, as a result of our military downsizing, our dependence on fewer, much more expensive weapons, and the ever more commitments we’ve been making (NATO, UN), all we’ve got now is a little stick. But that hasn’t stopped us from making expensive messes in Haiti, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
    I’d like to see more attention to solving our national problems than volunteering to be a policeman for the world. Look out, East Timor, here we come! Yes, it’s horrible what some governments are doing to their people and someone ought to do something about it. So where were we when Stalin was killing tens of millions of his people? When Mao was busy wiping out millions of Chinese landowners and teachers? When Pol Pot was killing millions of his people? When the Burma military were massacring thousands of students? And so on, in dozens of countries around the world?
    Shouldn’t we be invading North Korea, where the government is starving millions of their people? Shouldn’t we be drafting thousands of American boys to send over there to get killed in the name of mercy?
    We have a supposed democracy here which isn’t democratic. It’s run by big business and banks via lobbyist's bribes. Maybe we should find out how to make democracy work here before we force it on other countries.
    In Africa, when the European countries pulled out of their colonies, it was no time before the new countries were taken over by dictators, who proceeded to kill millions of their people and plunder their countries. Can you name one single democratic country in Africa? Even South Africa is a terrible mess these days, and getting messier.
    Should we jump in and stop the massacres in Ethiopia? How about Burundi and Rwanda? We sat here and let hundreds of thousands of Ibos get killed in Nigeria. We set up Liberia in the first place, so don’t we have a responsibility to stop the killing there?
    Yes, the middle east is a mess. Slavery is still popular in several Arab countries. We have the rogue countries of Libya, Syria, and Iran, plus the semi-friendly other Arab countries. We have Pakistan and India fighting each other. We have the revolution in Sri Lanka, the rebellious Bengalis, and I’m not sure how many wars in the new soviet countries. There’s Northern Ireland, the separatists of Quebec, messes in El Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia.
    No, I’m not an isolationist. When it comes to business there’s no practical way to close the international doors. Or to shut out foreign investments here. Hmm, let’s see, who owns the major movie companies now? Or the music companies? For the most part, they sure aren’t owned by American companies any more.
    Heck, the biggest manufacturer in the Peterborough area was New Hampshire Ball Bearing. They’re the biggest manufacturer in the world of miniature ball bearings, the kind that make our instruments work, our disk drives and CD players whirl. Minibea of Japan bought the company out several years ago.
    When we’re able to work out the kinks of democracy here, then maybe we’ll have a better chance at exporting it. So let’s get busy and tackle our major problems at home before we take on policing the world. We don’t have to have one of the most inefficient school systems in the world, nor the most expensive medical industry. We don’t have to have the highest percentage of our population in prison of the developed countries. We don’t even have to have a government run by big business and the banks.
    What can we do about all this? Hell, that’s simple! Just speak the hell up!
    First, know what you’re talking about. Second, set up a system for letting your senators and congressmen know what you want them to do. Third, get busy and start recruiting friends and neighbors to join your crusade. I’ve found that when I’m pushing some kind of legislation, if I have a wad of petitions in my hand to wave at them, I get a lot of attention. I’ve been able to bring about some of the biggest FCC rule changes in amateur radio legislation in the history of the hobby, just by organizing a hearing and waving petitions.
    With faxes, email, and snail mail, you can build a pile on your representative’s desks that will begin to have as much of an effect as the lobbyist dollars they’ve been pocketing. Their lavishly paid jobs depend on their getting re-elected, so any threat to that will be taken seriously.
    And that goes ditto for your state legislature.
    Your choice: is helping to make our country better for your kids and grandkids more important than watching a ball game tonight? If you do nothing, nothing will change for the better.

11/23/10

Publishing Technology
    Technology sure has changed publishing over the last five decades. When I started 73 in 1960 I would get typewritten copy from the authors. I'd then edit it with a pencil, using standard proof-reader notation, and send it to the printer to be set in type. I'd picked Morton Press, in downtown Manhattan, a 60-year old printing company that specialized in magazines.
    The type was set on old Mergantheiler Linotype machines, using hot lead. They'd then ink the trays of type and send me galley proof strips for proofing and to paste-up into page format. The photos, schematics, and other illustrations were sent out to be made into half-tones and came back as thin copper sheets glued on wooden blocks the same height as the line-of-type slugs. I would then cut the galleys and proofs of the illustrations to fit the pages and send these "pages" back to the printer to have the type and illustration blocks clamped together to print the pages. They would then correct any typesetting errors (often making more errors in the process), put the pages together and send me a proof of the assembled pages.
    The last two or three days before press time were hectic, requiring me to be at the printer's plant to make last minute corrections and then correcting the errors they made in making the previous corrections. Printers had special rooms set aside for the editors to do this last minute work.
    Today most articles arrive in disk form or by email from the authors and I edit them on my computer. The photos are scanned in by computer. Any schematics are drawn by computer instead of by a draftsman. Then the copy and illustrations are put together in the computer and the finished pages sent via the web to the printer.
    When I was starting 73 I had to buy a stencil addressing system and a mimeograph. The addressing system used paper stencils which had to be softened with water before typing. There was a stencil holder that clamped on the typewriter platen, and typewriters had a stencil position that pushed the ribbon out of the way. The typewriter then cut the softened paper.
    The stencil printing machine weighed in at around 600 pounds. I'd stick stacks of the stencils into one side and it would slide them under an inked roller and print the address. At magazine mailing time I'd have to sit there for hours feeding magazine wrapper papers under the stencil printing area. Then I'd drive the cartons of wrappers to Morton’s printing plant in Norwalk, Connecticut.
    How did I get 73 started? Well, I didn't have much money, so I first sent letters to every ham club I knew of, asking for subscriptions. I also wrote to all of the ham radio stores, suggesting they carry the magazine on their counter. By selling my boat, plane, and a Porsche I got just enough money to print 10,000 copies of the first issue. Around 300 ham radio stores ordered copies, plus I had around a thousand paid subscriptions. By the third issue my 10,000 print run was too little and I ran out of copies to sell as back issues. Within two years I had over 850 ham stores selling the magazine and the subscriptions were pouring in.
    Having edited CQ for five years, I knew all of the ham authors, so I asked them to consider my new magazine when they were writing construction articles. Despite my travels the year before, when I was fired CQ I had five whole issues done ahead, complete and ready to go. The new editor had little to do. When it finally came time for him to do some work, he couldn't handle it and was fired.
    The CQ publisher, to save money, wanted to stop running construction articles and just run monthly columns, so my old authors had no choice but to turn to 73  They, understandably, wanted to get paid for their work, and QST, the only other ham magazine, paid nothing except prestige for their articles, so I had the first choice on most construction, theory and product review articles.
    In 1982, when I sold my eight-magazine (seven were computer magazines) empire to one of the megapublishers, I started over. At that time it cost me over $500,000 for the latest computer publishing system. These days, for under $1,000, you can do almost as much as we could with that half-million dollar system. A used Mac PowerBook and a used laser printer and you're in business. I still do much of my work on a $200 (used) iMac, though I've graduated to a faster and larger screened Proforma Mac for most of it. But even the fastest new Macs cost less than $5,000. And prices are going to nothing but continue to go down as faster processors, cheaper RAM and bigger storage devices appear.
    There are few businesses that couldn't be helped with a newsletter, an easy way to generate promotions. So we'll be seeing more and more in-house publishing. There's also a great opportunity there for people to become experts in this technology and do newsletters and promotions via the mail and/or the Web for small businesses.
    Indeed, U.S. News has gone from weekly paper issues to monthly, with the weekly issues delivered by PFD files via the Web. That’ll save them millions in paper, printing and mailing costs.
    I’m still using PageMaker software for my books, while Daron is using InDesign with his Mac to do New Hampshire ToDo. Here’s a magazine with no offices. Everyone on the staff works from home and keeps in touch via email. The authors submit their articles by email, including the photos.
    I can’t even imagine what the next step will be…I just know it’ll be along.

11/22/10

Those Little Books
    Every now and then a free little 4" x 6-3/4", usually 128-page, book with a provocative title arrives unbidden in my mail. I've got a whole bookshelf of them saved. Like the latest, The 100 Greatest Cures You Can't Have by Jenny Thompson. All I have to do is send Jenny $49 and I'll not only be a one-year subscriber to the HSI newsletter, I'll also get 12 reports on the cures discussed in the booklet.
    All of ’em are the same, Forbidden cures, medical lies, and so on, but I must subscribe to the newsletter to get the reports which promise to give the actual answers. These are just 128-page ads.
    Just in case one of the newsletter publishing doctor comes up with anything of actual value, I subscribe to several. I should save my money because I get more real info for free from Dr. Mercola's emails. Oh, Dr. Douglass sometimes has good info, but he's still smoking, and making excuses for his addiction.
    Anyway, the next time one of those little ad books comes, just toss it.

11/21/10

NH Politics
    Here’s something I wrote in 1992, back when I was a lad of seventy. Alas, little has changed since then.
    There was one heck of a potential news story behind the scuttling of the New Hampshire Economic Development Commission, if our New Hampshire publishers had been at all interested in reporting on some of the political skullduggery going on.
    So what actually happened to the Commission, which was formed in August 1991 to help the state cope with it's really serious recession? How come over half of the original members dropped out within a year? How come the Commission was forced to drop all consideration of ways for the state to cope with the recession? How come there was never any discussion of the problems facing our state and a solicitation of ideas for solving these problems…supposedly the reason for the Commission? How come, when ideas were proposed anyway, they were totally ignored by the Commission's Executive Committee, which was made up of politicians instead of businessmen? How come no report was ever submitted to the Legislature by the Commission? How come the Commission meetings suddenly stopped, with no further word from the Executive Committee or Vice-Chairman Dupont to anyone on the Commission?

Re: Final Report, Part I                     (August, 1992)
Gobbledygook Run Amok
Who really wrote this turkey?

    Yesterday was a busy day, but it was made brighter by the arrival of the proposed Commission report. Actually, it was just the first half, though there was nothing in it to indicate that more was still to come. Since less than half of the original Commission members were still interested enough in the project to attend the two meetings in July devoted to preparing this report, I’ll bet not many bothered to try and read it.
    At first I thought I was reading a clever parody. It was hilarious. Oh, how I wish I could write like that! I just love long, pontifical statements of the obvious, all done in complete seriousness, As I read the report I couldn't help thinking back to the hours I spent driving to Concord and back for over a year…and the hours, those of us who bothered, spent in Commission and subcommittee meet¬ings. Alas, I was unable to find more than a few shreds of the material we learned or discussed in ten months of meetings reflected in the report. Nothing at all emerged from the extensive Educational Subcommittee meetings and testimony from education experts at all levels. Little came through from the work of the Capital Formation Subcommittee. It was as if these meetings had never happened.
    After reading this report I could understand why over half of the Commission members hadn't bothered to attend the July meetings…including Governor Gregg, our Chairman, and Senate President Dupont, our esteemed Vice-Chairman. I could understand why so few of the businessmen appointed to the Commission bothered to see it through.
    The proposed report was a total waste of everyone's time. It would even be a waste of the paper it would take to print it. It said nothing. Twenty-five pages of nothing. It shed no light on the situation New Hampshire was in. It offered no proposed solutions to either our long or short range problems. Meanwhile Wang Computers declared bankruptcy and cut 40% of its employees…mostly in New Hampshire. DEC was in serious trouble and also announced it would be cutting thousands from its New Hampshire work force. So, while New Hampshire was burning, the Economic Development Commission, along with an endless host of state bureaucrats, were fiddling. I can understand why Governor Gregg followed the thousands deserting our sinking state. We had no plan. We had no leader. And the report from our Commission was all potatoes and no meat. Even the gravy was tasteless.
    The author of the dumb report, I was told, was Michael Kitch, a chap who never even attended most of the Commission meetings and wasn’t even a member. Having talked with him, I believe it.

An obsolete technology is hurting us…
Maybe someone should have planned?

    The Wang bankruptcy reminds me of a lunch I had with An Wang and his son in 1982. At the time I was the editor and publisher of Microcomputing, 80-Micro, InCider, Run, Desk¬top Computing, Selling Micros, Instant Software, and so on. I tried to convince Mr. Wang that personal computers would inevitably put his minicomputer empire out of business if he didn't quickly embrace this new technology. He was adamant that I was wrong, that this could never happen and refused to discuss it further.
    I also tried to convince DeCastro, the president of Data General, that his minicomputers would eventually be made obsolete by personal computers…and that personal computers would have to use a standardized open operating system. His response was to get mad. This was the same response I got from John Roach, the chairman of Radio Shack at a time when his computers were commanding 40% of all personal computer sales. That was shortly before IBM entered the market with an open operating system from Microsoft which caused Radio Shack’s computer sales to plummet to about 4% of market share, losing Radio Shack and parent Tandy billions…more probably trillions…in sales.
    At that time, some seven years into the personal computer age, Radio Shack and Apple each had about 40% of the market, while some 200 or so smaller companies shared the remaining 20%. Radio Shack's computers used their TRS-DOS operating system, which they jealously protected. With their network of thousands of stores, Radio Shack was in a position to dominate this new industry.
    Their TRS-80 computer had attracted over 2,000 small supporting companies with hardware accessories and software, all of which Radio Shack fought vigorously. They wanted it all and they went to some extraordinary lengths to keep the TRS-80 to themselves. I warned John Roach that this arrogance would come to haunt him.
    Apple, too, had its own operating system (still does). The others. almost all, were using the CPM operating system, which had grown to be pretty much the standard.
    IBM, which had been prevented from entering the personal computer market by a lengthy lawsuit over their dominance of the main frame computer industry, had to wait until the suit was ended before they could get into personal computers.
    Once freed from that restraint they moved ahead quickly. A good ham friend of mine, Chaz Cone W4GKF, a chap I'd gone on a DXpedition with to Navassa Island a few years earlier, was one of the key developers of the IBM personal computer. He saw that the strength of the competition lay in the widespread third party support with accessories and software. Indeed, by this time my 80-Micro magazine, the first computer magazine devoted to a single brand of computer, was running to over 600 pages a month. In 1982 it was the third largest consumer magazine in the country, with Vogue second, and Byte, which I started in 1975, and was now published by McGraw-Hill, the largest. With 300-350 pages of ads per month, the third-party support for the TRS-80 was mammoth, even though Radio Shack hated it.
    Chaz reasoned that the main strength of the TRS-80 was in this massive support it was getting, so he got IBM to agree to something they'd never done before: to open up their operating system and encourage third-party support. And it worked. Virtually all of the TRS-80 supporting companies quickly switched to the IBM system, deserting Radio Shack. One year at Comdex, the industry trade show, there were thousands of TRS-80 support companies — the next I could only find one TRS-80 system being shown. Everything else had gone to the IBM format.
    Centronics in Hudson NH, the world's largest maker of computer printers, also said I was wrong, but at least the president didn't want to shoot the messenger. Now they're making pancake turners in the old Centronics factory and the company is no more.
    I tried to explain to the president and his executive committee that with the arrival of personal computers, which were costing about one-tenth that of minicomputers, there would be a need to also reduce the cost of printers by 90%. He said that this was completely impossible, and that as the president of the largest printer manufacturing firm in the world, he ought to know. Their lowest price model at that time was about $3,500.
    Three years later, faced with a $350 Epsom printer from Japan, he called me back to consult, but by then it was too late. The Japanese had seen the market niche and were flooding America with low-cost printers. And, you know, many of the inventions that went into lowering the cost of printers were made right here in New Hampshire by Royden Sanders of Sanders Development in Milford (a good friend of mine). He and other inventors were ignored by Centronics, but you can bet that the Japanese paid attention to them. Like most other such technologies, the new printer was invented here and marketed by the Japanese.
    When it comes to technology I do my homework and as a result have a good nose for where things are heading. Though there was little hint of it in the proposed Commission final report, the future quality of life in New Hampshire is heavily dependent upon our being involved with the research, develop¬ment, manufacturing and marketing of high technology products. The world is paying off on information products, not commodities like shoes and pancake turners, which are moving to lower wage countries. Brains, not brawn, are paying off more and more.

Trashing our future and our kids future…
The price of inaction.

    The quality of life we provide for our children depends on what we do today. If we let our politicians get away with trashing our future through our lack of interest, then we'll be letting New Hampshire and our country go the way of giants like Wang, Data General, DEC, Prime, and Centronics. I didn't see the proposed report anything short of trashing the work the Commission was supposed to do to help New Hampshire.
    We can generate new jobs in New Hampshire. We can generate thousands of jobs and we can do it in fairly short order. We can beat the teacher unions and change our educational system so we can build a high-tech work force which will guarantee that New Hampshire will again be number one as the place to live in America. But unless we change our schools from bottom to top (or vice versa)…unless we start cleaning out the ever-growing bureaucracy in Concord…we're going to go the Wang route. In 1991 they had 21,000 employees. By 1993 they were down to 8,000 and about to cut more. Then, no more Wang.
    Few have noticed that the only area where employment has been growing is in government. Which means more taxes to pay for more bureaucracy and make-work. That means more red tape and paperwork. That means more officious bureaucrats making life difficult for business and further slowing business growth and job creation, making us less and less competitive in the world markets. And all this is happening only because we're allowing it to. Will you pay any more attention to me than An Wang, DeCastro or Olson of DEC?
    Change means opportunity, but only if you’re prepared for it. Our kids are not being prepared for the high-tech world of the 21st century. And that means they’ll have to work at service jobs, work that pays far less. Low-skilled workers have been earning less and less over the last 20 years, and this is going to continue as more jobs move to India and China, and more illegal immigrants flood into the country..
    We either radically change our school system and introduce high-tech courses early on, or high-tech businesses will be moving more and more to other countries where the education is better. We've already lost virtually 100% of our TV industry — cameras, studio equipment, and home TV sets. Cassettes, CDs, audio, radio, cameras, telephones, faxes, copiers, etc., are all imported these days.

Have we failed totally?
What could we have done better?

    Will New Hampshire go the Wang and DEC route? We either keep up with technology and provide the needed work force to make it happen or we eke out a living…doing what? As I read the proposed Commission report I found no recommendations for solutions to our problems…no proposed initiatives to get us going again…no proposals for the changes we need to implement to build a high-tech work force.
    Our banks are a shambles. Our property has lost billions in value. We're up to here in bankruptcies. Our construction industry has been devastated. There's virtually no money for starting new businesses. Our large companies are downsizing. Our low-tech manufacturing is moving to Mexico and Asia. Our politicians are being bribed into inaction by PACs and vested interests. Our schools are turning out unmotivated gibbering idiots. Our major New Hampshire city is awash in crack houses, with hot and cold running prostitutes on the corners. I just wish I was exaggerating.
    Then along comes a cry for help asking businessmen to study the situation and propose some solutions to the mess. The Economic Development Commission spent ten months and produced a sack of nuts. The report was a joke…a sad parody. If the papers had ever gotten a look at this we'd be a laughing stock. I didn't see one bit of the report that couldn't have been written before we had our first meeting. I saw not one real hint that the writer of the report had attended any meetings, listened to any testimony from the experts we brought in, or read any of their recommended reports and books…much less any of my reports. I didn’t see how the writer could have even been a member of the Commission. Indeed, the inside word was that he wasn’t.

11/20/10

Mind Repairing
    Psychiatry and psychoanalysis are as phony as so-called medical science. Well, I've covered the doctor-hospital-pharmaceutical super-scam, now I'll explain how the mind works and how to fix it when it has problems…something psychiatrists should know, but aren't taught.
    It's simple and common sense, really. First, the fundamental law for us is to stay alive. Survival. Our bodies have lots of protection, like sending pain signals as an alarm when something is damaged or not working right. When you do something that causes pain, you stop doing that. Plus, you remember not to do that painful thing again. In fact, you don't even have to think about it to not do something painful again…it's an automatic subconscious reaction.
    How many times do you have to burn your fingers  a hot stove to not touch a hot stove again? You don't even have to think about it. Once does it. You subconscious mind, from then on, equates the hot stove with pain and makes you avoid it. When there's pain, your subconscious equates whatever you are seeing, hearing, or feeling with pain and makes you want to avoid it in the future. It's a great survival system, and operates much faster than the conscious mind.
    The same avoidance system kicks in whether the pain is physical or mental…often causing us to do strange things in response to the subconscious conditioning. Fortunately, it is not difficult to decondition the responses we don't want. Like subconscious fears.
    The therapist has the patient sit or lie down and puts the person under a light hypnosis. Next the patient is regressed to the physically or mentally painful incident and asked to go through it in detail. This is then repeated until the patient no longer feels any pain or emotion about the incident and is laughing about it. This deconditions the subconscious mind's automatic equation of pain to the other things seen, heard, or felt at the time.
    There are two results. First the automatic behavior pattern will have been erased. Secondly, this frees some of the mind up, increasing the IQ a little.

11/19/10

Haaalp!
    With the first edition supply of my Secret Guide to Health running low, I'm putting the finishing touches on a second edition. The one big blank I've drawn is for a title. Maybe, if your creativity hasn't been totally crushed by our public school system, you can come up with a winner for me.
    There are thousands, maybe millions, of health books, plus who knows how many health newsletters, so a title with the word health in it gets buried in an ocean of look-alikes. Besides, not that many people have an interest in their health, otherwise McDonalds and Burger King wouldn't be making so many billions. Or the pharmaceutical industry making trillions. Golly, what a bunch of ignorant suckers we are!
    Far's I know, which is pretty far, my book is the only health book that tells the real story. Dr. Comby's Maximize Immunity is the only other book I've found that explains how toxic raw food is for us. I suspect Dr. Mercola knows, since he says he's eating 90% raw, but I haven't yet seen any of his e-letters explaining why.
    I've considered Quackery, the Health-Care Super-Scam Exposed! Or Top Secret, the Secret that Could Destroy America As We Know It! Well, you can see why I'm asking for ideas.
    If very many of our people start demanding organic, non-GM food, food with all the lost minerals in it, this would soon put the farming industry as we know it today out of business. Super markets would be blown away, along with almost all of today's huge food industry. Around 90% of our doctors and hospitals would fade away. Ditto nursing homes. And the fast-food places would have to totally change their menus. This interest in health would precipitate a desperately needed food and healthcare revolution. About damned time.
    Revolution number two, also seriously needed, will be to replace oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power with cold fusion. Oh, and hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar power, too.
    Revolution number three will be our lousiest in the world public school system. What a difference it'll make when we have a new generation with genius IQ kids, that have learned to think, speak several languages and able to read books at a few seconds a page with good comprehension. Well, we know how to do all that, but like health, the big money is in the present system of suppression.
    So, put on your thinking cap, as Uncle Don used to say, and let's see what you can come up with.

11/18/10

The Futurist
    When I first got interested in radio, in 1936 (see 8/24/08), it was a new technology and just developing. I soon discovered amateur    radio, where the new things were happening first. Most ham operators were busy communicating with each other at 15 to 25 words per minute using Morse Code, a hangover from the old telegraph operators that helped open the west…19th century stuff. Radiotelephone was the relative newcomer, so that's where my interest was.
    The very newest of the new was VHF, the Very High Frequencies, so the first ham radio unit I built was a 2-1/2 meter walkie-talkie. And it was with this that I made my first ham contacts the day my ham license arrived, with Dexter W2MLM, a local ham. On those frequencies, communications were just line-of-sight, so I had a great time going to hilltops so I could reach further away fellow experimenters.
    Came WWII and the shutting down of amateur radio for the duration. Being 19, and prime Army draft-bait, I joined the Navy as an electronic technician and had a great time going to radar school…the first school I ever really enjoyed. And what fun keeping the radar, sonar, and radio equipment on my submarine in top shape all through the war!
    After the war, and back to RPI to finish my college education, as president of the radio club, I set up a carrier-current broadcasting station, WRPI, which built my club membership from about a dozen to some 400. The station, now on FM, is today the school's leading student-run activity.
    Soon after college, in 1948, I was hired as a TV engineer to put WPIX on Channel 11 in New York City on the air. With studios in the Daily News Building on 42nd Street, and the transmitter up on the 37th floor, what a great location for a VHF ham station! From there I was able to talk with hams up to a couple hundred miles away! Wow!
    But, what was that strange "beedle-beedle" sound up at the top end of the two meter band? It turned out to be Johnny Williams, out in Flushing, communicating with a few other experimenters via amateur radio teletype (RTTY). I bought an old teletype machine from him, built the necessary converter, and got in on the fun. It was a lot like email today, where I could send or receive messages from any ham tuned to the RTTY channel (147.96 MHZ), whether they were home or not…and get an answering beep-beep telling me my message had been received,.
    Johnny, who was operating from his radio and TV repair store, was resistant to publishing a newsletter to help interest more hams in this fantastic new technology, so I started publishing  Amateur Radio Frontiers. Soon I had over 2,000 paid subscribers to my 36-page monthly journal. This led to me having a monthly RTTY column in CQ, one of the two ham magazines. The other, QST, published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), was still pushing Morse Code and, to this day, has never helped pioneer any new ham technologies.
    After I helped CQ's editor get a better job as editor of Popular Electronics I suddenly found myself editor of CQ. The brand new ham technology then was single sideband (SSB), which took up less band space and delivered about six times the output power with the same equipment. So I published article after article on building the new equipment, with the result that almost all ham voice communications went from amplitude modulation (AM) to SSB.
    When Hallicrafters, our leading manufacturer of ham equipment, announced an SSB transceiver, to help promote it they outfitted an old C-54 cargo plane, that had seen duty on the Berlin Airlift, with their equipment for Operation World-Wide…with CBS's Bill Leonard (W2SKE) and me (W2NSD) as the operators. We flew around the world, making ham contacts by the thousands as we flew, and visiting hams in 26 countries. South Yemen, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, Thailand, wow!
    In 1960, when the CQ publisher had sunk a fortune into a new yacht, he got a year behind on paying me, so I got fired. Damn, fired from the most fun job in the world! So I got together just enough money to publish the first issue of my own ham magazine, 73 Amateur Radio Today. And it was dedicated to helping the hobby develop new technologies. It lasted for 43 years.
    To develop new ideas hams had to be able to build the new equipment, so I pushed my readers to have fun building ham projects. Like bouncing our signals off the Moon to communicate. What a rush! Next it was ham satellites, with me making contact with a ham in Moscow from my New Hampshire home via the Hamsat. More fun.
    Next came narrow band FM (NBFM) for our VHF bands. After I published, a few hundred articles, that was the end of AM on our VHF ham bands. And all this was with QST pretty much ignoring the new technologies I was pioneering.
    By this time several ham clubs had set up automatic relay stations (called repeaters) atop mountains and tall buildings to extend the range of their mobile and hand-transceivers. Talk about fun! So I set up WR1AAB on top of nearby Pack Monadnock Mountain, controlling it from my home in Peterborough NH. It allowed mobile hams anywhere in New England to talk with each other.
    Naturally I got the pioneers in this new technology to write articles for my magazine. What had been a dozen or so repeaters around the country bloomed to over 8,000, which I cataloged in a yearly Repeater Atlas. Then, when I was flying from Johannesburg, South Africa to Swaziland, talking with hams all around South Africa from the plane via the Johannesburg repeater, suddenly there was the Swaziland repeater, allowing me to talk with the hams around that country. Repeaters were everywhere!
    All of our repeaters had the ability for us to make telephone calls, so I kept writing in my editorials about what fun it was to be able to ski the mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, Utah and Colorado with a little hand-transceiver in my pocket and be able to make phone calls anywhere in the world. A ham working for Motorola (Art Housholder W9TRG) took my editorials to the top Motorola brass and that got them to start the cell phone industry. With some two billion or so users today, that's changed the world…but perhaps not as much as personal computers.
    Once it became clear that there were no more amateur radio frontiers to help pioneer, after 43 years I quietly folded my magazine.
    In January 1975 a little outfit in Albuquerque (MITS), who had been advertising a little hand calculator in my magazine, put a computer kit on the market, their Altair 5500, for computer hobbyists. Naturally I got one and put it together. I saw the future in what was then called a microcomputer…later called personal computers.
    Well it started with mainframe computers, weighing in at around a million dollars. Then came the minicomputers, costing around $100,000, putting most of the mainframe companies out of business. It looked to me as if microcomputers would be $10,000 or less and bring computing to small businesses and even to homes. But, like the other technologies I helped pioneer, it needed a magazine.
    A magazine helps the pioneers swap ideas, developing the new technology. Further, it attracts newcomers and brings them up to speed. Next, as the technology grows, it attracts entrepreneurs and gives them a way to reach customers. So I started Byte in 1975, and it grew to over 800 pages a month, becoming the largest magazine in America. I followed that with 80-Micro for the Radio Shack computer, Run for the Commodore, InCider for the Apple, and Cocoa for the Color Computer.
    With minicomputers it was necessary to have each computer fitted with custom software, which about doubled the cost of the system. I figured micocomputers should have common operating systems so off-the-shelf software could be provided. First, I organized an industry standards meeting in Kansas City. This resulted in the Kansas City Standard, allowing me to set up Instant Software. I got my readers to develop programs and submit them for us to perfect and market, with royalties to the authors. We produced over 250 programs for business, teaching, and home use.
    It was gratifying when I counted five of our magazines on the newsstand at the Singapore airport.
    My dad, too, was into technology. Back in WWI he opted for the Army Air Corps and went on to build the first airport with concrete paved runways, Central Airport, for Philadelphia, in 1927. This was how I happened to be a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York. Later dad started the first trans-Atlantic airline, American Export Airlines, later to be sold to Pan American. His grandfather was a pioneer homeopathist, Dr. T.E. Sanger, in Littleton NH.
    My pioneering interests haven't been only in technology. In 1950, when I read about Dianetics, the Science of Mental Health, which claimed it could cure any mental illnesses, I immediately got L.Ron Hubbard's book and tried it out. The results were so spectacular I quit a very nice broadcasting job and went to New Jersey to be trained by Hubbard. It was a wonderful training course and changed my life. Any of this PTSD our veterans are suffering could be cured in an hour or two using Dianetics. Easy. Psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis are remnants of the past. I can do in hours what they hope to do in years. Phooey.
    More recently, when someone recommended I read Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby, I discovered that any illness could be quickly cured with no drugs…that our whole medical industry and the fantastically profitable drug giants are all phony. Any cancer can be cured, even starting days before death, and without fail. Alzheimer's, etc. Diabetes in two to three weeks, It's simple and makes good common sense, which spending trillions on so-called healthcare doesn't. Alas, the Golden Rule applies, and those with the gold make the rules…with the FDA, and so on asking how high when told to jump.
    The prospect of being able to live 120 to 200 years in robust health and never get sick will, eventually, put the sickness industry out of business. It does means a major diet change, and a total demand for organic, non-GM, non factory produced meat food supplies. This may just encourage our return to millions of small farms, like we used to have before cancer, Alzheimer's, and so on started killing us. We'll need the raw milk.
    Getting back into technology again, when I heard about cold fusion the idea made sense to me, so I looked into it and got to know the players personally. Here was an easy-to-understand and proven new technology that promised to provide non-polluting energy at a tiny fraction the cost of oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, and other energy sources. It'll take a while to subdue the oil cartel, but cold fusion will eventually put everything else out of business.
    Then there's the micro-battery. One the size of a shoe box will power a car for about 500 miles. It's been invented, patented and proven. I drove a scooter all around London powered by a battery the size of a flashlight.
    One more new technology. Well, more a return to an old one…the one-room schoolhouse, where kids weren't separated by age, and learned what they wanted to…back to a time when we had the highest literacy rate in our history. It'll take a while to take hold, but we know how to have children with 150-average IQs…geniuses…with the ability to speak several languages and read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page.
    With diets to keep them from getting sick, Dianetics to erase any psychological problems or phobias, and schools geared to allow kids to learn what they want…what a future we'll have! Tuition-free colleges graduating kids vastly better educated than today in two or three years instead of four to six.
    Yes, I live in the future. I always have, and I hope you'll join me in making it happen. Oh, and if you find any books I absolutely ought to read, let me know. I'd hate to miss knowing about a book like Maximize Immunity, or many of the others I review in my Secret Guide to Wisdom,

11/17/10

Do-Gooding
    Carrie Nation and her do-gooders got Congress, over President Wilson's veto, to ban the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, known as the Noble Experiment (1920-1933). The result was the rapid development of a huge underground industry, managed by criminals making millions from the trade, and growing groups like The Mafia, who are still with us. On the positive side it gave us today's Las Vegas, as the drug lords invested their money where it would grow the fastest.
    During that period, finding a speakeasy in any town was easy, and getting all the booze one wanted, like getting today's illegal drugs, was a no-brainer. When we were living in Pennsauken NJ (1929-1931) my dad had an old speakeasy bar in the basement, where he entertained   pilots and business friends while he built and managed Central Airport, the new airport for Philadelphia. That's how I got to know Amelia Earhart, who kept her Lockheed at dad's airport.
    Having learned nothing from the Prohibition disaster, Congress bowed to do-gooders again, outlawing certain drugs, providing entrepreneurs with another golden opportunity to make millions, and giving us the drug gangs we have today. Oh, and Afghanistan's largest commercial crop, poppies.
    So, our government is spending some $50 billion of our tax money a year on our drug war, and that doesn't count the two million people in prison, at a cost of about $60 billion a year, or court costs. Like Prohibition, drugs are easy to find and so available that their price is low. See if you can find a statistic or me for how many drug-related murders there are, just in America, every year.
    Golly, we know that smoking is bad for us, why not make that illegal? Like alcohol, it's illegal for kids, which helps explain why kids are so eager to give it a try. And, of course, it doesn't take long for them to get addicted (hooked),
    Say, why is it that so many people get addicted to alcohol, nicotine, and drugs? I suspect the root lies in our government-run public school system, for which we can also thank the Congress we have been unable to keep ourselves from endlessly re-electing.
    They don't teach history in school any more, so you have to do your own reading to get an understanding of how we got into the mess we're in today. Luckily for Congress, only a very small percentage of our people survive the school system with an ability and interest in reading. Check out any history of American education and you'll learn that until Congress formed the Department of Education and funded the public school system, our kids went to local one-room schoolhouses, where they were not separated by age, with the kids in groups learning what they were interested in. And we had the highest literacy in our history.
    When our religious leaders got Congress to institute the public school system it was set up on the Prussian system, which produced soldiers who would obey orders without question. They wanted kids to be taught to go to church and not ask questions. And that's what we got, just in time for the industrial revolution, which needed to get kids off the farms and into the factories…to shut up and do their work. The system discourages kids learning to think or be creative, skills that are bad for both religions and factory work. It's the system we're still forcing kids to endure today. Mandatory.
    Lacking the ability to think, it's easy for us to get addicted to drugs like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, fad music, talk radio, soap opera TV, etc.
    Please do the homework you should have been encouraged to do in school and read books like John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of American Education. It's reviewed on page 43 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. And there's Charlotte Iserbyt's The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (see my 4/21/10 review of this huge, well referenced book).
    So what are you addicted to? I think the closest thing I have to an addiction is my enjoyment of classical music and doing crossword puzzles. Since everyone in my family and all their friends smoked, I tried cigarettes. Ugh! Ditto alcohol. I really tried to like beer, which my fraternity brothers drank until they puked on Saturday nights. Ditto coffee. Never liked it much. So, it's been easy for me to change to an all raw diet, with no sugar, caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol addictions to fight. Nor cooked food, for that matter.
    I'm angry that our mandatory public school system wasted so much of my young life short-term memorizing junk of little long-term use. I'm hoping I can wake up enough people to stop this waste. Perhaps, if I can get the word to enough parents on how to have children with 150-average IQs, and then give them the benefit of a Sudbury Valley type school, in another generation we'll see an America that is again a world leader. A country generating creative art and technology. One with a minimum of government and no taxes. Hmm, I wonder if football and baseball will survive an intelligence increase?
    With high IQs, and the ability to use them, our new generation will eventually put the alcohol, caffeine and nicotine industries out of business without any help from Congress making them illegal. Ditto today's toxic, factory-raised meats. The market for illegal drugs will dry up. Eating organic raw food, we'll be living to 150 in excellent health and, by adopting the Chilean social security system, we'll be enjoying ten times our present social security payments. The retirement age will probably creep up to around a hundred. Well, at 88, I'm busy working seven days a week and enjoying every minute of it. I've never played a round of golf, or had any interest in an RV. As a futurist, I'll always be busy trying to push the world ahead.
    Today's medical and dental industries, with hundreds of thousands of doctors, super-rich pharmaceutical companies and their vaccinations will be history, with a few doctors and hospitals left that we'll need to deal with accidents.
   
11/16/10

Carriers
    In the armed forces, just as in most large businesses, where you slowly move up the corporate ladder by never making any trouble, you move up in rank by keeping your mouth shut. The result is what we've seen endlessly, the top people are those who have never had a creative idea, and will fight any proposed new ideas.
    Back in the 1920's Captain Billy Mitchell of the Army Air Corps was court-martialed for claiming that an airplane could sink a battleship. The admirals knew that battleships were unsinkable. They were the heart of any task force. They were the admiral's castles, as kings of the sea. For a dollar or so you can buy a VHS copy of the movie with Cary Grant from Amazon.
    So Mitchell got the admirals to provide an old out-of-service battleship, which he easily sank with his aircraft.
    By a coincidence, my dad served under Mitchell at Langley Field in Virginia in 1924, where we lived on the base. Dad and mother said Mitchell came to have dinner with us a couple times, though, since I was only one year old at the time, I don't recall it.
    So, here we are in the twenty-first century, with a bunch of missile-carrying nuclear-powered submarines…and building more. Oh, I almost forgot, when Captain Rickover tried to get the Navy to build a nuclear-powered sub, the admirals fought the idea viciously. It took President Roosevelt's order to allow the project, Well, he'd been the Secretary of the Navy before being elected President. And it was by his order that Rickover was made an admiral.
    The Navy, like the Army and every other established group I can think of, bitterly fought new ideas. Like the AMA fought getting doctors to wash their hands before operating. I should write about the fight Australian Dr. Marshall had with the AMA over his discovery that stomach ulcers were caused by heliocobacter pylori, a germ which could be killed with antibiotics. Ulcer prescriptions had been a major revenue producer for doctors. It took an article in The New Yorker to break the AMA on this one.
    Missiles have made aircraft carriers as obsolete as airplanes made battleships, yet our admirals keep spending billions of our money building more, A few other countries have one aircraft carrier, we have fleets of them.
    Another great historic story is the British Admiralty battle to keep building sailing ships, well after steam engines were being used for locomotives. It took a little steam-powered ship going out and running all through the British armada force the admirals to change.   

11/15/10

Inflation
    Paper money, called fiat money, sure is handy…the problem is, it keeps losing its value. Our Federal Reserve dollars got started in 1913, when a small group of democrats in congress early one morning took the issuing of our paper money away from the Treasury  and gave it to a small group of international bankers and their Federal Reserve Bank. See my 11/2/10 entry.
    Until then, for the 137 years since our country was formed, there had been no inflation. Today, it takes a dollar to buy what 3¢ did in 1913. The way thing are going the worry-warts who have been warning us of a coming runaway inflation could well be on target. The sky really may start falling. Well, the value of the paper dollar, anyway.
    With those huge container ships arriving loaded down and then returning to Asia empty, how long can we continue with buy everything on credit? As you probably know, we have by far the largest debt in the world, and little to back it up except Treasure Notes, which have highly questionable value. There's certainly nothing in the Treasury for any country wanting to cash them in.
    Our Congress has been spending everything it could get its hands on, including all of the Social Security deposits, leaving nothing to back the promised payments to retirees. If they had honestly invested the funds our social security checks could be ten times what they are, like those in Chile. Read the Genetski book.,
    Other than investing in gold or silver, have you any suggestions on how we can protect ourselves against a massive inflation?
    With a gold coin about the size of a half dollar worth about $1,500 in today's paper money, we need something more practical. Like silver. See my 4/24/10 entry for our new quarter and dime coins…worth about $100 and $10. These could be issued by any state, or even any company or wealthy individual. The coin's value would depend on the current market price for silver, not for any value imprinted on the coins. Soon, we'd start seeing prices for goods stated in ounces of silver rather that Federal Reserve paper. We'd also see a rush to find more silver to mine.
    Keep in mind that governments have been issuing fiat money all down through history, but none has ever lasted more than about forty years before.
    Congress has gotten us into this fix, while comfortably feathering their own nest at our expense, so if you don't start helping to make politician a bum career choice by cleaning out the House…and Senate…come 2012, you are the cause of the problems we have today. Never Re-elect Anyone! Stop playing the democrat-republican game and flush the Washington toilet. No more re-electing incumbents.

11/14/10

Movies
    Just as on-line available music eventually put an end to the record store chains, we can see the same effect technology is having on movie theaters. When you can rent the latest movie download on-line for a dollar (Redbox), why should you drive to a theater and pay $8 or so each to sit through fifteen minutes of coming attractions and then, finally, the feature film, and only at the few times the film is being screened?
    It was bad enough with Blockbuster rentals, but then along came Netflix, pushing Blockbuster into Chapter 11. The future, and a not very distant one, is the delivery of any film ever made, via the Web, and probably for less than the gasoline cost for the trip to the theater.
    As the theaters have slowly disappeared around here, I've had to drive further and further for a movie These days it's an hour and a half drive to the multiplex…on Tuesdays, when they have special senior $4 tickets. And then, about half the time, despite my checking on-line for reviews, Sherry and I give up and walk out, getting a refund. It's been ages since we've seen a movie that was outstanding. So, like millions of others, we're prime customers for on-line movie delivery.
    On-line shopping has grown into a huge business, raising hob with going to stores to shop. On-line I can see the product, probably watch a video demonstration and sales pitch, and then search for the best price supplier. We're going to see shopping malls gradually blowing away as a result. Will giants like Wal-Mart wise up, or one day in the not too far future find themselves following Blockbuster, CompUSA, and Circuit City into history?

11/13/10

In God We Trust
    I remember that Art Bell used to cut off any callers who started quoting the Bible. When I was a youngster my folks sent me to Sunday School at the local Dutch Reformed Church. At four and five years old the stories were no more real to me than the Oz stories. This continued off and on into my teens. I have no recollection of what I was “taught” at the time, the only thing I remember is that one Sunday when I was 13 some guy brought in a box of old radio parts and gave them to my best friend, Alfie. He took one look and gave the box to me. And that got me started on a lifetime in electronics.
    It was at this same time that I auditioned for the St. Paul’s Church choir, where I sang as a boy soprno until my voice changed. That was one of the biggest churches in Brooklyn, and we not only got paid to sing, but we had a free month of choir camp out in Center Moriches on Long Island every summer.
    For some reason all this church-going didn’t take as far as giving me religious convictions. The singing was fun and the sermons we had to sit through were really boring.
    Oh, I’ve read parts of the Bible now and then, but it’s 17th century English was difficult to deal with.
I did business once with a born again Christian who had been saved by Jesus. My trusting him cost me about forty million dollars.
    Once I’d read the stories about how the major religions were started, I’m afraid I lost respect for them, at least as far as providing me with any guidance. But, being a pragmatist, I’ve kept my mind open about God. The more I’ve read about what we call the next world, either as reported back by the deceased, by communications with psychics, or via near death experiences, the more I’ve heard about their being a God, but not one anything like the one being worshipped by Christians, Moslems, and so on.
    Frankly, Christianity has worried me. It’s believers have sanctioned endless killing such as we’ve been seeing in Northern Ireland, which is between two Christian sects. And both are convinced that God is on their side. I won’t even get into The Inquisition or the abortion clinic killings. Or abortions.
    Which brings me to an interesting book, In God We Trust. The Holy Bible, The Good Book, is held by Christian fundamentalists as being the revealed word of God. Every word in it, they believe, is true. After reading what’s really in the Bible, I doubt seriously that the fundamentalists who believe in the book could have actually read it. Good grief, wait’ll you read about the endless carnage that it says God has sanctioned, including mass murder, rape, and even abortion. That’s right, abortion. See Hosea 13:16, where God orders fetuses to be ripped from their mothers.
    If you are a devout Christian this is not a book you want to read. It cites chapter and verse of what the Bible says, letting God speak for Himself. I’m sure you’re aware that the Pontiff in the Vatican, who professes to be the Catholic Church’s direct connection to God, and who was well aware at the time of Hitler’s extermination of millions of Jews, said nothing against what was going on.
    God’s biggest coup was the drowning of everyone and every beast, every tree, every insect, everything alive on earth except for Noah and his little group during the flood. Try to imagine the work it must have taken to feed that large an assortment, including elephants, for all that time — not to mention in the aftermath of the flood when it must have taken centuries for the trees and grasses to regrow as food. And who cleaned out the massive amounts of dung that had to be dealt with? And how did Noah keep all the animals from continuing the usual food chain system, where there was just one pair of each kind of animal or fish? What did the lions eat?
    A true believer in the Bible wouldn’t want to know about the histories of this same period recorded in other lands which don’t mention the flood which the Bible says covered the entire earth to a depth of almost five miles.
Say, where did Noah get kangaroos, penguins, and polar bears in the Palestine area for his ark? And eucalyptus leaves to feed those pesky koala bears?
    People all though history (and way before history) used gods to explain the things they didn’t understand. We’re still at it, though most religions have settled on one God instead of a bunch to explain what are still mysteries to us. Science has helped to explain a lot, though our religious leaders have done their best to kill these annoying meddlers. But science has been stopped by the mysteries of consciousness, which is forbidden territory. Both scientists and religious leaders are very nervous about the way science has been going recently, with the development of quantum and chaos theories. And then the recent scientific validation of psychokenisis, clairvoyance, precognition and such has driven many scientists into severe denial.
    You can get a copy of the book from FFRF, Box 750, Madison WI 53701 for $12 pp. But if you want to continue to believe in God, Satan, and so on, you’d better pass this up. Ignorance will probably make you happier.
    We've got God on our paper money and coins. He's been added to the Pledge of Allegience since I learned it in school. The Muslims are ready to kill anyone messing with their Allah.  

11/12/10

Kaku Kookoo
    Art Bell, on his Coast to Coast show, has had Professor Kaku on several times (seven, actually) discussing cosmology. Unfortunately the good Professor is completely mired in the Big Bang theory of how the universe started. I wrote about this situation several years ago when I reviewed Eric Lerner's 1992 book, The Big Bang Never Happened. In the interim, researchers have continued to make discoveries which have forced the Big Bang believers to ever more extravagant excuses to support their belief.
    Recent research has shown that photons are slowed down when they collide with ions in space. Space is not empty, it’s just that ions and hydrogen atoms are spread out. But, by the time a photon has traveled a few million light years it’s significantly slowed, causing the red shift.
    Hubble noticed that the further galaxies were away, the redder they were. He attributed this to the Doppler Effect, which meant that the further they were away, the faster they had to be moving away from us. Lordy, the universe was expanding! And that meant that, looking backwards in time, it had to have started from some point. Voilà, the Big Bang.
    I published an article by Bill Hoisington K1CLL around 40 years ago entitled, Light Naturally Runs Down. Bill had it right and Hawkins and Kaku have it wrong.
    So much for the age of the universe being 2 (cosmologist’s early guesses) to 14 billion years old.
    But, you ask, what about that universal background microwave radiation? That’s not echoes of the Big Bang, it’s the result of the interactions of light with charged particles in space.
    This fits in a lot better with Sir Fred Hoyle’s theories in his Evolution from Space (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review).
    The Hubble telescope has gone a long way toward destroying Hubble’s expanding universe theory. No matter how sparse the visible light in any direction, no matter where the telescope is aimed there are a seemingly infinite number of galaxies to be seen. A recent Coast to Coast guest said there are more than 10,000 galaxies for every blade of grass on Earth. He was probably being too conservative.

11/11/10

Schools
    Are the worry-warts exaggerating how bad our schools are? The more in-depth studies I read about the situation, the more discouraged I get. We have teacher’s colleges not teaching teachers how to teach. We have virtually complete teacher unaccountability, enforced by the largest and most powerful union in the country, the NEA. We have these same teachers advising school boards on what school books to buy. We have the book publishers producing what they know the NEA will push for them, not what they know is needed. Unless the school board members start reading about education, they’re going to swallow the NEA mantra that’s all is needed are more teachers and better pay and we’ll have better education.
    Yes, much better instructional methods are known, but they’re not being taught in teacher’s colleges, so they’re not being used. The teachers in teacher’s colleges are teaching the same malarky they were taught. And, naturally, all this is held firmly in place by government regulations. Government officials make the decisions about what kinds of educational research and programs will receive funding. Program administrators within federal agencies make the decisions about the actual design of federally funded programs. And their decisions are made with input from the educational establishment. And that’s a recipe for making sure that nothing changes.
    Teaching methods have been developed and tested which teach even the most difficult-to-teach children. But getting these to be used has so far proven to be almost impossible. The educational establishment, supported by federal dollars, is supporting the status quo. And that means no change. And your children and grandchildren are the victims.

11/10/10

Peanut Butter
    Kids love it. So do mice and rats. It makes excellent trap bait. Peanut butter and jelly on white bread is a favorite lunch treat mothers give their kids. Hopefully you already know that white bread has no nutritive value and helps contribute to many degenerative illnesses. It is treated by the body as an invader, calling for the manufacture of white cells to fight it and thus depressing your immune system’s ability to fight off other invading germs and viruses.
    Jelly is mostly sugar, a seriously addictive poison. Peanut butter is a solidified fat. Rats, fed solidified fats ate six times as much fat and six times as much food as control groups. It also, in addition to making them fat, matured them much earlier, disturbing the mating cycle.
    Maybe you’ve been reading about our children going into puberty earlier and earlier.
    Come to think of it, I have no idea what a peanut butter and jelly sandwich tastes like. I've never had one in my life.

11/09/10

Sugar
    Despite everything I’ve written, and the books I’ve recommended, you’re still eating sugar. Well, it sure is addictive, so I can understand. But, if you read Dufty’s Sugar Blues, or Appleton’s Lick The Sugar Habit, it’ll at least make you feel a lot more guilty as you sugar yourself.
    Didja know that in countries where they don’t put sugar into tobacco they don’t have any lung cancer? Or that, if you cut out sugar you’ll almost never get sunburned, and mosquitoes will ignore you? Or that Dr. Sweitzer never saw a case of cancer in Africa until sugar was introduced? Wait’ll you read Dr. Price’s Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which shows what happened to all of the primitive civilizations he visited early in this century, before and after sugar was introduced. Before sugar they had no need for doctors or police, and their teeth were perfect until death, which was often well over 100.
    Appleton’s book is reviewed on page 28 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, and the Price book on page 36.

11/08/10

Nostradamus’ Bad News
    How’d that old guy, over 400 years ago, manage to be so on target with his nearly 1000 prophecies? This morning, while fixing breakfast, I got one of those sudden aha’s! Now, why didn’t I think of this before? The answer is ridiculously simple.
    I should have immediately gotten the hint when I heard Dolores Cannon on the Art Bell show talking about her experience. I’ve reviewed her Conversations With Nostradamus books in my editorials, and have a review of them in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, so I’ve passed the ball to you, it’s just that you’ve dropped it.
    If I wanted to, I’m sure that I could write a very accurate history of the world for the next 500 years, using the same system I’m convinced Nostradamus did. Only, this not being a time when the Church would burn me at the stake for heresy, I’d be able to come right out with names and dates.
    In case you’ve forgotten the story, Dolores was doing some research on a novel she was writing that called for details on life in the 15th century. So she did the logical thing, she regressed some friends to their lives in that time period so she’d have accurate details. In an interesting coincidence, one of the past lives of a friend was as an apprentice to Nostradamus, Naturally Dolores started asking lots of questions about him. It wasn’t long before Nostradamus himself broke into the conversation. “Hey, you’re asking a lot of questions about me.”
    He explained that he’d been looking for someone in our time frame to contact so he could work with them to explain what he meant in his quatrains, without the obfuscation required to keep from being broiled by the Church.
    The result was a four volume update, as dictated by Nostradamus himself.
    Yes, of course, he asked a lot of questions about history from the 20th century perspective.
    If I were going to write the history of the next few centuries I’d first hone my psychic skills by taking some time  to follow Bev Jaeger’s study course. Next I’d look for some psychic in the future to contact and give me a short history lecture on what happened and when after the 20th century.
    No, we don’t understand how time works. But we do know that researchers have proven that we do have the ability to predict the future accurately. Check out the Dean Radin book, The Conscious Universe, if you are a skeptic. Also the work done by the Princeton PEAR lab. Only the information-challenged are still skeptical about precognition.
    So what’s Nostradamus predicted for our future? He says that in a few years the poles are going to suddenly shift, moving to Russia and Brazil, wiping out about 97% of all human life. Well, this is consistent with what Chet Snow reports in his Mass Dreams of the Future. You’d know all this if you’d read my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Tsk. Or my book, Human Extinction Prophecies.
    Okay, you've been warned, So, are you going to make any plans to be one of the 3% survivors? We're talking mile-high waves hitting every coast in the world, plus three to six hundred miles per hour winds. No more power. No fuel. No food supply.
    A few families, not near a coast, who've prepared an underground hideout with a year's worth of food, plus seeds for the future, could survive. The rest will be in an unbelievably long line at the Pearly Gates.

11/07/10

Cooking Food
    The raw food crowd keep chanting that cooked food is poison. Well, like many poisons, it sure can taste good. But I want more than the word of a bunch of raw fooders before I give up eating cooked food. And I haven’t much faith in vegetarians (vegans) who are mewling about animal rights. Animals don’t have any “rights,” unless we decide to grant them.
    That doesn’t mean I condone torturing animals any more than I condone torturing people. But animal rights enthusiasts aren’t going to change Mother Nature’s food chain. Unless they want to kill all of the lions so they won’t feed on defenseless gnus, impalas and gazelles. Or those dirty, rotten, nasty hawks who are eating mice.
    Now that I have that off my word processor, let’s get back to cooked food.
    Dr. Douglass (Second Opinion newsletter) cited the work of Dr. Paul Kouchakoff of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry, who studied the influence of cooked food on our blood. While the blood’s reaction to cooked food doesn’t prove it’s bad for us, when the blood reacts the same as it does to known poisons, that’s a big hint. Our bodies are very sensitive to harmful things and reacts quickly. We see this when we analyze our blood during an infection, exposure to harmful chemicals or trauma.
    The blood’s response is to increase the white cells to fight any invaders. Well, that’s what happens when you eat cooked food, and it doesn’t happen when you eat uncooked and unrefined food.
    Kouchakoff tested this with vegetables, cereals, raw fish, raw meat, raw eggs, nuts, honey, butter, unpasteurized milk, etc. The same foods, when heated, were treated by the blood as dangerous invaders. And that’s going to lower the strength of your immune system, keeping it from being as effective in fighting germs and trashing cancer cells.
    If you think about it, our bodies were developed over several million years to function best on the foods which were available. Up until we discovered how to make fire, like every other animal, we ate everything raw.
    I’ll bet you can test the effect of raw vs. cooked food on your own body with Dr. Coca’s pulse test (se page 16 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review of this great little $5 book).
    Perhaps I’m fortunate in that I enjoy raw meat and fish. I love Japanese sashimi and French steak tartare. And I love raw liver. Mmmm. I like liver even better when I know it isn’t loaded with the growth hormones and antibiotics, like most of our factory raised cattle are these days. I get mine from a local farm, from cows fed grass.
    So I’m eating raw food and having great fun doing it.

11/06/10

The Dead Sea
    Lordy! In addition to helping to make us sick and shorten our lives, the pervasive use of NPK (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium) fertilizer has now been found to be responsible for an area the size of New Jersey in the Gulf of Mexico being turned into a dead zone, devoid of fish and shellfish.
    Plants gradually take the minerals out of the land, so farmers used to work their farms for a few years and then, when the land was played out (the minerals gone), they’d move on to an as yet uncultivated area and start over.
    Then chemical fertilizers were discovered which would keep plants growing, even in totally depleted land. The resulting plants were far from healthy, so they attracted scavenger insects. The chemical companies countered the resulting blights with pesticides. We then saw the era of crop duster planes.
    It’s a fairly good system. The farmers are able to grow crops on dead land. The chemical companies are making billions. And we consumers either take mineral supplements to make up for the minerals no longer available in our food, or we suffer the health consequences, which are helping to support the $2,800 billion a year sickness-exploitation industry.
    The run off of all the nitrogen fertilizer from the 31 states, which support over half of America’s farms and produce $98 billion of crops a year, has poisoned almost 8,000 square miles of the Mississippi delta.
    The knee-jerk government response was to threaten to call for a 20% cutback on the use of nitrogen fertilizer. Naturally the farmers are upset over that.
    My approach to the situation would be to encourage the farmers to remineralize their farm lands so that they won’t need fertilizer and pesticides. You can be sure that Monsanto and the other chemical companies are going to spend whatever it takes to stop anything as rational as that.
    There are two books on this subject which are reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom (gee, I wish you’d get this book and start reading the books reviewed in it), which explain the whole situation clearly. One is the Hamaker-Weaver book (p.21), The Survival of Civilization, and the other is Rock Dust and the Environment by Donald Supkow (p.24). These books explain how we can remineralize our farms.
    Just as farmers and groceries are getting premium prices for organic produce, raised without pesticides, people will pay more for what I call super-organic fruits and vegetables, produce raised on farms which have been remineralized so we won’t have to take mineral supplements in order to stay healthy. Cattle raised on remineralized land eat less and grow faster and healthier. We would too, if we could escape the clutches of the giant chemical corporations and their political clout.
    In my proposed plan for New Hampshire 2020 I haven’t covered remineralization of our farms…mainly because we have so few farms left. The farmers killed the land and moved out west a hundred years ago, so now most of the old farms are new forests, complete with the stone fences which used to separate pastures going all through them. They’re everywhere in our forests today. But if you’re living in a farm state it’s time to get busy. Get yourself elected to the state legislature and use my New Hampshire 2020 plan to make your state as great a place to live and work as New Hampshire will be.
    You can send for a copy of the keynote speech I gave at the New Hampshire Reform Party Convention in October 1999. This talk outlines the many ways New Hampshire can change to meet the needs of 2020. I propose a raft of proven ways we can have the best schools, the best health care, the lowest cost state government, virtually no taxes, and so on. It's book #85. It’s only $1. Surely you can spare that much.
    New Hampshire is a small state, but it’s always been a leader. I’m hoping that NH can lead again, helping to change our country…and then, maybe, the world.

11/05/10

Communicating With Pets
    Yep, I’m talking about two-way communications, and it’s something anyone can do. Even you.
    You can get the details by investing in Lydia Hiby’s Conversations With Animals, a 196 page book I took with me on a visit to El Salvador. I’d been meaning to read it for months, and this was my first opportunity. Well, there was nothing else to do in El Salvador but sun myself and read the books I brought along.
    Lydia explains how she was introduced to talking with animals by Beatrice Lydecker. Before that Lydia thought the whole idea was ridiculous. Now she’s an expert, and the stories she tells in her book are fascinating.
    I wasn’t at all resistant to the idea, nor would you be if you’ve read some of the books I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom.
    Starting with Chris Bird’s Secret Life of Plants, where he tells about the work of Cleve Backster, the chap who first discovered that we can communicate with plants, and then going on to Robert Stone’s The Secret Life of Your Cells, we find that not only is every cell of our bodies in constant communication with every other cell, but that in some way the cells of all living things are in communication with each other on some level.
    If you’ve read Kinship of All Life, you know that with a little practice we can communicate with any living thing. If you haven’t read it, what does it take to get you off dead center? I mean dead.
    How about William Bennet’s How To Communicate With Plants and Animals? Read that one yet? Bill explains how you can find out if your plant needs water, or maybe to be given more or less sun.
    But you can get into some very interesting conversations with your cat or dog, or horse, by following Lydia’s directions and then practicing. Once you get the hang of it you can communicate with any animal over any distance. Lydia can find out what’s bothering a horse while talking to the owner over the phone. Animals, lacking the ability to speak, are used to being able to mentally communicate with other animals.
  
11/04/10
 
Unintended Consequences
    I’m sure it never occurred to Carrie Nation that Prohibition would not only fail to keep people from drinking alcoholic beverages, but would lay the foundation for a new criminal class, our multi-billion dollar organized crime.
    The do-gooder social engineers want to protect us from ourselves. Alcohol wrecks lives and homes, so let’s prohibit alcohol. Gambling wrecks lives and homes, so let’s prohibit gambling. Drugs wreck lives and homes, so let’s prohibit drugs.
    If you’ve read a book which covers the current activities of organized crime (the Mafia, for example), let me know. But in my experience they’ve moved into gambling, the music industry, hat check concessions, linen supply, garbage collection, newsstand distribution, beer distribution, and so on.
    Prohibition was in full swing when I was a kid, but it didn’t seem to interfere with my folks and any of their friends getting all of the alcoholic beverages they wanted. My dad managed to find a bar from a closed speakeasy which he set up in our basement…a 1920s form of rec room. He didn’t sell booze, but he and his fellow aviators sure enjoyed the bar.
    Booze was available anywhere. Speakeasies were operating in every city, providing the police with a generous unreported income in return for their protection.
    New Hampshire broke the mobster gambling monopoly when it started the first state lottery. Before that every city had numbers rackets going. Then came off-track betting, ruining the mobster’s illegal horse race betting monopoly.
    The so-called drug war has been another bonanza, allowing many Customs and Immigration Service people to retire wealthy, as well as making many police salaries irrelevant. In addition to boosting organized crime from doing millions in business to billions, drugs have spawned a new crop of criminals…Mexicans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Dominicans, and so on. Well, it’s nice to see immigrant groups able to enjoy the abundance America provides, and to be able to work together cooperatively for their mutual benefit.
    When Prohibition was repealed and liquor stores opened on every corner of the inner cities, the profits went out of the booze business, forcing the crime syndicates to find other monopolies to exploit. Preferably illegal, since that guaranteed higher profits.
    People addicted to drugs often ruin their lives. One might think that this prospect would be enough to make any prudent person avoid getting addicted. Doesn’t a person have to be really stupid to expose themselves to such a disaster? I vote yes on that. And, though I’m going to offend a lot of drug-addicted readers, when I see someone smoking a cigarette I can’t help but think that this guy has got to be a really stupid jerk. Imagine getting addicted to a drug that will waste an enormous amount of your money, make you a pariah around non-smokers, shorten your life by 20 or more years, and make the last few years incredibly expensive and painful. How dumb can someone get?
    There’s a chap who did odd jobs around my farm. He was several years younger than me, but he managed to get so thoroughly addicted to cigarettes that even though his doctor had been telling him it was going to kill him in a few months if he didn’t stop, he couldn’t stop. So he spent several days a week at the V.A. hospital, smoking in his car all the way there and back, an hour drive each way. He could hardly walk, much less be out there fast-walking with me. I should have taken a photo of this wreck of a man to use as a poster for kids who think it is smart to start smoking.
    Prohibiting addictive drugs clearly doesn’t work, it just results in bigger and better criminal groups. If we keep this nonsense up we’ll find ourselves in the situation Russia is in, with the criminals running almost everything.
    Would we have more cocaine addicts if we made it legal? The countries that have legalized drugs have found that the number of their addicts has been decreasing…that making drugs legal hasn’t resulted in any huge rush to experiment.
    As I’ve admitted in the past, when I was in the Navy during WWII I drank whiskey with my shipmates while on liberty in San Francisco, but I stopped after returning to civilian life. Well, that was the only thing I could do to be with my shipmates while ashore. No, I don’t even drink beer.
    I tried pot one night in 1948. Wow, what an experience that was! But it didn’t make me want to keep smoking it.
I tried LSD, mostly as a scientific experiment, not for the joy ride. That, too, was a super experience I’ll never forget. But I don’t want to repeat it.
    By making pot and LSD illegal we’ve made these drugs attractive, particularly for kids. Kids have a natural curiosity that it takes us years of public school regimentation to kill, so when something is forbidden, the fruit is sweeter.
    Yes, I’m in favor of our liberals being stopped from social engineering, which seems to always have unintended consequences which turn out to be far worse than the original problem. I won’t go into the details of my proposal for dealing with drugs, I’ll just say that making them illegal has had terrible unintended consequences and it’s time to make some major changes. Let's educate people to not do dangerous things instead of making laws to prohibit them. Use carrots instead of sticks.

11/03/10

College Grads
    Okay, you are now “formally educated.” But that doesn’t mean you’ve learned much of practical value to your career. Or, have you ever really had a career in mind? Or have you just been going with the flow?
    Your college teachers, with very few exceptions, are people who’ve never worked in the business world. They’ve forced you to short-term memorize the same stuff for quizzes that they had to memorize when they went to college. Stuff out of pretty much the same text books.
    With the job market for grads in the pits these days, just sending out résumés, no matter how creative and exaggerated they are, isn’t working.
    The free ride on your parents is over. Or, worse, you’ve gone thousands of dollars in hock to get that degree. Either way, you’re now expected to enter the job market and start making money on your own.
    It’s almost time to start giving some thought to building a career. So, what’s it going to be? You’re now facing one of the most important choices in your life. One that you postponed four years earlier when you opted for college. Now, you have to make a major choice. Will it be a job? Or back to school for an advanced degree, putting off that career decision again.
    If you keep doing this you’ll end up a professor with students short-term memorizing the same stuff for quizes that you did. And learning almost nothing…as you did.
    Not having learned anything about selling, managing people, advertising, promotion, marketing, and so on, you'll be of little interest to a small company. And the big ones are busy downsizing. Good luck.
    The answer lies in my $5 Secret Guide to Wealth, which you should have read four years ago, saving you or your parents tens of thousands of dollars, and you endless cramming for tests.

11/02/10

Capitalism
    Socialism, communism, and fascism have all failed wherever tried. Capitalism works pretty well, but it has some serious weak points. The worst part of this is that I’m not much on just citing problems. I much prefer to discuss a problem and then propose a practical solution for it.
    If you’ve kept up with my thoughts in these areas you know I’ve griped about the horrendous cost of prisons, plus the fact that they are not  what they claim to be and are named: correction facilities. My proposals in this field would seriously cut down on the number of prisoners we’d need to incarcerate by over 50%, cut the cost of their incarceration by about 90%, offer unlimited facilities, and actually would educate inmates to live more in peace with society.
    Well, I won’t go into the long list of social miseries and government wastes that I’ve discussed and offered creative solutions for.
But this capitalism business has me stumped. The system works well for small businesses. It works great for them. But, as soon as a business gets big it tends to be a bully and the playing ground is no longer close to be level. Then, it gets even worse as their hired guns descend on Washington and the state capitols with their armies of lobbyists, drowning out the voices of both small business and the public in the ears of Congress and the administration. These bastards are running the country, and this whole democracy façade is a joke.
    Heck, our country doesn’t even issue its own money! A group of bankers got Congressional Democrats to give that plum away early one morning, when no one was looking, in 1913 and make it so the government has to borrow money from these bankers and pay interest on it when it spends anything. And just to make sure that there wouldn’t be any serious fuss about this highway robbery the bankers organized the buying of the country’s major newspapers and then the broadcasting media. There isn’t going to be any whistle blowing over this because they own the whistles.
    Read The Creature from Jekyll Island and you'll see I'm not exaggerating. Up until the Fed took over issuing our money we'd had 137 years with no inflation. Today it takes a dollar to buy what 3¢ did back then.
    All this power pays off. Big time! But not for you or me.
    J.P. Morgan said that no corporate head should make more than 20 times what his workers were paid. By 1980 the typical big company CEO was taking home about 40 times what his workers were. By 1990 it was up to 85 times! Recently it's been reported to run about 344 times. Whee!
    Michael Eisner, the Chairman and CEO of Disney earned more than $575 million in 1998, for example. Well, Disney made a lot of money, you say. Sure, but what about Linda Wachner, the Chairman and CEO of Warnaco, which makes Calvin Klein jeans? The company lost $32 million in 1977, but Linda got paid $73.2 million in salary, bonus (!), and stock options. Well, their accountants and lawyers had to organize the packages for minimum tax liabilities, so the taxable income had to be kept as low as possible.
    When the big get bigger they do it by killing off the small guys, and then the big guys who aren’t as big as they are. And that’s easy when you hold most of the cards. If you have franchisees who have invested in stores you supply, all you have to do is cut off some key supplies and suddenly they’re company stores. If you are a manufacturer you contract out work to smaller companies, starting with small orders. Then, when they’ve come to depend on you, you give them a huge order. They borrow to get the machines to fill the order. You cancel the order and they’re for sale for pennies on the dollar.
    In the music industry (remember, I used to publish the largest music magazine in the country, so I know that industry), there are six major labels (five are foreign owned) and several thousand small independent labels. The majors can (and do) crush and buy any indie label they want, like swatting a fly.
    How many car companies are there? Steel companies? And so on. In TV there are three major networks. And Fox.
    And all of these big companies have expanded everywhere in the world. IDG, the computer publishing giant, publishes computer magazines in about 60 countries. Or is it 90 by now?
    I don’t view this situation any more favorably than I do a New World Order global police state. But I don’t have any proposals for changing the situation, so I’ll just wring my hands about it.
    Democracy is a pretty good system…particularly as envisioned by our founding fathers and enshrined in the Constitution. But the basic idea that 51% of the people can tell the other 49% what to do doesn’t sit well with me. I doubt that you bothered to watch the Ken Burns PBS program about the opening of the West. But it was a grim reminder of how rotten Americans can be. We mercilessly killed the Indians by the thousands. Women and children, too. And we weren’t much kinder to the Chinese and Mexicans who were attracted by the gold rush. We were just as nasty as the Nazis were to the Jews and Gypsies, the Chinese Communists to the landowners, and so on to the slaughters in Yugoslavia, East Timor, Rwanda, Darfur, and so on.
    Any ideas?

11/01/10

A Ham Note
    A note from Ben Alabastro W1VM chuckled over the September 2010 issue of QST having an article on a solar-powered repeater…and the Ham Radio December 1978 issue having an article on solar-powered repeater design. Glad to see you guys in Newington are still right on the ball.
    Far's I can remember, our champions at the ARRL have never pioneered any new ham technology. To this day they're still pushing CW, a hundred-plus-year-old technology. Meanwhile I helped pioneer ham-RTTY, SSB, SSTV, solid state, and repeaters with my magazine. Further, their 1963 "Incentive Licensing" proposal killed the American ham industry and most of our high school radio clubs. Yeah, I've been a member for some 73 or so years.

10/31/10

Haband
    In my 2/13/10 entry I explained about my Haband pants and shirts I wear every day. Well, I'm frugal. But I didn't tell you about their Tailgater coat, which I love. They're $20 for one, $30 for two, and the come in five colors, including my favorite, black.
    The coat has both a zipper and snaps, plus a hood. I really like jackets with snaps…so easy to use compared to the zipper. The coat has an outside shell and plenty of inside lining to keep me warm. Side pockets, a couple snap chest pockets, and an inside pocket. Washable, too. Haband.com or 800-742-2263. Made in China.
    A hundred years ago clothes like this were made here in New Hampshire. All we have now are the old mill buildings along the river in downtown Manchester…mostly in use today by high-tech businesses…like making Dean Kaman's Segways.

10/30/10

Electioneering
    Hancock style, that is…with both the Hancock republican and democratic groups calling out the troops to demonstrate on the village common on the Saturday morning before election Tuesday.
    They gathered into two groups, about fifty feet apart, both standing next to the road holding up their candidate's signs and waving them at the occasional passing cars. The democrats managed to muster eight sign wavers and the republicans sixteen…perhaps reflecting the way the vote was going to go this time.
    While this gave a few spirited partisans something to do this Saturday morning, the idea that this welter of waving signs could in any way affect next Tuesday's voting is beyond far-stretched. Heck, we've been driving past seemingly endless clusters of these signs on our roadsides everywhere in the state all spring and summer. In thousand lots, the signs cost about two bucks each, so no wonder I've gotten so many emails asking for campaign donations.
    What will influence my vote is not roadside signs or the party of the candidate, I want to know first if they are up for re-election, which is an automatic no for me, and then what, if any, plans they have for getting our country out of the hole Congress has dug for us.
    We don't have to have the most expensive and one of the least effective so-called health care systems. Or the most expensive and least effective public school systems. We don't have to be the most indebted country if the world. We don't have to have an inflation that's taking over a dollar to buy what cost a nickel when I was young. We don't have to have the highest percentage of our people in prison of any developed country, and at a humongous cost. We don't have to have millions of illegal immigrants pouring over our border. We don't have to have a government that has more than doubled in size in the last few years. We don't have to have war after war that we don't win. Nor growing unemployment. All the responsibility of the Congress we've elected…the one that's voted to increase their salaries fourteen times in the last few years, while cutting back on social security payments for us.
    I've failed to find any candidate that's proposed a way to solve any of the mess that Congress has made. The best they seem to be able to do is promise to help cut taxes. Gee, thanks. Oh, by the way, how do you propose doing that?
   
10/29/10

Spending
    The Obama administration, abetted by Congress, seems to be using the same failed approach to solving the potential recession as Roosevelt used with his New Deal programs, which stretched the 1929 crash and resulting recession out for twelve years, finally to be ended by WWII.
    The Agricultural Adjustment Administration paid farmers federal dollars not to produce crops on part of their land. This created a shortage of those crops, forcing up prices to the consumers, which brought in tons of imported crops. By 1935 we were importing 36 million pounds of cotton, 13 million bushels of wheat, and almost 35 million bushels of corn. All this was managed by a horde of Department of Agriculture bureaucrats who were inspecting the farms.
    To pay for all this the marginal tax rate on higher incomes went to 80% and then to 90%. That what we want?
    Michael Medved’s, “The government makes a mess of everything it does.” Like our worst in the developed world public school system, our so-called health care system, our Federal Reserve financial system, and so on.
    Go back and read my 11/16/06 essay on New Zealand’s successful reform government. And my 11/16/08 comments. And ditto 2/22/09.

10/28/10

Poverty
    Robert Samuelson, in a Newsweek column, said, “Learning in life occurs mainly outside of schools.” Amen! And this is something I’d sure like to see changed. I’d like to see our schools made more relevant to the society and the world we live in.
    60 Minutes has done a program a couple of times on the efforts to teach poor people how to deal with the requirements of work, something that schools ignore. They teach people on welfare who are anxious to find jobs the importance of how they look…wearing a shirt, getting a haircut, being on time, and taking shit from bosses.
    Our schools are not teaching poor people the value of work, of sacrifice, self-improvement, service to family, friends and the community. So they tend to drop out of school, have illegitimate children, and be unemployed. And this behavior, once established, is not easily changed, and it sure doesn’t make America any better.
     My approach to solving this misery would be to re-orient our school systems, rather than spending billions trying to remediate the problem our schools have helped cause. Problems which are filling our prisons and draining our welfare funds. Those are terribly costly solutions to what is basically an educational failure which would cost almost nothing to solve.
     I went through public school 75 years ago in New York City and I don’t have any recollection of my ever being exposed to any discussions on my future or any career paths I might choose. It never came up. There was nothing about what it takes to be a success at work, or what one needs to know to start one’s own business. Never happened. And it’s not happening today.
     I called two local high schools and volunteered to come in and teach any of their kids who might be interested about the real world…about jobs and careers. The schools weren’t interested. Oh, when I presented them with a bunch of personal computers for their classes, I was a hero, but they weren’t interested in my sharing the knowledge I’ve gained from a lifetime of work.

10/27/10

Stupidity
    Yes, I understand how addictive cigarettes are. Almost every older person who still smokes wishes to hell they could stop. But how can we get the message to the Joe Camel or Marlboro he-men influenced kids who think smoking is cool?
    When I see kids smoking I don’t think they’re cool, I know they’ve got to be really big time stupid. How dumb to take on an expensive lifetime drug addiction that is guaranteed to shorten their lives.
    I thought about this as I read a UC-Berkeley Wellness Letter which said that 90% of all lung cancer cases are caused by cigarette smoking, and that there is no way to detect lung cancer early enough to cure it. The five-year survival rate at diagnosis is less than 13%. Further, chest x-rays have been proven not to save lives.
    And that doesn’t count the lives lost to emphysema, heart attacks, pneumonia, and the ills a nicotine-depressed immune system helps exacerbate…like cancer. My mother's dad, who died of pneumonia at 63, smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. Emphysema got my dad.
    We made a great big fuss over 58,000 Americans getting killed in Vietnam over the several years of that war, but we ignore our 400,000 smoking-related deaths every year.
    How can you help? By making a nuisance of yourself and telling every teenager you see smoking that it isn’t cool, it’s just clear proof of incredible stupidity.
    Then there's the report from the British Journal of Neurology linking intellectual impairment in later life with smoking. Smoke and get even dumber, is what they’re saying. And the decline in mental powers they measured was not trivial, it was quite significant. Pregnant mothers who smoke are not only lowering the  IQ of their baby, they're risking other birth defects.
    With all the scientific evidence showing the damage smoking does, today it is an act of monumental stupidity for a kid to take up an expensive, life-long drug addiction to smoking cigars or cigarettes. Dumb and dumber.

10/26/10

Phony Baloney
    The Wall Street Journal ran an article debunking the danger of power line magnetic fields. The claim was that Robert Liburdy had falsified his data in order to get a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute of Health, the Defense Department and the Department of Energy to study the dangers of EMFs.
    In view of the enormous amount of work done by W. Ross Adey K6UI, the world's leading expert in this field, and his endless proof of a connection between magnetic (and radio) fields to failing health, and considering that when it comes to controversies like this, where billions of dollars are involved, things are seldom what they seem, or what has been reported in the media, I wasn’t at all surprised to get a note from Ross saying that the Liburdy data had not been falsified.
    This apparently is just one more episode in The Wall Street Journal’s campaign to protect the power companies from the responsibility for the pain and suffering their power lines are causing. No, I’m not given to ecology inspired hysterics. It takes a lot of research-substantiating data before I can be convinced about things like this. In this case I’m relying on both the dozens of published papers in the field which unanimously conclude that EMFs and modulated microwaves can and do affect our health…mainly via inducing cancers.
    Well, it makes sense. If you’ve done any reading about how the body works…such as Dr. Robert Becker’s Cross Currents, which I’ve reviewed on page 6 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, you understand that our cells use chemicals, electricity and even magnetism in their operation and in communicating with other cells. Micro-currents allow cells to “whisper” to each other. Well, whenever you pass a conductor through a magnetic field, that generates a voltage. That’s how generators work. So, here we are, passing 60 Hz magnetic fields through our bodies whenever we are in an EMF field, such as near power lines or a pole transformer. Or, for that matter, a cell phone.
    No, one teaspoon of sugar in your car’s gas tank isn’t going to stop your car. But if you do that every day, eventually the engine is going to die. EMFs only disturb your cells a little, but if this happens while they are busy dividing to replace older cells, which they’re doing frequently, you’re going to get defective cell copies. And that’s okay, as long as your immune system is at industrial strength and can trash the bad copies. But if you are generating too many defective cells, or you are overwhelming your immune system with substances the body sees as alien such as cooked food, sugar, nicotine, caffeine, aspartame, alcohol, mercury, fluoride, and so on, you’re going to experience a system failure…most likely in the form of cancer.
    And this is particularly critical when it comes to children, since their cells are far busier replicating than those in older people. Which helps to explain the leukemia cases centered around homes with nearby pole transformers, or in homes near power switching stations, as described by Paul Brodeur in his New Yorker articles, and in his book, The Great Power Line Cover-Up. If that doesn’t convince you, then read Smith and Best’s Electromagnetic Man – Health & Hazard in the Electrical Environment. (reviewed on page 7 of my Wisdom Guide). Ellen Sugarman’s book, Warning: The Electricity Around You May Be Hazardous To You Health is reviewed on pag 19 of my Wisdom Guide. As I say, I don’t get convinced without a lot of proof.
    Unfortunately, money talks louder than facts or lives, so the power industry, supported by the coal (75% of our power is coal generated), plus the medical and insurance industries, which are making billions when we get sick and lose their shirts if we don’t, all are influencing the information and misinformation you’re getting fed through the media when it comes to your health.
    What a wonderful day it will be when cold fusion systems in homes make power lines and the whole power grid history.

10/25/10

Progress?
    What would you think of a person who held up a medical book from the 1700s, claiming that its teachings are the whole truth? That all doctors today should follow its teachings?
    Or the person who points to a math book written in 1536 as the last word in math? Or someone who claims that a book on physics published in 1858 is what we should all believe? Or an electronics text from 1928 as the end-all book on the subject?
    Ridiculous, of course. Yet, when it comes to spiritual matters, the so-called experts in the field are asking us to take as fact books that were published 1,500 to 2,500 years ago as the latest words on the subject. How can we honestly believe that in 2000 years we haven’t made any progress at all in our understanding of our spiritual side?
    We’ve gone from smoke signals and the pony express to the Internet. From dead reckoning navigation to global positioning satellites that tell us within a few feet where we are anywhere in the world. However, in spiritual matters the whole world seems unable to recognize or acknowledge anything we’ve learned in the last thousand years or so, much less the last hundred years, when every other field of knowledge has been accelerating, making the texts of just a few years ago obsolete.
    The resistance to new information in the spiritual field is as strong (stronger, actually) than that in the other fields. Like Galileo and Copernicus in astronomy. Like Semmelwise and Pasteur in medicine. Like the reality of meteors and plate tectonics. Like the blind eye many of today’s leading physicists have turned to the cold fusion phenomenon.
    In spiritual matters, our “spiritual leaders” have ignored all developments not cited in their two thousand year old text books. Reincarnation? Heck, they edited that out of the Bible 1,500 years ago. Communicating with the spirits of the departed? Mere superstition. In the medical field any uncomfortable new ideas are immediately called snake oil or quackery by the medical establishment.
    Having regressed many people to their past lives, I don’t have to depend entirely on the many very well documented books on the subject to accept the reality. In reading about the carefully documented scientific experiments with telepathy, precognition, psychokenisis, and so on, by Dr. Rhine at Duke University sixty years ago, and the recent Princeton PEAR Labs, how can I reject this reality if I have an even partially open mind?
    Anyone who’s mind isn’t clamped shut by religious beliefs will find that there has been a lot of interesting developments in the spiritual field.
    Read some of the mind-expanding books by Boone, Crookall, Radin, Graff, Monroe, Moody, Bird, Bander, Alexandersson, Stone, Kubris, Lehto, Stephens, Jaegers, Wylder, Sewall, Stearn, Hoyle, Jueneman, and so on, that I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. After you’ve done some of my suggested reading you may start wondering how the spiritual establishment has been able to ignore so many important developments in their field of supposed expertise. Or, you may not.
    My role in life has developed into my being an iconoclast…a breaker of icons, challenging conventional or cherished beliefs and institutions as being false. And, since there seems to be no shortage of false conventional beliefs, I’m having a wonderful time letting the hot air out of the establishment panjandrums with my secret guides to health, wealth, and wisdom.

10/24/10

Teaching Science
    I’ve often written about how very poorly American students are doing in math and science as compared to those in other countries, complete with my proposals for solutions. Well, I see technology coming to the rescue. Let’s time travel to 2020, where kids are exposed to ads on TV, the internet, on radio and in magazines for educational courses, only they’re touting the fun and benefits of learning science and math subjects, which are downloadable, taught by performers who make the subjects fun and exciting, plus there’s almost no limit when it comes to graphics for illustrations, videos, and of course the programs can be made highly interactive. And this can be used anywhere the kids are, and at any age, using their laptop or iPad learning centers. That’s right, no more regimentation by age and grade.
    For instance, I’ve proposed a course in the fundamentals of electricity, electronics, radio, and computers. And, by 2020, virtual labs will allow students to build a power supply or a radio, complete with a virtual soldering iron, and virtual testing equipment for servicing. The course’s lab work will include a bunch of fiendishly disabled pieces of equipment, just as the Cooke Navy radio course I took 67 years ago offered.
    The course would teach how every piece of electronic equipment works and how to fix it: radios, TV, phones, faxes, CDs, DVDs, computers, and so on.
    Thus, students will no longer be held back by ignorant teachers or a lack of lab facilities. And these courses can be translated into any language in the world once they’ve been produced. Even if it cost $10 million to produce a course it would soon pay for itself many times over. And, like computer software, yearly updates to keep up with technology changes and newly marketed equipment would be easy.
    We’ll see similar courses for every aspect of chemistry, agriculture, physics, magnetics, astronomy, and so on. Thousands of courses, for people of any age. Business courses, music lessons, it’s endless, and it’ll be a bonanza for new businesses.
    Once we stop regimenting students and forcing them to study (the term “study” is a euphemism for short-term memorizing stuff to pass tests) things which are of little interest, while ignoring things they’re really interested in, we’ll see kids loving to learn. Eating it up. Once they can learn at their own pace, and without the possibility of failure, I think we’ll see a generation of creative talents such as we haven’t experienced since the regimented public school system was imported from Prussia 150 years ago…imported with the specific aim of turning kids into obedient, unquestioning workers for churches and the industrial revolution.
    By the way, this is a great opportunity for the pioneers of this huge new field.

10/23/10

Small Businesses
    The capitalist system works better than socialism, communism, fascism, and so on, up until some businesses get so big they no longer have any serious competition. Small businesses, where there is plenty of competition, provide us with the highest quality products at the lowest prices. They also tend to be much better places to work and reward their owners well.
    Big businesses tend to move their production facilities to the lowest cost countries and to move their profits to the lowest tax countries. They also tend of buy out competitors, with a resulting loss of jobs as the businesses are combined.
    In politics, as well as business, money talks, so big businesses tend to have a loud voice (a.k.a. power) when it comes to making laws and running the government, and their interests seem to seldom be those of the public.
    The real key to the strength of a country’s economy lies in promoting small businesses. And, if you know what you are doing, this is also one of the safest career investments in the long run, as well as one of the best paying. If you’re the owner of a successful business you don’t have to worry about being canned.
    Some 20 million Americans leave their jobs every year, and half of them have been fired or laid off with little warning. Talk about stress! I’ve been fired and had to take advantage of unemployment payments. But, since I knew I could get a good job any time I really wanted, I used the opportunity to build equipment and operate my ham radio station full time for a few months, having the time of my life. If I’d had a family to support at the time, and I hadn’t had job qualifications which guaranteed me good employment, I could have been very stressed.
    Many people will trade off money and freedom for security, but other than working for the government or in a union, job security is getting less and less reliable.
    Since Congress hears almost entirely from big business, often via their lobbyi$ts, there’s virtually no federal constituency for small business. But state legislatures, which are generally more in touch with the public, appreciate the importance of small businesses and tend to be more supportive of them. I’d like to see the chambers of commerce make a concerted effort to get their state legislatures to consider ways they can encourage the formation and growth of small businesses. My own approach to this is to get town business groups to set up small business incubators, as I’ve described in my Improving State Governments book.
    We have an enormous advantage over most of the rest of the world in this respect in that entrepreneurs are highly regarded here by the public and the media, while in most of Europe there’s much more prestige in working for a big business or the government.

10/22/10

Cheap Tomatoes
    This email from a California school teacher should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.

    "As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
    I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
    Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
    Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
    I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
    I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
    I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.
    Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
    To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
    Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
    We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it.    Does anyone in their right mind really think they will
voluntarily leave and return?
    There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
    It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
    If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR?
• Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
• Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
• Consumers don't want expensive produce.
• Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
• But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie; there is no such thing as "cheap labor."
• Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
• He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
• He qualifies for food stamps.
• He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
• His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
• He requires bilingual teachers and books.
• He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
• If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified. for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at taxpayer's expense.
• He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
• Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
• He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
• Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
• The American taxpayer's also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
    Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!  Wake up people!"

    There you have it. It's the Congress you've elected that has orchestrated every bit of this hugely expensive mess. Please, come the 2012 elections, seriously conider my mantra: Never Re-elect Anyone!
  
10/21/10

Iraq Goals
    Rather than saying that the American way of life is the most successful the world has seen, so let's export it to help other countries enjoy our standard of living, let's first take a good look at ourselves. We've got a pretty good system going compared to most other countries, but we all know it could be a hell of a lot better.
    We're in terrible shape when it comes to health. Ditto our school system. The democracy concept seems a good one, but, as we've seen, it can be gamed to the enormous advantage of the gamers using propaganda, bribery, and programmable voting machines. Our business system works quite well for small businesses, but as they grow they use their wealth and power to wipe out smaller competitors and bribe public officials (judges, legislatures, Congress) for their further benefit…like getting generous government contracts. It is not a level playing field.
    Oh yes, governments. Historically, they have always grown, as so well chronicled by C. Northcote Parkinson. Ours is a testament to Parkinson's research fifty years ago, continuing to bloat extraordinarily.
    With us 37th in health, 49th in longevity, and at by far the highest cost…with our students coming in at the bottom internationally…record unemployment…exporting one industry after another…every government project losing money…our government bankrupt…this is what we want to export?
   
10/20/10

Memory
    Like our health, which we don't just lose, we throw away with our lifestyle…we don't somehow lose our minds, we throw them away.
    Of course, with our minds, like our muscles, it's a use-it or lose-it proposition…which may explain my doing two or three crossword puzzles a day. But our minds, like our computers, have but one processor…so they can only work on one thing at a time. When our attention gets split between two or more inputs at once it has to zip back and forth between the book you're reading or puzzle you're doing and what's on the TV or radio, with no time to file away the inputs in memory. It's a mess.
    Just as you should sleep in total darkness, you should also sleep in silence. It's while you're sleeping that your brain is busy sorting out and filing the day's memories. So, continuing an input, particularly with talk, prevents it. The end r result of this mind mayhem is your memory getting less and less reliable.
    Modern technology, in addition to all night talk radio and a couple hundred 24/7 TV channels, has added the microwave oven. See my 8/2/10 entry about what that does to water and you'll see why, with our brain some 78% water, eating or drinking microwaved food can raise hob, not only with our bodies, but also our brains. No wonder Russia has outlawed them.
    With our brains, like the other parts of our bodies, it's a miss-use-it and lose-it proposition. 

10/18/10

Alzheimer’s
    Virtually unknown a little over a hundred years ago, it’s a major cause of death today. Something has changed. No, a lot has changed. Our food. Our water. Our so-called heathcare.
    Since my mother died of Alzheimer’s I’ve had more than a casual interest in it.
    If you’re interested in not joining the over four million (and growing) Americans who are losing their minds, there are some changes you should consider. Like avoiding aluminum. Alzheimer’s autopsies show heavy aluminum deposits in the brains. Not good.
    So get rid of those aluminum pots or pans. Hey, if you’re cooking your food you’re asking for trouble right there. A raw food diet will help reverse Alzheimer’s. But there’s aluminum sources in so many things…like toothpaste, antiperspirants, deodorants, Morton’s salt (you should be using sea salt, dammit), antacids, baking powder, canned soft drinks (what in hell are you doing drinking soft drinks, anyway?), and city water, which is often clarified with alum.
    Even worse, they’re dosing city water with fluorides, which are also destroying our brains. Fluorides at “acceptable levels” have been shown to result in IQ deficits, learning disabilities, and motor dysfunction. Just what you and your kids need. So, get a still and distill your water (www.steamdistiller.com). Oh, and either stop taking baths, move to a town where the water is not fluoridated, or you have your own well.
   Why are they putting fluorides in our city water when there is no valid research showing it has any benefit to teeth or anything else…except helping to dumb us down and make us more docile…as if our compulsory public school system isn’t doing a good enough job of that?
    While on water, dehydration is another trigger for Alzheimer’s. Are you drinking your six to eight glasses of pure water a day. Look, the brain is about 75% water, so you want to keep the tank full.

10/17/10

Baby Signs
    You may already know about baby signs, but I didn’t. If you know a new mother, please get her Baby Signs, subtitled, “How to talk with your baby before your baby can talk.”
    Babies as young as seven and eight months can learn signs which will help them communicate long before they’ve mastered the complexities of talking. In addition, it eliminates a lot of the frustration babies have because they don’t know how to communicate what they want or their fears. The process makes for a much closer bond between parents and the baby.
    There are other benefits, too. The use of baby signs helps the baby learn to talk earlier and to build a vocabulary faster. A research project with a group of babies taught to baby sign vs. a control group that did not do this, showed a 12-point increase in IQ over the control group! And this is a permanent advantage for the children. The use of baby signs helps the baby’s brain develop faster and build more connections during it’s fastest growth period.
    Conversely, parents who do not teach baby signs will be permanently damaging their children by depriving them of the brain growth potential of this time in the baby’s life, a time which comes and goes. Just as children who have been kept away from other people and never taught to speak are unable later in life to learn this skill.
    Baby signs? Babies will come up with some of them on their own, if you’re paying attention. But they can be easily taught dozens of others…like a sign saying they’re hungry, they want more, they’re full, they want you to read to them, and so on. Soon they’ll have signs for dog, cat, and other animals. They’ll sign for their favorite Sesame Street characters.
    Anyway, check with B&N, Amazon or Borders and get the book. It’s by Acredolo and Goodwyn and published by Contemporary Books.
    You bet this is going to be in the book I really should write on what I’ve learned about having and raising children to give them the best possible mental and physical growth. We desperately, as a country, need a generation of geniuses to help our country again be a world leader.

10/16/10

Birth Defects
    Didja read the 8-page article in Newsweek on the latest research into how much of an effect in later life womb conditions exert? Well, doesn’t it make sense? And doesn’t it confirm just what I’ve been writing?
    A baby starts out as a single egg and a sperm, and then starts growing. If the foundations are weak, the building is going to have problems later on. The more a fetus is provided with poor nutrition and toxic substances, the more these things are going to permanently alter the fetus’ growth, and the more they will be reflected in the adult physical and mental problems…particularly including a lower IQ.
    With much of our beef and milk now containing the rBST growth hormone, plus the antibiotics farmers have to give their cows to cure the sickness the growth hormone causes, we’re getting this stuff when we eat Big Macs and Whoppers. My advice to any woman considering pregnancy would be to lay off beef and milk until well after the child has been weaned…unless it can be obtained from a local farm where the cows are grass fed and not given growth hormones (like where I get mine).
    Sodas? Forget it. Drink distilled water. Sodas are loaded with either sugar or aspartame, both toxic. Worse, canned sodas contribute aluminum, and the bottled, BPA. Bad news for both you and the baby.
    The article recommends that mothers avoid all toxic substances such as alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and most prescription drugs. I also recommend that stress be kept to a minimum, and that any time the baby may be bumped or exposed to a loud noise, that conversation should be avoided for a while.
    Since mercury is so extremely toxic, prospective mothers should have their amalgam fillings replaced with plastic by a dentist experienced in the procedure. Also, avoid any kind of vaccinations, since they also have mercury in them. Please, do everything you can not to poison your baby in the womb.

10/15/10

Child Abuse
    When IQ researchers publish their findings, they’re quickly accused of being racists since they’ve all reported they’ve found blacks average about eight IQ points less than whites. None of the “racist” screamers seem to have bothered either to read the books they’re trashing, or to be aware of the other, and to me much more startling, finding…that Asians have a ten IQ point advantage over whites.
    If you’ve been paying any attention to the stuff I’ve been discovering and writing about, you know that I’ve discussed a growing number of ways parents can improve their children’s IQs. So maybe a lot of the IQ differences that have been found by researchers are more due to what scientists classify as “environment,” rather than “genetic.” It may be due to cultural differences. Could the ten point Asian IQ lead over whites be the result of their breast feeding their children, while we’re feeding ours formula? Well, studies have shown that that’s all it takes.
    And ten points can be the difference between a child later on being able to cope with college instead of having to give up after high school. 120 vs. 100.
    If you add up the various way’s I’ve discovered, we’re talking about a difference of around 50 IQ points between a child raised by parents who know what they’re doing and those doing what their parents did to them. We’re talking the difference between a high school drop-out and a genius.
    Most of the books which explain how to improve a child’s IQ that I’ve reported on for you are reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Since only a few hundred of you have bothered to buy my book, I know I haven’t been able to make much of a dent.
    It’s going to take more research, now that we know many of the factors which can influence a child’s IQ, to find out whether the reported racial IQ averages are the result of racial genes or racial cultures.
    But, now that the cat is out of the bag, and we know how we can raise children’s IQs enormously, any parents who don’t follow through will be permanently disabling their children, just as surely as if they’d put out their eyes or chopped off a hand. Isn’t that a form of child abuse?

10/14/10

Keep Score
    With 2012 shaping up to be the year which could bring some major changes to Congress and state legislatures as the tidal movement against Obama sweeps a lot of politicians out of office, we can look forward to a record barrage of political propaganda from both parties. So, hey, let's have fun.
    Maybe you've noticed that I think, without exception, the political oratory and advertising preceding the current election was characterized by a recitation of our problems, accompanied by promises to fix them. But nowhere did I see or hear any mention of proposals for how to solve the problems.
    As a solution-oriented person this was particularly frustrating. Frankly, I doubt if any of them have a clue on what can be done to make things better. Their election platforms typically promised to create jobs, cut the spending, cut taxes, reduce red-tape, and so on. Gee, great!
    Tell you what. On the 2012 run up, have fun attending the political meetings and listening to the candidates and make a note of their promises. Then get up and ask them exactly how they plan to do what they've promised. How are they going to create more jobs? Just what spending do they plan to cut? Which taxes are they going to reduce?
    If you do your homework by reading my blogs you'll find I've offered creative solutions to all of our major problems. Bone up on them and then ask the politicians why they haven't bothered to do their homework on solutions.
    Healthcare, where we are spending more per person than any other country, yet we're 37th in health. Education, where we have the highest per student cost, our kids are coming in last in international surveys. Unemployment is growing. The government is continuing to bloat. Gas prices are high and going higher. Inflation could go crazy in the near future. Those wars are a mess. Phooey.
    Oh, one more way to have fun while listening to political talks is to keep a pen and paper at hand and count the number of time the speaker fills in with uh's and um's. The other night one candidate managed 39 uh's and 4 um's in a fairly short talk. I made myself popular by congratulating him for the new record.

10/13/10

Our Government
    Between our intentionally dumbing down, government-run, public school system (4/21/10) and fluorides in our drinking water (5/21/09) to further make us docile, we've elected and re-elected a Congress that's ruining what was a darned good country. One we used to be proud of.
    Can you name one successful government program? Take the Department of Energy, instituted in 1977 (Carter administration) to lessen our dependence of foreign oil. It's budget is now $24.2 billion a year, it has some 16,000 federal employees and about 100,000 contract employees. When it was started, 33 years ago, 30% of our oil was imported. Today it's 70%. We love the way it handled the Gulf oil leak. And, is it really possible that no one in the bureau knows that cold fusion has been proven to work by two government labs, offering unlimited non-polluting energy at around a fiftieth the cost of oil? So, what would be the harm in closing the whole program? And the Department of Education, too, where our kids are the least educated of the developed countries, and at by far the highest cost. The War Department has also grown to gargantuan size, yet managed to screw up every war since WWII. And, even with a monopoly, the post office has managed to go further and further into debt.
    2012 elections are on the horizon, providing the few of us not busy watching ball games or Oprah, the opportunity to fire the Congressional career politicians who's management has gotten us into the mess we're in. We have to out-vote the millions on welfare and other government hand-outs.
    Any business managed as poorly as our Congress and Administration have our country, would be thrown out by the board of directors under pressure from the shareholders.
    The most important thing in all our lives is our health, and at the highest cost per person by a wide margin, we are 37th in health of the developed nations. So much for government-run healthcare. At some level of government the news that if we change our diets and stop poisoning our bodies with FDA-sanctioned poisons, we could cure any illness, never get sick again, and double our life spans in robust health. Boy, are we brainwashed super suckers, and at the tune of an average of $8,000 for every man, woman, and child per year.
    If we're going to be competitive as a country we need to have well-educated people. With our kids coming in last on international surveys, and 37% of our kids not graduating high school, it's no wonder our major industries are moving to Asia.
    Instead of stemming the growing unemployment, we're increasing welfare, food stamps, and unemployment benefits. Hey guys, ever heard of creating more businesses? That's easy if we set up business incubator groups in our towns, and all this at no cost of the government. We could be creating millions of new small businesses.
    Instead of luring millions of illegal immigrants  with welfare checks, free hospital service, almost wide open borders, social security checks, and little restriction on jobs…fighting every effort of states to do anything about it, further filling our prisons with felons, and keeping illegal drug prices low with the flood of drugs coming in from Mexico, our management should do what it takes to close our borders, the way most other countries have.
    Instead of letting our administrations bamboozle us into one bogus war after another, wars we haven't seemed able to win, despite our having the largest military force in the world by a wide margin, and thereby making much of the world hate us, Congress should put  a stop to this nonsense.
    How come we have a higher percentage of our people in prison than any other developed country? And, of course, at a fantastic cost. Heck, I've shown how we could cut our astronomical prison costs about 90%, while reducing recidivism. Win-win.
    Look up what I've written about New Zealand, when a reform government was elected that cut the number of bureaucrats about 90%. So here we are, with more government employees (I almost said workers) than in manufacturing, few of which are making life better for us. The one product we're up to here in is red tape. I've written about a simple way to get any government bureau to cut itself in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. Hey, let's run that program for six, nine, or twelve years! In that way we wouldn't suddenly be swamped with millions of out-of-work bureaucrats all at once.
    Our current management has run the company's debt to unbelievable depths, threatening us with an imminent catastrophic inflation. Hey, you're a stockholder of this business, raise some hell with management before we are buying our groceries with stacks of hundred dollar bills.
    We don't have to be a sick, poorly educated, drugged, bunch of suckers. We know a simple way to be healthy. We have some schools that are graduating highly intelligent, creative kids, and at less than half the cost of our government public school system. We could have our colleges tuition-free at no cost to the government. We don't need to be building more and more trillion dollar carrier fleets, now that carriers are as easy to sink with missiles as battleships were by airplanes after WWI.
    Nothing is going to change unless you wise up and then help others to wise up. We don't have to remain prisoners of a mandatory school system intentionally designed to prevent us from learning to think, and further dumbed down with fluorides in our water, and Big Macs that can sit on a shelf for twenty years without rotting. D'oh!

10/12/10

A Major Publisher
    Many readers of my Secret Guide to Health have been pushing me to get a major book publisher to help market the book…complete with book tours and TV interviews. I’d sure like to help millions of people be healthy instead of only thousands, but I’m worried that the impact could cause an even worse recession than we have now.
    You see, if the word ever really gets out about what I’ve discovered it could: Put hudreds of thousands of doctors out of work; Close down two-thirds or more of our hospitals; Put almost all assisted care facilities out of business; Close down most nursing homes; Bankrupt the huge pharmaceutical companies; Severely impact drug stores; Put most medical schools out of business; Severely depress the funeral business; Bankrupt the food industry giants; Destroy the sugar industry; Put most dentists out of business; And dental schools; Bankrupt the soda pop industry; Bankrupt the tobacco industry; Bankrupt the beer, wine and liquor industries; Put a million liquor stores out of business; Wipe out cancer and other illness-related supposed-research organizations; Destroy the Social Security system as we know it; Wipe out HMOs; Wipe out the health insurance industry; Wipe out the fast food industry as we know it; Put Kleenex out of business; Bankrupt the TV networks.
    Just think what something like this could do to the American economy. And then Europe and around the world. Icons like Coca Cola and their hundreds of thousands of workers would be history. Ditto McDonalds, Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Wendy’s (unless they bring back their salad bars).
    Let’s say you’re a small employer like I was a while back. I had about 250 employees. Today I’d be paying about $1 million in health benefits for them. Next year it would be $1,125,000. Would I buy 250 copies of my health guide at $20 a whack, a $5,000 outlay, in the hopes of cutting my health care bills? In an instant. Further, I’d blow another $10 for a video of Wayne Green explaining the benefits of changing one’s lifestyle. I’d also get rid of the candy and coffee machines in the employee’s lounge. I’d replace them with bowls of grapes, cherries, apples, etc. Oh, and water coolers with big bottles of distilled water.
    A bigger company’s CEO, with 10,000 employees, faced with spending $40 million a year on health benefits (which have been lately going up at about $500 a year per employee), might be interested in investing $120,000 (bulk discount) in my books to help his employees be healthier. If not, his board of directors should fire his ass because the savings would go right to the bottom line, increasing the company’s profits (and its stock price).
    Would corner bars like Cheers and Moes be replaced by sashimi bars? I sure hope so.
    So, do you know any publisher interested in a book which could be the biggest seller yet? In 50 or so languages?

10/11/10

Arming for Yesterday
    A note from Mark Thorson cites our Navy's enormous waste building already obsolete ships, like the USS Gerald R. Ford, the first of a new generation of supercarriers, which we're presently building. Since we already have eleven carrier battle groups and their escort ships, who are we arming ourselves at fantastic cost to take on?
    With Russia having one carrier, Britain two, and one each for France, Italy, India, and Argentina, and none (zero) for China, who are we arming at huge expense to fight?
    There was a good reason President Roosevelt, who had previously been the Secretary of the Navy, got all of our carriers out of Pearl Harbor, leaving a couple of battleships for the Japanese to attack. They were left over from WWI. Maybe you've read, or seen the movie, about the 1925 courts-martial of Colonel Billy Mitchell, who claimed airplanes could sink battleships, something the Navy didn't want to hear.
    Interesting, at least to me, was that my dad served under Mitchell when he was stationed at the Langley Air Base in Hampton VA in 1923 and 1924, when I was one and two years old. Dad said Billy came to dinner at our house several times. Anyway, he put an end to the Navy building more battleships when he proved his claim by sinking a decommissioned battleship as a demo.
    Maybe you've seen the videos of our pilots, sitting here in the U.S., piloting drone planes in Afghanistan, bombing buildings and tanks remotely. A couple of drones could easily take out a carrier with their guided missiles. They've made carriers as obsolete as airplanes did battleships soon after WWI.
    Instead of building more of these multi-billion dollar floating airports, the Navy should start decommissioning them and their fleets of escort ships, thus cutting their personnel needs by a few hundred thousands. Carriers were important when airplane ranges were limited, but now our B-2 bomber base in Missouri can strike any target in the world from there. And our growing fleet of drones with missiles don't even need a pilot on board.
    We'll still need a submarine fleet, so that won't be the end of our need for a Navy. I don't know what the technology is now for finding enemy submarines, but in 1950, when I was working as an engineer for Airborne Instrument Labs in Mineola NY, one of my projects was designing a system of small listening buoys that would alert Navy planes when they detected something.
    On Pearl Harbor, if you've read Day of Infamy by Stinnett, you know that Roosevelt wanted to get us into the war in Europe in order to save Britain. Well, the Germans had taken over Europe, except for Britain, and were close to invading them. But the American public was 82% opposed to our entry, so Roosevelt cut off our supplying oil to Japan, goading them to attack. He replaced the general and admiral in charge at Pearl with incompetents. We'd broken the Japanese codes, so Roosevelt knew the exact time and place of the attack, and the location of the Japanese carrier force attacking. He did not share this information, so the attack came as a surprise to everyone except Roosevelt. This "dastardly attack" got us into war, which quickly included Germany and Italy.
    So let's let our Congress know it's time to save a trillion or so on portable airfields, and maybe cut the Navy back pretty much to submarines. That might help slow down the looming inflation, and maybe save a few congressmen and senators their jobs in the 2012 elections.
    Thanks Mark for your note. Right on the Mark.

10/10/10

The Russian Meltdown
    Have you noticed all the fuss about our trading with China, yet nothing at all is being said about our trading with Russia? Maybe you’ve noticed that we’re wearing shoes, sox, pants and shirts made in China. We’re using telephones and flashlights made in China, but nothing we buy has a Made In Russia sticker on it. Hmm, how come?
    Well, as we know, the Cold War ended with Russia’s socialist economy collapsing. What we haven’t read much about is the replacement of the ruthless Communist bosses by even more ruthless gangsters, pretending to be capitalists, and funded by Western opportunist financiers.
    The gangsters grabbed the Russian state-owned industries such as telecommunications, gas, oil, steel, paper, and the gold, silver and diamond mines, and sold shares to Western investors at fire-sale prices, pocketed the cash, becoming millionaires, and kept control of the industries.
    Then, led by the Clinton Administration, the IMF, World Bank, US AID, and other lending agencies poured money and officials (to help spend it) with huge salaries into Russia, driving up the prices for vacation homes, rents, and goods. This was made infinitely worse for the Russian people by an almost 3,000 percent inflation, which wiped out their savings. The inflation was mainly caused by our Treasury Department demanding that price controls be removed. Since the government had spent most of its money on the military, thus not providing consumer goods for their people to buy, the people had accrued huge savings. Suddenly, these were gone and the people were poor.
    When word leaked out of the economic disaster the Russian stock market collapsed.
    Now the IMF and other “lenders” have lost their (our) money, Russian gangsters own and run the country, and the people are suffering the worst poverty in the history of the country. There are no goods to export, nor any money to buy imports. And the Russian people can thank our politicians and bankers for what’s happened…and for our media being silent about the catastrophe.

10/9/10

Rocket Scientists
    Hmm, let’s see now…in 1999 the $125 million mission to Mars crashed. They said that was caused by Lockheed using English instead of metric measurements in some of their calculations. D’uh? And in the same year Lockheed put a military communications satellite in an unusable low-earth orbit instead of the wanted geosynchronous orbit. Just a little software error. D’uh? And in the same time frame five out of 25 launches failed due to design errors.
    While our military are busy dreaming up more and more uses for satellites, a generation of space scientists is retiring or losing their jobs as the industry shrinks.
    Gee, weren’t we lucky forty years ago when every one of those Apollo Moon mission rockets performed so perfectly?
    Sure.

10/8/10

Sonograms
    The use of ultrasound during pregnancy has been termed one of the biggest uncontrolled experiments in history. Now, finally, serious questions have been raised about the safety of sonograms. It’s about damned time. We’re finally starting to see medical journals publishing peer-reviewed papers showing a relationship between sonograms and growth restriction, delayed talking, mental impairment, dyslexia, and non-right-handedness.
    Considering the current interest in sonoluminescence, it makes sense to me that ultrasound exposure should cause problems, particularly with neurones (brain cells). When water is exposed to ultrasound tiny flashes of light can be seen. These are tiny explosions as bubbles are compressed by the sound waves to the point where they are heated to thousands of degrees and explode. I published technical articles on this phenomenon in my Cold Fusion Journal.
    Is this what we want happening to fetuses? Brain neurones which are destroyed during sonograms will never be replaced. It’s no wonder that all kinds of abnormalities are popping up later…such as delayed speech development and mental impairment.
    Gee, am I surprised? Not!
    When the book Dianetics, The Science of Mental Health, came out in 1950 I immediately got a copy. The theory made sense to me, so I got together with Joe, a fellow announcer at WSPB, and tried it out. The book claimed that traumas, even during pregnancy, could affect people’s lifetime behavior.
    We started with Joe’s having to switch off his mike to cough every time he had to make an announcement. When I regressed him to the origin of this problem it turned out to be two months before his birth. His mother had a bad cough and every time she coughed it was painful for little Joe, so the pain was equated to what he was hearing and feeling at the time. Under hypnosis I ran Joe through the subconscious memories of these pains to decondition them. Joe no longer had to cough when announcing. I wrote down his mother’s words, which were automatically recorded by Joe when she coughed. The critical phrase was, “Every time I get nervous, I cough.” So, 25 years later, Joe was coughing whenever he got nervous.
    When Joe’s mother visited I checked the things Joe had “remembered” her saying and she confirmed it all.
    I was so impressed by this experience that I quit my job at the station and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in New Jersey and took a six week course to improve my auditing skills.
    I confirmed that the things that happen to a baby during pregnancy can affect the child’s life significantly. Several cases I audited were solved by deconditioning prenatal trauma memories.
    With that background you can understand why I have been opposed to sonograms. I felt that those would have to be traumatic to the baby and could easily leave their mark on its life…and that’s not counting the exploding of the baby’s brain neurones and any damage to the DNA.
    So why take a chance on seriously lowering the baby’s IQ?

10/7/10

Text Book Survey
    As if it isn’t bad enough that our school kids are forced to memorize stuff to pass tests, stuff which goes in one eye and out the other, leaving little permanent evidence of it’s having ever been there, maybe you read the report in Time  that a study done by the American Association for the Advancement of Science reviewed the most used middle school science text books. Not one got a passing grade.
    So here we have a situation where the bottom 20% of high school graduates go to ed schools, which Rita Kramer, in her Ed School Follies survey report showed were worse than jokes, and where a PBS report showed teachers were often “teaching” subjects they didn’t know. And now, to no great surprise, we find that the text books our kids are forced to buy and use are a bunch of crap. Is it any wonder our kids are coming in last in international surveys?
    No, throwing more money at the situation isn’t going to improve it. It’s the whole system that’s screwed up. We don’t need to move the deck chairs, we need to start from scratch and design a better public school system. And we have no shortage of examples of innovative schools that really do work.

10/6/10

Trusting the FDA
    It’s approved by the FDA, so where’s the problem? Here’s a government outfit that charges food and drug companies an average of around $250 million to okay a product for sale to the public…a charge that we protected users have to pay with a higher product price. So, how well protected are we?
    Well, I’ve written several times about the dangers of using aspartame, best known by dieters as NutraSweet. The blue stuff. Yes, of course it’s been okayed by the FDA. So how did something that’s making so many people sick, and causing them to gain weight in the bargain, get the FDA stamp of approval?
    Aspartame was originally accidentally discovered by G.D. Searle’s chemist James Schlatter in 1965. The company submitted some tests to the FDA which showed the product to be safe, so they okayed it in 1974. A few months later they withdrew the okay, after a consumer interest attorney insisted that outside tests showed aspartame to cause serious brain damage to mice. This cast doubts on the validity of Searle’s tests.
    An FDA team investigated, reporting in 1977 that Searle had withheld test information, plus they found many irregularities in Searle’s studies.
    Yes, the FDA had been depending entirely on the honesty of drug manufacturers in granting their okay for new products! So, how dependable are such test reports? A recent survey of 166 aspartame studies gives us a hint. Of the 74 paid for by the drug company, 74 found aspartame safe. Of the 92 independent studies, 92% found adverse reactions.
    In January 1977 Richard Merrill, the FDA’s Chief Counsel, asked Samuel Skinner, the US Federal Attorney, to convene a Grand Jury investigation of Searle for “concealing material facts and making false statements” about aspartame. With the US Statute of Limitations about to run out, Merrill pushed Skinner to move quickly. Which he did. Skinner quickly joined Searle’s legal firm, delaying the Grand Jury investigation until his successor could be appointed…by which time the Statute of Limitations had expired.
    So what problems were the independent animal studies showing with aspartame? Mainly brain tumors.
    In 1981, FDA Commissioner Arthur Hayes, ignoring the reports of brain tumors from the FDA’s Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI), approved of aspartame’s use by the public. He soon after left the FDA to become a paid consultant to Searle’s public relations firm, Burston-Marsteller.
    In 1985 Searle was acquired by Montsanto.
    Despite thousands of complaints of seizures, headaches and mood alterations, both Montsanto and the FDA have continued to defend aspartame, which is a major money maker, used in thousands of products…notably in diet drinks.
    I have a small two-for-a-buck booklet available that you can give to anyone you know who is using NutraSweet products to alert them.

10/5/10

The L.A. Riots
    Well, it was seventeen years ago when the blacks rioted over the acquittal of the police who so brutally beat Rodney King. Hey, how come the jury did that? I’ll bet you’ve never heard the real story. I know I hadn’t.
    The acquittal was the result of the jury seeing the entire video tape of the event, not just the little segment shown endlessly on TV. Yes, the news shows had the whole tape to work with, but showing the whole thing wouldn’t have been as shocking (a,k,a, newsworthy).
    If you’ve watched any of the cop shows you know that suspects are often ordered to lie on the ground with their hands behind their backs. Cops have found by hard experience that this is the safest way to keep from getting shot or stabbed.
    When, after a high speed chase, King was finally stopped and ordered to lie down, he refused. The other men that were in the car with him all complied and gave no trouble. When the cops tried to force King down he fought them. He was too big and strong for them, so they tried electrified darts to immobilize him. They didn’t faze him. Twice he got back up and charged the cops. When they finally managed to get him down he wouldn’t put his hands behind him and was still struggling to get up. It was the last few seconds of their efforts to subdue King that the media showed. And showed.
    When the jury saw the whole tape they acquitted. More than 50 people lost their lives in the ensuing riots.
    The media may have our attention, but it doesn’t make much of effort to be honest.
    How much have you seen in the main stream media about the reality of cold fusion, UFOs, crop patterns, and so on? I guess these things just “don’t sell papers.”

10/4/10

The Optimist
    An email from N9PQ wonders, in view of wars, politics, and general BS, how I manage to keep a positive forward-looking mental attitude.
    Hmm, it’s difficult, but there are several factors that help keep me on an even keel. First, I love to tackle problems and come up with creative solutions. It’s fun. It’s like putting a jig-saw puzzle together (I love the wooden ones). It’s like doing a cross-word puzzle or cryptogram (I’m addicted). So when I see a problem I try to learn all I can about it, and then figure out how to solve it…just like a puzzle.
    Second, I tend to live far more in the future than the past. Okay, so I once got taken for $100 million. Yep, I really did! That was traumatic, but I don’t sit and stew about it. That’s over and gone. BFD. I can almost laugh about it. My interest is in what I need to do next, and I have a long list. At the head is starting a new publication which will, I believe, totally revolutionize education for the whole world…lowering its cost by around 90% and making an education in any field one is interested in easily available. And, in addition, making it so much fun that I may get almost everyone to stop watching TV talk shows and other such garbage.
    Third, I know very well that negative thoughts beget bad things happening in life, not to mention sickness. Your thoughts really do make things happen. Hells bells, read Neil Slade’s book. Or Eugene Maurey. Or even Scott Adams. I’ve reviewed ’em in my past editorials and they’re in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. And if you are still a skeptic about the power of thought, you haven’t read Dean Radin’s book, which proves it scientifically. Jeesh.
     Hey, I get daily rations of potentially maddening insanity from people that I have to deal with. Sure, I get angry, but minutes later I’m over it and happily inputting orders for my books, reading books recommended by you and the talk show listeners, or writing. Or I’m out there on my daily fast walk in the sun, enjoying the fantastic wild flowers in the north pasture. Like four feet high buttercups and daisies, and I counted 23 different varieties in bloom in early August. Well, we’ve had a lot of rain.

10/3/10

The Space Station
    Like the super collider, which, thankfully, Congress scuttled, I view NASA's space station project as little more than another scientist welfare program. NASA has no clear rationale for the project. They've spent $30 billion on it so far and the predictions now are that the project will come in $7 billion over budget. So what do we have then? A bigger, better MIR! And what benefits has MIR provided? Some ham radio contacts and lots of news coverage of its endless woes.
    The original space station idea was to have a platform in space from which to keep track of what was going on in hostile countries and to be able to dump nukes on them when they got too uppity. But all that's been made irrelevant by our spy satellites and missile delivery systems.
    Well, how about a scientific laboratory in space? We've been doing scientific work in our temporary space stations known as orbiters. If anything of value has come of that NASA has managed to keep it under wraps…something which NASA is not famous for doing, unless it's bad news.
     So what is the rationale for spending billions on NASA these days? It's an expensive agency with thousands of employees and no clear mission. It's mainly been ferrying satellites into orbit for the military, a bunch of black projects, and communications companies. There it's in competition with the French, Chinese and Russians, who are providing discount rides for the same customers.
    Oh, NASA is still mumbling about sending astronauts back to the Moon or even to Mars, but until they can convince me (and almost anyone else who's seriously looked into the matter) that they didn't have to fake the Moon landings 40 years ago, I think we could save billions by re-issuing the movie "Capricorn One" and making do.
The array of satellites in near Earth orbits have revolutionized communications for us, so we've benefited from that program and the space shuttle. But, given the lack of any good reason for lofting the space station, would you voluntarily donate $100 out of your pocket for the project? Secondarily, do you have any objection to Congress grabbing the $100 out of your pocket via the IRS's long arm, whether you like it or not, and putting you in prison if you refuse to pay? Stop mumbling about, well,  gee, somebody ought to do something about this, but you're busy.
    It's the Congress you elected that's wasting your money on this nonsense. Maybe send ’em a message come November.

10/2/10

Traffic Tickets
    How would you like to know a way to avoid getting any points on your license the next time you get a traffic ticket? Here’s how you can take advantage of the computerized traffic ticket systems they are using in every state. This information supposedly comes from someone who works for the computer company that sets up the data base for the motor vehicle departments.
    Here’s how you work it. When you get your fine, send a check to pay for it. But (love those buts), instead of paying the actual fine, send the check for a few dollars more than the fine. The system will then have to send you a check for the difference. Do not, heh-heh, cash that refund check. Shred it, or have it framed, but do not cash it.
Since points are not assessed on your license until all financial transactions are complete, you’ll beat the system, which has gotten its money, so it won’t bother you any more.
    There, has that paid for your visit to my web site? Maybe subscribe to New Hampshire ToDo so you won't miss my editorials.

10/1/10

Violent Kids
    Step one: we’re feeding our kids sugar frosty fruit loops and pop tarts for breakfast, loading their systems with sugar. Sugar, which is a highly addictive poison, causes depression.
    Step two: the school nurses or their doctors then dose them with anti-depressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Effexor, or Serzone, drugs which tend to make children develop coughs.
    Step three: the parents then give their children cough medicines which contain dextromethophan, which magnifies the antidepressant effect dangerously…leading to a PCP-like (Angel Dust) psychotic reaction.
    Eric Harris, the Columbine shooter, was under the influence of Luvox at the time of the shooting, and he’d recently been rejected by Marine Recruiters because he was taking antidepressant drugs.
    Perhaps, more important than outlawing guns, would be to outlaw Prozac and its ilk. Or to get the word out to mothers about the dangers of sugar. I assume that, despite my urging, you haven’t bothered to spend $6 for Nancy Appleton’s Lick The Sugar Habit, or William Duffy’s Sugar Blues. If you read either book you’ll cut sugar out of your diet, and keep it away from your kids.
    Remember, those kids at Columbine had bombs ready to set off as well as guns, and there’s no way to outlaw bombs, they’re just too easy to make. When I was in high school I had a lot of fun making bombs. All it took was some sodium nitrate, sulfur, and antimony trisulfide. The antimony made huge clouds of smoke. Spectacular. I carefully mixed the chemicals, put it in small cans, and made soda straw fuses, using slower-burning powder (less nitrate). I could have made a nice fuse with potassium permanganate and glycerin. One drop of glycerin into the potassium permanganate and in 30 seconds it blazes up. I learned about that from a chemistry set I got for Christmas when I was seven.
    I don’t agree with the NRA about a lot of things, but I do know that in every community where guns have been outlawed burglaries have risen. Would you put a sign on your front lawn saying that you have a totally gun-free home?
    We don’t need police with metal detectors in our schools to keep out guns, all we need is to change our kid’s diets. No more sugar or milk.
    How was Dr. Henry Bieler able to cure 100% of the children in hospitals with “incurable” leukemia? He stopped all milk products and fed them a few spoons of chopped raw liver every day.
    Golly, if we can’t safely feed Mikey cold cereal, pop tarts, toasted Flako waffles, toast and jam, or Danish for breakfast, what on earth is there? How about oranges, bananas, berries, grapefruit, raw milk, and apples?

9/30/10

Virtual Shopping
    When I as a kid, some 75 years ago, before supermarkets, we had small local grocery stores, and we did most of our grocery shopping on the telephone. We called our order to Bohack's, a couple blocks away in Brooklyn, and their kid on a bicycle would bring it to our back door, walk into the kitchen with it and yell, "Bohack!"
    How long will it be before a smart marketer sets up a warehouse out in a low-rent area and sets up a virtual store via the web? Customers will never have to leave home, saving on their gas and time.
    There'll be pictures of the products, complete with all of the information you might want to know about them. You place your order, your credit card is automatically debited, an automated warehouse picks your items and a delivery van makes the delivery right to your door. Or, will they use UPS, which might save some delivery redundancy.
    The store website will have all of those specials they're now sending you through the mail, saving them a bundle on printing and postage, which they can reflect in lower prices.…and force the post office into even larger annual deficits. Plus they'll save hugely by not having to have stores in nearby towns on expensive locations with large parking lots.
    With one warehouse able to service a wide area, a chain like Shaws, could eliminate their stores in Hillsborough, Peterborough, Keene, and Milford, saving on all those salaries and the cost of supply distribution. Ditto for Wal-Mart, which has three huge stores within a half hour drive of my home.
    As the word leaks out about the critical importance of raw food for health, the same vans making order deliveries could stop by nearby farms to pick up locally grown organic produce which we'd normally have to go to the farmer's market to get, plus raw milk and meat from grass-fed cows, eggs and chickens from free-ranged chickens.
    The days of factory-raised meat, eggs, and milk will be over. Ditto GM crops, plus our heavy dependence on grain crops.
    This system will build a market for a new kind of back-porch refrigerator, one with three compartments…one kept at 70°, one at 40° and one at 20° for the delivery person to leave your frozen, refrigerated, and anything you don't want frozen during the winter…or heated during the summer.

9/29/10

Wetbacks
    Yes, America has millions of acres of unused land. Of course most of it is owned by the government, and little of it is of any real interest for living.
    So what? Well, we have this controversy about immigration. Should we seriously limit immigration or should we maintain our loose borders which bring in a half a million or so illegal immigrants every year? Plus, of course, tons of drugs. Of course that helps to keep drug prices low so kids can afford to enjoy them.
    Oh, I can understand how our country would benefit from allowing highly educated or skilled workers to move here, but that isn’t what we’re getting.
    The open border believers point to all of our undeveloped land. What they don’t point to is our more and more crowded cities, which is where the immigrants head. That’s where the jobs are, not out in the desert or remote mountain areas. If you’ve visited a city lately you’ve seen the jammed highways. California’s freeways turn into gigantic parking lots at drive time, as do the highways around every major city. I’ve been in the traffic jams that surround New York City, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, and so on.
    Are we going to just build more and bigger roads and watch while our cities gradually creep toward each other? In the northeast, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington have just about connected. They call it a megalopolis. Just what we need is to double the population of this area, which is what it’s already done within my lifetime.
    Without immigrants our population has stabilized and is not growing much. So, if you really want to let anyone in that wants to come, be prepared to pay the price. The immigrants sure aren’t going to pay it. And the price is stiff, with the need to virtually rebuild our city infrastructures to accommodate everyone.
    Our subways are already jammed solid. Are we going to build more tracks and stations? That means digging up our streets for years, plus spending trillions of dollars.
    More cars and busses mean more pollution and smog. That what you want?
    We have the laws limiting immigration, we’re intentionally just not enforcing them…and making it difficult for states that try to.
    Every now and then I’m forced to drive on a jammed highway and I wonder at the patience of people who have to commute to and from work every day under those conditions. That’s a terrible waste of time and a lousy way to live. It’s even reached New Hampshire, where the Interstate highway from Nashua going into Massachusetts is absolutely terrible at morning and afternoon drive times.
    The fact is that there are very few jobs for unskilled or uneducated workers outside of the cities, so that’s where immigrants are forced to go…and forced to live under awful conditions. But that’s still better than where they came from.
     So, they're here, by the millions, with more than a thousand pouring in every day, and our government purposely encouraging them with free hospital care, welfare, and even social security payments they never paid into.

9/28/10

Coffee
     In my health guide I list caffeine as an addictive poison which anyone interested in health should avoid. Sure, we’re able to last 60 or 70 years, even when we poison our bodies with caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, sugar, cooked food, and so on. But the resulting quality of life sure sucks. I challenge you to find a nursing home anywhere that’s feeding it’s prisoners healthy food. That’s as unlikely as finding any other kind of prison providing healthy foCoffee is so toxic that it does chromosomal damage, causing mutations. Just what parents want to do to their children, right? It has also been linked to an increased risk of stomach and bladder cancer. It contributes to diabetes. The rush of white cells to fight the caffeine depresses your immune system, making you more likely to get anything that’s going around and to develop cancer.
    In animal tests, those who were given coffee drank two to four times more alcohol. Yep, that morning cuppa coffee you use to wake you up can help make you an alcoholic.
    Sam Harris, one of the most brilliant electronic engineers I’ve known, was addicted to coffee. He got diabetes and it eventually killed him in his 60s.
    Coffee reduces bone density for women. It reduces fertility, and it’s responsible for a higher rate of miscarriages.
    Oh yes, many sodas have caffeine in ’em too.
    Are you addicted? It’s easy to find out. Just stop drinking coffee or caffeinated drinks like Coke…if you can. Good luck!

9/27/10

College Choice
    If you, as a parent, have decided your teenager doesn’t have the motivation (a.k.a. drive) it takes to be an entrepreneur, you’ll want to make sure he or she gets the ticket to be a lifetime working stiff for a large corporation. This requires a college degree. Since our public schools go to lengths to discourage thinking, creativity and initiative, your teen will probably fall into this category.
    Now, you’re faced with the choice of a college. Should you spend the big bucks for an ivy league diploma?
    Presuming you have been “too busy” to read any of the books I’ve reviewed on the subject, or bothered to get my Secret Guide to Wisdom, the bottom line is that in terms of future earnings, it doesn’t make much difference what college your teen goes to. Harvey Mudd College has twice as high a percentage of graduates going on to Ph.D.s as graduates of Harvard. A higher percentage of Cornell College (Iowa) end up in Who’s Who in America than do Cornell University alumni.
    Worse, it’s the leading universities which have succumbed the most to providing feel-good courses. Counter-culture drivel.
Yes, your kids need an education if they are going to be successful, but achieving one despite our public schools and prestige universities is a real challenge.
    In my experience, there was a world of difference between the seriousness of college students in 1940, just after the depression, and those after the war, where it was “smart” to take the easiest courses and party as much as possible.
    The big corporation career path is getting more and more rocky, with corporate buyouts consolidating work forces, information systems making major downsizing of management mandatory, and early retirement a practical way to cut pension overhead. This trend has been turning more and more working stiffs into just plain stiffs.
    With more and more educational courses coming available on the Web, an enterprising teen could have a choice instead of being the victim of a fixed college curriculum, to opt for entrepreneurial subjects that would be of practical use. It wouldn't hurt if the teen has read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

9/26/10

Atomic Physics?
    There’s a lot of wool-pulling going on, what with the zoo of particles physicists have discovered once they started blowing atoms apart. But, for all the billions of dollars put into scientist welfare (called research), current theory doesn’t explain such basic stuff as gravitational, magnetic or electric fields. Or why we have inertia. Or how photons and radio waves travel through space and act like both particles and waves. Quantum theory? We see it in the lab, but scientists have no good explanation for it. Current theory doesn’t tell us about the structure of electrons, protons, or neutrons. It doesn’t tell us what energy or electricity are. Or how matter can be turned into energy and vice versa.
    In space, physicists need an ether medium for photons/electro-magnetic waves to travel in, but they also say there is no ether. All particle/waves have to have a vector, but when they try to measure it, the particle/wave disappears.
    A basic problem facing scientists is that the atomic world is so entirely different from the one we are familiar with that they keep trying to understand it in the wrong frame of reference. As Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman said, “The mechanical rules of ‘inertia’ and ‘forces’ are wrong—Newton’s laws are wrong—in the world of atoms…here things behave like nothing we know of, so that it is impossible to describe this behavior in any other than analytical ways.”
    A hundred years ago Bessant and Leadbeater, two Theosophists, using meditation as their microscope, outperformed any microscope we have yet invented with their description of atoms and their movement. They described all of the known elements, plus elements and isotopes which were still unknown at that time, right on down to quarks, sub-quarks and strings. You can read the details in the Stephen Phillips book, The Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks, reviewed on page 10 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom (6/17/09).
    I suspect that, if scientists could get past their disbelief in the power of the mind, they might be able to come to grips with quantum mechanics and start being able to understand more about physics fundamentals.
    Heck, much of the physics establishment is still in denial over the transmutation of elements, needing bigger and bigger brooms to sweep the mounting evidence under their already bulging carpet.
 
9/25/10

Supersonic Lemons
    By treating the roots of a lemon tree with supersonic sound an experimenter has been growing two pound lemons. He found that the tree’s branches were producing four flowers instead of one, so he pinched off three of the flowers, allowing all of the growth to go into the fourth. The lemons grow so large that they have to be supported so they won’t fall off the tree before they are ripe.
    No, I don’t have any details on the frequencies used, so get busy and start experimenting. That should make a great project using any fruit or vegetable bush or tree.

9/24/10

Visionaries
    As an almost unbroken rule, in a large corporation, the government, or the military, you work your way up through seniority. If you make waves, you make enemies and your career stalls. This is a natural filtering process which guarantees that most of the heads of large corporations, government departments, colleges, and our military leaders are people who live and breathe the status quo. They’ve never had an original thought, and they certainly have no vision of the future. How can they, when they’ve spent their lives looking backwards?
    Any visionary who gets into one of these groups soon finds himself shunned and at a dead end careerwise, so he gets the hell out.
    This explains why small entrepreneurial businesses are able to run circles around the big corporations when it comes to innovation and the application of new technologies. Of course, once they get big enough to be trouble the big guns buy them out and put an end to all that nonsense.
    We’ve had three major new technologies develop in the last 40 years…cell phones, personal computers and compact discs. As an entrepreneur and a visionary I spotted the potential for these technologies to grow into major industries, so I started magazines in each of these fields…something no major publisher ever even considered. Then, after I’d had a sales growth of 50% per year for seven years, the big guys came along and gave me the option of selling out or being squashed. Not being stupid, I sold out. But the big guns didn’t have a resident visionary, so it didn’t take long for them to lose all of the magazines I’d sold them.
    In fast developing technologies it’s important to not just keep up with what’s happening, but to understand where things are heading and be in the vanguard. You either grow or die in high-tech fields.
    Hold on while I put on my turban and wipe off my crystal ball.
    Okay, the turban is a little loose, but it’s working. So, what do I see? I see three new technologies which are going to be huge industries in 20 to 40 years. There’s one which Bill Gates could get into and become the first trillionaire. I’m not exaggerating. It’s going to be a huge market, and it doesn’t even exist today. And it’s going to change the world even more than the cell phone, personal computer and compact disc. It will truly revolutionize the whole world.
    As with personal computers, the early birds will have the best chance at grabbing the gold.
    I’d write to Gates about this, but he’s so isolated that he’s more difficult to reach than Obama.
    What are the three coming high growth new fields? If you’ve been reading my past essays you already know the answer. If you haven’t, if you care it’s time to start doing your homework, reading my essays.
    The lack of any creative brains in our military explains why we lost the Vietnam war and are in so much trouble with our current wars. At the time I proposed a simple, inexpensive, way we could quickly win in Vietnam, but I was unable to get anyone in authority to even consider it (see 3/6/10).

9/23/10

Pyramid Scheme
    In case you aren’t clear on why the politicians are uneasy about Social Security, this WWII Roosevelt plan to get extra tax money from us has never been a social security plan. A real plan would take the money collected from us and invest it in safe securities, and then pay the retirement benefits from the invested funds, just a companies do with their pension plans. Or, are supposed to do.
    Instead, Congress has been spending the Social Security tax revenue as fast as it has been collected, leaving nothing to pay future benefits. What benefits they’ve had to pay so far have come from the current Social Security tax receipts. Well, that’s okay, as long as there is more tax money coming in than benefits to be paid. But with fewer and fewer wage earners being taxed as the Baby Boomer generation reaches 65, Congress is facing a net loss.
    How much of the Social Security pension plan has Congress spent so far? About $13 trillion, three times the national debt, and all off the books. So they’ve been raising the tax, and then raising it again, trying to stay ahead of the crash…hoping they’ll be retired or replaced before the fan gets hit.
     Don’t you wish you could retire with at least a million dollars salted away? The fact is, if we could straighten out our government, virtually everyone could retire as millionaires.
    There's a very interesting book that explains just how this could be accomplished. It’s A Nation of Millionaires, by Genetski, published by The Heartland Institute, 800 E. Northwest Hwy, #1080, Palatine IL 60067 – 847-202-3060, 168p, 1997, paperback, ISBN0-9632027-4-X.
    First, the book shows that the net family income (without the wife working) had dropped about 16% in the previous 25 years. It explains the Social Security disaster ahead, which Congress can’t force itself to face. Then it proposes solutions.
    That retirement with a million dollars isn’t a rosy scenario, it’s a worst case deal, where some guy is only making the minimum wage. So how do they manage this miracle?
    First the book tackles Social Security. Here it cites the change that Chili made in their system, which has been so amazingly successful that one country after another has been changing to their system. Our Social Security system 13 years ago had unfunded benefits of $11 trillion, which Congress had conveniently taken off the budget so we wouldn’t see it. By privatizing Social Security, the lowest paid worker would, at age 67, have $380,952 in his account.
    Next, by allowing workers to set up medical savings accounts, our worker would, at 67, have an additional $475,000 saved up. That comes to $856,716 total.
    Next, the privatizing of education via school vouchers would cut school costs (taxes) enough to provide our retiree with an additional $25,947. Eliminating government regulations which cost the economy $600 billion a year would add another $34,000 to our suffering wage earner’s retirement package. If the government got the heck out of the wasteful environmental business that would add another $35,000 to the lowest paid worker’s retirement bundle. By limiting frivolous law suits and excessive punitive damages, legal reform would add another $37,000 to the pile. That brings our suffering worker into retirement at 67 with $1,068,954. The average wage earner would end up a multimillionaire.
    The book goes over the math in depth and explains each change needed, and why vested interests will make it difficult to make the changes. We have to decide whether we want the entrenched interests to continue to run our government, or us. I suspect that even the prospect of several million dollars at retirement isn’t enough to get most people to take any interest in changing things, or even bothering to vote at all. Few people worry enough about the future to spend any time or effort on it. If they did they wouldn’t be eating the garbage they’re eating and downing endless known poisons. It takes years for cigarettes to kill you, so why worry now? And yes, I know Social Security is a tax scam, but what can one person do? Hmm, where did I put that TV remote?

9/22/10

Pure Water
    Considering all of the toxic waste in our drinking water, plus the importance of drinking at least eight glasses a day (remember, we’re about 70% water, so we need a lot of water to keep our cells healthy…indeed, one of the moves Dr. Lorraine Day made when she had terminal breast cancer was to drink 20 glasses of pure water a day, plus lots of carrot juice and an all-raw food diet. We need to invest around $140 in either a reverse osmosis filter or a still (steamdistiller.com).
    Well, there’s a third, less expensive alternative. What you do is fill a jug with your tap water, then freeze it in your freezer for 18 hours, pour off the remaining liquid, and melt the ice. If you want to be sure to have ultra pure water, do this twice.
    This is a process that can be used to desalinate sea water. Water freezes far before the impurities in it, so they stay at the bottom.
    If you have fluorides or chlorine in your water, you and your family are at serious risk. Why introduce these toxic chemicals into your body? Fluorine is one of the most corrosive elements known, just what you and your kids need to drink. It mottles the teeth and there isn’t one honest study that has shown fluorides in the water to reduce tooth decay. If you think I’m wrong please read at least one of the books on the subject which I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom.

9/21/10

Rich Dad
    Spend the sixteen bucks for Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki, Tech Press, 6611 N. 64th Place, Paradise Valley AZ 85253. The better book stores should have it. ISBN 096438561-9. I love it when a book comes along that backs up my attempts to deprogram your total trust in jobs…in working for a company for a living. The author of the book has a poor dad, who is a college professor and thus never has much money. His best friend’s dad, the rich dad, skipped college and has his own successful business.
    The book pushes investing as a way to accumulate money. I’ve never had much of an interest in money, so I’ve never paid much attention to investing. I’ve invested, in my own way, by starting new magazines or other projects when I had any extra money. I’ve invested in growth, rather than cash or stocks.
    But, no matter what you do with the money you make, this book makes it very clear that the normally accepted career path via college so you can become a working stiff, is a crock. That’s the poor dad approach.
    For instance, Lesson Six says: Work to learn, don’t work for money. If you read my Secret Guide to Wealth, this is exactly what I preach. Yet, this is a totally alien concept to 99.9% of the public. I’ve had over a thousand employees and I can’t think of more than a few who ever made any detectable effort to use their job as a way to learn. Almost all put in the minimum hours they could get away with and spent as little effort possible.
    Just as reading a health book won’t get most people to change their destructive eating habits, reading this book (and mine) won’t change the belief in the need for a "college education.” Such religious beliefs are too deeply ingrained.

9/20/10

Discover
    The October issue of Discover brushed off Professors Pons and Fleischmann's discovery of the cold fusion phenomenon with, "Unfortunately, no one else could replicate their celebrated achievement." Well, so much for having any confidence in Discover! My subscription sure won't be renewed.
    Now, are the editors purposely lying to the readers, or are they so totally out of touch with the real world of science that they are unaware of the confirmation of cold fusion by the Cleveland NASA lab, who's report I published in my Cold FusionJournal? Or that of the San Diego Navy lab? And the demonstrations by Jim Patterson of his cells at energy conferences and on the Good Morning America TV show? Or could it be something like the full page Citgo ad on page 13? And the Climatemaster full page ad on page 23? And the inside front cover by Shell?
    Other than a cluster of six pages solid with ads in the back of the magazine, it has under 20% ad pages where, if they are going to be profitable, the norm for most magazines is around 40% to 50%. They can't afford to antagonize any of their few advertisers.

9/18/10

Baby IQs
    One of the booklets I have available is my recommended classical music 100 CD Library ($5). Anyway, apropos of geniuses, I got to thinking about symphonies, which are generally considered to be the heart of classical music. How many symphonies do you think have been written which are worth listening to more than once? Or even once, for that matter? Unless you are a classical music expert you probably think there may be hundreds. So I sat down and made a quick list. I came up with less than three dozen hits! And most of them were written in the 19th century, with just a few in the early part of the 20th. Nothing of even the slightest note has been written since.
    The same thing applies to all the rest of classical music, including operas.
    So what’s gone wrong? Where are the musical geniuses of a hundred years ago? Where are the artists, sculptors, the inventors, and even the writers? What’s happened? What’s gone wrong?
    There are three things that have changed which I’m convinced have contributed to this loss of geniuses. One has to do with several changes in the way we treat babies, both pre-nattily and in early childhood. One has to do with our public school system which has been intentionally designed to dumb us down. And the third has to do with poisons which have become popular in the last hundred years.
    We’ve done quite a job on ourselves, really. A hundred years ago Alzheimer’s was unknown, cancer was an extreme rarity, and so on. But that was before we were buried in sugar, pasteurized milk, breakfast cereal, pop tarts, Danish, ice cream, and TV dinners. That was even before hot dogs, hamburgers, fries and shakes.
    Maybe you’ve read about the recent research which has shown that breast fed babies have an average 8 to 10 point IQ lead on bottle-fed babies. That’s been widely published.
    When I get some time I’ll put all of the ways I’ve discovered for parents to raise their children’s IQs into one book. A sort of an operating manual for raising the best child possible. From my viewpoint, any parent that does not make a major effort to increase their baby’s intelligence is guilty of permanently maiming their child. It’s like cutting off a hand or a foot. It’s child abuse.
    How much of an IQ increase is possible? If parents do the right things at the right developmental times for their children I’m talking about a 40 to 50 point IQ increase! I’m talking a potential generation of geniuses. I’m talking about a possible revolution in all of the arts, sciences and engineering.
    My frustration is that I now have this information, which is scientifically backed up, but I don’t know how I can get it to new parents. Oh, I could talk about it on the Cost to Coast AM show, but the listeners are mostly retired people who don’t sleep very well at night, plus some long haul truck drivers. I need to reach teenagers and 20-something's.
    For my past postings on this subject check 4/26/08, 12/27/07, and 4/12/05.

9/17/10

Fluoride
    In a paper sent to me by Roger Masters of Dartmouth College I found the results of an extensive study of what happens to people who drink water which has been fluoridated.
    Fluorine, as you probably know, is one of the most active elements known, so it should be no surprise that when it is added to our water supply that it attacks the pipes and the pipe lead solder joints. The amount of lead this adds to the water supply is significant enough so the study showed a children’s IQ difference of five points between fluoridated water and non-fluoridated.
    The study also showed that there is a consistent ten point IQ deficit when children are bottle fed instead of breast fed. This just confirms many other studies which have shown the same deficit. A 15 point IQ loss can make the difference between a college acceptance and a high school drop out.
    And those are just two easily controlled factors which will determine a child’s IQ for life.

9/16/10

Go Organic?
    Time ran an eight-page article on organic food. Basically, it said that, sure, organic is healthier, but it was a tepid recommendation. Well, it's better, but a whole lot more expensive, was their bottom line.

9/15/10

Birther
    It's been a couple months since I commented on the Obama refusal to produce a birth certificate conspiracy (7/5/10). Still he has produced none.
    Now I see where Lucas Daniel Smith has sent a certified letter to every member of Congress with a certified copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, which he got from the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. Talk about the shit hitting the fan (if you know that joke…if you don't I'll add it to my blogs).
    It is more than difficult for me to come to any other conclusion but that the conspiracy theorists have hit another one on the head. Nothing else makes sense but that Obama was actually born in Kenya, as his wife and grandmother both have said. And that means he is not a native-born American and thus not eligible for the office of President. It's amazing that VP Joe Biden has kept so quiet about this.
    So, now that the lid may have finally been blown off, how will that affect the legislation that Obama has signed into law, and any of his Presidential Orders? I'm chuckling. What a mess our gullible people have let pile up in Washington. Hey, guys, Never Re-elect Anyone. Flush that damned Washington toilet come November.

9/14/10

Those SATs
    Betcha didn’t know that in the early 60s, when the student SATs peaked, less than 25% of all public school teachers had a postgraduate degree. 15% didn’t even have a bachelor’s degree! Twenty years later, as the SATs plummeted, more than half of all teachers had master’s degrees and under one percent didn’t have a bachelor’s degree. Advanced degrees seem to only affect teacher’s salaries, not their ability to teach, which seems to go down proportionately with their so-called education.
    If you want to get a good idea of what is really going on in our ed schools, please go to the library and read Rita Kramer’s    Ed School Follies. And then stop believing the crap the NEA is constantly drumming into us about the need for better teacher training, more teachers, higher salaries, and so on. Not one bit of that is true.
    Under the present union system incompetent teachers aren’t fired, just transferred—much like pedophile priests.
    What’s the answer? If you can find a politician who will push to close all college education departments, eliminate tenure, and allow school choice, get out there and elect him. Or her.

9/13/10

Campaign Reform
    It ain’t gonna happen, Charlie. In a review of The Corruption of American Politic by Elizabeth Drew in Business Week, she has come up with the same solution to campaign reform as I and Tom Sowell have, just stop re-electing politicians. As long as you either vote for them or don’t vote at all, you are endorsing campaign corruption.
    Politicians have already spent $3.27 billion of your money so far on this year's mid-term elections. Wait'll you see the billions of dollars of TV ads in the last month before elections!
    Lobbyists eagerly give the pols money just so they’ll be able to get to meet with them when something comes up affecting one of their clients. Lobbyists encourage politicians to threaten industries with hearings as a way to shake the money tree. This approach is called “Astroturf” by lobbyists.
    But, as long as the fox is guarding the hen house, we’re not going to see any substantive changes. How many people will vote themselves a cut in pay?
    The end result of this corruption is that big business interests are running the government, not ours. We’re told we are living in a democracy, but that’s just another scam. We dutifully vote the way they want us to with the TV political ads their money buys.
    So we pay a little more for cars, steel, airline tickets, and all the products advertised on TV in order to keep thousands of lobbyists in BMWs and Congress awash in campaign money. We pay more for our schools, health care, and so on as these industries siphon part of our money into Washington. Half a trillion dollars last time. Who’ll bid a trillion for 2012? We will.

9/12/10

Shep
    Jean Shepherd died “of natural causes” ten years ago at 78 (also my age at the time, and when I wrote this).
    It was a terrible shame for the world to lose a talent like Shep’s. His unique radio show entertained millions nightly for 21 years over WOR. And before that from Cincinnati and Philly. His books are wonderful, and are recommended in my Secret Guide to Wisdom as four star stress reducers. His stories in Playboy won him their humor prizes two or three years in a row. His movies are great, too. I hope you’ve seen his movies about Christmas and the Fourth of July.
    Shep and I used to get together for dinner in New York before his program, or he and his wife Joan would come out on weekends for a day on my boat. I even taught him to water ski, and we’d have evening picnics on a Jamaica Bay beach, with him telling stories.
    But, to die at only 78! I hadn’t heard from him for the last couple of years, so I didn’t know he was sick or I would have sent him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health. Anyone who follows my instructions isn’t going to die at 78 of “natural causes.” Or at 98 either. Maybe 128. So we might have had 50 more years to enjoy Shep’s wonderfully creative mind. We all have suffered a loss.
    If you are unfortunate enough to have missed hearing Shep’s radio programs, he was a humorist, along the line of Garrison Keillor and his Lake Wobegon stories. Unless your sense of humor has rusted out through disuse, you’ll enjoy Garrison’s books and his weekly broadcasts as much as I do.
    Unlike the nightly Coast to Coast AM radio talk show, Shep had no guests on his show. And no script. He just winged it, night after night, entertaining millions of his “night people.” Shep talked about his childhood days in Gary, Indiana, life around the steel mills, and the foibles of his “old man,” mother and younger brother.
    He made one of the top news stories of the year when he was fired by WOR. Some question had arisen about the potential for his program to sell products, so Shep asked the listeners to suggest some product he could sell, just to prove the power of his show. Someone suggested a soap bar, so Shep asked his listeners to go out the next day and buy a bar of that particular brand of soap. Every store on the East Coast was cleaned out the next day. But rather than using this as a sales tool to sell more ads for the program, the WOR management was furious that he’d promoted a non-advertiser’s product and fired him. Thousands of his fans descended on the studios, down on Broadway, forcing them to hire him back to stop the riot.
    Then there was Shep’s great I, Libertine, hoax. Shep had tried to find a book he wanted in a book store, but they looked the title up in the Books In Print catalog and said there was no such book. So Shep got even. He had his listeners write in, suggesting the title for a non-existent book. The winner was I, Libertine, by Frederick R. Ewing. Shep then had his audience go into every book store they could find and ask for the book. Sure enough, within days the book was on the New York Times best-seller list.
    So Bantam books called him and said it was time for him to write the book. Shep got together with science-fiction writer Ted Sturgeon and they wrote the book, which was an instant best-seller. That was Shep’s first book.
    By a coincidence, Ted’s brother Peter was the chap who called me to see if I’d be interested in working with him to start an American chapter of the British group, Mensa. Peter, along with a couple other early Mensa members met, elected me the Secretary, and that’s how American Mensa got started. The next few meetings were at my home in Brooklyn. Both Peter and I got fed up with Mensa politics and dropped out. Peter and I still correspond, though he moved to Vienna, where he eventually died.
    We lost track of each other when I moved from Brooklyn to New Hampshire in 1962 and Shep moved from the upper east side of Manhattan to The Village, divorced Joan, put on a lot of weight, grew a beard and enjoyed the young chick perks of stardom, ending up down in Florida for his last years.

9/10/10

Wise the Hell Up
    Despite all I've been trying to get across to you about your health you're still doing everything you can to join the cancer brigade in their super-painful and horribly expensive eventual trip to the cemetery. You're not chewing your food until its liquid before swallowing it. You're not eating at least 90% organic raw food. You're still using that goddamned microwave. You're drinking water or something with your meals, thus making sure your stomach can't do its digesting job. You're not getting out in the sun for your vital vitamin D. Or bothering to exercise. What in hell is wrong with you?
    Have you had the guts to stop the obvious deadly poisons so many people are addicted to? Like caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol? Others have managed to stop, so what in hell is wrong with you? Jeez, you're not getting any of those damned flu shots are you? Say "Baaa," you ignorant sheeple. Vaccinations of any kind are poison, with awful side effects. Oh, and if you still have amalgam fillings, find a dentist experienced in replacing them with non-poisonous ones. You probably have more mercury in your mouth than they allow in a ten acre pond where people fish. Root canals? Yank ’em before they do even more harm.
    None of that wish-washy mewling crap. Shape up!

9/9/10

Note Paper
    It's very handy to keep a supply of small pieces of paper next to your telephones and computers. If you have a paper cutter you can soon have a lifetime supply of note paper. I have. In fact I have four sizes at hand, one for very short notes, like writing down a phone number, web site or email address. Another for normal notes, a third of larger paper for things like writing down the TV shows I want to record for the next week, and a fourth of letter-sized paper.
    Now, the paper. There's an endless supply. I check the junk mail each day and save any letter-size pages that come in with one side blank. Instead of the waste basket, I use them for printing downloaded stuff from my computer that I want to read or file permanently. Why waste an ad page with an unused side? You'll be surprised at how your supply of these pages starts piling up, inches high.
    If a no longer needed sheet of paper has some unused space, I cut off the used part and add the rest to my note paper holders. Shorter letters are usually folded in thirds, so I cut them at the folds and then cut the three pieces in half the other way, making six smaller pieces…usually around 3.5" x 4.25".
    Envelopes have lots of unused paper. I don't bother with the letter-sized, but the larger can be easily made into note paper. Very large envelopes with heavier paper stock can be cut into 8.5" x 11" for printing pictures. It takes some paper cutter work to trim the four edges off, and then trimming it to size.
    A month's supply of junk mail should keep you in printer and note paper for a long time. By year's end you'll have cartons of note paper.
   
9/8/10

Education
    With the least educated kids of the developed countries, and some 37% dropping out of high school, etc., our teaching system sucks. Bad enough that it isn't working, but the real crime lies on Congress, who let the religious leaders around 150 years ago talk them into setting  up the system…which, unfortunately, is doing exactly what it was designed to do: produce non-thinking, obedient workers for our factories.
    So, how do we change the classroom to fix this mess? The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham (MA) is a good example. Their kids are not separated by age, there is no standard curriculum, no tests, and no grades. No classrooms. The kids learn what they want because they want to. And the best part is that the system works fabulously. Kids just love to learn and help each other to learn…when they're learning things that interest them.
    One system that's working very well is to have the kids form learning teams of up to five who want to learn about a subject and let them work together on it. It's a team effort, with the faster learners helping the slower. See if you can find a copy of Glasser's Control Theory in the Classroom. Maybe Amazon, since it's a 1986 book.
    On the financial side, the steadily growing administration bureaucracies managing our public schools, eat up most of the school money, leaving little for the kids and their teachers. The Sudbury Valley School is mostly run by the students. No administration, so it costs less than half that of nearby public schools to run.
    Your best bet is to see what books your library has on the subject. There are some really great books. I've got several shelves of them. Of course, that's if you're into reading books.

9/7/10

Corruption
    Just as the guys who deliver your heating oil are totally unaware of what's going on in the top layers of their oil companies, where they are dealing with billions, even trillions, of dollars, your friendly bank tellers haven't a clue to what their top level bankers are doing. And the same holds for your priest and the top people in his profession…err, calling.
    This protective layer comes down to we, their customers. Oh, there are a few (very few) people whose inquisitiveness has not been totally crushed by our mandatory government-run school system. And, when they start looking into things they discover that our school system has intentionally been designed to discourage children from learning to think, be inquisitive, or creative. So with the exception of those few malcontents, we do what we are told and don't even think to ask questions.
    Our teachers, starting in the first grade, use humiliation and embarrassment to force us to obey the teacher/dictator up front. To shut up and not fidget or daydream. Then comes homework…the memorizing of stuff for tests, which must be passed. Short term memory, not thinking. And that routine continues right on through college.
    And what more could our political, business, and religious leaders ask? Totally captive customers. Nirvana!
    Get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank system and have the U.S. issue it's own currency, as it did for 137 years before a handful of Democrats and President Wilson early one morning in 1913 turned over our money to the Fed? We'd had zero inflation up until then. Oh, read The Creature from Jekyll Island, wise up and see what suckers we've been. Thanks, Congress, we the sheeple, really don't mind you're taking more out of our paychecks than we're getting, or the value of the dollars we have invested for retirement steadily being shrunk. Just fifty years ago I bought a brand new Porsche for $3,300, a used 26-foot Chris Craft Express Cruiser for $1,600 and a used float plane for $1,500. A 1960 dollar is worth about a nickel today. Google it and see.
    Have you ever wondered why one of Obama's first moves was to dump hundreds of billions on our banks? Gee, did it have anything to do with what group made sure he'd be elected? Perish such a ridiculous thought. Tsk. Shame on you, you damned racist! And then taking over GM and Ford, companies crippled by union control, allowing non-unionized foreign competitors to almost wipe out our companies? Say, how are the Red Sox doing? Let's look at what's important. Is it time for Oprah yet? And that smooth phony, Dr. Oz?
    If you've even heard of cold fusion you know from the media that it was totally discredited, allowing the oil companies to continue to drill thousands of holes in the gulf. Too bad one leaked. And to keep those Saudi princes in unrivaled wealth. Just look at Dubai! Well, at least they're spending some of it here, building those 1,900 mosques in America to help spread Islam and Sharia Law here, as one Muslim community after another gets going.
    Cold fusion energy, at around a tenth the cost of oil, if permitted to develop, would ruin the whole works, as well as putting our electric power giants out of business. Pfft, Public Service and Con Edison. Pfft, power outages.
    Stop making ourselves sick by changing our diets and stopping drug habits like caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine? Preposterous! Besides, it would put our trillion-dollar, super-profitable, pharmaceutical companies out of business, along with thousands of hospitals, hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists. No damned way! Shhh, and shut the hell up about raw food. Our government wouldn't lie to us, nor let the FDA mislead us, just because they're essentially owned by the businesses they supposedly regulate. We believe in our Big Macs, Starbucks, Dunkin Doughnuts, and the endless supermarket rows of boxed, canned and bottled stuff. We totally believe in our doctors and the food our restaurants serve, Please do not try to pull back one of our blinders.
    Yes, there are some schools that are actually helping kids to learn to think and be creative. A few. They are a danger that Congress should do something about if they want to assure their lifetime political careers.
    Okay, now to kick the atom bomb of solidified belief, control, and truly the largest industry in the world: religion, with retail stores in every town in the world. Oops, I almost forgot…you are very probably a believer, so I'd better shut the hell up, so you don't have to kill me. Forget I mentioned it.

9/6/10

UFOs and ETs
    Having seen one myself (7/1/08), yes, they're out there. Further, they can travel in time (1/21/10), which also helps explain those crop circles (7/1/08). And the gray   ETs are a future-designed living sort of robot (8/14/08), not extra-terrestrial visitors. There, I've saved you downloading my blogs and searching for this UFO info.
    They're here and they have to be careful not to upset their future, so obviously they are benevolent. We have no more understanding of time travel today than scientists did of radio or TV a little over a hundred years ago. So we have endless speculation on UFOs…so frequently a subject on the nightly Coast to Coast AM radio show.

9/5/10

A Mess
    We've let the politicians make a terrible mess of what used to be a great country. Well, we docilely let them set up mandatory government-run public schools which have been purposely designed to provide taxpaying workers that will do what they are told and not ask questions. And this is just fine with the politicians and their controllers, big businesses. Who did you think was paying those thousands of lobbyists? (See my 4/21/10 entry)
    So, we're fat, dumbed down, and not all happy about how things are. Like the really important stuff…gay marriage, abortion, the proposed mosque near the 911 site.
    Then there's fuss-budget me, upset because we have the most expensive so-called healthcare system in the developed world, while we're running about 37th in health, and worse in longevity. And our school system likewise is tops in cost per student, giving us kids who are at the bottom on international surveys.
    By "teaching" kids via rote and short-term memory instead of teaching them to think and be creative, we've created what's called a sheeple population, who have never learned to think or question what the politicians and religious leaders tell us.
    How about that incredible national debt? And the Fed doubling the amount of paper money just recently? And all that mess BP made in the Gulf, when anyone who bothers to turn off the damned TV and do some homework knows cold fusion will be able to give us unlimited non-polluting power at around a tenth or less the cost of oil. Pfft will go the electric power grid and the need for all those coal-fired power stations and nuclear plants.
    Some of the latest miseries can be blamed on the Obama-lovers, who unquestioningly voted for this guy two years ago. But our lack of education, health, and the loss of so many of our industries to Asia, we let happen before this.
    We can, by voting out incumbents, start making "politician" no longer a good career choice, and start getting out of the hole Congress has dug for what was a great country. With better management we would have a minimum of government, as envisioned by the founders of our country. And we could again be the healthiest and best educated country. We might even get back some of the industries we've exported to Asia.
    Unburdened by our present school system we could see a flowering of creative art, literature, music, and maybe even TV and films.
    Considering the predatory record of Islam, maybe it's time to set some limits to our famous religious freedom. A religion that's being used to quietly invade and conquer countries is a major danger.

9/4/10

Milk
    I seldom catch Dr. William Douglass off base in his almost daily emails. So when he came out with an updated The Milk Book, called The Raw Truth About Milk, I sent for a copy. You should too. And I'll bet your copy will be as highlighted as mine.
    The big villain is pasteurized milk, with homogenized even more dangerous to our health. And worse is the adding of vitamin D to pasteurized milk. The New England Journal of Medicine reported this resulted in constipation, weakness, fatigue, and inability to think correctly.
    Once you’ve read this book you’ll be doing everything you can to discourage your friends from ever buying pasteurized milk. That white-mustache stuff is toxic.
    If that isn't enough to get you speaking up when you see milk cartons in people's supermarket baskets, invest $20 in The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid, ND.
    Few big businesses care about your health or even your death…it's all about their profits. And since milk is cheaper to produce from cows fed GM corn instead of grass, and fed growth hormones and antibiotics to increase milk output, and shipped a thousand miles or so to stores, it's cooked (pasteurized) to keep it from souring. And then the companies have lobbyists doing what they can with legislatures to make raw milk competition illegal.

9/2/10

Freezing Veggies
    My raw food diet includes meat, which I mince and freeze all but a pint for current use. With the fruit and vegetables, for convenience, I usually prepare a couple quarts or so of each fruit or veggie and then freeze all but a pint. Like a whole cauliflower or a big bag of carrots.
    With those two, plus yams, broccoli, and so on, I mince ’em in my Cuisinart and then mix in some of my coleslaw sauce to make it easily spoonable, plus add a sweet-sour-creamy flavor (10/28/09). With oranges, grapefruit, and grapes it's into the blender so I can eat them with a spoon. They all survive freezing just fine.
   The dark green leafy vegetables I blend with bananas and eat with a spoon. They freeze just fine, too.
   I keep my meal on a tray in the fridge, with around a dozen pint food containers on it.

9/1/10

Flu Shots
    With the drug store promoting flu shots, millions will suck into this huge scam. If you do any research on vaccinations you'll find that the flu shots are useless. Worse, they have mercury in them, which is one of the main causes of autism and other brain problems.
    The big promotion for the swine flu pandemic is all about money and zero about health. Just do some checking with Dr. Mercola's web site and see what a scam this is.
    There's Dr. Oz on TV every day pushing flu shots. What he hasn't yet bothered to mention is that he is on the board of the vaccine manufacturer and has some 150,000 shares of its stock. Talk about self-interest over people's health!
    And when I go to the Manchester VA medical center they ask if I've had my H1N1 flu shots yet. Aargh! A year ago, when I was in the hospital in Concord, all of the nurses I asked had dutifully had their flu shots.
    Like the millions who voted for Obama without bothering to do any homework, the sheeple are rushing to Walgreen's. etc., for their flu shot to enrich the medical merchants, no matter what it might do to their health.
    If you look into it you'll find that one country after another has banned the flu shots after children have died from being given them.

8/31/10

Healthcare - A Reminder
    As if the government wasn't already bloated beyond belief, that 2,733-page Healthcare Plan, which I'll bet not one member of Congress took the time to read, will generate some 20,00-plus more bureaucrats. Well, that's one way to slow down the unemployment growth.
    Bureaucrats' primary goal is not to do anything that might get their promotions in trouble, so getting any real decisions from them…particularly when thinking is involved, is almost impossible.
    It's bad enough today, where the imposed ignorance of eating a healthy diet to stay healthy is protected by the trillions of dollars big businesses are making as a result. Billions of advertising dollars keep the media quiet about the truth. The thousands of lobbyists have done a great job of keeping Congress quiet.
    The post office is already losing billions, so what would happen if those hundreds of mass-mailed "health" newsletter/ads went out of business? I get one or two almost every day…in addition to the daily email spam pileup.
    This bill creates 159 new boards, programs, and bureaucracies, plus some 16,500 new IRS agents. And who is going to pay for this mess? It's you. None of these thousands of government people will be doing anything to make a profit to help get us out of the deepening financial hole Congress and the Administration is busy digging.
    Your voice on this will be heard come November. Meanwhile, for heaven's sake learn to chew and change to a raw food diet.

8/30/10

Cover-Ups
    It must take a substantial staff for our government to keep track of all the cover-ups. And they have to maintain the secrecy not only from the media and the public, but from other government agencies.
    I enjoy looking into conspiracy cover-up reports, all too often finding them real. Like the Amelia Earhart disappearance, which 73 years later, is still being covered up (5/4/10). And the Pearl Harbor attack, which was finally exposed recently by Stinett's book. Let's see, there's the 911 mess, the Oklahoma City bombs, Planet-X, UFOs, the failure of vaccines, vast underground facilities, Gulf War syndrome…oh, you make a list. And don't forget the Moon landings. No wonder we have more people working for the government than in manufacturing.

8/21/10

Odd Ball
    Yep, that's me. For some reason I've managed to avoid the drug habits that just about everyone else adopts. I don't drink coffee, tea, nor alcohol. I don't smoke. Weird, too, since all of my family, when I was growing up, smoked, and drank coffee every day, plus alcohol.
    My dad smoked Fatimas when he was young and then it was Camels until the artery clots leading to his brain got to be too much, when he stopped. But, for the next twenty years he had to live on oxygen bottles and generators, complete in his last years with having to go to the hospital about once a week to have the fluid pumped out of his lungs. Oh, how I wish I'd known then what I do now, so he could be out there fishing, like he used to love.
    My mother's dad (Pop) smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. He died of pneumonia at the age of 60.
    In the Navy during WWII everyone in the crew drank coffee…except me. It wasn't a matter of health, I just didn't care for it. As a teen I tried cigarettes. Ugh, And a pipe, too. Phooey. On shore leave in the Navy the crew gathered at a local bar to drink, So I drank too, but as soon as I got out of the Navy I seldom took another drink. Oh, I tried beer, Ugh. And all kinds of wines. Phooey.
    Sure, I tried pot. It was a great experience. And LSD a couple times…another great experience. But, that was that.
    Same with sodas. Coca Cola, ugh. Pepsi,   ugh. Orange soda wasn't bad. 
    It's nice not having any addictions to kick…particularly the unhealthy ones. These days my only drink is water. I do use raw milk with my breakfast berries and banana, and to make my super-healthy ice cream.

8/20/10

Gloria Swanson
    Yep, we got to be good friends…some 60 years ago.
    When I heard The Daily News in New York was going to put a TV station on the air I applied for a job as an engineer. I tried out for several positions, but did best as a cameraman, That was me on the camera down in the lobby of The News building on 42nd Street the day WPIX, Channel 11, went on the air for the first time. Wow, was that fun. The studios were up on the 5th floor, and I had my ham station up on the top (38th) floor.
    One of the shows was the Gloria Swanson hour, with a variety show of her interviewing guests, the guests performing, a cooking segment, and so on. I got so good with my camera, even though this was way before zoom lenses, that I was able to do the entire hour show on my one camera, though it meant a lot of fancy footwork doing close-ups on guests and performers, and backing off for group shots.
    Gloria had done Sunset Boulevard shortly before this and was a top star, with lots of other stars as guests on her show. So, anyway, we often talked and got to be good friends.
    I also did weekly  shows with cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Sigmund Spaeth, the Tune Detective, and Irene Wicker, The Singing Lady. When I was around four years old I used to listen to Irene on the radio afternoons.
    One day the program manager for KPIX in San Francisco visited us. When he saw what I was able to do with my camera, he offered me a job as a producer-director at his station, and at a substantial raise in pay. So I quit at WPIX and got ready to move to San Francisco. A cousin found an apartment for me just a couple blocks from the station.
    But just as I had my car packed I got word that the program manager had been fired and my job was pfft. Rats! So I checked around and found that Texas oil man Thomas Potter had managed to get a permit for a TV station just before the FCC put a freeze on issuing any more licenses, but he had to actually put the station on the air to keep the license. So I suddenly had a job as a producer-director at KBTV in Dallas. I'll tell you about that adventure some time.

8/19/10

College Sports
    While individual sports can develop useful skills, team sports are for spectator entertainment. So what's this got to do with a so-called college education? The supposed purpose of college is to equip kids for their careers. So how does watching or even playing baseball, basketball, football, or hockey contribute to a business career?
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy NY (my alma), recently invested millions in a new field with a big grandstand for the spectators…the "Athletic Village." In my view a huge waste that makes me wish I could get back some of the $300,000 in my scholarship fund. Phooey.

8/18/10

Short Notes
    Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says that over a thousand illegal aliens are crossing into Arizona every day, while the federal government's border patrol looks the other way. And that's just one of the four border states. One (me) wonders why the feds, under pressure from Obama and Congress, are encouraging this mass migration? Baiting them with welfare, free healthcare, citizenship for anchor babies, food stamps, and social security checks for older illegals. The bait is irresistible.
    The Federal Reserve has more than doubled the amount of Federal Reserve Notes in circulation in the last two years. Basically, that's eventually going to cut the value of our dollars in half. No wonder I'm hearing so many gold ads on the radio and TV. So, what have you been doing to keep from losing half of what you've saved that's in banks or in cash? Stocks might be a good choice, if you can pick the winners.
    The new Healthcare Bill is going to require some 20,000 new government workers, plus another 16,000 IRS agents, to monitor and enforce provisions of the bill. So, here we are with more Americans working for the government than in private industry. More people spending our money than those earning profits to pay for them. Please explain how that's going to work in the long run.
    In a recent talk, in St. Louis, President Obama admitted that the federal healthcare programs are losing some $100 billion a year due to waste and fraud. As the new Healthcare Bill kicks in we can expect that to be dwarfed. By the way, a recent poll showed that 63% of Americans want that bill to be repealed. Hey, Congress, are you totally deafened by the lobbyists swarming around you?
    At a news conference in Oklahoma City this April the unanswered questions about the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building were discussed by eye witnesses and survivors. They called the government version of the bombing complete lies. If you'd like to step beyond conspiracy theories and get the facts for yourself, I have a DVD of that morning's TV news coverage available (#53D for $10).
    How long will it take the FDA to clean out their renegade scientists who have recently complained to Obama that the agency is corrupt to the core? They listed a litany of criminal behavior by the agency, which is in the pocket of Big Pharma, helping them be by far the most profitable industry in America. Congress, are you listening over the din of the well-heeled Big Pharma lobbyists? Uh oh, I thought not.

6/17/10

USPS
    Having lost $3.8 billion last year, and facing a $7 billion projected loss for next year, in addition to increasing postal rates, they're also considering cutting service back to five days a week. One more thing you can thank Congress for.
    Government-run enterprises, managed and run by bureaucrats instead of entrepreneurs, have an unbroken record of losing money and providing poor service, even when given monopoly power, like that of the Postal Service. That's the difference between capitalism and socialism.
    Please get your friends to the polls this November with instructions not to vote for any incumbent. We need to make them outcumbents and throw the fear of our wrath vs. the lobbyists swarming around them, waving wads of money.
    My email teems with a litany of our government failures in managing and running things. Our open borders and some 20 million illegals getting free hospital service, welfare, food stamps, and even social security checks. Our prisons, packed with the highest percentage of our population of any other country, and at humongous cost. Our drug war. Our Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Medicare. Medicaid. Etc. Please start flushing that damned Washington toilet this year.
    When Congress removes the USPS mail monopoly we'll see private services starting and competing. Look how Fedex put Parcel Post out of business with lower costs and faster service.
     Oh, I forgot to mention the god-awful mess the government made after taking over our school system, with our kids now coming in at the bottom on international educational surveys.
   
8/16/10

Illegal Aliens
    Why, I wonder, has Congress been keeping our Mexican border so wide open? Sure, there's a federal law against the aliens sneaking in illegally, but it's purposely not being enforced by the feds, and when Arizona tried to enforce it on their own, Obama and the federal government sued to stop them.
    In addition to Mexicans coming here to work so they can send money back to their families, estimated at some $4 billion a month, there are the Mexican drug cartel shipments of tons of drugs to feed their American distribution system. Plus hordes of OTMs (Other Than Mexicans), which include thousands of Muslims that are quietly invading our country.
    The cost to us all is heavy. First, it's lowering the wages of American workers, which is costing us about $200 billion a year. Then there's the $11 to $22 billion our states are spending on welfare for illegal aliens, the $2.2 billion on food stamps and free school lunches, the $2.5 billion a year for Medicaid, $12 billion to school their children, $17 billion more educating their anchor babies, $18 billion a year for the 30% of federal prison inmates that are illegal aliens, and $90 billion on welfare and social services.
    So, why is Congress, with your blessing, not just allowing this mess to happen, but doing what it takes to prevent any changes? Of course, if you don't mind the feds taking 50% to 60% of your pay check to help pay for this, then never mind…go ahead and vote for your incumbent again come November. And, by all means, get behind the campaign to re-elect Obama in 2012.
    Me, I'm going to see what I can do to get New Hampshire to join the states that are declaring their independence.

8/15/10

Anti-Terror
    And how has Congress reacted to 911, shoe bombers, Oklahoma City, et al? Just what you'd expect. They've established some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies (with some 250,000 employees) to work on programs related to counter-terrorism, homeland security, and intelligence in some 10,000 locations around the U.S. 854,000 people now hold top-secret clearances.
    In Washington and nearby, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since 911. Together they occupy the equivalent of about three Pentagons! The paperwork this army or spies and agents create is beyond comprehension.
    These new buildings, along with their office parks, are scattered around the country and protected by high fences, with armed security guards. They're filled with command centers, internal television networks, video walls, and lots of armored SUVs.
    At voting time you can thank your Congress persons for so lavishly spending your money. I don't think they'll be interested in the 911-Truthers case for 911 having been an inside job, nor in knowing about the inside job at Oklahoma City, as proven by the videos on my #53D DVD of the local newscasts that day.
    If this army of a million or so on the government payroll have been having any anti-terror success, it seems to have gone totally unreported by the media.

8/13/10

The Bob Livingston Letter
    Just a few quotes from this $65 a year monthly newsletter. P.O. Box 3623. Hueytown, AL 35023.
   
Boost Your Immunity!
    The study of the human immune system is central to longevity. Longevity (aging with health) is directly related to quality of life.
    American conventional medicine teaches and understands the anatomy of the immune system, but American doctors do not practice preventive medicine. They practice symptomology. i.e. they doctor symptoms after the patient is already sick.
    In our time, we can greatly help add years by supporting our natural immune system with supplemental nutrition and whole natural foods.

The Evidence about 9/11 being an inside job is and has been becoming overwhelming. See "Architects and engineers for 911 truth." Google "rediscover 911." Also "Dr. Alan Sabrosky" at www.911truth.org. Also "Nano-Thermite."

"Healthcare"
    So-called American healthcare is a disgrace to the human race. Hospitals, doctors, and the whole drug culture know nothing about serious health. There are exceptions, but for the most part the medical establishment is all about money and making sure that Americans have no access to alternatives.
    People who stay away from the medical establishment have a far better chance at staying healthy and enjoying a long life.

    Livingston also exposes Bill Gates and his philanthropies as further exploiting our ignorance about health. He's staffed his Foundation with people from the pharmaceutical industry, invested heavily in Big Pharma, and invested $4.5 billion in vaccine development.
    If you bother to do any homework beyond watching ball games or Oprah, you know that vaccines don't cure anything and are a huge industry that's exploiting our ignorance. They're making people sick, which means even more revenues for doctors. See Coulter's Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality, reviewed on page 43 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. No informed parent would ever permit any of those childhood vaccinations. I see that Wallgreen's already has signs up offering flu shots for the coming flu season.
    You can get the real lowdown on Bill Gates' scam from www.mercola.com, then search for Gates.
    When it comes down to it, almost all of our miseries have to do with the rich making more money at everyone else's expense. We're dumbed down by our government-run school system on purpose. We're kept sick with our healthcare system. We're energy exploited by the oil, coal, and nuclear power industries.

8/6/10

Raw Milk
    As the public slowly wises up to the importance to their health of eating organic food and using raw milk instead of pasteurized, there are going to be a lot of unexpected farming complexities.
    The August issue of Acres USA is largely devoted to this, with articles about the grasses that need to be grown in the pastures, fertilizing farms, silage for winter, the needed minerals, composting, etc.
    Despite the trillions of dollars our current health care and food supplying systems have invested in us not changing our diets, the lure of perfect health and amazing longevity (in good health) has to win in the long run. Our country, and then the world, will have to change to provide the organic raw foods people need to avoid the things with which they are now slowly killing themselves. There will be a time when cancer is again unknown, likewise Alzheimer's, and all the other diseases we've been causing ourselves through our ignorance. Gee, there may even be a time when this is mentioned in the major media and even taught in schools.
    Acres USA is $27 a year from Box 91299, Austin, TX 78709. www.acresusa.com.
    You succeed in this world by seeing the coming need for a product and gearing up ahead of others to provide it. Well, just to supply healthy milk, we're going to need thousands…maybe hundreds of thousands…of raw milk producing farms. Legislatures are going to have to reject the bribes from the entrenched pasteurized milk industry and allow healthy milk to be sold in stores. Oh, and milk products such as cream, butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream.
    If you've read about the conditions under which most of our pasteurized milk is produced, you've been disgusted. Cows up to here in their own filth, penned in tiny enclosures and crammed with genetically modified corn instead of grass, given growth hormone shots and antibiotics. It's an incredibly awful life for the cows. But it produces milk (and meat) economically, which is then pasteurized to keep it from turning sour as it is shipped around the country.

8/5/10

Chewing
   Despite my 6/25/10 entry you still haven't learned to completely chew your food. An article in HealthKeepers magazine explained the great importance to your body to chew every bite thoroughly. I know, you're too busy watching TV or talking to someone to pay any attention to what you're eating…and be aware of the wonderful flavors every chew can provide. Oh, you often notice the flavor of the first bite, but after that your mind is on other things.
    You've learned to chew your food enough so you can safely swallow it. You don't have to think about that. But, until you retrain yourself to chew every bite until it's liquid, it isn't going to happen. And this is not good for your health. It means that much of the good you hope to get from your food will be wasted, since it wasn't made ready for the colon to extract the nutrients and vitamins. Into the toilet it goes.
    One thing I've noticed is that, now that I've learned to completely chew my food, it takes far less before my body tells me it's had enough.

8/4/10

Rosalie Allen
    From when I was seven and my dad, mother and I visited Bob and Mary Sullivan for dinner, where I was exposed to Bob's classical record collection…starting with the William Tell Overture (later the theme for The Lone Ranger radio series)…it was an instant love affair with classical music for me. And the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, which Bob also played for me.
    So, when I reported aboard the USS Drum I had along a home-made portable record player and a box of classical records. Shipmate Arty Kash brought some of his country music records, exposing me to the music of Roy Acuff and Ernie Tubbs. I loved it, too, so after the war I bought a lot of country music records. They're out in the barn and I've been intending to bring some in to put the music in my iPod.
    When The Beautiful Music Company started peppering me with catalogs of old time country music CDs, I bought a bunch. But, for some reason, though they had most of my favorite performers, there was no Rosalie Allen. Damn!
    Well, they finally came through. There it was the other day in their new catalog. I phoned in my order and the two-CD set with 61 songs came today. Sigh. Yes, they're in my iPod now, taking me back some 60 years. Time travel. My what a wonderful yodeler she was.
    I was surprised to read in the liner notes that she made her first recordings with Denver Darling's band. I met Denver at a small party and started collecting his records. His best-known was I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine. It was at that party that I first met my eventual wife-to-be, Sherry, when she was ten years old and I was just out of the Navy after WWII. Her dad, Snuffy Smythe, worked for my dad with American Export Airlines, the first transatlantic airline.
    The catalog that accompanied by CDs surprised me…no mention of the Rosalie Allen CDs.
   
8/3/10

Socialism
    That's where government bureaucrats run the businesses instead of entrepreneurs or experienced business people. Which explains why this system has always failed. Bureaucrats move up the ladder by never causing trouble or taking any chances, which explains our government's failures with every industry it's entered.
    Our Postal Service, established in 1775, has had 235 years to get it right, yet it's broke. Social Security, established in 1935, has had 75 years to get it right, and it's broke. Fannie Mae (1938) is broke. The War on Poverty (1964), transferring trillions to the poor to make sure they won't look for work, is broke. Medicare and Medicaid (1965) are broke. Freddie Mac (1970) is broke. The Department of Energy (1977), despite 16,000 employees and a $24 billion budget, we're importing more oil than ever before. And this is the outfit you want to run your so-called health care?
    Please, in November, let the gang that has been doing this to us, while voting themselves lifetime salaries and their own health care, handing out earmarks by the hundreds, while awash in lobbyist cash, get your message. Never Re-elect anyone!

8/2/10

Science Project
    If you have a kid in high school this fall that might be looking for an interesting science project I have a great one…and it'll be easy to do. Better yet, you already have all of the equipment needed.
    Here's the deal. You start with two identical plants and a camera to record the experiment. For you take water and boil it on the stove, cool it and water the first plant. For the other, heat its water to boiling in the microwave, cool it and water the second plant. It's that simple. Take pictures of the two plants every day.
    In about eight days the first plant will be thriving, while the second will have died. Killed.
    This is what we're doing to our food when we microwave it. Now, where did you put that old toaster-oven?
    Scientists have shown that microwaved food not only helps us get fat, but causes long term and even permanent damage to the brain. It's helping trigger colon cancer as our body tries to deal with these altered nutrients.
    See if you can help your kid put the project up on UTUBE. And does the class have a web site?

8/1/10

Ham History
    Now that there's a ham radio history site, I'm concerned that some re-writing of history will inevitably
 take over. Having been active in the hobby for some seventy-three years, known most of the major players personally, and an active participant for sixty of those, I have a pretty good perspective.
    My 4/14/10 entry explains how an angel one day in church gave me a box of radio parts. With those I built a cigar-box radio…and it worked. I was hooked. When I started high school, naturally I joined the radio club (W2ANU) and was on my way toward getting my ham license.
    At the time there were two ham magazines, QST, from the ARRL, and Radio, from a California publisher. QST was okay, but the interesting construction projects were in Radio.
    The American Radio Relay League's name came from the earliest days of radio, where experimenters were broadcasting with spark transmitters, using Morse Code. Their range was short, so to send a message any distance it had to be relayed, hence name. The early text books claimed that we'd never be able to send voice by radio.
    It was bad enough when experimenters discovered how to generate carrier waves that used only one frequency, instead of the wide spectrum of spark transmitters, but then they figured out how to modulate the carrier and send voice. So the early amateurs (hams, for short) quickly changed from spark to keying carrier waves…called continuous waves (CW), using Morse Code.
    It didn't take long to discover that when they increased the frequency of their transmitters their signals could be bounced off the ionosphere, traveling hundreds to thousands of miles.
    By varying the power of their transmitters at voice frequencies, now hams were able to talk with each other instead of sitting there clicking away with a hand key.
    When I came along in the 1930s hams were happily talking with each other by voice all around the world. Oh, some were still using their old, much less expensive, Morse Code transmitters.
    However, the lure for me was the brand new very high frequency (VHF) ham bands, the area for experimenters, not just talkers. So the first thing I built was a 2-1/2-meter transceiver, using two of the new midget radio tubes (a 1G4GT and 1Q5GT). I built it in a box about the size of a lunch box so I could walk around while using it. Walkie-talkie.
    The FCC's requirement that I had to pass both a Morse Code receiving test at 13 words per minute and one on the technology was really annoying, I had far less than zero interest in using code. That was old technology. So it took me a couple of tries before I passed the license test and got my Class B license. My first few contacts were made with my little walkie-talkie as I walked around the streets. On this experimental band the range was just the visual distance, so I had to take it to the top of hills to talk very far.
    For some reason, right from the beginning, I was interested in the new…the future. So it was natural for me to be an electronic technician in WWII, working with radar and sonar, as well as radio. Then, soon after the war, I was busy pioneering amateur radio teletype (RTTY), narrow-band FM (NBFM), and the single-sideband (SSB).
    It was the fun of RTTY that got me into publishing. I just had to share the fun with as many other hams as I could, so I started publishing a monthly Amateur Radio Frontiers journal in 1951. RTTY was a lot like email today, where we could send a message to any ham with the equipment, it would automatically print out on his teletype machine and be waiting for him…plus it would return an acknowledgment signal that the message had been received. Morse code? Come on, that's 1900s technology, not 1950s.
    My journal led to me running an RTTY column in CQ, and then I was made the editor from 1955 to 1960, pushing my interest in building projects and emerging new technologies. Alas, the publisher, who was not a ham, invested in a yacht and got behind on paying me. When it got to a year's pay he fired me. So I scraped together what money I could and launch my own competing magazine, 73 Amateur Radio Today.
    Since everyone in the hobby knew me, I had no problem getting subscribers and advertisers. Within a few months my magazine was on the counters of over 300 ham radio stores around the country every month and I was pushing new ideas like communicating by bouncing our signals off the Moon, and building equipment using transistors. Meanwhile the technical editor of QST wrote that transistors were going nowhere and hams would always be tube people. Lordy!
    Then, in 1963, the ARRL got the FCC to propose what they called Incentive Licensing. This would require the radiotelephone users to have to pass a new Extra Class license test to continue on the popular phone bands. Ever dedicated to Morse code, the League had  the new license require us to pass a 20 words per minute code test. The result was that tens of thousands of hams said no damned way, and put their equipment up for sale at bargain prices.
    This stopped the sale of new ham equipment, eventually helping to put our American manufacturers out of business, and closing about 90% of the ham radio stores around the country. It also discouraged newcomers, stopping our growth, which had been 11% a year ever since WWII. Many school radio clubs disappeared.
    The FCC, faced with the massive reaction against the proposal eventually did establish the Extra Class license, complete with the 20 wpm requirement, but just gave the holders some special frequencies, without putting the old timers off their phone bands. I never did bother to get my Extra license. 20 wpm? Phooey! Why click along at a few words per minute when I could talk? Or type via RTTY?
    I kept pushing new ham technologies with my magazine and soon had subscribers in over 200 countries. When, in 2003, it was clear that no new technologies were in sight, I folded the magazine. It was never a way to make money, it was always my way of sharing the fun I was having with the hobby. So, when the fun stopped, so did I.
    Yes, I'm critical of the ARRL for not taking the trouble to promote the hobby with PR releases to the media about our successes so that kids would know there was such a hobby and the fun we were having with it.
    For years, with my Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science, I've been lecturing at colleges such as Yale, BU, Princeton, RPI, Case Western, etc., encouraging kids to consider the fun and money to be made starting their own businesses. And I always ask for a show of hands of those who know about amateur radio. A few ask if it's something like CB. Most have never heard of it.
    Well, I moved on to promote personal computers with one magazine after another. They were fun and exciting for kids.
    These days, when I take the time to visit a ham radio convention, I see a bunch of old men like me, and hardly any kids.

7/31/10

The Gulf Stream
    Some worry-warts are concerned that dumping all that gunk into the Gulf could affect the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europeans from freezing their asses off every winter.
    Well, it's the warm water circulating in the Gulf of Mexico that feeds the Gulf Stream, so that isn't quite so far-fetched. Without all that nice warm water we send them, Europe would be in a fix. They're on the same latitude as Greenland, Iceland, the Yukon, Alaska, and Siberia. Ice skating on the Thames this winter? Well, they did during the Maunder Minimum, which iced Europe a while back. In 1709 the Rhine stayed frozen over until summer.

7/30/10

State Bloat
    While you were busy watching the Red Sox, Oprah, Maury, and Dr. Oz, the NH state government has been busy bloating, just like the federal government. As C. Northcote Parkinson chronicled some fifty years ago, governments normally tend to grow about 7% per year (compounded annually), although it looks as if our state and federal governments have been substantially exceeding the norm.
    The 2011 New Hampshire Business Review Guide had a list of our state bureaus, departments, divisions, councils, authorities and boards…239 of ’em! And 117 have their own web sites! No wonder the state is running at such a huge deficit! So the legislature you keep electing every other November is looking for where to raise taxes or introduce some new ones. Hey, guys, let's find productive work for a few thousand of those state employees…work with businesses that are bringing money into the state. Let's stop making being a bureaucrat a career choice, just as we need to do for politicians.
    Now zip down to my 11/17/06 entry and see what New Zealand did when an election kicked out the socialist empire.
    Everything the government runs is a mess and losing money. Our government-run public school system is, at a huge cost, turning out kids who are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Freddie and Fannie are in chaos and losing billions. Make a list.
    In my letter #10 to Governor Lynch I explain how any government department can be cut in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. And half again three years later. Pfft goes the state deficit and a need for higher or more taxes.
    If you are aware of any government-run enterprise that's profitable, please let me know. Their experiment with socialism nearly wiped out the Jamestown and Pilgrim colonies, a lesson that liberals still haven't learned.
    If you feel you are getting your money's worth with the 60% of your pay that's going to taxes, please sit out the coming election so those of us who want to exercise our Never Re-elect Anyone prerogative can put a strain on those ballot boxes.

7/28/10

Cows
    If, despite the influence of thousands of lobbyists and the stonewalling of the major media, including radio and TV networks, I'm somehow able to get the word to start leaking out about the importance to our, and our children's health, of switching to raw milk and avoiding the pasteurized stuff like the poison to our bodies it is, this will make some huge changes in our milk industry.
    Figuring a cup of milk a day, mainly to go with that bowl of breakfast bananas and berris, that comes to about two quarts a week per person. A Jersey cow gives five to six gallons of milk a day, so let's make that 5.5 gallons a day, 38.5 gallons a week, 154 quarts. So each cow will be able to feed about 77 people. That's 13 cows to feed a thousand people, and 13,000 cows per million people. A few more if kids also drink milk instead of just using it for breakfast, the way I do. I only drink water, and that not with meals. By the time I've finished chewing each bite to liquid, I have no need for water or milk to drink during a meal.
    Now, since the cows must be fed grass for us to get healthy raw milk, we need to figure about two acres per cow. That's 26,000 acres of grassland per million people. So, if we're able to get a third of Americans interested in ending their health problems and living in excellent health over a hundred years, we'll 2,600,000 acres devoted to feeding dairy cows. At 640 acres per square mile, that's about 4,000 square miles of farm land, just for milk for the third of us interested in our health. Two cups a day? Double that.
    All this health will put a serious dent in the 164,721 dentists we keep busy today. Ditto the 788,949 MDs. It'll raise hob with Big Pharma and shut down a few thousand hospitals. Well, we can keep them all busy growing organic crops to keep us healthy instead of repairing the mess we've been making of ourselves.
    As the wiser of us change to eating raw meat we're going to need far less meat to satisfy our appetites. When you chew your food thoroughly it's surprising how little it takes before you feel full.
   
7/21/10

Hold the Mayo
    A large (10" x 14") envelope arrived in the mail from the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. Inside, described on ten 8-1/2" x 12" pages, was the pitch for a $30 a year (15 8-page issues) for their Health Letter.
    Several years ago I had dinner with a Mayo doctor, where I explained how easy it is to cure any illness when we free the immune system from fighting the toxic things we put in and on our bodies, as proven by several doctors. I don't think he dared mention it at the clinic. No, I've never heard from him again.
    If the news gets out this would put Mayo and all the other clinics out of business, so there's no way they're going to use this approach. Indeed, when King Hussein of Jordan got leukemia, he went to Mayo, where they killed him with the chemo routine. My letters to his wife and others in Jordan, offering to help, all went unanswered.
    At some level of the Mayo management they have to know the truth. I'll bet they're quietly selling their stock, a little at a time, so as to not attract attention.
    What a crime it is for 550,000 Americans dying, just of cancer, every year…and millions worldwide, just because the simple, totally free cure is being kept a secret. Compared to the something over 50 million people world-wide who are dying every year for lack of this knowledge, the WWII Nazi holocaust was insignificant.

7/20/10

U.S. News
    The magazine had to go monthly instead of weekly to survive. The August issue is a beaut, with 128 pages, 50 of which are medical advertising.
    When people wise up and stop making themselves sick, that'll be the end for such magazines. Eventually we'll have new industries to replace pharmaceuticals, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and other toxic products that are shortening our lives.
    Just count the pages of Big Pharma ads in your magazines. Then ads for things to drink other than pure water, and to eat that's not live, natural, and organic. How likely is this magazine to publish articles on natural health? And the same goes for your TV and radio stations.

7/16/10

Careers
    Today's kids are getting some lousy advice on colleges and careers. When I was in high school the subject of a career never came up. Nor did it at home, where my dad never talked with me about anything, and my mother not much. You can read about my career advisors saga at 6/4/08.
    In high school I had several serious interests which were whetted by the after-school clubs. I spent many afternoons in the Camera Club's dark room developing, printing and enlarging photos I'd taken with my grandfather's old 1880s Pony Premo #5 5" x 7" plate camera . I used cut film instead of the old glass plates. Oh, that was fun.
    The Radio Club got me to get my ham radio license, which kept me at the work bench for the next thirty years building electronic stuff  The Choral Club gave me singing practice five mornings a week, with many afternoons spent rehearsing Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. We put on The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance, both with me singing the lead parts (Pooh Bah and Major General Stanley). Well, I'd been in love with G&S since I was first introduced when I was seven (3/21/09).
    Teens have to decide whether they want to go to college or into the job market. Their families, with few exceptions, want them to go to college, so I was interested to read an article in Business NH magazine listing the top twenty career paths they recommended for youngsters. The top two, and seven of the other twenty, were in the health fields. If the word gets out and people stop making themselves sick with their diets and addictions, most of these careers will have been built on a trap-door and disappear.
    There'll be a need for cold fusion-powered equipment manufacturing, sales, installation, and service experts. A huge need for organic food, including raw milk from grass-fed cows. Well, we won't need any of that GM corn for making alcohol or feeding cattle.
    Unless colleges start wising up they're going to continue to waste four to six years of kids lives, and at great expense, memorizing (and soon forgetting 99%) stuff few will ever use. The money and freedom lie in entrepreneurialism…owning one's own business. Heck, read the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books.
    With health, despite the ban on how to avoid making ourselves sick information in the media, the word will get around. That's going to force some major changes, and kids would do well to consider that when it comes to career choices. It'll take a while, but people will be eating organic remineralized raw food, driving cars powered by mini-batteries, and living under sharia law (unless we have some major changes with respect to the Muslim invasion). 

7/15/10

Milking Cancer
    With our lifestyles giving half of us cancer, it's a fantastic bonanza for doctors and hospitals, running around $350,000 per sucker. The worst nightmare for the American Cancer Society and researchers would be the word getting around as to how easy it is to cure any cancer, mainly with a diet change.
    So I groan as I read reports about 91% of terminal cancer patients being given chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatments, which increase their pain, long after they've been diagnosed as hopeless. And that oncologist salaries have increased 86% in the last ten years, plus they do very well on the chemo drug markups.
    The only cure for cancer is the immune system, which is destroyed by radiation treatment. Worse, the body then has no protection against any invading germs or viruses, which hospitals have around in abundance.
    The insurance companies (and Medicare) benefit from the expensive treatments and care, since they pass the costs on to all their customers, plus a percentage for their profit. It's a win-win situation for everyone except the patient and the patient's family.
    So, are you changing to a raw food diet yet? Or are you going to be one of the 550,000 American suckers who will die very expensively and painfully of cancer this year? Hey, it's your choice. Yeah, I know, make that a large order of fries.

7/14/10

City Life
    Yeah, we've got a couple cities here in New Hampshire, but they're more like overgrown villages, and not all that far from farms offering raw milk and locally-grown organic food. Having lived in cities for most of the first half of my life, except for summers at my grandparent's cottage in Bethlehem, it was a no-brainer when I started my first magazine to get the hell out of Brooklyn move to New Hampshire.
    Now that I've learned about the enormous importance of eating live, organic food…preferably locally grown, where chemical fertilizers are unknown…there's no way I'd ever move back to a city. The air is toxic. The food is toxic. And there's no 15-acre field across from my house to walk through and enjoy the forty or so kinds of wildflowers. Or plenty of room for my own garden. Today I was out there in my shorts, with no shirt, so I could build my vitamin-D as I picked raspberries. The first blackberries are just starting to ripen and the wild blueberry bushes are loaded. They'll be ripe in another month.
    At least, here we have the option of buying the same processed, irradiated, probably high-fructose GM corn syrup infused food they sell in cities instead of healthier local produce…and then getting cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and other resulting illnesses, instead of living to a ripe old age in good health.
    One more consideration for those living in cities is that should the power grid go down for any serious length of time, city dwellers will be trapped. With gas stations shut down there would be no food coming into the cities, plus no water in the homes. Unless they had plenty of gas in their car, there would be no way to escape, and the roads out of town would be jammed solid anyway. No radio, No TV. No cell phone service.
    I consider those experts on the sun's activities who are warning that the sun is acting very strange these days, and could hit us with a solar flare which would destroy the power grid, to be the usual alarmists…like those who panicked some of us about the year 2000 bringing a breakdown.
    With most of our manufacturing moved to Asia, what do we need cities for anymore? They're just a hold-over of our manufacturing past. Hmm, maybe the Illuminatti, who seem to be running things, and want to get the world back to around just a few million people, have something.

7/13/10

Pets
    Since my dad was allergic to cats and dogs, those were out for me as pets. But we did okay anyway, starting with a Brazilian blue and yellow macaw when my dad's boss, Jim Eaton, moved from his apartment in Washington DC to one in Manhattan, which didn't permit pets. So we inherited Arrara, who lived another 33 years with us.
    He had originally been caught in Brazil when he was fully grown and flown to the U.S. via Pan American, where Jim was a vice president. Jim then left Pan Am to manage Luddington Airlines, which was owned by millionaire Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart, and he brought my dad in as the airline's passenger and cargo manager.
    When Luddington Airlines was sold to Eastern Airlines we moved to New York, where Jim and dad were starting Marine Airlines, a flying boat service between downtown Manhattan and Boston harbor.
    Our second pet was Susie, a Rhesus monkey. At that time Jim and dad were starting American Export Airlines, the first trans-Atlantic airline. Capt. Groves, the skipper of the American Export Lines ship Excaliber, was a friend, so when he came back from India with a load of monkeys for research labs, dad got one as a pet. We had a big cage for her in the back yard, but inside she had the run of the house.
    When I moved away from my folks to New Hampshire, also being allergic to cats and dogs, I started with non-allergenic Italian Greyhounds, and then a Burmese cat, also non-allergenic. A six-foot snake presented no allergy problems, but he was fun to wrap around my neck when salesmen would come to the door. I still laugh when I remember their faces. I went on to horses, goats, a Korat…a bright blue cat treasured by Thai royalty. And more Italian Greyhounds. The next step was greyhounds, a Scottish Deerhound, and even an Afghan.
    These days Sherry has a couple cats, a tabby and a fuzzy, and that's it. I'm no longer allergic to anything, including even the fuzziest of cats. But the pet I miss the most was Arrara. I have pictures of him around which remind me daily to pause and send his spirit my message of love.

7/12/10

Blacks
    I have an obviously twisted gene which just naturally rebels against anything mandatory. I wouldn't have lasted long as a slave. Hmm, I wonder if the blacks may have a problem with the natural selection process working over several generations as slaves, thus tending to make them more inclined to be followers than leaders? Sure, call me racist, if that makes you feel superior. But it makes sense, and I haven't ever seen anyone come up with that concept before. It could help explain a lot of what's been going on.

7/11/10

Balloon Festival
    It ran July 8-9-10-11th in Hillsborough. It's the big deal of the year for the town. Well, unless you suffer from astrophobia, going for a hot air balloon ride is wonderful fun. Alas, at $200 a head, it's also damned expensive. As a member of the press I've gotten free balloon rides a couple of times at the Festival. It's something you sure don't forget.
    I was busy on the 8th, so Sherry and I drove up on Friday, the 9th for lunch. Yikes, none of the booths were open and no one was there. Well, almost no one. A chap got a Festival program booklet for me. There were balloon lift-offs on Thursday and Friday around 6pm when the midway opened, but that was all. Saturday and Sunday the midway opened at noon.
    On Saturday I was planning to go to take some pictures, but it rained all day. Good for my blackberry crop, but lousy for a festival. Sunday was sunny and hot. I got there right after that noon parade, parked and walked to the midway. There were a few vintage cars in the field, but no balloons. The midway was mainly food vendors and booths for a few politicians, one with a selection of a few hundred kinds of knives. There were the usual show booths to throw baseballs or darts for prizes, and about a dozen or so kiddy rides. What there weren't were kids, so the rides had to operate with one or two kids on the merry-go-round horses, little cars, motorcycles, and other things that go around.
    Now go to my 7/13/08 entry about the festival. Little has changed. There's almost nothing for adults to do except eat the unhealthy, over-priced food, and little of much interest for any but very young kids. Which explains why there were so few people there. $3 for a small cone and $4 for a normal-sized cone. With ice cream down the road at the supermarket costing $2 for an almost half gallon? Phooey. No helicopter rides this year again.
    Whoever is running the festival needs to come up with things for adults to do other that eating blooming onions or throwing darts at balloons for prizes.
    My old friend Tom Boris was there with his old time photographs booth, playing my old Scott Kirby ragtime CDs. But I don't think he did much business. A pity, since he does such wonderful portraits.
    In a series of letters I sent to Governor Lynch when he was first elected, I described a whole bunch of ways to make New Hampshire a better place to live and work. I've reprinted the 52 letters in my Greenprint for New Hampshire 2020 booklet #39 ($5). No, I didn't get any response from the governor. None.
    Considering that unemployment is one of our major problems, it's time to seriously consider my #1 letter to the guv…how the state can set up Business Incubator Groups (BIGS) in every New Hampshire town to help get new small businesses started. With startup help and funding, this would be a big lure for entrepreneurs to come here to ease our unemployment problem (and sagging home sales). We have a couple hundred towns that could support BIGs, so if they started an average of three per town per year, that's 600 new businesses a year. It's a win-win situation for the state.
    With the big box stores putting the old mom-and-pop stores out of business, leaving some main streets looking like ghost towns, we need new businesses. I'd like to see the north country developed into an Aspen-East, attracting several million vacationers every year. We have the mountains, the beauty, and loads of undeveloped land to build homes. I'll bet we could get a million or so boomers to retire here. Well, maybe a half a million.

7/9/10

What a  Mess!
    Don't you dare re-elect anyone this time. No one! The overstuffed (with lobbyist dollars) turkeys you've elected have been taking your social security money and, instead of investing it, immediately spending it and leaving an IOU. In Chile they're investing the money and thus able to pay retirees about ten times what our older people are getting.
    In the car business, it's bad enough that our companies have been saddled with unions demanding salaries that make it impossible to be competitive with imports or cars made here in the US at non-unionized plants. Now the government is running General Motors. Okay, name one business the government runs profitably. The postal service, despite steadily increasing postal rates, is always losing money. Medicare ditto. And so on. But your Congress does have enough money to vote themselves lifetime salaries and ever increasing benefits. Oh, and then there are those endless earmarks they sneak into the bills. Senator Hillary is known as the Queen of Earmarks.
    By keeping the border with Mexico open we are assured of a steady supply of drugs for our addicts, plus an endless supply of workers who will work for less than any American, gutting the low end job market and thus inflating our unemployment numbers.
    Our government-run school system is graduating students who can barely read, and are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Oh, and at the highest cost per student of the developed world. Please take time to thank your Congress person.
    Your government-run healthcare system is also the most expensive in the world, with the US around 37th in health, and even worse in longevity. Right now it's costing an average of $8,000 a year for every man, woman and child. That's $32,000 off the top for a family of four. Per year. And the worst part is the secrecy about how easy it is to cure any illness with no drugs and never get sick again. Shhh.
    We need a Congress that will get rid of the Department of Education and the Department of Health. And that would be a good start. Russia got rid of their czars, now it's our turn. Congress, please can Obama's czars.
    In the June New Hampshire ToDo editorial I explained three alternative sources of revenue which the government could use in place of the income tax. That would give everyone almost a doubling of their paychecks and put some 100,000 IRS people out of work. Hey, let's move them to Texas and Arizona to stem the half million more Mexicans sneaking up here every year. Oh, and plus we don't know how many tens of thousands of Muslims, none bent on becoming real Americans. Viva sharia law!
    With some honest management we could get back to having a pretty decent country. We could start getting our old industries back and stop exporting new ones.

7/5/10

Birther
    I love conspiracy theories and the theorists because every now and then they turn out to have been right in their suspicions. So, when another theory comes along I keep watching for more info, without paying much attention to conjecture.
    The latest really big one has to do with Barry Soetoro's birth country. So, was Obama, as he calls himself these days, born in Mombassa, Kenya, or Hawaii? Have we actually elected a Kenyan Muslim as President? The whole idea is so ridiculous that anyone writing a book using that for a plot would be panned by the critics.
    So, why has Barry spent over a million of our dollars on lawyers to fight the attacks of "Birthers" in the courts? Are they right that his grandmother claims he was born in Mombassa? And how come the video with Michelle saying they had "made a visit to Kenya, where Obama was born." The video sure looks real.
    Well, I have my birth certificate right here in my office, plus a miniature copy to take with me when I travel to some weird country and might need it. So how come Barry has refused to produce his? And how come a clerk in Hawaii says he's checked their files carefully and there is no record there of his live birth?
    Maybe you've seen the quotes from Barry's Dreams of My Father: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites." And, "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." And, "There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white." In his Audacity of Hope, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
    Apparently his school records, when he was a youngster in Indonesia as Barry Soetoro, show his religion as Islam. His school records at Columbia and Harvard are missing and the students supposedly in his classes have no memory of ever seeing him. Weird.
    Maybe the conspiracy theorists have gotten on to something this time. If you get reliable information, please pass it along to my email address.

7/4/10

The Fourth
    Bet you've had some memorable Fourths. The one I'll never forget was July 4, 1944. Yep, 66 years ago. By way of celebrating the Fourth, we sneaked into the Fais Island harbor, surfaced, and had a great time destroying a Japanese storage building with our 5" deck gun.
    I was on the radar, as usual when there was action, and I could clearly see each shell we fired as it traveled and hit. Thus I was able to tell the gun crew exactly where each shell landed so they could perfect their aim. Now and then I'd take a peek through the periscope, which was right behind me in the conning tower, and watch the explosions. We left the place a mess. What a great way to celebrate the Fourth!
    It was an experience few others have had.

7/2/10

Organic
    Big business is after profits, and if they kill people doing it, well there'll always be more…particularly now with the Muslims having eight to twelve children per family, outdoing the Catholics and Mormons at the baby game.
    The doctors, hospitals and drug makers know that chemotherapy and radiation for cancer has between a two and seven percent survival rate, but we're talking $300,000 per victim, and with half of Americans getting cancer, there's an endless supply of suckers. It's costing us an average of $8,000 a year for every man, woman and child so we can indulge in Big Macs, fries and a diet colas…and all the other junk we're accustomed to eating that's toxic to our bodies. And cutting our lives decades short.
    Thank heavens I got the hell out of New York City almost fifty years ago, soon after I started publishing my first magazine. Now I have three nearby farm sources for raw milk, eggs from free-ranging hens, and meat from local cows eating grass. The weekly farmer's markets in nearby towns give me all the fresh, organic produce I need.
    City dwellers have to make do with pasteurized milk, probably trucked in from factory farms in Minnesota or even California. Instead of grass, the cows are crammed with genetically modified corn, grown on farms long devoid of minerals, so chemical fertilizer has to be used to get the corn to grow. This makes the plants unhealthy, attracting pests. They then have to be sprayed with poison to kill the pests.
    If feeding the cows this junk instead of grass isn't bad enough, they're given growth hormone shots to speed up their growth. This, of course, makes them sick (mastitis…pus in their milk), so they're fed antibiotics to keep them going. The milk city folk get has remnants of the fertilizer, pesticides, growth hormone, and antibiotics. Oh, and a little cow manure.
    The bovine growth hormone (RBGH) is very close to human growth hormone (HGH), which accounts for so many children going into puberty early these days. The last Big Mac I had was 28 years ago, when I, and a small group I had taken to visit China for a few days, had an unplanned meeting at the Hong Kong MacDonald's to readjust our pallets to American food instead of sea slugs and fried baby birds. Chow mein and chop suey are American inventions, by the way.
    If you really don't care if you get cancer, diabetes, and other expensive diseases that inevitably come from knocking your immune system out, go ahead and buy your meat and pasteurized milk from the supermarket. And pay no attention to those little notes telling you the food has been irradiated. Who wants to bother with raw food when there are those quick TV dinners? And fast food places everywhere?
    Doctors, nurses, dentists, Big Pharma, most of today's food industry, the insurance giants, nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid, and undertakers are depending on you.

7/1/10

Mental Health
    Psychiatrists, like medical doctors, are mainly taught what drugs to prescribe for what symptoms, which helps explain why their cure record is so close to zero…just like medical doctors. And, just as it is simple to cure any physical illness by stopping the poison barrage keeping your immune system from doing its work, there is a fairly simple way to cure any mental problems.
    One of your body's most basic rules is to survive. So, when any part is damaged you get a pain message to make sure you stop whatever is causing the pain, and not do it again. You, as a child, only have to touch a hot stove once to instinctively avoid touching hot stoves again.
    When you experience pain, physical or mental, your subconscious mind records the pain and everything you're sensing at the time, as equal to pain and to be avoided.
    Under hypnosis one can be returned to the time of the pain and, by reliving the painful incident several times it, and it's associated memories, can be eliminated as a subconscious influence. See my 3/30/07 entry.
    Instead of giving PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) patients pills for the rest of their lives, just going back and reliving the trauma a few times will get rid of it's influence. Anyone with some experience could take care of that in an hour for returning veterans.

6/30/10

A Legend!
    The Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, this morning at a breakfast meeting, gave three of us beautiful plaques, honoring us as Legends of Business for our, "Outstanding contributions to the economic vitality of the Monadnock Area."
    Well, the many magazines I published out of Peterborough, with up to 250 employees, did bring millions of dollars into the area. But not mentioned in the presentation ceremony was the impact these publications had on the world. I probably should have mentioned in my acceptance speech that we helped start the cell phone, personal computer, and compact disc industries.
    Rather than talk about what I've done, I thought the audience might be more interested in the opportunities I see ahead that will result from people learning that a raw food diet is necessary if they are going to stop giving themselves cancer and all the other diseases. Alert entrepreneurs will see endless opportunities in the changes this will make in the whole world. Investors will be able to take advantage by short-selling Big Pharma and big food company stocks, like those in on the 911 attack did with the airline stocks, netting hundreds of millions.
    The coming of cold fusion power will also offer endless business and investment opportunities. With over 121,000 filling stations around the U.S. eventually going out of business, as battery-power replaces gas for new cars, an entrepreneur with a creative use for them could do very well. There'll be a huge market for miniature steam engines and little generators to turn cold fusion's heat into electricity. And steam radiators will be back to heat buildings.
    What will be left of supermarkets with no customers for breakfast cereal or canned food? I walk down the long aisles, looking to see what will still be around on grocery shelves in twenty or thirty years. Not much. All those products will be replaced by new ones, presenting unlimited opportunities for entrepreneurs. Hmm, I'd better start updating my Secret Guide to Wealth to alert youngsters to this coming huge change in food and wellness.
    Anyway, it was nice to get some credit for what I've done and the plaque is beautiful. Most of my awards are on shelves somewhere. I should find them and hang ’em up so visitors can be properly impressed with my greatness. Alas, I seem to have an ego shortage, so I'll add that project to the bottom of my "needs to be done someday" list.

6/29/10

Wellness
    The cost of wellness is insignificant compared to the cost of sickness. Yes, sigh, you do have to give up your addictions to cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine, which can be too tough a price to pay for the weak-willed. Discounting the pain and suffering of many illnesses, your chances of getting cancer are around 50-50, with the cost of radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery running $350,000 before your almost inevitable death (there's only a 7% survival rate).
    The average lifetime cost of diabetes is $450,000, which is really stupid considering that two to four weeks on a raw food diet is curing it..
    A stroke is costs over $100,000 a year for speech and physical therapy. Perhaps you'll be more fortunate and just have a heart attack, where by-pass surgery only runs around $65,000 these days.
    Sure, a fully-loaded pizza tastes wonderful. I had a couple bites of one yesterday. Now that I'm in the habit of chewing every bite of food until it's liquid, it took me about five minutes each to down those bites. But the flavor was great for every minute of the chewing. Sherry has been getting the $10 pizza specials at Pizza Hut about once a week and eating a slice or two a day for lunch. Twice now she's cut off a two-bite piece for me to enjoy, and it takes me as long to deal with those two bites as she to polish off two slices.
    Oh, I used to love coffee ice cream. But it wasn't any better than the ice cream I'm making now with bananas for sweetness instead of sugar, raw milk instead of that deadly pasteurized crap, raw farm-fresh eggs, and chocolate whey powder for flavor.
   
6/28/10

The Oil Mess
    As if the situation isn't awful as we see it on the TV news, we have "experts" predicting interesting ramifications. Like the build up of methane down there at 100,000 pounds per square inch, resulting in one hell of a blow out that would send a tsunami 50 to 80 feet high of Gulf water and oil perhaps hundreds of miles inland, ruining the land for hundreds of years.
    Another expert suspects the oil supply under the Gulf, where there are 3,359 oil wells already tapping the huge deposit, may be connected to the New Madrid Fault area, resulting in an earthquake which would separate the country right on up to Canada, filling in the separation with Gulf water and oil.
    Then, if another hurricane like Katrina comes along it could spray maybe a million acres or so with oily water, killing everything. Spraying a city with oil would soon have it in flames.
    Any of these catastrophe scenarios could take out the national power web. Without power our cities would be death traps. No power for gas stations to let cars get very far out of the cities. And, even so, to where? No fuel for the trucks delivering food anywhere. Hmm, have you some food stashed away, just in case? And seeds to start growing food next summer?
    The estimates of the leak run from 250,000 gallons a day to 4.2 million, This enormous reservoir of oil and methane should be enough to convince even the most stubborn of minds that oil is not from dead dinosaurs and prehistoric trees. It's abiotic, made by the Earth.
   
6/27/10

Failure
    If you've ever looked into psychiatrist's success rate in curing mental illnesses you know it's abysmal, and for the same reason medical doctors have been so unsuccessful in their efforts to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so on. They got their diplomas, legalizing their work, by learning what drugs to prescribe to deal with symptoms, not by learning how to find out what caused the problem and dealing with that. Sicknesses, physical and mental, all have a cause.
    Which explains why Dianetics was so amazingly successful and had to be fought by the psychiatric establishment, just as helping the immune system cure any physical illnesses is fought by the medical pill-pushers. Here was a therapy that used hypnosis to go back and find the events that were causing the patient's mental problems, and then erase the impact of the events so they no longer had any effect on the person.
    Even worse, no hospitals or pharmaceuticals were needed. Nor even years of expensive training. All one had to do was buy L. Ron Hubbard's $5 paperback book, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health, and follow the simple directions in it. That's what I did sixty years ago, and it totally changed my life. See my 4/21/09 entry for the details.
    Alas, it's the same with physical illnesses. You don't need years of medical school to treat them, just read my Secret Guide to Health and get the person to stop poisoning their bodies so their immune system can fix whatever's gone wrong.

6/26/10

Bio III
    How come, I wondered, I've always had an interest in new scientific developments? Hmm, maybe somehow it's inherited. My mother's mother was a Bushnell, a descendent of David Bushnell, the guy who invented the submarine for the Continental army during the revolution, back in 1776. It was called the Turtle, and it torpedoed the British ships.
    My mother's father, Tully Willson, not long after college, while working for the Garland Stove Company, invented the gas-oven thermostat. Then, when his college buddy, Henry Dougherty's dad died and left him a factory in Brooklyn, he got Tully to move to Brooklyn in 1909, where they started the Improved Appliance Company, with Tully improving things with his inventions and Henry marketing them. It was quite successful, so Henry began investing in oil wells out in Pennsylvania, since they could see the future of the automobile.
    The oil business, under the name of Cities Service Company, quickly grew, allowing Tully to retire in the early 1920s. By 1929 he had over $1 million in Cities Service stock. That's around $25 million in today's dollarettes (thank you Federal Reserve). An uncle of Tully's, out in Ohio, invented a new kind of brake lining (Rex Hide) that was far better than anything else available, so in 1931 Tully became a distributor for it for the eastern area.
    Alas, Tully's smoking cigarettes, pipes and cigars, helped him die of pneumonia in 1935, at which time his Cities Service stock was only worth $3,500. The company name was changed to Citgo and prospered, eventually somehow landing in the hands of Venezuela.
    My dad's grandfather, Thaddius Sanger, was the town doctor in Littleton (NH), a pioneer homeopathist. Dad joined the Army Air Corps in WWI. When he got out of the Army he went to work for the Department of Commerce, doing a survey of the country's airports. By 1930, when it was obvious that commercial air travel was coming, Philadelphia hired him to design and built an airport for the city. It was the first airport with paved runways, Central Airport. That's how I got to be a passenger on the first commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York, though, just like today, we had to land in Newark.
    So I guess it's no surprise, with that heritage, that my interest has been in the frontiers of science. When, about a year after Tully died, I got interested in radio and electronics, it wasn't long before I got my ham radio license and was building equipment for the newest aspect of the hobby, the very high frequencies (VHFs). My first ham contacts were made using a little two and a half meter walkie-talkie, while out walking down the street.
    It was my excitement over the possibilities for digital technology that got me to start my first publication in 1951. And that got me the job as the editor of one of the two ham magazines (CQ), where I pushed one new radio technology after another…such as narrow-band FM (NBFM), single-sideband, satellite communication, moonbounce, and so on. It was my enthusiasm for repeaters and all the articles I published to advance the technology that brought the world cell telephones.
    When the first computer kit for hobbyists was announced, even though the manufacturer hadn't yet made it actually work, I saw the future and started the first personal computer magazine. Then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and so on.
    Next it was compact discs. It's interesting that in every field of science the establishment has vigorously fought any new ideas. If there are any exceptions let me know. Every major development in the medical field has been fought. The AMA, at one time, decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would lose his license. Scientific American, while the Wright Brothers were flying their plane around Ohio, wrote that heavier-than-air craft were a hoax. They said the same about Edison's light bulb, even though Edison was lighting up the neighborhood around his laboratory with them.
    So I'm still pushing new technologies and discoveries, and being fought by the establishments...in health, energy, education, and so on.

6/25/10

Cold Fusion II
    Now that the oil spill is scaring the hell out of the oil industry, as well as environmentalists and the government, maybe some enterprising researchers will start developing practical cold-fusion powered units. It's a waiting, desperately needed, trillion-dollar market.
    The basics are simple. When you pass an electric current through water it separates into hydrogen and oxygen. If you have a metal with lattice structure in the water it acts like a sponge for the hydrogen, which is a very small molecule. The oxygen molecule, which is much larger, passes off.
    Research has shown that a number of the metals have a lattice-like structure can be made to produce excess heat. Metals such as rhodium, rubidium, platinum, and nickel have all performed well. It was discovered that it was necessary for hydrogen from the water to be absorbed in the metal’s lattice before the reaction could take place. This lead to the use of a thin film of the metal being deposited on tiny plastic spheres (by Jim Patterson) or the use of powdered metal, both of which provide a maximum of surface area per unit of volume and thus allow the hydrogen to fill the metal lattice faster. With this advance, the “cold-fusion” reaction could be made to start up in minutes instead of taking hours to days. It also makes it possible to use nickel instead of palladium, which is much cheaper, and plain water instead of the far more expensive deuterium (heavy water) used earlier.
    What's happening is that the hydrogen is absorbed into the metal’s lattice. Then, when the lattice is 82% full of hydrogen, an electric current is passed through the metal, making the hydrogen atoms get very agitated, which is understandable — who doesn’t get agitated when an electric current is passed through them? — and, the hydrogen, constrained by the lattice, has nowhere to go, and the trapped neutron triggers a reaction which produces energetic particles to start a breeding reaction, so the hydrogen neutron is forced into one of the metal atom’s nucleus, changing it’s atomic weight, making it a new element. For instance, let’s take nickel, which has a weight of 58.7, picks up five nucleons, bringing it up to 63.7. Copper has a weight of 63.5, so that leaves 0.2 that is turned into heat. By the time we stick that into Einstein’s E=mc2, the mass of 0.2 is multiplied by the speed of light squared, so the resulting energy released is enormous for a very tiny bit of matter converted.
    The resulting heat turns the water into steam, which we can use for radiators in rooms and to drive steam engines to generate electricity. Despite memories of the famed Stanley Steamer of a hundred years ago, the mini-battery will, I suspect, prove better for powering cars. It's invention is serendipitous.
    Patterson's tiny plastic spheres served him two purposes. Since he already had a patent on making the plastic spheres, he was able to get a patent on using them with the metal coating. Cold fusion wasn't mentioned, since the hint of it would be a poison-pill to the Patent Office. Secondly, it's a lot easier to circulate water through the micro-spheres than through powdered metal, which tends to stick together, not allowing the water to reach all of the powder.
    Well, that's something for researchers to deal with. Have I got you looking up sources for powdered nickel yet?

6/24/10

The Enemy?
    After looking at photos of a large American armada, led by three enormous aircraft carriers…then those photos of hundreds upon hundreds of Air Force planes parked somewhere out in a desert, it was enough to get me wondering who the enemy might be that warrants us having, by a wide margin, the largest military in the world.
    It would have come in handy for WWII, but we've flubbed everything after that. All this armament, but no detectable brains planning or running it. So, at a cost of $664 billion this year, what country's army, navy, and air force have we spent trillions to fight? And make that one without nukes, the big neutralizers.
    If our generals had used any brains they could have easily won in Vietnam, and not wasted 58,000 American lives and several trillion dollars of our money losing it. The feds are dipping deeply into our weekly paychecks, with taxes taking half or more of what we make. I didn't feel proud looking at that armada, I was angry that my and your money is being spent making armament manufacturers and contract armies rich. Instead of outthinking our enemies we're outspending them.
    Now I read that Obama is planning on sending thousands more Americans to Afghanistan. I've described how we could put an end to both wars in a few days at almost no cost (3/6/10). If I were a general I'd probably suffer a fatal accident if I suggested such a money-saver. It would be bad for business.
   

6/23/10

Chewing
    Sherry has been taking advantage of the Pizza Hut "Any pizza for $10" special, then microwaving and eating a slice every day. Having enjoyed pizza back in my cooked-food days, for memory's sake I cut off a bite to try. Now that I've made it a habit of chewing every bite I eat until it is liquid before swallowing it, I noticed that it was taking me quite a while to get that bite ready for my stomach to work on…to get it digested enough for my colon to extract whatever good it had to distribute to my cells.
    Being ever the scientist, I cut off another bite and timed how long I had to chew it before I should swallow it. It took almost seven minutes! Lordy, if I tackled a whole slice it could take me almost three hours to chew something that everyone else polishes off in a few minutes!
    Interestingly, while I was chewing those two bites, the wonderful flavors never stopped delighting me. The flavors just kept going, on and on. And that's one of the beauties of eating raw food. Once you've learned to actually chew your food, you'll discover a whole new world of flavors with ever bite you chew.

6/22/10

73 Magazine
    Much to my surprise I got an email from a chap who has gone to the trouble of downloading the tables of contents of the 514 issues of 73 Amateur Radio Today, I published from 1960 to 2003. Plus there's some history about me, too. Check it out at: www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/files/ham/73.html.
    While you're there click on the radio interview.
    There's also background on me when you Google "w2nsd," and also "Wayne Green." Being more interested in the future than the past, I haven't checked these very closely.
    The main thing I hear from my past 73 readers was that the first thing they read was my editorials, which were almost always controversial. Hmm, it would be nice if someone would go to the trouble to scan all those in so they  could be downloaded and then searched for things you want to know about. That's what I recommend for these blogs.
    A really thorough collection of my editorials would have to include those from five years editing CQ, and then all the magazines I've published for computers, compact discs, and cold fusion. Oh and five years of .New Hampshire ToDo.

6/21/10

Cold Fusion
    With Barry Soetoro's approval ratings tanking, and sucking the Democratic Party down with him, he desperately needs to do something spectacular. Well, I have just what he needs, only I haven't a clue as to how to get this through the wall surrounding him.
    Drilling for oil a mile down in the Caribbean? What could possibly go wrong with that? Well, the ghastly mess they've made could be an opportunity to ring the death knell for oil. This could be the time when some previously cemented-shut minds may be cracked open enough for them to take a new look at the facts about cold fusion.
    Cold fusion wasn't the hoax of the century, it's burial by the oil industry was the shame of the century. Non-polluting energy at a tenth to a hundredth the cost of oil was a nightmare for the OPEC crowd. Pfft would go Abu Dhabi, and the Saudi riches. It would impoverish the Middle East and waste our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    But, considering the growing panic over the millions of gallons of oil spilling into the Caribbean, soon to ruin the Florida beaches, and then waft into the Atlantic, up the coast and off to Europe on the Gulf Stream, Barry (a.k.a. Obama) might suddenly be a hero by pulling the cold fusion rabbit out of his hat, and it might even rescue the sinking Democratic Party.
    I'm open to any suggestions on bridging the wall around Barry. Big oil has monumentally screwed up, so let's kick ’em in the slats while they are weak.

6/20/10

Father's Day
    I wonder what kind of father I would have made, if I'd had the opportunity? Oh, I had two daughters, one by each of my first two wives, but both of them left when they were about 18 months old, so I missed out on dadding or being able to bond with them.
    My dad was no role model. He never, that I remember, ever sat and talked with me, or even read to me. Fortunately, my mother did read to me, from my earliest days…so as soon as I learned to read, I read a lot. Dad never talked about his work, his interests, his past, or his friends. Not even the current news. He smoked heavily and was drunk many evenings when he got home from work.
    When I got interested in electronics and set up a workshop in the basement, I don't recall his ever visiting it or having any interest in what I was doing. When I angered him he'd spank me…sometimes with his hand, but more often with a hair brush or his razor strop.
    Bridge playing was the big thing, with he and Mom having dinner and playing bridge with their friends, or having them over for dinner and playing bridge at our house. When they had dinner out I was given 35¢ to go down to the corner Chinese restaurant for an egg-drop soup, chicken chow mein, and ice cream dinner..
    In my teens, we had a couple vacation houses a few miles away, out on Jamaica Bay. One was for living, the other, next to it, had the roof removed so the second floor was a place to lie in the sun, and the downstairs was a big ping-pong room. Dad and I sometimes played ping-pong there.
    Would I have been an uncommunicative dad or been more like Pop, my mother's father? When I spent my childhood summers with Pop and Ma at their cottage in Bethlehem (NH), Pop showed me how to do things and sat with me in his lap after dinner, reading Brer Rabbit and Grimm's Fairy Tales to me. He never once spanked me, nor was ever mean to Ma, much less hit her and knock her down, like Dad did Mom when he got mad.

6/19/10

The Berries
    Today, just two days from the official start of summer, was the first warm, sunny day in weeks, so I was out there in my shorts and no shirt, generating vitamin D. This was my first opportunity to check the 17.23 gazillion blackberry bushes to see how the berry season was going to work out.
    Well, there may not have been many bumble bees, but smaller bees and wasps have done the job and done it well. The bushes were packed solid with tiny green blackberries, We're going to have a fantastic crop!
    When I checked the raspberry patch yesterday I found every bush loaded with tiny red berries. My freezer is going to be loaded this summer. Since berries are a mess when defrosted, I'll put ’em in the blender before freezing and plan on eating ’em with a spoon…like I do grapes.
    Say, if you know of any way I might be able to filter out the blackberry and raspberry seeds, let me know. On the other hand, considering how good apple seeds are for you when you chew them, maybe it'll be healthier to just take the time to chew them, seeds and all.

6/18/10

The Father?
    60 Minutes had a segment naming some guy the father of the cell phone. Where's a lawyer? I want to sue.
    Computerworld gave me credit for starting the cell phone and personal computer industries with my publications. Heck, check it out. Grumble.
http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World
    Maybe I should bill myself as the grandfather of the cell phone. Anyway, here's how it happened.
    My ham radio interests, right from the beginning, were in the newest developments of the technology. In 1938 this was the amateur two and a half meter (112-116 MHZ) ultra-high frequency band. So I built what was then called a walkie-talkie transceiver from a circuit in Radio magazine. It was a little two-tube affair, using the new miniature 1G4GT and 1Q5GT tubes. The GT meant they had octal bases and were tiny.
    The day my amateur radio license (W2NSD) arrived, I was out walking the streets with my walkie-talkie, talking with other local ham experimenters. An article I wrote about it was published in the school literary magazine (Said One Transceiver To Another). I've got a copy of that issue up in the attic somewhere.
    It was this interest in new technologies that got me to become an electronic technician during WWII, and to start my first publication, Amateur Radio Frontiers, in 1951. And then, 73 Amateur Radio Today in 1960.
    When a few ham radio clubs started putting automatic relaying stations (called repeaters) atop mountains and tall buildings to extend the range of their mobile and hand-held transceivers, I quickly put one (WR1AAB) on top of my nearby mountain, Pack Monadnock. With that repeater, instead of being able to talk a mile or two with my little handy-talkie, I could talk with amateurs anywhere in New England as I was out for my morning jog.
    Naturally, I published every article I could get on this new technology in my magazine. And mine, was the only magazine doing this. Next, I organized meetings of the ham repeater groups around the country to establish standards. And then I organized a meeting with the FCC Commissioners to have these standards made part of the amateur radio regulations.
    In just a few years what had been a couple dozen ham repeaters grew to over 8,000, with me publishing a yearly Repeater Atlas. And since I had subscribers in over 200 countries to my magazine, repeaters spread all around the world.
    Our repeaters not only allowed us to communicate with each other, the repeaters were also connected to phone lines so we could make phone calls through them. It was my editorials explaining how I was able to ski the mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, Colorado and Utah with a little hand transceiver and make telephone calls through a repeater anywhere in the world, something I thought everyone would want to be able to do, that got Motorola to start the cell phone industry, when Art Housholder (K9TRG) brought my editorials to the Motorola brass' attention.

6/17/10

Doom?
    I've great news for doom-worriers. There's a new catastrophe you can worry about. It's a huge pool of oil under much of the U.S. which is topped by explosive gas under high pressure. If something sets it off, blooey will go much of our country. You want to look into this.
    But let's not forget Nostradamus' prediction that shortly after the millennium there will be a pole shift which he predicted would wipe out 97% of us. The new poles would be over South America and Siberia. The suddenness of the shift would send mile-high waves crashing on every coast in the world, wiping out most major cities. The 600 mile an hour winds would wipe out trees and buildings.
    As icing on the cake, Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, also made a similar prediction.
    David Booth, who had a past prediction of an airplane crash that was right on the mark, envisioned Yosemite, that super volcano, blowing, wiping out all life within 600 miles, and knocking California into the Pacific. Yosemite has been doing some strange things recently, so who knows? Booth's vision included Planet-X triggering the volcano as it swung by between Earth and the Moon. He also saw a ripple going across the country, so he built an underground shelter using those twenty-foot steel shipping containers.
    Remote viewer Ed Dames has had visions of a sun flare coming our way. That could fry our bacon in a twinkling. And the sun has been acting very strange lately. Has Planet-X been perturbing the sun?
    As Alfred E. Neuman says, "What, me worry?" Look, if something big does happen, that'll wipe out the power and communications infrastructure, and without that, I'd just be useless 88-year old codger. I'd do best to join the pileup at the Pearly Gates and come back when I can be of some use.

6/16/10

The Frauds
    The biggest fraud, by a long shot, is the multi-trillion dollar so-called healthcare industry, which is totally dependent upon us ignorantly making ourselves sick. Why am I reminded of those tobacco executives testifying before Congress that cigarettes were not addictive or health hazards?
    In second place I'd put the burying of cold fusion, which could be providing us with non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil. And would eliminate excuses for building nuclear power plants (hello Iran!). No more electric bills.
    Then there's our government-run public school system, which has intentionally been designed to dumb us down, and is doing a great job of it. Oh, you haven't watched Jay Walking on the Leno show? Figures. So, turn on the TV and sit back, reading a novel while you watch…thus scrambling your brain even further.
    The Federal Reserve Bank system is high on my list of frauds.
    All those programmable voting machines are a minor fraud.
    Our super-bloated government counts as a fraud. Parkinson warned us fifty years ago that government bureaus, unless prevented, tend to grow 7% a year. We (including Congress) have ignored the wonderful example New Zealand set when they cleaned out their bloated bureaus. With some constituent pressure, my proposal for cutting any government bureau in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating, can get some traction and save us a few hundred billion, which could be much better spent.
    The drug war is another fraud. Despite our spending billions a year on it, drugs are cheaper than ever and easier to find on our streets. Have you read the book about the CIA being a major drug importer and quietly using the profits for black operations they'd rather Congress and us not know about?
    Then there are the minor frauds such as global warming, the swine flu panics, Mad Cow, where the gold from Ft. Knox has gone, and so on. Maybe you haven't read about the piles of gold bars that turned out to be tungsten, lightly plated with gold?
    Whoops, I almost forgot the fluoride fraud. Sticking that poison in our drinking water is a total fraud. Get an inexpensive still, quick, (steamdistiller.com). And the dental amalgam fraud. That stuff is deadly. Pasteurized milk, vaccinations, 911, GM crops and foods, the war on poverty, the space station…oh, the fraud list seems endless. I won't even get started on the illegal alien situation, another multi-billion dollar fraud.
   
6/15/10

Economics
    One of these days I'll have to go out in the barn to see if I can find my college textbooks on economics, because I don't understand how the government spending hundreds of billions on WWII pulled America out of the depression.
    Oh, it was fabulous for the so-called defense industries. I still can't get over their changing the name of the War Department to the Department of Defense. Well, at least they managed to actually win WWII, defending us against Hitler and the Japanese that Roosevelt intentionally provoked into attacking us.
    They did sell a lot of War Bonds, but those were just IOUs, so where did the money for the huge cost of the war come from? And, instead of building things to sell, we built them to be destroyed. Somehow all of us had to pay for all that. Hmm, perhaps the Treasury Department, taking our income taxes out of our paychecks every payday (withholding) instead of once a year, as before, is a hint. But how did this get us out of that depression that lingered on for years after the 1929 stock market crash?
    If there are any economics professors out there reading this, please give me your educated opinion.

6/14/10

Democracy
    Well, it sure looks as if we've managed to elect a Muslim president. Something isn't working right about this whole election deal. Look at the bummers we've elected! Like Jimmy Carter, Nixon, Ford, Johnson, the Bushes, Clinton. So this is the best and brightest we've been able to get? No wonder we're in trouble.
    The Obama birther stuff on the web is fun, with a video of Michelle saying he was born in Kenya. His grandmother says so too. And now they've come up with a birth certificate from Mombassa, something Barry has so far refused to produce…spending a million dollars on lawyers to fight off the demands. Apparently no one has yet managed to find any of his college records to substantiate he actually went to college. Though claiming to be a 1983 Columbia University graduate, no one in that class recalls ever seeing anyone like him. He's a no-show in the class photos. And how come both Barry and Michelle "voluntarily" surrendered their law licenses? Neither are now lawyers! The University of Chicago says Barry was never a professor there. When an investigator looked into Barry's past he found 49 different addresses and 16 social security numbers.
    His Indonesian school record shows him registered as a Muslim. His father was a Muslim. When he gave a talk at Cairo University (in Egypt) he repeatedly quoted from the Koran.
    Not that we're doing a lot better with our congressional elections. These, along with Barry Soetoro, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama II, and his predecessors, have made a humongous mess of running the country. We were once the most prosperous and respected country in the world. Now we've moved most of the industry that made us so prosperous to Asia, and under Congress' management, become the most bankrupt of all the developed countries.
    It looks as if the dollar could easily tank, reminding me of the 20,000,000 Deutchsmark postage stamps I collected as a kid, a reminder of the runaway German inflation after WWI. And Zimbabwe today. I'd like to see some standard size and shape pieces of pure silver made available as a hedge. A four ounce piece (quarter-pounder) would be worth about $80 at today's prices. Add a buck or two for making it a standard size and a few bucks profit for the entrepreneur person or state, and we'd have something safer than our Federal Reserve paper.
    When our country was formed the idea was that business people would take two to four years off from work to serve in Congress. Instead we've bred professional politicians who've gotten very wealthy quietly tailoring legislation for their benefactors. Congress, of course, has voted itself it's own annuity…a lifetime salary, even after just one term, their own very generous social security system.
    If we weren't intentionally brought up to obey orders and instead, to ,learn to think, our elections would be very different. My approach is simple: Never Re-elect Anyone. Dump the incumbents. End being a politician as a career path. And that holds on both the federal and state levels. Let's elect people who are in there for a term with our best interests guiding them, not theirs (and the companies buying their favors). I see Washington today as a toilet that's desperately in need of flushing.
    When America got started a few British came over here with a higher technology and shoved the Indians they didn't kill into reservations. Then they opened immigration and in poured the Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, and Germans. Most of them assimilated after a generation or two into just Americans. Speaking English.
    Slavery brought cheap labor from Africa…one of the best things that ever happened for the blacks. Before that, the African tribes were continually at war with each other, just as our Indian tribes had been, and the winners killed the losers. But, once the losers were worth money, instead of killing them they sold ’em to the highest bidders, who exported them.
    Okay, come the November elections, are you going to re-elect a politician, like the people on welfare will? If so you deserve everything that comes of it, little of which is going to be good.
    Immigration via our open southern border is changing our country. The newcomers have brought their languages and customs with them and are not assimilating. The Muslim are producing some eight to ten babies per generation, while we are averaging one and a half. So, as in the European countries, we'll see fast-growing Muslim communities with no interest in Being Americans or speaking English. Islam will rule.
    We see this with the millions of illegal Mexicans, who refuse to learn English and proudly gather in large mobs, waving their Mexican flag and turning ours upside down. Mexifornia. Frankly, Arizona has the right idea and I'd like to see more state legislators have the guts to join the movement to oust their illegals. Let's make it a crime to hire an illegal alien. Also, I'd like to see our immigration officials start interviewing the Chinese working in the hundred thousand or so Chinese restaurants.
    If we start paying attention we can get back our manufacturing might. If we change our school system so we can raise a generation of geniuses, who are able to think for themselves, America can become great again. We won't need the world's largest military, spread out in over 144 countries. But we will have to protect our borders and be picky about who we let in. We are not really in need of a larger population.
    Will it be 2020 or 2030 before we see the end of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power? And people happily living without using nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and other poisons? When pasteurized milk is banned? When farmers have all remineralized their lands? When we can all eat organic and healthy? And we'll be eating raw.

6/13/10

Hero?
    When I got a promotion about Honor Flights for WWII Veterans it looked like an interesting adventure. It was a one day flight to Washington from Manchester to visit WWII memorials. Gee, why not? So I signed up.
    A week before the flight we were prepped for the trip at the Manchester VA Hospital. There would be 23 of us, plus a Guardian for each, on the trip. We would leave at 5:30 am Sunday from the VA and we'd get back around 11:30 pm. Hmm, that's a loong day. The Honor Flight organizers would handle all the travel and meal details. And we were given special Honor Flight tee shirts and name tags to wear, which set us apart from the general public.
    Daron was kind enough to volunteer to drive me to the airport, leaving at 4:14 am, and then come back that night to drive me home. He figured it might be safer than me driving back after a very tiring, long day. And, he was right.
    Our bus ride to the Manchester airport was interesting. Our procession started with a string of motorcycles, the American flag waving on the back of each. Followed by a string of police cars, their blue lights flashing. Rather than take the more direct Interstate 293, our procession wound through the Manchester streets, with the police preceding us, blocking off any cross traffic, allowing us to go right through, red lights and all, without stopping.
    At the airport we debussed, with our walk into the terminal lined on both sides with people waving flags and clapping to honor us. We still had to take off our shoes, send our carry-ons through x-ray, and pass through the metal detector to get to the boarding area for a Southwest flight to Baltimore. The flight to Baltimore costs less than to DC, it was explained.
   This was a regularly scheduled flight, so we shared the plane with what seemed like an endless stream of paying passengers. My, those 737s sure hold a lot of people!
    Southwest served us a sumptuous Sunday morning breakfast…a half-ounce bag of lightly salted peanuts. The trip organizers plied us with bottles of water.
    About an hour and a half later, when we landed at Baltimore, we waited until the paying passengers deplaned, then we left, walking through another group waving flags and clapping as passed…some of us walking, several in wheelchairs, pushed by their Guardians.
    We milled around for a little while in the terminal, allowing us a needed toilet break. Then onto a bus, each with our Guardian sitting beside us. Mine, Bill, had made the trip twice before, so he was an expert at this. And off we went, with a police escort leading the way.
    We visited the WWII Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Air and Space Museum, and the Iwo Jima memorial. Around noon, aboard the bus, we were given a box lunch. I chose the chicken-salad sandwich. It was mostly salad dressing and red grape halves, but I did run across a couple small chunks of chicken. There was also a small bag of potato chips, which I gave away.
    We had plenty of bottles of water to drink, and enough rest room stops to keep me comfortable. For dinner we went to a buffet restaurant. Biggest buffet I've ever seen. The place serves some 3,000 people for dinner, about 2/3rds black, I'd estimate. It was so noisy the five other people of our group sharing my table could hardly talk. I opted for a tomato and spinach salad, with a small dab of bread pudding for dessert.
    Then, back to the Baltimore airport, another hour bus ride, only to find our flight had been delayed until 10:30 pm. I finally got to bed by 1:30 am.
    All that fuss over my serving in WWII? It isn't like I had any choice. I was 19 when war was declared, I knew the draft board would soon haul me, a crummy C student, into the Army…trench meat. So I tried to enlist in the Army Air Force, but when I admitted I had hay fever they rejected me. Then, a reserve officer, Lt. Commander Tom Jones, who had been working for my dad at American Export Airlines (the first transatlantic airline), and been recalled to active duty, put me in touch with Commander Borne at the Naval Research Lab at Anacostia, Virginia, just across the river from DC.
    I went down and interviewed. Borne was anxious to have me for his lab, but first I'd have to attend the Navy's radar training school. So, one day before the draft board had me scheduled for induction into the Army, I took the train to DC and was sworn in as a Radio Technician 3/c at the Washington Navy Yard.
    The first three months was at the Bliss Electrical School, in Bethesda, Maryland, on the outskirts of DC. The school was fabulous, the first school I'd ever enjoyed in my life. I graduated first in my class.
    Then a train ride to San Francisco for six months at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island. It was another wonderful educational experience and I graduated as an Electronic Technician 2/c. At this time I was supposed to notify Commander Borne so he could get me back to his lab. But it seemed to me that a plum job like that should be reserved for someone with a family and not as dispensable.
    Since I've always hated taking orders I needed to select a small ship, where I would be the top technician. That would be either a destroyer or a submarine. With submarine duty far more dangerous, and me not really caring whether I lived or not, I chose submarines.
    A University of New Hampshire study found that most teenagers who committed suicide had been spanked as children, just as I was. It wasn't until Dianetics erased all of the painful subconscious memories of the beatings that I was able to escape that poisonous load. Changed my life.
    So all this hero crap fell on deaf ears and blind eyes for me. The war came along. On way or another I had to be a part of it. So, I did, and I've managed to stay alive for another 65 years. I don't think that counts anyone as a hero. I did my job, and did it well…even saving my boat from being sunk twice, but that wasn't what this Honor Flight was all about. None of the watchers cheering us knew anything more than we hadn't yet managed to kill ourselves with our diets. What a claim to fame!
    As we drove by the acres upon acres of little identical crosses at Arlington, the reason for the millions spent on the memorials we visited seemed a waste. Wars are political and big business, and all those crosses are irrelevant. We fought WWII mainly to save Britain's ass from Germany. The Japanese part of the war was necessary to get us into the war and was orchestrated by Roosevelt for that purpose.
    The Korean war, which we never won, was political…to prevent the spread of communism. Ditto Viet Nam. The Gulf War, like Iraq and Afghanistan, had to do with oil.
    The millions spent on war memorials are a waste of money. Wars are for politics and business, and the deaths involved are irrelevant. Just like the trillions businesses are making on the healthcare fraud. Our cemeteries are filled with the graves of people who've killed themselves at what should have been the mid-point of their lives with their belief in healthcare instead of a healthy diet.
    Me a hero? Baloney!

6/6/10

Montgomery College
     The Spring issue of Insight, the Montgomery College alumni magazine, had a nice Class Notes item about Wayne Green ’43 which surprised me by giving a search target of "W2NSD." Sure enough, there's a lot of stuff about me there. Well, I knew you could search for "Wayne Green" and find a bunch.
    It's nice to get recognition, but I don't thirst for it. Mostly, with an item like this, I hope to hear from some old classmates, if any are still around. This item hasn't brought any response, nor have several class note items about me in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni magazine.

6/4/10

Bees
    By the looks of things we should have a whopping crop of blackberries and dewberries this summer. Acres of bushes in bloom, a fantastic display. I've never seen anything like it before.
    But then, when I get up close and watch for a while I notice there are no bees servicing the blossoms. Oh, a few little wasps about a half inch long here and there doing their best, but I haven't seen any bumble bees, so I wonder how many of those blossoms are going to bear fruit.
    Last year it was the bats that disappeared, leaving us with the worst mosquito summer I've ever seen. Now the empty hive disaster seems to have arrived here. Early in the season, when the first blossoms came, there were bees busy servicing them, but the acres of blossoms we have now seems to have outclassed them.

6/3/10

No Smoking
    Today, with what we know about the destructiveness of smoking to our bodies, one has to be either painfully ignorant, or a stupid jerk (or both, probably) to smoke. It's a vicious drug habit, not only for the lungs, but it helps keep one's immune system busy fighting the poisonous nicotine instead of fighting off invading germs, viruses, parasites and fungi.
    When I was a kid virtually all adults smoked. My dad, mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles smoked. My mother's dad, who smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe, died of pneumonia when he was sixty. My dad quit smoking when he was sixty, but he spent the next twenty-seven years with emphysema and either an oxygen generator or oxygen bottles with him. In his last few years he could only walk a few steps before having to rest, and I had to take him to the hospital every few weeks to have his lungs pumped out.
    So, when I see kids smoking I know they are stupid. Why else build a drug habit that's both expensive and destructive? And the nicotine drug addiction is one of the toughest to break. Oh, and just to add icing to the deadly cake, the nicotine habit goes hand in hand with the alcohol habit, abetting it. Most smokers are also drinkers.
    One of the things I'd like to see are small groups of seniors monitoring the malls, snapping pictures of teenagers who are smoking to post on local school and post office bulletin boards as Our Stupid Teens. Oh, and on the web too, of course.

6/2/10

Bio
    Our barn is huge, but it's packed almost solid with stuff. I like to point out, up there on a shelf, is the meat slicer I used in college to make sandwiches to sell in the freshman and upper class dorms. The upper class dorms were for guys who were too nerdy to be pledged as freshmen by the fraternities. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute naturally had a good share of nerds.
    My first entrepreneurial adventure was when I was thirteen. I'd been bitten by the radio bug, so I needed money to buy parts and the 35¢ weekly allowance from my dad didn't cut it. Thanks to a handful of Democrats in an after midnight session, and okayed by President Wilson, our money issuing authority in 11913 was turned over to a bunch of European bankers and called the Federal Reserve Bank. That's when inflation set in, gradually devaluing our money, so that 35¢ in 1935 today is equal to about $8,00.
    Before I got infected by the electronic bug I'd been into stamp collecting. So, when I needed money I set up the Elm Stamp Company, selling one pound boxes of unpicked stamps for collectors. You see, people working in office buildings were cutting the stamps off envelopes and welling them by the 50-pound bag. So I bought the bags and split them into fifty of my boxes. There were often some valuable collectors gems for anyone willing to sort through, like the Type-2 2¢ U.S. stamp, which was worth a couple bucks (Around $50 today).
    Came WWII and I'm in the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco for six months. It didn't take me long to see a market there, so I ordered cartons of sandwiches from downtown every day and sold them evenings in the barracks. I made enough so I didn't have to take any pay for the six months. At the end I was able to draw around a thousand dollars, which I invested in a 1909 painting of the sea by Willy Hankin I'd seen in the window of a downtown art gallery. It's hanging over the fireplace now. I wonder what it's worth today?
    After the war I went back to RPI to finish my remaining two years, which had been interrupted by the war. I got the fraternity cook to make sandwiches and a crew of students to sell them in the dorms every night. The proceeds went into more ham equipment. And even more. The fraternity basement was a ham's paradise.

6/1/10

911
    An article mentioned that about 30% of Americans are skeptical (or worse) of the official 911 report. My message to the other 70% is to turn off the TV and skip Oprah, Maury, The Doctors, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, and your other brain-free ways to waste a lifetime, and spend some of your remaining hours finding out what's actually going on. And it's nothing like the stuff our entertainment companies and major media (and government) are feeding us.
    On the Moon landings I had no problem coming up with 55 darned good reasons not to be more than skeptical the official story. With 911 the list would be even longer. Since there are so many well done books exposing the latest "Pearl Harbor," I won't bother. Oh, you haven't read Stinnett's solidly documented Day of Deceit, so you still believe the Japanese attack was a surprise and not orchestrated by Roosevelt? Lordy!
     If you start doing your homework on 911 you'll be joining me in being skeptical that  the Muslims had anything to do with it. You'll wonder about how much the Bush family long time oil industry involvement had to do with 911 being the pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq for oil and Afghanistan to enable an oil pipeline to run to the Gulf of Oman.
    Sure Saddam was a lousy dictator tyrant, but the first Bush sucked him into invading Kuwait, and our Gulf war, which we didn't actually win. So Bush Junior took care of that.
    I wonder how long it'll take before the truth of all this comes out. It took about sixty years for the real Pearl Harbor story.

5/30/10

Speaker Wayne
    In one of my frequent, but futile, efforts to straighten my office, I came across a box of pens. Presentation pens, memento gifts from my talks to Rotary, Kiwanis, and other groups.
    Giving talks is a way for me to share things I've learned, so they're fun. As I mentioned in my 1/15/10 entry, I gave my first talk when I was six. But it wasn't until high school that I hit the stage again. There, I performed the leads in The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. Plus, the music teacher was so impressed with my voice that he urged me to become a professional baritone and frequently had me get up front in assembly and sing a song. Not seeing many professional baritones around, I resisted that calling.
    When I got into publishing ham radio magazines I gave many talks to ham clubs and at hamfests all around the country. Next it was computer magazines and more talks. Then entrepreneurialism. I counted ’em up, and I've given talks in 38 countries so far. Bunch of colleges, such as Princeton, Yale, Boston University, Babson College, Case-Western, Rensselaer, and several more.
    It's been quite an honor to give keynote talks at national conferences on communications, computers, education, music, and consciousness. At a Tesla Society conference I lectured on cold fusion, and why we have gravity and inertia (6/17/09). I've listed some of the topics I enjoy talking about (5/22/09).

5/29/10

Aspartame News
    Anyone who is not a clueless overweight consumer knows that Aspartame (Equal) has been causing thousands of cases of multiple sclerosis and lupus. Oh, and it also make you crave barbs, making you fatter. It's the sweetener in most diet sodas and a thousand or so other diet products. So I was not surprised to learn they've changed the name to AminoSweet.
   
5/28/10

The Illegals
    Illegal aliens are flooding into the U.S. at around a half million a year, and there are few, if any, we want here. Sure, Congress passed laws against this invasion, but they haven't made a serious move to enforce them.
    So we have our prisons filling up, costing us around $30,000 a year per alien criminal. We have tons of narcotics being smuggled in. Oh, and don't forget the OTM (Other Than Mexican) terrorists and Muslims (if there is a difference).
    The Muslim invasion of the European countries, where they are out-baby-ing the natives and rapidly becoming the majority, is a lesson we can't ignore. Are we ready to accept Islam or face death? Well, on the bright side it would end women in politics…like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary. Oh, make a list.
    So we're supporting, one way or another, some twelve to twenty (or thirty) million illegals who are putting Americans out of low wage jobs, and costing us billions of tax dollars for welfare, school, hospital costs, etc.
   As I wrote a year ago (6/9/09) we need to outlaw the mailing of Spanish language publications, and shut down Spanish language radio and TV stations. We should encourage every state to emulate Arizona, making it illegal for illegal aliens to live or work there. If you want to come to America, come here legally and be prepared to accept our language, our customs, and our flag…leaving yours behind. And let's close all those Muslim mosques the Saudis have built. We really don't need the worshipping of a religion that preaches death to unbelievers.
    It's not just Muslims that worry me. Those friendly, smiling Chinese, working in the thousands of Chinese restaurants which were funded by the Chinese government, watching Chinese videos and reading Chinese papers, not bothering to learn English (except for the waiters…to a limited extent), should be checked by immigration authorities. Are we being infiltrated for some reason?

5/27/10

Bio
    The first sickness I can recall was measles, when I was three. It only lasted a few days and was no big deal. The big deal hit when I was four and my mother went along with her doctor's recommendation that I get vaccinated. I have no idea what it was for (or against), but it sure raised hell for little Wayne.
    Soon after the shot my sinus trouble started and, despite daily nose drops of neosilvol and ephedrin, I was seldom able to breath through my nose for the next several years. A couple months after the shot I was in the hospital to have my swollen tonsils removed. Mostly I remember getting to eat ice cream for my first week after the operation. Ice cream was a rare treat in those days.
    Next, a few months later, I was back in the hospital to have my swollen adenoids removed. Ice cram again.
    But, by far the most traumatic, was my ear infection. I was sick in bed and our doctor came. After looking in my ear he went away, only to return a couple hours later with a second doctor. They both checked my ear and then went out to the living room to talk. A few minutes later they came back into my bedroom, followed by my mother and dad, but not saying anything.
    Suddenly the four of them pounced on me, with my dad holding down my legs, my mother my left arm, one doctor holding down my right arm, and the other doctor clamping a mask over my mouth, giving me ether. I felt totally betrayed. I don't know what they did, but it did end my ear aches.
    It was such a traumatic experience for me that it was the first thing I returned to twenty-four years later, when I was regressed during my first Dianetics experience.
    A year or two after the tonsils, adenoids, and ear operations, I began noticing allergies, and hay fever. Using scratch tests the doctor said I was allergic to ragweed, goldenrod, cheese, mustard, trees, and some other foods and plants. All I had to do during hay fever season was eat a slice of watermelon and I'd lose my voice.
    Since changing to a raw food diet I no longer have any allergies. No hay fever. I can eat anything I want and roam the fields full of goldenrod freely. No boxes of Kleenex every fall.
    So, are you going to let ’em shoot your next baby full of stuff that could well plague them the rest of their lives? Get a good midwife, birth at home, and keep away from doctors as best you can.

5/26/10

Coffee
    All too often, when I go through the list of poisons we are dumping on our immune system, keeping it from doing it's routine inspection and repair work, when I mention caffeine there's a gasp. "You mean I'd have to give up my morning cuppa coffee?"
    When I explain that one drop of pure caffeine injected into your body will kill you, it's that powerful a poison, they're okay with giving up cooked food, but not their coffee.
    So, what's the harm of that stop at Starbucks or Dunkin Doughnuts? Well, coffee does give you a blast of energy, followed by your getting tired, irritable, and depressed. In the longer term it's action on the brain contributes to memory problems. And on the body it's fatigue, osteoporosis, breast cancer, high blood pressure, and poor circulation. Cancer researcher Bruce Adams rates coffee as the number two cause of cancer.
    Not only does coffee contribute to miscarriages, it shown to significantly lower a baby's IQ. D'uh?
    So, how many lumps of sugar do you want, along with that shot of pasteurized cream, in your toxic brew?

5/25/10

Death
    An email from Cheryl Shay (NMMT2@aol.com) saying how much she enjoyed what she learned from May Sewall's Neither Dead Nor Sleeping, which I reviewed on page 14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. My very good friend Richard Hussey, who has made the reprint of this 1920 book available, has done the thinking world a huge favor.
    There's so much we need to learn about death, reincarnation, consciousness, and so on, fields where there are few funds for research. Fields that most religions will do what it takes to prevent our learning more, since that could hurt the revenues their belief system provides. So you're going to have to do your own research, as I have, by reading the best books you can find in these fields. Several I've found are reviewed in my guide.
    The Sewall book is an excellent start. Just Google the title and be prepared to be amazed.
    See  http://www.neitherdeadnorsleeping.com

5/24/10

The Cancer Business
    With the average per patient treatment running over $50,000, and, according to the American Cancer Society, over 550,000 Americans dying of it every year, it's a very big business. So we're talking about an over $50 billion a year industry. Hey, it's dangerous to mess with that!
    Most of the patients had chemotherapy, which gives about 7% of them remission. But, since they continue to do what caused their cancer in the first place, most eventually die from cancer.
    Studies by Dr. Hardin Jones, at the University of California, showed that people who avoided chemotherapy and radiation lived up to four times longer. Most cancer patients die of chemotherapy, not cancer.
    Scientists have found that strong immune systems quickly find any starting cancer cells and trash them. So, instead of strengthening the immune system, chemotherapy destroys it, killing over a half million trusting Americans every year.
    It's understandable why the medical/pharmaceutical industry has shown no interest in Dr. Comby's 100% success in curing cancer via a raw food diet, and has been smearing Dr. Day for endorsing this approach. And why the thousands of well-healed lobbyists tending Congress have kept interest in this at a minimum. Money is far more important than lives.

5/23/10

The Father?
    60 Minutes tonight had a segment naming some guy the father of the cell phone. Where's a lawyer? I want to sue.
    Computerworld gave me credit for starting the cell phone and personal computer industries with my publications. Heck, check it out. Grumble.
http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World

5/22/10

Baklava
    The Hancock farmer's market opened for the summer, complete with the lady selling baklava. Before and between my marriages I had a number of memorable affairs, but only one "first." See 5/4/08 for the details on how baklava helped me nail a virgin.
    It's still too early in the summer for many foods, but I did come home with a bag of kale. That stuff is packed solid with health. Since I eat it raw, of course, I popped a quart of defrosted ripe bananas into my blender, added a cup of pure water, stuffed the blender full of kale, and blended away. Once the kale leaves were liquidified I had room to stuff in some more…and blended them too. I ended up with a quart and a half of kale smoothie. Wow, is that good!
    Being thrifty, I buy the over-ripe bananas at 19¢ a pound instead of the normal 54¢ to 64¢ a pound. My freezer is loaded with quart containers of them. They're also the main ingredient in my no-sugar super-healthy ice cream.

5/20/10

Millions!
    How'd you like to be a zillionaire? Well, I see a great opportunity by being ahead of the curve and getting set up to provide a new product that will sell big time.
    As the word gets around that it's what we've been eating that's making us sick, not a lack of pharmaceutical drugs, the interest in not just organic food, but what I call super-organic. Food that's been grown on land that hasn't been poisoned with chemical (NPK) fertilizer and pesticides, that's been treated with rock dust to get the minerals back into the soil, which all those past crops have removed.
    There's also going to be a growing demand for raw milk and raw milk products like butter, cheese and yogurt. And let's have this super-organic too by grazing the cows on remineralized grass land.
    With really healthy food you can do pretty well just selling locally. But how can you work this up to serving a national market? Even an international market? First off, you're going to need a much bigger farm. No, you're eventually going to need a bunch of large farms.
    For my lunches and dinners I pull a tray out of the fridge with about a dozen little pint containers in it. In some I have minced vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, asparagus, yams, Brussels sprouts, snow peas, turnip, beets, cabbage, and lima beans, each mixed with some of my cole slaw sauce (10/28/09). In others my raw tomato soup (also 10/28/09), and some smoothies made from ripe bananas and kale, spinach, Swiss chard, or collard greens (8/26/09). One with raw meat, also minced, and a couple with salmon, tuna, or sardines. I mince the fish and add sweet-pickle relish and mayonnaise.
    Each container provides a super taste treat, so I go from one to another with my spoon, making sure to chew every bite until it is liquid before I swallow it, so I get all of the taste. It takes longer when you chew your food, but that way it takes a lot less to fill you, and it's super-healthy for your digestive system.
    Another big plus for food fixed this way is that you can fix it ahead of time and freeze what you don't need for the next week or so. They freeze just fine. Just what you needed to know if you're going to package pints of your super-organic food for sale commercially. Or maybe trays with compartments with the different foods frozen in them…like the tray in my fridge with the containers of food.
    If your breakfasts are like mine you're going to need berries and bananas. These are better unfrozen. My oranges, grapefruit and grapes have been blenderized and do just fine frozen and then thawed. If raw berries aren't easily available, the frozen ones will do, since they are raw. Except for bananas, which go all to hell when frozen and then thawed. Oh, they're still great for making smoothies and my super-healthy ice cream.
    The future has to be raw super-organic food, so how's your entrepreneurial spirit? And let's call those frozen pints of pure health Hundred-Plus brand, for people who want to live a hundred-plus years in robust health. Or maybe Mea Cuppas.

5/17/10

Mallove
    As I proved, first with starting of the cell phone industry, a magazine about a new technology helps the pioneers keep in touch and advance the technology faster. Further, it attracts new people to the field, bringing them up to speed so they, too, can help pioneer the technology. And, thirdly, It offers a way for entrepreneurs to start offering products in the new field and reach potential customers. The next thing you know there's a new industry going.
    So, in 1975, when a little outfit in Albuquerque NM brought out a kit for computer hobbyists, I thought I could do it again, and started Byte…which helped start the personal computer industry.
    In December 1993, when I attended a cold fusion conference on Maui (in addition to scuba-diving the six Hawaiian Islands), I knew it was time to do it again. I hired Gene Mallove, an MIT grad, who had written a book on the subject (Fire From Ice) and we launched Cold Fusion magazine in June 1994.
    Everything went fine for the first three monthly issues. We had plenty of article submissions, lot's of subscriptions, and the newsstand sales were going well. Then one day I came in and found Mallove's office empty. He was gone, along with our advertiser and article files. Cleaned out!
    It turned out that, with backing from Arthur C. Clarke (in Sri Lanka), Mallove was starting his own Infinite Energy magazine. What I didn't realize at the time was that he had very probably saved my life.
    Here was a magazine that threatened to put the oil (OPEC), coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro-power, solar and wind-power industries out of business by helping a non-polluting energy source at a hundredth the cost of oil be developed. Trillions of dollars were at stake.
    Well, that was the end of my monthly glossy newsstand magazine. I found John Kane, a physicist from Vermont, to help me technically and we limped along with a book-sized journal I printed (folded and collated) for the subscribers.
    Mallove made the mistake of trying to organize a Congressional hearing on cold fusion, so he was murdered. If I had become a serious threat to the oil industry, I'm sure that would have been my fate, too. 

5/16/10

Railroaded
    I see there's a proposed high-speed Boston-to-Montreal rail line, with several stops in New Hampshire along the way. I didn't see any cost estimates to build and operate it, but it would sure be handy for the dozen, or even dozens, of people heading to Montreal from Boston every day and prefer not to fly.
    On the New Hampshire stops, there'll be a need for car rentals, since you can't do or see much without a car. Back, eighty years ago, when Bethlehem was in it's summer vacation prime, limos from the hotels ferried people from the railroad station in Littleton, some five miles away, to the 30 hotels, where most of the people spent the summer in rocking chairs on the hotel porches .
    A few played golf, and some went for daily one-hour horseback rides down through Cherry Valley. Most just rocked.
    With the coming gasoline elimination via micro-batteries, the cost of using cars will be almost zero, other than for occasional repairs. So is this proposed rail line something you'd be interested in as an investment?

5/14/10

Obama
     I was fascinated, though not surprised, to read about Obama's trip to London for the G-20 summit. No wonder the British press had a field day reporting on Obama's entourage, with 500 staffers, including 200 Secret Service agents, six doctors, his White House chef and kitchen staff, food and water, 35 vehicles, four speech writers and 12 TelePrompTers.
    In addition to Air Force One, he also brought along the presidential helicopter and a fleet of identical decoys to ferry him from the airport to downtown London. 
    Well, they didn't expect him to take a seat on a commercial airliner, did they? Our ex-Barry Soetoro was a class act. Yeah, after following the media search for BO's birth and school records, I'm joining the Birther Society. Old timers will remember B.O. Plenty from the Dick Tracy comic strip. Oh, Google it.

5/13/10

Grapefruit
    Mmm, that's delicious! You've just got to try this.
    First, out comes my blender. Next a cutting board and a sharp knife, Then I take two grapefruit (the red ones are best) and peel off the outer skin, while leaving on that inner skin. Next, I break it into four segments and cut each of the segments a little off center twice, squeeze out and throw away the seeds. Put the segments into your blender add a couple tablespoons of maple syrup, and blend the hell out of it. Whatever the highest speed you've got…and let it run for a minute or two.
    Dip a teaspoon in and see how fantastic it is, then pour it into a quart container…preferable glass. This is going to be your first course at breakfast, and you're going to chew each spoonful well before swallowing. You'll get the benefit of the juice and all that fiber, that would normally be thrown away. Plus you'll have a better chance to enjoy the wonderful flavor.
    Yes, keep it in the fridge. 

5/12/10

Oil
    What a mess oil has us in! The recent large oil spill in the Caribbean, and the whole Mid-East situation is revolving around oil. Like our invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Like the threats of $8 a gallon prices if the Mid-East gets into a more active Sunni-Shiite war, closing the shipping of oil through the Straits of Hormuz.
    It wouldn't take much, maybe five to ten million dollars, to do the R&D and come up with a practical home cold fusion-powered unit that would supply all of the heat and power a family could want. And maybe another ten to twenty million for a high-capacity miniature rechargeable battery factory to power cars and trucks.  Oh, and computers.
    No more pollution from cars. No more gas stations. No more oil wells and tankers. No more windmills, solar, nuclear, coal-fired, or hydro-electric. No national power web for terrorists to sabotage. No more off-shore messes or threats to dig up the huge reserves out west.
    The raw materials for a cold fusion power unit would be nickel and water for the heat, then a steam engine driving an electric generator. And we're not talking about much nickel, either. Einstein's equation for the conversion of mass to energy, E = m x 186,0002 shows that a tiny bit of mass converts into an awful lot of energy (heat).
    So, how come cold fusion has been discredited and ignored, despite proof that it works? Consider the trillions of dollars invested in oil, coal, natural gas, propane, butane, nuclear and hydropower, the electric power web, hundreds of thousands of gas stations, and so on. That's an awful lot of inertia, considering the disruption of the lives of millions of Americans working in these fields, and the loss of trillions in investments.
    Yes, the world will change. It always has, even when new inventions have changed things big time.
    Somewhere, very quietly, some one or group will develop a commercial cold fusion heat and electric unit and the world will change.
    When my mother's parents moved to Brooklyn (NY) in 1909, the new house they bought had gas pipes in every room for the gas lights. This was before electric lights, and that was only a hundred years ago. The ice man came every few days with a big block of ice for the ice box in the kitchen. The mail man delivered mail twice a day on weekdays and once on Saturday through the mail slot in the front door.
    It'll be comforting to see those Arabs chiefs back riding camels and sitting in their tents.

5/11/10

Oklahoma City
    With the recent Oklahoma City bombing anniversary celebration, out poured the usual band of rag-tag conspiracy theorists, screaming, "Government Cover-up!"
    The official story is simple…this guy, Timothy McVeigh, set off a home-made bomb in a truck across the street from the Murrah Federal Building and blew the front off it, killing a bunch of kids. I forget what he was mad about, but it must have been important for him to go to all that trouble. Anyway, he was convicted, got the death penalty, and executed.
    The conspiracy crowd point to the copy of the TV newscasts that morning, which had interviews with people who had been in the building and claimed that there were two explosions, seconds apart, with the first being inside the building and the second across the street. Further the newscasts show bomb squad trucks and crews taking two unexploded bombs out of the building. Aerial views of the site showed no hole where the truck bomb had been, just a scattering of debris. And local seismograph recordings show two explosions, a few seconds apart.
    I have a copy of the TV news broadcasts available on my #53 DVD ($10), for anyone interested in becoming a conspiracy theorist.
    The next thing you know they'll be wondering if, after his "execution," McVeigh got a new identity and a comfortable out-of-the-way place to live.
    Oh, there was also a report that the FBI staff, for some reason, did not report for work that morning.  Just a coincidence.
    Like you, I totally trust my government. It wouldn't lie to me about this, 911, UFOs, the Moon landings, Pearl Harbor, crop circles, Waco, and all the other wierdo conspiracy theorist imaginings.

5/10/10

My Favorite Bookstore
    It's the Hancock town dump. It's amazing what great books people throw away, so I find gems every now and then. This time it was the book that had, by far, the biggest influence on my life…Hubbard's 1950 Dianetics, The Science of Mental Health. Totally changed my life. You can read the details in my 4/21/09 entry.
    Not only did Dianetics straighten out my life, which hadn't been going anywhere, it taught me how to help anyone get over any psychological problems…and in hours instead of months or years. Using Dianetics there are no incurable mental problems.
    I bought the book when it first came out, tested it with a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota (FL), and the results were so amazing I quit my job, just as I was getting a big raise, to go to the Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth (NJ) to learn more.

5/9/10

Pissed
    The more I think about it, the more pissed I get. The years I wasted in grade school, high school and college. Wasted! Day after day, for years, taking tests on things I memorized the night before…called home work. Then the hated cramming for the finals.
    If you think all that helped you learn anything much, how'd you like to sit down and retake those exams again today? Har-de-har.
    Out of all those grinding years of short-term memorizing, the only school that was fun and really taught me things was the Navy's electronics course, with the first three months at Bliss Electrical School (now part of Montgomery College) in Maryland, and then six months at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco. Wow, that was fun!
    They took kids who didn't know an Ohm from a Volt, and in just nine months, had them able to repair any radio, radar, sonar, or test equipment. And with little homework involved (see 3/26/09 for how they taught).
    Today I'm an expert in electronics, thanks to that start. But I'm also an expert in many other fields, with little thanks to those school years. How many other people know how to cure any physical or mental illnesses? Well, on the mental illnesses, I did take a six-week course at a research foundation to get practical hands-on experience. And that's what was so wonderful about the Navy's electronic course…hands-on experience.
    Alas, our teachers are prisoners of the system. Ditto the management. Which is why I champion the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA, where there are no tests or grades…where kids learn what they want and are not separated by age. If there is any home work, it's completely self-inflicted out of interest.
    Ever since my emancipation in 1950 at that research foundation I've been busy doing my homework, but on subjects I want. I read books every day, highlighter in hand. And then more books…and it's all fun.

5/8/10

Mysteries
    If you don't have a child around with a need for a school science project, you can do the research for yourself. Maybe take pictures and post them on YouTube.
    Take seeds from the same package and plant them in separate pots, using the same potting soil source for them. You set one pot aside as a reference standard, allowing it sunlight all day, with no glass between it and the sun, and water it with your regular faucet water.
    Then you put a second pot over a magnet's south pole. A third over a similar magnet's north pole. Another, use water that's been heated in a microwave oven and then allowed to cool. Another, using distilled water. Another, with glass between it and the sun. Another, you lavish with love every day. Another, you tell it how much you hate it and how ugly it is going to be. Another, use water you've put in a blender and spun just before using. Another, with a paramagnetic rock in its pot. Another, with water that has been set out in the sun over the south pole of a magnet for a few hours and then vortexed in the blender. And another, when it's leaves sprout, give it the Sonic Bloom treatment.
    Your result will be a very educational exhibit.
    Now, you are going find that some of these treatments make a substantial difference in the growth of your plants, and that, at least for me, raises the question of how these treatments might make a difference in human growth and health? Will drinking sun-exposed pure water that's been over a magnet's south pole and then vortexed, make a difference? Will nearby paramagnetic rocks effect our growth or health?
    Unless you have pure spring water to work with, and considering that city water is likely to include fluorides, chlorine, lead, and other pollutants, your best bet is to start with distilled water.
    It doesn't seem a stretch for me that we'll find that things that effect plant growth and health can also do the same for humans. Okay, now get busy and prove me wrong.

5/7/10

Stephen Hawking
    This renowned British theoretical physicist is going around in a cart and using a voice synthesizer because he has ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). Will someone please tell this mighty brain on wheels about the raw food diet so he can get back on his feet? Oh, and talk again.
    Step two is to try and wise him up about the Big Bang theory he loves so much having been disproved. Golly, how establishment professors resist new ideas and challenges to their deeply embedded beliefs.
    It was great a few years ago when the Tesla Society held yearly conferences where innovators were given an opportunity to present their ideas. It was at one of those that I met Dr. Hal Huggins, who gave a talk on curing multiple sclerosis by removing dental amalgam from teeth. He showed a film of a patient confined to a wheel chair with MS who, a few weeks after having the amalgam removed, was out playing tennis.
    At that conference I gave a talk on the reality of cold fusion and also explained my theories for why we have inertia and gravity.
    If it is even possible for Hawkings to consider a cure for his ALS, I wonder how one could get through to him to present it?

5/6/10

Windmills
    The Mass. legislature, their technology blinders firmly in place, has okayed the construction of a windmill farm for the Cape. Will they be able to get it done and up and running before home cold fusion-powered units start hitting the market?
    Once LED light bulbs come down in price a home's power needs will drop way off.

5/5/10

Distance Learning
    For over 2,500 years teachers and students met face to face for discussion and lectures. Technology has been changing that.
    First it was books. These enabled the best brains in the world to reach people anywhere. Technology has been steadily lowering the cost of books, enabling billions of people to share what only dozens could just a few generations ago.
    Plus, we now have radio, television (with a couple hundred satellite-induced channels), magazines, CDs and DVDs, and (yes) the Internet.
    Kids no longer have to walk “three miles through the snow” to get to school. They’re either homeschooled, or a bus goes by their house and picks them up.
    Until the Internet is wirelessly available via satellites (which will be coming soon) I see books and DVDs as the knowledge delivery systems of choice.
    Books and DVDs make it possible for people to learn when it’s most convenient for them, not at the convenience of the teacher. For working people this is usually nights and weekends…unless there’s an “important” ball game.
    With American colleges and universities already offering over 10,000 accredited courses on the Web, we’ll be seeing this movement spreading world wide as the Internet goes wireless, enabling people anywhere to participate.
    Until the Web goes wireless, I see DVDs as the media of choice. With professional actors as teachers, aided by state of the art graphics and the ease of using stock film or setting scenes to demonstrate ideas, it’s a very flexible and inexpensive media. We’ll be seeing interactive lab experiments in every field of science. No more fire in the chemistry lab when you make a mistake…except on your DVD screen.
    The inexpensive availability of education on any subject and in any language is a revolution on the order of the printing press. This enables people anywhere to rise from poverty and ignorance. It’ll raise hell with the current political and religious systems, which rely on ignorance to control minds and countries.
    The one thing that’s been lacking so far has been some system of evaluating the worth of distance learning products. I’m doing my best with my reviews of books I say you are crazy if you don’t read. That’s my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom. But that needs to be expanded to embrace all distance learning media and with input from millions of people, just as I did with my CD Review magazine.
    I’d love to get such a publication started…first as a magazine…then as both a magazine and a Web resource. Twenty years ago it cost about $500,000 to start a nationally distributed magazine. Now it’s over $1m. If you know anyone with an extra million or so to invest in changing the whole world, please advise.
    Am I being extravagant? It cost me about $250,000 to start Byte in 1975, the first personal computer magazine, and look at the impact it’s had!

5/4/10

The Fiend
    When I was a kid anyone who was into photography was a “camera fiend.” Hams were “radio fiends.” The fiend term dropped out of use, replaced by “nut,” as in camera-nut or radio-nut. So I’ve graduated from being a fiend to a nut.
    The terms were applied to anyone who was seriously into anything…anyone who is different. Golf-nuts, sports car nuts, cross-word puzzle nuts, health nuts and so on.
    Having been an only child, I was brought up by and with adults, so I never got the hang of this kid peer-pressure thing. Still haven’t. When I got to my teens and the other kids were smoking I tried it and said yuuuk. That was before the big health brou-ha-ha over cigarettes. My father smoked, so did everyone in my family.
    When I dutifully went off to college (I didn’t know any better then) and joined a fraternity, beer drinking was the big deal. They had weekend parties where my fraternity brothers would get a keg of beer and drink until they puked, and then drink more. I tried beer. Ugh. Phooey, again. And this despite everyone in my family drinking. Heck, during prohibition my dad had a bar in the cellar where he entertained his aviator friends—like Amelia Earhart, who kept her plane at dad’s airport. Everyone those days smoked and drank. But me. I wasn’t righteous about it. I wasn’t worried about my health, I just didn’t like the taste, case closed.
    I’m still marching to my own drum, and to hell with peer pressure.
    And this holds for my essays, too. I’m unswayed by the general public’s Conventional Wisdom.
.   As I’ve been saying in my editorials for the last 50 years, I do my homework carefully before I write—but, if you have data that I haven’t found that has lead you to another conclusion, please let me know what I’ve missed. I’ve insisted that it be information, not a belief that you want me to share.
    This attitude has naturally alienated a lot of readers…because I’ve researched and written about many controversial subjects…subjects where belief systems are deeply inculcated.
    When I write that things like dowsing, remote viewing, precognition, psychokenisis, past lives, and so on are real, it’s much easier to slough me off as a nut than to do some reading to find out if I know what I’m talking about.
    I’ve been writing about NASA faking the Moon landings. I agree, we’ve been sold a great bill of goods. We saw and trusted what we were seeing and being told. Heck, we wanted to believe. We all wanted so much to believe in America’s great achievement that the voices of the few skeptics were drowned out. When René sent me a copy of his NASA Mooned America, which was obviously a self-published book, I laughed at the whole idea. I get a lot of conspiracy-theory books like that…full of speculation and short on reliable references. Short on facts.
    But René was citing facts and he had clear color NASA photos which, once I looked at them critically, backed up René.
    Since then I’ve read every book and viewed every video on the subject, plus I’ve written about what I’ve found, always asking if anyone had facts which would refute the growing mountain of evidence of a hoax. Instead, I got letters and calls from more whistle-blowers.
    But I can understand why the casual reader would find it easier to call me a nut than to do their homework. Here I am, telling you that all this psychic stuff is real, that you can manipulate clouds with your mind, that our government has been covering up Amelia Earhart’s last flight for over 70 years, that the Moon landings were faked, that our school system has been intentionally designed to dumb us down, that they’re putting fluorides in our water for the same reason, that sugar and pasteurized milk are poison, that amalgam fillings are poisoning us…whew, what a nut case. Oh, I forgot vaccinations, 90% of our food supply, and our whole so-called health care system.
    With around 60% of our adult population either illiterate or just barely able to read, I can understand why so few people have bothered to follow up on the references I’ve cited to back up everything I’ve been writing. Heck, the average school teacher only reads one book a year, and that’s a novel.
    I get discouraged when I visit people and see almost no books around. If you get a chance to stop by my place you’ll see almost 1000 feet of book shelves. Packed solid. That’s sixty six-foot book cases of books. I’m not exaggerating when I claim that I do my homework before I sit down to write.
    For me this is fun. I love learning new things. I just wish I could get more people to enjoy the fun and excitement of reading…and learning. We’d sure have a whole lot better country.

5/3/10

Monopoly Mail
    Congress didn’t do us any favors when it set up the U.S. Postal Service as a monopoly. They made it illegal to compete with it. And what a franchise it has, with the exemption from taxes, zoning laws, and vehicle license requirements. It admits that it has 26,000 offices that are not making money, but any attempt to close them or to downsize their enormous work force is vigorously fought by Congress.
    Many other countries have seen the light, recognizing that socialism doesn’t work, and have privatizing their post offices. New Zealand has closed more than a third of their post offices and is privatizing the system. So are or have Sweden, Finland, Australia and most European countries.
    It is illegal for a private company to put anything into a customer’s mail box of through the mail slot in their home. It is illegal to consolidate mail, such as sending bills from several companies in one envelope.
    Because the Postal Service faces no competition there is little incentive to control costs or maintain quality. It is able to overpay its bureaucracy in salary, benefits and perks. There is no pressure to minimize waste. The bureaucracy has fought every effort to introduce new technologies to speed up and cut the cost of services. Why, that would put some workers out of work! Thus mail delivery is slow, unreliable and even lost. I’ve found that about 2% of the books I mail to customers never arrive! Just disappear.
    A study by the Postal Service found that on routes where private carriers had been contracted the costs were half those of the Postal Service carriers.
    According to the Postal Rate Commissioner, “U.S. Postal workers are the highest paid semi-skilled workers in the world.” Including overtime and benefits, they’re getting a yearly average of over $85,000 per worker.
    A postal audit showed that they damaged half the packages marked “Fragile” that they carried. 94,000 letters were found buried in the back yard of one carrier. Doubleday did a survey and found that 14% of their properly addressed third class mail vanished in the postal system. A Postal Inspection Service audit found properly addressed mail dumped in the trash in 76% of the offices they inspected.
    We’ve gone during my memory from two home deliveries on weekdays and one on Saturday to one on weekdays, and from 2¢ for a letter to 46¢. Now they’re planning on ending home deliveries. And yet the service has always lost money, with the shortfall (subsidy) provided by the government—which means that we all are paying for it, one way or another—whether we use it or not.
    If you’re interested in the skinny on the situation, invest $13 in the Cato Institute book, Free The Mail. Get their free book catalog anyway. 224 2nd Street S.E., Washington DC 20003. If you want a second opinion, then check out Monopoly Mail by Douglas Adie, also from Cato.

5/2/10


Coke™
    Since my wife is addicted to Coke (the drink), I thought you might be interested in the following email someone sent:
Just when you thought you knew everything...
1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl...Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.
4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
FYI: 1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.
2. To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours.
    Yes, indeed, things go better with Coke!
    And that doesn’t count any aluminum you get from the cans. With that stuff able to disolve almost anything,     I’d like to see some proof that we’re not getting aluminum when we drink a can. Hello Alzheimer’s.
    That also doesn’t count the effect that the 12 teaspoons if sugar you get with each can are going to do to your body. As Dr. Page discovered 50 years ago, all it takes in one teaspoon of sugar a day to disrupt your body’s calcium-phorphorus balance, leading to arthritis.
    Then there’s Diet Coke™! I’ve just updated my Aspartame (NutraSweet) book to 12 pages on the damage this so-called diet drink that’s making people fat is doing. And killing ’em.
    Heck, even 60 years ago my mother knew not to drink that stuff. I never ever tasted Coke until I was in high school, when I was forced to drink some as part of a fraternity initiation torture. First I had to chew some lye soap. That ate away the lining of my mouth. Then I had to drink Coke, which was real torture. It was a long, long time before I tried Coke again. I never have liked it much. Thank you, my old fraternity brothers!

5/1/10

Drug Addiction News
    I see where some researchers at the Buffalo School of Dental Medicine (NY) have discovered a mouth rinse that makes smoking taste terrible. Rinsing with this stuff makes cigarette smoke taste so bad that smokers can’t get past the first puff, and the effects of the rinse last 8 to 12 hours. It only seems to effect tobacco smoke.
    Since cigarettes killed my dad, and cigars killed my grandfather, I take a personal interest in this deadly addiction. I know I shouldn’t get upset when I see teenagers with a cigarette in their mouths, and that nothing I can say will have any effect, other than to make them angry. But I can’t help thinking how incredibly stupid a kid has to be these days to start a lifelong addiction to an expensive drug that is going to make their older years absolutely miserable, and substantially shorten their lives.
    I remember the last ten years of my father’s life, having to drag around an oxygen bottle everywhere he went, and having to sleep with an oxygen tube in his nose.
    When the researchers finish their pilot study they’ll be looking for a company to bring the product to market.

4/30/10

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 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.
    Ooops, I should have written that when you make yourself sick, not when you get sick.

4/29/10

Global Crime
    As a result of several years of hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, it’s Chairman, has written a book, The New War. It’s 210 pages chronicles the extent that crime has gone global, with the world’s major crime and terrorist groups now cooperating in the running of a $1 trillion crime industry.
    They’re operating much as international corporations do, but with the goal of taking over countries and running them for the benefit of the cooperating syndicates. They already essentially control Russia, Colombia, Nigeria, Mexico, and several Caribbean nations. Their tools of business are bribery, murder and intimidation.
    This new global crime cooperative has little opposition to its growth. The nations of the world have no system for cooperatively combating this threat. Each has its police systems, but there are no international laws, nor international police, so the crime cooperative is able to play one country against another.
    Senator Kerry’s book goes into detail about the problems and the scale of the threat—which could easily escalate into the use of terrorist tools such as nuclear weapons or biological attacks on our cities. What it doesn’t do is propose any realistic solution to the problem. Nor is there even one tiny hint of legalizing drugs as a way to take the enormous profits out of their sale, their main source of revenue. That’s just too hot a potato for any politician to touch.
    Without the hundreds of billions in drug profits from American customers, it is unlikely that the crime/terrorist coalition would hold together.
    The longer the crime groups are able to function, the more they branch out into other fields. There’s no mention in Kerry’s book of how the crime families in America got started as a result of liquor prohibition, and are now powerful influences in dozens (if not hundreds) of businesses. Just try getting involved with the newsstand delivery of newspapers and magazines without dealing in the Mafia and see what happens to you (and your family). Ditto with hat checking, garbage collection, beer delivery, radio station music director bribery, and so on.     Oh, yes, gambling too. Let’s not forget who built Las Vegas.
    Sure, alcohol is a problem, particularly for alcoholics. But passing laws against it only raised the price people had to pay, making it so enormously profitable that a whole new industry was spawned. And exactly the same thing has happened with drugs.

4/28/10

The Strad
    Back in 1917 my mother's high school boyfriend, when he was drafted and went off to fight in WWI, left his violin with my mother to keep for him. He said it was valuable and his family might sell it while he was gone if he left it at home.
    Like millions of other youngsters, he didn't come back, so the violin, in it's beautifully crafted wooden case, sat off in a corner in the attic. And when my mother died seventy years later, the violin, with everything else from the house in Brooklyn, was brought to Hancock and it was put up in the attic.
    When I was a youngster in Brooklyn I noticed the violin case in the attic and opened it to see. Inside was the violin and the name Stradivarius. Hmm, could it be real, or just a Sears Roebuck knock-off?
    Recently I got to thinking about it. If it really was a cheap knock-off, why would the guy have asked my mother to keep it safe for him while he was away at war? Why would he worry that his family might sell it? Worse, the violin had disappeared from our attic, presumably stolen by an ex-housekeeper's son, who had been caught stealing things from our house.
    If the violin was a real Strad, there would be no way to sell it without headlines in the papers. What a predicament!
    Oh well, it was probably only worth a few million dollars.

4/27/10

Melanomas
    These are the top cancer-related cause of death for 25-30 year old Americans. Alas, the drug companies haven’t yet been able to come up with a drug.
    Hey, guys, it’s your weakened immune system that is causing the trouble, not the sun…nor a lack of interferon alpha-2b or some other patented concoction. Our ancestors spent most of their days in the sun and they didn’t get any melanomas.
    According to Dr. Lorraine Day, and several other reports I’ve read, when two groups of lab animals get the same amount of sun exposure, with one group eating the standard American diet (SAD) and the other fed raw foods, only the American diet group get melanomas. So, if you’re going to nosh at McDonalds and eat cooked food, stay the heck out of the sun. At least you’ll have a better chance of living into your 50s before your diet-caused heart attack…probably preceded by some by-pass operations.

4/26/10

Dragons
    After several weeks of looking for a movie worthy of the hour drive each way to go see, encouraged by a positive thumbnail review in The New Yorker, we went to see How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. Alas, unlike the 99% of the people they said would recommend the movie to friends, my review can be put into one word: Ugh!
    The $4 each for the damned 3D glasses was tough on my, er, thrifty, nature. But the movie gave me no sensation of depth. There was no 3D feeling while watching. Eight bucks wasted. And it didn't help that the film had almost no story.
    So we have a bunch of enormously over-fed Vikings busy fighting fire-spouting dragons with spears. Then, along comes a kid who befriends a dragon and gets to fly around the place on his back. The end. 

4/25/10

Fired!
    As the recession continues, with our larger companies laying off thousands of employees (I almost said workers), there’s an up side for the survivors and a “What in the hell am I going to do now?” sudden shock for the downsized.
    The mid-level survivors are moving up to top-level jobs. The lower-level survivors are finding themselves having to do the work that two or three did before. This should not be difficult.
    Job survivors are no longer complacent about their jobs. What if the recession continues? How long will it be before the ax swings again and my head is staring up blankly from the basket?
    If you’ve been reading my essays for long you know what my advice to both the downsized and the potentially downsized is: Start your own business.
    The only way any of us can have a degree of freedom and the potential to make plenty of money is by owning our own business. I figured that out fifty years ago and have been preaching to profoundly deaf ears and blind eyes ever since. Well, not totally. I’ve gotten some comforting thank-yous from people whose lives I’ve changed and that makes it all worth while.
    One of them was featured in an article in Business 2.0, making me proud of him. He became a leader in the security field. He’s the same chap, by the way, who while working at NASA, accidentally found computer tapes which proved they’d faked the whole Apollo 11 Moon Landing trip.
    My Secret Guide to Wealth goes into detail on how anyone can get someone else to happily pay them to learn what they need to know to be an entrepreneur. These are things, unfortunately, that few colleges teach. I almost got Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to start teaching entrepreneurialism, but the faculty, none of which had ever been in business, scuttled the project. It was a threat to them.
    Presumably, if you’ve been employed, you’ve become an expert on something. Step one would then be to sit down at your word processor and write some magazine articles about what you’ve learned so you can help others learn from your experience. That’ll establish your credentials as an expert.
    The next step is to put all this in a book. It’s so easy to publish a book with today’s technology that I’m writing, printing, and producing my own books, one after the other…some by the thousands of copies. Then you want to promote your book. I’ve found the best route for this is via talk radio. You can buy a list of almost a thousand talk radio shows and that’ll get you started.
    Of course, if you’ve managed to hold down jobs without ever learning anything worth writing about then you sure have been wasting your life. A job should be more than a paycheck…it should be the gateway to a learning experience. Whatever job you have, you should do everything you can to be the very best in the world at it. Money comes and goes, but the skills you build and the things you learn are going to be with you no matter what happens. Except Alzheimer’s. Read my health guide to find out how to avoid that misery.
    While most people tend to do the least amount of work they can, I've always pushed myself to do more and learn more. When I was hired on as an engineer at WPIX, Channel 11 in NYC, I was given an opportunity to try out as a cameraman. In a few weeks I was so good at it that they had me doing the Gloria Swanson one hour variety show all on my one camera. And that was back before the invention of zoom lenses.
    Well, that’s enough rah-rahing for now. Read my wealth book. Do what it says and you’ll know the exhilaration of freedom. And maybe I’ll be able to recruit you in my drive to make all of us freer.

4/24/10

Coins
    With the increasing threats of a coming dollar meltdown it would be nice to have something on hand that will retain it's value. We're seeing more and more ads urging us to invest in gold or silver coins, so why not take that one step further? I'd like to see New Hampshire make pure silver Old Man coins available. Being made of pure silver, no matter what happens to our Federal reserve money, the silver coins will be worth the then current silver price per ounce.
    A three-inch diameter coin would weigh four ounces…a quarter pound…and be designated a Quarter coin. At today's silver prices it would be worth about $70. Add 15% for the coinage and distribution and the coin could sell for $80. Cheap enough as inflation insurance. With something easily spendable like that I'd empty my bank account to buy them.
    A smaller, one ounce coin, would be worth about $20 in today's dollars, and who knows how much in 2012 dollarettes.
    With the supply of new silver severely limited by no new finds to mine, and the need for silver by industry, the basic value of silver can be depended upon. Of course, as the news of this new inflation hedge gets around, the demand for silver for the coins will drive up silver prices, enriching the early adopters.
    Well, somehow it may be possible, despite our country's enormous debt, and the money printing presses running 24/7, not to see the dollar evaporate in value. Yeah, sure.

4/23/10

Gullible's Travels
    One of my more serious character flaws is my inability to believe in things I'm told or have read. Alas, the power of belief, which is able to reject even the strongest of contrarian data, has made me curious about and open to investigating conspiracy theories.
    So, I don't "believe" we ever put a man on the Moon. Nor the government's version of the 911 attack. Nor that there was just one bomb at Oklahoma City. And so on. That's made it possible for me to objectively look into the data on conspiracy theories.
    My Moondoggle book lists 55 good reasons to suspecting a massive cover-up on the Apollo missions. Just to cite one, it's the bootprint we've all seen in the Moon dust. First, go into any lab with a bell jar and vacuum pump, put in any dust you want, evacuate the air, drop a steel ball on it and it will bounce without leaving a dent. It's necessary to have some kind of gas to hold he dust particles apart. Without it they form a concrete-like solid. So, how can there be dust on the Moon, where there is no air?
    Okay, you can't find a nearby bell jar and vacuum pump, then let's see you make a bootprint in dry sand at the beach. Without moisture to hold the grains together, the sand fills in your bootprint, leaving a small featureless indentation. Hmm, so we have to have both air and moisture to get a clear bootprint.
    Considering the daytime temperatures go over 200°F and at night under –200°F, the likelihood of moisture on the Moon is more than remote.
    What a disappointment in our government to find that they faked America's biggest accomplishment of the 20th century.
    So, do you still believe we put a man on the Moon? Do you believe that a small group of Arabs pulled off that 911 stunt? Heck, we still have a bunch of seemingly intelligent scientists who believe in the Big Bang theory. But then, it should be no news flash that the scientific and medical establishments have rejected every new discovery. Like when the AMA decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would have his license revoked. Germs? Preposterous!

4/22/10

Good Fortune
    My Chinese buffet lunches, back before I went all raw food, ended up with a fortune cookie. For instance, one said, “A person of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”
    Okay, what kind of a mark will you leave on the world to show that you were here? Have you created anything of significance? Music? A work of art? Written a book? Maybe an invention? Or perhaps you’ve done some research? If not, why not? It isn’t as if there aren’t an unlimited number of things that need to be done.
    We are in desperate need of creative music and art. And there sure is a shortage of first rate books.
    In the research department, as I’ve written endlessly over the years, all you have to do is grab an anomaly that establishment science has swept under the rug and go with it. This is what John Mack, the psychologist, did. He wanted to find out more about the contactees, so he started interviewing ’em. And that led to his discovering that these people weren’t refugees from the National Enquirer, but had consistent stories to tell. And he wrote Abduction, a landmark book (reviewed on p.30 of my Wisdom Guide).
    Drs. Pons and Fleischmann noticed an anomaly with palladium that had been ignored. They upset the hell out of the physics establishment, the oil, coal, natural gas, and power industries, with their discovery of the cold fusion reaction. Big money finally put them out of business, delaying the demise of OPEC.
    Michael Cremo’s Forbidden Archeology (p.33 Wisdom Guide) is a compendium of artifacts archeologists have dug up for which there is no comfortable explanation. Like a gold chain embedded in a 300 million year old lump of coal.
    The history of science is a long history of the establishments of the day doing their best to keep new ideas from gaining ground. Ditto the medical field. And ditto just about any other field.
    And stop complaining about greed ruining things. Greed is here to stay. It’s what capitalism is all about. The alternative is socialism, and that approach has failed every time it’s been tried. Instead of fighting greed, figure out how to use it to your advantage.
    Greed is everywhere. Look at any square inch of ground, on land or under water, and you’ll find there is a constant battle going on for territory. Dandelions are greedy as hell. They do their best to take over your lawn. You either have to fight them constantly, or relax, admire their beauty and eat their leaves.
    Of course there’s always the sheep approach, as long as you don’t mind being fleeced regularly.
    Will the mark you leave in the world be only a cypher?

4/21/10

Guess What
    Our business, church, and political leaders all have a strong vested interest in you being dumb.
    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.
    So our schools dumb us down and we’re kept from noticing by endless entertainment…ball games, television, radio, and vigorous political arguments. 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.
    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 prizewinning New York City (including inner) teacher who quit, saying he just couldn’t continue to do that to children.
    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 Administration and Congress are depending on you to do 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.
 
4/20/10

Puzzling
    The first thing I do when I get on a plane is turn to the cross word puzzle in the airline magazine. The bigger and more difficult, the better. Jerry Rockwell, a fan of mine in Santa Rosa CA, sent me bundles of NY Times cross words and cryptograms. I love ’em.
    Back in the 1930s Womrath’s, then a national chain of book stores, rented jig-saw puzzles. The wooden ones, not today’s stamped-out cardboard affairs, complete with a picture on the box to make it easy. My dad would bring one home every weekend and we’d lay the pieces out on the dining room table and put a 500-piece puzzle together. A thousand-piece puzzle was a real challenge, and they even went to 1,500 pieces!
    My research work today is much like putting together those jig-saw puzzles when I was a kid…only finding the pieces of the puzzle is more difficult. But what satisfaction there is for me when suddenly the pieces fit together. Wow! Then I can hardly wait to share the picture…through my editorials, books, and radio talk show programs.
    If you have any kids, or grand-kids, you’ll help their minds to develop by bringing home an occasional jig-saw puzzle. And hide that damned picture on the box. The wooden puzzles are still available, but now you have to find a company who makes ’em and send away to buy or rent ’em.
    Another good thing my parents did, back before TV, was to sit down at the dining room table after dinner and play games. This was great for me. Of course, in those days, they’d have friends in for dinner and a game afterward. When’s the last time you had friends over for dinner and a game? Or didya ever?
    As an only child I was brought up in the company of adults, so I never got the hang of dealing with kids, thus I wasn’t influenced much by kid peer pressure. I learned to play games and discuss things on an adult basis.
    We played wonderful games…Liar Dice, Michigan Rummy, Pounce, Russian Bank, Lazy-Eights, Up and Down the River, Cribbage, Acey-Deucy, Backgammon, Hearts, Gin-Rummy, and Pitch. I got to be very good at games.
    Later, aboard the submarine during WWII, they had Acey-Deucy, Cribbage and Pinochle tournaments during each patrol run. After winning the Cribbage and Acey-Deucy tournaments for three patrol runs in a row, I decided to learn how to play Pinochle…and won that tournament. That was the end of the tournaments.
    Games are great training for kids, and the earlier the better. It helps their brains develop and will pay off for them later in life in many ways. Games, cross-words, cryptograms, all keep our minds growing…unlike passively watching TV. Most TV, anyway. What a terrible waste of time and minds soaps, TV talk shows, and Judge Judy are. Stupid, mindless pap. They’ll turn your brain to oatmeal.

4/19/10

Cooked Goose
    Don’t you pity the poor bastards who are addicted to cocaine or heroin? And those kids exhibiting the monumental stupidity of smoking, building one hell of a lifetime (though short) powerful addiction?
    Well, step up to a mirror, sucker. You’re a drug addict too and, like all drug addicts, you won’t face the obvious.
    No, I’m not talking about drugs like caffeine or alcohol, I’m talking about eating cooked or processed food.
    For some reason our schools (including medical schools) don’t mention the work of doctors Weston, Price, Pottenger, Comby, Bieler and Howell. I’ve written about all of them except Dr. Edward Howell. I even review their books in my Wisdom Guide.
    Howell’s research showed that rats fed cooked and processed food lived about two years. Those eating raw food lived about three years. In people years that’s the difference between living 75 years and 112.
    Rats fed only processed food got fatter and fatter, while their brain weight went down. D’uh?
    Howell reported that before Eskimos were introduced to a cooked diet they mainly lived on raw whale and seal blubber and meat—with no heart disease, cancers, high blood pressure and so on. They lived long, healthy lives, even without fruit and vegetables.
    A study done with hogs fed one group cooked and the other raw potatoes. Those eating the cooked potatoes gained weight rapidly. Those fed raw potatoes didn’t get fat. Howell states, “it is impossible to get people fat on raw foods…regardless of the calorie intake.”
    Now, will that be a Big Mac, a Whopper, or another slice of pizza?
    Oh, yes, I particularly want to thank the many readers who have written, thanking me for getting them to change their lifestyles to raw food and telling me of their resulting amazing weight losses and their feeling decades younger.

4/18/10

Quacks
    The 60 Minutes show spent two thirds of the show exposing some quacks charging $150,000 or so for stem cell treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Lou Gherig's disease, telling their viewers that there are no cures for these diseases.
    How frustrating for me to watch that baloney. Yes, they did well in exposing the crooks selling supposed stem cell cures and making a mint doing it. But to tell the public there is no cure for MS is criminal. And I have a personal interest in this because my dad's mother died of MS.
    One cure is to stop drinking diet sodas. Aspartame is causing tens of thousands of MS, but the paralysis goes away when the people stop poisoning their bodies with the stuff.
    The second MS cause is mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings. Read It's All In Your Head by Hal Huggins. While in Colorado Springs to give a talk on cold fusion at a scientific conference I attended a talk by Huggins in which he showed a film of a woman crippled up in a wheel chair. He then removed her amalgam fillings, which are half mercury, and showed her a few weeks later out playing tennis.
    Dr. Comby, in his Maximize Immunity, says that by changing to a raw food diet and stopping poisons such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine, the immune system will cure any illness…and that includes MS and Lou Gherig's disease.
    MS is also known as Rumsfeld's Disease. You can read about that in my 3/23/09 and 7/4/06 entries, and in my #38 booklet (two for $1). They should have skull and cross-bones stickers on diet soda bottles and cans.

4/17/10

No Oars
    As a country, America is up that creek with the Congress you've been re-electing paddling in random directions. Never mind that socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried…starting here with our early settlers. People just won't work hard for the common good, only for their own benefit. And turning business decisions over to bureaucrats is a death wish for any industry.
    So, here we are, one of the sickest, shortest-lived countries, with the least effective schools of the developed world. Both India and China are graduating about twenty times as many engineers from their colleges. We've exported most of our best industries to Asia. We have the largest military establishment in the world, and by far the biggest debt.
    We're up to here in illegal aliens, with a half million or so more sneaking in every year. And, of course, there's talk in Congress of amnesty for them. We have the highest percentage of our population in prison of any country, with a high percentage of them illegal immigrants…at a cost to keep of about $30,000 each per year.
    There are some practical solutions for all of our problems, but the bribery money that makes being a politician so great a career path is all on maintaining the status quo. Wars are hugely profitable. Sick people are enormously profitable. Lower-cost Asian products are wonderfully profitable, and who cares about the millions of unemployed Americans resulting? Our oil-nuclear-coal energy system generates trillions of dollars, so whatever we do, we must avoid developing cold fusion power sources. Or that super-efficient battery for our cars.
    Getting people to stop poisoning themselves would destroy the $2.5 trillion pharmaceutical market, put hundreds of thousands of doctors out of business…plus a bunch of other businesses making the stuff we're happily slowly killing ourselves with.
    We turned issuing our money over to the Federal Reserve, which has been happily devaluing it for the last 97 years. And I understand all that the gold which used to back our money has been looted from Fort Knox.
    Our government, which has doubled in size in the last few years, shows no sign of slowed growth. It would be cheaper to keep people on unemployment checks.
    Let's see. Social Security is bankrupt. Medicare is bankrupt. Medicaid is bankrupt. The post office is bankrupt. Our government-run school system is giving us the poorest educated kids in the developed world…at the highest cost. So Congress, which is responsible for the mess we're in, voted themselves another raise, plus they get their salary for life, even if they only serve one term. You know about all those earmarks, right?
    So here we are, drifting along with no oars, with the potential of there being falls ahead in the form of a massive devaluation of the dollar.

4/16/10

The Sauce
    In my 10/28/09 entry I gave the recipe for my magical coleslaw sauce, but I left out a small detail. You put a quart of organic plain yogurt into your blender. Make that made with raw milk, if you can find it. Add a cup of extra virgin olive oil, a cup or organic apple cider vinegar, a half cup of raw honey, a heaping teaspoon of sea salt, a heaping teaspoon of cracked pepper, and two heaping teaspoons of celery seeds. Blend. You now have a yummy sweet-sour-creamy sauce.
    It's fabulous with any minced raw vegetables. I use it with cauliflower, carrots, yams, broccoli, both red and white cabbage (the red is sweetest), and turnip. With tomatoes, I mix it half tomatoes and half sauce in the blender. The dark green vegetables such as spinach, kale, and Swiss chard I blend with ripe bananas and pure water into smoothies.
    It isn't until you've learned to thoroughly chew your food that you can realize the wonders of raw food flavors. Unless you concentrate on your chewing, the tendency is to go back to your old habit of chewing just enough to be able to swallow your food. So think about each bite and its taste.

4/15/10

Suckers
    Make that prize suckers, today being income tax day.
    Okay, not having learned any of our country's history in school, maybe you don't know about the long term mess President Woodrow Wilson made of our country. That's when he turned the issuing of our money over to the Federal Reserve Banks and instituted the income tax…which started out at about 2%, just levied on the rich. He also, as a bonus, got us into WWI, after promising not to.
    Before that the government got all the money it needed to operate by taxing imported goods…duties. In a period of about a hundred years America went from being just a bunch of colonies to one of the richest countries. We manufactured and exported our products to the world. We were the land of opportunity.
    Before The Fed we never had any inflation which, just in my lifetime, has grown over 25 times. My 1957 Porsche cost $3,300 brand new. My Tecraft float plane $1,600. My Chris-Craft Express Cruiser was $1,600.
    Today there are three ways Congress could totally eliminate the income tax, thus almost doubling our paychecks. Gee, this might even make it so wives wouldn't have to work to make the family ends meet, instead staying home and bringing up their children.
    (1) Go back to taxing imports. This would have the added benefit of encouraging more manufacturing in the US, thus eliminating our unemployment miseries. Plus save money now being spent on unemployment benefits, food stamps, and welfare.
    (2) The Flat-Taxers make a lot of sense with their plan to institute a small sales tax on our purchases…thus eliminating the income tax.
    (3) But my favorite is using the profits from some 80,000 government agency investment accounts rather than just rolling them over into more investments. Maybe you've read about the Consolidated Auditing Financial Reports (CAFRs) the agencies in each state report annually (see cafr1.com).
    Once we've gotten rid of the income tax and the IRS, let's dump the Federal Reserve Bank system and let the US Treasury issue our money. No more theft of our savings by inflation. And then let's get busy downsizing the government.
    Now it’s time to read my 11/16/06 entry on what happened in New Zealand when the socialist government was thrown out by the people. And then my 1/25/08 entry on how to get any government bureau to cut itself in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.

4/14/10

Boy Scouts
    Yep, me and my good friend Alfie were boy scouts, back when we were fourteen. In Brooklyn, Troop #34. We met monthly in the basement of the Dutch Reform Church on Avenue N and East 10th, where my grandmother, went to church.
    I first knew Alfie (Alfred E. Lake, 1129 East 14th Street, Brooklyn) when we were four years old and I was living across the street from him in the apartment house on the corner of Avenue K and East 14th Street. We lost touch when my folks and I moved to Philadelphia for a couple of years, then to Pennsauken NJ for a couple more years, then to Washington DC for a couple more years…and back to Brooklyn when I was eleven, moving in with my mother's folks on Avenue N and East 15th Street, about three long blocks from Alfie's house.
    Alfie had two older brothers, who were into Harley Davidson motorcycles.
    It was when we were twelve and going to Sunday School at the Dutch Reform Church, which had moved from Avenue K to East 19th and Avenue M, that the angel, with a big box of radio parts, offered them to Alfie. He took one look and asked if I was interested. Changed my life. Totally.
    The scout troop was divided into patrol groups. After my first patrol meeting I was fed up with that. It was spent with us going around at night peeking into the ground floor windows of apartment buildings. I was too young to know just what we were hoping to see. 
    What was fun was the weekend camping trips to Staten Island, complete with a tent. That's when I learned about snipe hunting. We'd take the Staten Island Ferry from Brooklyn, then a bus to a forested area, where we set up our tents and built our campfires.
    While the other scouts were toasting hot dogs and marshmallows over their fires, chef Wayne made a pot of lamb stew. While it was cooling to mouth temperature they set up a snipe hunt. All I had to do was stand by a little trail with a bag while another scout would chase the snipe along the trail into my bag.
    With no snipes appearing I finally got tired of waiting and went back to my tent and my stew…which had all been eaten.
   
4/13/10

Scouts II
    It was on one of my scouting weekend camping trips with Alfie to Staten Island that a life-changing event happened.
    It was a hot July Sunday afternoon, so several of the kids stripped down and went skinny-dipping in a pond near our camp site. Though the water was pretty cold, I hopped in for a swim. When I was coming back out of the water I saw several of the kids laughing and pointing at me. I asked Alfie what was going on. He said they were laughing at how small my penis was.
    I'd never paid any attention to other kids penises in locker rooms, so this came as a surprise. As a young kid I'd stood there on the curb with other kids, seeing who could pee the furthest out into the street. I'd never thought about penis size one way or the other.
    But, from then on I hid myself in locker rooms and avoided public showering. And for sure no more skinny dipping.
    Later in life I remembered my dad, when he'd call one of his old army buddies on the phone, would announce himself as, "Your short-peckered friend." As a two to five or six year old, I had no idea what a pecker was, so I didn't think anything about it. Thanks, Dad, for short changing me.
    Actually, this perceived short-coming gave me the best sex of my life. I'll tell you about that some time.
    Back in those days high schoolers weren't yet into sex. It was before the pill, and girls were "saving themselves for marriage." When I was a freshman in college I paid to have my high school girl friend, Martha Jane Wicht, come up to Troy from Brooklyn for the prom. After the prom, in her hotel room, I tried to get her to have sex, but she was saving herself.
    Being in what then was a boy's college, I didn't have much opportunity to date. Then came the war and that kept me busy for four years, so my first sexual experience wasn't until I was 24, just out of the Navy and on my way back to college. It was most memorable. Jeeze, and kids of 14 and 15 are having sex these days. Sigh. How things have changed!

4/12/10

The First Time
    My grandmother, Netta, had asthma, so my grandfather, Tully, took her and my mother, Cleo, to a summer resort in Vermont for the hay fever season in 1919. That was a two-day drive from their home in Brooklyn in those days, and when I was young. The first day got us as far as Northampton (MA) and a stay at the Hotel Northampton, with dinner in Wiggin’s Tavern.
    In Vermont, my mother got to be good friends with a young girl named Osa, who soon after that married Martin Johnson, the explorer, and the two of them were off to Africa, where they turned out a number of popular movies. I still run across Osa in crossword puzzles.
    The next summer they went to Bethlehem (NH), which is high up on the side of Mt. Agassiz, and a popular Jewish hay fever resort. They stayed at the Valley View Inn, run by Johnny McCauley, who was also the cook. They liked Bethlehem so much Tully got Johnny to look for a place in the area he could buy.
    So, in the summer of 1921 Tully, Netta and Cleo spent their summer vacation on an old hundred-acre farm on Cherry Valley Road, about three miles from town. Their home, Cherry Valley Cottage, was on a triangle of roads, with the Midacre Farm on one side of the triangle and the Longley house on the third side. Longley had a chain of restaurants in Connecticut and a daughter Ruth, my mother’s age (20).
    Word didn’t take long to reach Littleton, five miles away, about the two pretty young girls. So my dad and Herb Pearce were soon dating them. Herb went with Ruth and dad with what was to be my mother. By August both couples were off to the county seat, Woodsville, to get married. They eloped. The following September, the day after mother reached her 22nd birthday, I was born. And a few days later Helen Pearce was born.
    Okay, cut to 1946. After four years of fighting WWII in the Navy I was mustered out and scheduled to go back to college in the fall, courtesy of the government. Why not spend the summer at the farm?
    Well, one drawback was the lack of electricity. No power. So I called Johnny McCauley and asked if I could set up my ham radio in the shed in back of the hotel where his pastry cook, Mamie Stevenson’s son, Harry Stevenson W1CUN, used to have his. Sure, no problem. So I loaded my car with ham gear and was on my way. I put up some long wire antennas and was in ham heaven talking with guys all around the world. Wow, what fun!
    One evening after dinner with Netta, as I was driving along Route 302 to the Valley View, a girl was thumbing her way, so naturally I stopped to pick her up. And, wonder of wonders, she was heading to the Valley View to visit a friend.
    I told her about my ham station out in back of the hotel and invited her to come and see it. And she did. She worked at the Maplewood Hotel, about a mile east of Bethlehem. Lynn Brown. Gorgeous. I suggested we go for a drive down through Littleton and out to Patridge Lake and back. At the lake we stopped to enjoy its beauty and the next thing I knew we were kissing. I mean really kissing. So we got out of the car and lay down on the grass beside the lake and my first time at sex was about to happen. Our clothes came off and we embraced, but no matter how I fumbled, I couldn’t find my target. What a predicament! She was willing and I didn’t know what to do! What an embarrassment!
    So we got dressed and I drove her back to the Maplewood. Well, that was surely the end of that romance. Sigh.
    But, the next day she phoned and apologized for having “been on the rag” and plugged up with a tampon. But all the activity had stopped her period, so let’s go out again. Hey, let’s!
    The next night, again on the bank of Patridge Lake, I had no problem finding the target and we were in business. Not having a condom and not wanting to get her pregnant, it was gummy tummy time.
    There was a summer cottage nearby that was closed for the season, so we moved our sexual activities to the couch on the porch, with a skinny-dip in the lake afterward from the dock.
    But it was September by now and I had to be off to college in Troy (NY) and Lynn back to her apartment in Manchester for the winter. With Netta back in Brooklyn, on weekends I drove over from Troy, picked up Lynn and we drove to the farm, where we spent several weekends enjoying sex. Hey, what’s more fun? Particularly on a bearskin rug in front of the roaring fire in the fireplace.
    As college got more demanding, our weekends finally ended.
    One coincidence was that Lynn's apartment was in the same building that my dad's mother lived in during the ten years or so she was in bed with multiple sclerosis, with a full time care giver. That was back in the 1920s and early 30s.

4/11/10

Lydia
    Communications on the amateur two-meter VHF band are line-of-sight, so for more range it’s off to the top of mountains or tall buildings. One afternoon, back in 1947, I was having fun talking with amateurs out to about fifty miles while parked on top of a Troy (NY) hill.
    I was surprised when a car drove up and a teenager came over. He was interested in getting his ham license and had heard me operating, so his mother drove him up to say hello. He was Judson Snyder, 16, and his mother was Lydia. His father, Paul, had a print shop in downtown Troy.
    They invited me over for dinner and to see Judson’s ham gear. They lived in Brunswick, a small community a few miles from Troy. Then more dinner invitations. We got to be good friends, with me visiting two or three times a week. And Judson loved my ham shack in the basement of the fraternity house.
    One weekend, when I was going to drive down to Brooklyn to see my folks, Lydia asked if she and Judson could come along so they could visit her sister, who lived in Manhattan. Heck yes!
    When I told my mother about them coming down with me she insisted they stay for dinner before going to stay with her sister.
    After dinner, as usual, we all sat down at the dining room table to play a game. Dad helped out by mixing a couple Manhattans for us. Just after the second Manhattan Lydia and I were in the kitchen for something while Judson, my mother and dad were in the dining room playing the games. Suddenly I grabbed Lydia and kissed her. Well, she was a gorgeous long-haired blond. The best part…she kissed back, complete with her tongue. Wow!
Up until this time my only sexual experience had been with Lynn, who lived in Manchester (NH). I’d met her in Bethlehem the previous September (1946).
    The next day, Saturday, Lydia and Judson came over on the subway and we three went to Coney Island, just five more subway stops away, to have some fun. And we sure did have fun with the dodgem cars and hot dogs. But the most fun was the Tunnel of Love, where Judson sat in the car ahead of us, with Lydia and I, kissing away, on the car behind him in the dark.
    I let Judson drive my car back to Troy Sunday night, with Lydia and I kissing in the back seat. Judson never caught on.
    A couple days later, I stopped to see Lydia in the afternoon after school, while Judson was still in school and Paul was downtown in his print shop. We kissed a while and then I brought up the subject of our having sex. Lydia was surprised. She’d been brought up with sex having never been mentioned, so she didn’t realize that I knew about it. Her initiation was her wedding night, when it came as a huge surprise to her. She didn’t like it because it hurt a lot, but since I wanted to, she agreed.
    It turned out that the main reason she and Paul weren’t getting along was that he was hung like a horse and each sex session was a painful experience, so he had to spend most of his time in the bathroom masturbating. My equipment turned out to be an exact fit and she just couldn’t get enough. We spent afternoons by a nearby pond, having sex and swimming nude. We really enjoyed screwing while in the water, with me standing on the bottom and pulling her onto me as she floated.
    She got Paul to invite me to move in with them, setting up a bed in Judson’s room. In the morning, after Paul and Judson drove off to school and work, we’d have sex. Then, when I’d come back from school for lunch I’d shout out, “EF or FF?” Her consistent answer was, “Let’s eat later.” Then sometimes one more after my school and before Paul and Judson got back. And the nice part was that with me there, Lydia, Judson and Paul all got along fine together for a change.
    One weekend Lydia and I drove to my folk’s summer cottage in Bethlehem (NH). We had sex fifteen times over the weekend. Yes, I counted. And no, Paul never caught on. Nor did Judson.
    When I finished school the next summer I got a job as the chief engineer and announcer at WEEB in Southern Pines, NC. Well, it wasn’t long before Lydia drove down to visit her other sister in Florida. Only she didn’t make it any further than Southern Pines, where we moved into a motel for a few weeks. Then, her sister called, it seems her father-in-law had died and she had to go back to Troy for the funeral.
    Not long after that I left that job, where I’d had to work 80 hours a week for 50¢ an hour, to work as an engineer at WPIX-TV in New York. Lydia drove down several times for weekends in a hotel with me, but the romance was beginning to fade. Too much distance and too few times together. And then I left my job as chief cameraman at WPIX for one as a producer-director with KBTV in Dallas. And that was it. I never saw her again and we didn’t keep in touch.
    Lydia had a spare time job with the Daniel Starch organization, interviewing homeowners about their newspaper reading, so she had a good deal of freedom. She’d go through the previous day’s paper and ask the people if they’d read this column, that ad, and so on, reporting on what the people had either just seen or read.
    It was a fabulous affair for both of us.

4/10/10

Bioterror
    A few years ago I was about the only one writing about the bioterrorism threat. Then it was the cover story of Newsweek and Time, and feature articles in Fortune, etc. The 911 attack finally woke the media into its usual pack action. But, how about you, are you awake yet?
    Yes, the government has been asleep on this too—despite a 1993 federal study reporting that 250 pounds of aerosolized anthrax sprayed over D.C. could kill up to three million people. The fact is that America is almost totally ill-prepared to deal with such an assault.
    Bush’s appointment of Tom Ridge as the antiterror czar, but then not giving him control over the counterterrorism budgets, gave him little real power. With dozens of federal bureaucracies, all fighting for more money, and doing their best not to communicate with other agencies, it’s the usual D.C. mess. We have the State Department, Defense Department, Customs, FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, CDC, NIH, FEMA, FDA and on through the alphabet, all protecting their turf.
    I hope you took time to watch the PBS series on the drug war. It demonstrated the incredibly stupid way Congress went about dealing with the drug problem and the mess it’s made—plus hundreds of billions of our tax money that’s been totally wasted—not to mention thousands of lives.
    Alas, I suspect this is a blueprint for the war on terrorism.
    To start at the beginning—anthrax seems like one of an enemy’s most likely weapons. It’s easy to make and freeze-dry into a powder. It’s easy to disburse. By mail—pouff, you’re infected, from crop planes, a hot air balloon, a drone aircraft, spray cans, the Empire State Building observation deck, and so on.
Well, what about getting vaccinated against anthrax? Sure, once the company (Acambis) that’s supposed to be making it gets the bugs out of their system. Once they’re able to safely make the vaccine the first few million doses will go to the military and then government employees.
    Oh yes, there’s one more complication. The immunization requires six doses of vaccine given over 18 months, followed by yearly boosters. There’s no word yet on the “acceptable losses” due to adverse reactions to the vaccine. We do know that many Gulf War veterans who got anthrax vaccinations had hellacious long term reactions to it. This does not inspire confidence in the whole immunization process. You’ll have even less if you read Walene James’ (see page 7 of my Wisdom Guide), or Harris Coulter’s Immunization, The Reality Behind the MythVaccination - Social Violence and Criminality - The Medical Assault on the American Brain.
    Now, the gritty nitty—here’s what you can—no, make that must—do.
    Since telephones are usually the first service to fail in emergencies, and since our government has not established any national emergency communications alternative, it’s going to be radio amateurs who will, as in all past serious emergencies, provide it.
•If you don’t have a ham license, for heaven’s sake get one—just memorize a few Q&As.
•Get a handy-talkie and get trained on emergency procedures over a local repeater.
•Join the local radio club and help them set up a van which will be able to permit all of the mobile radio services intercommunicate. Like fire, police, doctors, hospitals, ambulances, sheriffs, the military, CB, CAP, FBI, Secret Service, and so on.
•Urge every inactive licensed ham in your area to get on the stick.
•Keep a couple gallons of silver colloid on hand, plus the ability to make a whole lot more. This is one of the most powerful antibiotics there is and it costs pennies to make. The anthrax death rate is around 90% for those without antibiotics, and within three days after the first symptoms of a fever and a cough appear.
    The best protection against any pathogen is a powerful immune system. For that you need my Secret Guide to Health.

4/9/10

Your Imagination
    My Secret Guide to Wealth urges the readers to figure some field that sounds like a lot of fun and look for a job with a small company in that field, and then learn everything possible. But I’m getting letters from whiners saying they don’t know what they’re interested in. Good grief!
    All you have to do is open your eyes and look around! There are endless opportunities for new businesses. For instance, if you’ve been reading my stuff you know that there is a growing need for day care centers as women are forced by today’s prices to keep on working instead of staying at home, caring for their babies. Well, one thing you should know by now is that few, if any, of the day care centers are very good. Okay, put on your entrepreneurial hat (even if it doesn’t fit yet) and start visiting as many day care centers as you can. Maybe pretend you have a toddler. You can even volunteer to come in and help in your spare time so you can learn more about how they handle the children.
    That was step two. Step one is to read every magazine article and book you can find in the library about day care. It won’t take very long before you know more about the subject than 90% of the centers. And then you’ll learn more and soon know more than 99% of the centers.
    About this time you can start consulting for day care centers. That’ll be the time to get a used Macintosh) and start publishing a day care center newsletter and website which explain what you’ve learned. You’ll be able to evaluate new products they might want to know about. You’ll be able to cross-pollinate good ideas from one center to another.
    Okay, that was just one idea. The day care center of the future will be able to provide every baby with the materials it needs at the right time in its development—and all babies develop on different schedules. You might be able to help get foreign language people in the area to teach babies five or ten different languages at the time their brains are ideally suited for this learning.
    A friend of mine came by one day with a fabulous New York cheesecake she’d made. This is almost a lost art, so I suggested she make more and take them around to restaurant managers in the area and build customers. She could do a great business selling the cheesecakes to restaurants for $20, made fresh. They get $5 a slice, at eight to the cake, so they clear $20 on the deal. And the customers will quickly become addicted, helping bring them back.
    As I say, there are opportunities at every turn if you can keep your imagination alive.

4/8/10

Movies
    Being thrifty, I go to the matinee performances at the cineplexes. Well, it's about a hour aqnd a half drive, but that’s the penalty of living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. With most of the movies not worth the trip, much less the thirteen bucks entry fee (for two seniors), I don’t go very often. But when Sherry and I do go, the theater seldom has more than a half dozen in the audience. Sometimes we’re the only ones there!
    Lordy, when I was a kid the nearest theater was just a few blocks away. It had two features and six acts of live vaudeville between the movies. I’m talking Pennsauken, New Jersey, not a city.
    Later, when we moved to Brooklyn in 1933, I used to go to the movies on Saturday afternoon. For ten cents they had two main features, a full length western, two serials, six cartoons, the news, and they had drawings for prizes. I, who hated baseball, won a catcher’s mitt. The nearest theater was down at the corner, with six theaters within easy walking distance.
    The evening movies were 25¢. The theaters ran two main features, a cartoon, a newsreel, and the performances were continuous. The idea of a starting time for a movie wasn’t even considered. We just went in and watched.
    Unlike today’s cineplexes, our theaters were huge, with a thousand or so seats, and they were usually packed every night, including the balcony. Often I’d have to stand at the back of the theater, watching for someone to get up and leave before I could get a seat. Then there was the race to get to it first. That was before popcorn and drinks had been invented. However, they did have a candy counter and Hollowy’s Milk Duds (now Hershey’s).
    During my high school days I often took the subway to Coney Island, where I’d get a plate of fried scallops, lots of tartar sauce, and a plastic fork at Nathan’s Famous, across the street from the theater. Nathan’s was famous for their hot dogs, though at that time the Coney Island stand was all they had. Now I see Nathan’s on Broadway and even at airports. Why are their hot dogs outstanding? The secret ingredient is nutmeg. Don’t tell anyone. The stand was started by Nathan Handwerker in the 1920s and it’s still going strong.
    Coney Island was a fairly high class amusement area until the 1939 World’s Fair. The Fair drew away people with money, so Coney Island had to lower its prices to attract poorer people, and it never recovered. The quality amusements gradually were driven out of business, leaving the area more like a cheap carnival, with a large black and hispanic clientele. And it’s filthy today.
    TV sure has changed the movie business. I remember in 1948, when I bought an 8” RCA 630-TS black and white TV for $350. That's about $7,000 in today's dollarettes. My mother thought it was a terrible waste of money—no one would bother watching it. It didn’t take long before my dad was watching every western, wrestling, and so on. Soon my mother and dad were glued to the TV every night. I wasn’t there at night because I was the chief cameraman at WPIX channel 11. From there I graduated to being a producer-director in Dallas and then Cleveland, where I directed their network news program for all of Ohio. It was at about that time that I figured out that working for others wasn’t the key to getting anywhere and started manufacturing a loud speaker enclosure for hi-fi nuts.
    You’re probably old enough so the old movie theaters, with SRO, isn’t news—but maybe, if you take your grandchildren in your lap and read this to ’em, the way my grandfather used to read to me, they’ll enjoy this ancient history visit.

4/7/10

How We’re Doing
    Not well, that’s how.
    I was just looking at the results of international tests of our eighth graders. In math our kids came in last in comparison with the kids in 13 developed countries. Our kids scored 500. The kids in Singapore scored 643, the Koreans 607, and the Japanese 605. In science the Singapore kids again were number one with 607. Korean kids were 565, and Japanese 571. Our American kids were 534.
    Well, our teacher’s unions tell us, all we have to do is spend more money. Sure. The per student expenditure for secondary schools is an average of $10,000. Korea left us in the dust education wise for $2,170 per student.
    The teacher’s unions also keep saying that we need smaller classes (and thus more teachers). Our secondary schools have 16 students per teacher. Korea has 24 students per teacher. Our primary schools have 17 students per teacher vs. 31 for Korea.
    Maybe we should send someone to Korea to find out how they’re able to run circles around us with schools that cost one third of ours to run.
    We don’t have to do that. There are several books I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, which tell about American schools which are graduating outstanding kids at a fraction of our public school costs. But as long as you keep reelecting your crook to Congress, the NEA’s millions of dollars in reelection campaign donations are going to cost you and your children billions and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with other countries.

4/6/10

Do Gooders
    The campaign rhetoric over abortion and right to life is a triumph of emotion over reason. Phooey. Yes, I know, you are passionately in favor of the right to life. Or abortion rights. Well, shame on both your houses. First, this is a religious matter that our beloved courts have managed to get embroiled in. It’s a case where one set of true-believers wants to force another set to do as they believe, just because their belief is right.
    We see examples of people killing to force their beliefs on others all around the world. Indeed, some right-to-lifers are willing to kill people to enforce their belief.
    My question to the right-to-lifers is: where were you when nearly a million people were slaughtered in Burundi not long ago? And what are your beliefs about the slaughter in Rwanda and Darfur? And about a dozen other African countries. Don’t look away from me.
    Either life is valuable or it isn’t. Your silence over the deaths in Kosovo, Chechnia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma, East Timor, and so on is deafening. I want to see some shred of evidence that you actually do care about life.
    Americans twiddled their thumbs, eating popcorn and watching ball games while Stalin killed tens of millions of his people. Ditto Mao. Ditto Amin, and so on.
    Oh yes, you were smiling while the Iranians and Iraqis were at war, killing off a generation of their kids. Well, those kids aren’t nearly as important as the teenage mother abortion of an American illegitimate black crack-crippled for life baby, right?

4/5/10

Reform?
    McCain made a lot of fuss over campaign finance reform. That’s a crock of campaign rhetoric.
    Firstly, if money didn’t buy measurable, reliable results, big businesses and big unions wouldn’t be spending tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to bribe Congress. Yes, of course they’re bribes. And if the bribes weren’t working, the money would quickly dry up and the thousands of lobbyists would be seeking other, possibly more honest, work.
    Congressmen have to spend hundreds of thousands to millions to get elected and re-elected, so they have to accept the bribes, or they’ll be forced to go back to their law firms.
    Why do election campaigns cost millions? Because money buys votes. Like any war, the more arms your opponent has, the more you need to keep from being wiped out. So if your opponent for office buys newspaper, radio and TV ads, you damned well better do it too, or you’re a dead duck on election night.
    All politicians understand this situation. But they also know that the public is upset when they learn that millions are being spent to be elected, so they cater to this emotion, knowing that there isn’t a chance in hell of any real change being made in the system.
    It gets worse. Republicans have a serious cross to bear, one which forces them to shake the money trees much harder than the Democrats. In the last election 89% of the media voted Democratic. In practical terms this means that most reporters are going to be slanting their stories toward liberal candidates. There isn’t even a remotely even playing field for the Republicans. And that goes for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV.
    One possible solution to this, if there were to be any interest in easing the problem, would be for Congress to pass a law which made it illegal for them to discuss on the floor or vote on any legislation where they might have a conflict of interest. Yes, I know, there’s no way Congress is going to do anything which might slow down the cash flow, so that’s just an empty proposal.
    Unless…
    Unless state legislatures passed state laws to that effect which would impact their Congressmen. And this is one reason why I’ve been asking the people who have read my three Secret Guides and benefited from them health and wealth-wise to consider running for their state legislatures. With this leverage they could effect Congressional finance reform, plus get busy cutting school costs, while enormously improving the educational product, and ditto health care.
    Any presidential candidate who talks about campaign finance reform is blowing smoke, and he knows it. They’re lying because they know this is a hot button with the voters. Ditto any Senator or House member on the campaign trail.

4/4/10

60 Minutes
    Easter Sunday, with me out there for an hour in my shorts and no shirt, getting as much vitamin D as I could, checking the fields for any wildflowers. So far, just the hundreds of periwinkles on our south lawn, plus the first daffodil, now in bloom, a couple weeks earlier than usual.
    The 60 Minutes show started out with a complaint about the patenting of genes making cancer tests very expensive. The whole mindset of the report was the total ignoring of how to avoid cancer with diet, and how easy any cancer is to cure with a change of diet. Their approach was with women having their ovaries and breasts removed to avoid cancer. Ugh! Any ideas on how to get through to the show's producers?
    The second segment was on AIDS in Uganda. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted helping the Ugandan people get pills to treat their AIDS. Apparently no one involved has bothered to do any homework on this. I've published the circuit for building a blood purifier unit, using $19 in parts. In clinical tests, just running it an hour a day, this totally cures AIDS in a few days.
    And Dr. Comby has had no problem curing AIDS patients with a raw food diet. So we have two very low cost ways to eradicate AIDS. But, of course, this could cost the drug companies millions in lost revenues, and money trumps lives every time.
    See if you can get through to the 60 Minutes producers and wise them up.

4/3/10

Serendipity II
    Just in case I even remotely considered it as a coincidence, as I reported in my 3/12/10 entry, today, as I was driving to Peterborough to get my weekly raw milk supply, I was, as usual, listening to my iPod with it on random shuffle. Just north of town, out of the over 1,500 selections to choose, it played Gottschalk's Tarantella, one of my super-favorites.
    Here I was, on the same stretch of road where I first heard this piece, many years ago…and where my iPod selected it three weeks ago.
    Now check back on my 4/5/07 Serendipity entry, where composers Von Weber and Delius got together to influence my iPod to play their music when I wished for it. Is it the power of consciousness or did Gottschalk in some way help?
    Also check my 12/32/07, 4/3/08, and 6/17/08 entries on the subject. We have so much to learn about the mind, consciousness, and time. 

4/1/10

A Mess
    Under the management of the Congress you have been re-electing, and then re-electing over and over, our country is in one hell of a mess. We were once the best educated and most prosperous country in the world. Now look at us! What does it take to get your attention?
    We need a whole new Congress, hopefully with as few career politicians and ex-lawyers as possible. And we need to then keep on their ass to make the needed changes to restore our country as a world leader.
    No, I'm not going to make a list of our miseries and my proposals for solving them. They're scattered through my blogs. But, with rumors that Obama and some Congressional leaders are preparing an amnesty for our twenty to thirty million illegal immigrants, plus the 500,000 to 700,000 more arriving every year, the election this November will, from what I see, be a make or break deal for our country.
    We don't need to further depress wages, further crowd the poverty parts of our cities, make English less and less used, further fill our prisons, and spend further billions on anchor-baby families, schools and medical expenses for illegal aliens. And spend $35 million a year on food stamps for them.
    We have been catching 130,000 Other-Than-Mexicans every year that sneak in, and no one knows how many we don't catch. Those we catch, we turn loose, so they're still here somewhere. Oh, and many of ’em are Muslims.
    It's Congress that's let our borders be wide open. Meanwhile we have 572,000 troops in some 700 bases in 120 countries on our payroll…doing what, other than costing us a few hundred billion dollars?
    By the way, we don't really have room for more people. We're out of new land for farming. Our cities are jam-packed. Our suburbs are crowding out farmland. Our water supply for all this is inadequate. And we already have to import food to have enough to eat. The blueberries I had for breakfast came from Chile.

3/27/10

Babies
    There's a huge opportunity for someone to start building a chain of day care centers that actually take advantage of the enormous capacity for a baby's brain growth during the first four years. Instead of the current system of baby farming, placating ’em with TV.
    Researchers compared babies under two years old who were exposed to Baby Wordsworth DVDs with those not exposed, and found they learned fewer words than the control group.
    It's worse. When TV is substituted for a parent's personal care, children, right on up through teenagers, are less bonded to the parents. It may be like the imprinting phenomena we see in baby animals and birds. Indeed, researchers are recommending that parents keep a TV out of their children's rooms. And, with computers and teens, the estrangement from the parents is even worse.
    Kids who spend their time doing homework and reading were found to be much more attached to their parents.
    Babies, given the opportunity, can learn to read by the time they are two, and by three able to speak several languages with no accent, and think in each of them. Indeed, we're just learning how amazing the learning capacity of the baby brain is. And conversely, that lacking the stimulation for brain growth during these critical years, lowers IQ permanently.

3/26/10

Executive Orders
    These Presidential Orders have the force of law, so watch out!
    Anyway, I've started a rumor that Obama might issue an Executive Order that will establish serious fines for any family with children between the ages of five and fifteen who have not arranged for their children to have experienced a hot air balloon flight by the end of this year.
    By an odd coincidence, there will be a balloon festival in Hillsborough NH in early July, so there's still time for you to get in under the wire on this. You can get more details on the festival in my 7/13/08 entry.

3/25/10

Entrepreneurship
    Since I see the formation of thousands of new small businesses as the best solution to our country's growing unemployment misery, it's important for these new businesses to be successful. And for that, the people starting them need to know a lot of things that few colleges are teaching. I said few. Fortunately, a growing number of schools are offering entrepreneurial courses…many via the web. The March issue of Fortune listed a few of them, but a web search should turn up anything you need to know.
    What's important for the budding entrepreneur to know? Check the list in my 2/14/10 entry.

3/24/10

Dr. Rowen
    In his March Second Opinion newsletter he had a paragraph that is a must for repeating.
    "The absolute failing of the American disease maintenance paradigm is its failure to treat the cause of disease. In so many cases, pain and other symptoms are your friend. It is the canary warning you of something toxic in the coal mine, so to speak. Smother the canary (with pain-killing drugs) and there's nothing to direct attention to the real problem."
    Since the cause of all disease is the failure of our built-in super-protective immune system, which we overwhelm with a steady barrage of poisons, a huge, very profitable, industry has grown to take advantage of this golden opportunity. Leaders in the resulting sickness industry are the drug companies, medicine (drug) dispensers (MDs), and hospitals.
    Enjoy that Big Mac, super-size fries and a shake, so you can help our 788,948 doctors enjoy drug company paid excursions to the Bahamas, Caribbean islands and Hawaii. And keep our undertakers busy. Or stop poisoning yourself with cooked food, cafeine, nicotine, alcohol, mercury, etc. Your choice.

3/23/10

Sleep
    I've got going to sleep down to where it takes me maybe a minute to be sound asleep when I lie down. Even for an afternoon nap. It's easy.
    First, you want your room to be as totally dark as you can make it. Second, no radio or TV to keep your brain busy so it can't sort out your memories for you while you sleep. I find an air filter blower that generates enough noise to keep sounds from the hall outside my bedroom door, or a distant telephone ringing, from waking me, does the job.
    I've always been most comfortable going to sleep lying on my left side, with a pillow between my legs, and in a fetal position. It's easy to make going to sleep a habit by deciding on a comfortable position and then always using that. Pretty soon the habit is ingrained and nodding off is easy.
    There's one more block that'll keep you awake. Thinking. Like going over things you are planning to do. With a little practice you can learn to stop thinking. When I think of nothing I'm off to the Land of Nod in seconds.
    That's the conscious mind that's asleep. Your subconscious is busy providing dreams, and sorting out memories to save. It also keeps track of time. When I ask it to wake me in an hour it usually does it right to the minute.
    With my bedroom across the hall from my office, whenever I feel tired, I take a nap.

3/22/10

Cold Fusion
    Yes, it's real, it's non-polluting, and has been proven. But it would put the oil, coal, natural gas, propane, butane, solar, wind, nuclear, wave, and geothermal energy industries out of business, so it's been stymied…so far.
    I have a little $2 pamphlet (#20) that explains in simple language how and why cold fusion works. But I was going to put the explanation in a blog for you…and then I happened to read through the entries in my "Letters to Mensa," and there it was, already done for you.
    A while back the Mensa Bulletin asked for article submissions, so I wrote a few and sent them in. I never heard back, and none were ever used. Too controversial, I guess.
    Mensa has been an enormous disappointment for me. When I founded it back in 1960, I envisioned high IQ teams offering their brain power to help businesses and government solve their problems. It didn't happen, except once with my New Hampshire Mensa group, when I was the Local Secretary for New Hampshire and organized it. Instead, Mensa turned into a party organization.
    If we'd used brains instead of guns and Agent Orange in Viet Nam we could have won that one easily. I much prefer outsmarting the enemy to outfighting them (see 3/6/10). It costs less in dollars and troop losses. The same with the wars in Iraq an Afghanistan. If we'd use our brains we could end the fighting in a few days. Well, I've gone into detail on that in my 9/25/08, 11/3/09, and 3/6/10 entries. Three times is enough.
    Just imagine how the world could be with energy available at a hundredth the cost of oil! No more gas stations or oil tankers. No more middle east problems.

3/21/10

Ritalin
    I just read through the eight-page article on Ritalin in Time, and you know, there was not one hint that any doctor or parent has ever given any consideration as to what is causing ADHD…Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder…in kids. Just what to prescribe to deal with the symptoms, namely Ritalin.
    Now  researchers have discovered that giving kids Ritalin stunts their growth. Permanently. Well, they can measure the growth loss, but how can they measure the probable accompanying brain loss? I'll be surprised if Ritalin isn't dumbing down the kids taking it. For life.
    Well, that has the advantage of making them into less trouble-makers. And we do have a major need for supermarket cart retrievers from their parking lots. And baggers for the check-out counters. Oh, and voters who can be counted on to re-elect incumbents. And be sure to get their vaccinations for each new potential pandemic, like the recent bird and swine flues.
    Being a contrarian, I say, hey, this ADHD plague is fairly new. We didn't have it when I was a youngster. Gee, could it be that kids are eating differently today? Is it the kids eating Sugar-Frosted Os and pop-tarts for breakfast instead of oatmeal with cream and soft-boiled eggs? Or, better yet, berries, bananas and raw milk, like I eat?
    But then, doctors aren't taught anything about what causes medical problems, only what to do to stop the symptoms. Nor are they taught about the importance of diet for health. Makes sense, for if they did know about that and explained it to their patients, they'd go out of business. People who eat what their bodies are designed to use for nutrition, get enough sleep and exercise, don't get sick.
    Medical doctors (MDs) deal with medicines…hence the name. They used to be called medicine doctors. Little has changed but the name.
    For some reason my mother, over eighty years ago, knew enough to feed me well. I never had any cold cereal for breakfast until I went away to choir camp for a month. And that was my introduction to white bread and jam, too.

3/20/10

Cooking
    Since cooking makes almost 90% of the nutrients in food unavailable, destroys the enzymes, vitamins, phytonutrients, and most of the protein, it is digested with difficulty. Further, cooking seals off the minerals we normally could get from the food and deteriorates the mucus membranes of the mouth and stomach, What a waste to spend extra for organic food and then destroy most of its value through cooking.
    Dr. Ann Wigmore, in Be Your On Doctor, explained how cancer cells, taken from a human body, thrived on cooked food, but couldn't survive when the food was raw.
    So we Americans happily go along, gorging daily on cooked food and, despite the most expensive so-called health care industry in the world, we're one of the sickest people of the developed countries. And shortest-lived.
    Maybe you've read that people who eat well-done meat have a 60% higher chance of getting pancreatic cancer than those eating their meat rare. Back when I didn't know any better than to eat cooked meat I always asked for my steaks to be very, very rare. And I just barely singed my hamburgers when I cooked them.

3/19/10

How About Drugs
    Other than a few hundred or so New Hampshire residents growing marijuana, I’m not aware of a significant drug problem in New Hampshire. Yes, now and then there’s a drug bust, so we’re not by any means immune. But I don’t see TV news reports of crack houses in Nashua.
    My approach to solving America’s drug problem is an anathema to many people. I favor legalizing drugs…sort of. I’m not talking about encouraging the cigarette companies to sell pot over the counter in our supermarkets. I may be naive, but I’m not stupid.
    We know one thing for sure by now: There’s no way to keep drugs from being smuggled into the country. We’ve tried everything except shooting down incoming drug planes. It is going to keep coming in and it’s going to come in whatever quantities can be sold here. Why? Simple…because it’s so incredibly profitable. You can’t stop capitalism, not even with the military.
    The sooner we recognize that interdiction hasn't worked, and isn’t going to work, and start considering alternatives, the sooner we’ll be able to stem the drug traffic and cut down on our huge and growing prison population.
    Suppose we were to not just flat out legalize drugs, but were to kind of partially legalize them? What I have in mind is having all drugs available, sold inexpensively through state-run drug stores. Heck, why not use our present state-run liquor stores?
    The state would buy the drugs from authorized American suppliers, thus helping put a few foreign countries out of the business. They’d be sold through our state stores at a profit, but at a price which would eliminate the huge drug profits now being realized.
    Part of the profits would be used to cut other state expenses. Part would be put into a continuing advertising and promotional campaign aimed at educating kids to not be stupid and get hooked on drugs. One more thing: I would prohibit any and all advertising for these drugs.
    Even worse, if I had my way, I’d put all alcoholic beverages, including beer, into the state stores and stop their sale via convenience stores, groceries, supermarkets, and so on. That might help stop the beer cans on my farm road. It might even help make it a little more difficult for our teenagers to kill each other and us by driving drunk.
    There’s more. I’d move all tobacco products to these stores, too. And, like drugs and alcohol, I’d make their advertising in New Hampshire illegal. Yes, that would raise hell with the Marlboro magazine ads. Tough. And what about beer ads on TV? Fine, but not on N.H. TV stations.
    Not even wine ads? Nope.
    What are we going to do, stop magazines with illegal ads from being sold on New Hampshire newsstands? Why not? All it would take is a fine of a dollar for each displayed magazine that has tobacco or alcohol ads in it, and our newsstands would be wiped clean of that garbage. If a couple more states followed suit, the magazines would be forced to turn to other revenue sources and our kids wouldn’t be under constant ad pressures to drink and smoke. Our kids might even buy the idea that these aren’t exactly smart things to do.
    How did I get to this kind of Calvinistic frame of mind? Being almost 90, I’ve watched most of my friends who smoked die long and painful deaths. I watched my father suffer through years of emphysema, having to have an oxygen bottle with him everywhere he went. I’ve heard months of screams of pain as neighbors slowly died of lung cancer.
    Drinking? Mostly I’d like to stop drunken driving. I don’t mind if people are dumb enough to think it’s smart to get drunk. Getting drunk was part of going ashore with my shipmates when I was in the navy. If we sell all alcoholic beverages through our state-operated drug stores, it’ll be more difficult for teens to get beer. And stopping advertising will eventually make it less attractive for kids to drink.
    The revenues from alcohol and tobacco products—sin taxes—could go a long way toward reducing our state tax burden.
    If my ideas are too revolutionary for you, how about some of yours? Most of you are business people and used to thinking in positive terms, so I expect that instead of telling me all the reasons why my ideas won’t work, you’ll come up with some better ones.
    Equating smoking, alcohol and drugs with stupidity should help dissuade teens from getting involved with these poisons…and could help reduce drunk driving accidents. So let's get busy putting the drug cartels out of business in America.

3/18/10

Energy
    The April U.S. News (it's gone monthly instead of weekly) cover had "The Future of Energy" in huge letters. And most of the 72-page issue had to do with energy and keeping the world green.
    It covered oil, coal, nuclear, solar, wind, waves, and so on. And much to my total unsurprise, not a hint of cold fusion. That's how deep that technology has gotten buried.
    What a bunch of hack writers, and, even worse, a hack editor. Phooey! And with ten pages of drug ads out of thirty, if I can put the drug industry out of business, they won't be able to even print a monthly edition.
    Big oil has been able to bury cold fusion, but not deep enough to prevent it eventually putting those sheiks back in their tents, riding camels. The bell from the cold fusion grave is ringing and I'm out there with my shovel.
    By 2020 we'll be rid of oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power plants, the electric grid, and even solar and wind power. Cold fusion, which has been proven, can provide all the energy we want for around a hundredth the cost of oil, and with no polluting by-products. We'll have no further use for our hundred nuclear plants or our three hundred coal-fired plants.
    With cold fusion-powered units about the size of a dish-washer generating all of the heat and electricity a family could want, and all this at about a hundredth the cost of oil, that'll be the end of the power grid. Lordy! Fifteen years ago Jim Patterson demonstrated a little cold fusion cell at an energy conference, where it had one watt of electricity going in and a thousand watts of heat coming out, for the length of the conference.
    My hope is that the factories making these units will be here in New Hampshire.

3/17/10

NASA
    Houston, we have a problem!
    And what have we got for the hundreds of billions we've spent on NASA, their thousands of employees, and their rocket ships? Well, there were those trips to the Moon forty years ago. And the space station.
    After researching the Apollo Moon trips carefully, I wrote Moondoggle, in which I gave 55 good reasons to suspect that all the manned Moon trips had to have been fictional. Faked. We didn't then, and don't yet today, have the technology to land a man on the Moon. Or even to get someone safely out beyond the Van Allen Belt.
    Okay, how about the space station? Yeah, it's real, and out there in a low Earth orbit, well below the Van Allen radiation Belt. Let me know if you can find any scientific, or other, discovery or development it's brought us.
    Well, there's the Hubbell telescope. Yeah, so?
    So let's fold up the NASA operations in Houston, Huntsville, Cape Canaveral, etc., and save a few billion.

3/16/10

Diabetes
    If you know any of the millions of Americans with diabetes, see if you can at least make a small crack in their total belief in medicine as the answer to illness by telling them about my Secret Guide to Health…which explains how anyone can be restored to health with no drugs. I'd say "cure," but I think it's illegal to use that word.
    Clue them in to http://www.rawfor30days.com, where a $27 DVD (from Amazon) shows six diabetics curing themselves in a month just by eating a raw food diet. In fact, for many diabetics it only takes two weeks.
    Countering the deeply impregnated belief that medicine is the answer to illness, rather than stopping what caused it, is going to take time. And, with trillions of dollars invested in our being sick and hardly anything in our being well, there will be little support from our media for change. 

 3/15/10

Time Capsule
    Here's some of my thoughts from ten years ago.

Disclaimer
    While some of my proposals for solving our more serious social problems are original, some aren’t. I’ve done a good deal of research, looking for solutions to our problems which have been proven successful elsewhere in the world. Educators and bureaucrats may have trouble following my thoughts because I’m used to writing for the general public and, while I can translate the arcane gobbledegook used by educators and bureaucrats into plain English, I’m not skilled at reversing the process.
    I hope you’ll stick with me as I try to explain my vision for New Hampshire (which should apply to just about any other state, for that matter), our country…and for the world.
    For instance, I’m convinced that it’s possible for us to change our public school system and make it far more productive…allowing kids to learn much, much more in less time and have it cost less than half what we’re spending today…even including computers and other modern high-tech tools. I believe it’s possible for us to cut the costs of government to less than half and end up with a substantially more respon¬sive system for us citizens. I believe it’s possible for us to enormously reduce crime and to almost com¬pletely eliminate poverty. Before you dismiss me as a Pollyanna crack pot, please read on.
    I hope you’ll buy into my utopian vision and then help make it happen. I don’t underestimate the problems ahead. It means fighting organized crime, an entrenched reactionary government bureaucracy, both political parties, our eductional establishment (and unions), some huge industries, and probably most of our liberal, scum-sucking media. Hey, this oughta be fun!

It all started……
    …about ten years ago (twenty years, circa 2010) with a phone call from Governor Judd Gregg’s office. Would I be interested in being a member of an Economic Development Commission, which was being formed to help guide New Hampshire out of the punishing 1990-1991 recession?
    At the time I was publishing 73 Amateur Radio Today, Radio Fun, CD Review, Music Retailing and the Independent Music Producer’s Journal, plus producing CDs from my recording studio, brokering CD manufacturing for about a thousand independent record companies, and promoting independent music through a series of over a hundred Adventures In Music sampler CDs, so what’s a little extra work to help New Hampshire?
    But I warned Judd that I am a known trouble-maker. He said that's exactly why he wanted me on the Commission. New Hampshire is a small state, so it isn't all that difficult to know a governor. I've known, had lunch with, etc., most of our governors over the last 30 years. 
    After a few short, leisurely Commission meetings, a month apart, meetings at which, with 32 members present, there was almost no opportunity to ask questions or offer ideas…meetings at which the political appointees to the Commission, who made up half of the group and dominated the Executive Committee, totally controlled the agenda, my frustration limits were exceeded and I resorted to writing reports to the members on what my research had uncovered of our problems and what I’d come up with in proposed solutions.
    As you’ll see, I was not particularly successful in hiding my frustration. And as I wrote, I found myself saying the hell with the political agenda, here are our problems, here’s why we have them, and here are some ideas on how we can solve them. Once I got going on this track, there was no stopping me.
    To get New Hampshire going again I proposed a number of initiatives. Most of these could be used to help improve any state. Beyond that I’ve looked for solutions to our long range national problems, such as the mess our American public school system and colleges are in.
    The result was a series of reports to the Commission in which I proposed ways to solve many national problems such as the imbalance of payments, poverty, welfare, drugs, crime, our crowded courts, overloaded prisons, the federal bureaucracy, government waste, the mess Congress is in, health care, state government costs, inner city riots, escalating college tuitions, teacher pay, school dropouts, family values, and so on. My proposals, some of which are original, but most discovered while researching for my reports, can help us to put America into the number one spot in the world in education, health, technology, manufacturing, wealth, and even in honesty and efficiency in government…two characteristics which do not currently describe it.
    Yes, we can educate our children far, far better and at a much lower cost. Yes, college educations can be made available tuition free, and without any taxpayer (via the government) support. They can even be made relevant to the realities of today’s world! Yes, we can virtually eliminate poverty in America, but not through any program proposed so far. Yes, we can have far better health care at a fraction of today's cost. Yes, we can eliminate most of our drug and crime problems, and in short order, but certainly not the way we’ve been trying to do it. We have some new ideas…new tools to use…and we should use them.
    The one basic problem we have in America…perhaps our worst problem…I don’t have any instant fix for…and that’s the sheep-like willingness of so many people to ignore what’s happening and refuse to lift a finger to do anything about it. The "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore" attitude is just a figment of movie fiction. Oh, we have a few people who get upset over some particular issue and demonstrate for or against it. But these are more often in support of religious beliefs…and I don’t see any way to turn making our country strong and healthy for our children into a new religion.
    As you’ll see, I did find out why hardly anyone cares enough to do anything about our problems, and I have a good solution for that one too.
    Our political parties, our unions and other organized groups are dedicated to resisting change. Yet, as our problems mount, we know we must change. And that all comes right down to you. You are the problem. You are our teachers who are not teaching…and who will fight to continue not teaching. You are the civil servants watching billions being wasted and fighting to keep it happening. You keep re-electing Congress, no matter how bad it gets. You are the only ones who can change the road our country is on. Only you can get your state legislatures and administrations to change your educational system…and without that fundamental change, the future for America is bleak.
    It’s time to stop being a Democrat, Republican or any other political party, and vote what’s in the best long range interest of your state, our country…and yourself.
    You have to decide whether watching soaps, sitcoms and ball games…being entertained constantly…is more important to you than upsetting your state government. Will you be happier with yourself if you close your eyes and ears to the mess and hypnotize yourself with entertainment, or if you start forming local groups to bring about change? To force change!
    I hope, as you follow the evolution of my thinking that got started with New Hampshire’s problems, you’ll be excited enough to get others to read what I’m proposing…that you’ll help start a second American revolution. The 21st Century is here, so let’s break away from the miseries we've let ourselves get into and let fester, and get a fresh start. Let’s put an end to government corruption, to the homeless, to drug rings, ghettos, chronic illnesses, and your kids who can’t read or write. Let’s end our fear of crime.
    There’s a lot of media griping because so few people bother to vote. Vote for what? It’s no wonder Perot was able to build so much excitement in 1990. It suddenly looked as if we might have a real choice for a President for a change. It’s been a long time since I was offered anything but the decision as to which candidate was the lesser of evils. Well, I’m fed up, and this is my answer. I’m not trying to con you that my solutions are the only solutions. If you’ve got some better ideas, I challenge you to put ’em forth, I'd love to hear ’em. But please be able to back them up with facts and reason, not just a real deep conviction that you're right. Let’s leave convictions to the courts.
    As I point out later, I’m not a politician. I’m not even remotely interested in running for anything, so don't even think about it. I’m an entrepreneur. I make my living by promoting new technologies and solving problems. I really enjoy that, I’m good at it, and reasonably successful.    I sent copies of my suggestions for change to the Commission members. Most said they “didn't have the time to read” ’em.

Introduction
    While many of the problems that helped sink New Hampshire could be traced to Washington, there were some critical factors peculiar to our area that some of us saw coming and warned against years ago. By the time you added our own special miseries to those affecting the rest of the country, it’s understandable why New Hampshire was the hardest hit of all states by the 1990-91 recession.
    We know many of the basic problems that brought the recession about. We know that we’ve lost one industry after another to Japan…and now China. We know we’ve been borrowing money from other countries in order to overpay ourselves to do uncreative, poor quality work. The deficit was at $5.6 trillion, which means that just the interest payments were running $350 billion…and never mind the principal. And that doesn’t count a few trillion more that’s “off the books.” We didn’t even use the money to invest in better plants or worker skills. We borrowed it, as Senator Moynihan puts it, to throw a party. Now, with the party was over, it was time to clean up the mess.
    Since New Hampshire was the hardest hit state, we had the most to gain from making changes. Walt Kelly had it right when Pogo said, “We’ve found the enemy, and the enemy is us.”
    Like most big messes, there aren’t any quick fixes. We’re familiar with the enemy (us), so we already know where our campaigns will have to be aimed. We know our state and federal governments are a mess. We know our educational system is a mess. We know our so-called "health-care" system is a mess. We know about our problems with welfare, the homeless, drugs, crime, the environment, nukes, global warming, a coming ice age and so on.

What’s Gone Wrong
    There were many factors which had impacted the American economy, resulting in the 1990-91 recession. Many of our problems were due to the domino effect of a loss of manufacturing to foreign countries.
    For instance, the less New Hampshire firms are able to sell outside of the state, the less money there will be in New Hampshire with which to build new homes, to spend on entertainment and travel, and even to buy food and clothing or a new iMac.
    New Hampshire firms are in competition with those in other states and other countries. In general, higher technology products tend to have higher prices and thus result in higher profits. Thus, in the long run, the more technically educated our New Hampshire work force, the higher the likelihood that we’ll attract high-tech businesses to the state.
    Changing our educational system so we will be able to provide the work force we need to attract high-tech businesses is obviously a solution to our long-term problems and is not something which will bring about an immediate increase in revenues from out of state, but it’s something we have to consider and plan for.

Big Vs. Small Business
    Our job loss has primarily been from cutbacks by large corporations which are owned outside of New Hampshire. Indeed, entrepreneurs and their small businesses have been the main source of new jobs. Thus, in the long run, it is worthwhile for us to pay particular attention to ways we can provide the best business climate possible for small, entrepreneurial companies.

Technological Blindness
    Much of New Hampshire’s economic woes stem from the management blindness of mini-computer giants such as Wang, Digital Equipment, and Data General. These Massachusetts-based companies expanded into New Hampshire when they found the Boston area running out of workers.
    As one of the largest publishers in the computer field I tried my best to warn the presidents of Wang, Data General, DEC, and Prime, the major minicomputer giants that the same thing would happen to them from the introduction of the personal computer that they did to the main frame companies a few years earlier. Their $100,000 minicomputers put most of the $1,000,000 main frame companies out of business. Now, here were $5,000 microcomputers and they’d do the same to minicomputers unless some major changes were made. They all told me I was wrong…and they’re all gone today. Thus, the 1990 downturn was merely a harbinger of even worse job losses to come.
    Just as Digital Equipment bet their farm on a dying technology, New Hampshire bet its "farm" on DEC and the other minicomputer firms. There were voices such as Will Zachman, who was the V.P. of the International Data Corporation and later a columnist for P.C. Week, warning those who would listen about this paradigm shift and the disastrous business results likely to follow.
    For those unfamiliar with the paradigm shift concept, it means viewing a system (or industry) from a completely new frame of reference.
    Thus my report draws upon my technical background to predict which technologies will be best for us to bet on for the future. Then we need to provide the educated work force these future technologies are most likely to require. And since small business is both a major source of new jobs and highly resistant to technological obsolescence, it is important to build the friendliest climate possible for the incubation of new entrepreneurial businesses. I have in mind our encouraging things such as continuing education for entrepreneurs in marketing, advertising, promotion, importing, exporting, financing, public relations, communications, data processing, desktop publishing, personnel handling and development, etc.

What About Now!
    Having served on many committees and boards, I understand how they work. While there are a few creative, positive people, most groups tend to concentrate on negatives. Thus, when ideas are suggested there is generally far more effort spent on shooting them down than on developing them. And this holds in spades for paradigm shifting concepts, where people have to make a major change in their entire frame of reference. It’s natural and normal for most people to resist change. Indeed, many will fight it to the death of their business (and to their own death in the case of most illnesses).
    Thus, I plunged into the economic development project knowing that I probably wouldn’t get anywhere, no matter how good my ideas were. But the challenge was exciting anyway. I love a good intellectual challenge. Perhaps that’s why I’m so addicted to crossword puzzles.
    The first idea I had would have added about four billion dollars in added revenues to the state by doubling the tourist industry, which would have resulted in about 100,000 more jobs, which should ease any state’s recession. This would have wiped out the unemployment, then at the 44,000 level. It would also substantially increase state tax revenues. The plan I had in mind would double the state tax revenues from the room and meals tax, providing an additional $150 million. Being practical, I asked, how much would be reasonable for the state to invest to initiate a self-financing project which would generate at least 100,000 jobs and $150 million in additional tax revenues? Yes, I already knew the answer…sorry, we don’t have it in the budget. We can’t even budget one dollar to earn $150 million.
    Now where did I get those two numbers? Were they the usual grossly exaggerated figures which people bring in from left field to try and convince others of something?
    First I checked the "Economic Conditions in New Hampshire" report (September 1991) and found that we have about 650,000 people employed in the state. Next I found the gross state product listed in the "1990 State Development Plan." Dividing one into the other showed that we had been generating about $40,000 in revenues per worker…thus an additional four billion in revenues should put about 100,000 more people to work…particularly if we added the revenues in people-intensive businesses rather than automated manufacturing.

Thinking Long Term
    Our best bet for achieving short-term revenue gains, I figured, was to look creatively at the larger New Hampshire industries and come up with ideas for expanding them.
    In the long run, a technologically educated work force will help attract high-tech businesses. But how can we hope to buck not just the New Hampshire educational establishment, but that of the whole country? We know one thing, and that’s that our educational system is the pits. We don’t need to waste time arguing about ways to marginally improve it. We need a complete paradigm shift. It needs to be re-invented, right from the bottom up.
    I believe it’s possible for New Hampshire to prove to the country (and to the world, for that matter) that it’s possible to produce a high-tech work force without having to spend any additional funds. Indeed, it may well be possible to cut the state educational budget by at least 50% and still produce a far better educated and motivated work force.

Communism and Socialism
    With the worldwide failure of these two closely related political systems, it may be getting close to a time when it will at least be possible to consider reversing some American socialist experiments—particularly those which have been the most spectacular failures. On the other hand, perhaps we’ve been so thoroughly inculcated with socialist beliefs that it’s too soon to even consider thinking about changes.
    For instance, I’ve grown suspicious of government-run businesses. How many can you point to which are run efficiently? Every study of the post office shows that we’d get far, far better service at a fraction of the cost if we’d allow private industry to compete with it (Monopoly Mail by Douglas Adie).
    As an entrepreneur I tend to think in terms of making projects pay for themselves. If you read Inc. magazine you know that studies of successful entrepreneurs show that (a) none of ’em are driven by a need to make money and (b) very few bothered to complete their college education. Bill Gates dropped out, as did Ted Turner. Steve Jobs didn’t bother to go at all.
    Entrepreneurs don’t become successful unless they recognize that their businesses must make money, but they aren’t money-driven. So I tend to think in entrepreneurial terms when it comes to providing government, education, health care, and other services. Let’s set them up as for-profit enterprises.
    But what about people who are too poor to afford medical services or an education? I’ve got some good practical answers to just about every one of the almost endless arguments against capitalism. We don’t have much of a homeless problem in New Hampshire, so we’re probably not the best state to set up a beta test site to show how this can be resolved on a for-profit basis. We don’t even have a serious welfare problem—for which I have some ideas that, if we ever get around to tackling the problem, I think you’ll like. Again, welfare can be solved, I’m convinced, by using a well-known successful model from another country, on a for-profit basis.
    But what about the dramatically increasing costs of health care? What can we do to solve that seemingly intractable problem? Having served on the Monadnock Health Services board of directors, I’m intimately acquainted with all sides of this situation. I believe it will be possible to provide far better services at a much lower cost if we recommend some basic changes in the whole system. I’m talking about another paradigm shift. Lower cost? How about 90%?

[To be continued…watch for Time Capsule II]

3/14/10

Anti-Matter
    Like my challenging accepted "facts" of science, such as the Big Bang theory…well, that really should be called the Big Bang belief, not theory, as I explained in my 6/13/06 post…and then the theories (beliefs) of why we have inertia and gravity (6/17/09), now I've an IAD (idea) to blow the anti-matter theory (belief) out of the old text books.
    When it was discovered that all matter is made up of rapidly spinning particles, the geniuses mused, hey, what if some matter were made of particles spinning in the opposite direction? Anti-matter! We should see one hell of an explosion when matter and anti-matter collide. Let's spend a few billion bucks and build a collider to see.
    Worry wart scientists panicked. Gee, that might initiate the destruction of the whole world! The scientists said, hey, let's try it and see.
    Okay, we've got gazillions of atoms, all spinning clockwise. So where are the anti-matter atoms that are spinning counter-clockwise? That's easy, guys. Just take anything spinning clockwise and turn it upside down, and presto, it's now spinning counter-clockwise. So, since atoms are all spinning in random axies directions, pfft goes the anti-matter theory.
    So what else is worrying you?

3/13/10

Unlimited Memory
    Yes, I know, I’ve written about memory before, but since (a) there are some new readers and (b) your memory of what I’ve written is probably aproaching zilch, let’s walk through all this again.
    Firstly, scientists don’t know where our memory is stored. Oh, they know if they poke an electrode into the brain about here they can stimulate a specific memory. But that’s like sticking a test prod into a telephone switchboard.
    If you’ve read much about the brain you know that we have had people with accidents which have removed around 90% of their brain with no loss of their memory or other functions. Worse, other people have also lost 90% of their brains, but another 90%, and they’re doing just fine too. We don’t seem to have any limit to how much we can learn. Our memory, unlike that of our computers, seems completely unlimited. Not that possible memory limitations are much of a potential problem for most people. They read (but not much) and they forget most of what they’ve read.

Inputting Data
    Reading makes it possible for you to get your information from the most knowledgeable people in the world. It’s a direct line. It’s also an excellent source of strongly held, but unfounded opinions, so you have to be pickey about what you accept as valid data.
    Most of us are taught to read in school. But just barely. A growing percentage of our graduates, even from college, are virtually illiterate. Lordy, I wish you could see some of the letters I get!
    Reading is a skill and as such it can be improved by your forcing yourself to read faster and faster. But you have to push. It’s the same as with running or swimming. You get better at skills by pushing yourself and then pushing harder. The really great thing about reading faster is that the faster you read, the more you retain of what you’ve read.
    Until, with your help, I can get our educational establishment to start producing outstanding educational videos which will teach all of the K-12 subjects in a fraction of the usual time, and make the material available anywhere the student is, your best bet for learning is reading books. The trick is to find books which are both easy to read and reliable. I’ve made a stab at this with my Secret Guide to Wisdom review of around a hundred outstanding books. But I keep asking my readers and listeners to keep their minds peeled for outstanding books. And I’ve been keeping Barnes & Noble busy trying to get them for me.

Improving Your Memory
    You can retain virtually everything you’ve read if you take a little time to refresh your memory. This is a secret technique that I’ve never seen mentioned by anyone, and it’s simple.
    This is best done with the help of someone else. Someone with patience. They’re going to sit down with you and help you refresh your memory. What you do, just after you’ve finished reading a book is to sit or lie down and get comfortable. Close your eyes and go through the book, from beginning to end in your mind, remembering every detail you can. Your helper will stop you every now and then, asking you where you are and what you are remembering. Then you’ll continue scanning the book. When you get to the end, go back and start all over again, remembering every detail from the first scan, and adding other parts that you missed the first time through, as they come to mind. You’ll find you can scan the first run through in a fraction of the time, but without skipping anything. When you are stopped you’ll be able to say right where you are in the book. By the fourth scan of the book you’ll take just seconds to cover every detail of the whole book.
    Every couple of months you’ll want to refresh your recall of the details, so scan the book again in your mind a couple of times to get back up to speed. In this way you’ll be able to keep the details of hundreds of books right fresh in your mind.
    Like any muscle or other function of the body, the more you use your mind, the more powerful it will get. They say we’re using about 2% of our brains. I suspect that’s a serious understatement. It’s probably more like 0.1% of its real potential. Alas, laziness being what it is, many (most?) of us tend to avoid thinking as much as possible. And exercising, too. Thus many of us end up doddering, hunchbacked geezers who haven’t thought an original thought in years.

Spirit Memories
    When we are able to contact departed spirits via psychics, oui-ja, tape recorders, near death experiences, etc., we find that the spirits seem to still have all of the memories they had when they were alive. If our memories aren’t electrically or chemically stored in our brains, but in some other medium which we don’t yet understand, that could help explain how we can have unlimited memory storage.
    This isn’t exactly a new idea — I wrote anout this at least 30 years ago. But, you know, in spite of the many books I’ve read on the brain and the mind, I don’t recall anyone else proposing such a controversial concept. But that might help explain why people who have lost large parts of the brains in accidents still have all of their memories.
We may be doing well with our electronic technology, but when it comes to consciousness, we’re still in the middle ages. We know plants can communicate with each other, and with us. We know we can also communicate with any living thing, but we have few clues as to how it works. We know our cells are able to stay in instant communication with us, no matter how far removed. Again, no clue as to how.
There are still powerful barriers preventing research into this area. Barriers of disbelief, kept in place by a refusal to look at the data. Barriers of a lack of funding. After all, even if it’s all true, where are the bucks to be made from funding consciousness studies?

3/12/10

Serendipity
    Do you believe in reincarnation and our having past lives? My first introduction to past lives surprised me. Oh, I’d read a little about ’em, and then there was the famous Bridey Murphy case, but that, I thought, had been explained away. Then one day I was regressing a patient under hypnosis, trying to find the root of a problem that had been making his life miserable. We went back and relived several relevant earlier traumas, removing their impact on his life for him. Then I asked him to go to an earlier event which was connected to his problem and suddenly he was telling me about something which had happened in an earlier life.
    I didn’t know if it was real or not, so I had him relive the traumatic event just as if it were one from his present life, and he was never bothered by this problem again. Hmm. It didn’t make any difference to me whether it was real as long as deconditioning the trauma did the job.
    After several more patients had flipped into past lives, and more often, past traumatic deaths, the reality that these weren’t just the mind’s way of handling a current life painful event, but were some sort of past life memories, I began to help my patients explore and remember more of their past lives. I found that they could recall people, places, and events with a remarkable degree of detail and that these memories could be tied to historical records.
    That reality took some getting used to. The ramifications took even more getting used to, and got me to questioning the accepted beliefs in Heaven, Hell, God, Satan, and so on. It got me to reading to see what other people had discovered or thought.
    If you don’t believe in past lives and reincarnation, it’s because you haven’t read very much about it. There are several books reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom which will help fill in this neglected part of your education.
    Sunday school teaches you about heaven, but the “real world” teaches that when you die, that’s it, and never mind all that Bible baloney.
    I’ve told this story before, but knowing how short your memory is, I’ll repeat it. It has to do with how I discovered a book that I recommend anyone read who wants to know about death. It’s a great book for comforting someone with a recent loss.
    My mother had always been sensitive to things. Using a oui-ja board she found out that her uncle would be returning from France after WWI, and was able to describe his cabin and exactly when he would land and call.
    One time, when I was in the middle of the most upsetting moment of my life, she called and asked what was wrong. That was the only time she ever did that.
    One day, a couple of years after her mother, Netta, died, mother was washing the dishes and one of the elastic straps holding her stretch pants down suddenly broke. She thought, “Oh, darn! I’m going to have to drive down to Littleton and get a new elastic.”
    When she finished the dishes she sat down to rest and read a little. But it was kind of cool, so she decided to go out to the barn and see if she could find a shawl in Netta’s clothes trunk. She dug down into the trunk and found the shawl. When she shook it out, an elastic strap fell to the floor. “Hmm,” she said, “Netta, are you trying to tell me something?”
    She went back to the house and sat down again to read. But none of the magazines looked interesting. She suddenly got the notion to go back out to the barn and pick out a book at random from the old books in one of the cow stalls. These were books from her father-in-law’s estate which had been moved to the barn and just left there.
    She picked out a book with no title showing on the spine and went back to the house to read. The book turned out to be a 1920 book, Neither Dead Nor Sleeping, by Mae Sewall, with an introduction by Booth Tarkington. The story it told gave my mother the answer to her question.
    Mae Sewall, who was a world famous woman of her time in the woman’s rights field, told about how her husband, after he’d died, contacted her to help her find several missing papers she needed. He then went on to set up a communications system and did experiments with his friend on the other side, the pianist Artur Rubinstein. It’s a fascinating story and one of the best I’ve found about communicating with the dead.
    Every time Artur Rubinstein needed her to make a major expenditure for his experiment, those on “the other side” arranged in some way for her to get a well-paying lecture tour.
    Anyone who believes that when we die that’s the end should read this remarkable book. I’ve reviewed it on page 14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, where I lamented that someone really ought to reprint this valuable book. Well, my good friend Richard Hussey has done just that. Now you can buy the book, complete with my Foreword by ordering it from any book store (Xlibris), or online via http://www.neitherdeadnorsleeping.com. It’s $30 in hard cover and $20 in paperback.
    How much of what we think of as serendipity actually has been organized by those on “the other side?” There are a couple of books reviewed in my Guide to Books which cite some incredible “coincidences.” Things which have no logical explanation.
    Reports from “the other side” try to explain to us that time is different there. It isn’t linear as we experience it, so they’re somehow able to arrange things so they’ll happen in our time stream for us. Our past, present and future are just another dimension for them — which puts a different aspect on our birth and death.
    When something serendipitous happens, try not to ignore it. Follow it up and take advantage of the serendipity.

3/11/10

Cold Fusion
    Here's a proven energy source that will cost about a hundredth that of oil, and if you are hearing anything about it at all, it's that it failed.
    Gee, why's that?
    Simple. Here's an energy source that will put the coal, natural gas, oil, hydropower, solar, wind power, geothermal, tidal and wave poswer, and nuclear power industries out of business. Plus wipe out the electric companies. And take away the funding from the scientists and institutions wanting to develop hot fusion. Thus there are trillions of dollars invested in the current technologies and no constituency for the benefits of cold fusion.
    But, what about the scientists? Okay, name one major development in science or medicine that hasn't been vigorously fought by the establishments.
    It's the same as with health, where thousands of hospitals, hundreds of thousands of doctors, the entire pharmaceutical industry, tens of thousands of drug stores, nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid, most of today;s food industry, thousands of commercial farms, and assisted living facilities would be put out of business if the truth about a raw food diet were to get around.
    Plus, without all those food and drug ads, we could lose the TV networks and many of our magazines. And it would wipe out the supermarket chains as we know them today.

3/10/10

Small Biz
    New small businesses are thriving in Europe, helping to reduce their serious unemployment situation, and bringing new life to their economies. While the large businesses have been cutting payrolls by 4% a year, these new small businesses have been adding employees at the rate of 16%.
    I wish I had the time to organize a lecture tour of Europe, including visits to their heads of state, so I could explain the benefits of setting up my new style of business incubators. I’ve written about this before, and my system is explained in detail in my book A Greenprint for New Hampshire 2020 ($5)(#39). This tells how business incubators can be set up in any town to help fund and guide the growth of new small businesses.
    Large businesses are moving their manufacturing to the least expensive countries and replacing much of their middle management with information systems (a.k.a. computers), so we can’t look for job growth there for either blue or white collar workers. Worse, large businesses tend to be predatory, looking always for growth by swallowing up smaller businesses, and to have the political clout to get away with almost anything they want.
    The health of any country increasingly is dependent on the growth of entrepreneurial businesses…and my incubator system makes their successful startup simple.
    Our states and other countries could do worse (and will) than set aside a fund for business incubators to draw on. It would be a profit-making no-lose fund and would result in more jobs and increased business revenues.

39/10

Headstart
    New Hampshire's ex-governor Shaheen pushed hard to have all NH schools start with kindergarten when kids are five years old. She was pushing this agenda when she and I were on the Economic Development Commission Education Subcommittee several years ago, and she was as impervious to facts then as she was later. Her mind was made up and facts were only a nuisance.
    As Thomas Sowell says, "It's amazing how much time and ingenuity people will put into defending some idea that they never bothered to think through at the outset."
    Headstart was supposed to give disadvantaged kids a better chance of getting an education. With 2000 agencies and 36,000 classrooms, it was an expensive experiment. The long term effects of Headstart were carefully researched. They found no long lasting effects on IQ, teen pregnancy, welfare, crime, later economic success, etc. The only people who benefited were the Headstart employees and administrators.
    When the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences reviewed every post secondary training program of the last 20 years they found that none of the programs worked. Billions of our money have been wasted.
    More Headstart programs? More social spending? I sure hope you'll do your best to stop these wastes of money.
    The Swedish, whose students outperform ours by a wide margin, don't start school until they are seven years old.

3/8/10

Schools
    A review of a book by Fred Holden had this quote: “Our system of education teaches just about everything except the three things that matter most: How to make a living, how to live, and how to understand life, especially in areas of economics and politics.”
    Since, if our schools did teach these basic concepts, our country and our lives might be vastly different, I wonder if the neglect of these subjects is entirely accidental. These are exactly the things I’ve been writing about, but I should be writing for kids instead of old people whose minds are so closed that the light of reason is unable to penetrate the gloom. Well, I may be exaggerating, but that’s the impression I get much of the time.
    As far as living successfully and making a good living are concerned, around 90% of the stuff that is “taught” in high school is a waste of time and 100% of college. That was my experience, and things were supposedly a whole lot better those days than now.
    Most of what I was taught in science classes has subsequently been proven wrong. Most of the math I suffered through has never been of any real use, and I’ve be involved with a lot of different businesses. The English literature classes were a huge waste of time. And so it went. Bah, Humbug!

3/7/10

Indians
    The Indians have been doing well by setting up casinos on their reservations. I'm seeing more and more ads on TV by these casinos, so it's obviously a thriving business. Take the Foxwood Casino on Connecticut. Less than 15 years ago there were only three people living on the reservation. Now they've got gaming revenues of over a billion dollars and the tribe has somehow expanded to 260.
    The Indians are complaining that the Europeans came in with higher technology and took their country away. Well, they're right, that's what happened. But the same thing has been happening all through history. The guys with the bigger and better clubs win and take over. The Jews did it when they pushed the Arabs aside and formed Israel. The Arabs are still angry over that, but not angry enough to educate themselves. Israel then took the West Bank away from Jordan with their army, they've kept it, and don't seem to be much interested in giving it back.
    It was their higher technology that allowed the European countries to take over most of Africa and big lumps of Asia. Through massive mismanagement they've managed to lose most of it. They did the same thing in the Caribbean, with England controlling most of the islands, the French a few, and the Dutch a few. Spain was doing fine until the US shoved ’em out.
    All the people who are begging for peace should take a good long look at history and see if they can find any instance where might didn't make right. When you lay your weapons down you are doing it to grab for a yoke to wear. And today, technology is providing us with the bigger club.

3/6/10

Winning Wars
    Despite having the largest military machine in the world we botched the Viet Nam war, didn't do much better in Korea, and have made an unholy mess of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    So our admirals and generals build bigger and more aircraft carriers, thousands more planes, going the route military machines of the past have always pursued. Alas, there's a good, logical reason for this insistence on doing what's always been done, and to fiercely reject new ideas.
    W.S. Gilbert hit it right on the nose when he wrote the admirals' song for H.M.S. Pinafore. One of these days, with Daron on the piano, I'll sing it for you. But it's simple, in the corporate, government and military worlds you get ahead by doing what you are told and always voting with the party. Those who stick up their heads get them lopped off.
    So here's this old man in a super-hick town in New Hampshire with a simple plan for ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan successfully in a few days. Oh, shut up. Just send in more troops.
    My approach is novel, I admit. It has to do with outsmarting the enemy instead of trying to outfight them. A truly outrageous approach. Well, hell, it worked 250 years ago when a bunch of rag-tag farmers outwitted the then largest war machine in the world, the British. So, instead of lining up in rows to exchange musket fire, like they were supposed to, our sneaky ancestors cowardly hid behind trees and mowed down the British troops lined up out there in the fields. Outrageous!
    Well, look at how our government creative genius leaders have done everything they could to discourage millions of Mexicans from sneaking into our country. So we have a Swiss-cheese border, plenty of good-paying jobs, free medical care, free schooling for their kids, any kids born here are automatically American citizens, generous welfare payments, lots of Spanish-speaking radio, TV stations, newspapers and magazines for them so they don't have to bother learning English, and so on.
    Okay, Afghanistan and Iraq. Here we're fighting Muslims, who are taught from birth to kill the infidels. That's us. So let's unfairly take advantage of their unshakable religious beliefs. For instance, as General Pershing did in the Philippines back in 1913, use their belief that if they touch pig products they will go to hell for eternity. No seventy virgins and no Paradise.
    Let's get some video cameras out there the next time some idiot commits suicide in order to kill a few infidels and gain Paradise. Do a video of picking up pieces of the idiot and burying them in pig shit. Pfft, no Paradise! Hell everlasting! Then, the next time we shoot an enemy, video burying his body in pig shit and show these videos on TV. And that'll quickly end the suicide bombers and snipers. Yes, I know, that's being terribly unfair. So?
    By the way, one of the first things I've suggested we do when we invade a country is to set up Voice Of America radio and TV stations and start teaching English and airing our old TV shows.
    With Viet Nam, I wrote to our Congress people suggesting we use our brains instead of our guns. I noted that we were spending over a half million dollars each to kill the enemy. Hey, there's a much cheaper approach. Why not set up a toll booth on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and give the North Vietnamese soldiers a chit good for a small home, basic furniture, a plot of land for a garden, a TV set, the electricity for it, and a job in one of the factories we set up? Hey, bribery works every bit as well in Asia as it does in Washington with Congress via an army of lobbyists.
     Factories? Sure, see my 10/25/07, 8/25/08. and 12/14/08 entries, where I explain how Singapore went from an impoverished mess to one of the Asian Tigers in just a few years.
   We'd have ended the Nam war at a fraction of the cost and without having lost some 58,000 American troops in the process. No Agent Orange spaying, either.

2/24/10

Wetbacks
   What's it take to get you fed up with that bunch of professional
politicians you've been electing and endlessly re-electing? Please start getting
together with your neighbors and help flush that Washington toilet come
November.
   The head of Homeland Security admits that some 130,000 Other Than
Mexicans (OTMs) cross our border every year, are caught, charged as immigration
law violators, and then released, allowing them to disappear into our
country.
   And we're paying the bill, for the OTMs and the Mexicans, not just for
their healthcare, public schooling, in-state college tuition, and housing
subsidies. They work for lower wages than taxpaying Americans, so they're
contributing to our unemployment miseries. And worse, many of the illegal
immigrants are criminals, making our cities more dangerous and increasing our
police, court and prison costs enormously.
   There are an estimated twenty million illegals here, with a half
million more streaming in every year. The Pew Research reported that there are
forty million Mexicans that would like to come here. And you are helping to
make it easy for them. Never Re-elect Anyone come November!

2/23/10

Amelia
   PBS did a show on Amelia Earhart which, like the recent movie, rewrote
what actually happened to her and navigator Noonan. And this, despite the
Fred Goerner 1966 book, The Search for Amelia Earhart, which explained exactly
what happened to her.
   Why the big cover up? Our government is enormously embarrassed that
President Roosevelt recruited the most famous woman in the world to be a spy,
and the Japanese government is embarrassed that they killed her, since she
was a spy and got caught with her spy pictures of the Japanese installations
on Truk Island. See my 4/15/08 entry for the whole story and how I knew about
her spy mission a year before she left on her flight around the world and
knew about where she landed and what happened to her.
   So, both the recent movie and the PBS show continued the cover up.

2/20/10

Anti-Aging
   Time (2/22) devoted the cover and 21 pages of the issue to anti-aging.
And the bottom line was that if we eat less we will live longer. Well, they
haven't done any research with people yet, but with animals it works.
   It'll take a while to prove, but that may be partly true. However, it
makes sense to me that if we give our bodies the food it has been designed to
use, don't put in any poisons, give it plenty of exercise, sleep, laughter,
sunlight, and plenty of pure water, it should give us the 120 to 200 years
of reliable service scientists predict.
   Regarding eating less, my personal experience is that when I chew my
food until it is liquid and don't drown my stomach while it is digesting my
food, that it takes surprisingly few spoons of food before I feel satisfied.
Full.
   Occasionally a non-raw fooder is visiting at lunch time, so we go to
the Chinese buffet restaurant in Hillsborough. Yes, now and then I eat cooked
food. What I've noticed is that now that I'm used to chewing my food tho
roughly, while it takes me as long or even longer to eat, I'm full by the time
I've eaten about half what I used to.
   I wonder, have you ever in your whole life chewed a bite of food until
it was liquid?

2/20/10

About Me
   One of these days I'll find a hypnotist to regress me to my past lives,
for I suspect that may be a key to much of my character. For instance, for
some reason I've always been interested in the forefront of new
technologies. Pioneering.
   When I got interested, at 15, in amateur radio, my main interest was
with the newest ham technology, the ultra high frequencies (UHFs). My first
ham contacts were with a 2-1/2 meter walkie-talkie I'd built. And when WWII
came along I had a wonderful time learning about radar and sonar, becoming an
Electronic Technician (ET1/c).
   After the war a ham friend invented narrow band FM (NBFM), Which
preserved the benefits of frequency modulation, but required far less radio
frequency band space. I was one of the earliest pioneers of that new communication
mode.
   When I discovered a few hams exchanging messages with surplus teletype
machines (RTTY), akin to today's email, I quickly started a small magazine
to promote the technology. Pretty soon, where there had been a few dozen hams
using RTTY, there were hundreds.
   Next came single-sideband (SSB) mode. Wow, six times the power with the
same transmitter! I was one of the first to exploit that new mode.
   To help promote new ham radio modes I started my own ham magazine,
pioneering building with transistors instead of tubes. The other ham magazines
would have nothing to do with them. Next it was slow-scan television,
allowing us to send photos on our ham bands.
   The real big one was when a few ham clubs started extending the range
of their mobile and hand transceivers with automatic relay stations
(repeaters) atop mountains and skyscrapers. I put one atop a nearby mountain (Pack
Monadnock), which made it possible for mobile hams anywhere in New England to
talk with each other, instead of being limited to just a few miles.
   So I started publishing repeater articles in my ham magazine, helping
the technology to develop. Next I published, as well, a repeater journal and
yearly atlases, listing the repeaters around the country and their coverage.
What started out as a couple dozen grew, in a few years, to over 8,000
around the country. Plus many in other countries. When I was flying in a small
plane from Johannesburg to Mbabane in Swaziland, I was having fun with my
little handy-talkie (HT) talking with hams around South Africa via the
Johannesburg repeater. Suddenly the Swaziland repeater came on, allowing me to talk
with hams around that country. Repeaters were everywhere.
   I wrote editorials in my magazine telling about the fun of skiing the
mountains of New Hampshire and Colorado with a little HT in my pocket,
allowing me to make phone calls via a nearby repeater, anywhere in the world. I
pointed out that everybody would want to be able to do this. Well, Art
Housholder K9TRG, who worked for Motorola, took my editorials to the top brass and
that got the cell phone industry started.
   In January 1975 I read about a small outfit in Albuquerque making a kit
for computer hobbyists. I quickly got one…and again saw the future. Within
weeks I started a magazine devoted to this new technology (Byte), which
became the largest magazine in the country, running some 800 pages a month. When
this caught on I started a second for the technical nuts, and then the
first magazine devoted to a specific computer (80-Micro). That grew to 600-plus
pages a month, becoming the third-largest magazine in the country. Then one
for the Apple, one for the Commodore, and so on. The PC revolution was
started.
   When compact discs were introduced in 1982 our hi-fi and music
magazines ignored them. So I started CD Review magazine help the industry get going.
Within a year it was the largest music magazine and CDs were off and
running. I asked the readers to rate every CD they bought for sound quality and
performance. Those with a 10-10 rating were big sellers. The major labels,
most all foreign-owned, had to rebuild their recording studios to provide the
sound quality the CD buyers demanded.
   Other than hoping to change the energy industry with cold fusion, our
school system with a proven new paradigm, make healthcare almost unnecessary,
and make it possible for cars to run maybe five hundred miles on one charge
of a new type of battery, I'm taking it easy.

2/19/10

Minimum Wage
   Despite the fact that socialism has failed in every country where it's
been tried, I see the US deep into this failed system, and digging deeper.
   For instance, Congress is considering increasing the minimum wage,
ignoring the fact that Hong Kong has no minimum wage, but is one of the most
prosperous economies in the world.
   It started out at 40¢ an hour. When I got my first job, as the chief
engineer and announcer at a 5,000 watts broadcast station in North Carolina, I
was making 50¢ an hour, then the minimum wage. But it mounted up since I
was working 60 hours a week, plus time and a half over 40 hours. And no spare
time to spend it.
   The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 and hour. It's the same in
New Hampshire, but in Massachusetts it's $8 an hour…which is about the same as
40¢, considering the twenty times decrease in the value of the dollar
(thank you, Federal Reserve).
   Increasing the minimum wage is a benefit for millions of illegal
immigrants, who are working off the books. Well, those that aren't in prison,
aren't making a good living in crime, or are on welfare.
   Our government-run school system (that's socialism) is a mess, turning
out the worst educated kids of the developed world. Now the Dems are pushing
for even more government-run healthcare than we have now, a recipe for
disaster for the people. Businesses need to be run by businessmen, not
bureaucrats.
   Government agencies tend to expand at an average of 7% a year, with no
known end to the process.

2/18/10

No Accident
   There's a perfectly logical reason why the US, despite having a
whopping healthcare tab, has one of the poorest health records, and are one of the
shortest-living people of the developed world. Could it have anything to do
with the millions our pharmaceutical industry lavishes on Congress via their
swarm of lobbyists? Oh, and the same gang are the ones running most of the
medical schools to make sure their products are used to the max. Three
cheers for compulsory vaccinations! So they're causing Alzheimer's? Big deal,
we've got drugs for that.
   There's a similar reason why our kids are coming in at the bottom on
international educational tests, making the US less and less competitive in
the world economy. With our SATs reaching newer lows every year. Oh, and
despite many college grads being just barely able to read, skyrocketing tuition
costs.
   There are still a few industries we haven't exported.
   When a 44¢ stamp buys poorer service than I got as a kid with a 2¢
stamp, I know that Congress gave our money supply to the Federal Reserve Banks.
Thanks, guys. Our country went along for 137 years after it was founded with
zero inflation, now we're being threatened with it accelerating at warp
speed.
   When Congress instituted the income tax it was 2% for the wealthy. Now
it's running almost 50%.
   How much of this baloney does it take to get people to wise up and stop
making being a politician a career choice?
   I'm already starting to get mailing pieces asking for my vote this
fall. Phooey!

2/17/10

Jobs
   No, not Steve Jobs, I mean employment…which is a hot topic these days,
with millions out of work and new jobs few and hard to find.
   With the government admitting to 10% unemployed, the real number is
probably closer to 17%, and the prospects of the situation improving very much
seems slim. With millions of foreclosed houses on the market, the need for
construction workers has faded. And with Congress encouraging our
manufacturing industry to move to Asia, factory jobs aren't likely to grow. 
   The big hope, according to U.S. News, lies in the growing healthcare
field, what with millions of boomers retiring and some 98.5% of them having
health problems (according to the Department of Health). Thus, my drive to get
people to stop poisoning their immune systems and regain perfect health,
could aggravate the unemployment problem.
   While some businesses thrive on selling the lowest price stuff, this
has quietly moved much of our manufacturing to lower wage countries. If we
returned to the old system of levying a tax on imported goods, this would help
to even the playing field for American workers. Indeed, when we had tariffs,
the revenues they produced made an income tax unneeded. I'd rather pay more
for an iPod that was made in America than dish out almost half of my pay to
the government for Congress to waste big time.
   When I was young something imported was a big deal. Now, something made
or grown here in America is the rarity. Sure, I enjoy my dollar-a-pound
grapes from Chile, but I'd much rather pay two dollars for California grapes
and keep the other half of my pay check.
   With seven of the ten jobs listed the U.S. News article projected to
grow fastest were in the healthcare field, perhaps, for the good of our
workers, and to hell with our personal health, we should keep right on eating
cooked food and cutting our potential lives about in half. Let's keep those
hospitals full and home health aides busy. Let's see, will it be Pizza Hut or
Wendy's for dinner tonight?

2/16/10

Haiti
    A couple hundred years ago Haiti was a major exporter of sugar. But that was when the French ran the country. Then, when the French passed a law abolishing slavery, the Haitian blacks mass-murdered all of the whites. In 1804 Haiti became the first black-ruled country. That soon ended the sugar exporting and the country became a poverty-stricken mess.
    In 1915 we sent the Marines to rebuild the place, feed its starving people, and get sugar growing again. We spent millions building roads, and towns, and re-establishing law and order.
    In 1934 the Haitian government demanded that we leave. Again run by blacks, the farms stopped growing sugar, people were starving again, and the rule of law blew away.
    When I first visited Haiti by boat in 1958 it was a god-awful mess. Our group came tha-a-at close to being killed. Only my high-school French saved our lives.
    In 1973 the U.S. started giving Haiti millions of dollars to help them survive. These handouts were of no more help to the Haitians than our billions of welfare handouts have been to American blacks.
    In 1994, having learned nothing from history, Clinton sent our military to again rebuild their infrastructure, followed by Peace Corps volunteers to help educate the Haitians. Indeed, we spent almost a billion dollars feeding and educating them between 1995 and 1999.
    After the earthquake we rushed our people and money down to help them. And, after we leave, it won't take long for the place to be a mess again. With no exportable crops or products, they'll soon run out of money.
    My 12/25/07 entry explains that when the British established the black African countries in the 19th century, unable to get the blacks to work, they had to bring in Indians to build the railroads and for other work. And when the British left, their African countries resumed tribal warfare, the farms all went to seed, and became poverty-stricken. Hundreds of thousands of blacks were massacred in Uganda, Rwanda, the Congo, and so on.
    Do you know of one black-run country in the world that isn't a poverty-stricken mess? I don't.

2/15/10

Schools
    Time (2/8/10) pointed out that under our present public school system the teacher unions have made it almost impossible to fire a teacher or to evaluate teachers by using student test results. And cave-man local school boards, along with apathetic parents haven't helped. We have an archaic, industrial age school system, with every effort to bring about change being vigorously fought.
    Alas, this is making the U.S. less and less competitive in the world economy.

2/14/10

Geniuses
    A baby's IQ is only partly determined by genetics…less than half, scientists tell us. The major IQ contributors are in the prenatal and in the early years (2/1/10 entry).
    Alas, our meekly re-electing, term after term, our Congressmen, has allowed Congress to first turn the government purse over to the Federal Reserve Banks, and then they quietly installed the income tax…which was an insignificant 2% on the rich.
    As we slept, the Fed has inflated our money, which had maintained it's value for the 137 years since the founding of the country, while under the control of the U.S. Treasury, to where almost everything today costs over twenty times what it did when I was a kid. Just in the last fifty years the Porsche I bought brand new for $3,300 in 1958 is now over $75,000. And Congress has continually increased the income tax,, with the result we're now taxed over 50% of our earnings, and this forces most families to have both parents to be out working every day. 
    Thus, working mothers have to dump their babies into day-care centers, where they are kept quiet watching children's TV shows. Thus, few mothers have the luxury of helping their babies to expand their brains during the first few years, permanently stunting their IQs.
    A mother with the time and interest can teach her baby to read by the time it is two years old. And a baby can learn to speak several languages without any accent in the first three years…if given the opportunity. Day-care centers aren't staffed to give every baby the individual loving attention needed.
    By the age of five a baby's brain is 90% developed, so it's too late to do the early brain-expanding teaching, thus limiting the baby's brain potential for life. Pfft goes another potential genius.
    With good prenatal teaching, a baby will already have an understanding of up to a hundred words at birth. Then parents should start the baby with simple words and add new and bigger words as the baby is able to understand and use them. Parents who have never bothered to learn to speak good English will thus cripple their baby's ability to learn to speak well.
    By the time the baby is four the window of opportunity for learning languages is closing, and this includes the ability to learn to read. And since our public school system is geared to teach children to read when they are six  (first grade), this helps explain why so many people have such trouble with reading, and never really learn. When I took a black recording artist who came to record in my studio out to dinner I had to read the menu to him…he couldn't read.
    It also helps explain the horrible time I had in high school trying to learn to speak and read French. Well, you had to have a second language to be accepted by most colleges, and the idea of not going to college was unthinkable in those days.
    Today, until colleges make some major curriculum changes, I'm advising teens to not waste four to six years and tens of thousands of dollars being educated mainly to work for large companies and, instead, to think in terms of starting their own businesses, where they'll have the potential to make much more money and have more freedom to enjoy it.
    Colleges, like our public schools, are still "teaching" by giving homework assignments to memorize things for tests. This fiendish system was instituted purposely by the government over 150 years ago under pressure from religious leaders to make sure that people didn't learn to think, just to do what they were told.
    Colleges of the future will offer entreprenurial courses in speaking, salesmanship, bookkeeping, business law, advertising and promotion, graphic arts, product photography, purchasing, ergonomics, building and site selection, production planning, office planning, dressing for success, print buying, bill collecting, taxes, word processing systems, communications systems—including paging, fax, bulletin boards, intercoms, data services, etc. (11/3/08 entry).
    My hope is that you'll help me get the word out on how to raise children with genius-level IQs, who have been permitted to learn to think, and to read books at a few seconds a page. And, with most of the entrepreneurial courses being available via the Internet, kids will be able to learn what they want, when they want. With an intelligent and educated citizenry we'll see an and to electing people like we have now in Congress, and then compounding the situation by endlessly re-electing them. We might even be able to look forward to an intelligent president! Preferably now a Muslim.
    It seems unlikely to me that intelligent, well educated people will keep the religions in business.

2/13/10

Haband
    I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty. For instance, I wear black clothes because they don't get dirty. So, even though I have 15 pairs of pants in my closet, I've been wearing just two of them for the last two years.
    In the warm weather it's a $10 pair of pants made in Mongolia for Haband. They're still going strong after two years of daily wear, seven months of the year. And, since they're black I haven't had to wash them.
    When it gets cold I shift to my Haband Ice-House flannel-lined pants, made in Pakistan. Well, after two years, about five months a year, of daily wear, they're beginning to wear out. I think they were $15.
    Both of these pants I wear every day both around the house and when going out to events, give talks, etc.
    My winter favorite shirt is a $15 Haband flannel-lined black Ice-House shirt-jacket, made in China It has snap buttons, so it's easy to whip on and off. And it has nice easy-to-use side pockets. They have a very similar lined shirt, but without the side pockets, made in Swaziland.
    When I go out in New Hampshire winters I need more warmth, so I wear a black $10 Weatherman shirt, also made in Swaziland (yes, I've been there). I have some of these in blue and red, but they get dirty and, when washed, tend to pill.  I wear it under the Ice-House shirt-jacket.
    In the summer I wear the $10 Haband golf shirts, but they don't come in black, so they have to be washed now and then. They're from Mongolia.
    For shoes, most of the time I wear their $15 black Omega Joggers. With a Velcro strap instead of laces, they're easy and fast to put on and take off. Comfortable, too.
    Haband.com – 800-742-2263 will have you inundated with envelopes of their catalog pages, and I see their ads in the American Legion magazine.

2/12/10

I’m Proud To Be An American!
    Just look at everything we have to be proud of. We all know that America is the greatest country in the world. Love it or leave it, right? Well, we all love America. And we are justly proud of a country which used to be the car capital of the world. Which used to be by far number one in electronics and high-tech.
    Well, we’re still number one in a great many ways and we shouldn’t forget it! We have one of the most corrupt governments in the world. We have one of the most expensive and least effective school systems in the world. We have one of the most expensive health care systems in the world. We have some of the most corrupt unions in the world. We have the worst crime problem of any country in the world. We have more murders per capita than any other country. We have more racial strife and bigotry. We have one of the worst drug problems in the world. We have more lawyers and lawsuits per capita than any other country. We have the highest federal deficit in the world. We have the worst trade deficit in the world. We have the most homeless in the world. We have the most dangerous cities in the world. We have the best music in the world, but of course, 83% of our music comes from foreign-owned companies (mostly Japanese). We have more people in prison per capita than any other country. We have the wealthiest organized criminal groups in the world. We have more employees in government than in manufacturing. And we’re world-class when it comes to encouraging entrepreneurs…to tap our government via HUD, food stamps, and endless health care scams, all dutifully reported on our exposé TV shows.
    We can well be proud of our street gangs, our riots, our welfare system, our decaying cities caused by rent control, our polluted rivers, our radioactive and industrial waste record, black family disintegration, smog and air pollution, the IRS, Bill and Hillary, our obscene music lyrics, guns in schools, vapid sitcoms, illegal immigrants, our foreign aid program, our lobbyists in Washington and all state capitols, our porno industry, our military procurement system, our banking mess, our savings and loan mess, our tobacco farmer subsidies, corruption on Wall Street, NASA’s monumental inefficiency, our eager acceptance of eco-scams…you continue the list please.
    Gee, I almost forgot Blackwater and the other military contractors…and most of all our black, possibly Muslim, President.
    Rome had its circuses, with Christians fighting lions and each other. We have TV so we can gawk at mayhem in Bosnia and Somalia, so we can spend our days enjoying important things like a severed penis, an attacked skater, our Bureau of Firearms killing a dangerous colony of religious nuts, and more religious nuts fighting or defending abortion. We relish every murder in the news, and then turn to crime shows for more. We shine our media spotlight on any protest group. We fan the flames of sensitivity. We’re sensitive to women, to homosexuals, to the “disadvantaged,” to blacks, to the poor, to the short, the fat (so don’t eat so damned much, you fat slob), the homeless, the lunatics, and so on.
    I’m proud of our choice of presidents. Of Lyndon Johnson who so enthusiastically pursued the expensive, pointless, and lost war in Vietnam and launched the long, expensive and lost war on poverty. Of Nixon, who insisted he was not a crook. Of Ford, who gave us lots of laughs. Of Carter, who gave us hyper-inflation. Of Reagan, who gave us the movie star president we’d always dreamed of. Of Bush who gave us—gave us? Oh yes, of Bush, who finally fed us up with both the Democratic and Republican parties, forcing us to turn to, ugh, Ross Perot—who then crumbled under the weight.
    And most of all, I’m truly proud of my fellow Americans, who are able to stomach all this corruption and waste with barely a whimper. I’m proud of how our factory production school system has changed what was once a fiercely proud nation into a nation of wimps. I’m enjoying the spectacle of a people trying to enact a constitutional change to limit terms—please stop me from endlessly re-electing my crook. And another to balance the budget—please stop me from letting my representatives spend my children’s money. I’m proud of our stomach for congressional pork.
    What other country would allow pedophile (man-boy love) groups to parade? Would provide police protection for hate groups to parade? Would listen by the millions for hours a day to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and G. Gordon Litty? What other country would watch Donahue, Oprah, and Geraldo on TV every day exploiting sickos?
    I hope you are as proud to be an American as I. I’m proud of the National Rifle Association and the American Association of Retired Persons for their effective lobbying, no matter what it is doing to our quality of life. Do you know that we have the most corrupt newsstand circulation system in the world? And the most corrupt music industry too? When it comes to superlatives, we’ve got most of ’em cornered.
    Now, if you happen to be a trouble-maker and less of a Pollyanna than I, you might look at the downside of some of the superlatives I’ve listed. Yes, the Mafia is ruthless and into hundreds of businesses, but by golly, it works! It works fabulously. The average Mafioso makes well over a million a year, and what spells success more in America than making big money?
    When we heard that Perot was a multi-billionaire millions wanted him for president, and never mind some screws that seemed to be loose. Maybe we’ll run Bill Gates next time. Bill, who I happen to know personally, also has some screws loose, but the recent media campaign to make him a household word should successfully hide those blemishes.
    But even if someone were to actually get upset over the negative aspects of the things I’ve mentioned, we’re all on this big train going a hundred miles an hour toward hell and there’s nothing any of us can do to change things. Right?
    Wrong, actually. I’ve got a challenge for you. Let’s see how creative you are. What is one thing that you could do which could change almost everything many probably clinically depressed people see as negatives? Let me make that even more of a challenge. What is one thing you could do which would take an average of about 12-seconds a day and which would inevitably change the welfare system, the social security mess, the deficit, crime, crowded prisons, the drug war, foreign aid waste, unemployment, housing values, lower taxes, and so on?
    Any takers?
    Now, if you look back over the list, you’ll see that virtually every outstanding misery in our country comes down to being caused or encouraged by the government. The government you elected and are paying for.
Is the situation hopeless? Yes, unless you change. Look, your politicians aren’t going to change by themselves. It isn’t going to be easy to change them—but it actually can be done. Here’s a scenario for you to think about. Let’s suppose that no matter how good an elected politician seems to be doing his job, that without fail he is replaced in the next election by someone new. This would destroy the congressional seniority committee system, which lies at the heart of most of our problems. Many congressional freshmen come in hoping to make changes. It doesn’t take them long to learn that they either play ball or they’ll get zip. No committee appointments worth spit. No pork. Nil.
    Never, ever, re-elect any politician. If we keep flushing the toilet long enough we’ll finally begin to see clean water in the bowl. One term. Period. Next! I’d love to see NRA bumper stickers all over the country. Never Re-elect Anyone.
    Our founding fathers expected civic-minded businessmen to volunteer for Congress, and then to go back to their businesses. Instead, we’ve built a cadre of ex-lawyer political professionals who will do what it takes to keep their jobs.

2/12/10

NH Budget
    Gov. Lynch announced a need to cut government expenses. If he’d bothered to read the letters I sent him four years ago he’d know how to drastically cut expenses,.
    My letter #10, which is on page 21 of my GREENPRINT for New Hampshire 2020 (#39 $5), and letter #21 on my web site, explains how any government department can be cut in half in three years with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.
    We’d end up with a much more efficient government, and savings in the millions. C. Northcote Parkinson’s research showed that governments normally grow at about 7% per year. You’ve sadly neglected your education if you haven’t read his books. Tsk. See pages 24 and 53 in my Secret Guide to Wisdom (#02 $5) for reviews of his marvelous books.

2/11/10

Clinton
    President Emeritus Clinton made the news when he went in for another operation for his blocked arteries. If some kind soul would send him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health he could save himself a lot of anguish, pain and humongous expense.
    A raw food diet would end his health problems. That would free up his immune system to clean his arteries. An alternative would be to get him a copy of Dick Quinn’s Left For Dead, which explains the power of cayenne to roto-root the arteries.
    In matters of health, ignorance sure isn’t bliss…it’s pain, expense and death. There are a lot of ways to have more fun with your money than paying for sickness insurance or hospital bills.

2/10/10

Bumper Sticker
    Some clever bumper stickers sayings have arrived via email. One that I particularly liked was: “So I guess we’re even on that slavery thing, eh?”
    Well, you’d be hard put to find blacks that aren’t still deeply resentful over their ancestors being brought over here as slaves from Africa. And they are “proud African-Americans.”
    The truth is that slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks, as I covered in some detail in my 7/6/09 entry.
    Slavery saved their ancestor’s lives! Check it out.

2/9/10

Iraq
    Why are we there? What are we doing, now that we’ve spent hundreds of billions and a few thousand lives? Sure, we know now that we were lied to about the reasons for the war. Saddam had nothing to do with 911. He had no weapons of mass destruction. He had no connection to Al Qaeda.…and we know now that Bush and company knew these were lies.
    So we went over there, bombed the hell out of Baghdad, killing thousands of civilians, and unleashed massive looting, all because Rumsfeld refused to pay any attention to the advice of his generals to send enough troops to maintain order.
    We could do a lot of good before we leave…if we actually have any plans to leave all that oil. We could help small businesses to get started with micro-loans, and larger businesses with Business Incubator Groups.
    We could also put a quick end to the suicide bombing as I explained in my 11/3/09 entry…and to most of the fighting.

2/8/10

Tariffs
    The income tax, when Congress started it, was about 2% and levied only on the wealthy. Like inflation, which started soon after Congress authorized the Federal Reserve Banks to issue our money, the income tax has followed the boiled frog syndrome, gradually growing to today’s monster without our noticing.
    As a side note, the income tax amendment to the Constitution has never been authorized by all of the states, so technically it is not a law. But that fine point is irrelevant to the IRS.
     Before the income tax, for 125 years, the federal government did just fine on the tariffs collected on imports. The eliminating of tariffs on imports has put American workers in competition with foreign workers, forcing much of our manufacturing industry to move to lower wage countries to be competitive. That’s why one major industry after another has left the country.
    I’d like to see tariffs reinstated so we could start rebuilding the industrial strength of America…and maybe even cut back or even eliminate the income tax.
    Of course, if you’ve been following the CAFR postings (Consolidated Audit Financial Reports), you know that the income our federal government, states, cities and towns make from some 85,000 invested retirement funds, which are now just rolled over into more stocks, would more than cover what the income tax is taking. Whew! No more IRS!
    This CAFR investment is so huge that it owns about 70% of the industries on the stock market.
    So, are you going to say “baa” and re-elect your Congressmen come November? Hey, it’s your money they’re stealing…close to half of what you’re earning. I’m sure going to say “bah” and vote out the incumbents. It’ll be great to see their damned gravy train derailed.
    And I’m going to do the same in 2012, which might help put a few thousand  lobbyists out of work.
    Sure, we’d have to pay more for the imported stuff, but we’d have all that income tax money to ease that pain…until the manufacturing starts returning.

2/7/10

Suckers!
    The Bob Livingston Letter says it clearly, “Conventional allopathy medicine is harmful. It simply is a drug system for suppressing symptoms. What makes the system work is that it gives temporary relief by suppressing symptoms.  So these repressive drugs must be taken again and again. Repeat business builds the drug culture.”
    Symptoms are the body’s alarm signal, telling you something is wrong. So, rather than checking to see what is causing the symptoms and curing that, our so-called health-care system only is trained on how to turn off the alarms.
    Medical schools teach almost nothing about the causes of illness, and even less about diet, so doctors, like almost everyone, think inside their familiar box.
    So, here comes Wayne, asking people to think…a process that has purposely almost been eliminated by our public school system. Though very few doctors are aware of it, scientists have investigated the human body and determined that the immune system, if permitted to do its job, can get rid of any invading germs, viruses, parasites and fungi, plus trash any starting cancers, and repair most things that go wrong with the body.
    That’s as long as you don’t dump poisons on it, which take priority and stop any other defense or repair work. Make sense?
    The poisons, scientists tell us, are cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, mercury, drugs, vaccinations, etc. So, it’s simple…if you are interested in being healthy you are going to eat a raw food diet and avoid the other popular poisons. My Secret Guide to Health goes into the details and backup.

2/6/10

Serendipity
    As I was driving to Peterborough, about ten miles away, for my regular Saturday morning raw milk pick up, I was listening to my iPod and had it on “shuffle” so it would randomly select tunes from the over 1,500 I keep in it.
    As I neared town the next selection it chose was Gottchalk’s Tarantella, one of my topmost favorites. The weird part was that, as it was playing, I was driving on the same place on the same road as the first time I heard the piece, while I was listening to a classical music station on my car radio. I was so taken by it I bought a Gottschalk CD, which included it. And, of course, it made it’s way into my iPod.
    Just random chance of such serendipity? Yeah, sure.

2/5/10

Alzheimer’s
    Since my mother died of this more and more popular disease, I’ve taken more than a casual interest in it.
    As I’ve pointed out in several of my entries, doctors tell us that getting flu shots three years in a row give one a ten times chance of developing Alzheimer’s. It’s the mercury and aluminum in the thimerosal adjutant in the flu shots.
    Another proven cause is the mercury in amalgam fillings. If you’ve got any amalgam fillings please find a dentist experienced in removing them and replace them with plastic.
   A cause of memory loss like that of Alzheimer’s is not allowing the brain to rest when one is sleeping. Sleeping with talk radio or the TV on prevents the brain from sorting out the day’s memories.
    You see, the brain can only do one thing at a time. It can’t multiprocess data. So, if one reads or does puzzles while watching TV, the brain has to jump back and forth between the sensory inputs, and has no way to put them orderly into memory. When you are sleeping you really must have total darkness and quiet so your brain can do it’s job without interference. Make sense? 
    On the bright side for Alzheimer’s patients, a raw food diet has been proven to cure it. Once the immune system is freed from a steady input of poisons it has ton fight it can cure anything…as confirmed by Drs. Day and Comby.
    Well, that’s raw food and no sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and other known poisons, as per my Secret Guide to Health.
  
2/4/10

Belief
   Between inculcated beliefs, long ingrained habits, and addictions,making changes in our lives can be very difficult to achieve.
   Sure, smokers know it's bad for their health. But, hell, that's off somewhere in the future, where's my matches? And the grossly obese know that eating doughnuts isn't healthy, but gee, they sure taste good, particularly the honey-dipped. And they're hungry.
   Religious beliefs, ingrained from earliest childhood, are the basis for the largest business in the world, with several retail outlets in every town…called churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.
   The power of belief is no less when it comes to science and medicine, where every new discovery has followed Schaupenhauer's observation that, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
   So, what do you believe in?
   Being a practicing pragmatist, I aim not to ridicule new ideas, nor oppose them, nor accept them. So I enjoy looking into conspiracy theories, and new discoveries, looking for data to support or discount them. There are so many wonderful mysteries out there to investigate when one's mind and imagination are not imprisoned by beliefs.

2/3/10

Megadocs
   So, here in America, we have some 800,000 medical doctors, few of which have a clue as to what causes most diseases, and some 70,000 psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who know little about how to fix problems of the mind. And then we have Wayne Green, who has learned how to cure any illness with no drugs, and how to cure any mental problems, usually in an hour or two.
   I don't expect these professionals to be even slightly interested in what I've learned…because it would put them out of business. And would cut our sickness costs by about $3 trillion a year, and that's just here in America.
   And worse, like any expert, they believe what they were taught in medical school and will vigorously oppose new concepts or developments.
   We'll need maybe a tenth as many doctors to deal with accidents.

2/2/10

The Deficit
(A 1996 73 Editorial)
    Let’s say that you buy a house and find an old painting in the attic. You take it down to a local antique shop and they give you $100 for it. Wow! Found money! Then you read in the paper that the store has sold it for $7 million. Would you be upset? Remember, you got what you thought was a good price for it.
    Well, there’s this 1872 law on the books saying Uncle Sam has to sell land for $2.50 an acre. One parcel of 17,000 acres they sold recently for $42,500 was resold a few days later for $37 million. Did that make Uncle mad enough to change the law? Har de har. Some of the $2.50 parcels of land are near the gambling casinos in Las Vegas and have appraised values up to $47 million. Nearer to our hearts is the incredible Uncle Sam (and that means us taxpayers, buddy) giveaway of radio frequencies. We’re giving away our radio and TV channels for free, even though the users are making billions using them. Ditto cellular telephone channels, and so on. Isn’t it about time we started getting a piece of the action back from these humongous industries which are using our property to make money? Recent FCC auctions of spectrum have brought in billions, but that doesn’t change the free ride our radio and TV stations are getting. And the FCC should be leasing frequencies, not selling them. This is a non-renewable resource.
    If someone set up shop on your front lawn and started selling things, wouldn’t you at least expect a cut of the action? When you open a store in a shopping mall you have to agree to pay a percentage of your sales to the mall in exchange for the location. Is there any reason we shouldn’t ask the commercial radio and TV users to pay maybe 10% of their revenues for the use of our property? That would add a few billion to the Treasury. The estimate is that we’re giving away $32 billion a year just for the cellular channels.
    Of course, until you get Congress to change, all more revenues will mean is more spending. It won’t cut our taxes one nickel. There are tons of ways for Congress to cut spending, but none of them are yet deemed necessary. What most people don’t understand is that no one is actually running the government. Congress makes laws and the President handles foreign policy and is Commander in Chief of the military. But there’s no one minding the store, so we see endless bureaucratic waste, with no easy way to curb it.
    Waste? How about $4.9 billion (with a B) a year for outside consultants for government bureaus? That’s according to the Government Accounting Office.
    How about $1.5 billion for Congressional staffs? We could cut $30 billion if we ended farm subsidies, and that doesn’t count how much we’d save on lower food prices which are now being supported. Then, there are failed farm loans, where we’ve donated about $10 billion to the farmers. We might want to cut down on the $22 billion in food stamps too. Hmm, could we make it so the stamps would only be valid for buying raw food?
    There are some fascinating recent books which go into the gory details on how Congress is screwing us, but a warning—they might possibly make you mad.
    They could even put a strain on your twelve to sixteen years of conditioning in our school system to not cause trouble and to shut the hell up and do as you’re damned well told. I know I almost got mad. Worse, it almost made me think!
    One of the most amusing books on government waste is O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores. P.J. shows how Congress could quickly cut $337 billion off the budget, without even getting to the small, half-billion-dollar, items. Then there’s Gross’ Government Racket—Washington Waste From A to Z. And if that doesn’t hold you, read Kelly’s Adventures In Porkland—How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won’t Stop. These are just books on the subject.
    There’s nothing new about egregious waste in Washington. I’ve got stacks of books going back ten, twenty and thirty years, all describing the waste—and nothing has ever come of it—or changed.
    The probability is high that nothing will change this time, except that the deficit and taxes will continue to rise and the government’s percentage of your pay check will continue to grow.

2/1/10

Better Youngsters  •  (A 1996 73 Editorial)
    My search for a way to generate more young hams has taken a strange turn.
    My original goals were to (a) provide a solid excuse for the hobby to be kept alive, despite the pressures for our valuable spectrum by rapidly expanding commercial interests and (b) help provide the high-tech work force our country needs to compete against the other industrial countries.
    If we’re going to do this we have to get kids interested in amateur radio.
    This brought me head-to-head with the mess our schools are in. And that, in turn, got me to reading about our educational system. I’ve found that I’m not alone in criticizing our school system.
    Now, before I get really started on how lousy our schools are, let’s just consider what you might do if you were interested in having the very best child or grandchild you could. First, let’s talk about what can go wrong, and then we can discuss how to fix the situation. I’m presuming, of course, that you might have a shred of interest in giving your children the best start in life that you can. Maybe you don’t give a damn. Many parents obviously don’t.
    By the time your kids are seven the largest part of their characters will have already been formed. The child at seven won’t be very different fundamentally from the teenager at 15, or the grown-up at 30.
    Your child starts with the sperm and the ova. Anything you do to screw up your DNA before conception is going to affect your kid, and not positively.
If you mess up your sperm enough, there’ll be a miscarriage. But a lesser disturbance of the DNA message will just burden your child with problems. There may be health, behavioral, or even cosmetic problems.
    So what can we do to give our kids the best possible start? Well, research has shown that there are a lot of things that affect our sperm. There are drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. There are magnetic fields such as we find with electric blankets or living near power lines or power sub-stations. There are poisons such as mercury, silver, and nickel, which we can get from amalgam fillings in our teeth. Most of us already know about crack babies, and terrible problems from cocaine, pot, and the hard stuff.
    So let’s say that you and your wife go out of your way to give your kid the best start you can. The Prenatal Classroom by Van de Carr and Lehrer will help your baby get off to a fantastic start. Then comes birth. I’ve got to get you to read The Continuum Concept by Liedloff. That’ll keep you from letting the hospital put your baby in their nursery. This is a wonderful guidebook for the first year of life.
    Next comes the pre-school era from one to five. This is a time of incredibly rapid learning. It’s a wonderful time to teach babies several languages, if you have a way to continue and develop their use later on. Use it of lose it.
    Unfortunately, even if we’ve done everything the best we can until we send them to public school, this is when we will permanently screw up the rest of their lives. I hope I can get you to get the book by John Gatto, the New York State Teacher Of The Year, Dumbing Us Down, The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. It’s inexpensive and a humdinger. Of course, since you are an alumni of this school system, the chances are great that you do not have any interest in reading books. Do you know that the average American schoolteacher only reads one book a year. And then, even if you do read Gatto’s book and get all upset when you find out what’s been going on in schools, you have been so conditioned by your own school experience so the odds are that you have been made into a gutless wimp and won’t have the initiative to even try and do anything about it.
    Heck, I’ve discussed the major problems facing our society and proposed inexpensive, creative solutions to them in my Declare War book. Several thousand people have bought it, yet I’ve seen no movement to try and implement any of my proposals. “It can’t be done. It’s hopeless.” Until I read Gatto’s book I hadn’t realized why I was getting verbal and written support, but not seeing any sign of people actually doing anything.
    I was around eleven when it finally dawned on me that kids had no more rights than slaves. By law I had to go to school. The only rights I had in school were those the authorities let me have, and they have been backed up by the Supreme Court in this. I was forced to comply by the use of embarrassment and humiliation. You do nothing unless the teacher tells you to—which stifles thinking and makes you dependent on the teacher. I see this pattern in most of the youngsters I’ve hired. They are unable to think for themselves. They sit and wait until they’re told what to do. They are unable to plan work. They’ve always been stopped by the bell before finishing something, so they’re not familiar with the concept of completing work.
    Gatto says, “It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among even the best of my students’ parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things. Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United States. Originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from regimentation made us the miracle of the world; social-class boundaries were relatively easy to cross; our citizenry was marvelously confident, inventive, and able to do much for themselves independently, and to think for themselves.”
    Gatto points out that it only takes about one hundred hours for a person to learn to read, write and do arithmetic, as long as they’re willing to learn. From then on they can teach themselves. “Schooling, through its hidden curriculum, prevents effective personality development. Indeed, without exploiting the fearfulness, selfishness, and inexperience of children, our schools could not survive at all, nor could I as a certified teacher. Nobody survives the curriculum completely unscathed, not even the instructors. The method is deeply and profoundly anti-educational. No tinkering will fix it—don’t be fooled into thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are critical determinants of your son’s or daughter’s education.”
    He points out that before television children had enough time to themselves to learn about self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity, and love. Now kids, on the average, spend 55 hours a week in front of the TV. That’s one-third of their time. Add to that the stresses of a two-income or single-parent family, and our kids have too little time to learn to become human.Is it any wonder that our engineering universities are running out of potential students, and are having to continuously lower their admission standards? Only 7% of the high school graduates in America have enough math and science background to be accepted by an engineering college. The colleges have responded by turning to foreign students. That’s great for other countries, but it sure leaves ours in a fix. Here we are heading into a high-tech future and we’re turning out fewer and fewer American engineers, technicians and scientists.
    The time was, 60 years ago, that youngsters wanted to be hams so badly that they’d put up with learning the code as a barrier. I did, even though I hated being forced to do something which did not make sense to me even then.
    Very few of the kids these days have the passion to surmount obstacles, so we’ve instituted the no-code license. Well, we’ve been lowering the standards for school grades in order to get our kids through school, which is the same thing. They’ve even had to lower the SATs because our kid’s scores have dropped so much. Now I see some hams pleading that we lower the technical exam standards so kids won’t have to memorize so much to get a ham license.
    There may be some American schools that are pretty good. I’ve read about a few. But most of the better educated children today are being schooled at home by their parents. Maybe you’ve read about it in Newsweek.
    Home schooling will be a lot simpler once we have a good video educational series parents can use. These would use top-notch performers, plenty of graphics, and be fun to watch. PBS has been producing some superb educational videos. Now we need to have them to cover everything being taught in the K-12 years, plus everything that should be being taught. And also plus everything kids might want to learn, but which isn’t being taught. We need thousands of these videos.
    We’ll still need schools to provide the hardware and facilities to teach skills. You can teach a lot about driving with a simulator, but then you need a car. Ditto flight simulators, etc. You can’t lean to juggle with a simulator, or to throw a boomerang. Or do glass blowing.
    College? There may be some that are okay, but if you read the books on education you’ll find that most aren’t much good. Most of the “teaching” is done by student instructors. Get a copy of Thomas Sowell’s Inside American Education, 1993, Free Press, $25.
    If you learn much about nutrition you won’t let your kids near a McDonalds.
Granted, it’s difficult to get the facts on nutrition. The field is overgrown with fads and scams. But if you want to raise healthy, happy, intelligent children, you’d better learn.
    Though it’s far from perfect, the best school I’ve found so far is the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Mass. Here’s a school that accepts children from 4 through 20. It has no curriculum! No classrooms. No tests. No grades. The kids learn what they want, when they want, and if they want. The results are spectacular. I’ve read eight books about the school and visited it personally. It turns out that kids, if give the opportunity, love to learn and run circles around those forced to take courses. My Secret Guide to Wisdom reviews the books about the school and explains where to get them. I wonder what I might have been like and accomplished in life if I’d been able to go to a school like that.

1/31/10

Your Government At Work
(A 1996 editorial of mine I thought worth repeating)
    Last year one of those TV shows devoted to the weird did a show interviewing farmers and their children who were involved with that supposed 1947 UFO crash in New Mexico. They sure made a good case for the reality of a crashed UFO and its dead occupants being covered up by the government. It certainly was enough to cause any intelligent person to shake off the bindings of “conventional wisdom” and start looking for more information. Or should that be called “conventional ignorance?”
    Of course, having always been interested in the UFO phenomenon, I’ve done a lot of homework. I’ve read dozens of books over the last 50 years or so, some very thoroughly researched, others a waste of time. I think I mentioned that back in 1963 Jay Stanton (darn, I forget his call!), a writer and ham friend who was a total UFO skeptic, set off to expose the whole UFO business as bunk. About two years later, no longer a skeptic, his book telling about his conversion was published. He cited some most convincing cases.
    I’ve read enough books, talked with enough people who have had personal experiences, and had enough experiences of my own to know that something real is happening. I also know from several incidents that our beloved government is up to here in a cover-up. Yeah, I know, the old government cover-up baloney.
    Well, if I hadn’t had a firsthand inside experience with the cover-up in the Amelia Earhart case, which is still being covered up over 60 years later, I might be less easily convinced.
    Then, a few days ago, there was another TV weirdo show on the New Mexico UFO crash. This program interviewed the children of some of the Air Force people who were involved. They, like the farmers, had seen the ETs. And their parents, like the farmers, had been threatened by government agents to keep quiet. Or else. Again, their story was most compelling.
    But a federal agency wouldn’t threaten private citizens, would they? Well, they did me. Agents from one federal agency got me into a room and explained that if I ever published anything about that agency again they would have me put in prison and make sure that I’d never get out alive. No, I have never written about them again. And I won’t, except in my memoirs, where I will have a whole lot of interesting things to write about. But unless you start paying attention to my advice on nutrition, drinking more water and avoiding poisons, the chances are I’m going to outlive you.


1/30/10

Trumpeting
    As Gilbert & Sullivan put it:
If you wish in the world to advance
Your merits you're bound to enhance
You must stir it and stump it
And blow your own trumpet
Or trust me you haven't a chance.

    Far's I know, I'm unique in that I know how to deal with any health problems, either physical or mental.
    The physical is easy…just apply the Greenopathic cure of changing to a raw food diet, with no sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, fluorides, chlorine, and other poisons. Oh, and get plenty of exercise and sleep.
    Dealing with mental problems calls for an expertise in Dianetics, with which any psychological or mental problems can be solved.
    The Dianetic approach is fairly simple. You see, when something either physically or mentally painful happens to us, our subconscious equates that pain with whatever it perceives at the time so that, in the future, if anything similar is perceived to be happening, we'll automatically avoid it. It's a simple survival strategy built into all living things. And it all happens on a subconscious level. So we have a whole bunch of what are called engrams. These are equations of pain to sounds, sights, and feelings.
    With Dianetics, we go back under a light hypnosis to the moments of pain and relive them, over and over, until the engrams have been eliminated. It doesn't take very long to eliminate each of these engrams. And then the person is no longer motivated by subconscious memories, plus the mind is freed up so it can think better.
    In my case we mainly had to go back and relive a whole bunch of beatings by my dad. When he'd get mad at something I'd said or done he'd take out his anger with a hairbrush or a razor strop on my butt.
    The 1950 book, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron. Hubbard, is still in print. It explains step by step how and why it works, and how to initiate the hypnosis. You can do it right out of the book.
    I got the book when it first came out and tried it with a friend. It was so fantastic I quit my job and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth NJ to learn more. After six weeks, and auditing (it's called) a couple dozen people, I got very good at it, and with the painful memories of my beatings no longer affecting me, I have never again been depressed. Before that I really didn't care much whether I lived or not.
    Researchers at UNH have shown that most teen suicides are the result of childhood beatings.
    Wild animal trainers have learned that the best way to train their animals is with love, not punishment. The lion tamers of old, with their chairs and whips, are a past era. Now, if only more dads would get the message.
    Give me any case of PTSD and I'll have it but a memory in an hour or two.
    But we Dianetic auditors had a major problem. We couldn't legally do our work because we weren't licensed like psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. Hubbard solved that by forming a pseudo-religion, Scientology, making it legal to do religious consulting. I've never gotten involved with Scientology, so I don't know much about it. And I wasn't interested in making a business out of Dianetic processing people. Mostly I stuck to occasionally helping other Dianetic auditors who had problems.

1/29/10

EMPs
    Just in case my 12/6/09 piece didn't get you thinking, which unfortunately is probable, I now read that Iran's main rush to develop nukes has to do with their plans for using them to cripple America via EMPs.
    So, what plans have you made to protect your family should the power go off…probably permanently… along with all transportation, thus ending the public food supply? And, unlike Haiti, with no rush of emergency food and medical help from foreign countries?
    What a great way to take over a country, and with most everything in good shape except the people, who will have died of starvation. Well, all but a few people in farming communities who have planted gardens.
  
1/28/10

Dowsing
    Okay, what do you think about dowsing? Can people really find water underground dependably? Your answer will probably be determined by how knowledgeable or ignorant you are on the subject. It is easy for people to hold strong opinions on things of which they are ignorant.
    Some time ago I reviewed Vibrations by Owen Lehto. This is one of the most practical how-to books I’ve found on dowsing. But Owen doesn’t waste a lot of time trying to convince the ignorant. Christopher Bird does in his monumental The Divining Hand. Once you’ve read this book you will no longer be a skeptic. You won’t even be on the fence. Bird goes over the history of divining, which goes back at least a thousand years. Then he covers the scientific research done in the field. And there’s been plenty.
    One scientist set up an experiment with two iron posts in the ground. He fed a small voltage to them to see if dowsers could detect it. He found that 80% of the people he tested could invariably detect a 20 mA current. A few could detect currents of 1 mA, and one chap was able to detect 1 µA of current without fail.
    This chap was also able to direction-find any radio station while blindfolded. They gave him the frequency and his dowsing rod would point to it.
    There are well-drilling companies who use dowsing to find wells and charge nothing if they fail to provide water at the rate of flow they guarantee. They’ve never failed.
    Experienced dowsers can find water veins and tell you how far down they are and the flow in gallons per minute to expect. They can even do this working with a map. They can reliably find lost objects and people. They can dowse for metals, oil, coal and natural gas. With oil they can tell how far down the top of it is, the size of the deposit, and its depth.
    Dowsers can diagnose illnesses and locate the site of the trouble. They’ve found that many, if not most cases of arthritis and cancer involve people sleeping over several veins of water. When their beds are moved to a place where there are no underground water veins they miraculously recover.
    Well, if something coming from the water is making people sick, then it should be possible to detect it scientifically, right? They can! Using a gamma ray detector. In some way the moving water projects a narrow beam upward, which, over time can generate many different illnesses. But you don’t need a gamma ray detector when a simple pendulum will do the job.
    An experienced radiesthesiaist can use a pendulum to find the cause of an illness and to find the best medicine to cure it. They can even do this from afar! And it works on animals as well as people.
    By shielding a dowser’s body they’ve been able to locate the areas of the body which do the detecting, with one being located in the head by the pineal gland and the other by the adrenal glands.
    If you’d like to become an expert on the subject get the Bird book. It’s $30 and is available from several sources. It’s a big, glossy, well illustrated book.

1/27/10

Experiment
    If all the ways of stimulating plant growth for a science fair project I cover in my booklet #86 (Super-Organic Food) aren’t enough, I’ve got one more for you. This has to do with voo-do…no, it’s what’s called paramagnetism. It seems that if you hang things by a string and put a magnet near them those which are paramagnetic will be attracted a little bit. Stuff that’s weakly repelled is called diamagnetic. Like wood and water. Most organic stuff is diamagnetic and the most paramagnetic are volcanic rock and ash. Like basalt, which is almost off the chart.
    It’s difficult to measure paramagnetism with a string and a magnet, so the experts in the field use a pendulum. Well, why not. Once you get the hang of it a pendulum will dowse for just about anything you ask it to.
    But you don’t have to buy into any of this to do the experiment and see for yourself. Some high school kids have won local and state science fair contests with this one.
    Since basalt has the most power, if you can find or make a basalt rock about 3” in diameter and 12” long, you’re in business. Granite will do. The idea is to emulate in miniature the round towers of Ireland. About 65 of these still remain, and the fields around them are in much demand by local farmers, who want to fatten their cows on the luxurious grass that grows there.
    For the experiment use two plastic buckets or dishes filled with potting soil from the same bag. Plant radish seeds about a half inch deep around the pots, three or four seeds per hole. Water both pots the same and keep both in the sunlight the same, but in one place the stone in the middle. The shape of the rock isn’t critical.
    After eight days in a growing temperature of 70-80°F pull them up and weigh the roots “held in place” soil. You’ll see that the plants to the east are the smallest and lightest. Those to the north and south will be middle-sized, and those to the west of the rock will be the largest and heaviest. The plants in the control pot should all be the same.
    Now why should a rock in the pot have such a startling effect on plant growth? The next step, naturally, is to start using this phenomenon to our advantage.
    If you’re interested in reading more about this you can read Paramagnetism by Phil Callahan (#6158 from Acres USA - $15) and Enlivened Rock Powders by Harvey Lisle (#6103 Acres USA $15).
    I’ve been interested in the using of rock powders to both stimulate plant growth and as a way of providing the minerals which are missing from our commercially grown produce. In the Hamaker-Weaver book, The Survival of Civilization, Weaver mentions his eating a quarter to half teaspoon of rock dust very day to supply the missing minerals. Talk about nitty-gritty! But it solved his chronic constipation problem.
    There are a bunch of enlivened rock powders on the market that farmers feed to their livestock. It makes the animals more alert, have glossier coats and be generally much healthier, so they should help people too. Hmm, have you any rock powder recipes for me? Yum.

1/26/10

Selenium
    (Here's another 1996 disinterred editorial )
    As I read the news magazines I kept seeing obits for local well-known people who have died of a heart attack or stroke. Veterinarians solved that problem for animals decades ago. Farm animals don’t die of heart attacks or strokes. Farmers add pellets with the minerals which are almost universally missing from today’s crops to their animal’s feed. But don’t ask your doctor about preventative medicine, vitamins or minerals; they’re not his field. If doctors were taught anything about health maintenance instead of just about sickness symptoms amelioration they wouldn’t be dying younger than the rest of us on the average.
    They’re only taught how to treat symptoms, not the illnesses causing them.
    Cows, pigs and horses don’t die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s because farmers give them the minerals they need with their feed. Well, that’s something for you to think about as the ambulance rushes you to the emergency ward. That old ounce of prevention. Or more likely, 50 mg of selenium or some other missing mineral that’s critically important to your body’s function.
    No, I’m no MD, nor even a DVM, so I don’t ask that you believe me. But I recommend you do your homework the way I have. I realize that you may not have much time to read, what with your spending a little time at work, and then watching ball games, sitcoms, soaps, and talk shows, making you a living example of the boiled frog syndrome. That’s where, if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in warm water with a fire under it he’ll enjoy the warmth until he's boiled.
    And that’s the way it is with sugar, white bread, smoking, using drugs, and eating food that lacks the basic minerals and vitamins our bodies developed a dependency on over millennia's of design. Our bodies were designed to work on raw wild foods. They were never designed to cope with coffee and doughnuts or Big Macs, fries, and a malt. So, either we have to figure some way to get our bodies the materials they need or settle for half a life. The expression, “You are what you eat,” is right.
    For instance, in one of the ham radio club newsletters there was a very nice obit about Travis Baird W9VQD. Travis stroked out (a mineral lack). He was into music, opera, speed skating, photography, sailing, football, computers, the violin, amateur television, and so on. Now he’s gone. Diet.
    Forty-one of the books in my review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read” are health oriented. The most important is Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby. If you read The Secrets of the Soil, another of my recommended books, you’ll find out how to grow food that has the missing minerals.
    Ever since the invention of the flush toilet we’ve been getting rid of the minerals in our crops instead of refertilizing our fields with them, as people did up until the 20th century. Now we use chemicals as fertilizer, and we’re suffering the consequences.
    Hmm, I wonder how many of you grew up on a farm with a back house and had to shovel out the privy every spring? My family’s farm in Bethlehem NH had no running water and no electricity, so I know what it is to take a flashlight out to the privy in back of the barn at night in the rain. And there was no heat until the first one up (me) started the fire in the kitchen stove with newspaper, kindling, and some kerosene to get the wood going fast. And another fire in the living room fireplace when it was really cold. While the stove was warming up I’d refill the kerosene lamps. The stove had a water tank at one end, so once the water was warm enough I’d scoop some out into a 5-gallon watering can. Then, in the summer kitchen, out by the woodpile, I’d hoist the can over my head with a pulley and take a fast shower. That part of the house was unheated by the stove, so 5 gallons of water was plenty.
    Few farms today have a privy, so farmers today are flushing what few minerals they’re getting in their food into their septic system, not into a privy and then the compost heap. You either get your missing trace minerals from a health store or you make the doctors even wealthier as you have your heart attack or stroke. Your choice.
You can learn exactly what trace minerals your body needs by reading a most entertaining book by Dr. Joel Wallach. It’s Rare Earths—Forbidden Cures. 500 large pages, $20 from Wellness Lifestyle, Box 1222, Bonita CA 91908 - 800-755-4656. Yes, it’s reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. .

1/25/10

Kaku Kookoo?
    Art Bell has had Professor Kaku on his program several times (seven, actually) discussing cosmology. Unfortunately the Professor is completely mired in the Big Bang theory of how the universe got started. I wrote about this situation years ago when I reviewed Eric Lerner's 1992 book, The Big Bang Never Happened. In the interim, researchers have continued to make discoveries which have forced the Big Bang believers to ever more extravagant excuses to support their belief.
    Recent research has shown that photons are slowed down when they collide with ions in space. Space is not empty, it’s just that ions and hydrogen atoms are spread out. But, by the time a photon has traveled a few million light years it’s significantly slowed, causing the red shift.
    Hubble noticed that the further galaxies were away, the redder they were. He attributed this to the Doppler Effect, which meant that the further they were away, the faster they had to be moving away from us. Lordy, the universe was expanding! And that meant that, looking backwards in time, it had to have started from some point. Voilà, the Big Bang.
    I published an article by Bill Hoisington K1CLL around 40 years ago entitled, Light Naturally Runs Down. Bill had it right and Hawkins and Kaku have it wrong.
    So much for the age of the universe being 2 (cosmologist’s early guesses) to 14 billion years old.
    But, you ask, what about that universal background microwave radiation? That’s not echoes of the Big Bang, it’s the result of the interactions of light with charged particles in space.
    This fits in a lot better with Sir Fred Hoyle’s theories in his Evolution from Space (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review).
    The Hubble telescope has gone a long way toward destroying Hubble’s expanding universe theory. No matter how sparse the visible light in any direction, no matter where the telescope is aimed there are a seemingly infinite number of galaxies to be seen. A recent Art Bell guest said there are more than 10,000 galaxies for every blade of grass on Earth. He was probably being too conservative.

1/24/10

American Wars
    We are, at least for the time being, the world’s mightiest power…both militarily and in business. And  boy, are we a mess!
    In the war department, there was our War on Poverty, which put millions on welfare and helped trigger the greatest foreign invasion of any country in history.
    And our War on Drugs, which has helped make millionaires out of over a million criminals. Drugs have never been more plentiful or so reasonably priced.
    How about that Vietnam war? We lost that one, too.
    Did we win in Korea? Yeah? What did we win?
    Let’s not discus our Somalia invasion. Or Grenada. Or Haiti. Or Panama.
    Well, how are we doing with our War on Terror? Har-de-har.
    Have you been reading about what a terrible mess we made of our Afghanistan invasion?
Iraq? Let’s not discuss that mess, either.
    We have a dozen or so (or is it fifty?) so-called government intelligence organizations, with no hint of intelligence resulting.
    I’m pretty good at coming up with creative solutions to problems. In this case I see what the problem is, but I have no solutions to propose. Maybe you can come up with something?
    The same problem that’s making the government and the military so stupid, is doing the same thing to our major corporations.
    In the government…in the military…and in big business, you get ahead by sticking to your desk and looking busy. If you are crazy enough to propose changing the way things are, you’ll have almost everyone fighting you. You’re a goner. The status quo stifles any creativity or out-of-the-box thinking. The result, obviously, is that only those who play the game and are incapable of thinking, survive in an organization. So we end up with Generals, Admirals, CEOs, Presidents, and heads of government agencies who have never had an original thought and are used to fighting any they encounter.
    They surround themselves with people who make them comfortable. Yes-men. Ooops, I mean yes-people.
    Why are the student graduates of our most expensive in the world government public school system coming in absolutely last on international surveys? It's the bureaucracies running them.
    How come we’ve been outsmarted in our invasions of Cuba, Haiti, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, and on down the list? Dumb leadership. We’ve got dim bulbs lighting our way.
    This is nothing new. It’s what changed Great Britain into Britain. Sir William Gilbert, over a hundred years ago, twitted the British government with H.M.S. Pinafore (among other operettas). The Rt. Honorable Admiral Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., when asked how he got to that high position, finished his song, “So, stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be a Ruler of the Queen’s Navy.”
    If our forefathers hadn’t been creative and hid behind trees, mowing down the British ranks, instead of marching in rows like the British soldiers, we’d probably be another colony, like Canada.

1/23/10

DAV
    The Disabled American Veterans meetings are as dull as those of the American Legion, judging from a letter from a nearby member.
    Well, their magazine, like that of the Legion, has had nothing of interest in it. So I sent a letter to the editor offering to submit an article for his consideration on how veterans could improve their health substantially via a diet change. The response from Gary Weaver, their National Director of Communications, was that he had no interest in getting my submission.
    Figures.

1/22/10


The War We Lost—and Lost Big
    (This is a disinterred 73 editorial from 1996…14 years ago)
    Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It is a war that cost more than WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined? Hint—it’s one we lost. One we lost in a big way. One that has brought about catastrophic changes in our country.
    It’s President Johnson’s (Lyndon) War on Poverty. Welfare. Welfare mothers. Hey, it’s your money your politicians are shoveling out. Over $5 trillion so far, and with no end in sight.
    When the government pays women welfare benefits equivalent to $12 an hour, two and a half times the minimum wage, in New York and Washington, not to work, what do you think this does to wages in those areas? To be “entitled” to this largess at our expense the women have to have children—the more the better—no job, and no husband that’s working.
    In 39 states welfare benefits are equivalent to about $16,600 a year. In eight it’s over $20,000.
    Later I’ll tell you about a woman with two children who is on welfare in my small New Hampshire town. Her food and apartment are provided, plus schooling for one child, complete with a paid driver to ferry the child to school and back every day. The woman is bitterly complaining that her welfare-provided cable TV only gives her two paid channels. Oh yes, her husband is working, but they are “separated.” A recent exposé on welfare showed a couple of women in Laconia (NH) sitting in their apartments getting fat on this same system. Work? And lose all those benefits? You’ve got to be kidding!
    So we complain about the single mothers. We complain about the loss of family values that’s turning out one generation after another of uneducated welfare mothers and resulting criminal children with no incentive or skills to work. Compassion gone berserk, and to hell with the survival of the fittest concept. We’re making sure that the least fit survive and proliferate, dragging us all down.
    What can you do about this mess you’ve meekly let fester? Two things. First, we’ve got to stop Congress from making things worse. Second, we’ve got to make sure Congress strikes out all of the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. Get the feds out of the mercy business, which is just another name for socialism. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term semi-politicians.
    But most important is to take a few days off from watching mind-numbing TV and educate yourself. There are some damned good books which will help you understand what’s gone wrong with our school system (which is a disaster), with the war on poverty (which we lost), the war on drugs (which we’ve also lost), our so-called health-care system (another enormously overpriced disaster), our “correctional institutions” (which exacerbate, not correct) and so on. Hey, we have the potential for having a pretty good country, but it’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to undo Congressional mischief and make it happen.
    The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First you educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. Then form a local action group. The next thing you know, we’ll have a movement.
    I’d like to see local political action clubs (PACs) get going. Members would be encouraged to read a book and report on it at the next meeting. There are an awful lot of books out there, but only a small percentage of them are both interesting and educational. By distributing the work of separating the wheat from the chaff, a group can easily do something that no one person could possibly accomplish.
    The next thing you know some entrepreneur will start collecting the book reports and submit them to me for publication. And I’ll pay for ’em. The resulting sale of the better books will help discourage publishers from unloading crap on us, and will encourage the writing of even better books.
    My $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom is a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covers a wide variety of topics. Reading these books will beat the heck out of a college education, be thousands of dollars cheaper, and take several years less time. Maybe you can get some high school kids interested in learning to read.
    Perhaps I’ve let my idealism run away with me in even suggesting that we try to run our country on reason instead of fanaticism. Maybe screaming protesters and terrorism are the rule of the day and reason passé.
    Anyway, if you feel that people who prefer not to work are worth $335 billion of your money being taken out of your paycheck every year, then go back and watch that ball game on TV. As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem. If you’d get Congress to stop wasting your money we could go back to where a one paycheck family could live comfortably and a mother could have the time to spend with her children.
One reader suggested a way to solve the deficit problem would be to fire the top three layers of management of all federal bureaus on the basis that it’s unlikely that anyone lower down would notice much difference. Oh, the bureau’s jet planes would get less use. But why not fire ’em down five levels and start reducing the deficit instead of just stopping its growth?
    Oh yes, one more innovation. Since many of our more serious social problems have been caused by federal judges running amok, bypassing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too? It would also be nice if we could somehow encourage the Supremes to stop trashing to Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed.


1/21/10

Roswell
    If you're into the UFO world, you've read plenty about the UFO crash in Roswell NM in 1947, with the ensuing government cover-up. UFOs have been and still are being spotted all around the world. There was a recent TV show on USOs, Unidentified Submerged Objects…UFOs that dive into or come zooming out of the ocean or lakes.
    There are endless reports of sightings and contactees. Frankly, I'm pissed, considering my long interest, in their not bothering to contact me. Lousy bastards. Anyway, here's what I think is going on.
    First the occupants are not ETs, they're time travelers from the future. And those little grey things are their versions of live robots.
    Time travel? Ridiculous, you say? Well, go back to around 1850 and try to tell people that in the future there will be trolleys going around the world in the air at hundreds of miles an hour. Every home will have light in every room that can be instantly turned on and off, with no kerosene needed. Everyone will have a self-powered wagon, needing no horses, that can go a hundred miles an hour. Telephones, radio, TV, etc.  Well, you make the list. They'd consider you a total nut case.
    I'm convinced that time travel will be invented because we see the images of the round UFOs in the cave paintings from 17,000 years ago. And they are described in Alexander The Great's notebooks as hovering over his battles. Of course, when time travel is made possible one of he first uses will be to document history.
    It may be that it's not easy to go to a specific date, which could explain the use of crop patterns, which only last a few days, and which no two are the same.
    We don't know much about time. There not being any money in it, there's little for researching time. But we do know there's been man, many cases of proven precognition, so something is going on we don't understand. And people that report back after death try to explain that time over "there" is no longer linear. They can go into the past or the future.
    Why all the secrecy from the UFO occupants? It probably has to do with their avoiding changing their future with things they do when going back. Can they go forward in time? I'll let you know when I find out. You'll get some powerful clues by reading Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe (reviewed on page 41 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom), and the Chet Snow's Mass Dreams of the Future (reviewed on page 46 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom).
    Yes, the so-called ETs communicate via telepathy. Radin describes the successful research that's already been done with that. Communicating thoughts avoids having to learn new languages.

1/20/10

Dancing
    While in high school in Brooklyn I used to take dancing lessons at a downtown dancing studio. Well, it was a great way to meet girls, and to be ready for the school proms. Having rarely, if ever, danced since, I doubt if I could deal with anything beyond a foxtrot now.
    If I was faced with an upcoming cruise or a party, where dancing is part of the evening's entertainment, I'd grab Sherry get busy relearning to dance.
    I was reminded of this when a book I picked up at the town dump had a program from a Virgin Islands cruise and they had dancing after dinner every evening, with disco going on to 2 AM.
    Having already been on all of the cruises I'll go on for this lifetime, and my high school reunions long gone, my need to know how to dance is remote. So I haven't bothered, even though Sherry is selling about 150 different how to dance DVDs that she's produced.
    She got started about 20 years ago. She got Kathy Blake, a prize-winning dancing teacher from a nearby town, to put some dance lessons on video tape, doing the taping in a TV studio. The customer reaction was so enthusiastic they kept taping more and more lessons. Beginning, intermediate, and expert for the more popular steps, and then into the Latin dances, disco, dirty, lambada, and so on.
    Well, dancing is great exercise, both for the body and the mind. And it's romantic, often leading to the bedroom.
    When Sherry is out I often take orders from her customers who call, so I get to hear their raves over how great Kathy is at teaching…often from people who've tried other dance lesson videos.
    When DVDs came along Sherry got all of her tapes put on that medium, so she has the titles available either on tape or DVD now. Look up Butterfly Video or Kathy Blake Dance Lessons.
    The last cruise I was on was around the Caribbean in a converted ferry with a deck for cars. They converted the car deck to hold small boats for scuba diving tours. So we cruised around every night, diving somewhere new every day. The ferry didn't have a dance floor area, so my lack of dancing skills didn't present any problems. Well, if another scuba diving cruise comes up, I might just go for one more cruise.

1/15/10

Saga
    When I was three I vaguely remember we were living in the ground floor of an old brownstone on Rodgers Avenue, in Brooklyn. Dad never (in his whole life) talked about his work, so I had no clue as to what he was doing. I know he was a Hupmobile salesman for a while. Then we moved to an apartment on the corner of Avenue K and East 14th Street, in Brooklyn, about three blocks from my mother's folks, on East 15th Street and just off Avenue N.
    By then dad was working for the Department of Commerce, testing people applying for pilot's licenses. I heard later that he'd refused to give Admiral Byrd, the Arctic and Antarctic explorer a license because he was a lousy pilot. Dad had pilot's license number 73 and commercial pilot's license number 89. His car license was C89.
    Then, when I was turning five, in 1927, we moved to an apartment (3,000 Samson Street) in Philadelphia, while he started building an airport across the river in Camden. Dad had made a trip around the country for the Department of Commerce, doing a report on the airports, which was put into a book for pilots. Central Airport, in Camden, was, I understand, the first with concrete runways. Dad designed and built it, and was the manager for several years.
    I went to kindergarten in Philly, and to first grade. When I was six, if someone will check the old newspapers, they'll find me listed as a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York (actually, across the river, in Newark NJ), where there was a small airport with the usual cinder runway and something like a mobile home for the airport administration building. From there we flew to Lakehurst NJ, where they kept the dirigibles. I still remember the enormous hangers.
    At school the next day, since I'd made the newspapers, they had a special assembly where I got on stage and told about my flight. My first public speech.
    We moved from Philly across the river to Merchantville, NJ, to be closer to the airport. I'd often ride my bike to the airport after school and play around the planes…including Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega. Well, I think is was the Vega, but it may have been the Lockheed Orion. It was the nicest plane at the airport.
    Dad had an bar from a defunct speakeasy in the basement of our house at 1937 Hillcrest Avenue. This was, of course, during prohibition, so there were no bars for pilots to spend their time. Well, dad's basement bar made coming to dinner at our place popular. And that, several times, included Amelia Earhart.
    Jim Eaton, who had worked for Pan American, and had a blue and yellow macaw (Arrara) he'd brought from Brazil, had a hacienda-type house on the outskirts of Philadelphia. It even had a small pool, where I'd go swimming when we visited him for dinner. Jim had a Korean man-servant, Shi, and a chow dog that loved to play with Arrara.
    The next thing I knew we moved to Washington DC, where we had an apartment in Woodly Park Towers at 2737 Devonshire Place, across the street from the Washington Zoo. Dad was now passenger and cargo manager for Luddington Airlines and Jim Eaton was the president. Jim was now living in an apartment a couple blocks from ours, still with Arrara, Shi and the chow. And I was walking about four blocks to the Oyster School every day.
    When WWI got started in 1917, dad was 20 years old and prime trench bait for the Army. So his folks enrolled him in the New York Military Academy. He graduated as a lieutenant and opted for the Army Air Force. They sent him to Kelly field outside San Antonio to learn to fly. By the time he got his pilot's license the war was over. But the other pilots were frequent visitors for dinner at our house for the next few years. Like Tom Carroll and Carroll Cone.
    Mom and dad got married when he was back home in Littleton NH on leave, so after I was born we lived on the base at Langley Field in Hampton VA while I was one and two years old. That's where General Billy Mitchell came to our house for dinner a couple of times. They made a movie about his court marshal when he insisted that airplanes could sink a battleship. So, he proved it.
    When dad's enlistment was up we moved to Rodgers Avenue in Brooklyn.
    All went well with Luddington Airlines. I remember being on the inaugural flight between Washington and Norfolk VA, with a band playing, the governor and mayor being on the flight, much speeching and hoopla, and me loving the limelight. The airline was owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. Then, in 1933, they sold it to Eastern Air Transport, later to be Eastern Airlines…and then, many years later, Continental Airlines.
    So we went back to Brooklyn, moving in with my mom's folks on East 15th Street. And Jim Eaton moved to an apartment in Manhattan, where he wasn't allowed to keep the macaw, so Arrara lived with us for the next 30 years. I don't know what happened to Shi and the chow dog. Jim and dad were busy starting Marine Airlines, which would use flying boats and provide a daily service from downtown Manhattan to downtown Boston.
    Eastern and TWA (Transcontinental and Western Airlines at the time…later to become TransWorld Airlines) liked being able to add Boston to their destinations via Marine Airlines, so they invested in the stock. Everything was going fine until Juan Trippe, the president of Pan American, who wanted no competition in any flying boat airlines, got his good friend President Roosevelt, to issue a Presidential Order saying that no airline could own stock in another airline. Poof, Marine Airlines was out of business.
    So Jim and dad went to American Export steamship lines and proposed starting the first trans-Atlantic airline. American Export was, by far, the largest steamship line, with huge liners like the Exeter, Excambian, Exminister, and so on, mainly servicing the Mediterranean for vacationers. And the airline would use flying boats. American Export loved the idea.
    The route would be via Belem in Brazil, over to Dakar in Senegal and up to Genoa in the winter, and via Botwood, Newfoundland to the Azores and then to Genoa in the summer. Dad spent a year organizing the docking and support facilities around the Mediterranean
    They just got it up and going when WWII came along and the government stepped in. The airline was used during the war to move generals and their staffs over to Europe in hours instead of weeks via ships. Then, as the war was winding down, Juan Trippe got Roosevelt to issue another Presidential Order. This time it said that no steamship line could own an airline. American Export Airlines was up for sale. Pan Am wanted it, but American Export refused to sell to Trippe, so American Airlines bought it, making it American Overseas Airlines for a short while. Then they sold it to Pan Am.
    Jim and dad were out of work again. But not or long. It wasn't difficult to convince Ireland to extend their airline from just servicing Europe to adding a trans-Atlantic service. So Jim and dad set up offices in Manhattan, ordered the flying boats, and soon had another trans-Atlantic airline ready to go. The inaugural flights were sold out. Then, came an election in Ireland, with Eamon DeValera winning as the new Prime Minister. He was elected on an economy promise, so his first move was to cancel the Irish Airlines' trans-Atlantic venture.
    Oh, I've gotten so wrapped up in my dad's history, I almost forgot why I started writing about this. It was triggered by my remembering what happened to me when we were living with my mother's folks in Brooklyn, after we moved there from Washington in 1933.
    A couple blocks away, my grandfather, Tully, had a good friend, Bob Marriot, the man who founded the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). That later became the IEEE, when radio expanded into electronics. Bob almost invented a new kind of loud speaker system. But not quite. He was feeding a speaker into an array of cardboard tubes of different lengths. Each was reinforcing the sound according to it's length. If he'd had an infinite number of these pipes it would have worked just fine. It just never occurred to him to use one long organ pipe like tube and cut a notch down one side so it would resonate over the whole audio spectrum…the way the speaker enclosure I put on the market in 1951 was designed.
    Since I was interested in radio, when Bob died his widow gave me Bob's file box of his patents. I offered them to the IRE and they happily accepted. They're probably still somewhere in an old storeroom at IEEE.
    When I attended IEEE shows I noticed that a high percentage of the visitors and exhibitors were ham operators. Well, it made sense that kids interested in radio would go into the business. And when I was a delegate to the 1959 International Telecommunications Union conference in Geneva I found a high percentage of the delegates from other countries were also ham operators.
    Cut to 1966, when Robbie Robinson 5Z4ERR in Nairobi convinced me to come over and go on a hunting safari. Well, once I was there it didn't cost much more to go on and fly around the world on the way back after the safari, so that's what I did. And my first stop was Addis Ababa, where I looked up the ex-president of the ITU. I explained that if the ITU would encourage countries to set up ham radio clubs in their schools, they'd end up with a source of electronic engineers.
    He loved the idea and said he would arrange with me to meet the current ITU president when I was visiting India. Which I did, and he liked the plan. He said he'd get started on it right away. Wow!
    When I got home from my trip I learned that the ITU president had had a heart attack and died. Damn!
    Four years later, in 1970, when I heard that King Hussein of Jordan had been heard on the ham radio, I sent him a cable offering to come over and show him how to use it. I got one right back saying sure, come on over. So a few days later there I was in Amman, Jordan, shaking hands with the king!
    The next two weeks I spent at his Summer Palace, making short ham contacts by the thousands, giving hams all around the world credit for contacting in new country. Well, I wanted his majesty to have the fun of talking with hams, rather than making momentary contacts just to add one more country to their credit, so I tried to take care of as many of those guys for him as I could.
    And, indeed, his majesty did have a wonderful time sitting and actually talking with hams. We spent several nights (all night) making ham contacts like that. A couple days before it was time for me to go home I explained to his majesty that I'd been talking with his ministers and learned that the Jordanian schools weren't teaching anything about electricity. I suggested that by setting up ham radio club stations in the schools and youth clubs the kids would get interested in engineering, cutting the cost for things like installing telephones. At the time they had to bring in technicians and engineers from Europe at $200 and more a day to do these jobs.
    The next day his majesty had me explain this to his government, as his ministers sat around a big table. I said I'd be glad to write a set of rules and regulations for them, and get my readers to donate their no longer used ham equipment for the Jordanian youngsters. It didn't hurt when the king, sitting in the background, said, "And it shall be so."
    A few days after I got home I got a call from the CIA. King Hussein needed ham stations for the Jordanian schools, what should they send him? So I gave them a list. I also sent his majesty the proposed rules and regulations I'd promised, and asked in my editorials for my readers to send their used equipment to the Jordanian embassy in Washington.
    Three years later I was swapping slow-scan photos with a ham in Athens when his majesty broke in, "W2NSD, this is Julliet Yankee One." He was going to be in Washington and would like to see me.
    When I met him at Blair House, he gave me an envelope with two first class round trip tickets to Jordan. He said, "I want you to come see what you've done."
    Since I'd been promoting ham repeaters to extend the range of our handy-talkies with hundreds of articles and publishing a special Repeater Bulletin, I brought along a repeater and a suitcase full of handy-talkies to use with it. I set up the repeater on a hill across from the king's downtown Palace and gave him the handy talkies to distribute.
    His majesty set me up with a car and driver to take me from Irbid in the north to Aqaba in the south to meet and talk with the newly licensed Jordanian hams. And I met over 425 youngsters. Not bad for just three years! And they were already putting in the country's first electronics factory!
    On the tour we also visited the Lost City of Petra, and the ancient ruins at Jarash.
    Ten years later, on another trip around the world, I stopped off in Jordan to say hello to his majesty. His brother, Price Raad, held a special meeting of the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society, where about 50 members turned out, and introduced me as the man who had done more for Jordan than anyone other than the king. Yep, I have a tape of that intro. Well, Jordan is by far the highest tech of all the Arab countries today.
    It sure would have been nice, if that president of the ITU hadn't dropped dead, to have had a few dozen countries benefit from their youngsters being exposed to ham radio with school radio clubs.

1/12/10

Warming
    The few people still left pushing global warming are oddly silent in the face of the recent record snowfalls and cold blasts. England and the rest of Europe are struggling with record snows. China also has set new snow records, almost bringing the country to a halt. Snow in Japan! And snow it goes. Oh, and record cold in balmy Florida, freezing the orange crops and discouraging me of any thoughts of getting down to Disney World for a few days so I could rebuild my tan and add some vitamin D to my body.
    I wonder if this has anything to do with the lack of sun spots. They're supposed to have been ramping up on another sun spot cycle, but hardly anything is happening. The last time this happened, some 500 years ago (the Maunder Minimum), Europe had record snows and a several years long cold spell.
    Only if Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and a bunch of worry-warts are right, and we're heading toward a pole shift, will we see another ice age. Oh, you haven't read Robert Felix's Not By Fire, But By Ice yet? I reviewed it on page 24 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom…a review of about a hundred books you really ought to read.
    Ice ages aren't gradual, they happen in a quarter to a half hour and raise holy hob with everything.

1/11/10

Cars
    My first car was a 1932 Ford, which I bought in 1941 while I was in college for $20. That's about $500 in today's Federal Reserve paper. Then came the war and pretty soon I was off for four years in the Navy. I gave the car to a fraternity brother.
    When the war ended I was teaching electronics at the Submarine School in New London CT. Being within driving distance of my folks in Brooklyn, I bought a 1940 Ford so I could get home on weekends. After I started the speaker cabinet business in 1951 I was doing well enough to buy a brand new 1954 Ford Country Squire…my first experience buying a new car. What I learned was that after taking delivery I had to make a list of the problems the factory had caused so the dealer could fix them. And it was a long list.
    A couple years later a ham friend with an MG introduced me to sports cars. Wow! So I shopped around and decided on a 1956 Porsche Speedster ($3,300 brand new). Even better, I flew over to the factory in Stuttgart to pick it up, then drove around Europe for a couple weeks before having it shipped back. Unlike the Ford, there were no factory problems to have fixed. Superb German workmanship!
   And a couple years after that, as the president of the Porsche Club of America, I organized a trip to the factory for about 150 Porsche buyers and got a second Porsche for myself. In 1960 I shipped my Speedster back to the factory to upgrade from the 60 HP engine to their new Super-90. What a thrill I had driving it on the famous Nürburg Ring race track!
    Needing a larger car at times, I made a trip to the VW factory, also in Stuttgart, and picked up a VW sedan. When my folks needed that, I made a trip to Sweden and got a Volvo. That was the trip where I visited Finland and Åland. None of those cars had any factory problems like I'd had with my Ford. My dad assured me that all American-made cars had manufacturing problems when delivered to their dealers, and he'd been a Hupmobile salesman at one time.
    That 1954 Ford was my last American car. More recently I've enjoyed Toyota and Honda station wagons. Currently I'm making do with Sherry's two old Mercedes coups.

1/10/10

10/10/10
    Hey, in October we'll have 10/10/10! Over in Taiwan 10/10 is a big deal holiday. For several years, every October I went on an Asian electronics shows tour organized by Bob Chang of Commerce Tours in San Francisco. A two-week tour got us to the yearly electronic shows in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong. The Japanese show alternated between Tokyo and Osaka.
    The tour attracted between 200 and 400 Americans, going to shop for Asian electronics products to import. Well, as the publisher of a bunch of computer magazines, I helped recruit customers, so after a couple of years Bob made me the tour leader.
    It was fun! And I got to see the cities up close on my morning walks around them. Plus some of us made side trips from Hong Kong to Macao and up into Guandong, China, once China opened up for tourists.
    This was back when compact discs were brand new, so I still remember out-grabbing my friend Rod McKuen, the poet, for the remaining one of Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances CDs in a music store. I have it in my iPod now.
    I made a short trip from Seoul to the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) between North Korea, where I got to walk a few feet into North Korea. Does that count as a new country for me? And, one of the guards had a ham station, so I took the opportunity to get on the air for a while, making contacts with friends around the world. Well, as the publisher of 73 Magazine, most of the hams around the world knew me.

1/9/10

Congress
    Being the opposite of progress, it's aptly named. Well, with the help of our Presidents they've made a mess of what was a great country…a land of opportunity.
    Back in 1913 Congress turned over issuing our money to the Federal Reserve. In the 137 years before that, when our Treasury issued our money, the value of the dollar never changed. Since then it's been nothing but constant inflation.
   An email pointed out that Social Security, which was established 75 years ago, is broke. Ditto the War on Poverty, after 46 years. And Medicare and Medicaid, 45 years ago. And Freddie Mac after 40 years. Of course the number of bureaucrats in these federal programs continues to increase every year, along with their budgets.
    The Department of Energy, now 33 years old, which has ballooned to over 16,000 employees, with a $24 billion annual budget, keeping themselves busy shuffling paperwork, while totally ignoring cold fusion, which would end our need for oil, coal, and nuclear power.
    Forget your party affiliation come November and unelect the incumbents. Maybe you could spare a day to stand by the polling place with a poster. On the downside, new faces in Congress will upset thousands of lobbyists who have grown accustomed to buying earmark funds for their sponsors by passing along wads of money to incumbents.
    You needn't worry about the outgoing Congressmen because they've voted themselves a generous salary for life. Plus plenty of perks.
  
1/8/10

Stephen Hawking
    So we have this mighty brain, when it comes to string theory, going around in a motorized wheelchair because he has ALS. Who has apparently believed doctors and never researched his illness. If you know of any way to get through to him, let him know about my book, and the work of Dr. Comby. Dr. Day, Dr. Malkmus, etc.
    Dr. Comby has proven that ALS is totally curable. Alas, his approach, changing the patient to a raw food diet, does not sell pills. so our 788,948 practicing physicians have never heard of it.
    It would be great if a high-profile person like Hawking could be cured, since the media would be unable to totally ignore it.

1/7/10

The Wars
    I need some help here. Can someone explain to me why we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? Neither had anything to do with the 911 mess. No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. So, what the hell are we doing spending hundreds of billions of dollars and getting our kids killed over there? I don't see any signs of the natives thanking us for turning their country into a battlefield. Millions of ’em got the hell out. The biggest loss of life has been the natives (collateral losses), and by a wide margin.
    Sure, they're fighting back. We would too, if some country invaded us.
    Well, maybe our arms manufacturers are one of the largest remaining American industries and we need to keep it profitable.
    Obama claimed our attack on Afghanistan was authorized by the UN Security Council. Never happened. In fact only three of the 37 countries surveyed were not overwhelmingly opposed.
    So what's really going on?

1/6/10

2012a
    By 2012 I'll be 90, so what do I care if the world as we know it comes to an end? But for anyone who wants to worry about it, or even maybe prepare, there are a number of alarm bells tinkling away.
    Like Nostradamus' prediction that shortly after the millennium we'll have a pole shift which will wipe out 97% of us. Well, scientists looking at past pole shifts think we'll be lucky to have that many left after waves several miles high wash around the world, aided by thousand mile an hour winds, and followed by an instant super freeze.
    The movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," showed this happening.
    Well, it's happened before. Many times. So we've found five-ton mammoths frozen solid in the Siberian mud with flowers still in their mouths. That takes something like instant –80° cold! Hey, read some books on the subject and wise up.
    I don't know about the ark, but several civilizations have memories of a world flood around 6,500 years ago.
   Then there are the conspiracy buff reports of our (and other) governments building extensive underground refuges for the chosen…the saving of seeds "just in case"…Planet-X and the secret U.S. observatory in Antarctica…the weird behavior of the sun. As Alfred E. Neuman says, "What, me worry?"
    Since a couple of the maps of the future show my area surviving, maybe next year I'll start digging a hole to hide in as the super-sonic winds blow everything away the mile-high waves haven't. I'd take along some seeds and food. Well, I'd like to avoid the humongous lines at the Pearly Gates.

1/5/10

Curses
    One doesn't have to be very old before being exposed to the whole range of English curse words. Often from dad. But until recently publications have been editing out words like fuck, shit, cunt, prick, and so on. Books have enjoyed much more freedom in this area.
    Now The New Yorker has been leading the naughty word emancipation by freely leaving ’em in. This reached a peak with the Jan. 11th issue, where a four-column long article used fuck (or fucking) seventeen times and shit four times, plus a couple goddams for good measure. You'd think, with any creativity, the writer (Ian Frazier) could have worked in at least one "asshole."
  
1/4/10

Pensions
    Time was when larger companies put aside part of one's wages for a pension fund for when you retired. Like Social Security. In those days workers generally stayed with one company for most of their working years. But that perk evaporated as foreign competition forced companies to cut their costs.
    Not that all was rosy. My uncle, Dale Moore, who worked for G.E. in fairly high positions all his life, found himself laid off shortly before his pension eligibility would have kicked in. And the same thing happened to my good ham friend Bill Hoisington, who had worked for Diamond Horseshoe all his life. So I suspect that was not an unusual practice.
    Between Social Security and 401k's, pensions seem to have evaporated. It's tough enough for employees today to deal with the Social Security, unemployment, and medical insurance payments taken out of their pay.

1/3/01

Hunting Season
    I’d never thought much about hunting until a ham radio friend in Nairobi talked me into coming over to Kenya for a hunting safari. I got ham radio friends from Texas and California to come along and we had a fantastic time in northern Kenya.
    When I got back to New Hampshire it was easy for John Peterson, the Peterborough real estate agent who sold me my house, to talk me into hunting here with him. We hunted deer and geese around Peterborough and up at Lake Umbagog. The fresh venison was delicious.
    I think of those days when I look out the window and see several deer pulling fruit from the pear tree in back of the house. They’ve just about wrecked the tree. And when I have to stop and wait while a bunch of wild turkeys cross the road. They’re all over the place.
    Then there’s that darned black bear that ate all the wild blueberries before I could pick them, and was a competitor in my raspberry patch. Hmm, I wonder how tasty bear meat is? Those huge blueberries from the store don’t have much flavor compared to those wild berries.
  
1/2/10

Hitch-Hiking
    It's been years since I've seen anyone hitch-hiking.
    When I was a kid it was a common way, particularly for kids, to get around. I remember times I hitch-hiked from college in Troy NY the 150 miles to New York City, so I could be with my family for holidays. And when I got a car, after the war, I often gave hitch-hikers rides.
    But the newspaper stories of robberies by hitch-hikers gradually ended it.