12/26/11
 
The Candidates
    The primaries are coming up soon, and the Republicans haven’t been able to find a star to go in there and do battle with Obama. Oh, there are a bunch milling around, but none have any star quality or, for that matter, powerful platforms. The closest any of them have to a strong platform plank is Ron Paul with his vow to dump the Federal Reserve Bank system before their/our dollar goes into free-fall.
    Our so-called health-care system is, by a wide margin, the most expensive in the world…and one of the poorest performing. Our industries are moving to Asia as fast as they can for the lower wages. Unemployment, once you count those who have given up trying to find work, is around 17%. Our students are some of the poorest educated in the developed world, many graduating high school just barely able to read. We’ve got some twenty million illegal immigrants we’re codling, with millions more headed this way. We’ve millions of houses sitting empty. Oh, and those lousy wars.
    Sure, I’ve got good practical solutions for all those problems, but any candidate that dared espouse them would be assassinated.
    So, we’re sitting here watching debates by Romney, Paul, Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman, Santorum, etc., and losing our enthusiasm to even bother to vote.
    Barack Hussein Obama (ex-Barry Soetoro), who “used to be a Muslim”…who hasn’t ever come up with a legitimate birth certificate or Social Security number, and seems to be a puppet of George Soros…sure looks as if he’ll run away with the election. Eventually, I expect we’ll find Barry really was born in Mombassa, just as his grandmother claims.
    So, which of the candidates do you prefer? Why? Or do you share my torpor?
 
12/22/11
 
Curbing Drug Sales
    Instead of going after those drug cartels sneaking their stuff into our country, which seems to have almost totally failed, how about going after their customers? No, I’m not thinking of further cramming our prisons, since we already have the largest and most expensive prison population in the world. So, let’s come up with an alternative punishment.
    How about the Van Gogh look? Lop off an ear. Well, that would only work for two arrests.
    It wants to be drastic enough to scare kids from getting started on drugs. Maybe chemotherapy, where they’d be terribly sick for a few weeks and lose all their hair? Well, chemo doesn’t work for cancer, so we need an alternative use to help keep Big Pharma wealthy.
    No, I’m not suggesting they be penalized (by cutting it off). I’d prefer saving that for illegal immigrant drug dealers we take out of prison, send home, and then come back and are arrested again.
    Any suggestions?

12/20/11
 
Nanny At Work
    The do-good nanny-staters gave us the 18th Amendment in 1920, banning the manufacture, transportation or sale of alcoholic beverages…giving us tens to hundreds of thousands of speakeasies, the Mafia, and other wonders. It did little to curb our use of alcohol. It just made it more expensive.
    In 1928 my dad got an old speakeasy bar and installed it down the cellar, where he entertained his pilot friends with a wide variety of booze. Including Amelia Earhart, by the way.
    My mother soaked the labels off the bootleg bottles and later made lampshades out of them, which she sold to Sax Fifth Avenue until she ran out of labels.
    On the positive side, the enormous profits of the business got Las Vegas started with one huge hotel after another funded by booze profits.
    So, when alcohol was legalized, something was needed to replace that cash bonanza. Do-gooders again prevailed, and got Congress to make drugs illegal, giving us a whole new cast of crooks. Well, drug lords. For some reason Americans seem to have an insatiable love of drugs, so their money has done wonders for the drug lords in Colombia and Mexico. And, if an exposé I read is true, billions for CIA’s black projects.
    In addition to enriching the drug lords, and substantially helping grow our population of illegal immigrants, it’s also enabled us to have, by far, the largest prison population in the world, and at the highest cost. Mostly local dealers and associated street gangs.
    Back, when drugs were legal, we didn’t have anywhere near as big a drug problem. So, what if we were to make ’em legal again? Whoa! Then what could inner city blacks and Hispanic kids do to make money? That would upset everything. Maybe some do-good groups could organize bus rides to the white suburbs to mow lawns and plant gardens.
    As the word slips out about health, despite every effort of the medical and pharmaceutical industries…and the FDA, NIH, and other government agencies…and all the other groups prospering from our current eating habits, to stop it, people will eventually stop giving themselves cancer and other illnesses. That’ll gradually put the alcohol, cigarette, and drug industries out of business.
    Right now people are smoking, drinking, and eating Big Macs and fries because they are ignorant. As the health news gets around it’ll be more because of stupidity. Improving our school system will help that, and it sure is desperately in need of upgrading.
    It may, of course, be that the word about how simple it is to stop making ourselves sick will get around faster than I expect. I sure hope so. You are, of course, still eating cooked food, grains, sugar, and drinking coffee and sodas, right? Well, heck, cancer treatments today are only costing around $50,000, and you do have a slim chance of surviving. It’ll give you something to talk about if you do.

12/19/11
 
Reincarnation?
    For some reason, and I don’t think it’s genes, I’m different from most people, and always have been.
    My whole family regularly drank coffee, whiskey, and wine. They all smoked. Yet, somehow, though I tried these vices. I never got hooked. Pot and LSD, too. Done that’s.
    Later, while in the Navy, most of my shipmates smoked and drank, and they all drank coffee (joe). With cigarettes 50¢ a carton, it was an inexpensive vice. I did drink whisky with my shipmates when we went ashore in San Francisco, but that ended when I left the boat to teach electronics at the Submarine School in New London CT. 
    While almost everyone else loved playing or watching ball games, I didn’t. Oh, I tried watching football, baseball, and basketball. I enjoyed personal sports like fencing, tennis, bowling, ping pong, and swimming. I even got quite good at them. But even so, I have never had any interest in watching others do these.
    With there being so much that can be learned, I feel sorry for the millions of people who fill the grandstands watching ball games. Or, even watching them on TV.
    In the early days of TV I bought a set, which my folks sat night after night watching, while I was down in the cellar building electronic equipment and experimenting.
    I remember, when I was ten, my mother urging me to go out and join the kids my age in the lot across the street from our apartment, playing baseball. I had books I preferred reading.
   So, today, while others are spending five hours a day (and more) watching TV, I’m busy reading books and writing about what I’ve learned. Every day. I think I’m having more fun.

12/18/11
 
Food Stamps
    These are supposed to help the poor be able to eat. From what I’ve seen they’re helping a lot of them get fat, and then fatter. Okay, let’s kick in the nanny-state mind set and encourage the stampers to eat healthy food.
    Let’s make those food stamps valid only for purchasing raw food, and no grain products. That means no pasteurized milk, no cold cereals, no canned or boxed products, and no sodas or other bottled products, except raw milk.
    If they somehow manage to struggle through breakfast, limited to oranges, grapefruit, grapes, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, and raw milk (like I eat) they’ll be healthier…and maybe better able to get work.
    How can we ban them from those deadly GMO-fed, RGBH, anti-biotic loaded factory-produced meats now in the supermarkets? That stuff is horribly unhealthy. Also, pfft hot dogs, liverwurst, salami, and bologna.
    We probably can’t stop them from cooking things and drinking coffee, so they’ll still be giving themselves cancer and other expensive illnesses, running up Medicare bills…just not as quickly.
    What I have in mind is to make more of a demand for healthy food so the sources will grow for all of us. Producing milk from grass-fed herds and growing organic produce on re-mineralized land is going to be a major change, so let’s do what we can to get it going.
 
12/17/11
 
Missed Opportunity
    When my mother was pregnant with me she was living with her parents in their summer cottage in Bethlehem, NH. Dad was in the Army Air Force, down in Texas. Alas, instead of opting for a home birth with a midwife, my mother was driven by her folks to the hospital in nearby Littleton.
    In retrospect, how many people, other than Jesus, can claim to have been born in Bethlehem? Darn!
 
12/16/11
 
Saving My Stuff
    Daron was kind enough to bring a cassette player so I could save my old cassettes to my hard disk. Well, I have hundreds…most of them of talks I have given to groups. Well, there’s one I might want to save. It’s a talk I gave in Jordan a few years ago to the Royal Jordanian Amateur Radio Society. In my introduction by Prince Raad, he credited me with doing more for the country of Jordan than anyone other than the King by my getting amateur radio clubs started in the Jordanian schools and youth clubs on my first visit in 1970. Well, this made it possible for Jordan to be, by far, the most advanced Arab country in electronics. Yeah, I’d like to save that one.
    Then there were the many tapes I made of family talk during dinners…particularly Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, with visiting aunts and uncles. But who would ever care?
    I also have an input gadget for slides. Well, I have cartons of slides, mostly of my trips. But who would want to see pictures I took in Nepal in 1966? And Burma? Or Seoul in 1959? The Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, and other wonders? I probably should just toss the lot.
 
12/11/11
 
Thanks, Hubert!
    While at RPI my fraternity brother, Hubert Mattice, invited me for a weekend with him and his family. Wow, what a weekend! It was my introduction to square dancing. If you haven’t done that you’ve missed great fun.
    The square dance caller calls, “The first two ladies cross over, and by their gentleman stand. The two side ladies cross over, and all join hands. Honor your corner lady, now honor your partner all. Swing the corner lady and promenade the hall.” “The other way back, you’re going wrong.”
    This was 65 years ago, and I still remember it.
    Then, I got to meet Hubert’s sister and listen to the two of them play their clarinets. They played Von Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra. If my iPod selections could get worn, this would be well worn by now.  And each play takes me back to that weekend.
 
12/10/11
 
Tech Visionary
    Please take a couple minutes out every now and then to Google: “Tech Visionary” for me. For quite a while I was #1 as the founder of Byte magazine, but Steve Jobs has shoved me down to page 2.
    As you can read on page 4 of the article about me, I’m the guy who got Steve, who was 21, going, back in 1976. And then gave him an important second shove the next year when I got him to hire a marketing manager (Mike Markula). So, when I heard he had cancer I tried every way I could to get through to him with how to easily cure it. Letters, phone calls, even faxes couldn’t breach the protective wall around him. Alas, I think we’ll find that Steve is not replaceable.
    It was an ego booster for me to be #1 when Tech Visionary was Googled. If you haven’t read the article yet I think you’ll enjoy my story.
 
12/8/11
 
Martin Fleischmann
    The original discoverer, along with Stanley Pons, of the cold fusion effect, is still alive, though not well, living near Salisbury, England. It’s Parkinson’s Disease.
    Far’s I know the only cure for Parkinson’s is a major diet change to raw food, so the immune system can stop being tied up fighting toxic stuff like cooked food, and get to work fixing what’s broken. As Dr. Comby points out, there are NO incurable illnesses when you do this.
    What I don’t know is how to get this news to Professor Fleischmann. Any suggestions?
 
12/7/11
 
The Day of Infamy
    I was 19 years old that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when I heard about the Pearl Harbor attack from a ham in Stacy Basin NY on 160m. A little later I listened to Roosevelt announce, “The dastardly attack.” At my age I knew the draft board would soon be after me, even though I was a sophomore in college. I was trench meat for the Army. It was actually almost a year later that I enlisted in the Navy, one day before my draft board wanted to put me in the Army. Whew!
    At the time there were rumors that Roosevelt knew ahead of time about the attack, but it wasn’t until 2000 and the Day Of Deceit by Robert Stinnett that the whole story came out.
    Indeed, he did know, and in detail, where and when the Pearl Harbor attack was going to happen. Well, with Hitler having conquered just about all of Europe except Great Britain, and their days obviously numbered, Roosevelt was anxious to get us into the war to save them, but the American public was about 82% opposed. So, he quietly force Japan to attack us, and suddenly we were in a world war…where we lost almost a half a million of our military (416,000). Well, it took us four years, but we finally put Hitler out of business…and Japan. Plus it got us out of the 30’s depression.
    Roosevelt made sure we had no important ships at Pearl, plus he replaced the admiral and general in charge with incompetent officers.
    Say, maybe someone can explain how our making thousands of airplanes (many hundreds still sitting on fields in Nevada), making hundreds of submarines, aircraft carriers and other ships, plus the thousands of tons of munitions, which we expended, solved the depression.

11/29/11
 
We’re #1 in Obesity!
    Yep, we lead the world in blubber. Been there, done that. Well, I was normal weight until I was seven and spent a summer with my mother’s folks at their cottage in Bethlehem, where my grandmother Netta kept a steady supply of pies, cakes, cookies, muffins, and so on coming out of her kitchen stove. I got fat.
    When I was 50 I decided to stop being fat and went on a 1,500 calorie a day diet. In eight months I dropped from 260 pounds to 160, where I’ve stayed ever since.
    Well, I knew nothing about the importance of chewing my food thoroughly before swallowing, nor of the critical importance of raw food to my health…a much easier way to dump one’s blubber. Once I learned to chew I found that it took about half as much food before I felt full. And raw food does not include grains or sugar, so the pounds melt away.
    I haven’t figured any way to explain this to the super-fat women in the super market, with their baskets loaded with diet soda.

11/28/11
 
We’re #1 in Prison Population
    A list of 20 not so good categories where the U.S. leads the world starts off #1, with our having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, plus we have the highest number of people in prison. Obviously that is a very profitable business for some influential people…and the Congressmen they’ve bought.
    Yep, of course I have some creative solutions.
    With some 20% of our prisoners being illegal aliens, let’s send them back where they came from and stop wasting around $30,000 each a year to keep them locked up. Yes, I know, they’ll just sneak back. So let’s make the punishment drastic for getting caught back here after having been deported. Like cutting off their penis. Wait’ll that one hits the media! Enact that penalty and it’ll solve the problem. It just takes some creative thinking to solve our problems.
    Okay, now what about the other 80% our prisoners? Well, since a big percentage of them landed there due to drug trafficking, let’s legalize drugs. Not having learned a damned thing from the super fiasco of the 18th Amendment (alcohol Prohibition), the do-gooders did it again with drugs.
    Prohibition brought the country hundreds of thousands of speakeasies and grew the Mafia. Thanks, guys. It made crime pay off big time. And alcohol was no more difficult to score than drugs are today. My dad had an old speakeasy bar in the cellar of our home just outside of Camden NJ, where he entertained his pilot friends (like Amelia Earhart) several nights a week. He had no problem keeping it stocked with booze.
    As the word about health starts getting around there’ll be less and less demand for life-shortening drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. Making things illegal just enhances their demand. Nanny-state baloney that has never worked.
    We can start cutting our prison costs by encouraging the prisoners to grow gardens so they can have better food. Feed ’em swill and give ’em seeds and a garden plot.
    We could cut our prison costs about 90% if we started exporting them to tropical areas where they could grow food all year around. I’d like to see New Hampshire, for example, annex Navassa Island, down between Jamaica and Haiti, which is America-owned and deserted at present. It’s about one by three miles in size and fairly escape-proof. It has no beaches, just cliffs all around the island, with plenty of sharks swimming nearby. I know, because I’ve been there twice and scuba dived there.
    The island was a German prison camp, which we took when they lost WWI. Since then, all it’s been used for is a lighthouse.
    The last time I visited Guam I got together around 20 of my magazine subscribers for a dinner, at which I proposed making some of the unused part of the island into an American prison camp, where the prisoners could grow their food. They loved the idea.
    Guam is America-owned, very remote, has a wonderful climate, with plenty of rain, and they could use an industry.
    With today’s video internet communications anywhere in the world, prisoners could have regular video visits with their families. Further, we could have educational DVDs available for those interested in learning about anything that interests them, and to help them build skills.
    By using ankle bracelets on prisoners, computers could keep track of their every move, lessening the need for prison cells and guards.
    So, let’s get creative and stop wasting hundreds of billions on our bloated prison system.

11/30/11

Lore
    Okay, we have AA and AAA batteries, and some C and D-cells. I’ll bet none of you remember A and B cells. Or the first C cells.
    Back in the early days of radio, in the 20’s and 30’s, before AC power supplies, with their #80 tube rectifiers, home radios were powered by batteries. Since the tubes at that time had 2.5-volt filaments, two of the 1.5-volt A cells were used to power them. They were around 2.5” in diameter and 6” high, with two screw terminals on top. Their main use was to power door bells.
    Radios also used two B batteries. These were large, heavy 45-volt batteries. The two provided 90-volts for the radio tube plates. A 4.5-volt C cell provided the negative bias for the grid circuits.
    Since, when I was going to school in the 7th and 8th grades, I walked by the Vitagraph film studios every day, I built up a large supply of these 45-volt batteries, which they used for their cameras, and threw out well before they were used up.
    Vitagraph was one of the first film studios, and only a block from my grandparents home, where my mother, dad, and I lived with mother’s folks. The Vitagraph trash area provided a 14-year old electronic experimenter with lots of interesting stuff. Endless film cans, film spools, edited film, and pieces of miniature film sets. And 45-volt batteries. As I recall, they were about 3.5 x 8 x 6-inches. Huge.
    In the late 20’s Pop and I would sit in the hall, listening to the radio. “Pop” was my grandfather. I remember enjoying Ireene Wicker, “The Singing Lady,” telling stories. Then, in 1948, I got to know her personally, when I was the chief cameraman on her TV show on WPIX, channel 11, NYC. It was a great reunion for me.

11/28/11

Wayne Redux
    In this case Garnet Chaney has gone to the trouble to sort out some of my old editorials for you. Check  ’em out: http://www.bobsgear.com/display/wayne
    Back when I had a high speed printer I went to the trouble of printing seven booklets of the last seven years of my old 73 magazine editorials — almost a thousand editorials. With a good deal of encouragement I might be coaxed to start putting them on my website — as if there isn’t more than enough here to keep you busy, as it is.

11/22/11

Suckers
   Let's see, just here in America we're spending an average of $3,000 a year per person on so-called health-care. For our 300 million people that's $900 billion a year, shared with the incredibly profitable pharmaceutical industry, some 770,000 doctors, several thousand hospitals, much of today's food industry (including coffee, alcohol products), farming industry, tobacco,
and so on.
   If our people could overcome their beliefs, habits, and addictions, and stop putting poisons in their bodies, it would destroy huge segments of our economy. Of course, learning to chew, and living on organic raw food
doubles one's life, raising hob with retirement, social security and such age-related matters. I can't even make a wild guess as to how many trillions would be involved when we stop eating cooked food, grains, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and any non-organic grown or GMO foods. But, that's what's going to eventually happen.
   Gee, no more Monsanto, with their GMO crops, pesticides, and aspartame. What a loss!
   At first just a few of us "raw food nuts" will change over. But then can you name any major new technology that hasn't been resisted by the establishment. I'm reminded of Dr. Semmelwise, who tried to get doctors to wash their hands before operations. The AMA said, "Preposterous," and decreed that any doctor found washing his hands before an operation would lose his license!
   Well, scientists tell us that if we give our bodies the nutrition they're designed to use, plenty of exercise, and sleep, they should be good for 120 to 200 years. All other mammals live between 10 and 17 times their age at puberty, which equates to our 120 to 200 years. And when we feed dogs, cats, rats, etc., the standard American diet they live only half as long and get cancer and other human ailments.
   When we stop poisoning ourselves we'll stop getting sick and double our lives in robust health. And cooked food turns out to be toxic. Either accept what the scientists tell us, or check it our yourself using the pulse test. See Dr. Coca's The Pulse Test.
   How long before common sense triumphs over habits, addictions, and heavy advertising? How long will the ignorant suckers (sheeple) continue to give themselves cancer, heart disease, obesity, and so on with their diets?
   How long before we start seeing TV-dinner type frozen meals that can be defrosted and eaten uncooked? With little indentations for a few spoons of steak tartare, tomato soup, kale smoothy, coleslaw, chopped carrots with a little coleslaw sauce, ditto broccoli, you've got a delicious meal Whenyou've learned to chew every bite it takes a lot less food to fill you, so three or four spoons of each will be plenty, That's all it takes me. Of course, I save some room for my super-healthy ice cream for dessert.
   When you stop poisoning your immune system it means no more colds, cancer, or any other illness. Not even any tooth decay. It means you'll be out there still climbing mountains at 100, and loving it.

11/9/11

Memorial
   Funerals? Prayers? The body in a casket? One's ashes? Phooey, that's all religious crapola. I am not my body, it's what I used to get my work done on this incarnation, so what happens to it when I die is of no consequence. When my abilities are needed I'll be back in another body.
   We know pathetically little about our spirits. But I've had experiences which indicate that when I think of someone who has passed on they, in some way, are aware of it. So, when I'm listening to my iPod and music by Von Weber, Gottschalk, Joplin or Delius come up, I thank them deeply for composing such fantastically beautiful music. And, they let me know I'm getting through (see 4/21/07). Also see 4/9/11 for Alan Turoff getting through to me.    My stone in the family plot in Littleton, which already has my birth date, can have my death date added. No body, no ashes. If any of my body parts can be of help to someone who, through ignorance or stupidity, needs a replacement part, mine are available. Fine — my spirit will live on a little longer via the part, influencing the new body's spirit I've joined.

10/31/11

Weirdness
    What better time than Halloween to talk about strange goings-on? And, there's no shortage. For instance, if you've found an explanation for what microwaving water does to it so it kills the plants  we water with it, let me know.
    Water sure is strange. Sitting it in the sun does something to it. So does being near a magnet. And vortexing it. Maybe you've read the books by Donsbach and about Schauberger's fascinating work with water?
    How is it possible for plants to know what we're thinking, even from a thousand miles away? Ridiculous? Turn off the damned TV and do some homework.
    Where and how are our memories stored? How can our cells be in instant communications from thousands of miles away? Time travel? UFOs? Crop circles? Telepathy? Past lives? Precognition? How can prayers make it rain? So how much have you read about these subjects, or have you been too busy watching Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, and Oprah?

10/30/11

Cold Fusion
    It's been dug out of its grave and the coffin opened. Surprise! It's alive and well.
    When it was first announced in 1989 by Pons and Fleishmann at the University of Utah, MIT quickly tested it, only to report that it didn't work. This was a super good news for the oil industry, and the Bush family, who had been in the oil business for years.
    On the strength of the MIT report the Department of Energy notified colleges and university that if they did any research on cold fusion, even on an undergraduate level, they'd get no money from the government for anything. They also notified the Patent Office not to process any cold fusion patent applications.
    When Eugene Mallove, who worked in the MIT publications department, looked over the cold fusion test report he discovered the data that showed the cold fusion tests to have been successful had been altered for the final report in order to protect the millions MIT was getting from the government for hot fusion research.
    The Dept. of Energy head, Huizinga, put icing on the cake by publishing a book, Cold Fusion, the Fiasco of the Century.
    In 1993, at the urging of one of my ham magazine readers, I started investigating cold fusion. When I found there was going to be a conference on Maui that December I was there. Well, I went a few days early so I could also scuba dive all six of the Hawaiian Islands. On the strength of what I learned at the conference, I decided to start a cold fusion journal to help this new technology grow, so I hired Mallove, who had written a book on the subject, as the editor.
    The first issue, May, 1994, was a full-sized 100-page, perfect bound, full-color monthly magazine, and on newsstands coast to coast. Article submissions and subscriptions started coming in. We were in business! Then, a few days before the fourth issue was due to go to press, I found the magazine's office totally empty. No Mallove, no staff, all the article, advertiser files and financial records gone! And that's how Infinite Energy, with Mallove the editor and publisher got started.
    Well, I found a new editor, and we struggled on for 24 more issues before the lack of new material forced me to give up.
    When Mallove tried to organize a congressional hearing on cold fusion he was murdered.
    The good news is that a chap named Rossi in Italy has demonstrated a 470 kw cold fusion-powered system. With the lid now off, we'll eventually be seeing power systems in every home and business, generating all the heat and electricity one could want, and at about a hundredth the cost of oil. No more Public Service and the national power web. No more oil, coal, nuclear, thermal, hydro, natural gas, solar, wind, and other energy sources.

10/29/11

Your Baby
    Your new baby can be a royal pain. Crying, fussing, into everything, constantly demanding your attention. So here's some advice on how to keep these annoyances to a minimum.
    For instance, instead of breast feeding little Icky, feed him from a bottle. Make it a plastic bottle, and warm it with the pasteurized milk in the microwave to body temperature. Keep a TV going near him so he'll be entertained when he wakes up and not be as demanding of your attention. A crib will keep your baby from getting into everything and possible being harmed.
    Actually, you can do quite a bit during pregnancy that will provide later benefits for you. For instance, during the last few months, whenever you do anything that might startle Icky, such as falling down, coughing hard, get poked in the stomach, hear a very loud noise, and so on, by sure to offer an excuse, such as, "Oh, how stupid of me," or, "coughing makes me tired." Some sort of verbal positive affirmation.
    You see, one of the basics of all living things is to avoid pain, so we have a built in program that says wherever we experience pain our brain makes note of everything we sense at the time so it can avoid the pain in the future when we hear similar sounds, see similar things, or have similar feelings. That will then automatically, without having to think,, cause us to instinctively try to avoid them.
    Since a highly intelligent baby can be a royal pain, the idea is to keep that IQ under control. Bottle feeding lowers a baby's IQ about 12-15 points. Microwaving it can drop it a bunch more. Ditto pasteurized milk. The plastic bottle, particularly when it's been microwaved, will squeeze some bisphenol (BPA) and phthalates into the milk, lowering IQ and actually altering the baby's DNA.
    The crib, which is for your convenience, will curb the baby's natural curiosity and interest in learning, which can be quite a nuisance for you in later years.
    
10/28/11

The Candidates
    The Democrats have one…Obama. By the time you add up his support, it's a discouraging situation for the Republicans. He's got the black vote, the Hispanic, plus all those millions on welfare and food stamps.
    And what, so far, have the Republicans fielded? There's a bunch, none with a powerful platform or causing much excitement.
    The pity is that our country is in deep trouble, and in serious need of a savior, but with none in sight. Sure, I've got practical solutions for our miseries, but I haven't seen signs of anyone being interested. I've explained how we can go from the 37th healthiest nation to number one…how we could successfully end those lousy wars…how we could have the best educational system instead of the worst…how we could cut our government departments in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating…how we can cut our energy costs at least 90% and eliminate our need for gasoline…how we could end inflation totally…how we could get our industries back from Asia, ending unemployment…how we could cut our prison costs around 90%…and send a few million illegal aliens packing…plus all those infiltrated Muslims…how we could have tuition-free colleges, and at no cost to the government…how we could eliminate the income tax with no loss to the government…how social security could pay ten times what it does now…how we can add about 50 IQ points to our next generation of kids (geniuses). Oops, I almost forgot about bringing most of our military back home, and to stop building more now-obsolete carrier fleets.

10/18/11

Tariffs
    Up until 1913 we had no income tax, nor any need for one, since the entire cost of running the federal government was paid for by duties on imported goods. So Congress and President Wilson ended tariffs and introduced the income tax. No big deal, since it was only around 2%, and that just on the wealthy. It's grown a bit since then.
    If I were President, I'd slap a 20% duty on all imports. Even those iPads from China. You see, with no duty,   that means our American workers are in competition with the $60 a week (or less) Chinese workers. In other words, out of work. So we've been watching tens of thousands of our factories closing and their production moved to Mexico, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, and India.
    My Haband shirt-jackets were made in China, My summer shirts in Bangladesh. My winter shirts in Swaziland, my pants in Malawi, and my winter coats, China. Used to be that many of those clothes were made right here in New Hampshire. We have all those huge old mill buildings down along the river in Manchester in memory.
    But gee, if we put duties on imports, the other countries will retaliate with duties on our products. Since all those huge cargo ships are coming in loaded to the plimsol line with imports, and going back empty, we're not going to lose much.
    Let's start out at 20% and see if that starts getting some of our lost industries back. Like electronics, which is long gone to Asia. If 20% doesn't start our factories going again, let's creep it up to 30% or 40%.

10/13/11

Apple's Start
    I'll bet none of the Steve Jobs bios or the articles about him will go back to when he and Steve Wozniak first started Apple, in 1976. The story of how I helped Steve get started is in my 7/11/08 entry. It also explains about Bill Gates getting started along about the same time.

10/12/11

Starting Byte
    The misinformation on the web suggesting I didn't really start Byte is annoying, so please read the real story in my 2/15/09 entry. It's all there, and interesting.

10/10/11

Talk Shows
    After my doing 24 stints on Coast to Coast AM, plus a few other talk shows, I guess the secret is out: I love to talk. Well, it's one of my ways of sharing the interesting things I've researched. Now, with a bunch more things I'd like to share, how's about giving me a hand by recommending me to some talk show hosts and their producers?
    Here are some of the subjects I enjoy covering:
• Health, and how easy it is to cure any illness without drugs. I sure wish I'd been able to penetrate the wall around Steve Jobs, so he'd still be with us. I can also explain how to easily cure mental problems like PTSD.
• Cold fusion's history and exactly how and why it works.
• The incredible changes cold fusion energy will make, now that the wall of secrecy around it has been breached.
• A mini-battery, where one about shoe-box size will power a car for 500 miles, and recharge in seconds.
• I'm also ready to explain about UFOs, crop circles, precognition, time travel, plants knowing what we are thinking, and communicating with flies.
• Why our public school system is producing the poorest educated kids in the developed world.
• How to eliminate the income tax with no loss of revenue to the government,
• How to make colleges tuition-free at no cost to the government.
• How to get tens of thousands of new businesses started to help ease the unemployment problem, also at no cost to the government.
• Why we have inertia and gravity.
• Why I doubt the big bang ever happened.
• Or that there is such a thing as anti-matter.
• As the health news of how to change your diet to double your life span and prevent you from ever getting sick gets out, it will bring about monumental changes in our so-called health care, farming, and food supply system. No more drug stores or supermarkets as we know them today.
• The incredible changes cold fusion energy will bring about.
• Then there are my 55 good reasons to suspect the lunar landings were faked.
• And the reasons to suspect the Oklahoma City bomb was government sponsored.
• The endless reasons to suspect the same for 911.
• How we can start getting our lost factories back from Asia.
• Why we should view the Muslim quiet invasion with considerable concern.
• Could the Chinese also be quietly invading?
• Do we really have to have the largest prison population in the world?
• And at the highest cost by far? (No)
• Then there are those some 20 million illegal aliens we're coddling. What can we do about that?
• And our nanny-state welfare and food stamp programs.
• Our foolish drug prohibition laws
• Are there really any ETs?
• How the cell phone industry got started.
• How the personal computer industry got started.
• How the compact disc industry got started.
• What was the best Christmas present I ever got?
• How a visit to Sunday school when I was twelve totally changed my life..
• My vi ews on reincarnation.
• Why I tell teens that colleges,  as they are today, are for most kids a waste of four to six years.
• My entrepreneurial background and history. I have a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.
• Helping things grow amazingly with a pyramid greenhouse, remineralizing the soil, Sonic Bloom.
    Stuff like that. 

10/6/11

Steve Jobs
    Steve's passing was disappointing, but no surprise. Disappointing in that despite my every effort to get through to him and explain how easy it is to cure any cancer, he relied on his doctors and went through the usual chemo and radiation treatments, from which few survive. In the most important thing in his life Steve, like around 99+% of the rest of the world, was a stupid, ignorant sucker. Another sheeple.
    Cancer…a ny cancer, is easily cured, mainly with a diet change. Alas, the really big bucks are in "treating" cancer, and none in curing it.
    Having played a key part in helping Steve get started with Apple, I really tried to get through to him, but his protective wall of assistants blocked my efforts. So, we, and those assistants, have lost a major force in the computer world.
    It's simple. Once you stop dumping poisons into your body, your immune system can get busy trashing cancers, and fixing anything else that's gone wrong, instead of being tied up dealing with the poisons. There are NO incurable illnesses!

10/1/11

More Baby Info
    Any couple planning on having a baby should understand that they hold a good part of the future of the baby-child-adult in their hands before and during the prenatal months. I hope it is not a stretch to consider that the health of both the mother and father affect the health of the sperm and ovum they enjoy donating.
    Once started, the sperm and ovum get busy building the baby, slowly generating and assembling all the pieces. The sole source of raw material for this building project is the food the mother eats, so the quality of this material is critical. Any toxins the mother eats are going to be shared by the developing baby, with the potetial of their causing life-long problems for the new person.
    Both scientists and doctors have now proven that many of the things we take for granted are toxic as all hell to our bodies, and thus also to the fast-developing baby. Like cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and so on. Further research may be able to isolate the possibe body and brain deformatives caused by a mother drinking coffee or wine during pregnancy, as they've spotted the crack baby deformaties. When you use lousy building materials, the resulting building is going to be defective.
    I was surprised to learn that the body deformatives and IQ loss in their babies attributed to mothers on crack cocain were not very much different from those of mothers drinking coffee or smoking.
    Dental amalgam? Have it removed by a dentists specializing in that, and before getting pregnant. And don't let anyone near either of you with any vaccinations. Lordy, scientists tell us that all it takes is three flu shots three years in a row to make one ten times more likely to get Alzheimer's. Just imagive what they can do to a baby's developing brain!
    A home birth with    a midwife can help avoid the super trauma for the baby of an array of shots, and removal from the mother to a nursery. Cheaper, too.
    Bottle feeding the baby has beeen shown to seriously cut the child's IQ. See my 6/15/11 entry.

9/30/11

Baby Info
    An internet video showing the correlation between low birthweight babies and their later, as adults, having diabetes, really got me to thinking. And, wondering why I hadn't thought before about the possible ramifications of a mother's diet during pregnancy and her baby's later problems as it grows up.
    After all, scientists and a few doctors have proven that eating things our immune system considers toxic stops it from it's dealing with any invading germs, viruses, or parasites, plus its monitoring of every cell in our body, trashing startup cancers, and the repair of any damage to any part of the body.
    The main poisons we dump on our immune systems are cooked food, grains, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and mercury. Which explains why we're only living about half as long as our body's are designed to live, and why the Department of Health tells us that only about 1.5% of us are truly healthy.
    What I hadn't given consideration was how a mother eating toxic stuff, having amalgam fillings, or getting vaccinations would affect her baby during pregnancy. After all, what she eats is what the baby gets to eat, so what effect would a constant barrage of poisons through the umbilical cord have on the baby's immune system's work on building the baby? It sure isn't going to be good. I'll bet scientists will find correlations between a mother's diet and low birthweight babies. And that could be just for starters. How else might a mother addicted to drinking coffee, or smoking, change the baby? Well, we're familiar with the mess mothers make of their babies when they do more serious drugs, so it's logical that if heroin makes large changes, caffeine can be expected to make smaller changes. But, make changes the baby will have to live with through life. And I doubt if any are going to be beneficial. In addition to crack babies, we'll be identifying caffeine babies, nicotine babies, and so on. 
    I'll have to add this news to the 2nd edition of my health guide as still yet another reason to avoid poisons.

9/28/11

Spending Cuts
    Apparently totally unaware that socialism has never worked in any community or country in which it has been tried, our ex-lawyer, now career politicians, congress, have run up a humongous tab for socialist programs. Trillions.
    Yes, I have a suggestion.
    Of course they can't just stop sending out hundreds of billions of welfare checks every month, so how about slowly reducing them? My first thought was to cut them by 10% a year for ten years, gradually getting the welfarers and food stampers to turn off their TVs, get up off their couches and out checking WalMarts for a job.
    Then, I had an inspiration. Hey, let's cut the payments 12.5% a year for eight years, bringing us to 2020 and a clean slate. What a great target year! And, while we're at it, let's do the same for all the other such payments…like subsidies for farmers and industries, and all the money we've been lavishing on illegal aliens.

9/27/11

Contagion
    Sherry watches the Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and The Doctors TV shows every day, so when a medical movie hit the screens, it got a good deal of coverage on the doctor shows. So, Sherry, being eager for us to go see the film, we were off to the AMC megaplex, an hour and a half away, in Tyngsborough MA. On the plus side we went on Tuesday, when senior tickets are only $4 instead of the usual $6.50 each.
    The film has to do with a virus pandemic which starts in Hong Kong and quickly spreads around the world, killing millions. It's presented on a day by day basis and, despite all the mayhem, I had trouble staying awake. The film is a snorer. Well, I suppose I might have been clued when I looked around in the theater and there were only five other customers. All seniors.
    Once the disease was recognized as a pandemic the pharmaceutical companies got busy working on a vaccine. Eventually one was developed, just in time to save some of the film's cast, so I can see why the doctor TV shows are talking it up.
    From my viewpoint, the writers didn't bother to do their homework. In every pandemic there are some people who just don't get sick…those whose immune systems are alive and well, and not totally compromised with daily inputs of stuff considered toxic. Yeah, cooked food, sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, etc. A strong immune system can handle any invading germs, viruses, parasites or fungi.
    With a good enough virus, everyone in the world except a few of us raw food nuts could be wiped out.
   
9/26/11

God
    We all believe in God. Well, all but a few atheists. Obvious nut cases. After all, from the earliest recorded history man has believed in gods to explain things he didn’t understand.
    So, is God, as many imagine Him, an old man in a white robe, who is watching us carefully, toting up our sins? A kind of super Santa Claus? A lot of people worship God, but I wonder if God is so insecure that He needs worship and adoration?
    It is only natural for opportunists to take advantage of the beliefs in gods and God. So today we have thousands of religions, each worshipping their God. It’s the largest industry in the world with churches, synagogues, mosques, and so on…retail outlets in every city, town and village..
    Well, a few scientists have tip-toed into the unknown God territory. If our memories aren’t stored in our brains, where then? And how can plants sense what we’re thinking? And our cells be in instant communications with each other over any distance? And where did we come from? Where did the universe come from? How can we explain ghosts, precognition, past lives, psychics communicating with the departed, psychokenesis, the power of intention, and all that stuff?
    There’s the power of belief, one which can get Muslims to commit suicide as martyrs. And to chop off the hands of thieves, stone rape victims to death, and so on. But Islam has no stranglehold on religious extremism. The Catholic Church has burnt a lot of trouble-makers at the stake.

9/25/11

Prohibition
    Congress apparently learned nothing from the super-fiasco of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, or export of alcoholic beverages, which essentially made us a nation of law-breakers, plus it brought us the Mafia, which is still with us. The Amendment was eventually repealed.
    During Prohibition my dad and his friends had no problem in getting all the booze they wanted. In 1929, when we lived in Merchantville, NJ, dad set up an old speakeasy bar in the  basement, where he entertained his fellow pilots.
    Not having learned from the alcohol prohibition fiasco, our nanny Congress made drugs illegal, bringing us a new group of crooks, and making drugs more widely available and at cheaper prices. There's even evidence that the CIA has been busy importing plane loads of drugs to help fund their black budget operations.
    So, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933, states opened liquor stores, and beer became easily and legally available. Having been there, I can assure you that people are going to drink, whether it is legal or not. And the same, we've found, goes for drugs, so let's legalize them and add them to the state liquor store inventories. Imagine drug stores actually selling drugs.
    As the word about our health depending on our not poisoning our bodies, the concept that using drugs, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, grains, and so on, are STUPID, will gradually kill the markets for these destructive products, fading away without making anything illegal. Despite lots of advertising, the cigarette companies will die. Ditto beer and wine. It'll take a while. Maybe by 2050, I hope.

9/19/11

My Health
    An email from David Collins suggested I report on my health, now that I'm in my 90th year.
    Well, I'm enjoying the best health of my life, now that I've wised up to the raw food diet. No more allergies. No hay fever every fall. I can now walk through the fields of goldenrod without a sneeze. I can eat watermelon without losing my voice. No more psoriasis. No more fat. No aches or pains. No more colds or flu.
    Retire? When I'm having so much fun working? I have no interest in watching ball games of any kind, playing golf, fishing…well, that was fun when I was scuba diving and fishing with my spear gun. I prefer to learn more so I can share what I've learned. So, I'm up to here in books I'm reading and want to read.
    Between getting out in the sun with shorts and no shirt during the summer, and tanning in Dr. Mercola's tanning system the rest of the year, I'm getting my vitamin D.
    Sherry and I are out there almost every day for a mile or two of fast walking. Plus, several times a day I work out with an exercise system that's attached to my bedroom door.
    At every opportunity I'm preaching the benefits of raw food for health. Funny thing, but often, when I mention living to 120 or more, the reaction is, "Oh, I would never want to live that long." Well, I do. I want to see the coming world where cold fusion systems have put oil, coal, nuclear and other energy sources out of business. Where cars are powered at almost no cost by mini-batteries. And, where everyone else is living happily, illness-free, and enjoying our world to at least 120.
   
9/18/11

Catastrophe!
    A friend works at a nearby nursing home where the patients are paying $8,000 a month for their TLC. Yes, a month! Hmm, that's $96,000 a year per patient, and they have 30, so that's $2,880,000 a year. Hey, I'm in the wrong business! Lordy!
    The catastrophe will be when the people or companies who are shelling out the eight gees per month for the patients learn the truth about the amazing health benefits of a raw food diet. Well, this is just one more part of today's "healthcare" industry, which is almost totally dependent on our making ourselves sick through our diets and addictions…then followed by doctor and hospital mayhem.
    Check my 12/11/10 entry, where I explain how Dr. Henry Bieler fared when he went into hospitals and started curing children with "incurable" leukemia, who were there to die. The hospital threw him out. His 1965 (and 1972, 1987, 1992) pocket book, Food Is Your Best Medicine, is available from Amazon for under $4.
    As the word gets around, and people demand organic food, preferable grown in remineralized soil, we'll see huge changes in the healthcare, food and farming industries. The increase in food costs could, I suspect, be made up for by the lowering of healthcare costs.
    That nearby nursing home could stay in business a while longer by changing their kitchen to total raw food meals and offering residents 30-day guaranteed diabetes cures.

9/17/11

Educating Our Children
    With the day of the pre-nuclear family long gone, with fewer and fewer families being able to get by with only one breadwinner, how can we give our kids a decent break in education? With most jobs these days requiring parents to be away from home for at least eight to nine hours--most of the waking hours for younger children--even if parents knew what best to teach their children, they’re not around to do it. This is a situation parents have to recognize and come to grips with.
    As I’ve pointed out, by far the most critical years for children are the earliest. This is when the patterns of a lifetime are established. No amount of remedial work later on is ever going to completely erase a mind-set that is developed in these first few years. This is when the exposure to mind-expand¬ing experiences help their brains to build the neu¬ron circuits which will allow them to cope with language, reading, and other such critical skills. Once this window of opportunity has passed, it’s closed forever.
    Thus you can see how millions of children are being permanently hobbled mentally by the lack of good early education. Working parents find a nearby day care center and park their babies for nine or ten hours a day. With few exceptions day care centers tend to be just that and little more. They keep the babies and young children in their care fed and dry and as quiet as they can. How many parents have ever spent a whole day at their children’s center to see what goes on? One in a hundred? One in a thousand?
    Babies need personal attention. They need love. They need someone to read to them. They need to be held. They need toys to attract their attention and involve them. They need to be encouraged and congratulated when they try something new. They need to feel what success feels like. They need to learn how to be adventurous. They need to under¬stand that failure is all part of eventually winning and not to be feared. They need to understand that they are different and that this is good. They need to find out that they can do almost anything they believe they can.
    Yes, this is a lot to expect from a day care cen¬ter. But no day care should provide any less! This is why I’ve recommended that we enlist the help of retired people, of the elderly from nursing homes, and that mothers start job-sharing so that one can help with day care mornings and the other after¬noons. These families will have one and a half pay checks instead of two, but they’ll know that their children are getting the best possible start in their lives.
    With day care like this I believe we’ll be headed toward a country with fewer poor, much less crime, less of a drug problem, and with highly motivated kids, anxious to get all they can from our edu¬cational system.
    Have you noticed that whenever we can’t pay attention to something it seems to fall apart? Well that certainly holds for educating our babies--and our children. We haven’t been paying attention. For some reason we seem to feel that even though our government has failed us in almost every other way, at least as far as education is concerned, we can depend on it. Well, it’s doing education as poorly as it’s handling our banks, the deficit, and almost everything else we see exposed in the news.
    Your children are going to get a good education when you pay some attention to them and start trying to change the system which our collective neglect has allowed to strangle our country. It’s our educational system which is at the bottom of vir¬tually all of our problems. It’s been making the poor poorer. It’s been decimating our cities. It’s been allowing more and more jobs to be exported.
    If our babies had been properly educated we wouldn’t have millions on welfare, millions more on unemployment, all watching sitcoms, ball games, game shows and soaps to pass the time as painlessly as possible until death them do part.
    Yes, I know that every day at work is im¬portant, but if you had a death in the family, could you take off a day? Well, you do have a death in the family--it’s your child’s death. So take off a day now and then and spend it with your baby at the child-care center and see what’s going on. You may want to take another day off and see what’s going on in another center, to see if it’s better or worse. Then, after seeing what’s going on, you may want to quit your job and open a more intelligently run center yourself.
    In many centers you’re going to see babies and youngsters sedated with television. Hours and hours of TV. Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers. I’ve already explained why these programs are so disastrous for kids, despite their shelves of awards. If you want to find out more about all this I suggest you read Endangered Minds ($11) and Your Child’s Growing Mind ($10) both by Dr. Healy. The first is from Simon & Schuster, the second from Doubleday. Get ‘em, dammit.
    If you got a call from the center saying your child was sick, could you spare the time to go help? Well, your child is sick and needs your help. Your child is being permanently crippled, a little bit at a time. Of course you can wait it out and wonder why your child "went bad." What did you do as parents to rate this lazy, rock-music immersed, pot-smoking, beer-drinking teenager? No, you created this monster.
    With a high percentage of homes fatherless, working mothers have an even greater problem. Father¬less kids tend to do much more poorly than those with two parents. I’m convinced that when we have a generation of better educated kids we’ll have fewer divorces and fewer one-parent homes. I think we can credit the increase in divorces to our lousy educational system.

9/16/11

What About Homework?
    If we’re going to change our system and try to eliminate memorization, won’t that also eliminate most homework? It shouldn’t. I don’t know about you, but I do far more homework now than I did during most of my school years — except for those dreadful memorization bouts for final exams.
    My homework these days (and nights) consists mainly of reading books and magazines. In addition to business, scientific and news magazines, I also keep up with trade publications in my business fields. This means reading about printing, publishing, circulation, graphics art, computers, music, amateur radio, communications, and so on. Plus I have some personal interests I follow such as skiing, scuba diving, psychology, unusual phenomena, travel, astronomy, cosmology, agriculture, and so on.
    Like any other student I read with a highlighter in hand. I mark interesting pages with Post-It tabs for easy reference. With magazines I tear out the interesting pages and file them.
    If we expect youngsters to learn about the world—to get concepts of history, politics, religions, math, language, and science, we’re going to expect them to do a lot of homework. Their homework will be different from what you might at first expect.
    While most of my homework involves reading books and magazines, I also spend some time watching TV. While some of this is obviously recreational, most of it is for education. I tape the science programs—and watch them while I'm eating, as an efficiency measure.
    I have high hopes for the future of video and on-line teaching. I’m sure that’ll eventually help. It has great potential, but so far there have been very few real success stories.
    Educational computer applications got off to a terrible start. Apple, IBM and other computer firms pushed hard to get computers into the schools. Well, they got ’em there all okay, relieving school systems of millions of dollars. The down side was that (a) the teachers didn’t know what to do with them, being untrained and (b) there was almost no useful software.
    With more and more colleges putting programs on-line, educating oneself at home is getting practical. Gee, we sure could use an on-line publication rating these home-ed programs.

9/15/11

Cognitive vs. Rote Teaching
    One enormous fundamental advantage I see for us to beat the Japanese lies in their almost total dependence on memorization as a way of teaching. We know enough about how the mind works to recognize that rote learning is enormously inefficient. It’s easy for teachers to require their students to memorize information and then regurgitate it at exam time. But supposedly our educational system is there to educate children, not just to provide economic security for teachers and school administrators. The one thing memorization doesn’t do is teach.
    Indeed, it’s this almost total emphasis on rote memorization which has held back the Japanese in their efforts to become creative, despite their approximately 10-point IQ advantage over us. It’s also made it far more difficult for them to develop entrepreneurs. These are two powerful strengths we have.
    While lazy teachers have depended on memorization exercises and homework to keep their own workload down, we have had a few smarter teachers who have recognized the critical importance of cognitive teaching. Teach the kids to understand things and where to get the details.
    In college, instead of teaching me how much fun reading books could be, I had to memorize names, titles, dates and a brief synopsis of hundreds of books. Within hours of the final exam these totally unimportant details were evaporating from my mind. And, instead of having developed an appetite for reading, I’d developed an aversion.
    The memorization of hundreds of calculus formulas, without even a hint as to their application in the real world, sure didn’t help make those courses enjoyable. The fact that, despite my pursuing several careers in business, I’ve never run across the slightest need for calculus — or even had to deal with simultaneous equations — may have, I admit, colored my perspective.
    I’m for helping kids understand how things work. There’s a rush of excitement when a new concept is grasped. It makes learning fun! So I tend to push for cognitive education instead of memorization.
    My college was very proud of the homework load it required. Having gone through this grinder, my perspective 70 years later is that at least 99% of it was worse than a waste of time. It was cruel and usual punishment and should have resulted in legal suits against the college.
    I was lucky in a way. We had a war while I was going to college. I was fat, dumb and miserable, hating almost every minute of college (except the extra-curricular activities — sound man for the RPI Players, the glee club, the radio club, and my fraternity bowling team — plus operating my ham radio station from my fraternity house) — and getting poor grades as a result. So, when the war came along, knowing I’d soon be nominated for cannon fodder instead of a sheepskin, I joined the Navy in 1942. The details of how I came to join the Navy and what happened are the subject of my Submarine Life in WWII book, but right now my aim is to help New Hampshire better cope with the 21st century, rather than as a recitation of my adventures.
    The good part was that the Navy, for some unexplainable reason, actually did things right. I went through their electronics school and it was superb. It took youngsters who didn’t know a volt from an ohm and taught them how to fix any piece of electronic equipment the Navy had. It taught us how things worked so we could reason our way through problems.
    There was no memorization at all! No homework! It was all cognitive education. They’d give us the talk and chalk explanation of how something worked. Fine, but we might eventually forget that. Next, we went into a lab where we were faced with fiendishly disabled equipment which we had to fix.
    It’s one thing to learn how a superheterodyne receiver circuit works in theory. It’s another to face a radio with several faulty or even intermittant parts. Within nine months, the Navy turned out superb electronic technicians. Indeed, I learned more in the first three months of that school than we covered in four years in college.
    One would think that any intelligent person would learn from that experience. Alas, I was so completely brainwashed about the critical importance of college to my "career" that it never even occurred to me to question the process, no matter how painful. When the war was over I dutifully went back to college (courtesy of the government) and blew two more of the best years of my life, memorizing and forgetting facts and equations at an amazing rate.
    An article in Inc. magazine on highly successful entrepreneurs showed that only one of them had completed college. The rest were smart enough to drop out and stop wasting their time. I should have been smarter. Duuuh.
    But my goal isn’t to get rid of college, it’s to make it relevant. Alas, memorization doesn’t start in college. It starts right from the earliest days of grammar school. Yes, I suppose we have to have some memorization. But let’s only include items which we will tend to be using on a daily basis for the rest of our lives, like the multiplication tables.
    It is helpful, for instance, to know the alphabet. It makes it easier to use filing systems. It’s helpful to learn to spell, though the looming ubiquity of spell-checkers in word processors may reduce the importance of spelling as hand calculators have reduced the importance of memorizing the multiplication tables. There’s always the question — what will you do when the battery goes dead?
    Faced with the alternative of memorizing the spelling of 100,000 or so words, I’d tend to spend my time developing a battery backup system. To the extent that memorization is involved in building a vocabulary, I’m in favor of that. But a vocabulary unused is a vocabulary wasted because it’ll blow away. Use it or lose it.
    Yes, it’s going to be a challenge for educators to reorient the system so it’s aimed at teaching concepts instead of memorization. This is going to raise holy hob with somewhere between 99% and 100% of the teachers. In my 16 years of formal schooling (note I did not use the term "education") I had exactly two teachers who made their courses fun.
    In retrospect, the fact that my college accounting professor committed suicide a couple years later wasn’t very surprising. I suspect he was under enormous pressure from the college to stop all that nonsense and conform.
    As an entrepreneur, when I find my company competing with international megacorporations or organized crime, I tend to think in terms of what I call guerrilla marketing. This means looking for weaknesses in the dragon’s armor and attacking the weak spots. It’s really dumb to attack an overwhelming force — or a dragon — straight on.
    Well, the U.S. is in competition with Japan for world financial supremacy — and we’ve been losing badly. So why not look for their weaknesses and attack them? And one long-range weakness is their educational system. It has a fatal basic flaw which I doubt they’ll be able to change. It’s too ingrained.
    Of course there’s always the possibility that just as they imported Ed Demming and paid him to teach them how to compete with quality products, they might come after me and pay me to come over and re-organize their educational system. We know they are a pragmatic people or they wouldn’t have been able to buy into the Demming philosophy and beat us into second place in the world with it.
    So let’s get the jump on Japan and start teaching concepts. This will give us a jump on most of Europe too, where rote teaching is still going strong.
    There’s one more bad aspect to rote teaching vs. conceptual. All too often it’s quite possible to memorize things without giving them any thought. Thus we may memorize data, but then not use the memorized data for thinking.
    As singers can tell you, it’s easy to memorize foreign language songs and sing them, even though you have no idea of what the words mean. I learned a Spanish song in grammar school that for some reason I still remember. I haven’t a clue as to what the words mean. And while singing in a church choir I learned some songs in Latin. I still know them.
    I found the same thing happening with songs in English. Sometimes, years later, to my surprise, I’d suddenly realize what the words meant. When I sing I don’t have to consciously remember the words. They come automatically. Of course this makes it difficult for me to start in the middle of a song or a poem.
    If we apply the same concept to rote "learning" we see that it’s unlikely the memorized matter will be of much use for reasoning — or for any practical use later on.

9/11/11

My Saga
    This being the 911th's tenth anniversary, I checked back in my entries to make sure I'd written about the amazing coincidence that's made the event so personably memorable for me. Yep, it was in my 6/2/08 entry. Like a good friend's precognitive view of the event two days before, and Sherry and I almost getting trapped at the Newark airport for days on our way back from Minneapolis on 9/10.
    Will the real story ever come out, as did the Pearl Harbor story, sixty years later, with Stinnett's Day of Deceit?

9/7/11

Psi-Fi
    The Skeptical Enquirer has zero credibility with me (and many others) due their pathological skepticism. Telepathy doesn’t exist, nor clairvoyance, precognition, and so on, for them. And this despite endless scientific studies which have confirmed the existance of these abilities.
    For instance, in the field of precognition, 309 studies reported in articles over a 50 year period were examined and the odds that the results did not show precognition came out to be one in ten million, billion, billion. That sort of ruled out chance as an explanation for the study results. But what about failed or other unpublished studies? There would have had to have been over 14,000 such studies to even the odds.
    That’s almost enough to get us seriously wondering about time. How can almost everyone see ahead in time if encouraged to do so? And some people with amazing accuracy?
    How about our ability to influence matter? Psychokenisis? A review of 832 studies gave odds of over one trillion to one that people were able to influence the throwing of dice. And it didn’t seem to matter how far they were away, or even if separated in time. Hey, what’s going on here?
    The only convincing explanation for a disbelief in psi is ignorance.

9/6/11

Dowsing
    Okay, what do you think about dowsing? Do you really believe that people can find water underground dependably? Like almost anything else, your answer will probably be determined by how knowledgeable or ignorant you are on the subject. It is easy to hold strong opinions (beliefs) on things of which they are ignorant.
    A while back I reviewed Vibrations by Owen Lehto. This is the most practical how-to book I’ve found on dowsing. But Owen doesn’t waste a lot of time trying to convince unbelievers. Christopher Bird, however, does in his monumental The Divining Hand. Once you’ve read this book I guarantee 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. He’s done his usual massive amount of research.
    For instance, a scientist set up an experiment by driving two iron posts in the ground several feet apart. 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 unfailingly able to detect 1 µA of current. This chap was also able to direction-find any radio station while blindfolded. They told 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 rate they guarantee. They’ve never failed.
    Experienced dowsers can find water veins, 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 were no underground water veins they miraculously recovered. Underground water veins can also make animals sick, and even trees!
    Well, if something coming from the water is making people sick, then it should be possible to detect it scientifically, right? And 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 radiesthesia-ist (medical dowser) 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 Chris’ book. It’s $40 and is available from several sources. It’s a big, glossy, well illustrated book. It’s listed in the American Society of Dowsers book catalog (800-711-9497); Acres USA #6194 (800-355-5313), page 50 in their 2011 catalog, and $20 from Amazon.
    It’s easy to learn to dowse, and almost anyone can do it. But it takes experience to get to be good at it and to learn the right questions to ask. You can do it with bent rods, a pendulum, a piece of plastic (a la the heironymous machine), or even just with your hands.
    I suppose I should have put this into an April entry as a way to deal with people so grounded in science they get upset when something unexplainable is claimed to work. Well, I’ll put my science background up against just about anyone, but it hasn’t stopped me from reading and learning new (or old) and exciting things.

9/5/11

Mother Instinct
    An experiment a few years ago with monkeys made it clear how important close contact between a mother and her baby are for at least the first year. In the experiment baby monkeys were separated from their mothers a few hours after birth and surrogate mothers were provided—made of heavy wire or wood, covered with soft terry cloth, with a nipple for feeding.
    Later in life these monkeys clutched themselves and rocked constantly back and forth and were unable to participate in sex. The females, when they did have babies, either ignored them or abused and often killed them.
    This is something for mothers who want to continue going to work as soon as possible after giving birth should consider. There seems to be a very good possibility that being separated from the baby, while it is difficult for the mother, can have irreparable consequences for the baby. There’s much to be said for mothers having a home business, at least for the first year, so they can be with their babies full time, including breast feeding them. Avoid formulas! Avoid cow’s milk!
    Even separating a baby from its mother immediately after birth is traumatic, with the long range consequences not fully understood. But the usual hospital system of putting the baby in a nursery should be avoided. Indeed, there is much to be said for home births with a midwife.

9/4/11

Child Suicides

    I see where they are fussing about kids committing suicide. If “they” would do some homework instead of just hand-wringing, they’d know why this activity has been growing.
    A few years ago the University of New Hampshire did a survey which showed the close correlation between childhood spanking and later suicide. That didn’t surprise me. My father started early on me with a razor strop or hair brush. I remember when I was about two and, without asking, ate some doughnuts he’d made. The beating terrified me. After that we never really had a father-son relationship. I knew if I made him angry I could get hurt. Really hurt! What I didn’t know was what would trigger his anger. Of course, he was an alcoholic, and that helped make it a hair-trigger anger.
    So I spent my teens being depressed and thinking of suicide. I know how it feels to be so depressed you don’t care if life ever gets better. The break came for me when a new kind of mental repair system came along when I was 28, one which did in minutes what psychiatry tried to do in weeks and psychoanalysis in years. I quit a very promising radio broadcasting job in Florida and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Institute in New Jersey to learn more about this amazing system. We students practiced on each other and in a few weeks the pain memories of my many childhood beatings had been removed and, for the first time in my memory, I was completely free from depression. For the first time I became aware of myself as me. I found that I’d taken refuge in being my mother as much as I could. For the first time I understood what people mean when they say that they feel a one-ness with the whole world.
    I could understand about plants communicating with people, and how our cells can stay in communication with each other, no matter how far separated.
    A Newsweek report said that 70% of Americans believe that spanking children is okay. Well, it is if you don’t mind them killing themselves later on. And you can exacerbate the problem by giving them a high-sugar diet. You know, cold cereal with pasteurized milk, boxed orange juice, coffee, Danish or toast and jam for breakfast. Burger and fries for lunch, and so on. Maybe peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or cookies in the afternoon.
    If my mother had fed me that stuff I doubt I would have made it out of my teens. My best friend in high school stuck a shotgun in his mouth and blew his brains out. His parents believed in punishment to "teach the child a lesson."
    I don’t think you’ll find animal trainers any more who use pain or punishment in their work. They use love and positive reinforcement. Maybe you saw the PBS show about the “horse whisperer,” who was able to train a wild horse to a saddle in minutes just by understanding the horse. No pain. Only positive reinforcement. The old days of Clyde Beaty, the lion and tiger “trainer” with the whip and the chair, have been replaced by Siegfreid and Roy, who sleep with their tigers. How can we go about getting this message through to the 70% of Americans who are still taking out their anger and frustration on their children by punishing them?
    If you have a dog, spend the $2 with Amazon for a copy of Paul Owens' The Dog Whisperer.

9/3/11

Birthday!
    A couple of days ago I went to the opening day of the Hopkinton State Fair and took pictures of some of the food stands. I printed them out and spent this morning handing them to them. They all thanked me, and one said the photo I did for them last year they had framed and is on their wall.
    Well, it was something fun for me to do that I thought no one else would think of. Next year I'll try to take pictures of all the food vendors. Must be at least fifty, and not one with anything healthy to eat. Well, as word gets around, and the public slowly builds an interest in avoiding cancer, diabetes, and heart attacks, the pressure will be on to come up with raw menu items. Ten years? Twenty? Then I'll be able to run a two-page spread in the magazine on how it used to be when we were dying in our fifties and sixties, or hobbling around in a nursing home in our seventies instead of getting out there and having fun at a hundred and better.
    A little later my daughter Sage, her husband Jonny, and my granddaughters Cleo and Nadia got there. They were too busy seeing everything for us to talk. But, what a fair like that is fun for young kids. By afternoon I was tired and hungry, there being nothing there for me to eat, so I drove home and missed watching them on the kiddy rides and the Ferris wheel.

9/2/11
Big Bucks
    With food and gas prices going up, it isn't so much they're costing more as much as the worth of our dollars going down, as inflation does its insidious work. Hey, with the value of our paper money going down, how about making the paper smaller so it'll fit more comfortably in our pockets?
    Our money has been the same size for as far back as I know, and has never been easy to handle. We have to fold it in half to fit in our pockets, and then unfold it when we take it out to spend it. Hey, come on, let's make it credit-card size, so it'll fit in our pockets. Maybe using a little heavier paper.
    Gee, we could get the new size started right here in New Hampshire! No, not by issuing dollars. I've been proposing that New Hampshire start making silver coins in quarter, half and one ounce sizes. We'd check the insidious each day to see what they were worth in Federal Reserve paper dollars. In addition to making the silver coins available, the state could also issue paper silver certificate, exchangeable in our banks for the silver coins, but a heck of a lot easier to keep in our pockets. And make them credit-card size. They could even be issued in tenth and twentieth ounce denominations…two and four dollars at the current price of silver. Yes, they'd be backed by actual silver.
    If the value of the Federal Reserve paper dollars continues to sink, the state might have to start issuing hundredth-ounce certificates…worth a dollar, if silver goes to $100 an ounce, as is being predicted.
    Once we get something like this going, I'll bet other states will follow, and pretty soon the prices of things will start be stated in silver certificates as the dollar blows away.
    As long as there's silver to back them, we could issue ten and twenty-ounce certificates, too. I remember back when the Fed issued $500 bills. Well, at today's silver price that would be about a ten-ounce certificate.
    Yes, the state would charge a little more than the silver price for the certificates to cover the cost of the operation. Considering the market they'd be opening, at a 10% charge, the state could reap billions. r
9/1/11
Serendipity
    One day, back in 1960, I read an article in The Village Voice about this high IQ club in England. In college they tested what was left of my brain after my four years in the Navy and said I had a very high IQ…something over 200. Well, I knew something was wrong, and that explained it. So when I read about Mensa I sent away for a membership application. They sent that and a quiz. Soon I had a membership card. U.S. member #15 —Wow!
    Then, a couple months later, I got a phone call from Peter Sturgeon, asking if I’d be interested in helping him get an American Mensa group started. I was familiar with his brother Ted, a sci-fi writer who’d done a book (I Libertine)with my friend Jean Shepherd K2ORS. I taught Jean how to water ski with my Chris Craft out on Jamaica Bay, where we used to go on picnics.
    Four of us showed up for the first meeting at Peter’s apartment in downtown Brooklyn. Since I had duplicating and addressing machines, I was elected as the first secretary of American Mensa. The next few meetings were at my house in Brooklyn. I served coffee and doughnuts. Well, I didn’t know any better, probably like you.
    I carried on as secretary until I moved to New Hampshire in 1962. Then, I was the Local Secretary for NH Mensa for the next ten years or so, organizing monthly dinner meetings with interesting speakers, and publishing a monthly Mensa literary journal (OzyMandius).
    I kept all the old newsletters and meeting notices I wrote and sent out for a few years. I contacted the Mensa historian, but he wasn’t interested, so I finally threw all that stuff out around 1975, when I was starting Byte and needed the space for people to work on the new magazine.
    It seemed to me that Mensa offered an opportunity for high IQ people not to just get together and revel in their fanbulous intelligence, all trying to one-up the other, but to pool their mighty brains and help businesses and our government to solve problems.
    Alas, with so few exceptions that I’m not aware of them, the Mensa members I’ve met, and I’ve met a lot of them, have turned out to be losers. Few have much money. Few have accomplished anything notable in life. Few have made any effort to provide their brains with information. You know, like reading something more than a few novels. It’s like having a whiz of a computer and then not giving it any data with which to work. Phooey.
    Success in life, I’ve found, has little to do with IQ, or even education. It has everything to do with motivation and the ability to stick to something. That’s the secret that Ray Krok (McDonalds) explained in his book. And Napolean Hill in his.
    I heard from Peter Sturgeon every now and then. We were both disappointed at how American Mensa turned out. So much potential, but with almost nothing contributed to society—nothing to show after over 50 years. Pathetic. Today it's a partying club.
    I’m sure you know people who never get around to finishing anything. They leave piles of unfinished projects in their wake. Their homes and offices are disorganized messes. In the end they have little or less to show for their having been here in Earth.
    Well, I got bored with the New Hampshire Mensa group doing nothing. They don’t even have monthly meetings with interesting speakers any more and their newsletter is pathetic. We did better than that in high school.
8/31/11
Looking Ahead
    You have seriously disappointed me, plus personally contributed to Steve Jobs dying of cancer. I asked you, back on 11/17/09 to be sure to get in touch with Steve about this, and how easy it is to cure any cancer, just by his stopping eating anything the immune system treats as toxic, so it can clean out the cancer.
    You see, all the media attention to Steve dying has moved him ahead of me when you Google "Tech Visionary." And I've been enjoying being number one on that list of 970 other listed tech visionaries. Please take a couple of minutes and Google "Tech Visionary" again, clicking on Wayne Green this time to help move me back to number one.
    Now, with my Tech Visionary hat on, I'm alerting you to some coming changes technology will be bringing us. Enormous changes. And that means enormous opportunities for the alert.
    Well, I've been writing about cold fusion for seventeen years, and it's finally arriving. Unlimited non-polluting energy at around a fiftieth the cost of oil. That's going to eventually wipe out the oil, gas, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and electric power industries. That, coupled with the capacitor battery, will rid us of gas stations, making all our vehicles electric powered. Tomorrow's flashlight batteries will be easily rechargeable and last forever.
    As the word gets around about changing our diet to stop making ourselves sick, healthcare will no longer be one of our biggest industries and the world will adjust to our living 120 years and more in good health.
    When we finally get enough people to wise up and stop re-electing career politicians, we can get our social security system to be modeled after the one in Chile, so we can get ten times what we are now.
    Oh, it seems inevitable to me that eventually we're going to change our socialist and failed school system to give us highly educated youngsters for our workforce, plus cut educational costs drastically. When our kids are learning to read at two, and speed read at five, with 150-average IQs, we're going to have a fantastic high tech workforce.
    By reinstituting tariffs on imports we can start getting our manufacturing industries back from Asia (maybe even our call centers) so we can again make money instead of borrowing it from foreign countries.
    With our people healthy and with plenty of money, I'll need to start ToDo magazines in all 50 states and a dozen or so major cities to help people enjoy their retirement decades. Also, with it costing almost nothing to drive cars, we'll be traveling more and further. Making it even easier, our new cars will almost drive themselves.
    Cold fusion can no longer be stopped. Nor can the news about being healthy. I can't propose a timetable, but knowing what the future changes coming are can be a big help for the alert entrepreneur.
    We'll need farming equipment for a million small farms to supply us with grass-fed cows for raw milk and truly healthy raw meat. We'll want small, medium and large greenhouses for growing remineralized, healthy food. Think millions of home gardens.
    So, are you going to sit, watching TV, while the world gradually changes around you? Or will you take advantage of knowing the future and benefiting from it?
    Have you helped move me back to #1 as your Tech Visionary?
8/29/11
PTSD
    The September issue of The American Legion magazine was devoted to articles about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and how it mystifies science.
    What a crock of diarrhetic excrement! Phooey! Oh, sure, if you go to a doctor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst or psychologist, they won't know what to do. So, instead, invest $6.99 for a pocketbook copy of Dianetics, which was originally published in 1950, and now brags of some 20 million copies being sold.
    Using Dianetics, I can resolve any PTSD problems in an hour, or two, at the most. Well, go back and read my 2/20/11 entry for the story.
8/28/11
The Worst Poverty
    A chap called asking for a catalog of my books. He mentioned that he had a bad heart, so I suggested he might do well to read my book on health, since it might help him live an extra 20 years or so. No, he said he didn’t have any interest in living much longer. I asked him, isn’t there anything you’d like to do that you haven’t done? No. Isn’t there any place you’d like to visit—like see the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the lost city of Petra, or maybe climb the Great Wall of China? No, no interest. He’d visited Canada and Mexico and that’s all the travel he would ever want to do.
    This poverty of spirit is the worst poverty of all.
    Most of us, if freed from the restraints of health and a lack of money, have all kinds of places we’d like to see and things we’d like to do. I have a bunch more countries I want to visit and a bunch more things I’d like to do. But mostly, I want to do everything I can to make our country what our founders had in mind. I want to help as many people as possible to be healthy and to have more fun in life, and that includes having the money it takes to have the fun.
    I had a yacht at one time and I had lots of fun with it. I had a plane and plenty of adventures as a result. I’ve had several Porsches and the stories that go with having had them. They were fun. But I’ve done those things and don’t want to do them again. There are too many new things I haven’t done yet. I’ve been on a hunting safari in Africa, had my own Arabian horses, flown around the world making ham radio contacts as I went. I’ve operated from weird small countries and even from a desert island. I’ve ballooned over the African veldt, making 2m ham contacts as I went.
    How about you? What would you like to do if you had the time and money? Okay, so what’s stopping you? The only thing stopping you is the same thing that’s stopping the chap I talked with on the phone—a poverty of spirit. If you think positively, good things will come your way. If you think negatively, your expectations will be rewarded. That’s the way it works.
    Money is easy to make, unless you do what all the other people who are not making much money do — mainly spending their lives being entertained.
8/24/11
The Anarchist
    Well, that's me, and my goal in life is to destroy the United States as we know it today. Almost utterly destroy it. To give you an idea of the depth of destruction I have in mind, here's a brief list:
(01) Destroy today's health care industry.
(02) Destroy today's food industry.
(03) Destroy today's farming industry.
(04) Destroy today's energy industry.
(05) Destroy today's prison industry.
(06) Destroy today's public school system.
(07) Destroy today's tobacco industry.
(08) Destroy today's alcohol industry.
(09) Destroy today's lobbyist industry.
(10) Destroy today's government bloat.
(11) Destroy today's illegal invasion.
(12) Destroy today's inflation problem.
(13) Destroy today's unemployment problem.
(14) Destroy today's war stalemate.
(15) Destroy today's illegal drug industry.
(16) Destroy today's caffeine industry.
(17) Destroy today's pharmaceutical industry.
    [And all without a bomb or a shot fired]
8/23/11
The Fed
    With seemingly endless warnings that we're  headed for a devastating inflation, what can we do individually, and as voters about the mess our Congress and President management team have gotten us into? Of course I have some suggestions.
    Well, we have the benefit of the 2012 election where, if things get bad enough, there may be the needed votes to get rid of our present management team.
    Meanwhile, I'd sure like to see New Hampshire be the first state to start making pure silver coins available in quarter, half and one ounce weights. In that way we could Google the exchange rate for paper dollars each morning to know what our silver is worth. Today they'd be worth about $10, $20, and $40.
    Ron Paul is right in wanting to have the U.S. Treasury issue our money instead of the Federal Reserve Banks, which are charging us interest on what they issue. The Fed pulled that humdinger off almost a hundred years ago. In the 137 years from the time the U.S. started until 1913 the value of the dollar never budged. Today, what cost 3¢ then now costs a dollar. Heck, just in the time since I started my first business in 1950 the dollar has inflated about 25 times. My brand new Porsche cost $3,300 then. A nice used Taylorcraft airplane was $600.
    So, let's dump the Fed and have the US. Treasury issue our money. Maybe it's  time to make it easier to handle too, like in credit-card sized cards. We used to have $500 and $1,000 bills, so let's have them again so the cards won't be so hard to deal with for bigger amounts.
    To stabilize the new currency's value our new management team will have to make some huge changes, getting our country back into the black. Yes, I have some practical suggestions for making that happen. In the meantime, you might look into exchanging your paper money and bank accounts for silver or gold. Just in case the Shiite hits the fan before enough changes are made to prevent it.
    
8/21/11
How The Brain Works
    It might be closer to title this piece “Why we’re all crazy.” That’s more the normal journalistic style—go for people’s attention. Well, it works for the National Enquirer, right?
    Though we tend to constantly look for similarities in people—things with which we are familiar—we have to admit that everyone is different. Some are a lot different, some just a little. Those who are a whole lot different we label as crazy. But it’s all just a matter of degree.
    And that raises the question, how come everyone is so different? And when someone gets too different is there anything we can do about it? Or do we have to lock ’em up and do our best not to be bothered? Of course once we understand why people are different, that’ll presumably help us not only repair those who are the most screwed up (different), but might also help anyone with a less than optimum response to things.
    To understand how our mind works we have to start with some very basic concepts. Also, I hope the concept that the mind and body are parts of the same organism and can’t really be considered separately won’t strain you. When I refer to the mind, that’s shorthand for mind/brain/body.
Law One
    All living things obey one universal law, the law of self-preservation. It’s a good basic law and the one from which the other natural laws developed. Once you have that one law, the others are inevitable — such as survival of yourself through your children — and the survival of all living things through natural selection and the survival of the fittest.
    Now, if you were going to design a living thing of any kind, you’d build in the self-preservation law as part of the most fundamental programming. You’d hard wire that into the computer system. Computer system? Well, all living things seem to be able to be aware of other living things and react to them, from amoebas to trees — even most people. That calls for some kind of intelligence that we don’t see in a rock. So let’s, for simplicity’s sake, compare whatever living things use to be aware of other things and react to them to a computer. It’ll greatly simplify my job of explaining how people work. If you understand about programming computers, that won’t hurt either. That means understanding about hard-wired instructions, machine language, and so on.
    So let’s start by comparing our brain to a computer. And that’s mostly what it is. No, it isn’t digital. We’re just beginning to discover how the fool thing really works. We have discovered that it’s awfully complicated, but we haven’t even located exactly where memories are stored or in what way they’re stored. We know, but don’t like to admit, that not all brains are equal at birth. There’s a little matter of genetic design, with everyone being a little different. That “all men are created equal” stuff is baloney and gets reason-challenged people into all kinds of trouble. Some people start out with better brains.
    Alas, by the time the kid gets squeezed out into the world some nine months later, the environment has already had a good (or bad) head start on programming. Now, if you use common sense (whatever that is), or understand computers, you know that the earlier the programming, the more influence it has on the end ability of the computer to function effectively. Well, you’re going to hate the concept, but that’s the way it is with kids. That nine months sloshing around, getting occasional poundings from dada as he sees how close to birth he can continue sex with mommy, and other discomforts, all are programmed into the developing computer system.
    Yes, that little fetus can hear what’s going on. No, it can’t think yet. But it can and does react to noises, drugs, and other disturbances. The real downer is that little Icky in there is busy recording a lot of that noise—and that includes voices. Ask me how come the fetus does something like that.
    Let’s go back to Law One, self preservation. Well, if a living thing is going to preserve itself it has to avoid getting killed. Make sense? And what helps living things avoid death? Senses. Like for instance pain. We have a built-in pain sensing system to protect us from hurting ourselves. We go to rather great lengths to avoid pain because that’s equated with non-survival on a very basic level.
    Now here’s where things get screwed up. The basic idea is a good one. The stove is hot and you get burned if you touch it. So you quickly learn to keep your wandering fingers off stoves. You avoid the pain—and that helps you keep ten operating fingers—at least until you take shop and are inattentive for a moment.
    The hard-wired programs in our computers have an instruction which says that when we feel pain we equate that pain to our other perceptics. This is a way to help us avoid the pain a second time. So if we see a stove or hear a kettle, or whatever, we don’t have to consciously consider whether to draw back those fingers or not, we get ’em the hell out of there fast and think about it later. This doesn’t happen on a conscious level, it’s subconscious. Well, the difference in time between the two functions can save your life, so that’s a good basic program.
    The pain sets up this sort of look-up table in the subconscious mind which has a little bunch of neurons equating the perceptics registered at the time of pain. This is not a thinking operation, it’s entirely automatic. Alas, as Congress has proven to us endlessly, even the best of laws tend to have bad consequences. And this basic response has some terrible consequences. The basic idea probably works fine for trees and amoebas, but by the time it’s applied to humans it’s in need of some serious updating. But changing a basic law is far more difficult than tinkering with the Constitution—like trying to pass a law preventing Congress from spending more money than we have.
    The problem is that it doesn’t take long before there are thousands of these memory circuits, all warning us to avoid sounds, sights, feelings, and so on. Then tens of thousands. Yes, it’s possible to go into the mind and erase these fool equation circuits and when we do the person’s IQ zooms upwards as more and more of the mind is available for thinking and no longer tied up with all that garbage.
    The basic instruction says we’re to avoid pain because pain can lead to death. Maybe you’ve noticed, but all pain isn’t physical. We suffer emotional pain too. And yes, the brain treats emotional pain exactly the same way it treats physical pain—it sets up a circuit with all the perceptics dutifully recorded that went with the pain.
    Does all this make good sense? And now can you see why, with subconscious messages to avoid this and to avoid that, why we are so irrational? That’s the way we’ve been programmed. We don’t know why we are uncomfortable when we hear a certain sound. We don’t have a clue that a certain sound pattern can trigger our reactions. Sound pattern? Do I mean like the pattern of some words? Bet your bippy I do.
    So let’s go back to that fetus recording sounds when it registers pain. It’s like a tape recording. There’s no understanding of what the sound patterns mean. That comes later, and still on a subconscious level, where the sounds still have no way to be translated into a consciously understood meaning. But, whooey, can they have an impact on our lives!
Hypnotism
    If you know much about hypnotism you know that people can be made to do things they wouldn’t normally be able to do—and then later have no recollection of doing them. You can tell a hypnotized person that when they wake up they will not be able to see a certain person in the room. And they won’t.
    You can tell them that when they’ve been brought out of the trance they’ll take off their jacket when you touch your sleeve—and put it on again when you touch your chin. You wake them up and they’ll be taking off their jacket and putting it back on a dozen times, each time coming up with what is to them a rational reason for it. After a while it’ll finally become apparent, even to them, that something’s amiss. But meanwhile they will sincerely explain their actions and truly believe what they are saying.
    The subconscious works that way. The sorry fact is that we can’t believe our own conscious minds. We’re constantly lying to ourselves and others. This has a lot to do with why none of today’s psychotherapy has much of an effect in changing people. We don’t consciously lie, but on the subconscious level the lying is endemic as these protective pain avoidance circuits kick in and out.
    Or maybe you didn’t know that none of the psychotherapies work any better than leaving people alone. Researchers have proven this, but it’s one of those dirty secrets the medical industry doesn’t brag about.
The Good News
    Yes, it’s possible to help others to erase those darned pain avoidance memory circuits. I know how to do it and I was very good at it. It takes a little practice—practice and a solid understanding of what you’re doing. No, you can’t do anything to help yourself—it’s that conscious mind of yours, which will protect you until your death. The therapist has to bypass the conscious mind and work entirely with the subconscious—which fortunately is simple to do.
The Bad News
    As far as I know, no one else is available anywhere that knows how to do this. There used to be a few people who were very good at it, but most of ’em are dead now—and I’m not looking so good myself. The other bad news aspect of this is that once you understand how to repair screwed up brains, you also have a key to use your knowledge for evil. One chap, who I knew quite well, did this and made billions.
    Wow, billions! Does that get your envy working? I think that’s one of my problems. I haven’t any envy. I can’t think of anyone in the world that I envy—or that I even remember envying. I personally know a bunch of multi-millionaires and even a few billionaires. I wouldn’t swap with any of ’em.
    Yes, I could tell you how to help others with psychological problems. But you’ll find the same thing I did. People’s conscious minds are so protective that they’ll do almost anything to avoid cleaning out the circuits that are screwing them up. They’ll take off and put on their jackets for years, coming up with fresh excuses each time—excuses they really believe. And they’ll get into lousy relationships, act irrationally, and make a mess of their lives and those around them. But get help? Har-de-har. It’s the same with drug addicts who are the last to admit their addiction—to crack, nicotine, or alcohol.
    So I’m not sure why you’d want to bother learning how to help people when so few are willing to be helped. And you can’t help yourself. Of course, if you work with someone else, you can help each other, which works out well. The problem with that is that you can’t work with someone who is afraid of what you’ll think. This erects a wall. It really has to be a stranger to work well. And once you get familiar with the process you can go in there and clean out whole messes of avoidance circuits in short order. You can actually help 100% of the people you work with and do in hours what other therapies only hope to do in months or years.
    I’ve helped well over a hundred different people, so I have some interesting anecdotes. No, I haven’t time to go back into that business, so don’t ask. But I will say that very few chronic illnesses are unavoidable. Every illness has a psy chological component—an easily found and erased component—once you know how.
    I stopped doing this mind repair stuff because I wasn’t able to find enough people interested in being helped. Also, not being a doctor, there was always the potential for being put in jail. The law doesn’t care what kind of results you are getting, they only go by your credentials.
    Explaining how to repair the mind isn’t as easy as explaining how it works and how it gets so screwed up, so it’ll take a good deal of whining and complaining to get me back to my word processor to tackle that topic. I expect I’ll get a lot more “I don’t always agree with you” baloney. As soon as you’ve done as much research on the subject as I have I’ll respect your opinions—if you can back ’em up with facts or experimental data that is repeatable—which I can. My concept of how the mind works not only makes sense, once you understand the concept, you can see why it has to be that way. It explains everything we see happening, with no loose ends or anomalies.
    It also explains why psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have such a dismal record of repairing minds. Phooey!
8/19/11
A Plus or Minus?
    Have you been contributing to the world, or have you been spending your time grumbling about this and that? Venting your irritation to anyone who will listen?
    There are plus people who are contributing to the world. These are the ones who are giving us poetry, music, art, magazines and books, and other creative things for our minds. There are those who are devoted to graffiti and breaking the noses off statues.
    Are you busy learning, teaching and creating, or are you wasting your life with inconsequentials such as soap operas, talk shows, reading newspapers, watching sports (as opposed to doing them), and so on. Are you a spectator or a participant in life? Have you ever even tried painting? Have you ever tried composing a song? Writing a poem?
    Painting can be great fun. Though my mother was an artist she never tried to interest me, so it wasn’t until I read an article in Reader’s Digest about it that I went out and bought some paints and gave it a try. I found that although I never could draw, I was able to do some very nice paintings. And it fun!
    The candy of life is temptingly everywhere, steering you away from the fruit and veggies which will make you healthier and happier in the long run. Most people are slaves to instant gratification. Oh, they know that a salad is better for their body, but for right now make that a cheeseburger, fries and a Coke. Nobody lives forever, right? That’ll be something to think about when you are 75 and have emphysema, arthritis, and a walker, not something of any great concern right now. Pick out a nice nursing home, right? When you have gotten yourself incarcerated in one you’ll find out how lousy they are.
    How are you to live and work with? Are you making people happier? Among the bundles of nice letters I get from readers there are occasionally some nasties. Name calling. These are from angry people, and I know that not one of them is living a happy life. They’re stressing their families and co-workers. Angry people should never be allowed to represent a company on the telephone or in writing. Put them where they can’t do the company harm with their attitude. Better yet, treat them as the infection they are and replace them. The plus side for angry people is that they live substantially shorter lives.
    Well, enough for my sociological lecture today. Repent. Try writing a poem and see if you’ve still got some wonder and creativity left alive. How about trying your hand on an article for a magazine or newsletter? My correspondents from heaven are adamant that you will get no credit whatever for having confirmed ham radio contacts with 350 countries, knowing baseball statistics, or having religiously watched a soap opera for twenty years. In fact, you might just find yourself recycled to Burundi as a Tutsi on the next go around. Serve you right.
    How about trying to shoot a really good photo? Now there’s a challenge. That takes creativity and skill. Stop throwing your beer cans out your pickup window and organize clean-up teams for your town.
8/17/11
What A Mess!
    Unable to learn a lesson from the failure of socialism in every country it's been tried, our Congress is busy blowing trillions on do-good projects, and they're doing it with both our money, everything they can borrow from gullible other countries, plus tons of paper money the Fed is printing with nothing to back it. Maybe you've wondered why food prices have been increasing.
    At some $94 billion a year, our Department of Education's public school system is turning out kids who are coming in at the bottom in international surveys, and at, by far, the highest cost per student. Well, it has one success: the system it has forced on our teachers is pretty well eradicating learning to think or be creative. Which probably has a lot to do with our people re-electing the same crooks over and over. And over.
    In health, Freddie and Fannie are bankrupt. Our people are 37th in health internationally, and 49th in longevity, all at the highest cost. We could save trillions by getting rid of the Department of Health and letting the market alone. And that's about $8,000 for each of us per year being mostly wasted.
    Dump Amtrack. Dump the Department of Energy. End farm subsidies. If only the 2012 election could bring in reformers who would be guided by the 1984 New Zealand reformers, as I keep telling you (11/17/06), we could get back to being a great country.
8/15/11
Management
     With the Post Office losing billions. Ditto Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; our public school system turning out graduates that are  coming in at the bottom on international surveys, and at by far the highest cost per student; with more government employees than we have in manufacturing: with record deficits…our management team: Congress and the President, are horrible failures.
    Government-run businesses have historically been failures. Socialism has never succeeded anywhere. And won't. The whole basic idea that people will work for the common good instead of for their own good is utopian and unsupported by history. The Pilgrims tried it and almost wiped themselves out. Ditto the first Virginia colony. Check my 11/26/09 entry for that history.
    By unseating our career politicians and replacing them next year with ex-business people, we could see our country start turning around. With honest management we could be the healthiest country, with the best educated kids, and again a manufacturing, exporting powerhouse.
    I've explained how we can quickly and successfully end our wars, end inflation, end unemployment, and so on. Let's see if you are able to ignore hundreds of millions of dollars for advertising and promotion, reserving your vote for people who are not career politicians. Gee, we might even be able to put several thousand lobbyists out of work.
    Oh, and let's get the new team to limit themselves to two terms, as a past Congress did to Presidents after the Roosevelt 4th term debacle.
8/13/11
Change
    Sure, it's going to take a while for people to wise up and change their diet and addictive habits in order to avoid committing slow, painful, expensive suicide. But the change is inevitable to a raw food diet, without refined sugar, caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol…and that includes sodas and water in plastic bottles. Oh, and fructose.
    Lordy! When the only health care needed will be to deal with accidents, hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists will have to find new careers. Thousands of hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities will be blown away, along with the whole pharmaceutical industry.
    Gone will be the factory production of meat and eggs, replaced by millions of small farms to provide grass-fed beef and free-range eggs. Oh, and raw milk. Fluoride in our water just a ghastly memory, like microwave ovens and vaccinations. No more endless wheat fields. Kids in the future will marvel at what ignorant suckers we were back then. Heck, people hadn't even learned to chew their food. And wow, were they fat!
8/10/11
Secrecy
    Maybe, if we elect a new Congress and President next year they'll be able to find out what group or groups are behind all the government secrecy. Lordy, one cover-up after another. No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy factist.
    Back, after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese, there were rumors that the attack actually was no surprise. It took about 60 years before the best book on the subject was published, Day of Deceit by Stinnett. Go back and read my entries for 12/7/08, 2/2/09, 5.2.09. 9/11/09, and 6/1/10.
    You won't find many people so unread as to still believe the 911 attack wasn't homegrown…a false-flag operation inspired by oil interests (like the Bush oil family) to get us into Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Then there were those faked Moon landings. I wrote a book on that operation, Moondoggle. And for the Oklahoma City bombing I made a DVD available of the local TV reports at the time that exposed the hoax, whose real purpose was to get Congress to pass the first Patriot Act without taking time to read it. They had the second Patriot Act, by coincidence, all ready immediately  after 911, whizzing it through.
    UFOs? Secrecy.
    There are a bunch more, so email me a list of those you can think of.
   
8/8/11
Economies
    Gee, Congress is running short of money they can spend. Let's see, what taxes are they going to raise? Perhaps it's my thrifty Yankee heritage, but how about trimming a little, here and there, to economize?
    Like making it illegal to hire illegal aliens. This could save us billions in their hospital, school, social security, and other money we've been lavishing on them. And no more of that anchor-baby baloney.
    I've proposed a simple way to cut the federal government in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. This could save us trillions.
    Get the heck rid of the Departments of Education and Energy. Oh, and the FDA.
    Dump the Federal Reserve Banks and turn the issuing of our money back to the Treasury so we can end inflation.
    Let's close down a hundred or so of our military bases abroad and bring back the tens of thousands of our troops now in Europe and Asia.
    Can we get Congress to end their earmark repayment of bribes?
    Well, that's a start. Maybe they'll even be able to save enough to start repaying the trillions they "borrowed" from the Social Security fund and re-institute the COLAs until the Fed is dumped and inflation stopped.
8/7/11
Problems/Solutions
    Next year may well be our last chance to save our country from the massive congressional mismanagement mess we're in. Please! Never Re-elect  Anyone.
    We're broke. We're up to here in illegal aliens. We're wasting trillions making ourselves sick. Our school system is one of the worst in the developed world. Unemployment. Inflation. Endless wars. Gas prices. Welfare and food stamps. More and more taxes. Social Security threatened. Aarrgh!
    Sure, I've done the research and come up with practical solutions to all of those problems, but with most Americans more interested in Oprah, Judge Judy, Dr. Oz, and endless crime shows as part of their daily five to twelve hours (and more) of TV watching, entertainment is king, not thinking…a skill few Americans have ever developed.
    Alas, our public school system has been purposely designed to prevent our learning to think, and the daily doses of fluorides in our tap water help deaden our curiosity. I'll bet you've never read about how and why our public school system was started. I'll bet you've never stopped to wonder if the shoe and underwear airline bombers, who now have us irradiated or groped when we want to fly, were real terrorists, or maybe fakes, like the 911 attack, to further sheeple us.
    Unemployment? Business Incubator Groups and a tariff on imports. Inflation? Dump the Federal Reserve Bank system. You name the problem and I've got a practical solution…many buried in my past blogs. Download ’em all so you can search for my relevant entries.
    Welfare? Cut the benefits 10% a year and get their fat asses back to work. All those millions of aliens? Make it illegal to hire them. Oh, and no more of that anchor baby nonsense. Social Security? Adopt the Chilean system so we can get ten times the current payouts. Income taxes? There are three simple ways to end them, with no loss to the government.
    It's fun to research our problems, looking for times when they've been solved in the past.
8/6/11
How Long?
     Now that I've gotten used to my raw food diet and actually chewing my bites before swallowing them, I find that I no longer have the slightest interest in cooked foods. With raw foods the flavor is there as I chew them to liquids. When things are cooked the flavor goes away long before it's completely chewed.
    With our current economy centered around our making ourselves sick with cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine, the news that eschewing them instead of chewing them is going to be resisted by the government, the media and our schools, so the change to a cancer and other illnesses-free world is going to take quite a while. With there currently being almost no money in health and trillions dependent on us making ourselves sick, how are people going to even hear about it?
    Here in New Hampshire I'm very fortunate. Right here in town I get raw milk from Arty's farm, plus we have a Saturday morning farmer's market with organic produce. Even local meat. The same at the Peterborough farmer's market, a few miles away. But, with most of our people living in cities, and with state legislatures ignorantly making it illegal for stores to sell raw milk, the change to a healthy diet isn't going to be easy. Oh, as I've mentioned, New Hampshire does allow stores to sell raw milk.
    Will we, in maybe ten years, see restaurants offering raw food meals? Eventually, as people wise up, we'll all be eating raw food. No more cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and so on. Maybe 10% of the hospitals and doctors we have today…mainly to deal with accident victims, and the few really stupid people still making themselves sick with drugs. I think the coffee, sugar, alcohol, and cigarette industries will be history.
    With us living 120…even 150 or more in good health, with all our marbles…the retirement age will be advanced, but the change will come about gradually, so we'll adapt. I'll be ninety next year, and I'm having so much fun working that I can't imagine retiring. I do have a few more countries I want to visit. I love to scuba dive and ski, but have never had the slightest interest in golf. Never will.
8/5/11
Slowly
    In the off chance that you just might be interested in avoiding the annoyance of cancer, a heart attack, diabetes, and such, I'd like you to see how much fun it is to start putting more raw food into your diet.
    Let's start with breakfast, okay? For mine, I pull a tray with seven little half-pint containers in it out of the fridge, and get started with a few spoons of orange slush. It's real easy to make. I take the outer peel off some oranges, leaving that white inner peel on. I remove any seeds and put it in my $20 blender, and blend, so I can eat it with a spoon…and get plenty of the fiber. I carefully chew each spoonful before swallowing. For some reason chewing each bite like this has me feeling satisfied with about half as much food as it used to take.
    Next, a few spoons of grapefruit slush…fixed the same as the orange, except I add a little New Hampshire maple syrup, More delicious flavor as I chew.
    My third container has blueberries, also blended for easy eating, plus that makes it easier to get the full benefit of the blueberry skins.
    The fourth is blended seedless red grapes, which are not only delicious, but provide a good dose of that super-healthy reservatrol.
    One really nice feature of blended fruits is you can make big batches of them and freeze what you aren't going to need for your breakfast tray. Defrosted, the taste is still superb. Both Sam's Club and Costco sell oranges and grapefruit in large bags, allowing me to make several quarts of slush at a time to freeze.
    My breakfast's second course is a bowl with about half a banana (sliced), a couple tablespoons of berries (raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, or sliced strawberries), and a cup of raw milk. Yes, I chew every bite thoroughly.
    Finally, a few spoons of my super-healthy ice cream for desert (see my 5/6/11 entry), and I'm full.
8/4/11
2020
    One problem with being a Tech Visionary (Google it) is my impatience with the future I see out there to arrive. Frinstance, eventually everyone, despite the so-called healthcare bonanza trillions involved, will wise up about health. And, this is going to bring about massive changes in our world.
    Scientists have finally managed to discover what we should have know long, long ago…that when you put stuff into or on our bodies that is treated as toxic, we are not going to be healthy. Gee, what an incredible concept! No wonder it's been so hidden from us.
    We can rely on laboratories to discover what our bodies treat as toxic, or we can use a simple test. Just time your pulse after eating something and see if it stays the same or speeds up as your body gets busy fighting the poison when it reaches your digestive system, where your immune system hangs out.
    You see, our body design firmed up back in the caveman days, when we  were hunter-gatherers, and eating everything raw (like all other mammals still do). So our health depends on our eating raw fruit, vegetables, meat, and nuts. This was way before grains were being cultivated, so they're toxic too. As we wise up we'll stop growing wheat, rye, soy, and rice in exchange for quite a few more years of healthy living.
    Eventually, today's commercial food supply system will be history. No more factory-raised meat, just pasture-fed meats. No more chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Our farm lands will all be remineralized with rock dust. I think we'll be seeing a million or so more smaller farms sprouting up to fill our raw milk, meat, and organic food demands. Millions of greenhouses. Millions of back yard gardens, keeping kids busy gardening after school.
    As people wise up and stop giving themselves cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and so on, our need for doctors and hospitals will go down to dealing with accidents instead of sicknesses brought on by our addictions to poisons such as cooked food, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and so on. It'll be a slow change, so the world will adapt. Indeed, every sickness we're spending trillions on today will eventually be history.
    The same for our use of oil, coal, nuclear power, hydro, wind, solar, and so on. Cold fusion energy was discovered in 1989 and quickly scuttled by the Department of Energy to protect the oil interest trillions. Alas, recently the first commercial cold fusion power units have started being manufactured in Italy instead of here. Next, an outfit in Greece is starting to make power units. Sometime in the future we'll have units in every home and business, cutting our energy  costs some 90-98%. Maybe I should start scanning in the 28 issues of the Cold Fusion Journal I published 16 years ago and put them on my website.
    It's going to be a multi-trillion dollar industry making the power units and associated electric generators. Then will come the need for businesses to install and service them. We'll see a new generation of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs type entrepreneurs taking advantage of the new technologies.
8/3/11
Religions
    Yeah, there are thousands of ’em, all with true believers…many anxious to kill to protect their beliefs. For some reason, just as I have no addictions, I also am, and have always been, religiously belief-free. This has been quite helpful in my being able to look into new scientific developments with an open mind, and to enjoy looking into conspiracy theories for the facts.
    So, when an email arrived from a friend, who has obviously done his homework on how the major religions started, I was not surprised when he confirmed what I've read in several books…that Christianity and Islam were both started by the Jews as a way to take people's attention off what they were doing, while they quietly set about controlling the world.
    Well, between our government-run public school system, which has been purposely designed to discourage us from learning to think or be creative, and stuff like fluoride in our water to further lower IQs, it's easy to generate religious convictions (beliefs).
    Religions get a big boost out of the fact that prayer actually does work, though we have no scientific explanation as to how or why. Check my 4/3/08 entry about Art Bell's experiment. And it works whether one believes in any God or not. Well, there's a lot of unexplainable stuff going on…like how can our body's cells instantly communicate with each other over any distance? And how does psychokenisis work? And mind-reading? How can a plant know what we are thinking? Read ($9 Amazon.com) and The Secret Life of PlantsThe Secret Life of Your Cells (75¢ Amazon.com) and wise up.
    So we have our religions, with retail shops in every village and town in the world. Some are multi-trillion dollar international businesses.
8/2/11
The Joke
    Golly, after going to all the trouble to organize the 911 show as an excuse for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, with that nice WMD embellishment, so our oil people would be able to grab all that Iraqi oil and also run a pipeline down through Afghanistan for the Black Sea oil discovery, now along comes cold fusion, which will eventually put oil out of business. Gee, it's always something!
    No, I don't believe for a moment that the Bush family having been in the oil business for many years had anything to do with all that. But, if whoever organized it all had bothered to Google: "Tech Visionary" for a glimpse of what technology had ahead for oil, our country could have saved trillions, plus thousands of wasted lives.
    Sure, it'll take a few years for us to change to cold fusion, considering the clout and huge investment we've got in oil, coal, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, the national power grid, and so on. But when a new technology comes along that is a tenth or less the cost of the old, history has proven it can't be stopped.
7/21/11
Getting Fundamental    [A 1996 73 editorial — 15 years ago!]
    Religious fundamentalism is causing wars all around the world. Perhaps it’s time for us to take a close look at the fundamentals of life and start fighting for them here in America. So let’s take a close look at what we’ve been doing and how it fits in with the most basic laws of nature. Will you be offended if I suggest that the laws of nature are the laws of God?
    Okay, what is the most fundamental law for all living things? What is the most basic law of all? It’s staying alive, right? At least unless we’re really screwed up we’ll fight the hardest of all to stay alive. Indeed, this is basic rule number one. This is built right into the genetic pattern of every living thing. This built-in law also causes us an enormous amount of trouble, it being at the heart of all our mental illnesses and aberrant behavior. That’s one of the problems that always crops up when you have a law which is enforced, no matter how unreasonable the enforcement. This is a law which helps to kill us. That’s a strange dichotomy and may be difficult to grasp, but it’s logical.
    If self-preservation is rule one, what’s rule two? The preservation of yourself through your offspring. That’s why we have love, lust, and all those other great-feeling things we think about, talk about, and sing about. We’re talking a very, very basic law of nature. I hope you’ll agree that this qualifies as rule two. This is the rule which we feel driving us every day. This has to do with bikinis, deoderant soap, tight jeans and so on. It also leads to the concept of the survival of the fittest, which we might consider as rule three and the result of rules one and two.
    The reason even the smallest of boys tend to fight is in preparation for later life when they are going to have to fight for the choicest girls. It’s genetic. Men fight off other men to ensure the survival of their offspring. Women build nests. This survival of the life forms best adapted to winning the battle to propagate has resulted in the survivors we see around us today.
    Now, let’s look at that survival of the fittest concept and think about it. This is where socialism comes in and screws things up. Socialism has as a basic concept the protection of the weak. We see it in welfare payments. We see it in our non-profit institutions. We have hearts. We’ve been taught to try and go against nature. We see our whole government working on this fundamental basis, perhaps ignoring the fact that nature is merciless. Nature (God?) abhors the weak and sacrifices them for the long term good of all life.
    Did democracy win against socialism in Europe? Of course not! It was capitalism that won. Capitalism is the epitome of the survival of the fittest. Socialism is the opposite—to help the weak to survive. Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations, written around two hundred years ago, describes how capitalism works with an “invisible hand.” It ties in closely with rule one, self-preservation. It also ties in with rule two, survival of your genes. No wonder capitalism is winning!
    Capitalism is winning everywhere it’s permitted. Hong Kong and Singapore are capitalist societies and enormously successful. Neither are democratic, by the way. Vietnam is emerging from the chaos of its war at a record pace because capitalism is going strong there. Capitalism is doing pretty well here in America. It’s the socialist systems we have in place that are making us sick.
    Just take a look at our biggest social works—our public schools, the post office, the government bureaucracies, welfare, unemployment benefits, social security and so on. There isn’t one single thing that the socialist approach can do that the capitalist approach can’t do better and much, much cheaper.
    Our public schools cost more than double what our private schools do and provide a substantially lousier educational product. We have teacher’s unions to help protect the jobs of the incompetent teachers who are making a mess of our kids. Every study of the post office has shown that if the service was allowed to go private we’d get far better service at a fraction of the cost. Well, the same thing holds for every government-controlled service we enjoy.
    We know what a cesspool the whole welfare system is. Right here in my small town we have people on welfare. I’ve had employees quit so they could go on welfare and not have to bother working any more. They didn’t get as much money, but they never had to work again. One of my employees has a friend who does social work. One of her cases is a 22-year-old woman with two kids. She hasn’t worked in years. New Hampshire provides her with an apartment, it provides day care for the older child. None of your economy day care, mind you, we’re talking $90 a week day care. Plus the state spends $50 a week to provide taxi service to take the kid to the day care center and drive him back. Plus she gets food stamps.
    This woman has no marketable skills, nor is she being encouraged to develop any. She’s supposed to be getting advice from a social worker, but she’s refused to talk with the worker. No one knows how screwed up her younger baby is getting at the hands of this mother.
    I wish this was just an anomaly, but the more you read, the more exposés you see on TV, the more you know that something is fundamentally wrong in America. What was it about not screwing with Mother Nature? Well, we may have hundreds of millions of people who believe in the Koran, and hundreds of millions more who believe in the Bible, and more believing in the Baghavad Gita, and so on, but when I look for the hand of God, I see it in the fundamental rules of life. I see it clearly waving us on with rule one: self-preservation. With rule two: continue your life through your children. And I see capitalism in harmony with these dynamics and socialism fighting them—fighting God’s will. So that’s why I’m preaching fundamentalism. I’m not talking worship or spiritualism. I’m not talking mystical belief. I’m not talking churches and ritual. I’m not talking voodoo or reincarnation. I’m talking the rules which we all can see, feel and experience. I’m talking the rules which make sense.
    Are there any other self-evident rules? You bet, it’s just that they aren’t as all-powerful as number one and two. Our love and protection of family comes under number two. But beyond that we feel a kinship for our extended family—our group. We find there are times when belonging to a group definitely helps with self-preservation. I’m not sure this is a genetic rule. It may be a pragmatic one, but it’s one we learn, even if it isn’t genetic. Like the other rules, this one gets us into all sorts of trouble. You can see it going berserk in Yugoslavia, Checkoslovakia, Northern Ireland, India, Sri Lanka, Timor, Ethiopia, Sudan, and so on. It’s doing fairly well here in America, helping keep the blacks, whites and Hispanics at odds.
    Yes, we do need government. We just don’t need anywhere near as much government. Most of what the government is doing—or perhaps trying to do, but failing—could be done for a fraction of the cost and done infinitely better if we could reject the socialist mind set.
    What would our government be like if it was run like a business? Suppose inefficient and arrogant workers could be fired as they are in most for-profit businesses? Yes, we’d have to change our educational system so people would have the skills they need to do the work efficiently. Well, if we can get the government to stop forcing us under penalty of law to send our kids to public institutions, we’d have people with the needed skills and the enthusiasm to use them.
    We’ve made teaching such a lousy profession that it’s the poorest students who go for it—the people who don’t feel qualified to compete in the capitalist world. And who teaches the next generation of teachers? The lowest 20% of the previous generation. It’s no wonder we’re spending the most of any developed country on education and getting the worst results. Why, it’s almost enough to make a person think.
7/20/11
2012?
    So, what's ahead for next year? There's the threat of runaway inflation with silver going from $40 to $6,000 an ounce. Well, with congress unable to stop itself from sending billions to other countries for projects like building or refurbishing mosques in Muslim countries, it's difficult to keep the Federal Reserve note printing presses running fast enough. Oh, by the way, the dollar has lost 97% of its value since it was turned over to the Fed. In the 137 years before that, with the Treasury in control, the dollar's value never changed.
    Or will it be a massive solar flare that will blast earth? Maybe that eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano that David Booth repeatably dreamed about…burying much of our country in several feet of ash? Or another New Madrid Fault earthquake?
       What about that Mayan December 21, 2012 end-of-the-world prophecy? Several of our native Indian elders are also citing 2012 as the end of time.
    Even worse, our 2012 election might not dump all those heavily-bribed career politicians from congress. Oh woe!
    Nostradamus predicted a pole shift early in this century which would wipe out 97% of us…with the new poles over Siberia and South America. The several mile high waves that would hit every coast in the world would certainly wipe out billions.
    More likely is that a percentage of the millions of illegal aliens sneaking across the Mexican border are Muslim terrorists…and all they'd have to do is break the national power grid in a few key places to wipe out the power for our cities. Millions, unable to get food and water, or gas to leave town, would starve to death. You do have some emergency food and water put aside, right? Just in case?
7/19/11
Hospital
    A visit to the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover NH was awe-inspiring. Huge buildings with vast parking lots around them, almost solid with cars. Plus they have nine more medical centers in Manchester (2), Nashua (2), Milford, Keene (2), Lebanon, and Bedford.
    This is a huge New Hampshire industry, with thousands of doctors, and all totally dependent on the public not wising up about their health. Well, the same can be said about our supermarkets and fast food companies. Indeed, almost all of our current food industry would be destroyed if the public knew the truth about health, plus gave a damn whether they were sick or not.
    I hope it makes sense that when you overwhelm your body's ability to cope with poisons that it is going to get sick. What's poison? That's simple to find out for yourself if you doubt what the scientists are telling us. Just use the pulse test. Time your pulse before and after eating the food you want to test. If the pulse goes up your body is busy fighting it as poison.
    You'll find that anything your remote hunter-gatherer ancestors ate will be fine…like raw meat, fruit, and vegetables. The new stuff, like grains, cooked food, sugar, and so on will be toxic and eventually head you and your check book to the hospital. Sucker!
7/18/11
Press 3 for Arabic
    Yes, this is already happening in some cities. Well, maybe this will help the new try at getting Congress to make English America's official language. The last time that came up 32 Democratic senators (and one Republican) voted against it (see my 2/11/11 entry).
    All of our earlier immigrants learned English, so let's stop making it so easy for people to come here and not learn our language. Let's not only make English our official language, let's ban foreign language radio, TV, and publications. Even Arabic. Let's even make that apply to signs in store windows.
    Let's make it clear…if you don't want to learn English, don't come.
7/17/11
Long Ago  [This was originally a 1996 editorial item from 73]
    When I first moved 73 to New Hampshire from Brooklyn in 1962, just two years after starting it, I hired a bunch of college dropout hams to come work for me. I paid $20 a week, plus room and board. I had up to eight hams living in my 40-room house and we had a great time. I cooked the meals, we put out a great magazine, and we set up one heck of a ham station way up on Mt. Monadnock, a few miles away.
    When I bought a small offset press we started also putting out a VHF magazine, a contester’s magazine, and one for club newsletter editors. High school kids came in after school and helped collate, staple, and address these publications for 50¢ an hour. They earned some spending money. It helped keep them out of trouble. And they got to learn about the responsibilities of working.
    I had one ham working with us who was so much trouble that I finally gave up and tried to fire him. He pleaded with me to let him stay and keep working without any pay. Being a sucker, I said I’d give it a try. After a couple weeks I told him he wasn’t worth nothing. He then offered to pay me $20 a week if I’d let him stay.
    I finally agreed to let him stay if he’d live in the hamshack house up on the mountain and help clean out the brush around the place. Just don’t come down and aggravate us here. Well, for instance, I did the cooking and the live-in hams took turns washing the dishes. When it was Tedsy’s turn he managed to turn a half-hour job into a four hour job. The same when it was his job to empty the wastebaskets or shovel out the horse stalls.
    Tedsy came down from the mountain one day and asked if I minded if he put up a vee beam for six meters, aiming it down the east coast. What could go wrong? I said sure. The next thing I knew, a few weeks later, he’d cut down over a dozen big trees to make a path for the two wires of his vee beam. Worse, he’d miscalculated a bit and the beam was actually aimed at Bermuda, so no one down the coast could hear him.
    I remember him walking up to me with a broken yardstick. He looked at me sheepishly and explained that he’d had it in his mouth and walked through a 30” door.
7/16/11
The Pulse Test
    A lab full of equipment isn't needed to find out what is or isn't toxic to our bodies…and therefore should be avoided if we want to be healthy. The 1956 (and 1994) Arthur Coca, MD. book, The Pulse Test, explains it simply. You just measure your pulse when you are at rest, eat, drink, or breathe what you want to test, then measure your pulse rate thirty and sixty minutes later. If it is up, your body is busy fighting what you tested. It's proven toxic, and should be avoided.
    Just as you can put a sugar cube in your car's gas tank and nothing will happen, eventually, with a cube every day, your engine will die. Same with your body. Sure it can manage, though not well, with daily poisons, but it'll die at 60 years instead of 120. Or less.
    So, you can prove to yourself the toxicity of cooked foods…and sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and so on. It's also a good test for anything you might be allergic to.
    The nice part is that when you avoid poisons your immune system can devote full time to checking every cell in your body, and replacing every cell every few years. It quickly trashes any starting cancers.
    Once we stop poisoning our bodies I think we'll find the scientists right who claim our bodies should be good for 120 to 200 years if we take proper care of them. You know, plenty of exercise, sleep, pure water, and sunlight.
7/15/11
Economizing
    With our USA, Inc. board of directors and CEO driving our country into bankruptcy it's about damned time for them to start cutting back on all this nanny-state crapola…like welfare. If I were the CEO I'd put the 33 welfare millions on notice to start looking for work by cutting their payments 20% a year for the next five years. Oh, and the same for food stamps.
    Okay, you sorry-assed wimpy socialists, make it only 15% a year.
    Have you any suggestions for cutting back on the hundreds of billions we're spending coddling some 20 million illegal immigrants? I'm sick of them thronging over the border, lowering everyone's pay, pushing hospitals out of business with their free care, and costing us with free schooling for their kids…which often includes free breakfasts and lunches. Oh, and sending billions back home to their families every month.
    Unfortunately it's illegal to shoot the congress people doing this to us, but at least let's fire their sorry asses next year.
7/14/11
The War We Lost—and Lost Big (This was a 73 1996 editorial — please update the costs to 2011 for me)
    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.
    We've 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 sheepily 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) career scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term businessmen-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 big time), 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 could 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 tiny 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  Secret Guide to Wisdom was a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covered 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 (in 1996) 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 bringing up 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.
7/12/11
Hep B
    One more good reason to use a midwife for births at home instead of a hospital is the hospital practice of vaccinating babies in their nurseries, often without your permission. The Hepatitis B vaccine is a good example. Wait'll you read the horrific miseries this vaccine, which is usually administered  to your baby by the time it is 12  hours old. Like autism.
    Rather than me go into all the details, let's get your butt of the sofa, turn off the damned TV, Google Dr. Mercola, and then Hep B.
    Those twelve to sixteen vaccines being injected into babies seem to be far more about the money than the baby's health. And I'll bet, if you press your doctor about why he's doing it, you'll find he was taught that in medical school. He has done no research on the so-called side effects all those vaccines are doing to the babies. So, how about you doing the homework?
7/11/11
Eggs
    I added four eggs to my ice cream recipe just to give it more protein. They don't add anything to the flavor, which is dominated by the chocolate whey powder. You don't even taste the bananas, which make it sweet. Now I see that eggs are antioxidant powerhouses. A new study shows that an egg has more antioxidant power than an apple, and about the same as cranberries.
    Of course I use eggs from a local farm, where I can see the chickens out there running around in the field, not those from a supermarket. Well the same for the milk in the recipe, which is raw from local pastured cows. 
7/10/11
More Fluoride Info
    Now we read that drinking fluorided water (which is in 70% of America's town water supplies), is causing serious brain and neurological damage. It's causing health and nervous system problems by its ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, and then stay there. Even worse (much worse), pregnant women are lowering the IQ of their babies.
    The only beneficiaries to our water fluoridation are the aluminum and phosphate mining industries who would otherwise be stuck with a serious disposal problem from this waste product. Oh, I almost forgot, our career politicians, who owe their re-elections to us being obedient sheeple.
7/9/11
Changes Ahead
    Repercussions are ahead as the three giant technology changes I'm predicting take hold. They're going to shake everything up beyond our present day comprehension.
    Sure, with trillions invested in our current technologies, change is being vigorously resisted. Make that giga-resisted, with every tool possible…media control, backed by ad billions, government control via a massive lobbyist swarming over Congress, and (of course), murder.
    If you have an investment in any of the eventually-to-be demolished industries, in either money or your work, you might want to consider making changes…perhaps taking advantage of the many opportunities that will be unfolding.
    Ahead we have the possibility of an America where almost everyone is healthy, and our standard of living is again the best in the world . It can and will be resisted, but it can't be prevented. We know how to have babies with 150 IQs, who can read by two years old and read books at a few seconds a page by six. We know how to avoid ever getting sick and living in good health 120 to 200 years. We know how to cut energy costs about 90%, with no more oil, gas, nuclear plants or power grid.
    So, what are the enormous changes coming going to do to your career? Maybe you have kids going to college busy learning about a soon to be obsoleted technology?
    Once people learn the simple rules for never getting sick and abide by them, we're going to need doctors and hospitals mostly for accidents.
7/8/11
Baby Info
    Even more incentive for using a midwife for the birth of your next baby is the news of the ever-rising autism figures, which are attributed to today's baby-vaccinating craze. Now, a new study ties the increasing baby deaths to vaccinations. Well, there's a double benefit there…the money doctors and hospitals get for giving them, and the fantastic profits the vaccine makers are making. Oh, and at the same time, it's a step toward reducing the world population growth. A winner all around…except maybe for the bereaved parents.
    If you can find any reliable data on all these infant vaccinations doing good, please let me know.
7/7/11
Wheat
    Well, it's no news that white flour has no nutritional value. Worse, it has to be cooked…a double whammy health wise. Alas, if you'll do some research you'll find that wheat, in any form, even sprouted, is causing a bunch of health and brain problems.
    Our bodies' present design was firmed up while we were¬ still hunter-gatherers, and doesn't work well with cultivated crops such as wheat and rice. Even our minds are affected, contributing to ADHD in children, schizophrenia and depression in adults.
    My mother was into health almost 90 years ago, when I was a baby, so, as a child, She avoided white flour products, sugar, and cold cereals. I got oatmeal, Ralston wheat cereal, and Wheatina with cream, and whole-wheat toast for breakfast. No s ugar, jam or jellies. No cookies after school. Candy only at Christmas, when it was unavoidable.
    Do your homework and if you have another child you will be sure not to eat any grains during your pregnancy. And, if not you, get the word to your children so their kids will have a better chance at health and higher IQs. Let's get the word around and have those millions of acres of midwest wheat farming changed to growing healthier produce. It'll take a while for the news to get around, and longer for habits to change, but eventually there'll be no more cold cereals in the supermarkets. Nor bread. Pfft the IHOPs.
    People in places with no grains, like some Pacific islands, have about 1% as many people with schizophrenia.
    Once you have stopped eating grains you'll find your moods happier and your health improved. Of course, if you are truly eating healthily, you're eating only raw food, so the grains are irrelevant.
    Now, don't take my word for this, check what Dr. Mercola has dug up for you in his research.
7/1/11
Coast to Coast AM
    Maybe you can help me to get back on the show again with a message to: coastproducer@aol.com. Well, I have plenty to talk about that is their kind of stuff. Like UFOs, their favorite subject, but which I suspect do not involve ETs, but are coming from our future. And those greys with the big eyes? They're living future robots used for routine or hazardous work.
    How about my making a good case for anti-matter to not exist. And ditto the big-bang. They'll like my explanation for why we have inertia and gravity.
    Then there's the three scientific discoveries which are going to totally change the world. One is how to cure any illness with no drugs, to never get sick again, and double our life spans. The second is the development of cold fusion, a process I can explain simply which is going to end the need for oil, coal, natural gas, and even nuclear power. It'll also eliminate the national power grid. The third is a miniature battery which will end the use of gas for vehicles, and keep us busy making millions of the new all-electric cars as fast as we can. No more gas prices!
    It's already been discovered (and covered up) how to cure any mental problems, which I can explain. PTSD in an hour or two. And how I did a convincing test of reincarnation's validity.
    Our public school system is turning out kids that can barely read and rated of one of the poorest in the developed world. I can explain why this has happened and what we can do about it, while cutting our education costs significantly. Think colleges tuition-free, and at no government expense.
    How about a way to cut the number of federal employees in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating?
    And a simple way to end inflation? And a way to protect any shoreline from a tsunami? A couple simple ways to eliminate the income tax and the IRS, with no loss of revenue to the government?
    It'll be bad for business, but there's a simple way to successfully end the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in a few days.
    How about a proven way to have social security pay about ten times what it is now?
    As a side note, I was a passenger on the first commercial airline flight in 1928. It went from Philadelphia to New York City (well, Newark, across the river). Also Google:  Tech Visionary". I'm high on the list of some 870 visionaries, and credited with starting the cell-phone and personal computer industries. I also founded American Mensa, the high IQ society. Oh, and I have a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science and have lectured at Princeton, Yale, Boston University, Case Western, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many more colleges. I've visited 146 countries so far, and given talks in 36 of them.
    Up until 2003 I'd been a guest on Coast 24 times, with two of those being repeats as "The Best of" shows.
6/30/11
Wild Flowers
    How I wish I could share with you the incredible beauty of the wild flowers in the field just across the road from my home. It's like nothing you've ever seen before. Ralph, our caretaker, has mowed walking paths through and around the 15 acre field, bringing us, as we walk, into the middle of this arboretum.
    As we enter the field we pass some purple and white harebells in the shade of the trees around the field. Their delicate beauty can't help but take your breath away. Next, still in shade, are some yellow celandine, as we enter the first walking path, where we're walking on little white clover blossoms that have sprung up since the path was mowed. It starts with a large patch of campion (evening lichness), so-called because the full white blooms come out only in the evening. We pass a few very healthy buttercups, almost three feet high.
    The bright yellow cinquefoil blossoms (five petals) are everywhere, too. Along the ground are the white dewberry blossoms. These berries are much like blackberries, except they grow on the ground instead of up in bushes, and are later in the season to berry. Next comes what looks like a blanket of small bright pink flowers. Pinks. Wow! What beauty! Here and there we pass the hedge mustard which, now past flowering with teensy white flowers at the top of long tall stalks, look like broom straws sticking up. And yarrow, with its little island of tiny white flowers on top.
    Now we're passing blankets of little white chickweed flowers, then more blankets of pinks, and come upon the blackberry bushes, loaded with still green blackberries, but with some berries already turning red. In a few days we'll have our first delicious blackberries. Zillions of them!
    Last year there were a few bright purple vetch flowers, now they're everywhere! And more and more cinquefoil. Aha! Now we're seeing purple clovers and then a special prize that last year was in just one small spot, the English plantain, with its tall stems and ring of tiny flowers, like a halo around a brown center at the top. Only this year there are hundreds instead of the dozen I found there last year. And they've spread quite a way down the walking path to our little pond. We're now walking through daisies as we pass the area where a few weeks ago it was solid with baby-blue-eyes flowers.
    There's one small area where the black-eyed susans grow. They're doing fine again. And down, close to the ground, those small yellow flowers we see everywhere are ground buttercups. We pass a few regular buttercups too. During the day the oyster plant flowers close up tight, only opening at night. But when they go to seed they're beautiful, like huge dandelion puffs, around three to four inches in diameter. The dandelions are pretty much gone by now, but there are still a few blossoming. Oops! There's a lilt patch of monk clover! Little balls of yellow.
    As we pass, more on the outer edges of the field, the find the remaining yellow hawkweed, kinda like miniature dandelions on three and four foot stems, which dominated things a few weeks ago, And, now and then small orange hawkweed, also called Indian paintbrush. There were a few daisy fleabanes here and there, like miniature daisies with tiny white petals and three to four foot stems.
    If you have a chance to stop by and share the beauty with me don't forget your camera, hopefully with a close-up lens. You'll never forget the sight of the blankets of chickweeds and pinks.
6/29/11
Tough Titty
    All those TSA workers at airports…and now, even groping people at bus and train depots…have been getting complaints for innocent fun things like groping young children's privates, and making a 97-year old incontinent grandmother in a wheelchair take off her pampers for inspection.
    Alas their fun and excitement groping's parade has been rained on with the news that the x-ray radiation from the people who prefer radiation to groping is putting a growing number of agents into the hospital with cancer caused by their being near the x -ray machines.
6/28/11
Candidates?
    Living here in New Hampshire before an election can be exciting as the parade of candidates filters through the state with the first primary…September 20, 2012. They all have to come here to present their excuses for why they should get our vote.
    With the election just a year away the parade will kick into high gear this fall. As of now the Dems are stuck with Obama, even as his ratings collapse…leaving the field open for the Republicans. Alas, our Repubs have yet to come up with a star…a grabber. Romney, who crashed in the last election, hasn't come up with any good reasons to get our attention. Ditto Palin and Bachmann. Zzz.
    With America approaching the crash and burn stage, it's going to take bold ideas and measures to save our sinking ship. We're bankrupt, with a Congress that seems unable to keep itself from spending. Billions for crop subsidies, hundreds of billions in hospital care, food stamps, welfare, and school costs to attract millions more illegal aliens, a super-bloated federal government, foreign aid, thousands of earmarks, and so on. Waste after waste after waste, with the Federal Reserve Banks printing the money to pay for it. I'd be accused of being anti-Semitic if I told you who owns the European banks making up the Fed.
    If ever there was a need for a Superman candidate, this is it. We need to be saved from an inflation that could potentially bring down the whole world. A world depression!
    Sure, I've got good practical solutions to our problems, but since some would put today's so-called healthcare industry out of business, along with OPEC and the Federal Reserve, any candidate daring to mention them would be either assassinated, or Obama would be flooded with trillions of campaign dollars from the affected industries.
    Me run? No way. First, a 90-year old candidate would be a joke. Second, I'd like to fulfill Norman Moody, New Hampshire's #1 psychic's prediction that I'm going to live to 120.
6/27/11
Cooking
    My dad was a great cook, and so was his dad (F.E.). I don't recall F.E. ever mentioning his dad, so I don't know how far back it goes. At college, when the fraternity cook quit Thanksgiving morning I took over. I called my dad for his turkey stuffing recipe, and cooked a Thanksgiving dinner for some twenty of my fraternity brothers and a couple of their visiting families. It was great fun.
    F.E. was often called to handle cook-outs for friends and groups. I enjoyed one as a kid when he cooked for Jim McLeod, Littleton's department store owner. It was at Jim's camp on Patridge Lake…the lake where I enjoyed my "First Time." on its shore, years later.
    These days, while everyone else is chewing their cooked food, I'm eschewing it for raw…and doing my "cooking" with a blender and a food chopper.
6/20/11
Sanger Green
    Though my dad's name was Wayne Sanger Green, he was always called Sanger. When I came along, not wanting me to be called Junior, I was christened Wayne Sanger Green II.
    Remembering that my dad served under the famous Capt. Billy Mitchell while we were at Langley Field VA, I Googled Billy Mitchell — and found a nice piece about him and his famous courts-marshall. Then, I don't know why, I Googled: Sanger Green. Wow, #1 was me! It's a nice piece. Only one error, my dad died from emphysema at 87, it was my grandfather who died at 57 from pneumonia. Take a look!
6/19/11
White Knight?
    With our Obama CEO and the Board of Directors of USA. Inc., spending us bankrupt, we desperately need a new CEO and Board. Alas, the Republican CEO candidates are all smaller-than-life, and none have come up with any compelling reasons for us to choose them.
    Well, Ron Paul wants to get rid of The Fed, which would be a very positive move. None have proposed any plans for cutting the size of the federal government, which has doubled in the last few years, without any benefit to us I've noticed — unless you enjoy being groped at airports. There's welfare, with women having babies as fast as they can for the generous government benefits, And the hundreds of billions lavished on illegal aliens, Billions more for crop supports. And those two and a half wars which we have no business being in.
    Will any of the candidates propose plans that will cut our worst-in-the-world sickness costs? And ditto our public school costs? Well, I won't go on with the list of our super-expensive failures.
    Tell you what…if any really promising candidate does show up, have him get in touch with me and I can guarantee his election. With the unveiling every few weeks of a blockbuster solution to our problems, no matter how biased the media, they'll be unable to ignore him.
    Like how to wind up the Iraq and Afghanistan wars successfully in a few days. How to cut our school costs, yet enormously improve our kid's education. A way to cut health-care costs drastically by making us all healthier. The aliens? Get 'em the hell out. Let's get our military out of other countries and use it to protect America instead of attacking one country after another. We could save trillions right there.
    Gas prices? With cold fusion units being made in Italy we finally have the prospect of non-polluting  and unlimited energy at around a hundredth the cost of oil. No more Gulf-drilling or America-fracking. No more gas stations.
    But, as things stand right now, I see no White Knight, just the strong possibility of a terrible inflation, more major industries moving to Asia, and more wars. Oh, and four more years of disgraceful mis-management of USA, Inc. We are in desparate need of a hell-raser candidate, not all those nice guys we've seen so far. We need drastic action if we're going to avoid another depression. I was seven when the 1929 depression hit, so I know how terrible they can be…and that one lasted over ten years.
   
6/18/11
Leadership
    Never mind all the birth certificate lies and cover-up, or the mysteries about Obama's schooling, nor who behind the scenes is pulling his strings, the fact is that under his management our country's debt has doubled, we're flooded with millions more illegal aliens, more of our major industries have moved to Asia, unemployment has gotten worse, millions have lost their homes, our two wars drag on, and now we're into a third. Oh, and the looming potential for a devastating inflation.
6/17/11
Plant Growth Mysteries
    Millions of American families will be getting interested in starting home gardens as the word gets out about the health importance of eating raw, organic, re-mineralized fruits and vegetables. Thus the ways to help plants grow faster, larger, and tastier food to eat will be valuable.
    It sure would be nice if a college would research the ways known, or even suspected, to achieve this, plus perhaps combining several approaches for even better growth.
    If you've done your homework and read The Secret Life of Plants and Secrets of the Soil, you have a head start. Plus, we have much to learn about water. Somehow, vortexing, magnets, microwaving, sunlight, electrical fields (think nearby power lines), underground streams, etc., all seem to somehow change water.
    Plant growth can be increased with pyramid-shaped greenhouses, and with Dan Carlson's Sonic Bloom, where you play music that sounds like bird calls, causing the plant stomata to open up on the leaves. Then spray them with a kelp solution, which is quickly absorbed, and grow plants up to seven times normal in size. I've a video showing the amazing results in gardens in Wisconsin, Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere.
    Tiny pyramids help seeds to sprout faster.
    Well, as people understand that the key to being healthy lies not in taking pills, but eating raw organic food with all of nature's minerals intact, we'll see millions of youngsters helping in their family gardens. So there'll be a premium on ways to grow bigger and tastier fruits and vegetables.
    Maybe I'll have to start a magazine on healthy home gardening. Well, first I'll see if I can interest Acres USA or American Agriculturist.
6/15/11
School Clubs
    One of the benefits of a large school is the potential for there to be clubs catering to every kid's interests. For instance, when I went to Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn it had some 10,000 students and 120 after school clubs. I didn't learn much in school, but the clubs sure were fun.
    My interest in building electronic projects naturally got me to join the radio club, where the members coached me to get my ham radio license. The camera club got me interested in taking pictures with my grandfather's old 5"x7" plate camera, which I adopted to cut film, and spent wonderful hours in the dark room developing, printing and enlarging my pictures. In the Savoyards club we rehearsed and presented Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the school auditorium, which held around a 6,000 audience. Talk about fun! I was also in the choral club, where we practiced every day, second period, and gave performances on the radio and at colleges. We were damned good!
    Here in New Hampshire, with much smaller schools, kids could have camera, video, computer, gardening and bicycling clubs. Any other suggestions? 
6/12/11
Cancer
    The June 11th issue of Time devoted 28 pages to cancer, including (as usual) five full page photos of little value or interest. You will be totally unsurprised, I hope, to learn that nowhere in all those pages was there even the slightest hint of the discovery, by doctors like Bruno Comby and Lorraine Day, that any cancer can quickly be killed, once you stop keeping your immune system too busy to trash cancers by putting poisons into your body which it has to stop all its repair work to fight. 
    Alas, the release of that news could lose the magazine much of its advertising, probably putting it out of business. With Big Pharma spending some $45 billion a year on advertising and promotion, our media doesn't dare reveal the simple truth.
6/10/11
World Record?
    I'll bet I have a world record for the person who has been flying the longest. My dad took me up when he was on the Army Air Force, stationed at Langley Field in Virginia, when I was three months old, back in 1922. Well there's no way to prove that, but my being on the first commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York in 1928 can be confirmed by checking the newspaper articles about it.
6/6/11
Sheeple
    The Sentry's song from Iolanthe comes to mind. Say, if you're not up on Gilbert and Sullivan, what the hell is wrong with you? Hmm, probably a Red Sox fan or something.
    When all night long a chap remains
     On sentry-go, to chase monotony
    He exercises of his brains,
    That is assuming that he's got any.
    Though never nurtured in the lap
    Of luxury, yet I admonish you
    I am an intellectual chap
    And think of things that would astonish you.
    I often think it comical
    How Nature always does contrive   
    That every boy and every gal
    That's born into the world alive
    Is either a little Liberal
    Or else a little Conservative!
    When into that House M.P.'s divide,
    If they've a brain or cerebellum, too,
    They've got to leave that brain outside,
    And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
    But then the prospect of a lot
    Of dull M.P.'s, in close proximity,
    All thinking for themselves, is what
    No man can face with equanimity.
    So, today, here in America, we have a system that pretty much guarantees our kids will have depressed IQs and prevented from learning to think or be creative. I wish I was exaggerating.
    During pregnancy most mothers are busy dumping toxic stuff on their baby every day, making it difficult for the baby's brain to fully develop. Toxic? You bet…like cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and fluoride from the town water. Maybe even a flu shot to dump some mercury on the baby, or amalgam fillings. D'oh?
    After being born it's into the hospital nursery instead of right with the mother, to knock off a few more IQ points. Then bottle feeding instead of breast, which subtracts another 12 to 15 IQ points. Heck, let's put it in plastic bottles to add some BPA, and then warm it in the microwave. Well, plants are unable to grow when watered with microwaved water.
    From about seven months to four years old baby's brains are geared to learn language and to read. So we wait until our kids are six to teach them to read, making it so few ever really get the knack. And then we try to teach them a foreign language when they're in their teens. At a year and a half to four babies can learn to speak several languages, and even think in them.
    Instead of encouraging kids to think, from first grade through college they're given homework assignments to memorize so they can pass tests. Short-term memory, not thinking. If you run across someone who was an A student and is able to think, let me know.
    So we have the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA, where there are no tests or grades, there's no fixed curriculum, with the kids not separated by age and able to study anything they want. Or not. The result is kids able to ace the SATs and get into any college they want. I've read eight books about the school, and visited it. It's a lot like the old American one-room school houses, at a time when over 95% of Americans were literate.
    Now we have high school grads who can barely read, and cities like Detroit, where over 50% are illiterate.
   
6/5/11
[This was, 15 years ago, a 73 Magazine editorial]
Better Youngsters
    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 our 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 is going to need to compete against the other industrial countries.
    If we’re going to do this we have to get kids interested in hamming. 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 schools.
    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. Maybe you've seen the movie they made about that. If not, rent it.
    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 your sperm up 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 birth defects.
    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 and inoculations, such as for flu. 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. 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 can 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, who 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 before finishing something by the bell, 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 aren’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 learn 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.
6/4/11
[This was, 15 years ago, a 73 Magazine editorial—now somewhat updated, but not much]
Tackling The Deficit
    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 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.
[If you have time, please update me on the numbers, which are a hell of a lot worse than they were 15 year ago]
6/3/11
Traveling In Style
    Our president put most royalty to shame on his trip to London for the G-20 summit. Obama arrived with some 200 Secret Service agents, another 300 staffers, six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff, and his own food and water. He also brought along 35 vehicles, four speech writers and twelve TelePrompTers.
    There was, of course, Air Force One, and Marine One, the presidential helicopter. Oh, plus a fleet of decoys to get him safely from the airport to London. Apparently the use of Limo One, which was along, was considered too risky, despite its being reinforced with ceramic and titanium armor, with its own oxygen…the ultimate in heavily armored transport.
    It's super waste like this that has me considering spray painting any car I see with an Obama sticker. Well, that plus his doubling the national debt, and his push for more illegal aliens.
6/2/11
Birther III
    The conspiracy theorists just won't let the Obama birth certificate thing go. But it does seem a little more than curious that Trump seems to have been recruited to escalate the matter to a level the major media couldn't further ignore…to be immediately followed by the Obama team, which had spent a million or two bucks fighting off other earlier attempts to extract an Obama birth certificate, suddenly producing one from a Hawaiian hospital. Case closed for the major media.
    The conspiracists, smelling something stronger than just a rat, went to work on the document forensically, coming up with one anomaly after another to show that it was a not too well done forgery. I particularly liked it when they noticed that the hospital name on the certificate was Kapeolani, which was not that hospital's name back in 1961, when Obama was born. Ooops!
    All this, added to the mysteries of his college years, where his supposed schoolmates have no recollection of him, his short and completely undistinguished term as a Senator, his being registered as a Muslim student in an Indonesian school, his father having been a Muslim, his grandmother saying she was there in the Mombassa hospital when he was born, and so on for a bunch more darned good questions.
6/1/11
Inflation?
    With food and gas prices moving up noticeably, are we about to see our country's bankruptcy blow into a rapid dollar inflation? Oh, we've been being warned by those endless TV and radio commercials pushing us to invest in gold and silver. Mostly gold. And we have a strong hint that Congress is well aware of what could be ahead as a result of their incredibly lousy management of our country, and by their eliminating the yearly cost--of-living increases for our social security checks.
    It's bad enough that, to stave off bankruptcy, they're stolen all of our social security investment funds and spent them. With the money they took from us properly invested our social security checks could be like those in Chile, where the government hasn't swiped the money and their payments are around ten times what we're getting.
    If the dam breaks and the dollar dumps, pfft will go any money you had in the bank, as well as what Federal Reserve notes you've stashed away.
    Gee, why was I not surprised to read that a Treasury official is in deep trouble for claiming that all the gold in Fort Knox has been stolen, and replaced by fake gold bars?
    So, here we are, with some 12 to 20 million illegal  immigrants, and a half million or so more each year, drawn by the hundreds of billions Congress is dishing out in welfare, hospital care, free schooling for their kids, including free breakfasts and lunches, and so on. Plus we see Congress jumping to defeat any attempt by the states infected by this horde to stem the tide.
    Our CEO and Board of Directors of USA, Inc. are putting America out of business. It sure looks as if our last chance to do something about this, other than to sit and watch the WWF Smack Down, will be to vote in as much of a new team as we can next year—including the CEO.
    So, if the trap door under the dollar drops, how will you cope? What a terrible time to be living in a city, where you haven't room to grow your own food. And if you do have a garden, have you enough ammunition to protect it from starving neighbors? Well, human meat is said by cannibals to be delicious. They call it long pork. Oh, and remember that it's by far the healthiest if you eat it raw.
5/26/11
Flu Shots
    You want Alzheimer's? Immunologist Dr. Fudenberg says it only takes two flu shots in a ten year period to significantly increase your chances of later getting Alzheimer's. The mercury in flu shots suppresses your immune system, lowering your defense against germs and viruses. Further, it goes to your brain, lowering your ability to think and remember.
5/25/11
Fluoride
    With some 70% of our town and city water being fluoridated, what few of our people still able to think may wonder about the science supporting this expensive chemical being added to our drinking (and showering) water. Just a few years ago the matter was put up for a vote in Manchester NH, and the people dutifully voted to continue their water fluoridation.
    With at least a dozen Nobel Prize winners in medicine and chemistry warning of the health and mental risks of fluoride, and with all the European countries except England and Ireland having banned it, are they out of step with science, or are we?
    Scientists have reported finding fluorides to cause cancer, genetic damage, bone weakening, and a lowering of IQ in children. The younger the child's exposure, the more severe the retardation. D'uh? A Chinese study confirmed this IQ loss in children. Low doses of fluorides accumulate in the brain tissue, affecting learning and memory.
    They did find the reports of benefits to children's teeth were fabricated, and that there are no benefits. Fluoride hardens to outside of the teeth, discoloring them (fluorosis), while it decays them from the inside out. The one major benefit is to our Congress, in that fluoridated people have lower IQs, and a lowered ability to think or remember.
    Is it coincidental that fluoride was used in the German and Russian prison camps to keep the inmates docile?
    Oh, the ADA has finally admitted that fluoride does not prevent cavities.
    If you have any fluoridated tooth paste, throw it out, sucker. And check www.fluoridealert.org for more info. 
 
5/24/11
What's Wrong With Wayne?
    I don't understand. My father, mother, both grandfathers and my grandmother, all smoked, drank coffee, and alcohol…every day, yet somehow I never developed any interest in those poisons. Sure, I tried pot and LSD. They provided interesting experiences, but I had no interest in doing them again.
    While my sub was in port in San Francisco during WWII the crew got together at the Irisher bar every night, so during that time I drank whiskey with them, and that was the extent of my alcohol days. I wonder if I'm unusual, or if there are others like me? People with no addictions?
    Then there's money. Somehow I've never been interested in money. Oh, I've worked to pay my way, but not to make heaps of money. And when I started publishing and loads of money rolled in, I had fun with it or used it to start a new publication instead of saving. My interest in publishing has always been to share the fun I'm having, often with a new technology, with as many other people as I can, not as a way to make money. So when people I've trusted have taken advantage of my trust by screwing me…of millions…I shrug and move on.
    There are all kinds of opportunities to make money out there, and I could care less. My current interests are in getting the word out on how cure any illness with no drugs, and never get sick again — helping cold fusion put oil and nuclear power out of business — and getting rid of gasoline as a fuel.
    So, how come I'm so out of step with the rest of the world? Please advise.
5/23/11
Our Management
    If the management of a corporation screwed things up as monumentally as our presidents and congress have, the shareholders would have long ago fired the bastards. How badly, by massively corrupt management, is it going to take to wake Americans the hell up?
    What used to be the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world is now a mess…that we've let happen. Alas, "mess" is a serious understatement. We have the biggest debt in the world, and by a long shot. We're one of the sickest, and of course, at the highest cost. Our school system is one of the worst of the developed countries, again at the highest cost. We're being over-run with illegal aliens, few of which seem to have much interest in becoming Americans…or even speaking English, and we're spending hundreds of billions a year to attract more. We're spending more hundreds of billions a year on welfare, making sure millions of our people stay home and watch TV all day instead of working. More billions on the so-called drug war, where drugs are cheaper and more available than ever.
    Unemployment is getting worse, as one major industry after another moves to Asia…pushed out by the higher and higher taxes here and lower wages there. With gas running 12¢ a gallon in Venezuela and $4 a gallon here, have we a management problem? With our oil companies now edging out the Big Pharma giants in profits…maybe.
    With the largest military in the world…with 11 carrier groups, and building more, while no other country has more than one…but still able to not win any war we've jumped into since WWII…like Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq and Afghanistan…have we a management problem? Oh, maybe you've heard, carriers have been obsoleted by ICBMs the way battleships were made obsolete by airplanes after WWI.
    The number of federal employees has about doubled in the last few years, with their bloated bureaucracy not doing anything to make our lives better. So we have the government-run post office, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and so on, all bankrupt.
    I was thinking of all this as I watched last night's 60 Minutes show, which bravely exposed, for forty minutes, that bicycle racers have, oh horrors, been taking performance drugs to win races!
5/22/11
Raptured!
    Now that all the Evangelicals have been Raptured, how are we going to deal with their homes, cars and stuff  they've left behind? Darn! It just never occurred to me to check on the Evangelicals around here so this morning I could get out there with a truck and have first pick of their stuff. I guess I'm slow on the uptake.
    Uh oh! When they were Raptured, did they take their bodies along, or have we one awful mess to clean up? And what about their pets? I should have done more homework on this.
5/21/11
Cold Fusion
    Rather than me writing the cold fusion history again, just go back and read what I've already written, ignoring the redundancies. Despite every effort of the energy companies, cold fusion must eventually put them out of business…so check your investment portfolio and dump your oil and other power generating investments.
    Go back and start with my 6/4/07 entry. Then my
, 8/3/09, and 5/17/10 entries. My 6/25/10 entry explains exactly how and why cold fusion works. In recognition of my work in this field I was made an honorary Professor of Energy by the Institute for Basic Research.
    Will we be able to start making units here, or will we have to import them from China? Considering how broke we are, and how short of educated workers, I don't like the odds. With one of the lousiest school systems in the developed world, we are in desperate need of an educational revolution.
5/20/11
Chewing Ribs
    Sherry's been anxious to eat a nice big steak at an Outback restaurant…so off we went on her birthday to the Outback in Concord.
    I didn't see anything raw on their menu for me, so I fell back on what use to be my favorite: barbecued baby-back ribs.
    They looked delicious when the plate with a huge rack of ribs arrived. Yum! So I cut off the first rib, scraped off the meat, and cut a bite. The flavor was good, at least for the first few seconds, then, I was busy chewing dead, tasteless meat. It took me about five minutes of chewing to get that bite liquid enough to swallow. It took me an hour to chew that little pile of meat from the first rib. It was not an enjoyable hour. The meat itself had almost no flavor, so all I was tasting was a dab of barbecue sauce.
    When I chew raw food it seldom takes more than a minute to chew until it is liquid, and the flavor is great the entire time. And that goes for raw meat as well. It's delicious.
    Meanwhile Sherry made good inroads into her huge steak, plus polished off two of my ribs. When we got home I gave her the rest of my ribs.
5/19/11
Steve Jobs
    He's off, sick again! If you, or anyone you know, can get through to Steve, he really needs to talk with me so he can stop making himself sick.
    The last time he was out sick for a while he got a liver transplant. The trouble is, he's still doing what ruined his liver the first time, so naturally the second one will be in trouble.
    I tried to get through—with letters, phone calls and faxes. Maybe, if enough people send him a letter at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA 95014, or a fax to: 408-974-2483, he'll give me a call at 603-588-0107, so I can explain how easy it can be for him to cure himself and get back to running Apple.
5/18/11
Curiouser
    When The Donald stepped in with his large paddle to stir the birther situation beyond where the major media could just ignore it, the Obama team had to come up with something to divert media attention — the reported assassination of arch fiend Osama.
    Did it really happen, or did Osama die ten years ago and this reported assassination just aimed at diverting the media? Who will be the first to publish a book on that?
    Meanwhile, to add to the Obama team's workload, the mysterious Obama Social Security Number has been being researched. Gee, how did he come up with a Connecticut 042 number, having never lived or worked in Connecticut? One more mystery about his past added to the growing pile.
    The number, I see, was first given to Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, and came here in 1924. He lived most of his adult life in Connecticut and was given the number now claimed as Obama's in 1977.
    When Ludwig died, while visiting Hawaii, his Social Security Number (SSN) wasn't reported to the Social Security Administration because he hadn't been getting any benefits that needed to be stopped. Coincidentally, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked in the Honolulu courthouse, so she had access to the SSN's of deceased people.
    So, did she, knowing Obama was not an American citizen, pick Ludwig's old number for him? Eventually we'll probably know more about whether Obama was born in Kenya, as his other grandmother claims, or was made an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro.
    Anyway, I'm enjoying reading about the messes the Obama team is struggling to bury. Between the birth certificate, the absence of school records or students who have any recollection of his being in their classes, and the SSN, they're going to have to come up with something better than the Osama story.
    Will it turn out that the great American sheeple have actually elected a black Muslim president? I love it! Meanwhile, Obama promised changes—well, we've seen them, and they've all been for the worse.
5/17/11
Hitch-Hiking
    When I was a kid (1940s) this was a perfectly normal way to get around. There were hitch-hikers everywhere and no one thought twice about picking someone with their thumb out and giving them a lift.
    When I started college in 1940 at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, about 150 miles north of New York City, I often hitch-hiked back to the city to visit my parents in Brooklyn for the weekend. Two, maybe three rides from Troy would get me to a subway station, and it was a nickel ride home from there.
    No, no one ever gave me any trouble.
    And, once I had my own car, I never passed up a thumber. Well, there was one time when I was a little worried. I picked up a guy and was driving back to my grandmother's farm in Bethlehem NH. My concern was when I was driving past the state prison farm my passenger slouched way down out of sight.
    But then, crooks wised up and it got dangerous to pick up hikers.   
5/16/11
Detroit
      Once known as the Motor City, fourth in size in America, is now eleventh, and slipping fast. Once a white, very prosperous city, first the blacks started moving in, bringing with them street gangs, crime, graffiti, forcing the whites to flee. Detroit, with 67% blacks, became a black city. Then followed the Mexicans and their drug gangs. Then Muslims.
    Today hundreds of thousands are living on federal welfare, with free housing and food stamps. With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women are birthing eight to ten children, with one managing 24 (so far).
    High school dropouts were 76% last June, and the city has a 50% illiteracy rate. Few speak English. Unemployment is near 30%!
    With hundreds of mosques, built by Saudi oil money to serve the over 300,000 Michigan Muslims, they may soon be demanding sharia law. At prayer time Detroit sounds more like Baghdad.
    Between the car union's demand for higher and higher wages, and the lack of any duties on imports, our great American car industry is sinking out of sight, and every bit of this mess comes down to Congress' actions and inaction's. Please, it's time to clean House…and Senate…next year. Do nothing and we'll see Muslims taking over one city after another as they have in Europe.
    Gee, what would happen to Detroit if Congress ended welfare? Well, we might see an end to ten-child fatherless families, and a slowing down of crime, with seven out of ten murders unsolved.
   
5/15/11
Snickering
    When I read that China, Korea, and India are using billions of our debt to buy up thousands of acres of American oil shale land, I got a good laugh. Those bureaucratic idiots sure need a tech visionary.
    Once the word gets around that cold fusion is real, that it can produce energy at around a hundredth the cost of oil, or any other current energy source, that'll be the end of digging into the oil shale, or drilling into the Gulf. Or, in the case of Brazil (with our money), into the Atlantic Ocean off their coast. Thanks, Obama, for that one.
    Cold fusion power units will soon be the largest manufacturing industry in the world, along with sales, installation, and maintenance companies. Alas, unless we kick Congress in the nuts next year to put tariffs on imports, most of ’em will be coming in from China.
    At $11,000 an acre, let's sell a few thousand more oil shale acres to gullible countries. Then, once they find out about cold fusion, we can buy ’em back for a few dollars an acre and get busy growing super-organic crops—the gold of the future.
5/10/11
Osama-Obama
    It's fun seeing people confusing the two names. Of course the conspiracyists quickly got to work explaining that Bin Laden died ten years ago. Considering the government's past record of truthfulness, I favor the conspiracyists, hands down.
    I particularly enjoyed the Obama (not Osama) interview on 60 Minutes last night. Now I see why he uses a TelePrompTer whenever possible. He's a terrible speaker! He was running around fifty "uhs" a minute on his own without one. Hey, find an archive and count ’em yourself.
    The purpose of the exercise, I strongly suspect, was to take the heat off his second attempt to produce a birth certificate. Alas, it didn't take long for the technical crowd to expose it as a forgery. So there's still no proof that his grandmother was lying when she said she was there in Mombassa at the hospital when he was born. Since he admits to having had a Kenyan Muslim father, it isn't much of a stretch for Obama to have been born there. And the next we know of him is a few years later, when his mother, now Mrs. Soetoro, was in Indonesia, and he was going to school as Barry Soetoro, registered as a Muslim. Has our super-gullible public managed to elect our first black/Muslim president?
    I'll bet over half of our Americans still believe the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City was brought down by a van of home-made explosives — that 911 was a Muslim operation — that we actually went to the Moon — that the government believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — and so on.
    I won't go over the long list of things our Congress and our choice of presidents has done (and are doing) to what was once the richest, most powerful and admired country in the world.    
5/9/11
Ham Radio
    If you, like a few million other Americans, haven't heard about it, it's the amateur radio hobby, which our national organization, the American Radio Relay League, has done an exemplary job of keeping a secret from the media and the general public. Today, it's mainly a group of older electronics enthusiasts who erect all sorts of weird antennas around their house and spend their nights talking with each other…anywhere in the world.
    So what's that got to do with you? Well, even if you don't need a new hobby, you might want to look into it as a way to save your and your family's ass should any serious emergency come up. It's a way to be able to keep in communications, near or far, in case any of the dire disasters we've been threatened with by worry-warts actually happen.
    Will there be a New Madrid super earthquake? Will the Yosemite super-volcano blow, shoving California and several million Mexicans into the Pacific? An earthquake in the Atlantic sending a tsunami onto our east coast? Those jihad Muslims bomb our power grid, wiping out electricity for the whole country? That could kill millions trapped in our cities without food or water for perhaps months.
    Maybe you should consider joining the hundreds of thousands of hams, with radios in their cars, giving them communications when the power grid fails. You'll see them helping out whenever there's an emergency situation calling for communications.
    A ham setup for your car can be had for a few hundred dollars…or a few thousand, if you want the latest super all-band stuff. Ask, maybe at Radio Shack, about any local hams you can talk with to find out how to get licensed and get the equipment.
    Well, even if a major disaster doesn't come up, worst case, you're going to have one heck of a lot of fun. Once you get into it and can talk with fellow hams all around the world, if you do any traveling, you'll have a friend there to make things more fun. The hobby made it so I had good friends like Senator Goldwater, King Hussein of Jordan, Walter Cronkite, and so on. Oh, and that free, all expenses paid, flight around the world, visiting hams in 26 countries…complete with a ham station in the plane. Well, I've written about that…8/6/09 and 11/28/07.
5/8/11
My Prescriptions
    I would like to personally thank all of the Democrat voters who gave us the Congress and President who are destroying what was once a world marvel country…thank them with a hefty kick in the crotch. No, make that two kicks…hard ones.
    Okay, with our tax dollars, Congress is spending hundreds of billions on welfare…encouraging people not to work, and welfare mothers to have more and more welfare babies. One has had 24 so far. My proposal would be to cut those welfare checks 10% a year for the next ten years to encourage them to get their fat asses off their couches, watching TV all day, and out there looking for work. The serious hardship cases would, I'll bet, be taken care of by local charities, the way it used to be before LBJ's War on Poverty…another of the wars we've lost.
    With twenty or more million illegal immigrants, let's stop attracting them with such wonderful rewards. Oh and let's bring back those thousands of our troops in Korea and Europe and use their help to close our Mexican border. End that anchor baby bonanza…retroactively. Fine the hell out of employers of illegals. Demand proof of citizenship from every Chinese restaurant worker in the country. Ditto every Muslim attending Mosque services.
    I'm seeing suicide bomber threats here in America. Fine, when the first one explodes, send in a video team to show us picking up every piece of the bomber we can find, and then show them on TV being buried in a pile of pig shit, topped with a rasher of bacon and a pork chop, thus assuring the brainwashed jerk everlasting hell instead of the expected Paradise, awash in virgins.
    Maybe we can learn a lesson from what's happened in Europe, with Muslims taking over cities and instituting their Sharia Law…like what's happening in Detroit right now. Let's give them their exit papers and close those thousands of mosques the Saudis have paid to build here. We really don't want to be invaded by a people who have taught their children from year one that Christians must be murdered. Jihad!
    So, what about our War on Drugs? We could cut that short in a jiffy if we decided to just cut one inch off the end of the cock of every guy caught buying drugs. Chop, and no further problem. We could even recruit former drug pushers to help by offering them $1,000 for every sucker they entrap. Yeah, that's unfair. Shame on us.
    With our major industries moved to China, our manufacturing might is no longer our source of strength…and money. Well, that's easy…let's put import duties back on imports, the way it was before Congress took them off. Heck, start ’em at 5%, like they did the income tax, and move them up 5% a year until we're making things again.
    Okay, got any other problems bothering you? Got any better ideas?
5/6/11
Bananas
    How about chocolate ice cream that is delicious, yet has no sugar! Super-healthy ice cream…and easy to make.
    You can check my 5/24/08 entry to learn how great a food bananas are for our bodies, so I use them instead of sugar to make ice cream and kale, spinach, and other green smoothies.
    The first thing I check in supermarkets is the discounted food rack, mainly looking for marked-down bananas. Oh, I grab grapes, too…specially if they are the red grapes. The produce people at Shaws in Peterborough and Hillsborough will go back and package more bananas for me if they have them when I ask. Well, being thrifty, I prefer paying 11¢ a pound instead of the usual 49¢ or 59¢ a pound for fresh bananas.
    The over-ripe bananas are perfect for my use, bruised areas and all. You see, I peel ’em, cut ’em into one-inch chunks, put ’em into quart containers and put those in the freezer. When they're defrosted, they're jelly-like, and perfect for the blender.
    It takes about six bananas per quart, and they weigh about a pound and a quarter. I find that bananas weigh about a third of a pound, and one-third of that is the skin (if anyone cares).
    Okay, here's the recipe: I put a quart of the bananas in the blender, add two cups of raw milk, four eggs (from a local farm), and two heaping tablespoons of chocolate whey powder (thank you, Trader Joe's). Blend, freeze. That makes a quart and a half of ice cream. A couple hours before the meal I move it to the fridge to soften. How many other people have you heard of who have ice cream for dessert three meals a day, and aren't overweight?
    The eggs are for the protein. You can't taste them. Nor, for that matter, the bananas. The result is chocolate ice cream.
   
4/29/11
Time - Ugh!
    What a crappy magazine Time has turned into. Ugh! I expect a weekly news magazine to provide me with news of what's going on. I'm interested in politics and the coming 2012 elections, health, the wars, education, scientific news, etc.
    So what am I getting when I open the magazine? It starts out with a two-page color photo, bleeding to the edges of the pages, of the Holland tulips. A beautiful display, but one I've seen many times, and even personally, in a spring visit to Kukenhof.
    The cover headline feature starts with a two-page spread black and white photo of the FBI Director. On the next page is a half-page photo of the back of his head at a table with some people.
    The next article starts out with a 1-2/3rds page of a shredded dollar bill. It's about the debt. Next, is one on heroin in Afghanistan, which starts with a two-page black and white full bleed photo of some guy hiding in the ruins of a building. Then two pages of black and white photos and about a third of a page of text. The last two pages are another full bleed two-page photo of a guy using a hypodermic. They must have inherited the old Life graphics team. The final article, three pages about college student loans, started with a half-page title, a half page of text, then a full page bleed photo, then 5/6ths of a page of text and an illustration.
    Here's our country, falling apart, with Congress and our beloved black Muslin president racking up the largest deficit in our country's history…all in two years. With our people unknowingly making them one of the sickest countries in the developed world, with the poorest educated kids. Two unwinnable wars wasn't enough of a drain, now a third. They're spending hundreds of billions of dollars attracting and making comfortable some twenty to thirty million illegal aliens. And so on.     
    I want to learn things, not be entertained with pictures. Phooey. No, I'll not be renewing my subscription.
   
4/28/11
Birther II
    The recent pressure from The Donald managed to break down the White House stone-walling on the lack of any real Obama birth certificate…so they came up with one. Case closed.
    Well, almost. It didn't take scientists long to find it a forgery. One would think, with all the White House resources, they'd have been able to at least make an undetectable forgery. Tsk.
    Oh, did you see that one about Obama turning up without his wedding ring or wrist-watch? The White House explanation was that the ring was being repaired. What an amazing coincidence that at Ramadan time, the sacred Muslim holiday period, when they are not permitted to wear jewelry, that Obama would suddenly not be wearing his ring or wrist-watch. Gee, our ever-obedient Democrat voters couldn't actually have elected a Muslin President, could they? Well, they've dug up his Indonesian school records, which show him being registered as a Muslim at that time.
    No, I'm not going to rake over the lack of any proof of him being at Columbia, or the Saudis paying for his stint at Harvard…but if you have data on stuff like that, add it to my growing email collection of Obaba conspiracy weirdness.
4/27/11
Games
    Just as I've never succumbed to any of the popular addictions…coffee, booze, smoking, TV-watching— I've never developed much interest in playing team games or in watching others play them. Genetic? A past incarnation?
    Sure, I've watched baseball, football, ice hockey, basketball, polo, and so on live as well as on TV. In high school I enjoyed bowling…got pretty good at it (180s)…and fencing, where I was made manager and third man on our team. I loved six-wall handball and swimming competitions..
    My love of horseback riding, which started with ten lessons when I was ten, led me to a Professor of Horsemanship (Beery School of Horsemanship), and owning a couple Arabs. My love of scuba diving has taken me all around the world.
    But watching ball games? What a way to waste one's life! Why does anyone care whether the Red Sox or the Pirates win? Good grief! Yet I see the stands packed solid with cash customers cheering on their teams.
    A while back our New Hampshire Fisher Cats had me throw out the ceremonial first ball…I have it here on the shelf (hmm, says "Made in China" on the back). After a couple of innings I gave up and drove home. On the way from Manchester, while passing through Pinardville, I stopped at a supermarket to get some grapes. I was amazed when a woman walked up and said hello…explaining she'd seen me throw out the first ball at the game. We'd both left early.
    No matter what business you're in there are things you can learn from the experts, so better to use your time to learn than just sit and watch others playing games. What an incredible waste of time! And money, if that's you up there in the stands. 
4/23/11
Birther
    Golly, was he born in America, or in Kenya? I've been enjoying the big fuss over this, including Trump's recent attacks, so when an email came along which had the video I'd seen of Obama saying he was born in Kenya, and ditto by Michelle, I saved it. Oh, sure, someone could have somehow faked the videos, but considering the millions Obama has been spending to fight the challenge, and his continued refusal or inability to produce a real birth certificate, I suspect he really was born in Mombassa, as his grandmother there says she witnessed.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded
    Now, try on this scenario. Suppose the videos are real, but were made before Obama and his handlers were aware of the Constitutional difference between a candidate having to be natural born in America vs. just being an American citizen. Once the nit-pickers discovered that, the back-tracking and cover-up began.
    If you know any way to get through to The Donald, pass that thought along to him. Oh, and then Glen Beck, too.
4/22/11
Raw Milk
    Casein is the protein in milk. The pasteurization process turns casein into a very dangerous molecule that can cause permanent brain injury, particularly in young children. If children are fed real raw milk this will not occur.
    Besides destroying part of the vitamin C contained in raw milk, and encouraging the growth of harmful bacteria, pasteurization turns the sugar of milk, known as lactose, into beta-lactose, which is far more soluble and therefore more rapidly absorbed in the system, with the result that the child soon becomes hungry again. And fat.
    Probably pasteurization's worst offense is that it makes insoluble the major part of the calcium contained in raw milk. This frequently leads to rickets, bad teeth and nervous troubles, for sufficient calcium content is vital to children; and with the loss of phosphorus, also associated with calcium, bone and brain formation suffer serious setbacks.
    Pasteurization also destroys 20 percent of the iodine present in raw milk, causing constipation, and it generally takes from the milk its most vital qualities.
    In the face of these facts, which are undeniable, what have the pasteurization-pushers to say? Instead of compelling farmers to set up expensive machinery for turning raw milk into something that is definitely not what it sets out to be…a nutritious, health-giving food…let them push legislation making our dairy farmers produce clean, raw milk, milk pure to drink with all its constituents unaltered.
    Thankfully, here in New Hampshire it is legal for farmers to sell raw milk, and even for our stores to carry it.

4/21/11
PJs

    When I was a kid I always wore pajamas to bed. I haven't since.
    I get PJ ads from Haband, so obviously a lot of people are wearing them. Maybe you can tell me why. It isn't warmth…blankets take care of that.
    In the Navy everybody wore their skivvies to bed. No PJs. When the war ended, and I started going to bed with women, there was no need for pajamas. Nor skivvies…see my 6/4/08 entry on why I stopped wearing underwear.
 4/20/11
The Biggest!
    Okay, what is the biggest and most exciting scientific discovery in all of man's history? It's a fairly recent breakthrough that will cause massive changes, since it is going to personally affect everyone in the world.
    Give up?
    It's the scientists who have explained that if we give our bodies the nutrition they're designed to use, plenty of pure water, exercise, sunlight, and sleep, our bodies should be good for 120 to 200 years. They back this up by pointing out that all other mammals live between ten and seventeen their ages at puberty, which translates to 120 to 200 human years.
    The research with dogs, cats and rats that are fed the human diet vs. raw food backs this up. See my 11/10/08 entry.
    As the word, despite every effort of the establishment, with trillions at stake, to stop it, gets around, it's going to put most of our current so-called health-care industry out of business, along with most of today's food industry.
    Now, am I exaggerating the importance of this scientific discovery?
4/19/11
Reservsatrol
    This is the super-healthy stuff we can get from red grapes. It's powerful enough to make even wine healthy, despite the poisonous alcohol it contains. So, of course, I eat some red grapes with my breakfast every morning. And, since the good stuff is in the skin, my practice of chewing each bite thoroughly, instead of just enough to be able to safely swallow, like you do, is healthier.
    You see, the solid pieces of grape skin can't be absorbed by the colon, so they go on through to the toilet.
    Even so, grape skins are difficult to chew thoroughly, so I make it easier by washing my grapes thoroughly when I buy them, the putting them into the blender, where I turn it up to maximum speed and let it run as I see the skins being totally shredded. As the skins are shredded the juice in the blender turns darker and darker red.
    I put the pureed grapes in pint containers and eat the puree with a spoon, still chewing each spoonful to get the most good from the little skin shreds that survive the blender.
    For breakfast I start with a few spoons (all pureed) of red grapes, grapefruit, orange, blue berries, green grapes, and strawberries. I follow this with a bowl of raspberries and sliced bananas in raw milk.
4/18/11
Bio

    Back, 120 years ago, when most Americans were from families who had immigrated here from England, Scotland, and Ireland, genealogies were a big thing, so I inherited some genealogy books from my grandparents.
    The name "Green" got started back in 1066, when one of William The Conqueror's generals took over managing the king's deer greens, so he became Henry de Greene de Bockton (bockton being their word for deer).
    When the de Greene's came to America, they founded Rhode Island, among other things, like dropping the "de" from the family name. So, we have Greene Country, New York. When that Greene's brother got mad and moved to Michigan, he took the "e" off the end, so we have Green County, Michigan, and a bunch of the Green family there.
    My grandfather, Frederick Elmer (F.E., he was always called) Green, moved from Michigan to Littleton NH and opened a pharmacy. Not surprising, therefore, F.E. married Lillian Sanger, the daughter of the town doctor, Thaddius E. Sanger, a pioneer homeopathist. F.E. later sold his drug store and became the town's Water and Light Commissioner. He also became a state senator. His first son was named Wayne Sanger Green (my dad). My mother and dad agreed that they didn't want their kid to be called Junior, so I was christened Wayne Sanger Green II. Dad was always called Sanger, so I was Wayne.
    Going way back, John Alden and Priscilla's grand-daughter married a Kneeland. Then a later Kneeland daughter married a Sanger…so I'm a descendent of John Alden and Priscilla!
    On my mother's side are Willson, Ogden, and Bushnell (the submarine pioneer). The Submarine Tender Bushnell was stationed at the submarine rest camp on Majuro in the Marshall Islands during WWII. We spent two two-week rest periods there in 1944 between patrol runs, while the Bushnell crew made a terrible mess of my radio and radar systems. It took me a couple days around the clock to get everything running again after we left Majuro. I wasn't surprised when I heard that the three submarines they'd serviced before ours had all been quickly sunk by the Japanese.
    For instance, they managed to put the brushes in backwards in the motor-generator for the SJ radar, our primary radar system. No power. Without that we were blind sitting ducks.
4/16/11
The War We Lost—and Lost Big
    Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It is a war that cost more than WWII, Korea,  Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan 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 $7 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 explosion of 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 politicians instead of career pols.
    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 $455 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 the Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed.
4/10/11
Burqa-Caps
    Here's an idea for a product that could be very popular with kids this year and next. It's a black cap with a cloth that hangs down the back of the neck, and the front comes down almost to the eyes. Then, another piece that can be unfolded down in front, allowing a slit for the wearer to see…like those women's burqas. On the back cloth it would say: "Obama 2012". Every Republican family will want them for their kids.
    These cap-masks will be particularly appreciated by the shyer kids. I still remember going to a costume party when I was around twelve. My mother fixed me up with a The Shadow costume, which had a mask that hid my face, but I could see through. Suddenly the shy Wayne was freed, and I had a great uninhibited time at the party. It was whole different outgoing me. 
4/9/11
Heaven
    Rather than depending on centuries-old books, some, or all, fiction, I want to learn more about what happens to our spirits after our bodies die.
    Though I've read a good deal on the subject, I haven't found any data that seems reliable. I've not only found the data on past lives reliable, I've confirmed their reality myself when I've regressed people, under hypnosis, to their past lives. You can too, if you'll take the time to read a few books on the subject.
    Plus, we know our memories are not stored in our physical bodies. So, if they are not stored where or when, help me get my mind around this.
    When we reincarnate, for a short while we have memories of our past life, but none I've seen reported for the time in between. So what's with the idea of heaven, somewhere up there in the sky, or a Muslim Paradise, complete with droves of virgins? I dunno what their fascination with virgins is. I've only had one virgin. It was okay, but nothing special. My best sex was with much more experienced girls (and women).
    Hell, also, seems to be a fiction cooked up to scare people into believing in and supporting religions. The fear of Hell and Satan are cash cows for religions…and religion is by far the largest industry in the world. As I've pointed out, they have retail stores in every city, town and village in the world. Churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. Oh, and pay no taxes!
    If you've any reliable info on what's going on between lives, let me know. How does our spirit decide in which baby to reincarnate? How do we become aware in the hereafter, in some way, when someone thinks about us? Like the time I forgot Alan Turoff's name one day and the next day a guy called me to ask about Alan. Then, a couple years later, when I again wasn't able to remember his name, someone called the next day asking about him. Now, when I'm playing cards and need some help, I silently ask Alan, and this often gives me the exact card I need.
    So, what's going on "in between."
4/8/11
Opportunities
    As the news about avoiding illnesses by changing to an all-raw, organic food, diet gets around there will be millions of families interested in home gardens, plus greenhouses to extend the growing season. So we're likely to eventually see a huge backyard-sized greenhouse market.
    As the word gets around about the magic of a pyramid-shaped greenhouse, that style will become a best-seller. Plus little miniature pyramids to help seeds grow faster and healthier.
    There's also going to be a big market for heirloom seeds.
    The magic of Sonic-Bloom will provide a market for sea minerals to spray on plants to help them grow faster and larger.
    With a combination of Sonic Bloom and a pyramid greenhouse, gardeners had better be careful to step back quickly when they plant seeds. And if that still isn't fast enough, they can put a small magnet under the plant.
    As farmers wise up on the importance of remineralizing their fields there is going to be a huge market for rock powder. It wouldn't hurt to invest in a mountain or two, and some large-scale grinding equipment  Wise families in the future are going to be looking for produce that is both organically grown, and on remineralized ground.
    I'll have to see if the aggie journals have info on how farmers who have been using NPK fertilizer and pesticides on their fields can get them clean enough to grow organic produce. With the demand for wheat and alfalfa blowing away there'll be millions of acres of land that'll need to be cleaned up. And, with mega-batteries powering cars, the need for corn to make alcohol to add to gasoline will blow away, freeing a few more million acres. Well, with the demand for raw milk zooming, the need for pastures for cows to graze will grow.
    There are going to be abundant opportunities for entrepreneurs to take advantage of the change in our eating habits.
4/6/11
Drug Reactions
    A recent study showed that doctors are just not bothering to report adverse reactions to drugs. They found that only one in 24,000 adverse reactions were reported to the appropriate monitoring agency! This obviously contributes to the growing number of patient deaths from adverse drug reactions.
    Take Cory Christen, a seven-year old in Houston. He was placed on Imipramine for his attention deficit disorder and dropped dead from a heart arrhythemia side-effect, caused by the drug. His doctor would have done a lot better if he’d asked Cory’s mother to stop feeding him sugar or anything with NutriSweet in it.
4/5/11
State Debts

    A few weeks ago 60 Minutes' first item was on all fifty states racking up huge budget losses. There were, of course, no solutions proposed for solving the problem.
    When a business is losing money there's a need to increase revenues, decrease expenses, or both. Since increasing revenues usually means increasing taxes, this is not going to be popular with the voters, and could cost the governor and legislators the jobs they spent so much to get. Alas, cutting expenses generally means cutting government jobs, so that's not much of an alternative.
    If you've read Parkinson's Law, which is reviewed on pages 24 and 53 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, you know that government bureaus and departments have historically grown at a 5.75% rate per year, regardless of how much work there is to be done.
    Read my 1/25/09 entry for a good solution to getting government departments to happily cut themselves in half or better.

4/4/11

Gilbert & Sullivan

    Back in the last of the 19th century two Brits, Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, wrote a string of super hit musicals…called operettas because, unlike operas, they had both songs and spoken words. The music was wonderful and the stories witty. They were produced in London's Savoy theater by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
    I got introduced to them when I was seven and my folks took me along to dinner with Bob Sullivan, a chap who worked for the Philadelphia Enquirer and had done an article on my dad's airport. Bob had a great record collection and I was enthralled by my first exposure to classical music and to Gilbert and Sullivan. Wow! The classical piece was the William Tell Overture by Rossini…later memorialized as the theme for The Lone Ranger radio series.
    A few years later, when we'd moved to Brooklyn, and Bob and his wife Mary had had a couple kids, I'd take to subway out to Kew Gardens and baby sit for them so I could play Bob's records. And, when the D'Oyly Carte group came to New York, Bob took me to several fabulous performances.
    When I went to high school at Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn they had around 120 after school clubs, and one was the Savoyards. We rehearsed The Mikado for several months, and then performed it in the school auditorium before some 3,000 students. I played the part of the Mikado.
    I also joined the radio club, which helped me get my ham radio license, and the camera club, where I remember our marveling over the first issue of Life magazine. It was the first major photo magazine.
    Later, I performed the part of Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. What fun!
    Alas, we don't see or hear much of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas these days. What a loss, particularly for youngsters. Trial By Jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, Ruddigore, Iolanthe…sigh. I can still sing the nightmare song from Iolanthe, a long, rapid patter song.
    A few weeks ago a local group put on Trial By Jury at the church in Hancock. Alas, it was almost impossible to make out the words of the songs in that venue. No problem for me, since I knew them all, but Sherry had no idea what was going on. It's the shortest of the G&S operettas, and every now and then I find myself suddenly singing some of the songs.
   

4/3/11

Cold Fusion - Future

    As an inexpensive supplier of heat, with no polluting by-products, the world market for cold fusion power units will be in the hundreds of millions. Small units for homes, to produce all the heat and electricity needed, and at almost no cost, will keep quite a few factories busy, plus installing and maintenance businesses.
    As the current, failing, supply of fresh water puts a squeeze on agriculture, we'll see cold fusion-powered desalinization plants springing up. The Ogallala Aquifer drying up? No problem, just pipe in a few hundred million tons of new fresh water every day. We'll be able to keep our reservoirs full for our cities.
    But, since cold fusion just generates heat, which we have, for most applications, to turn into steam to drive electricity generators, this isn't all that practical for cars and trucks. That's where the new mini-batteries will take over. But, for trains, perhaps we'll be going back to steam.
    We will have to get busy mining nickel for the cold fusion units, and then an awful lot of copper for the generators. We'll see a lot of new industries springing up.
    As the word about avoiding any illness by changing to a raw, organic diet gets out we'll be seeing a huge new market for greenhouses ,as families by the millions start growing much of their own food. Oh, by the way, if you do your homework on the subject, you'll see why most of these will be pyramid-shaped. Read The Pyramid by Les Brown, if you can find a copy. Amazon has one for $111…not bad for a 35¢ pocketbook. Just build your greenhouse in a pyramid shape, and watch the magic.
    Low cost energy will bring about huge changes. And, how nice not to be draining the world of its oil.

4/2/11

Cold Fusion — Past

    It's back…as I've been mentioning. Now, some background.
    It was announced in 1989 by Pons and Fleischmann, two Utah scientists, (with much press coverage). One of the first universities to test it was MIT…which promptly published a paper showing they had been unable to replicate the claimed effect. On the basis of that report the oil industry heaved a several trillion-dollar sigh of relief, followed by the Department of Energy ordering the Patent Office not to review any cold fusion patent applications, and word to all colleges that, if they did any research on cold fusion, they would lose all government funding for anything, and they capped it with Huizinga's book, Cold Fusion, the Fiasco of the Century.
    Meanwhile Eugene Mallove, who was on the MIT staff, discovered that the cold fusion research data had been altered to show failure in order to preserve the millions of dollars the school was getting from the government for hot fusion research, so Gene quit in disgust and signed on with me as the editor of my Cold Fusion Journal, which we started in May of 1994.
    The Journal was an instant success, with subscriptions and newsstand sales growing quickly. Then, one day, right after the third issue had gone to press, I came into the office and found it cleaned out! Gone were all the article submissions and the advertiser files. Cleaned out! And no Mallove. Not even a note. Gone, too, was my half-million start-up cost of producing and distributing the 100-page full-color glossy monthly magazine.
    With the help of a physicist from Vermont I was able to get the Journal started again, but as a much smaller offset-printed black and white journal. I was not surprised when Mallove started publishing Infinite Energy, funded, I understand, by Arthur C. Clark, over in Sri Lanka. Mallove later got himself killed when he tried to organize a Congressional Hearing on cold fusion.
    After a couple more years publishing my Journal I finally had to give up when my article sources dried up. Even the success of the NASA lab in Cleveland, confirming that cold fusion was real, and then the same by a Navy lab in San Diego, didn't get things going.
    Now that a group in Italy are starting production of cold fusion power units the lid is off, hopefully beyond the power of the oil and nuclear power industries to stop. 

   
3/31/11

China??
    War with China? Absolutely ridiculous, of course. With America, the country with the largest military in the world? And backed up by lots of ICBMs?
    Or are we sitting ducks?
    If you read Imprimis you know that China is building an advanced army, navy, air force, and space capability. It already has over two million men under arms, and a large number of ICBMs (most aimed our way) plus plenty of medium range nuclear weapons. With only one other nation with a major military force (us), who could they possibly be spending all that money and effort to fight?
    They're also making strides in space, working on a space station, launch vehicles, and anti-satellite weaponry. Their military journals frankly discuss opposing American supremacy, and using terrorism, cyber warfare, economic warfare, and atomic warfare.
    We won WWII by outproducing the enemy. Now, with few factories left, and with no capability to make electronic products, we're in no shape to fight a war. Sure, we have a bunch of carrier fleets, but ICBMs can easily take out our mobile airports…and thus our air force. Without satellites, our communications and other important services will be gone.
    Even tiny Antrim, a mile down the road, which has a post office, a pizza shop, a gas station, and a small grocery, has a Chinese restaurant (put in by the Chinese government) with a staff that, except for the waiter, speak only Chinese. In the next town, which is a little larger (Hillsborough), there are three Chinese restaurants. Three!
    If I were organizing it, my first move would be to disable our power grid, which would be simple to do. That would paralyze the whole country. No food, no gas, no radio or TV…except for a few families who'd put in solar cells. Next it would be a few high altitude nukes whose magnetic pulses would wipe out anything electronic we have…stopping our cars, at the least.
    When the threat of Russian missiles went away, so did our anti-missile defense program. All we can do is shoot back what few missile the Chinese don't take out first. Hmm, I wonder if our missile sites are hardened against the magnetic pulses?
    China recognizes what we're just beginning to sense…America is in a decline. We're bankrupt, sick, poorly educated (China is graduating over twenty times as many engineers as we are), and we've lost our industrial base.
    Is it too late? Unless we replace our present Congress with some gung-ho newcomers, it sure looks we could be      headed for the toilet.

3/31/11

The Mess
    After two wishy-washy Bushes, an even worse Clinton, and now what may turn out to be a bastard, Kenyan, Muslim, President, leading a heavily-bribed socialist Congress, our once-great country is in a terrible mess.
    Worse, the 2012 elections are looming and there's no savior in sight. Sarah Palin? Mike Huckabee? Ron Paul? Newt Gingrich? Mitt Romney? The Donald? Hillary? Yoiks!
    Hey, please let me know if any of the pretenders to the throne have practical plans for saving our once great country from ending up on the empire trash heap with Britain, Spain, Rome, Athens, Egypt, and so on.
    So, here we are, with most of our manufacturing having been exported to Asia, with an incredibly super-bloated government, with the most expensive and almost the least effective so-called healthcare system (we're 37th in health), with the most expensive school system and the poorest educated kids, the country is broke, with a devastating inflation threatening, two (or three) seemingly unwinnable wars, with some twenty million illegal aliens (and millions more pouring in our open border), which we're bribing to come with hundreds of billions of dollars in enticements…and that's just part of our miseries.
    Sure, I've got damned good solutions to our problems…solutions that could get us back on top of the empire heap again in a few years…if anyone in authority would listen. No, I have no interest in running for president, and who would vote for a 90-year old president anyway, even one promising them health and wealth? Sure, if you know me you know I have the key to cutting our healthcare costs by about 90% and our energy (oil, nuclear) by more like 99% (with now proven cold fusion), get our industries back from Asia (even electronics), eliminate the income tax (and the IRS), and cut our super-bloated government in half in just a few years.
    We could successfully end the two Bush wars in a few weeks, make colleges tuition-free, and have the best (and least expensive) public school system. We could even get rid of those millions of illegals (bye-bye Mexifornia), and unbankrupt social security.
    Oh yes, Obama and his birther miseries. There may be more than one problem for Barry Soetoro (AKA Obama). It may turn out that his grandmother and wife are right about his having been born in Mombassa, but it could also turn out that his mother wasn't actually married. Oops! His claim to a Hawaiian birth has been denied by Hawaiian authorities, so no wonder Trump has jumped on this bandwagon in a start toward a campaign. I have my birth certificate right here in my office. It'll take me less than a minute to whip it out…while Barry is spending millions on lawyers to avoid showing his. Tsk.
    Winning Bush's two wars quickly? See my 3/6/10 entry. Eliminating the income tax…thus about doubling our paychecks? See my 4/15/10 entry for three practical ways to end that immediately. Healthcare? Somehow get the major media to get the word out that when we stop putting poisons in and on our bodies, we'll stop getting sick, and our bodies will repair the damage we've done. No more cancer or any other sickness. Of course this means the end of the pharmaceutical industry, and most of the food industry as we know it today…putting some 700,000 doctors and 100,000 or so dentists out of work.
    My proposal for Business Incubator Groups (4/4/08) would help find work for the millions of de-bloated government employees (I almost called them workers), by helping millions of small businesses get started (at no cost to the government). I explain my de-bloating approach in my 1/25/09, 11/16/08 and 1/25/08 entries.
    Congress could, if their bribery could somehow be curbed, end inflation by dumping the Federal Reserve system, as Ron Paul as espoused.
    Anyway, if you find a candidate that makes sense, please let me know. Sigh. Or, you can sit, watching TV, while China (with our money) installs thousands more Chinese restaurants here, plus buys up tens of thousands more acres of our oil shale land. And the Saudis build thousands more mosques here (with our oil money), with Muslim towns growing around them…the way they have all over Europe, Viva Sharia Law!

3/30/11

The Oil Joke
    Maybe you've read that China has been spending our money to buy thousands of acres of American oil shale land in Colorado and the Southwest. Korea, too, is investing in our oil shale land, to the tune (so far) of some 96,000 acres in Texas.
    I'm chuckling. With the dam finally breached on cold fusion (thanks, Italy), it isn't going to be long before oil is down to a buck a barrel and our oil shale land more useful for growing crops or forests, while those Arabs move back into tents and ride camels instead of Mercedes.

3/30/11

Population
    With billions of Muslim families busy having ten and more children, the earth's resources will soon be stretched beyond its capacity to feed us. Already we're seeing the ocean's fish supply growing scarcer. Fresh water is drying up. Our farmlands have been poisoned with chemical fertilizer and pesticides, and the rest devoid of the minerals crops need to be healthy, and we need to eat for us to be healthy.
    Here, in America, by the way, the blacks and Hispanics are also doing a good job of out-multiplying whites.
    With cold fusion finally arriving, we can stop using up the earth's dwindling supply of oil, coal, and natural gas. It may even make ocean water desalination practical to give us water for crops…if there's any usable dirt left for farming. Well, we can get busy grinding down some mountains for rock dust to remineralize our soil.
    Alas the Muslim growth is going to put an unbearable strain on the world food supply.
    Gee, with all of the scientific progress we've made in the last century, we're still prisoners of our religions…most of them hangovers from ancient times. Well, our American public school system has been purposely designed to prevent children from learning to think or be creative, so it's easy to control them with inculcated religious beliefs.

3/30/11

Our Forests
    Technology looks like it is coming along in time to save our forests from being further decimated. Well, maybe. While the internet is making newspapers, magazines, and books obsolete, thus reducing the need for wood pulp to make paper, plus cold fusion units for those homes still heated by wood, we may see some forests returning, making homes for our wild animals.
    But then, if our population grows a lot, we're going to need more farm land cleared for crops. My suggestion? Get Congress to both make legal immigration more difficult, and kick the growing millions of illegals the hell out. Further, we really don't have any need for all those Muslims and their ten to fifteen-child families. Let's encourage ’em to go back to where they came from, and stop making more and more Muslim towns, complete with sharia law. Let's maybe learn from what's been happening in Europe.

3/29/11

Collapse?
    Will Congress' ridiculous extravagances collapse the dollar? Worse, will that take along with it the Euro, and perhaps even China's and India's money? A global collapse? Wiser heads than mine are predicting this potential.
    The idea that the current, still Democrat dominated Congress, will start making major changes seems slight. Our main hope is for next year's elections to sweep in the most conservative Republicans we can find, and hope they'll be able to turn things around quickly enough to avoid a dollar melt-down.
    In the meanwhile you have everything to gain and little to lose by buying silver with those Federal Reserve paper dollars. I'm hoping we can get our New Hampshire legislature to have the state make quarter, half and one-ounce silver coins available. And, let's put our "first-in-the-nation" aerial tramway on them. Maybe we can beat Utah on this one.
    We need a draconian new Congress that will eliminate the hundreds of billions they're squandering on illegal aliens, follow the model New Zealand used to cut their super-bloated government (see 11/1/7/06), dump the Federal Reserve system, rethink welfare, get out of the postal, Medicare, and Medicaid businesses, and so on.
    Our so-called healthcare system cost an be cut about 90%. So can our prison system cost. School costs could be cut a fast 50%, just by getting rid of the administration layers. Instituting duties on imports will not only help support the government, but will start bringing back the industries we've exported to lower wage countries. Oh, and let's cut way back on our military, bringing em back from most of the 130 countries we have them now.

3/28/11

Time
    The latest issue of this 84-page weekly magazine has 33 pages of ads, 17 of which are Big Pharma drug ads. As Americans slowly wise up about how to stop making themselves sick and stop buying pharmaceuticals, not only will today's most profitable companies blow away, they'll take the magazines dependent on their ads with them.
    Well, I'm not going to miss this mess of a magazine. I subscribed because I wanted to keep up with what's going on in the world. So, I thumb though the ads and table of contents to the first article on page 14. It's about Haiti and consists of a two-page wide photo of a couple of black hands and feet climbing a dirty wall. The article's 2-1/2" text was up in one corner. That's it!
    The article on Libya starts out with another two-page spread photo…this of a patch of desert with some fires burning. After two pages of text, half of one taken up by a photo of Obama being briefed by telephone, the next two pages are another huge photo, this time of the rebels and a tank. The next pages are about the rebels, with one full page of one wearing a mask.
    One page after another with huge photos…some with a few lines of text in one corner. This is more what I would expect from Life. Phooey, I'm not going to waste my time and money renewing. Golly, they sure need a better editor!

3/27/11

Thanks, Congress!
    Under the management of the Congress we have elected…and trusted to do what would be in the best interests of us and our country, those few of us not too busy watching Oprah, ball games, and Judge Judy, have seen our once mighty country being slowly destroyed.
    Hundreds of billions on welfare. More hundreds of billions coddling illegal aliens, plus wide open borders inviting more to the bonanza. One ill-advised (stupid) losing war after another. Not having learned anything from the Prohibition of alcohol, which gave us the Mafia, they outlawed drugs, making a mess of our country, plus Mexico and Colombia. They got rid of the tax on imports (duties), which had been the only needed funding for the federal government, replacing it with the income tax…which started out at 2% on the wealthy, and now is some 50% on most of us. Plus it put our workers in direct competition with Chinese coolies and Mexican peons, thus moving our major manufacturing industries out of the country.
    I'm not done yet. They turned our country's money over to (mainly) the European Rothschild banking family, giving the U.S., for the first time since it's founding, inflation. They're now busy printing hundreds of billions of dollars in new paper money to cover Congress' extravagances…threatening a catastrophic inflation (soon).
    Our government-run public school system (thanks, Congress) is churning out the poorest educated students in the developed world. Though we're spending more on sickness than any other country, we're 37th in health and 49th in longevity. Oh, thanks too, for spending all of the money you took from us to save for our for social security, bankrupting that program.
    If you don't care about the mess Congress has made of our country, and many of our lives, keep watching the ball games instead of forming a local group to start getting rid of every sitting congressman in next year's elections. My mantra is "Never Re-elect Anyone." Let's get new blood in there and insist they end their  "salary for life" gravy train. Let's have them make lobbying illegal, and end earmarks too.
    Look, we know how to cure any illness with no drugs and never get sick again. We know how to generate unlimited energy with no oil, coal, nuclear, hydro, etc. We know how to grow a new generation of 150 average IQ kids (geniuses) and have them, by far, the best educated in the world, and at a fraction of what we're spending on our schools today. Free college tuition, at no cost to the government. And no more inflation, either.
    We can even start deflating the government bloat at about 15% per year, with every government bureau enthusiastically cooperating, Think of the hundreds of billions that would save! Oh, and I have three different ways the income tax (and the IRS) could be eliminated, with no loss of revenue to the government. Wow, what super suckers we've been!
    Unemployment? Not with a couple million new small business…started at no cost to the government. Oh, and with our major industries coming back from Asia.
   
3/25/11

Better Babies
    Once I get the second edition of my health guide launched I've got to get to work on a manual for parents on how they can have the best possible babies.
    What's the best food for a mother to eat during the pregnancy? Remember that junior, in there, is also tasting every bite you eat. A cup of coffee, with a dose of the powerful poison caffeine, is very traumatic to the baby. Ditto a drink of beer or wine. Or even inhaling someone else's smoke. What loving mother would dump poisons like that on their defenseless babies?
    What's the best music to play? The books to read to junior? Oh, and tell junior how much you love him.
    Like all mammals, we and our babies have a defense system built in which equates any trauma with what the other senses are telling them so they can subconsciously automatically avoid the trauma in the future. So, when junior, in there, is startled by a loud noise, a bump, or perhaps mother coughing, the sounds are recorded for future avoidance. Check my 10/8/10 entry for a story about that.
    In practical terms that means the best approach to bumps or loud noises is to shut up.
    Do your homework…read The Prenatal Classroom by Van de Carr and Lehrer (page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom).
    Feeding your baby formula may be easier than breast milk…if you have no problem with robbing your baby of about 12-15 IQ points for life. D'uh? By the age of three your baby should be reading books and able to speak several languages. By five or six, able to read books with good comprehension at a few seconds a page (see: speedreading4kids.com).
    Let me know what books you've found on the subject that I ought to read.
   
3/23/11

Stock Market Crash?
    My email has been alerting me that a group of Dems want to crash the stock market  as a way to get back the $7 trillion (or is it $17 trillion) our richest Americans have "taken from our middle class."
    If these stupid idiots would do their homework they'd know that about 70% of the investment in the stock market are the pension funds of some 84,000 local, state, and federal departments, and not where the super-elite are hiding their loot. Their plan would wipe out the retirement pensions for millions of government workers. Heck, just look into the CAFR investment data. Gee , thanks, guys.
    Or, do they know that already and are using the ignorance of other Dems to crash the market for some other reason? Hmm, could this be a Muslin plot to destroy The Big Satan?
   
3/22/11

Assimilation
    The original idea was to attract immigrants to develop America and have them adopt our language (English) and our customs. This worked pretty well up through most of the 19th century, with a large part of the immigrants from English-speaking countries like the English, Scotch, and Irish.
    WWII brought us a huge immigration of Jews from all over Europe, with their second generation English-speaking, but not assimilating nearly as much. They had their own Daily Forward newspaper in Hebrew to help keep the adults from bothering to learn much English, and they tended to live in their own groups and patronize their own shops.
    It was the same with the blacks…and still is. They mostly live in black neighborhoods and patronize black stores.
    In my grammar schools in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Washington, and Brooklyn there were no blacks. In my Brooklyn high school, which had over 10,000 students, there were less than a dozen blacks. When I visited it a few years ago I found it had been broken into five smaller schools in the same buildings, and I saw no whites. The 120-some after-school clubs we had have disappeared.
    A couple blocks away, the all-white St. Paul's High Episcopal church, where I sang as a boy soprano in the choir, was now all black…and a mess.
    With thousands of restaurants run by non-assimilating Chinese, and thousands of mosques serving millions of recent immigrant Muslims, also non-assimilating, America sure is different from the country of my childhood. And not for the better, as I see it.
    I have no problem with different religions, as long as they aren't aggressive about it. But Islam, which teaches death to all disbelievers, is something else. I enjoyed the Catholics banning birth control and abortions as a way to build their congregations. Ditto the Mormons and their likewise push for large Mormon families.
    WWII, where most of the men went off to war, forcing women to leave their homes and go to work, not only cut down on family size but, after the men returned, the prices for things like homes kept families needing two paychecks, where one did the job before. Prices rise to meet the money supply.
    With very little white growth, and with much larger Hispanic, black, Muslim and Chinese growth, with them showing little interest in accepting our language or customs, I wonder what our country will be like in a couple more decades?

3/21/11

Entrepreneurial Education
    Since I have a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science, and I espouse entrepreneurialism as the key to making money, here are some courses I would have found of enormous value if they’d been available when I was frittering away my school years with junk like Strength of Materials, Mechanics (mostly bridge design), Economics, Advanced Calculus and so on…stuff I've never had any use for.
Speaking. This is a critically important skill for entrepreneurs. We have to be comfortable and persuasive addressing trade, engineering and public groups. We have to be able to do radio and TV interviews, and chair symposiums. Being able to speak well also helps in committee and corporate board meetings.
Writing. Having evaluated and edited thousands of articles submitted to my magazines over the last 60 years, I assure you that the ability to write clearly and simply is pathetically rare.
Speed Reading. To keep up with today’s world you should be able to speed read. With political events and technologies moving rapidly, we need to read at least a couple of books a month, plus a stack of magazines. This skill is easiest learned before the age of 12. See www.speedreading4kids.com. Older folk can get started with large print magazines and books.
Personnel Management. How do you convince people to do what you want them to and like it? This skill does not come naturally, it has to be learned. It’s a very necessary skill because without it a company can flounder. Few committee-managed companies last long. It takes the driving passion of an entrepreneur to keep small companies strong while technology and public demands constantly change. I’ve watched many large companies lose billions through poor management. I’ve watched thousands of smaller ones fail.
Quality Control. Shades of Ed Demming, who convinced the Japanese that quality could turn their weak economy around. He tried to sell quality to American business, but we wanted no part of it. "Americans will always buy American cars, no matter how we make them." Sure. Then came the Volkswagon beetle. We’re in competition with the whole world now, so we have to understand that quality control is no longer just in manufacturing, it’s also critically important in research, design, customer service, advertising, promotion, supplier dealings and so on. Youngsters need to understand the concept that "quality is free." The costs of providing quality will always more than repay themselves.
Statistical Analysis. Modern scientific calculators can help us sort through a maze of statistics, once we know how to use them. For instance, about the only way to accurately determine the best retail price for a product is to test it statistically. How many people know how to handle that?
Advertising. Businesses waste tons of money because they have no one with an education in advertising around. One of the best business moves I ever made was taking a night course at the New York Advertising Club when I started my first business. I’ve run into a few ad agencies that know what they’re doing, but most are shams and make up for their ignorance with outrageous prices.
Promotion. I got so fed up with trying to deal with inept PR firms that in frustration I put together a video explaining the inside secrets on how to generate an extra million dollars in sales just with PR. Small businesses should learn how to use new product releases and reviews to increase their visibility. If prospective customers are unaware of the company and their products, they sure aren’t going to buy them. Advertising, when done right, works fine, but well done PR can save a fortune. See my #52D $40 DVD.
Business Planning. Entrepreneurs need to know how to put together business plans. They need them to attract venture capital and as guides for running their businesses. They need to know how to build action, cash-flow, P&L, and net worth plans.
Accounting. With hundreds of computer accounting programs, which are going to be best suited for your business? You don’t want to have to contort your business to make it work with the wrong accounting program. Worse, complex businesses may call for several accounting systems. You may need one to generate IRS required reports, and another to manage cash flow.
Desktop Publishing. Entrepreneurs need to know about the latest systems. They need desktop publishing for newsletters, catalogs, advertising, spec sheets, instructions, booklets, business cards, or perhaps to present a report such as this. My wife uses a Macintosh system to design her video boxes, produce catalogs, a newsletter and so on. My own firm totally replaced a $500,000 Bedford typesetting system with a Macintosh costing less than one-hundreth that.
Financing. Enterpreneurs need to know where and how to get money for startups and growth. Banks? Venture capital firms? How about going public? ESOPs? Limited partnerships?
Selling. Selling is not a natural talent, it has to be learned. It’s a marvelous skill and no entrepreneur should be without it. Nor should any salesperson. Once you know how to sell, you’ll never go hungry.
Direct Mail. Entrepreneurs need to learn how to design and write direct mail packages. They need to find out what has worked for others and what hasn’t. Billions of dollars have been spent on direct mail research, yet most entrepreneurs dive into this business blind — and waste enormous amounts of money.
New Product Introduction. This calls for a combination of advertising, PR, new products releases, catalog sheets, packaging, pricing decisions, distribution alternatives, selling expertise, and so on.
Packaging. How would you go about getting a special box made for your product? How about a molded box? Or a foam-lined shipping container? What works best in advertising on the package?
    That’s just a few courses which would help small businesses operate more efficiently. I’d also recommend courses in graphic arts, product photography, purchasing, ergonomics, building and site selection, production planning, office planning, dressing for success, print buying, bill collecting, taxes, business law, word processing systems, communications systems — including paging, fax, bulletin boards, intercoms, data services, etc.
    Entrepreneurs need to be able to learn about computers, data base management, inventory handling, and payroll systems. They need education in office equipment buying and leasing. What are the best copiers, telephone switches, and data storage systems?
    If New Hampshire can organize adult educational courses such as these, we’ll start attracting new businesses from all over the country. Just think of the promotional piece the state could send out to entrepreneurs promoting New Hampshire as the entrepreneur’s paradise!
    New Hampshire businesses, by being able to operate more efficiently, would soon be big winners. Wasting less money on poor ads, PR, packaging, inefficient distribution and so on will enrich us all and contribute positively to our New Hampshire quality of life.
    And since every one of these educational courses will make money for the school offering it, there’s no expense to the state. Everybody wins.
    If the courses are good, businesses will be sending their people in for them, paying their way. I’ll bet a good course in how to sell would be sold out in an hour. One was one of the best investments I ever made.
    Where can we get the expert teachers we’ll need? I suggest we call on local entrepreneurs. I love to teach and have lectured at colleges all around the country and on every continent. You’ll find plenty of volunteers who will be delighted to teach the things they’ve learned.
    The courses I’ve outlined are the same ones business schools should be teaching, but aren’t. If you’ve been reading your business magazines you know that business schools have been losing their charm because they aren’t teaching the right things. This opens an opportunity for New Hampshire to become the business school capital of the country. We could have businesses sending customers from all over the country.
    We could organize two-week intensive management packages, charge $2,995 or so (plus room), and get it. We’d work ’em night and day, seven days a week, giving them more than their money’s worth. Oops, there’s my entrepreneurial spirit showing again.

3/20/11

More Bio
    This is just some stuff, maybe of interest to a future biographer (if any). Well, I got to thinking (it happens) that none of my family talked much about their childhoods or their folks.
    Anyway, in 1933, when Eastern Air Transport…later Eastern Airlines…bought Luddington Airlines, it put my dad, who was the passenger and cargo manager, and Jim Eaton, the president, out of work. So they decided to start Marine Airlines, which would use flying boats to shuttle between downtown Manhattan and downtown Boston.
    They had no problem in getting funding from Eastern and TWA, making it so they could add Boston as a destination to their schedules. Things were coming along fine until Juan Trippe, the president of Pan American Airlines, heard about it. Another airline using flying boats? Well, Pan Am was the only airline doing that, so he viewed Marine Airlines as a threat. Pan Am was flying to South America and across the Pacific with their flying boats.
    So Trippe called his good friend President Roosevelt, and got him to issue a Presidential Order making it illegal for any airline to own stock in another airline. Pfft went Marine Airlines.
    When Luddington Airlines was sold we moved from our apartment in Washington DC back to Brooklyn, in with my mother's folks. We'd lived in Brooklyn when I was three and four…first in an apartment on Atlantic Avenue, and then in one on Avenue K and East 14th Street, just a couple blocks from mother's folks on East 15th, between Avenues M and N.
    In 1927, when I was five, we moved to an apartment in Philadelphia, where I started in kindergarten. Dad, who had been in the Army Air Corps in WWI, and done a handbook for the Department of Commerce on American airports, had been hired by Philadelphia to build them an airport. The nearest place to the city where there was space was just across the river, just outside Camden, so that's where dad built Central Airport. It was the first airport with concrete paved runways. And that's how, I got to be a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York (actually, Newark, just across the river). I remember the coke-covered runway.
    From there we flew to Lakehurst, where they kept the huge dirigibles and visiting German zeppelins. The hangers were huge! That first flight must have made the newspapers, so see if you can find a clipping and send me a copy.
    We moved from the Philly apartment to a house in Merchantville NJ, which was closer to the airport, where my dad was the manager. It was near enough for me to go on my bicycle when I was seven and eight. It was fun playing in Amelia Earhart's Lockheed and the other planes. Now and then my dad was checking out planes and took me up for rides.
    I almost forgot, back when I was four and dad was working for the Department of Commerce…that was before there was an FAA…we used to go to air shows, where dad had to test fly all of the planes that were going to participate in the show. I think he set the world record for piloting the greatest number of planes in one day. I think it was over 30.
    At an airshow at my dad's field I remember a plane taking off and then crashing. I was in the crash truck when we zipped out to the wreck, and remember the pilot suddenly popping up out of the mess, and climbing out unhurt.
    Anyway, in 1933, when we moved back to Brooklyn with my mother's folks…Netta (ma) and Tully (pop), the four of them spent most evenings after dinner playing bridge. When pop as the dummy he went down to the cellar, where he had his workshop. I stayed up in the attic, where I had a cot and a small desk to do my school homework.
    There were three bedrooms on the second floor, one for mom and dad, one for ma and pop, and the third was for the Rex Hide brake lining sales office, with Cort Clarkson doing the office work. The cellar was pretty full of brake lining. Cort (Cortland) was the son of Sidney Clarkson, a Brooklyn lawyer, a good friend of ma and pop.
    In 1935 pop, who smoked cigars, a pipe, and cigarettes, got pneumonia and died. Unlike my dad, pop would talk with me, show me how to do things, and read to me. So Cort and the Rex Hide business moved out, leaving a bedroom on the second floor open for me instead of making do in the attic full of trunks and other storage.
    When I get time I'll tell about how Pop started Citgo, back in 1909.    

3/10/11

Ogallala
    That's the huge aquifer under Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas that's made mega-farming possible in the area, with enormous wheat and corn fields. Well, it's slowly drying up…oddly at a time when the word will soon be slipping out about how toxic cooked food is, eliminating the market for wheat. And then, as all-electric vehicles eliminate the need for corn-based alcohol, plus the elimination of corn for feeding cows in today's factory beef farms, pfft will go the two largest mega-farming crops.
    Oh, we'll still eat beef (raw, of course), but it's going to have to be pasture-fed, so many farms will have to change over to growing grass for grazing. But we won't be needing the huge amounts of beef we do now. You see, I love raw meat, but since learning to chew it thoroughly, it only takes a few ounces to satisfy me at a meal.
    Can those millions of acres of farmland be cleaned of pesticides so organic crops can be grown? Plus they'll have to need mountains of rock dust to replace the long-gone minerals plants need to ward off pests…and we need in our food to be healthy. Can the large-scale organic growth of fruits and vegetables be developed? Right now, they're a hand operation as far as I've seen.
    Anyway, perhaps the drying up of the Ogallala won't be as much of a problem, so we won't have to build several hundred miles of twelve-foot water pipes from the great lakes, like Gaddafi did to keep the Libyan farms going.
    Once we get Americans to change from burgers and fries to healthy diets we're going to need huge amounts of broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, carrots, turnips, strawberries, raspberries, blue berries, grapes, oranges, grapefruit, and so on. If you know of anywhere in the world these kind of crops are being mega-farmed, please let me know.

3/9/11

Magazines
    A recent issue of Time, with only 25 pages of ads for a 104-page magazine, is tough enough, but when I counted I found that ten pages were Big Pharma ads, and another seven packaged-food and hospital ads. So, if the public ever learns about how to be healthy, and then does anything about it, the drug and most food product ads will be blown away.
    They may be able to carry on as on-line publications, read with iPads and other readers. Well, that saves the printing, paper, addressing, and mailing costs, which are major expenses. So, it looks as if we're heading into a future where most books, magazines and newspapers are Web delivered. I like it.
    There probably is or will be a simple way to hi-light text on an iPad, like I do with my books. And a simple reference system to replace my present cutting pages out of magazines and filing them, with an index on my computer. I now have over 3,000 filed for reference. I wonder if I can download that to my iPad, when I get one?
    The beauty part is that on-line magazine ads will be able to use video and audio…as will the articles. It'll be a whole new world of publishing, and most exciting…probably more like the 60-Minutes TV show, and not just pdf files.

3/8/11

Schmealth
    In my excitement upon discovering how to cure any illness with no drugs and never get sick again, it just never occurred to me that most people wouldn't be excited about it too. Alas, what I've learned is that many…probably most…people are so totally believing in doctors and the FDA that they don't want to hear anything else. They enjoy what they've been eating and drinking. They enjoy smoking. Give up coffee? No damned way!
    But there's another bloc, when it comes to caring about their health. It's not having any good reason to care. As someone working at a boring job every day, and no good reason to foresee life getting a lot better, why not enjoy burgers and fries, with a "malt"? Then there's the millions on welfare, spending their days watching TV…munching on food-stamp bought cheese puffs.
    Retirement on social security? Har-de-har. Well, maybe an RV to drive around, stopping at RV parks. A lot of golf. Or a retirement home and play cribbage every afternoon. At least, with Alzheimer's, the other people will be new friends every day
    It starts with our public school system, which has been designed to take kids of all different sizes, shapes, backgrounds, and interests, and turn out as identical a product as possible. The old factory system. That was what Congress thought best when the industrial revolution called for millions of workers who would do their jobs in the factories and not cause problems. It was also just what the religious leaders of the time, who pressured Congress, wanted…parishioners who would go to church and not ask questions. Believers.
    Sure, half of us are getting cancer, but they have a treatment for that, so why worry? Health insurance will cover it.
    So, what are you looking forward to when retirement age comes along…if you live that long? For that matter, are you looking forward to anything much different than your present job? So, why should you stop drinking coffee or beer? Or smoking? Or other drugs? And exercise is so much bother? The sun? And get skin cancer? No way!
    If you're doing better than average you get to spend some time in Las Vegas, or a resort, but why on earth would you want to change your life so you could live to 120 or more? A raw food diet? Ugh! And Wayne says he's eating raw liver! Super-ugh! Give up barbecued ribs? A big juicy steak? A baked potato with sour cream and butter? Ice cream? Pie? Yoiks!
    Okay, so I'm different. I have a whole bunch of things I still want to do. Businesses to start. Books to write. Goals, perhaps foolish, like getting people to stop making themselves sick, to start their own businesses so they can have the money to have fun. I want to get rid of the oil and other energy industries, and to change our educational system so we have a new generation of high IQ, creative kids…kids that won't get sucked into deadly religions, who will give us a new wave of great books, movies, paintings, and so on…probably for us to enjoy on our iPad-25s.
    Yeah, I'm dreaming. Maybe I'm preaching to an empty church.

3/7/11

Do-Do
    That stands (a) for the shape our country is in, and (b) for Domp Obama,
    Sure, we've got presidential elections next year. The Dems are stuck with Barry Soetoro, who's school records say he's a Muslim, a religion from which there is no escape. Not alive, anyway. The Reps are a mess with, so far, just a few failed retreads to run, and not much money to back them up anyway. And less enthusiasm.
    Rah rah Ron Paul, a nice ex-doctor with two first names and a rickety platform. Oh, he's right on with dumping the Federal Reserve. That was one of the three humongous Dem sellouts in 1913…the other two being the institution of the income tax, which was an insignificant 2% on the wealthy, and has kinda grown (groan). The other being the elimination of duties on imports, which previously had been the only needed revenue for the federal government.
    Eliminating tariffs on imports essentially put American workers in competition with those anywhere else in the world…like Chinese coolies. Gee, thanks a few trillion, guys. Unless we elect a congress that has the guts to start undoing the terrible things the guys we've elected in the past…and then endlessly re-elected…that do-do is going to flush us down the drain hole of history…along with Great Britain, Spain, Rome, Greece, and Egypt.
    Yes, dump the Federal Reserve, and fast…before the paper dollars they've been printing by the hundreds of billions tank us into a devastating inflation.
    Then institute a 2% duty on imports, like they did with the income tax. Gee, not even Walmart shoppers would notice that! And wow, with a new source of money to spend, in no time congress will have that up to 5%, 10%, and so on, gradually making American-made products competitive with Chinese labor.
    Speaking of which, have you seen any signs that the huge boom in the Chinese economy we've helped finance, with an enormous growth in their middle class, has kindled any appreciation from their communist government? What I see is thousands of new Chinese restaurants opening in even the smallest towns…like little Antrim, whose business section has a gas station, a bank, a hardware store, a small grocery…and a Chinese Restaurant. I find it interesting and strange that these restaurants and the houses for the workers are paid for by the Chinese government, and that only the waiter bothers to learn English. Well, broken English. Are we, for some reason being infiltrated. I'll bet our McDonalds in China have all-Chinese workers.
    I digress (as usual).
    Let's elect a president and congress next year that will start turning America around. They need to get the government out of running businesses. That's socialism, and it's failed in every country where it's been tried. It's failing here, big time. Our post office, Medicaid, Medicare, and so on are losing billions. Entrepreneurs run businesses successfully, not bureaucrats…driven by political motives. They need to limit congress to two terms, like they did the presidents, after FDR screwed things up so badly…intentionally getting us into WWII, and before that, stretching the depression out for over ten years with government works projects.
    There's much to be said for getting congress to stop spending the social security revenues immediately, replacing them with worthless IOUs. If they'd done as promised, and invested them, we could be enjoying ten times the retirement benefits, like those using the Chilean social security system are enjoying. Heck, read Every Man A Millionaire by Genetsky (my 1/13/08 entry). In the meanwhile, at lets bring back the cost-of-living increases they canceled a couple years ago.
    Maybe, if we can find business people to run for congress instead of professional politicians (mostly ex-lawyers), we'll see a turnaround in things like welfare and the millions of coddled illegal immigrants that are draining us. And wouldn't it be nice to see congress downsize the perks they've voted for themselves…like lifetime salaries and super-generous healthcare benefits?
    With the Reps not yet coming up with a viable candidate, and the Dems stuck with Barry, we're in do-do. At least let's get the senate Republicanized so we'll see some change to the right.
    If I could get through to Steve Jobs and get him to change to a raw food diet so he's stop making himself sick, with his success record in business, he'd make a great president.

3/6/11

Silver
    With the government somewhere between $18 and $100+ trillion in debt, we're bankrupt. And that means the possibility of the dollar collapsing has to be considered. Runaway inflation could be looming, which accounts for the enormous recent run-up on gold prices, with silver, as usual, following cautiously behind.
    Yes, of course, I have a proposal to salvage the situation…including the potential collapse of our banks,
    The dollar, which a small group of Dems, almost a hundred years ago, took away from the U.S. Treasury and turned over to a group of European bankers, the Federal Reserve Banks, which has recently been printing hundreds of billions of paper dollars for the government to borrow (and pay interest on), to spend on its largess to the millions of illegal immigrants, failing government businesses like the post office, Medicaid, Medicare, etc., the world's largest and most expensive military, welfare, very generous foreign aid, and millions upon millions of government employees (I almost called them workers…oops), I think you'll like my win-win proposal.
    I have a one-ounce gold Kruggerrand I bought for $350    a while back on a visit to South Africa. It's worth about $1,400 today. That's too expensive to be of use for daily transactions. It's about the size of our old silver dollars, if you're old enough to remember when they were still around. So what I'm proposing is the making available of quarter, half, and one-ounce silver coins, as I first suggested a year ago.
    So let's get our legislature busy making New Hampshire sovereign, and then have the state make silver coins available at the current silver cost, plus some extra to cover the cost of the program. This would give New Hampshire merchants two prices to charge, one for the silver coins at that day's exchange rate, and the other for the Fed paper dollars, at their value that day. Thus, no matter how bad the inflation, the value of products and services in silver will change little. Today a one-ouncer would probably run about $40, and the quarter-ounce coin $10. Yeah, I'll take the rest of my change in a handful of those almost worthless Reserve notes.
    Okay. Okay, we'll make some dime-sized eighth-ounce silver coins, worth around $5. Heck, also make some three-inch four-ouncers worth today around $150 or so.
    Oh, we'll need a name for the new coins. Any suggestions? I like "sovereigns," but "S" is too much like "$".

3/5/11

Education
    The iPad, and others of its ilk, are a wonderful development for kids. No longer will they be trapped into buying lousy, expensive, soon to be outdated, school books. They'll be able to download any book they want in pdf format, probably for a buck a book. And we'll be seeing teaching videos on any subject kids want to know about, written, produced and peformed by top professionsals, and complete with he latest in graphics. Well, they'll probably cost more than a buck.
    All the better for the school of the future, where the kids will be busy learning what they want, not what a dictator up front at the blackboard…or even a school board…says.
    When a kid discovers a book or program that's exciting, the next step is to tell the other kids about it so they can download it.  Short-term memorizing stuff for tests, and then almost immediately forgotten, the present "educational" system, will be history.
    Schools in the future will be running fifty weeks of the year, with attendance optional, not mandatory. The kids won't be separated by age, there'll be no tests or grades. They're there, given the opportunity to learn anything they want. Or not. It's their future to do with as they wish. The opportunity is there for them to learn and work with kids with similar interests.
    Further, I'd like to see New Hampshire pioneer mobile workshops and labs, which can be moved from school to school for a few weeks at a time. Few, if any schools, can afford the latest in metal shops, wood shops, electronic labs, chem labs, and so on. Plus audio and video recording studios and associated computers.
    The school maintenance would be handled by the students, which eliminates graffiti, and cuts school costs substantially.
   The need for layers of administration, which now eat up around 75% of our school costs, will mostly be long gone. With rows of desks and teachers for every 15 to 30 students also long gone, costs will be even lower. A few teachers will be needed when the students ask for them.
    The best model I've seen so far is the Sudbury Valley School, in Framingham MA. Bettering our school system has been a major interest of mine. Heck, go check out my entries for 10/13/07 - 10/14/07 - 1/11/08 - 5/1/09 - 5/20/08 - 6/17/08 - 7/26/08 - 8/6/08 - 9/12/08 - 12/6/08 - 3/24/09 - 5/8/09.

2/27/11

Fried Brains
    The latest International Telecommunications Union ITU News says there are now 5.3 billion cell-phone users, of which 3.8 billion are in developing countries.
    If you Google "CIOTechVisionary" you'll find me credited with starting the cell-phone industry. What isn't mentioned is that my editorials have been warning the users, right from the start, not to put the cell-phone antenna near your head. Keep it at least a foot away!
    My good friend, W. Ross Adey (K6UI), was the pioneer researcher with this, proving that putting the cell-phone antenna hear the head burns out brain cells, lowers IQs, and causes brain tumors. While lower IQs are valuable to politicians to keep people less able to think and be more easily managed (sheeple), the long range effect is to make us less competitive with higher IQ countries.
    Then, add to that dumbing us down via our government-run public school system, which has been purposely designed to dumb us down. Read Iserbyt's The Intentional Dumbing Down of America. Or Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto. Also read his The Underground History of American Education. John is the former New York State and New York City Teacher of the Year winner who quit teaching because he “could no longer do that to children.” The subtitle is, “A school Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling.” This is an utterly fascinating book. My copy is heavily highlighted. John has done a superb job of researching the history of American schools. It explains why our school graduates are coming out of the system uneducated and ignorant, many barely able to read and unable to make change or use a map. And that’s no accident. It explains why we haven’t had any creative geniuses in decades, and why entrepreneurialism has been dying. In Switzerland, where only 23 percent of the students go on to high school, they have the world’s highest per capita income. I know that none of the courses I took in high school or college have ever been of any practical use to me in any of the businesses I been in, and I’ve been in a lot.
    And if the dumbing down with cell-phones and our public schools isn't enough, they're lacing our water with fluorides. This is the stuff used in German prison camps to make the prisoners docile, and by farmers to do the same for their bulls. There is no valid research showing any value to teeth…that's all baloney.
    All of which may help explain how Obama got so easily elected.
    Not to appear racist, but IQ surveys show blacks averaging about a 15% lower IQs than whites, possibly helping explain the huge black vote for Obama.
    (1) Make sure you and your kids are using cell-phones with headsets to keep that antenna away from your heads. (2) Get a Sudbury Valley model school going in your town. (3) Get after your state rep to get fluorides out of the town or city water.

2/26/11

Doom?
    The doomers are having a great time. Well, there's that Planet-X, which will sail past Earth, causing earthquakes, volcano eruptions (including the Yellowstone super-volcano), tsunamis, and other havoc. Nostradamus predicted a pole shift shortly after the millennium which would put the new poles over Siberia and South America, meanwhile killing 97% of us with the waves miles high hitting every coast, plus 300 to 500 mph winds world-wide. An EMP blast over America could wipe out our electrical system, all our radios, TVs, telephone systems, etc. Oops, no food to the stores and no working gas pumps. Pfft, America.
    Of course, with America bankrupt, we could easily see the dollar disintegrate in a runaway inflation.
    So, how are you doing with your underground shelter, stocked with a year or so of food and water? Oh, and plenty of silver for barter?
    Or are you, like me, saying, "what the hell," and planning to go with the flow and wait until I'm needed again for a return visit to Earth?
    Meanwhile, screw the doom prophecies, I'm happily busy getting the word out on how to cure any illness with no drugs, and never get sick again; help cold fusion put oil, nuclear, and other power sources out of business; and make gas no longer needed for cars with a new miniature power unit that's been proven and patented.

2/25/11

Super Babies
    Most parents would like to have the smartest, healthiest baby they can manage. Well, we know a lot about what's good and bad for this goal, we just need to have the information easier to find for prospective parents.
    The planning needs to start well before the pregnancy, with both parents being super-healthy. This means they must have been avoiding exposure to anything toxic, such as sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, drugs, fructose, MSG, mercury, fluorides, chlorine, Aspartame, cell-phones, microwave ovens, etc. We're sure living in a toxic world, no wonder half of us are dying of cancer we're all dying at less than half our designed lifetimes.
    During the prenatal period no damned ultra-sound. Read to the baby every day and play classical music. When something happens that might cause the fetus pain…a bump, a cough, or even a loud noise…shut the hell up and be quiet. Read The Prenatal Classroom for more ideas.
    With a home birth via a midwife and breast feeding for at least a year, even with lousy genes you could have a genius baby with an IQ around 150…starting to learn to read at seven months and building a reading vocabulary by two years. Oh, and able to speak several languages fluently. By five, speed reading books at a few seconds a page. Remember, the baby's ability to learn languages and read fade away at about four.
    Once I get the second edition of my health guide launched I've got to get to work on a manual for parents on how they can have the best possible babies.
    What's the best food for a mother to eat during the pregnancy? Consider that junior, in there, is also tasting every bite you eat, so a cup of coffee, with its dose of the powerful poison, caffeine, can be very traumatic. Ditto your drink of beer or wine. Or even inhaling someone else's smoke. What loving mother would dump poisons like that on their defenseless babies?
    Oh, be sure and tell junior how much you love him.
    Like all mammals, we and our babies have a defense system built in which equates any trauma with what the other senses are telling them so they can subconsciously avoid the trauma in the future. So, when junior, in there, is startled by a loud noise, a bump, or perhaps mommy coughing, any sounds are recorded for future avoidance. Check my 10/8/10 entry for a story about that. In practical terms that means the best approach to bumps or loud noises is to shut up.
    Okay, you have a kid of five who's reading books and able to speak several languages. Are you going to send this genius to kindergarten in the local public school? Until we get some decent schools going, like the Sudbury Valley School, you're faced with home schooling. Maybe, if you get after your state representative now, your public schools will have been modernized by the time junior is five, and equipped to deal with him (or her).
   
2/24/11

Some Misc. Notes
• David Icke: "I feel for young people today. They are bombarded from every angle with programming indoctrination, and chemical suppression of brain activity through additives in their food and drink. The idea is to slam down the lid on their potential so they slip off the production line as sausage machine adults."
• John Le Carré: "The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country."
• W. Thomas: "The health care debates are all about securing funds for what isn't even real Health Care, but the treatment of symptoms. Real health care would include Disease Prevention to improve the nation's health. But this common sense concept isn't even on the table. About 75% of all 'health care' money is spent on the five major self-inflicted degenerative diseases, caused by an unhealthy and unnatural lifestyle. If we keep behaving like fools, eating denatured, processed foods laced with toxic chemicals, etc., the health of the nation will keep deteriorating and the cost of treating the symptoms will keep going the way they have been going…up, that is!"
• Detroit's public school system is headed for bankruptcy. People are leaving the crime-ridden city, and almost a hundred school buildings are now empty. Only 25% of the remaining students graduate on time. The district seems to be not only incompetent, but also corrupt. Administrators had been sending pay checks to over 250 employees that didn't exist. The median house price has plunged to below $10,000.

2/23/11

Raw Food
     If you are not getting the almost daily Dr. Mercola downloads, you're missing out. I haven't found him off base yet. For instance, here's something he posted about raw food, and one on cancer.

The Superior Benefits of Raw Foods
    Why are raw foods so beneficial to you? Because they exist in their natural, unaltered form, the way nature intended. All its inherent synergistic benefits are left intact.
    When you cook foods, on the other hand, enzymes that are necessary for metabolic purposes in your body are destroyed. Additionally:
    * Toxic substances and cooked "byproducts" are created. The higher the cooking temperature, the more toxins are created.
    * Nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are depleted, destroyed, and altered.
    * Unusable waste material is created, which has a cumulative congesting and clogging effect on your body.
    * Eating enzyme-dead food places a burden on your pancreas and other organs and overworks them, which eventually exhausts these organs.
    * Putrefactive bacteria, particularly from cooked meat, dominate the natural population of beneficial intestinal flora resulting in dysfunction in your intestine.
    Cooked food also devoid of biophotons, the light particles or “stored sun energy” that exists in raw foods. Biophotons contain important bio-information, which controls complex vital processes in your body. The biophotons have the power to order and regulate, and, in doing so, to elevate the organism -- in this case, your physical body -- to a higher oscillation or order. This is manifested as a feeling of vitality and well-being.
    Yet because of the widely circulated fear of germs, and the mistaken notion that everything must be near incinerated before it’s safe to eat, most people are scared to death of eating a raw egg, raw dairy products or raw meat.
    That’s truly unfortunate.

Cancer
    Consider also chemotherapy, the standard treatment for cancer. How effective is chemotherapy?
    A study published in the Journal Clinical Oncology in December 2004 showed that chemotherapy has an average 5-year survival success rate of just over 2 percent for all cancers! The researchers concluded that chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival, yet it remains the status quo for cancer treatment.

2/22/11

My Aging Soap Box
    So here I am, preaching to a mostly disinterested crowd, pleading them (you) to start thinking, to start investigating all of the things you believe, to see if they are really true. Is the food you’re eating and drinking making you sick and killing you years sooner than possible? Do the keys to the kingdom of God lie in the hands of the clergy or in yours? I’ve mentioned that every well researched book on near death experiences tells us that the people who have died and come back from “heaven” all have a consistent story. They agree there is a force we call God. But after their experience they give up going to church or belonging to any organized religion.
    If I can get you to break away from the accepted mass beliefs…belief in the food you’re eating, our school system, our religions, etc.…perhaps I can then convince you of the power of one. The power that one person can have to improve the world.
The Power of One
    When I got interested in repeaters I saw them as an exciting new ham radio technology. I also saw them as a possible solution to get amateur radio going again after the 1963 so-called “incentive licensing” catastrophe…where almost 90% of our ham stores went out of business in a couple of years and ditto our American manufacturers. That was the worst disaster ever to hit our hobby and it was caused primarily by millionaire Mort Kahn W2KR who, as the Hudson Division Director, was quietly controlling the ARRL. He was abetted by Bill Eitel W6EI, the head of Eitel-McCullough (the tube manufacturer) and his lackey Bill Orr W6SAI.
    By publishing hundreds of repeater and 2m FM articles in 73, plus starting a magazine (The Repeater Bulletin) devoted to repeaters, publishing one book after another on the subject, and organizing repeater conferences around the country, repeaters emerged as the most active aspect of the hobby. It was our repeater technology developments that made it possible for Motorola, in response to my editorials, to launch the cellular telephone industry.
    It was my success in helping to change the world just a tad with repeaters that got me to see if I could do it again when the first microcomputer was announced in 1975. In addition to starting the first magazines in this new field, I also organized the first industry standards conference. I picked Kansas City for the conference because it was equally far for all of the companies to travel. That’s how the Kansas City Standard for data storage came about.
    Yes, you can help change the world, possibly for the better. I helped with cell phones, personal computers and in several ways with compact discs. And I’m just a guy up here in New Hampshire. I’m a guy who takes advantage of serendipity instead of ignoring it.
    It was serendipity that got me to be one of the founders and first secretary of American Mensa. Two of the other founders never did anything further, the third moved to Switzerland and dropped out. And I did that even though I was up to here in starting 73 magazine at the time, as well as president of the Porsche Club.   
    The year before had been busy for me, with a ham tour of Scandinavia in the spring, an around the world flight operating on 20m, stopping at 26 countries, during the summer, and representing the US as a delegate to the International Telecommunications Conference in Geneva in the fall. These were all exciting, but didn’t contribute much to moving the world ahead…though many of the things I learned on the trip formed the basis for my later influence on the development of Jordan as a high tech center.
    Serendipity (the gods? angels?) will offer you opportunities too. Grab them.

Your Influence
    I’ve written about this many times, but you’ve just pooh-poohed it. You can make things happen. An Art Bell guest explained how anyone (including you) can cause clouds to reshape themselves. He said to pick a calm day with a few light clouds and then concentrate on one particular cloud, willing a hole to open in it. When the hole does open you’re going to get a whiff of a whole new world of understanding dawning for you. You can influence matter. And people. And the future. You are not just a prisoner in the slave gang of life with God calling all the shots. You can help make your luck. You can also, just by believing it, make your own bad luck. If you are a negative person you are going to continually have negative experiences. You are causing them.
    I try to reach out to those willing to think in my editorials and books, but I know I’m up against thoroughly ingrained brainwashing from your parents, teachers, friends and the media, so even tiny successes are a wonder. Can I get the ball rolling by getting a few of my readers to think? Hoping they (you) will, in turn pass along my message?
    Yes, you can influence a cloud. Yes, you can communicate with animals and plants. Yes, your cells are in communication with the whole of your body. Yes, there is a God, but there’s no evidence that “he’s” a vengeful God, or that what you say or think about him will in any way change his love. Those are human problems.
     Read, learn, and stop being screwed by people and organizations that want to take advantage of your ignorance and gullibility.
    Yes, college is necessary if you’ve decided you want to be a teacher or to work for a large company all your life. Or to work for the government. But for most entrepreneurs it’s a ghastly waste of time and money.

2/20/11

Scientology
    The 27-page article on Scientology in the Feb. 14/21 issue of The New Yorker took me a while to read. It's the first I've seen published with much about Scientology. I was disappointed that, as long as it was, it didn't explain the religion's beliefs, or how Dianetics, the science upon which the religion was founded, works.
    Well, I was there, right from the earliest days of Dianetics, and I know why the religion was founded, even if I don't know what religious dogma is taught. Gather round, while we go back some sixty years.
    With Tom Cruise, Kristy Allen, etc., pushing it, what’s the story on this strange religion? How did it get started? Do they really worship Satan and sacrifice babies?
    No, I’ve never been a member, I just happen, by the usual series of circumstances, to have been there when it started, so I know the story…one I doubt you’ll find in any Scientology literature…one that I suspect not even the religion’s highest priest, Miscavige, probably knows about.
    Let’s go back to early 1950. I was working as an engineer-announcer at WSPB in Sarasota, Florida. I’d been reading Astounding Science Fiction magazine (now Analog) since about 1936. John Campbell Jr (W2ZGU), the editor, wrote long, editorial essays every month about anything he thought the readers would find interesting. I so enjoyed these that when I started my first publication, I did the same. Still do.
    One month he wrote about a new approach to working with the mind called Dianetics, and had an article by L. Ron Hubbard about his book, Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health. This approach made sense so I bought a copy and read it.
    Wow! If this really works, it’ll put psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts out of business. So I got a fellow announcer at the station to read the book so we could give it a test hop.
    The results were so spectacular that, even though I’d just been offered a substantial raise and the potential for sharing in the advertising revenue while running my own show, I quit, packed everything I owned in my car, and drove to Elizabeth, NJ, and the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, where I signed up for their six-week Dianetics course.
    My Dianetic experience had such an impact on my life that I've written about it here almost endlessly. Here's some items to check: 11/16/07 explains how Dianetics works. 11/18/10; 10/8/10; 6/27/10; 1/30/10; 11/18/09; 4/21/09; 4/25/08; 2/23/08; 11/16/07; 5/12/07; 3/30/07; 3/20/07; 1/31/07; 11/26/06; 5/7/05. The 2002 edition, the latest I have, is $7, and says 20 million have been sold. Got yours yet?
    My 4/25/08 entry explains about how Hubbard gave his only public auditing demo, with me as the one being audited, and what a botch he made of it. Further, as a result, I learned that Hubbard wasn't the real author of the book, he just lucked onto the manuscript in a hospital when a patient died. Hubbard then used his sci-fi writing skills to make the book longer, making up the part about "clears."
    Well, the truth about Dianetics would put psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychologists out of work, so you aren't likely to see much in the mainstream media about it, any more than you will about the simple cure of any illness, or cold fusion. Too many billions depend on secrecy.
    The The New Yorker Article gives no hint about Dianetics, it's mostly about the troubles people have when they want to exit Scientology.

2/19/11

A Speaker
    The best way to build meeting attendance, and thus club growth, is with interesting speakers.

Introducing publisher Wayne Green.
His subject: Making New Hampshire the healthiest, wealthiest, and most fun state in which to live.

WWII submarine sailor - Electronic Technician 1/c.
Founder American Mensa, the high IQ society.
Passenger on the first commercial flight from Philadelphia to New York.
His Peterborough publications credited with starting the cell phone and personal computer industries.
He has visited 146 countries so far, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
Born in Littleton (NH). 4th generation there.
Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science

Has Served On:
Board of Directors, Monadnock Hospital
NH Economic Development Commission
President: Peterborough Chamber of Commerce
NH High-Tech Council
FCC’s Long Range Planning Committee
USA Representative at ITU in Geneva
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Council
Board of Directors, IDG

Lectured:
Yale University
Princeton University
Boston University
Case-Western University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Many colleges
Groups in 37 countries
Many NH Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, Lions, etc.

Keynote Speaker:
National Education Conference
National Music Conference
National Psychic Conference
National Computer Conference
National Communications Conference

2/18/11

Autism
    Dr. Oz did a show today on autism, and how it's grown from one in 5,000 children around 30 years ago to one in 110…and perhaps one in 70 today. Alas, it's a lifetime sentence for kids.
    For some time it was thought that it was the growing number of childhood vaccinations that was causing it, but research…mostly done by the affected pharmaceutical companies…has sort of disproven that. Hmm, the last I read the Amish children were not autistic. They're the religious group refusing vaccinations for their kids.
    I think it would be well worth a try to see if putting some autistic kids on raw food diets might make a difference. Since the immune system, when permitted, is able to repair almost anything else, let's give it a try and see if it can fix whatever's gone wrong with autistic kids.
    That means stopping all of the poisons, not just cooked food. Sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, mercury, fluorides, and so on. Give the immune systems a chance to do their work unimpeded by toxic overload. I'll be surprised if there aren't some remarkable improvements…maybe total cures. Well, the immune system cures cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS, and so on, so why not autism?

2/17/11

Super-Organic
    Organic means the food was grown without pesticides, which is very important. But our bodies need a wide range of ¬minerals to be healthy, many of which have been sucked from our land by previous years of harvested crops. We're fortunate, here in New Hampshire, where our farmers moved out west over a hundred years ago, where the land was much easier to farm, so many of our now forest lands still have pretty good mineral content if we clear the land.
    In The Survival of Civilization by Hamaker-Weaver, We learned that we could get the minerals back into our farm lands by spreading on rock dust  This was backed up by Rock Dust by Supkow. Cows can spot the difference, going first the graze on the part of a pasture where rock dust had been spread the previous year. Just as it makes for healthier people who eat crops grown on remineralized land, it makes healthier cows and healthier milk for us when pastures are remineralized every few years.
    Before we built a bunch of dams our rivers would flood in the spring, bringing minerals to the flooded lands. The next year after that 2004 Indonesian tsunami flooded farms, the crops were spectacular…the sea having remineralized the land.
    We're not real short of sea water, so maybe, when cold fusion power puts oil out of business, we can use those thousands of old fuel trucks to bring sea water to remineralize our farms? In the meanwhile we have a bunch of spare granite here in "The Granite State" that can help people be healthier.

2/16/11

Breast Feeding
    Not only does breast feeding a baby build its immune system, helping to protect it from any invading germs, viruses or parasites, it's also been proven to increase a baby's IQ. Formula is just no substitute for breast feeding. The baby's body is    and the brain grows faster with breast feeding..
    Of course it's vitally important for the mother to take care of her health, too. To avoid all of the poisons and eat food with all of the minerals in it…raw, of course.
    So, figure on a year, at least, for breast feeding.

2/15/11

Dad
    Somehow I managed to draw a corker of a dad. When I made him angry he'd spank me…hard, with a hair brush or a razor strop. He never had enough interest in me to read to me, even talk with me…or teach me anything. He never talked about what work he was doing. I had to hear about it from other people.
    When, as a teenager, I got interested in radio and electronics, I took up one end of the cellar with my workbench and equipment. I don't think he ever had enough interest to even look at it. He had no interest in music, so he didn't play any of my record collection, which I kept in the living room.
    After college and WWII, I moved back in with dad, mother and my grandmother for a while. My loudspeaker business did so well I was able to buy a 26-foot Chris-Craft Express Cruiser, which I kept about ten minutes drive from home. Many afternoons and weekends I'd take it out for water skiing, a picnic, or a trip. I don't think dad ever even looked at my boat. The same went for my Arabian horse, which was stabled right near the marina, where I kept my boat. And the same with my float plane, which I also kept in the same area.
    Even during the summer, when he was at the farm in Bethlehem, I'd fly up, buzz the house to let them know I'd be landing on nearby Burns Pond, and my mother would drive up to get me.
    I don't recall our ever talking about what he thought, or about his or my future or past. He never seemed to have any interest in me. I don't think he ever talked with my mother, either. At least I never heard them talking.
    Thank heavens I'm nothing like my dad!

2/14/11

Banks
    I’ll bet you haven’t noticed that the American banking system, which Congress has been bailing out with hundreds of billions, has, just in the last few years, consolidated to maybe five or six huge banks. And did you know they’re all foreign owned?
    That reminds me of what I found when I got involved with the music industry. I discovered that 96% of all record sales in America were being made by just six music megacorporations, five of which were foreign owned. And they were making damned sure no independent music company could survive for long by spending about $100 million a year to bribe the music directors of radio stations to not play independent music. Check it out by reading Hit Men by Stinett.
    I also found that 98% of the performers on these major labels were never making a nickel on royalties. This was confirmed in a Forbes article, so this isn’t just rhetoric.
   
2/13/11

Weirdness
    Between psychics communicating with the dead, remote viewing, past lives, reincarnation, dowsing, morphic resonance, the power of mass consciousness to change things, voice recordings of the dead, write it down and make it happen, and so on through so many unexplainable phenomena, people have taken advantage of all this by setting up religions. So, there are over 10,000 religions today.
    Well, it's a great business. It bestows power on the retailers, as well as an abundance of money, so we see religious retail shops in every town in the world…called churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.
    Religious leaders learned, early on, that by starting with young children the odds were they'd have customers for life.
    Of course, as with any business, it's necessary to do what it takes to discourage the competition. So we have had religious wars all down through history. Heck, the Muslims are even busy killing each other…Suunis vs Shiites…as well as killing all those Christians in Darfur. And Christian sects, directed by God, have been killing each other for a couple thousand years.
    Alas, beliefs are a prison for the mind. Any beliefs. Which helps explain why every major scientific and medical discovery has been fought by the establishment in that field…making my work, as a visionary, frustrating. How can I help people overcome their eating beliefs and addictions so they'll stop making themselves sick, cutting their potential loves in half? How can I get the world to give cold fusion a try so we can end our use of oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power, windmills, and so on? And even use those thousands of tons of radioactive waste as fuel, making it no longer radioactive? How can I break the strangle-hold the government and the teacher unions have on our public school system so we can have the best educated and most creative thinking kids in the world?
    Sigh.

2/12/11

Illegals
    The Panama City Beach (FL) sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective, if controversial, way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs. Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, cutting through someone else's property, loitering, hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving if they speed off in a car.
    U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally.
    Illegal immigrants are leaving town, so builders are worried the crackdown will deprive them of the labor they need to take part in a building boom in which Panama City's Beach cheap spring-break motels are being torn down and replaced with high-rise condos.
    The sheriff said the raids are justified under a long-standing Florida law prohibiting employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. His department has conducted dozens of these raids over the past three months, sometimes using five or six patrol cars, and has reported more than 500 people to immigration officials since November.
    The illegal aliens are supposed to be a federal responsibility, but the feds' seeming disinterest in enforcing the federal laws has forced states and cities to act, as we've seen in Arizona and a couple other states. For example, Farmers Branch, Texas, is trying to prohibit apartment rentals to illegal immigrants in the Dallas suburb. Georgia passed a law requiring employers to verify the immigration status of all new employees.
    So we have states trying to stem the flow of illegals, while the feds are spending hundreds of billions encouraging even more to sneak in for the gravy train. Is there something wrong here that's worth asking the 2012 candidates about?

2/11/11

How the Senators Voted

    With a little digging I found a list of the senators who voted against making English America's official language:

                                      Akaka (D-HI)
                                      Bayh (D-IN)
                                      Biden (D-DE)*
                                      Bingaman (D-NM)
                                      Boxer (D-CA)
                                      Cantwell (D-WA)
                                      Clinton (D-NY)*
                                      Dayton (D-MN)
                                      Dodd (D-CT)
                                      Domenici (R-NM)
                                      Durbin (D-IL)
                                      Feingold (D-WI)
                                      Feinstein (D-CA)
                                      Harkin (D-IA)
                                      Inouye (D-HI)
                                      Jeffords (I-VT)
                                      Kennedy (D-MA)*
                                      Kerry (D-MA)*
                                      Kohl (D-WI)
                                      Lautenberg (D-NJ)
                                      Leahy (D-VT)
                                      Levin (D-MI)
                                      Lieberman (D-CT)*
                                      Menendez (D-NJ)
                                      Mikulski (D-MD)
                                      Murray (D-WA)
                                      Obama (D-IL)*
                                      Reed (D-RI)
                                      Reid (D-NV)
                                      Salazar (D-CO)
                                      Sarbanes (D-MD)
                                      Schumer (D-NY)
                                      Stabenow (D-MI)
                                      Wyden (D-OR)

    Multiculturalism, that's going to bite us in the ass, is running amok. I'd like to see it made illegal to publish or sell foreign language newspapers and magazines in America.
    Now,  the following are the senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state.  If a  state is not listed, there was no voting representative.

Alaska   :                    Stevens (R)
Arizona  :            McCain (R)*
Arkansas  :               Lincoln (D)             Pryor (D)
California  :              Boxer (D)               Feinstein (D)
Colorado  :                  Salazar (D)
Connecticut  :          Dodd  (D)               Lieberman (D)
Delaware  :              Biden (D) *               Carper (D)
Florida  :                  Martinez (R)
Hawaii  :                  Akaka  (D)               Inouye (D)
Illinois  :                  Durbin  (D)              Obama (D)*
Indiana  :                 Bayh  (D)                 Lugar (R)
Iowa  :                     Harkin (D)
Kansas  :                  Brownback (R)
Louisiana  :              Landrieu (D)
Maryland  :               Mikulski  (D)            Sarbanes  (D)
Massachusetts :        Kennedy (D)*            Kerry (D)*
Montana :                  Baucus (D)
Nebraska :                 Hagel (R)
Nevada :                    Reid (D)
New Jersey :              Lautenberg  (D)      Menendez (D)
New Mexico :            Bingaman (D)
New York :                 Clinton  (D)*              Schumer  (D)
North Dakota :           Dorgan (D)
Ohio  :                         DeWine  (R)            Voinovich(R)
Oregon :                     Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania :           Specter (R)
Rhode Island :            Chafee (R)              Reed (D)
South Carolina :         Graham (R)
South Dakota  :           Johnson (D)
Vermont  :                   Jeffords (I)             Leahy (D)
Washington  :              Cantwell  (D)          Murray (D)
West Virginia :           Rockefeller (D),  by Not Voting
Wisconsin  :                  Feingold (D)          Kohl (D)

    Everyone needs to know about this, unless they don't mind sharing their social security with foreign workers who didn’t have to pay in a dime.
    By golly, there's Obama…on both lists.   

2/10/11

The Liberal Media
    Bottom Line Books offered the following information:
1. The liberal press is not going to report the fact that only 2% of illegal aliens are actually picking fruit and vegetables, but 41% are on welfare.
2. The liberal media is not going to report that one of every ten babies born in the United States are to illegal aliens.
3. The liberal media is not going to report that 60% of Housing & Urban Development funds go to illegal aliens.
4. The liberal media is not going to report that 13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals.
5. 30% of the prisoners in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.

2/9/11

Raw Food -- One of Your Keys to Outstanding Health — By Wes Petereson
    A kitchen is nothing else than a chemical laboratory producing millions of completely new chemical substances that basically never existed in the wild and if, then very occasionally by accident. Cooking will randomly produce millions of different sugar and protein combinations commonly called Maillard molecules.
    Throughout the biggest part of our evolutionary history, the one before processing, human beings have never ingested the amount of Maillard molecules we ingest today. The recent introduction of dairy products and grains has equally brought new chemical substances such as new proteins into the dietary spectrum of humans within a very short period of time.

Key Points Regarding the Effects of Cooking on Food and Health
    The food's life force is greatly depleted or destroyed when it is cooked. The bioelectrical energy field is altered and greatly depleted, as is graphically demonstrated with Kirlian photography. Live and bioactive raw food is severely diminished.
    The biochemical structure and nutrient makeup of the food is altered from its original state. Molecules in the food are deranged, degraded, and broken down. The food is degenerated in many ways. Fiber in plant foods is broken down into a soft, passive substance that loses its broom-like and magnetic cleansing quality in the intestines.
    Nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are depleted, destroyed, and altered. The degree of depletion, destruction, and alteration is simply a matter of temperature, cooking method, and time.
    Up to 50% of the protein is coagulated. Much of this is rendered unusable. High temperatures also create cross-links in protein. Cross-linked proteins are implicated in many problems in the body, as well as being a factor in the acceleration of the aging process.
   The interrelationship of nutrients is altered from its natural synergistic makeup. For example, with meat, relatively more vitamin B-6 than methionine is destroyed, which fosters atherogenic free radical-initiating homocysteine accumulation that is a factor in heart problems.
    The water content of the food is decreased. The natural structure of the water is also changed to something far less than optimal.
    Toxic substances and cooked "byproducts" are created. The higher the cooking temperature, the more toxins that are created. Frying and grilling are especially toxin-generating. Various carcinogenic and mutagenic substances and many free radicals are generated in cooked fats and proteins in particular.
    Heat causes the molecules involved to collide, and repeated collision causes divalent bonding in order for new molecules, and hence a new substance, to form. They have even been named "new chemical composites".
    Unusable waste material is created, which has a cumulative congesting and clogging effect on your body and is a burden to the natural eliminative processes of your body.
    All of the enzymes present in raw foods are destroyed at temperatures as low as 118 degrees Fahrenheit. These enzymes, named "food enzymes" are important for optimum digestion. They naturally aid in digestion and become active as soon as eating commences. Cooking destroys 100% of these enzymes.
    Eating enzyme-dead food places a burden on your pancreas and other organs and overworks them, which eventually exhausts these organs. The digestion of cooked food uses valuable metabolic enzymes in order to help digest your food. Digestion of cooked food is much more energetically demanding than the digestion of raw food. In general, raw food is so much more easily digested that it passes through the digestive tract in a half to a third of the time it takes for cooked food.
    After eating a cooked meal, there is a rush of white blood cells towards the digestive tract, leaving the rest of the body less protected by the immune system. From the point of view of the immune system the body is being invaded by a foreign (toxic) substance when cooked food is eaten.
    Putrefactive bacteria, particularly from cooked meat, dominate the natural population of beneficial intestinal flora resulting in dysfunction in your intestine, allowing the absorption of toxins from the bowel. This phenomenon is variously called dysbiosis, or intestinal toxemia.
    A buildup of mucoid plaque is created in the intestines. Mucoid plaque is a thick tar-like substance that is the long-term result of undigested, uneliminated cooked food putrefying in the intestines. Cooked starches and fats in particular are a major culprit in constipation and clogging of the intestines.
    Cooked foods cause a build-up of toxins and waste material in many parts of the body, including within individual cells. Some of these toxins and wastes are called lipofuscin, which accumulates in the skin and nervous system, including the brain. It can be observed as "liver spots" or "age spots."
    Cooked foods cause malnutrition at the cellular level. Because cooked foods are lower in nutrients, in addition to containing wastes and toxins, individual cells don't receive enough of the nutrients they need.
    Cooked foods cause a tendency towards obesity through overeating. Because the cells don't get enough nutrients they are, so to speak, "always hungry" and hence "demand" more food. Cooked food is also less likely to be properly metabolized, which is another factor in excess weight gain.
    From time to time the body experiences detoxification crises also called purification or healing crises. This happens when toxins are released through the skin or dumped in your bloodstream for elimination by the liver, kidneys, and other organs. The symptoms may include headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, colds, bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, and diarrhea.
    The immune system, having to handle the massive daily invasions of toxins and toxic by-products, eventually becomes overwhelmed and weakened. A key factor in the aging process.
    The wastes, toxins, mutagens, and carcinogens that build up within cells, as well as the daily onslaught of excess free radicals eventually cause some cells to become cancerous — killing an estimated 30% of Americans.
    In general, the natural aging process is accelerated by cooked food. People who switch to raw food often become biologically and visibly younger.
    After eating a cooked meal there is a general increase in the white blood cells in the blood and a change in the relative proportions of different blood cells occurs. This phenomenon is called "digestive leukocytosis".

Leukocytosis and Cooked Food
    In 1930, research was conducted at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry in Lausanne, Switzerland, under the direction of Dr. Paul Kouchakoff. The effect of food (cooked/processed vs. raw/natural) on the immune system was tested and documented.
    Dr. Kouchakoff's discovery concerned the leukocytes…the white blood cells.
    It was found that after a person eats cooked food, his/her blood responds immediately by increasing the number of white blood cells. This is a well-known phenomena called "digestive leukocytosis", which means that there is a rise in the number of leukocytes, or white blood cells, after eating.
    Since digestive leukocytosis was always observed after eating, it was considered to be a normal physiological response to eating. No one knew why the number of white cells would rise after eating, since this appeared to be a stress response, as if the body was reacting to something harmful, such as infection, trauma, or exposure to toxic chemicals.
    Back in 1930, Swiss researchers of the institute of Chemical Chemistry studied the influence of food on human blood and made a remarkable discovery. They found that eating unaltered, raw food or food heated at low temperatures, did not cause a reaction in the blood. In addition, if a food had been heated beyond a certain temperature (unique to each food), or if the food was processed (refined, added chemicals, etc.), this always caused a rise in the number of white cells in the blood.
    The researchers renamed this reaction "pathological leukocytosis", since the body was reacting to highly altered food. They tested many different kinds of foods and found that if the foods were not overheated or refined, they caused no reaction. The body saw them as "friendly foods". However, these same foods, if heated at too high a temperature, caused a negative reaction in the blood, a reaction that is found only when the body is invaded by a dangerous pathogen or trauma.
    The worst offenders of all, whether heated or not, were processed foods that had been refined (such as white flour or white rice), or homogenized (a process in which the fat in milk is subjected to artificial suspension), or pasteurized (also seen in milk, flash-heated to high temperatures to kill bacteria), or preserved (chemicals added to food to retard spoilage or to enhance taste or texture).
    In other words, foods that were changed from their original natural state. Good examples of these harmful foods are: pasteurized milk, chocolate, margarine, sugar, candy, white flour, and regular salt. The researchers found that if these altered, chemical foods were chewed very thoroughly, the harm to the blood could be lessened. In addition, another amazing finding was that if some of the same food in its raw state was eaten with the cooked counterpart, the pathological reaction in the blood was minimized. However, avoid these unnatural, processed foods; replace them with delicious whole foods for optimal health.

2/4/11

Another Poison
    Congress, in it's usual total lack of wisdom, has mandated that children's clothing be treated with fire-retardant. Well, the idea is fine, making it more difficult for children's clothes to catch on fire. Alas, good intentions, not backed by adequate research, are biting us in the ass again.
    You see, the retardant chemicalis absorbed by the children's skin and is measurably lowering their IQs, plus contributing to ADHD and helping keep the immune system to busy to trash starting cancers. Presto: childhood leukemia.
    Now, it's time for you to do some homework for me. Please see if you can find out if this retardant can be washed out of the clothing. If not, maybe you could consider setting up an import service for non-poisoned children's clothes and make millions.
    Lowered our kids IQs one more way may be valuable to politicians to later keep getting votes, but it's not going to help keep our country creative and innovatively competitive.

2/3/11

Murder, Inc.
    This has to do, of course, with the most profitable industry in America. Where the top ten companies made more profits last year than the other 390 on the Fortune 400 list combined. Pharmaceuticals, of course. Their worst nightmare are inexpensive cures for popular illnesses…like cancer.
    So, last year, despite the cancer research groups supposedly seeking a cancer cure spending over $900 million, we saw more than half a million Americans cancer deaths. At an average of $350,000 each, where is the incentive to upset this incredibly profitable system? The medical journals, whose lifeblood are ads from Big Pharma, sure aren't about to rock the boat.
    One of the few ways to best this combo is via the web, where you can find out about my Secret Guide to Health, Dr. Comby's Maximize Immunity, Dr. Lorraine Day's Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore, etc.
    Your doctor, who knows what he was taught in medical school, is in the medical journals, or explained by the Big Pharma's detail men, who visit him with free samples and good reasons to prescribe their products, aren't going to let the cat out of the multi-trillion dollar bag.
    If you are smoking a couple packs a day, drinking a six-pack, keeping alert with some cups of coffee (with creamer and sugar), and enjoying a Big Mac and fries, dumping these powerful addictions will probably be more than you can handle. Hint: don't make any long range plans.

2/2/11

Even More Poisons!
    Despite intense pressure from the food giant lobbyists on Congress and the media, the EPA plans to screen all chemicals found in food and drinking water for endocrine disrupters. They’re going to sort through the 87,000 chemicals which are in common use, narrowing them down to around 15,000 which are suspected as being the most likely to disrupt the endocrine system.
    The agency plans to test all 15,000—at a cost to the manufacturers of about $200,000 per chemical—to see which are the most likely to interfere with hormones. That’s a $3 trillion bill the EPA will be handing to the food industry.
    The worst suspects will then be tested on lab animals, with those tests running a projected $2 million each.
    In the meanwhile you, the unsuspecting public, are in all probability going to continue to buy packaged food products which contain these 87,000 marvels of chemistry, most of which have never been tested for long term effects on people. On the bright side, these chemicals do keep food from spoiling, often for decades. This is the stuff you have been eating. This is the stuff you’ve been feeding your family.
    Scientists are worried, and with good reason, that many of these chemicals may be doing us irreparable harm, complete with genetic changes which will affect our kids and their kids.
    With girls reaching puberty earlier and earlier, with birth defects escalating, with breast and testicular cancer soaring, with low sperm counts being reported everywhere, scientists are finally starting to zero in on poisons which are in our food, water, and air. We know the plastics in our cars are coating the windshields with a film, but what are these outgassing chemicals doing to us as we breathe them? No one knows yet. We put our food in plastic containers — we buy it in plastic containers — yet we don’t know whether or how much plastic may be getting into our bodies or what mischief it may be doing.
    Prudent people no longer are cooking in aluminum pots and pans. Nor iron, or Teflon-coated, either. For years it never occurred to people that these could poison them. How much of what metals are you getting with your Coke, Pepsi, or beer?
    I’ve written about the aluminum in most deodorants and the awful stuff in pesticides and bug sprays — stuff that can be absorbed through the skin.
    If you stick to raw food and keep it in glass containers, you’re going to be pretty safe. Oh, yes, carefully wash most of your food with water to remove pesticides and with some silver colloid to get rid of E. Coli, salmonella, and other passengers.
    Or you can carry on as you have and wait to see what those 87,000 chemicals are going to do to you and your family.

2/1/11

Sheeple
    Yes, it's insulting to call Americans that, but once one gets looking into what's actually going on, it's difficult not to suspect that, at some level, there is an organized campaign to keep us entertained, ignorant, and thus manageable.
    Despite lack of major media coverage, the scientific data about fluorides being put into our drinking water is leaking out (pardon). This super-toxic poison is being systematically put into the drinking water of some 184 million Americans…supposedly to prevent tooth decay. Research has conclusively proven it does no such thing. It mottles children's teeth, called "dental Fluorosis." And so 32% of American children have this problem today, But worse…much worse…it damages the brain, permanently lowering children's IQs, making them dumber.
    In addition to the drinking water, children are getting fluoride in their fruit juices, and nurses are coming into schools and swabbing children's teeth with fluoride…even though the scientific journals have published research showing fluorides are causing tooth decay and brain damage.
    In the past, fluoride was put in the water at German prison camps to make the prisoners more manageable, and into the water of animals for the same reason. So, is it much of a mystery why millions of Americans, at considerable expense, are being fluoridated, using the lie of medicating us for our health?
    And, from the viewpoint of whatever group that's pulling the strings, the beauty part of fluoridated water is that even if some alert citizens are smart enough to buy a water filter or a still for their drinking water, they're still going to get dosed every time they take a shower or tub bath.
    Now, add that effort to the intentional dumbing down of our children by our public school system, and you'll see that "sheeple" isn't that much of a stretch. I'm exaggerating? Uh oh, you haven't read the books by Charlotte Iserbyt, Thomas Sowell and John Taylor Gatto yet?
    In addition to dumbing down our kids and making us more easily managed, the fluorides in our water collect in our bones, giving us arthritis-like pains, and making the bone more brittle, giving seniors hip fractures when they fall down…often a death sentence.
    So we're seeing 30-50% high school drop-outs, families averaging five to seven hours of TV-watching a day, huge crowds cheering at ball games, endlessly re-elected congressmen and senators, and crowds out there screaming about global warming or something.
    Whoops, I almost forgot, fluoride also damages the fetal brain during pregnancy, one more factor lowering the baby's IQ for life.
    And where is the FDA, the EPA, the AMA, the ADA, the CDC, etc? Har-de-har. Their tens of thousands of very well paid bureaucrats are doing what they are told.
    One more warning. Fluoride is a super-toxic poison, so it's another assault on our immune system, keeping it from searching our beginning cancers and trashing them…or fighting any invading germs, viruses or parasites.
    See http://Fluoridealert.org/professionals.statement.html
   
1/31/11

The Old Man
    The Old Man of the Mountain has been New Hampshire's icon since 1832, when Nathaniel Hawthorne published a story about The Great Stone Face. In 1945 it was made the state emblem. In 2003 it fell off the mountain, leaving us without a state emblem. Tsk.
    One possibility is the Cannon Mountain aerial tramway, since it was the first in North America, back in 1939. I rode it that year and I have the slides to prove it. We used a drawing of a tramway car on the cover of New Hampshire ToDo for the first year or so as the logo, and it made a good one. It's on the same mountain as the old stone face,
    Back in 1957 a girl friend and I (Sage McKay) took the tramway to the top of the mountain, and then climbed down to the Old Man, where I sat on his brow with my feet hanging over. I don't think many people have done that. From there we continued on down the mountain. It was a great adventure.
    So, have you any suggestions for a new New Hampshire icon?

1/30/11

America At War!      (I originally wrote this 15 years ago, So what's changed?)
    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 doling out. Over $5 trillion so far, 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.
    I’ve already written 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.” One of my ex-employee’s wives gets $50 a week just to drive the child to school. 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 get Congress to strike out the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) professional politician scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term 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, with the war on poverty, the war on drugs, our terrible so-called health-care system, our “correctional institutions,” 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 make it happen.
    The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First, educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. 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 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 accomplish.
    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 our paychecks every year, then go back and watch that ball game.  As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem.
    One chap 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 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, by-passing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too?

1/29/11

Sue Your Parents      (I originally wrote this 15 years ago, So what's changed?)
    If I weren’t an orphan, I’d sure haul my parents into court and sue them for child neglect. This has to do with my reading an excellent instruction book on prenatal care. You’re probably too busy to do what it takes to have any kids, but if you do ever decide to take a few minutes off, get this book and read it.
    The book is, “Prenatal Classroom, a parents guide for teaching your baby in the womb.” It’s by Van de Carr and Lehrer, ISBN 0-89334-152-5, 161p, $13, published by Humanics Learning, Box 7400, Atlanta GA 30309. It doesn’t say much that I didn’t know before, but it is an excellent instruction book on how to communicate with your unborn child. How to teach it around 50 words, to love music, and stimulate brain growth before birth.
    Back in 1950, when I got interested in Dianetics and studied at the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, I found out how much that happens during the prenatal months affects us later on. It is really simple, under hypnosis, to regress anyone to the prenatal period and find the causes of many of their current-life psychological problems. It’s also easy to erase these destructive influences, once you learn the tricks. As far as I know, this stuff hasn’t been taught since the late Ron Hubbard, who I knew quite well, started Scientology.
    Instead of loading up your child with bad baggage, you can give it one heck of a head start by following the instructions in this book. The AMA says this results in significantly higher IQs, which means that if you don’t use these techniques, you are permanently robbing your child of mental ability that is inherent. It’s bad enough with our schools dedicated to dumbing our kids down, without parents adding to the mess.
    You can teach your unborn child to communicate with you, to recognize words, and even to like certain foods. One mother, who ate a lot of doughnuts during her pregnancy, had a child who’s favorite food was doughnuts. Still is. They call her blimpy. One thing I know for sure, my mother didn't eat much egg plant.
    If you’re into the grandfather class, be sure your kids get to read this book to help guide them with your grandchildren.
    The one aspect of the book that disappointed me was the lack of any attention to the pre-conception things parents can do to give their kids the best chance at not screwing up their lives the way they have. My folks smoked and drank, and look at me, and sigh for what I might have been without the pre-conception destruction of many good traits and zillions of potential brain cells.
    It shouldn't be any surprise that what happens during the nine months of pregnancy, when the child is growing from a pin point fertilized ova into a baby, is going to be a big part of the programming of this new computer. Sure, the genes are like the ROM programming, giving us instincts, but from then on it's RAM memory and little Ickie can hear and record everything going on after just a few weeks. And, after twelve weeks, start tasting. It feels pain, is sensitive to drugs in the mother's blood, and can be seriously traumatized by ultra-sound or the missionary position.
    Since Dianetics is a lost art, as far as I know, your best bet is to create as little bad programming as you can and not count on being able to erase it later. I hope that makes sense. Anyway, I think you'll enjoy the book.

1/28/11

Freedom
    For a country that prides itself on and preaches freedom, we have an awful lot of tyranny going on. I think I can even make a good case for liberals being disciples of the Devil. All those things that our beloved government legislates "for our own good" are my beef.
    Like what? Like vaccinations, fluorides in our water supply, seat belt laws, helmet laws, and so on. I've written about vaccinations, which besides not working, are causing life-long health problems for many people…like autistic children. Ditto fluorides in our water. I wish that Congress and the state legislatures would stop using the law to do things for my good. All I need is the information and then the freedom to make my own decisions.
    Sure, seat belts save lives, but if I'm dumb enough to not use them, then that should be my decision. Mother Nature (aka God) has a system that has worked for millions of years. Billions. It's called natural selection, or the survival of the fittest. So if I'm dumb enough to not wear a helmet on my scooter or a seat belt in my car, if I get killed that will tend to weed out that kind of dumbness. By forcing me to live longer and thus be able to have more children, the government is going against God and weakening the human race.
    How about so-called Social Security? It was originally set up as a way for the government to take in more money, pretending it was insurance instead of increased taxes. It's still taking in billions, with Congress "borrowing" the money and spending it. If it was a voluntary system I'd have no complaint. But it's mandatory, and that's not my idea of freedom. Sure, it's "for my own good." If I'm dumb enough not to provide for my old age, the government will support me. The result of that is that a lot of people don't provide for their old age in some other much cheaper way.
    Look up my piece on the Chilean social security system, which is paying about ten times what ours is because the funds are actually invested instead of immediately spent.
    Please, politicians, stop making laws to protect me from my own stupidity.

1/27/11

Trapped!
    The feeling I'm getting is that our country, like the Titanic, is headed toward a huge iceberg and I'm going to go down with the ship. There's the $1.5 trillion national debt announced for this year, with nothing to pay it with but paper dollars we borrow from the Federal Reserve Banks, and owe interest on.
    We're blowing some $2.2T a year on so-called health-care because our government and media are safely in the hands of the pharmaceutical/medical/food industries. Scientists and a few doctors have figured out how to cure any illness with no drugs, and at no cost…but we sure aren't hearing about that.
    Our military/industrial complex is spending some $700 billion a year on outposts in some 140 countries, billions on new aircraft carriers, which guided missiles have made as obsolete now as airplanes made battleships in WWII. Between unions driving American industries to Asia with their wage demands, and the elimination of taxes on imports, we've lost most of our major industries. Oh, we buy imported products as fast as those huge container ships can bring them, but they're going back empty, so we're buying all that with dollars borrowed from the Fed, driving the country faster into bankruptcy.
    How soon will this bring us a Zimbabwe-class inflation? The handwriting is on the wall and neither Obama nor Congress seem to have an eraser.
   
 1/26/11

Entrepreneur
    Just as there are trillions in sickness, and little in health, there's also little to be made from researching death, so that's largely a scientifically unexplored subject. Like time. Well, the two are connected, and sometime in the future scientists will unravel the mysteries. That seems obvious when you consider that there are reports of UFOs going back to cave drawings, 17,000 years ago.
    According to Norman Moody, our New Hampshire psychic, I've been an engineer all down through history, which may help explain my having pioneered cell-phones, personal computers, and compact discs…and my present enthusiasm for health, education, cold fusion, etc. Pioneering, of course, calls for entrepreneurs, so I think that's always been, as they say, in my blood.
    As a kid, like many others, I got into stamp collecting, so when I got interested in electronics and needed money for parts, I formed the Elm Stamp Company to sell what were called unpicked stamps. Guys working in the big downtown New York office buildings sorted through the trash, clipping the postage stamps from envelopes, which they then sold in 50-pound sacks for hobbyists to check for those of collector value and soak off the clipped envelope. Like the then famous Type-2 2¢ stamp.
    So I bought these sacks and repackaged the stamps in five and ten-pound packages, which I advertised in stamp magazines…and I did a nice business with them, allowing me to go down Radio Row on Cortlandt Street, Manhattan, and stock up on bargain radio parts.
    In the Navy, during WWII, while I was going to radar school on Treasure Island in San Francisco, I bought cartons of sandwiches from a deli and sold them in the barracks, making it so I never had to draw any pay during the six months I was there. I even had enough profit to spend $800 on a painting of the sea that hangs over my fireplace today.
    Back in college I had the fraternity cook make sandwiches, which I had guys sell in the freshman and upper class dorms, giving me money for my ham hobby equipment and to buy classical records.
    I've lost track of how many businesses I've started in the 60 years since then.
   
1/25/11

Frustration
    Under the present management, our country is in deep trouble. Congress has recently had to borrow around a trillion dollars from the Federal Reserve Banks, part of it just to pay the interest on past Fed loans. So we're seeing signs the dollar might suddenly collapse.
    Our hospitals are jammed. Our prisons jammed. Our unemployment offices jammed. Our schools are leaking dropouts. Our graduates are the poorest educated of the developed world. Our borders are wide open. Our factories moved to Asia. Our people are obese, watching TV all day, and on welfare. Drugs are cheaper than ever. Our government-run businesses bankrupt. Our home mortgages unpaid, and our homes being repossessed. Social Security is bankrupt, with the usual cost-of-living increases canceled for the last several years. The same for payments to our disabled veterans, The government bureaus have recently doubled in size, with federal employee paychecks running around $100,000 a year. And our worries are global warming, abortion rights, and homosexual marriage.
    Sure, I've proposed practical ways to turn all this around, but few are paying attention. Like how to cut our so-called health-care costs by about 90%. Ditto our prison costs. How to make colleges tuition-free, and at no cost to the government. How we can have the best-educated kids in the world. How we can get our major industries back. How we can ease unemployment by starting a million or so new businesses, and at no cost to the government. How to make social security pay ten times what it does now, and at no cost to the government. I even have a good solution to the impending runaway inflation.
    Yes, I know, you're too busy watching a Red Sox game today. Maybe next week.

1/24/11

Raw Milk News
    What wonderful news! It turns out that though the commercial milk interests (and their lobbyists) have gotten most of the state legislatures to outlaw the sale of raw milk through stores, our New Hampshire legislature has not. It is legal here for stores to sell raw milk! Wow! Now, to get the word out so we'll start see stores with a special sign saying: Raw Milk Available Here!
    The more the public learns about the health value of raw milk, and how toxic pasteurized milk is for their and their children's bodies, the more demand there'll be, getting our farmers to add more cows to their herds and more stores to provide the product. I'll bet we'll see many stores in South Nashua with raw milk signs for the Massachusetts people who have wised up to come and get their milk legally. Connolly Brothers, in Temple, are doing a good business with Massachusetts customers driving up here to get raw milk.
    Over a hundred years ago New Hampshire was mostly farms and farm land. But the land was rocky and hard to work, so when the west opened up, most of the farmers left, with only their stone fences left behind all through our forests as a reminder of when our state was mostly agricultural.
    If you'll o your homework on this you'll never again buy pasteurized milk. It's toxic to your body. Heck, read Cohen's, Milk, The Deadly Poison. That's pasteurized, not raw. And Dr. Douglass' The Raw Truth About Milk.
    How come it's so difficult to get raw milk? The commercial milk industry, which is able to get milk from cow factories in the midwest and ship it anywhere in the country, have to pasteurize it to keep it from spoiling, so they have a powerful interest in discouraging competition from a much healthier product…which their lobbyists and media advertising make sure reaches the state legislatures. When it comes to money our health is irrelevant.
    So their milk is being produced by GM corn-fed cows, under factory conditions, given growth hormone shots and antibiotics. Raw milk is coming from grass-fed cows, with no GM feeds, no growth hormones, and no antibiotics. By the way, the growth hormones are credited with causing our children to enter puberty at some amazingly low ages.
    The March issue of NH ToDo will have a list of the raw milk NH farms.

1/23/11

Oleo
    I was not surprised to see a learn in Dr. Williams Alternatives that eating oleo instead of butter is lowering children's IQs. I just wonder if mother's using oleo during pregnancy could be doing the same. Makes sense.
    When the hell are you going to get after your state legislator to allow raw milk and raw milk products to at least be sold in health food stores in your state, like we have here in New Hampshire? If they'd bother to do any homework they'd outlaw the sale of pasteurized milk and its products. You and your children will be healthier and your kids smarter if you're eating raw milk butter, though pasteurized milk butter is still better than oleo. Do something, dammit!

1/22/11

Spinach
    Popeye loved his spinach, but he, like almost everyone else, didn't know that cooking kills just about all the good spinach has to offer. Raw, spinach is a powerhouse of nutrition, so I fix it two delicious ways.
    At the Shaws supermarkets in Hillsborough and Peterborough (I live half way between them) they're used to me asking if they have any discounted bananas…which I use for making my super-healthy ice cream, and green smoothies using spinach, kale, collard greens, dandelion greens, or broccoli greens.
    Today they loaded my basket with 19¢ a pound bananas (instead of $59¢ a pound new ones), plus they had a special on spinach at two packages for $3. I took two instead of the one planned to get.
    Back home, I sliced a couple pints of the bananas for a week of breakfasts, then cut the rest into chunks and froze them for later ice cream and smoothy duty.
    Having plenty of spinach smoothies in my freezer, today's spinach would be saladified. I opened a bag and crammed the spinach into my Cuisinart. It held about half the bag, which I chopped it into small pieces and put into a mixing bowl. Then the same with the second half of the bag.
    A salad needs dressing, so I poured on a generous amount of Kraft's Ranch Dressing and mixed it. I ended up with about a pint and a half of super-delicious, super-healthy spinach salad. Golly, it's good! The dressing is a dollar a bottle at the dollar stores. The Kraft dressing doesn't have any of the usual high fructose corn syrup. But, if you prefer other dressings, no problem.
    I saladified both bags of spinach, ending with three pints of fabulous spinach salad…one went into my supper tray in the fridge and the other two into the freezer for later. If Popeye had known about this recipe he might still be with us today, enjoying his great-grandkids.

1/21/11

College Sports II
    Playing games is play. Sitting, watching people playing games is entertainment. So where does spending a lot of money and time on games fit in with the supposed purpose of schools…to educate our children so they're ready to take their part in a productive society?
    Well, sport watching is big business, like any other entertainment, so okay, we can have some sports schools, with no pretense at educating youngsters for work in industry or science. The future success of our country lies in our making products other countries want buy…in exchange for things they make that we want to buy. So we need scientists, engineers, and entrepeneurs more than we need baseball or football players and watchers. Or lawyers, for that matter. I don't think Tiger Woods kearned to play golf in college.
    How about more arts colleges? They could teach art, writing, music performing and writing, dancing, and other arts. When my mother got so excited about painting as a result of Mr. Dockett's high school art class, she went on the Pratt Institute of Art and became a commercial artist, doing magazine covers and portraits. When I took Mr. Dockett's class, a generation later, I got so interested I went out and bought a painting set and started painting. But then, my electronics interest won out.
    Supposedly, kids go to college to further their education to give them a better chance at making money, not to have four years of entertainment. So why are colleges, instead of spending their money on labs and workshops, spending millions on ice skating rinks for hockey, and playing fields with grandstands for baseball and football teams?
    Sure, I enjoyed playing six-wall handball, and I was bowling in the 180's on the school alleys, but I don't see how those have in any way benefitted my work in life, Oh, sure, I  tried playing baseball and football in high school, but only when I had to. And I've watched people playing all the different sports, but once or twice was plenty.
    Perhaps it's the same personality trait that has kept me from getting addicted to coffee, alcohol, or nicotine. Or anything else, like watching TV compulsively.
    Sorry, sports fans, but I view college as a place of learning, not entertainment.

1/20/11

More Bio
    Well, WWII came along when I was 19, keeping me busy for four years in the Navy, at the age most men get married. Then, back to college for two years, where a fabulous relationship with a married woman kept me happily out of circulation for a couple of years. Relatively short term jobs in North Carolina, New York City, Cleveland, Dallas, and Virginia didn't result in any long term relationships.
    The events that led to my first marriage, at 38, started when I was ten and got ten riding lessons for Christmas. The riding academy in Washington DC started me with an Arab horse, with lessons riding in Rock Creek Park. I loved it. By the third lesson they had me comfortably jumping.
    My first move when I started my first business was to take a course in advertising with the New York Advertising Club. One of my smartest decisions (10/21/09). One weekend the club organized a horseback outing, of my group, with  us riding in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
    That's all it took. I signed up for lessons…and then more lessons. I got really good at it. My next step was to rent horses at Carroll's Riding Academy out on Avenue U in Brooklyn, where we rode on the Jamaica Bay beach. It wasn't long before Colonel, an Arab stallion, and I bonded. He loved learning and I loved teaching him, so I bought him.
    I taught him how to go at any gait I wanted, and to stop, turn around, bow and so on, all without any bridle…signaling him with imperceptible leg movements (see 8/4/09).
    My work with Colonel caught the eye of a pretty teenage long-haired blonde girl, who somehow managed to be there afternoons to ride along with me. Then she started calling me at home to talk. I was busy dating girls more my age and not hurting for sex partners, so Virginia and I just had a casual friendship.
    When I got a Porsche Speedster and got involved with sports car rallies on weekends she asked if she could go along on one. Then, when she was 17, she wanted to have sex. I was more than happy to oblige. No, she was not a virgin, and it seemed like she couldn't get enough of it. Nirvana for a man. So, when she was 18, we were married. My first marriage. Huge mistake.
   
1/19/11

GM Worry Wart
    With genetically modified food creeping more and more into our food supply, I’m worried. If you’ve done much reading on the subject (which I seriously doubt) you know that GM foods are tested on mice…by the company making the seeds, not by the government. The bottom line on this is that the big companies have a long history of cheating to the max on food and medicine research in order to keep those quarterly profit figures booming. The small companies would, too, if there were any of them left.
    What are the possible long term “side effects” of humans eating genetically modified corn? No one has a clue. But I’ll betcha the brass at Monsanto aren’t eating any. Considering the long list of drugs the FDA okayed and then had to have pulled from the market after the side effects became no longer hideable, I’m siding with the Monsanto brass. The whole process is corrupt and, as usual, we’re the patsies.
    The BBC reported that a lab experiment on chickens fed GM corn in 1996 resulted in twice as many chickens dying as the control group fed on conventional corn.
    Then we have the Monsanto suit against Percy Schmeiser. It seems that pollen drift from nearby farms using Monsanto seed crops got into his canola crop, so Monsanto sued him for violating their patent…and was awarded about $100,000. Monsanto held that Percy should have known that the patented pollen had reached his crop and notified them to come and get it.
    The USDA says that this year 74% of the American soybean crop and 32% of the corn crop will be from GM seeds. Well, you know the cows on all those factory farms are being stuffed with GM corn, and those of us ignorant enough to buy our beef from our local supermarket are the experimental patsies. We haven't a clue yet what this GM stuff will do to us, much less how it may affect our babies.
    Well, if the terrorists or Planet X don’t get us, maybe Monsanto will.

1/18/11

Doctors
    It was an awfully big mental wrench for me to give up my belief in doctors. My great grandmother believed in doctors. One of my great grandfathers was a doctor…the town doctor for my home town of Littleton (NH). My whole family and everyone I've ever known all believed in doctors. The media writers and performers…in radio, newspapers, magazines, TV, all thoroughly believe in doctors. That's as strong a belief system as any religion generates. And I’ve found, to my great dismay, that my belief in doctors was, in a way, a religion. The belief wasn't based on facts, but purely on faith.
    Sure, there are whistle blowers who are trying to get the message through that most of what we consider modern medicine is a fake. A hoax perpetuated by both the true believers and a small group of higher ups who have been orchestrating the multi-trillion-dollar charade. Few doctors have even an inkling of how they're being used. They are unknowing prisoners of the system…just as our children (and their teachers) are unknowing prisoners of our public school system. The so-called health care system is run by the AMA, the FDA, NIH, WHO, and the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, all of whom are making billions from the scam.
    Your doctor believes in the pills and shots he prescribes. He believes in surgery, radiation and chemo. He believes in these so thoroughly that he refuses to even consider any alternatives. He doesn't want to know what Hippocrates, the father of healing, said 2,500 years ago. “All food is medicine and the best food is the best medicine. Sunshine and fresh air must be considered as good food. Please don’t worry, as worrying is not considered to be good food.”
    The medical establishment cries “quackery” and “snake oil” whenever doctors step out of line, takes away their license, and publicly ridicules them, as they have virtually every medical pioneer in history.
    I suspect that no amount of proof of this will even slightly disturb the thoroughly ingrained total belief in doctors and “modern medicine” which most people have. The brainwashing is so deeply embedded that my message of healing will be unheard and unseen. People don’t want to know about how successful simple alternatives have been in curing cancer, AIDS, arthritis, diabetes, and virtually every other illness.
    So we have people such as Dr. George Malkmus, Dr. Bruno Comby, Dr. Lorraine Day, Dr. Henry Bieler, Dr. Ron Laura, Robert Barefoot, and me, all trying to get the message through: it’s your diet! The message is falling on blind eyes and deaf ears, blinded and deafened by a total belief in doctors. But the doctors, too, are unwitting victims of this con game.
    It’s all too easy to either fall for or reject the fanatics who are trying to sell us their beliefs in vegetarianism, in preventing animal cruelty, and raw foodism. Yes, of course fruit and vegetables are enormously important if we want to be healthy, but vegetarians don’t live as long as meat eaters by about ten years on the average. And yes, when you cook food it lowers your immune system, making you more prone to illnesses. But, mm, it sure can taste good. So, yes, cooked food is poison, as the raw fooders are chanting, but as long as we poison our bodies in as few ways as we can, we can maintain good, if not perfect health.
    I’m fortunate in that I was brought up to enjoy my steaks very rare. So the transition to steak tartare was easy. That’s raw hamburger with raw egg and capers. I’ve always cooked my hamburgers for just a few seconds to seal in the juices, leaving them mostly raw. And I still remember how awful cooked liver tasted when I was a kid. Now I love it raw. It’s delicious. I just wish farmers weren’t poisoning their cattle (and thus their meat) with growth hormones and antibiotics to combat the side effects the growth hormones cause.
    And I don’t particularly enjoy having to take vitamin and mineral supplements every day because the farm conglomerates are using chemical fertilizer instead of ground rock to make their crops grow, and then, as a result, having to spray everything with pesticides to get rid of the insects their sick crops attract. The minerals would do me a lot more good if I could get them through my food instead of pills.
    As Hippocrates prescribed 2,500 years ago, if you eat the food your body has been designed to use, give it plenty of pure water, sunlight, and a freedom from stress, you’ll get superb service from it and you won’t need a doctor.

1/17/11

The Revolution
    We’ve been through several revolutions, in addition to that little one back in 1776. Like the industrial revolution, which doomed the family farm, brought us a cornucopia of cheaper clothes, and made possible the move from ice boxes to refrigerators, radios, TVs, VCRs, and the other necessities of contemporary American life.
    Next came the vaunted information revolution, triggered by the personal computer. This, along with the integrated circuit chips, which made it possible, has indeed revolutionized business.
    We’ve also seen another revolution…in retailing. This went from the neighborhood groceries and butcher shops of my childhood to supermarkets, Wal-Marts and huge discount stores. These developments moved retailing from downtown department stores to the suburbs and shopping malls, all made possible by our cars.
    Now, the internet is again changing the face of retailing. We can shop with our home computers for plane tickets, cameras, and even food. Supermarkets are going on-line.
    When I was a kid my folks would call up Bohack, the local grocer, with our order. Ten or fifteen minutes later a boy on a bicycle would be at the back door with a bag of groceries. If we had an important message for someone we’d go to the local Western Union or Postal telegraph office and send a telegram…keeping it to ten words, if possible. It would be transmitted by wire to an office near the addressee, printed out on a little paper strip which they pasted on a form page, and delivered by a boy on a bicycle. Well, that was before in-line skates. Now I write a letter on my word processor, which sends it as a fax or email message. Or, more likely, I just make a phone call and leave a message on an answering machine. Or get through to a cell phone. Or, even better, I call with my computer, using Skype, and sit there talking and seeing the person I'm talking with.
    Just as cars made shopping malls possible, virtually wiping out downtown shopping areas, we’re going to see web shopping killing off the malls. Why bother to drive to a mall when you can get far, far more information about products at home, and better prices too?
    Manufacturers are providing sales videos to show off the benefits and features of their products. They’ll soon be interactive to answer any questions I might have. Then, once I know what I want, a web shopping service finds the best price for me, takes my order, and my purchase arrives in a day or two by UPS. How long before supermarkets have delivery trucks servicing their areas?
    Your choice is to recognize the changes the web is making, and going to make, and either slowly becoming redundant (and poorer), if you are part of the old guard, or getting aboard the new paradigm and staking your claim. There’s much to be said for being a visionary and seeing the way things are going to be changing and leading the parade rather than being back there, sweeping up the manure.
    As Jacob Calacanis, the publisher of the Silicon Alley Reporter, told a Harvard Business School class, “I have one piece of advice to you: quit. Leave school tomorrow, take whatever money you have left that you would have spent on tuition, and start an Internet company. Because if you stay in school for the next two years…if, when everybody else is dreaming and innovating, you spend time on the bench, watching the game go by…you’ll miss the greatest land grab, the greatest gold rush of all time, and you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”
         If you are working for someone…you have a job…how is that going to be affected by the new retailing paradigm? How will the moving of manufacturing to lower-wage, higher educated worker countries affect you?
    If you have your own company, how can you take advantage of these inevitable changes in manufacturing and retailing and be up ahead of the parade instead of sweeping up crumbs later on?
    What will the Internet do to newspapers and magazines? To advertising agencies? To retailers and distributors? What will it do to any company offering a competitive service?
    If you are a printer, you have to recognize that it isn’t going to be long before you are going to be in direct competition with thousands of other printers. Your salesmen will be replaced by Internet bidding on jobs. Your success will depend on how computerized and automated you are. Will you do better to have your presses in Haiti or Madagascar, or in Stamford? The printing unions will be totally blown away.
    Madagascar? Yep, my newest $1.97 reading glasses were made in Madagascar! Lordy! And I used to pay $200 or so for glasses. Then I found I could get ’em made in Hong Kong for half that. But I haven’t been to Hong Kong recently, so I’ve settled for glasses shopping at Building 19-1/15th. They work just as well as the $200 glasses.
    Retailing prices were forced down by the development of huge stores, with their immense buying power, very few sales persons, and locations in the low rent areas instead of downtown. Their resulting lower prices soon wiped out the small retailers, who had expensive rents, expensive sales help, and no clout at all when dealing with distributors. Since the super stores buy direct from the manufacturers, much of the distribution layer has been blown away, lowering consumer prices further.
    So what will businesses be like in 2020? What will manufacturing be like? Retailing? Even services? The world is changing fast, but has your awareness of the impact of these changes sunk in yet? Have you considered how you can best take advantage of these changes and use them to your advantage, rather than being surprised and screwed?
    Think of the millions of American factory workers who gave no thought to the future and suddenly were crying that their mean old companies had moved their jobs to Mexico, or China, where the wages are much lower and the government-edicted overhead was far, far less (or nonexistent). Think of the millions of administrators who have found themselves downsized by more efficient and far lower cost information systems. There’s much to be said for not just being aware of the future, but participating in it.
    Back in 1907, Henry L. Dougherty, a classmate of my grandfather’s (Pop) at OSU, went out to Denver with a proposition. Pop was working for the gas company, inventing things like a thermostat to provide gas ovens with steady temperatures. Dougherty, who had just inherited some money and a factory building in Brooklyn (NY), convinced Pop to move to Brooklyn, where they started the Improved Appliance Company. Pop had a mind which, when he looked at something, came up with a way to improve it. So they went into business and soon had a couple hundred employees and were making good money.
    Dougherty, seeing the future, invested as much as he could in oil, founding Cities Service Company, now known as Citgo. By 1929 Pop had over $30 million in stock and had retired. That year he and my grandmother, Netta, went on a posh trip to Europe. But by the time they got back his stocks had almost totally evaporated. Pop soon went into business selling a new kind of brake lining and did well.
    For anyone with some initiative, the opportunities today are like those in the 20s for oil. For instance, how long would it take you, if you really got serious about it, to get to know the Internet intimately? All you have to do is start asking questions, reading the magazines, and jumping in. The next step would be to start visiting web sites and seeing the many ways you could improve them.
    I was looking at the ads in The New Yorker, and virtually every company has a web site. What they don’t have, I’ll bet, is a web-savvy guru with the marketing know-how to make their web site pay off big time. For the cost of even a tiny ad in The New Yorker, a web guru could enormously improve their web sales for them. And this is something that anyone could do, man, woman , or even a teenager. All it takes is the initiative and a lot of research. It’s work that can be done from home on contract, without having to be an employee.

1/16/11

To Retard Spoilage
    Have you ever given much thought to what that term means on a food package? What kind of spoilage? If it’s any kind of a cereal product that probably means some sort of poison to retard the weevils, whose eggs seem to be in every cereal I buy. If I let the cereal sit on the shelf, eventually I’ll find either worms or flying things hatching.
    Now, if they put poisons into food to kill off the wild life that may spoil it for you, what’s that going to do to you? And if a food product is so totally unnourishing that insects can’t eat it, it sure isn’t going to be good for you.

1/15/11

The Fed
    Though you probably already know that the Federal Reserve Bank isn’t government owned, but is a group of private banks, I’ll bet a bunch you don’t know how these banks got their franchise to issue all of the money for the country.
    It all happened between 1:30 and 4:30 am on December 22, 1913, when the Democratic members of the Conference Committee, without letting the Republicans know about the meeting, rushed the Federal Reserve Act through the House and Senate. The next day President Wilson signed the Act into law.
    The act transferred the money supply of the United States from the Treasury to a private banking elite, giving them a monopoly. The Federal Reserve is controlled via 53% of the stock by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Chase Manhattan Bank.
    The Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Louis McFadden, once said, “ We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board.”
    Well, gee, if the Fed is so terrible, how come we haven’t been seeing media exposés in the papers and on TV?
    Guess who the majority stockholders of the TV networks and major newspapers and magazines are. The banks, of course. The same banks that control the Fed. Less than 25% of our daily papers are independently owned.
    Well, if you were controlling a major bank with an exclusive government license to make money, you’d cover your ass by using some of that clout to make sure no one would upset the apple cart.
    John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff of the New York Times, made this statement at the New York Press Club. “There is no such thing as an independent press in America, if we except that of little country towns. You know this and I know it. Not a man among you dares to utter his honest opinion. Were you to utter it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. Were I to permit that a single edition of my newspaper contained an honest opinion, my occupation, like Othello’s, would be gone in less than 24 hours. It is the duty of a New York journalist to lie, to distort, to revile, to toady at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools and the vassals of the rich behind the scenes. We are marionettes. These men pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
    It’s interesting to read about how banks got started as money changers (maybe you remember Jesus getting himself in big trouble messing with these guys). Check out www.themoneymasters.com.
    With a potential cash panic coming up as more and more people get wind of the possibility of a serious inflation as a result of the deficit, you have to remember that 97% of the money you have in the bank has been loaned out, so once their 3% cash reserve is gone they have to close their doors.
    Actually, banks are permitted to lend out ten times more money than they actually have, and charge interest on it. Maybe you’ve wondered why bank buildings are always the biggest and fanciest in town.
    If I die of a “heart attack” or something, you’ll know that I’ve finally managed to step on toes that are too big.
    Congress did this to us, and Congress could undo it, but with the money controlled by the few people who control the big banks and the media, and Congress being controlled by money, there isn’t a chance.
    Other than this 88 year old crack-pot in New Hampshire, who else has the stupidity to blow the whistle on how crooked out money, banks, schools, government, and health systems are?

1/12/11

Drugs
    You, with the help of our public school system and media, have made one hell of a mess of things. Since our journalists are a product of the same school system, it’s really unfair to blame them. The end result is that we have allowed ourselves to be totally dominated by a government that’s very different from that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. We’ve continued to sit silently while Congress has been making a terrible mess for us.
    So we, through ignorance and passivity, have allowed our government to not just waste billions of our money on really stupid projects, but we’ve seen these projects seriously hurting our country…and our quality of life.
    Yes, I mean the so-called War on Poverty and the War on Drugs. But, beyond those incredibly expensive fiascoes I challenge you to name one single federal project that hasn't caused more problems than solutions? Congress, generously bribed by lobbyists, has wasted our money on price supports which make us pay more for things, and they've seriously screwed up education, agriculture, transportation, communications, health care, immigration, and so on. 
    Before the War on Poverty it used to be that poor immigrants came here, worked like the devil, and their kids graduated into our middle class. They even learned English!
    But it’s the War on Drugs that’s done even more damage. We managed not to learn anything from the Prohibition of alcohol in 1914. That was a bonanza which brought us organized crime, which is still with us. Before Prohibition, alcohol use had been dropping…particularly hard liquor. Prohibition increased the prices and the desirability of liquor. Drinking suddenly became the “smart” thing to do.
    You probably were amazed at the black reaction to the O.J. Simpson verdict. I don’t recall seeing much in the media about why that happened. If you knew that one in four black men was either in prison or on parole, with around 90% of them there for drug arrests, and that in virtually every case the police lied at the trials, you might get a hint as to why blacks don’t trust the police, our courts, or the government.
    We have over two million people in prison, mostly black, and it’s costing us about $60 billion a year to house ’em. So we’re busy hiring more police, appointing more judges, and building more prisons to keep this farce going. We’re also watching our constitutional civil rights being trashed. Yep, the Congress you elected (and then re-elected) is spending around $300 a year of your hard earned money to continue this mess.
    Am I suggesting that we legalize drugs? Horrors!
    Let me explain this clearly: no one who is in favor of continuing the drug prohibition has made any effort to understand the whole picture. Well, except those who are making money as a result of the program. The police are all for it. We’d need about a tenth as many police without the Drug War. Our lawyers and courts are making billions on the deal, so they have a powerful vested interest in its perpetuation.
    It seems as if every time Congress tries to do social engineering they end up wasting billions of our money, building a new bureaucracy, and providing us with a host of really awful unintended consequences. Our school system, because of government control, is the worst in the developed world, as well as the most expensive. The same holds for our health (har-de-har) care system, welfare, farm controls, and so on. It’s been one incredibly expensive debacle after another. Yet you ignore all this and happily re-elect the guys who are doing this to you with your money. Wake the hell up!
    I don’t even know where to start in explaining about drugs…other than almost everything you’ve been told or read is probably a lie. Yes, your beloved government has been and is lying to you. These are the people who have brought you the IRS, the FDA, the EPA, and other bureaus which are, at great expense to you, gradually taking away your freedom. I should say corrupt bureaus.
    Why do we have the huge escalation of crime in America? Why do we have the spectacle of hundreds of thousands of corrupt police, lawyers, judges and politicians? It’s the money, stupid! The incredible profits selling drugs generates. Profits which make America the murder capital of the world. Profits which subvert all but the stupidest public officials.
    You don’t see anyone making a living selling beer to kids, do you? The gangsters went out of the alcohol business when alcohol prohibition was repealed.
    But, the cry goes up, if we legalize drugs, we’ll have a nation of drug addicts. I heard that from Senator Humphrey when I tried to discuss the problem with him several years ago. He wouldn’t even talk about it. He was ignorant on the subject and had no interest in learning. And this, even though he had picked me as one of his personal advisors.
    You’ve heard the government mantra that smoking pot leads to the use of harder drugs. What you don’t hear is that every research report on the subject says this is baloney. The fact is that pot is a lot less addictive than alcohol, and much less damaging to one’s body.
    In the Netherlands, where they’ve legalized drugs, drug use has dropped significantly.
    Then there’s the horror of crack cocaine. What you don’t know is that when drugs are legalized crack disappears. The main reason crack is so popular is that it’s easy to make and cheap. Cocaine, which is more expensive, provides a longer and better high, so those who can afford it go for the better drug. If we legalized drugs their cost would drop about 90% and our black youth could start working at jobs instead of selling dope. Murders would drop by around 95%, our prisons would gradually empty, our police would have to find more honest work, and our lawyers and judges would be up that famous creek without a paddle, there not being all that much honest work for them.
    No, I’m not suggesting that our cigarette companies be permitted to sell marijuana. I do have a plan which would make it so addicts would be able to get their drugs at a minimum cost, yet would not encourage new people to get involved. This approach has worked wherever it’s been tried.
    Right now, as a result of the over-zealous police and ever more strict laws, physicians are quite reasonably afraid to prescribe painkilling drugs which are desperately needed by dying cancer patients. The medical association has been taking the licenses away from physicians who have been doing that…backed up by our courts. The result is that if you continue to abuse your body, reducing your immune system’s ability to trash cancerous cells, you are very likely going to be in for months to even years of excruciating pain before you die. Sure, there are pain killers which would make life bearable for you, but no doctor will let you have them. And never mind that research has shown that the medical use of narcotics rarely results in addiction.
    Please read some of the literature and find out how you’ve been lied to by the government and the media about drugs. I wrote about this in my 1992 book (now out of print), We The People Declare War on Our Lousy Government. I explained the problem and the solutions that have been successfully implemented in a few other countries. Yeah, I should take a few days, update the book, and put out another edition. But there’s only so much of me to go around, so that’ll have to wait.
    An excellent recent book is Drug Crazy by Mike Gray. The subtitle is: “How We Got Into The Mess & How We Can Get Out.”
    Or you can do nothing and continue to live in a crime ridden country with ever worsening race relations, paying around $500 a year out of your own pocket via the IRS for your laziness. Your choice.
    Oh yes, I’d almost forgotten, when they legalized porn in Denmark and Netherlands porno shops opened up all over the major cities. Within a couple of years they were almost all gone, just through a lack of interest and customers. As soon as the social do-gooders get something made illegal, in rush the criminals, the prices go up, and suddenly it’s attractive to the public.
    Today, after hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on the drug war, drugs are available anywhere in the country. There are crack houses in Manchester NH, and I could score just about anything I want, even in tiny Peterborough.

1/11/11

Millionaires
    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 an interesting book that explains just how this could be accomplished here, and has been elsewhere. It’s A Nation of Millionaires, by Genetski.
    First, the book shows that the net family income (without the wife working) has dropped about 16% in the last 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 Chile made in their system, which has been so amazingly successful that one country after another has been changing to it. Our Social Security system has an unfunded benefits of $11 trillion, which Congress has conveniently taken off the budget so we don’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.
    Then, by privatizing education via school vouchers, it 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 a few 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 the TV remote?

1/10/11

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 value for living.
    So what? Well, we have this controversy about immigration. Should we seriously limit immigration or should we maintain our loose borders which allow in millions of illegal immigrants every year?
    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 most of the time.
    The open borders believers point to all of our undeveloped land. What they don’t point to is our more and more crowded cities, which is where most of the illegal 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 done within my lifetime.
    Without immigrants our population has stabilized and is not growing. 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 hundreds of billions of dollars.
    More cars and busses mean more pollution and smog. That what you want?
    We have laws limiting immigration, we’re intentionally just not enforcing them.
    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. At least here, in a generation or two, their children will be part of the middle class. They’ll be Americans. Some will even learn to speak English.

1/9/11

Schools
    The cost of running our schools has been escalating at over double the inflation rate, much like our so-called health care costs. Meanwhile, as you know, the quality of education has been going down even faster than the costs have been rising. Well, holy moly Bat Man, what can we do about this?
    Unfortunately the situation is in the hands of our beloved politicians you keep re-electing, so it’s going downhill from hopeless to whatever the next step in disasters is.
    I’ve written a good deal about this before, with my efforts apparently going in one eye and out the other. Maybe it’s a form of Alzheimer’s caused by being too close to a cell phone or something.
    There are several basic problems with our public school system. One is the abysmal quality of the teachers our teacher colleges are graduating, with their jobs protected by the enormously powerful teacher unions. But perhaps even worse is the whole fundamental school system is was adopted as a way to take kids with a wide assortment of intelligences, temperaments, and interests, and turn them into as identical a product as possible. The factory approach. Then there’s the enormous bureaucratic overhead that’s built up, which we euphemistically call administrators.
    There are some private schools which have done away almost 100% with administrators, with no detectable downside.
    One more obstacle to education is the many local oars in the water by local school board members. These, for the most part, assholes, don’t know diddely-squat about education, so they’re busy arguing about how many desks to a classroom.
    I’m not going to plunge into a book on the subject. Yet. But how about using the Japanese system of having the students do most of the routine maintenance? Like emptying the waste baskets, keeping the halls and walls clean? That would end all that graffiti crapola in a hurry.
    Look, every kid is different. Different IQs. Different interests. Different goals. Different families. Different upbringing. If teachers offered classes as an option instead of making them mandatory they’d have to justify the time and work involved to their potential customers. Good teachers would get crowds and the lousy ones would retire to the teacher’s lounge and watch Jerry Springer or the soaps. From what I know now, some 60 years later, they never would have put me through the torture of trigonometry or calculus. They could have made a good case for algebra, which I enjoyed at the time.
    Many private schools have proven they are able to turn out far better educated graduates than the public schools, and at half or less the cost. That’s right, 50% of our school budget is wasted! And that’s big bucks out of your pocket, and a cruel thing to do to your kids. And, if you’re an employer, you’ll suffer again when you hire these public school graduates and try to get them to do some useful work, or to do anything beyond the absolute minimum to get a pay check.
    Our colleges, both public and private, are no better, they just cost more.
    I’ve proposed an inexpensive way that every public school could be provided with just about any kind of workshop needed to help teach manual skills. I’ve also proposed a way for kids to be taught by some of the best teachers in the country…teachers who could make their subjects fascinating and exciting to the kids and would have the kids fighting to take their courses.
    If we could get kid interested in what they were learning there would be no need for any homework assignments. The kids would read books at home because they were interested enough to do it. I’ve been reading in every spare moment for decades…because I enjoy it so much. And, every now and then I come across a book that’s so incredible that I just have to share it with as many people as I can, so I review it and then add a review to the next edition of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. Parents could do a lot worse than arm their kids with my Guide. On the other hand, this could upset everything because I preach that everyone should think for themselves instead of accepting conventional wisdom…which I’ve found to be anything but wise, and to almost without exception be a tissue of lies intended to imprison them.
    Roughly 99% of the career advice our kids get is baloney. Ditto health advice, political, religious, and so on. Boy, have I turned into an iconoclast! Society and the media pressure our kids to poison their bodies and stunt their minds, and you parents are willing co-conspirators, even if unknowingly.
    Grumble.

1/4/11

Little Boy
    That's the code name for the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. For the first time, as far as I know, the inside story of the development of the atomic bomb and the decision to drop it on Hiroshima has been told. The book, The Angry Genie, by Morgan and Peterson, explains in detail the development of the bomb and the political maneuvering that resulted in it being used on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.
    President Truman was in favor of the bomb being used on a remote Japanese island as a demonstration of its power as a way to get the Japanese to surrender faster. The Japanese were already discussing surrender terms, but Army General Leslie Groves wanted to find out what the effect of the bomb would be on a city. He also wanted to find out what the difference would be between the destruction of cities between the U-235 atomic bomb (Little Boy) and the plutonium U-239 (Fat Boy) bombs, so he wanted to test the bombs on two Japanese cities.
    Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Byrnes also were in favor of using the bomb on a city as a "diplomatic master card" in the relations with Stalin.
    Meanwhile, 67 of the scientists involved in making the bomb signed a petition pleading that the bomb be demonstrated to the Japanese where it wouldn't kill people. General Groves made sure the petition never reached Truman, so he’s the guy to be blamed for that unnecessary carnage. If we’d dropped Little Boy on a small Japanese island the message would have been loud and clear without destroying two cities and hundreds of thousands of people.
    The book also discusses the dumping of radioactive waste into rivers and lakes, the carelessness with employee exposure to radiation, and so on. It's a grim reminder that we just can't trust our government.
    It's an interesting book.

1/3/11

Music Heals
    Yeah, I was ahead of my time again. Big surprise. Back in 1951 I became the General Secretary of the Music Research Foundation, with offices on Madison Avenue in New York. Well, a good ham friend of mine, Graham Claytor, was the vice president of Pacific Gas and Electric, so we got to be friends. He knew of my background in music and psychotherapy, so he introduced me to the wife of the president of the company and the next thing I knew I was running the Foundation.
    I loved the work, which meant organizing conferences of the leading New York psychotherapists (psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts) for monthly meetings. I also got busy and wrote a book, Music For Your Moods, which the Foundation published, complete with the requisite cocktail party publication party.
    Okay, now that the bragging is done, it turns out that music can have a profound effect in helping people recover from stroke, provide improvement for people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and so on. Some Mozart before an IQ test, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, boosts scores an average of 9 points.
    Scottish researchers found that a daily dose of Mozart or Mendelssohn significantly helped stroke victims. In Cleveland, it was shown that it could boost the immune function of children. Preemies exposed to lullabies in the hospital went home earlier. Well, you get the picture.
    Classical music played for babies during pregnancy can add ten or more IQ points for the child. Heck, read The Prenatal Classroom (page 11 of my Wisdom Guide).
    Okay, now let’s talk about you. You can substantially improve your body by listening to some music every day. It’ll help reduce your stress, and that, in turn, will pep up your immune system, as well as make you easier to get along with. Stress is a killer, as you know. So what are you doing to reduce your stress level?
    One reason a few minutes of meditation every day helps so many people is that this also helps reduce stress.
    Classical music, if it’s really good, which unfortunately most isn’t, can work wonders. Of course, if you have never been exposed to classical music, it may be a little late to develop a love of it. Even Mozart turned out some stinkers, so if classical music is new to you I have a $5 guide which will help you find the really outstanding music. It explains which are the best of Mozart’s symphonies, Beethoven’s, and so on. It’ll also help you find some of the more hidden gems of classical music such as the music of Gottschalk, Nazareth, and Joplin.
    But no matter what kind of music you enjoy, allow some time every day to turn it on.
   
1/2/11

Duties
     So, here we are, with some 42,000-plus American factories having been lured to Asia in the last few years, helping to create our growing unemployment misery. Well, you can't blame the companies…with skilled labor available in China and India at a fraction of that here, the products are made for a lot less, driving American-made competitive products out of business. Who's going to pay two or three times as much for an iPad because it has a Made-in-America sticker on it?
    Up until about a hundred years ago this problem had been solved by our taxing imported products. Duties, they called it. In fact, up until Congress, in its wisdom, abolished duties, the taxes collected on imports were the sole needed source of revenue to pay for our government. So Congress ended import duties and replaced them with the income tax. No big deal, of course, being just 2% on the wealthy.
    When that didn't pay all the bills Congress gradually increased it to today's 50%. The old boiled frog syndrome at work. Okay, we know that works, so let's get Congress to institute a 3% duty on imports this year, while cutting the income tax by 3%. Congress will be lauded as heroes, and no one is going to notice the little increase in import prices.
    Well, you have the picture. Next year quietly up the duties to 6%, and in 2013 to 12%, made media invisible by cutting our income taxes the same percentage at the same time. In 2014 double duties again to 25%, with another lowering of the income tax. By 2015, with duties now 50%, we'll start seeing factories beginning to be opened here again, and all this without the hullabaloo if a 50% duty was imposed in 2011.
    Why stop there? 100% duties in 2016, and no more income tax. Well, never mind that the income tax could have been cut totally in 2011, with no loss of revenue to the government, by any one of the three different ways I've proposed. Anyway, let's keep raising duties until Apple has to make their iPads in America…and we're seeing Sony, Toshiba, etc., factories in Mississippi.
    Sure, Congress could eliminate the income tax immediately, but then, if they put a 100% duty on imports all hell would break loose. Better, psychologically, to sneak up the duties, while putting the spotlight on the income tax slashes.

1/1/11

Change
    January first…the start of a new year…a time to plan ahead. Well, I don't know about 2011, but hopefully by 2020, maybe 2030, technology changes already discovered, but kept secret for business reasons, should be in full flower. It took around twenty years for the cellphone industry, which started around 1970, to cover the world. And the personal computer, which started in 1975, was in good shape by 1995.
    What I see coming in the next few years will totally change our world. Imagine, if you can, a world where sickness is almost unknown…where doctors and hospitals are mainly needed to deal with accidents…where people are living 150 years and more in good health, not hobbling around nursing homes with walkers at half that age.
    A world of unlimited non-polluting energy at around a hundredth the cost of oil, with no more oil wells or coal mines. Not even any nuclear power plants or the electrical power webs.
    Between the cell phone, with some five billion users and the personal computer with two billion users, look how the world of just thirty years ago has changed. Big time.
    So, are you going to get in on these new developments early and reap the benefits? Or will you be busy sweeping up the crumbs after the early adopters.
    We're still dealing with the fallout from the computer revolution. Like the prospect of the U.S. Post Office going out of business. Personal mail has shriveled as email has pushed the 44¢ letter out. And credit cards have raised hob with checks…most having to be mailed, adding another 44¢ and a week or so delay to the cost.
    Fed-X and UPS took away most of the post office's parcel post business by providing cheaper, faster service. If Congress wises up and removes the post office's mail monopoly we'd soon see private mail companies providing a faster, cheaper mail service. Yeah, I know, the potential for Congress to wise up is very close to zero.
    With more and more shopping moving to the Web, what'll that do to shopping malls? Even grocery shopping has been going Web.
    As the word on health gradually gets around, and people start breaking their self-destructive eating habits, the demand for healthy food will force massive changes in agriculture and food marketing. Gone will be factory-raised meat, along with wheat and other current big crops. We'll need about one half of one percent as much corn, and none of that damned Monsanto GMO crap, either. People will demand remineralized organic food they'll eat raw.
    We'll need a couple of million new dairy farms for our raw milk needs. The cows will be pastured and the milk un-pasteurized. As the demand for healthy food grows, so will the prices. And that, in turn, will spur the growth of new suppliers.
    Newspapers and magazines are already on their way out as millions of iPads and Kindles are being sold. Competitors will have to answer the iPad with bigger and better portable reading systems. But this, with internet-delivery, will also put CDs and movie theaters out of business. Oh, and TV stations, too. We won't have to wait for news on the hour or half-hour, it'll be there at our convenience, at the flick of a finger.
    Bookshelves of books? Will they be on our 100 terabyte memory system, along with our music and movie collections…or in an inexpensive rented data storage system. Oh, and all the photos and videos we've taken. Gee, I've got to get busy scanning in my lifetime thousands of photos. I've already downloaded the best of my music collection into iTunes for my iPod. There's a few more of my old 78's out in the barn I want to add. Oh, heck, I'll just go ahead and add all of them.
    When they come out with a reasonably priced book scanner I'll get to work adding my huge book collection. Imagine being able to almost instantly scan several thousand books for something you want to look up? It'll be like having your own Google. Or, maybe Apple will scan ’em all in for me to download for a dollar each or less.
    As people get more serious about their health, the tobacco, alcohol, and coffee industries will be history. Ditto Big Pharma and the illegal drug trade. Even today, it's only the stupidest of stupid who are using illegal drugs. Add tobacco too. How dumb someone has to be to take on an expensive drug addiction that is going to give them lung cancer, at the least. Or years of emphysema, like my dad.
    When the word starts leaking out about how families can have children with 150-average IQs…geniuses…and we get rid of the current public school system, which was purposely designed to make us sheeple, we'll again start seeing creative music, writing, and art…like we had a hundred years ago. Gee, maybe even some good movies.
    On the subject of Congress wising up, if enough of us get on their case we can get them to enormously improve our country. First, to stop the flow of factories to China, they need to start reimposing duties on imports, like we used to, so it'll be cheaper to make the stuff here than China (where my iPod and parka come from, or Swaziland, where my shirts come from).
    That was about the same time they took issuing our money, which was backed by Fort Knox gold, from the Treasury and gave it to the Federal Reserve Banks, with us borrowing the money to run the government from them and paying interest on the loan, to boot. Until that time, from the start of the country, 137 years earlier, we had zero inflation. Now it takes a dollar to buy what 3¢ did when the Fed took over.
    One more biggee for Congress…that's to get the illegal immigrants the hell out of our country. Not only are we spending hundreds of billions keeping them here, they're lowering the wages of every wage earner in America. And they're sending billions back to their families in Mexico that we'd rather were spent buying American-made products. And while we're at it, let's make sure a few million illegal Muslims go home, too.
    We don't have the have Americans some of the sickest and shortest-lived of the developed world. We don't have to have schools turning out kids who are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. We don't have to have a couple of no-win wars going on, We don't have to have a super-bloated government that's running up record deficits. We don't have to have the high cost and pollution of gas, oil and coal fuels. Or nuclear power, either. We don't have to have inflation or the income tax. And we sure don't need the humongous military we've built up. There are practical solutions to these problems, solutions that will drastically change the world as we know it today, just as the industrial revolution changed the agricultural world.