Wayne's World An Online Newsletter

9/2/10 Freezing Veggies     My raw food diet includes meat, which I mince and freeze all but a pint for current use. With the fruit and vegetables, for convenience, I usually prepare a couple quarts or so of each fruit or veggie and then freeze all but a pint. Like a whole cauliflower or a big bag of carrots.     With those two, plus yams, broccoli, and so on, I mince ’em in my Cuisinart and then mix in some of my coleslaw sauce to make it easily spoonable, plus add a sweet-sour-creamy flavor (10/28/09). With oranges, grapefruit, and grapes it's into the blender so I can eat them with a spoon. They all survive freezing just fine.    The dark green leafy vegetables I blend with bananas and eat with a spoon. They freeze just fine, too.    I keep my meal on a tray in the fridge, with around a dozen pint food containers on it. 9/1/10 Flu Shots     With the drug store promoting flu shots, millions will suck into this huge scam. If you do any research on vaccinations you'll find that the flu shots are useless. Worse, they have mercury in them, which is one of the main causes of autism and other brain problems.     The big promotion for the swine flu pandemic is all about money and zero about health. Just do some checking with Dr. Mercola's web site and see what a scam this is.     There's Dr. Oz on TV every day pushing flu shots. What he hasn't yet bothered to mention is that he is on the board of the vaccine manufacturer and has some 150,000 shares of its stock. Talk about self-interest over people's health!     And when I go to the Manchester VA medical center they ask if I've had my H1N1 flu shots yet. Aargh! A year ago, when I was in the hospital in Concord, all of the nurses I asked had dutifully had their flu shots.     Like the millions who voted for Obama without bothering to do any homework, the sheeple are rushing to Walgreen's. etc., for their flu shot to enrich the medical merchants, no matter what it might do to their health.     If you look into it you'll find that one country after another has banned the flu shots after children have died from being given them. 8/31/10 Healthcare - A Reminder     As if the government wasn't already bloated beyond belief, that 2,733-page Healthcare Plan, which I'll bet not one member of Congress took the time to read, will generate some 20,00-plus more bureaucrats. Well, that's one way to slow down the unemployment growth.     Bureaucrats' primary goal is not to do anything that might get their promotions in trouble, so getting any real decisions from them…particularly when thinking is involved, is almost impossible.     It's bad enough today, where the imposed ignorance of eating a healthy diet to stay healthy is protected by the trillions of dollars big businesses are making as a result. Billions of advertising dollars keep the media quiet about the truth. The thousands of lobbyists have done a great job of keeping Congress quiet.     The post office is already losing billions, so what would happen if those hundreds of mass-mailed "health" newsletter/ads went out of business? I get one or two almost every day…in addition to the daily email spam pileup.     This bill creates 159 new boards, programs, and bureaucracies, plus some 16,500 new IRS agents. And who is going to pay for this mess? It's you. None of these thousands of government people will be doing anything to make a profit to help get us out of the deepening financial hole Congress and the Administration is busy digging.     Your voice on this will be heard come November. Meanwhile, for heaven's sake learn to chew and change to a raw food diet. 8/30/10 Cover-Ups     It must take a substantial staff for our government to keep track of all the cover-ups. And they have to maintain the secrecy not only from the media and the public, but from other government agencies.     I enjoy looking into conspiracy cover-up reports, all too often finding them real. Like the Amelia Earhart disappearance, which 73 years later, is still being covered up (5/4/10). And the Pearl Harbor attack, which was finally exposed recently by Stinett's book. Let's see, there's the 911 mess, the Oklahoma City bombs, Planet-X, UFOs, the failure of vaccines, vast underground facilities, Gulf War syndrome…oh, you make a list. And don't forget the Moon landings. No wonder we have more people working for the government than in manufacturing. 8/21/10 Odd Ball     Yep, that's me. For some reason I've managed to avoid the drug habits that just about everyone else adopts. I don't drink coffee, tea, nor alcohol. I don't smoke. Weird, too, since all of my family, when I was growing up, smoked, and drank coffee every day, plus alcohol.     My dad smoked Fatimas when he was young and then it was Camels until the artery clots leading to his brain got to be too much, when he stopped. But, for the next twenty years he had to live on oxygen bottles and generators, complete in his last years with having to go to the hospital about once a week to have the fluid pumped out of his lungs. Oh, how I wish I'd known then what I do now, so he could be out there fishing, like he used to love.     My mother's dad (Pop) smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. He died of pneumonia at the age of 60.     In the Navy during WWII everyone in the crew drank coffee…except me. It wasn't a matter of health, I just didn't care for it. As a teen I tried cigarettes. Ugh, And a pipe, too. Phooey. On shore leave in the Navy the crew gathered at a local bar to drink, So I drank too, but as soon as I got out of the Navy I seldom took another drink. Oh, I tried beer, Ugh. And all kinds of wines. Phooey.     Sure, I tried pot. It was a great experience. And LSD a couple times…another great experience. But, that was that.     Same with sodas. Coca Cola, ugh. Pepsi,   ugh. Orange soda wasn't bad.      It's nice not having any addictions to kick…particularly the unhealthy ones. These days my only drink is water. I do use raw milk with my breakfast berries and banana, and to make my super-healthy ice cream. 8/20/10 Gloria Swanson     Yep, we got to be good friends…some 60 years ago.     When I heard The Daily News in New York was going to put a TV station on the air I applied for a job as an engineer. I tried out for several positions, but did best as a cameraman, That was me on the camera down in the lobby of The News building on 42nd Street the day WPIX, Channel 11, went on the air for the first time. Wow, was that fun. The studios were up on the 5th floor, and I had my ham station up on the top (38th) floor.     One of the shows was the Gloria Swanson hour, with a variety show of her interviewing guests, the guests performing, a cooking segment, and so on. I got so good with my camera, even though this was way before zoom lenses, that I was able to do the entire hour show on my one camera, though it meant a lot of fancy footwork doing close-ups on guests and performers, and backing off for group shots.     Gloria had done Sunset Boulevard shortly before this and was a top star, with lots of other stars as guests on her show. So, anyway, we often talked and got to be good friends.     I also did weekly  shows with cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Sigmund Spaeth, the Tune Detective, and Irene Wicker, The Singing Lady. When I was around four years old I used to listen to Irene on the radio afternoons.     One day the program manager for KPIX in San Francisco visited us. When he saw what I was able to do with my camera, he offered me a job as a producer-director at his station, and at a substantial raise in pay. So I quit at WPIX and got ready to move to San Francisco. A cousin found an apartment for me just a couple blocks from the station.     But just as I had my car packed I got word that the program manager had been fired and my job was pfft. Rats! So I checked around and found that Texas oil man Thomas Potter had managed to get a permit for a TV station just before the FCC put a freeze on issuing any more licenses, but he had to actually put the station on the air to keep the license. So I suddenly had a job as a producer-director at KBTV in Dallas. I'll tell you about that adventure some time. 8/19/10 College Sports     While individual sports can develop useful skills, team sports are for spectator entertainment. So what's this got to do with a so-called college education? The supposed purpose of college is to equip kids for their careers. So how does watching or even playing baseball, basketball, football, or hockey contribute to a business career?     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy NY (my alma), recently invested millions in a new field with a big grandstand for the spectators…the "Athletic Village." In my view a huge waste that makes me wish I could get back some of the $300,000 in my scholarship fund. Phooey. 8/18/10 Short Notes     Arizona Governor Jan Brewer says that over a thousand illegal aliens are crossing into Arizona every day, while the federal government's border patrol looks the other way. And that's just one of the four border states. One (me) wonders why the feds, under pressure from Obama and Congress, are encouraging this mass migration? Baiting them with welfare, free healthcare, citizenship for anchor babies, food stamps, and social security checks for older illegals. The bait is irresistible.     The Federal Reserve has more than doubled the amount of Federal Reserve Notes in circulation in the last two years. Basically, that's eventually going to cut the value of our dollars in half. No wonder I'm hearing so many gold ads on the radio and TV. So, what have you been doing to keep from losing half of what you've saved that's in banks or in cash? Stocks might be a good choice, if you can pick the winners.     The new Healthcare Bill is going to require some 20,000 new government workers, plus another 16,000 IRS agents, to monitor and enforce provisions of the bill. So, here we are with more Americans working for the government than in private industry. More people spending our money than those earning profits to pay for them. Please explain how that's going to work in the long run.     In a recent talk, in St. Louis, President Obama admitted that the federal healthcare programs are losing some $100 billion a year due to waste and fraud. As the new Healthcare Bill kicks in we can expect that to be dwarfed. By the way, a recent poll showed that 63% of Americans want that bill to be repealed. Hey, Congress, are you totally deafened by the lobbyists swarming around you?     At a news conference in Oklahoma City this April the unanswered questions about the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building were discussed by eye witnesses and survivors. They called the government version of the bombing complete lies. If you'd like to step beyond conspiracy theories and get the facts for yourself, I have a DVD of that morning's TV news coverage available (#53D for $10).     How long will it take the FDA to clean out their renegade scientists who have recently complained to Obama that the agency is corrupt to the core? They listed a litany of criminal behavior by the agency, which is in the pocket of Big Pharma, helping them be by far the most profitable industry in America. Congress, are you listening over the din of the well-heeled Big Pharma lobbyists? Uh oh, I thought not. 6/17/10 USPS     Having lost $3.8 billion last year, and facing a $7 billion projected loss for next year, in addition to increasing postal rates, they're also considering cutting service back to five days a week. One more thing you can thank Congress for.     Government-run enterprises, managed and run by bureaucrats instead of entrepreneurs, have an unbroken record of losing money and providing poor service, even when given monopoly power, like that of the Postal Service. That's the difference between capitalism and socialism.     Please get your friends to the polls this November with instructions not to vote for any incumbent. We need to make them outcumbents and throw the fear of our wrath vs. the lobbyists swarming around them, waving wads of money.     My email teems with a litany of our government failures in managing and running things. Our open borders and some 20 million illegals getting free hospital service, welfare, food stamps, and even social security checks. Our prisons, packed with the highest percentage of our population of any other country, and at humongous cost. Our drug war. Our Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Medicare. Medicaid. Etc. Please start flushing that damned Washington toilet this year.     When Congress removes the USPS mail monopoly we'll see private services starting and competing. Look how Fedex put Parcel Post out of business with lower costs and faster service.      Oh, I forgot to mention the god-awful mess the government made after taking over our school system, with our kids now coming in at the bottom on international educational surveys.     8/16/10 Illegal Aliens     Why, I wonder, has Congress been keeping our Mexican border so wide open? Sure, there's a federal law against the aliens sneaking in illegally, but it's purposely not being enforced by the feds, and when Arizona tried to enforce it on their own, Obama and the federal government sued to stop them.     In addition to Mexicans coming here to work so they can send money back to their families, estimated at some $4 billion a month, there are the Mexican drug cartel shipments of tons of drugs to feed their American distribution system. Plus hordes of OTMs (Other Than Mexicans), which include thousands of Muslims that are quietly invading our country.     The cost to us all is heavy. First, it's lowering the wages of American workers, which is costing us about $200 billion a year. Then there's the $11 to $22 billion our states are spending on welfare for illegal aliens, the $2.2 billion on food stamps and free school lunches, the $2.5 billion a year for Medicaid, $12 billion to school their children, $17 billion more educating their anchor babies, $18 billion a year for the 30% of federal prison inmates that are illegal aliens, and $90 billion on welfare and social services.     So, why is Congress, with your blessing, not just allowing this mess to happen, but doing what it takes to prevent any changes? Of course, if you don't mind the feds taking 50% to 60% of your pay check to help pay for this, then never mind…go ahead and vote for your incumbent again come November. And, by all means, get behind the campaign to re-elect Obama in 2012.     Me, I'm going to see what I can do to get New Hampshire to join the states that are declaring their independence. 8/15/10 Anti-Terror     And how has Congress reacted to 911, shoe bombers, Oklahoma City, et al? Just what you'd expect. They've established some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies (with some 250,000 employees) to work on programs related to counter-terrorism, homeland security, and intelligence in some 10,000 locations around the U.S. 854,000 people now hold top-secret clearances.     In Washington and nearby, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since 911. Together they occupy the equivalent of about three Pentagons! The paperwork this army or spies and agents create is beyond comprehension.     These new buildings, along with their office parks, are scattered around the country and protected by high fences, with armed security guards. They're filled with command centers, internal television networks, video walls, and lots of armored SUVs.     At voting time you can thank your Congress persons for so lavishly spending your money. I don't think they'll be interested in the 911-Truthers case for 911 having been an inside job, nor in knowing about the inside job at Oklahoma City, as proven by the videos on my #53D DVD of the local newscasts that day.     If this army of a million or so on the government payroll have been having any anti-terror success, it seems to have gone totally unreported by the media. 8/13/10 The Bob Livingston Letter     Just a few quotes from this $65 a year monthly newsletter. P.O. Box 3623. Hueytown, AL 35023.     Boost Your Immunity!     The study of the human immune system is central to longevity. Longevity (aging with health) is directly related to quality of life.     American conventional medicine teaches and understands the anatomy of the immune system, but American doctors do not practice preventive medicine. They practice symptomology. i.e. they doctor symptoms after the patient is already sick.     In our time, we can greatly help add years by supporting our natural immune system with supplemental nutrition and whole natural foods. The Evidence about 9/11 being an inside job is and has been becoming overwhelming. See "Architects and engineers for 911 truth." Google "rediscover 911." Also "Dr. Alan Sabrosky" at www.911truth.org. Also "Nano-Thermite." "Healthcare"     So-called American healthcare is a disgrace to the human race. Hospitals, doctors, and the whole drug culture know nothing about serious health. There are exceptions, but for the most part the medical establishment is all about money and making sure that Americans have no access to alternatives.     People who stay away from the medical establishment have a far better chance at staying healthy and enjoying a long life.     Livingston also exposes Bill Gates and his philanthropies as further exploiting our ignorance about health. He's staffed his Foundation with people from the pharmaceutical industry, invested heavily in Big Pharma, and invested $4.5 billion in vaccine development.     If you bother to do any homework beyond watching ball games or Oprah, you know that vaccines don't cure anything and are a huge industry that's exploiting our ignorance. They're making people sick, which means even more revenues for doctors. See Coulter's Vaccination - Social Violence and Criminality, reviewed on page 43 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. No informed parent would ever permit any of those childhood vaccinations. I see that Wallgreen's already has signs up offering flu shots for the coming flu season.     You can get the real lowdown on Bill Gates' scam from www.mercola.com, then search for Gates.     When it comes down to it, almost all of our miseries have to do with the rich making more money at everyone else's expense. We're dumbed down by our government-run school system on purpose. We're kept sick with our healthcare system. We're energy exploited by the oil, coal, and nuclear power industries. 8/6/10 Raw Milk     As the public slowly wises up to the importance to their health of eating organic food and using raw milk instead of pasteurized, there are going to be a lot of unexpected farming complexities.     The August issue of Acres USA is largely devoted to this, with articles about the grasses that need to be grown in the pastures, fertilizing farms, silage for winter, the needed minerals, composting, etc.     Despite the trillions of dollars our current health care and food supplying systems have invested in us not changing our diets, the lure of perfect health and amazing longevity (in good health) has to win in the long run. Our country, and then the world, will have to change to provide the organic raw foods people need to avoid the things with which they are now slowly killing themselves. There will be a time when cancer is again unknown, likewise Alzheimer's, and all the other diseases we've been causing ourselves through our ignorance. Gee, there may even be a time when this is mentioned in the major media and even taught in schools.     Acres USA is $27 a year from Box 91299, Austin, TX 78709. www.acresusa.com.     You succeed in this world by seeing the coming need for a product and gearing up ahead of others to provide it. Well, just to supply healthy milk, we're going to need thousands…maybe hundreds of thousands…of raw milk producing farms. Legislatures are going to have to reject the bribes from the entrenched pasteurized milk industry and allow healthy milk to be sold in stores. Oh, and milk products such as cream, butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream.     If you've read about the conditions under which most of our pasteurized milk is produced, you've been disgusted. Cows up to here in their own filth, penned in tiny enclosures and crammed with genetically modified corn instead of grass, given growth hormone shots and antibiotics. It's an incredibly awful life for the cows. But it produces milk (and meat) economically, which is then pasteurized to keep it from turning sour as it is shipped around the country. 8/5/10 Chewing    Despite my 6/25/10 entry you still haven't learned to completely chew your food. An article in HealthKeepers magazine explained the great importance to your body to chew every bite thoroughly. I know, you're too busy watching TV or talking to someone to pay any attention to what you're eating…and be aware of the wonderful flavors every chew can provide. Oh, you often notice the flavor of the first bite, but after that your mind is on other things.     You've learned to chew your food enough so you can safely swallow it. You don't have to think about that. But, until you retrain yourself to chew every bite until it's liquid, it isn't going to happen. And this is not good for your health. It means that much of the good you hope to get from your food will be wasted, since it wasn't made ready for the colon to extract the nutrients and vitamins. Into the toilet it goes.     One thing I've noticed is that, now that I've learned to completely chew my food, it takes far less before my body tells me it's had enough. 8/4/10 Rosalie Allen     From when I was seven and my dad, mother and I visited Bob and Mary Sullivan for dinner, where I was exposed to Bob's classical record collection…starting with the William Tell Overture (later the theme for The Lone Ranger radio series)…it was an instant love affair with classical music for me. And the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, which Bob also played for me.     So, when I reported aboard the USS Drum I had along a home-made portable record player and a box of classical records. Shipmate Arty Kash brought some of his country music records, exposing me to the music of Roy Acuff and Ernie Tubbs. I loved it, too, so after the war I bought a lot of country music records. They're out in the barn and I've been intending to bring some in to put the music in my iPod.     When The Beautiful Music Company started peppering me with catalogs of old time country music CDs, I bought a bunch. But, for some reason, though they had most of my favorite performers, there was no Rosalie Allen. Damn!     Well, they finally came through. There it was the other day in their new catalog. I phoned in my order and the two-CD set with 61 songs came today. Sigh. Yes, they're in my iPod now, taking me back some 60 years. Time travel. My what a wonderful yodeler she was.     I was surprised to read in the liner notes that she made her first recordings with Denver Darling's band. I met Denver at a small party and started collecting his records. His best-known was I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine. It was at that party that I first met my eventual wife-to-be, Sherry, when she was ten years old and I was just out of the Navy after WWII. Her dad, Snuffy Smythe, worked for my dad with American Export Airlines, the first transatlantic airline.     The catalog that accompanied by CDs surprised me…no mention of the Rosalie Allen CDs.     8/3/10 Socialism     That's where government bureaucrats run the businesses instead of entrepreneurs or experienced business people. Which explains why this system has always failed. Bureaucrats move up the ladder by never causing trouble or taking any chances, which explains our government's failures with every industry it's entered.     Our Postal Service, established in 1775, has had 235 years to get it right, yet it's broke. Social Security, established in 1935, has had 75 years to get it right, and it's broke. Fannie Mae (1938) is broke. The War on Poverty (1964), transferring trillions to the poor to make sure they won't look for work, is broke. Medicare and Medicaid (1965) are broke. Freddie Mac (1970) is broke. The Department of Energy (1977), despite 16,000 employees and a $24 billion budget, we're importing more oil than ever before. And this is the outfit you want to run your so-called health care?     Please, in November, let the gang that has been doing this to us, while voting themselves lifetime salaries and their own health care, handing out earmarks by the hundreds, while awash in lobbyist cash, get your message. Never Re-elect anyone! 8/2/10 Science Project     If you have a kid in high school this fall that might be looking for an interesting science project I have a great one…and it'll be easy to do. Better yet, you already have all of the equipment needed.     Here's the deal. You start with two identical plants and a camera to record the experiment. For you take water and boil it on the stove, cool it and water the first plant. For the other, heat its water to boiling in the microwave, cool it and water the second plant. It's that simple. Take pictures of the two plants every day.     In about eight days the first plant will be thriving, while the second will have died. Killed.     This is what we're doing to our food when we microwave it. Now, where did you put that old toaster-oven?     Scientists have shown that microwaved food not only helps us get fat, but causes long term and even permanent damage to the brain. It's helping trigger colon cancer as our body tries to deal with these altered nutrients.     See if you can help your kid put the project up on UTUBE. And does the class have a web site? 8/1/10 Ham History     Now that there's a ham radio history site, I'm concerned that some re-writing of history will inevitably  take over. Having been active in the hobby for some seventy-three years, known most of the major players personally, and an active participant for sixty of those, I have a pretty good perspective.     My 4/14/10 entry explains how an angel one day in church gave me a box of radio parts. With those I built a cigar-box radio…and it worked. I was hooked. When I started high school, naturally I joined the radio club (W2ANU) and was on my way toward getting my ham license.     At the time there were two ham magazines, QST, from the ARRL, and Radio, from a California publisher. QST was okay, but the interesting construction projects were in Radio.     The American Radio Relay League's name came from the earliest days of radio, where experimenters were broadcasting with spark transmitters, using Morse Code. Their range was short, so to send a message any distance it had to be relayed, hence name. The early text books claimed that we'd never be able to send voice by radio.     It was bad enough when experimenters discovered how to generate carrier waves that used only one frequency, instead of the wide spectrum of spark transmitters, but then they figured out how to modulate the carrier and send voice. So the early amateurs (hams, for short) quickly changed from spark to keying carrier waves…called continuous waves (CW), using Morse Code.     It didn't take long to discover that when they increased the frequency of their transmitters their signals could be bounced off the ionosphere, traveling hundreds to thousands of miles.     By varying the power of their transmitters at voice frequencies, now hams were able to talk with each other instead of sitting there clicking away with a hand key.     When I came along in the 1930s hams were happily talking with each other by voice all around the world. Oh, some were still using their old, much less expensive, Morse Code transmitters.     However, the lure for me was the brand new very high frequency (VHF) ham bands, the area for experimenters, not just talkers. So the first thing I built was a 2-1/2-meter transceiver, using two of the new midget radio tubes (a 1G4GT and 1Q5GT). I built it in a box about the size of a lunch box so I could walk around while using it. Walkie-talkie.     The FCC's requirement that I had to pass both a Morse Code receiving test at 13 words per minute and one on the technology was really annoying, I had far less than zero interest in using code. That was old technology. So it took me a couple of tries before I passed the license test and got my Class B license. My first few contacts were made with my little walkie-talkie as I walked around the streets. On this experimental band the range was just the visual distance, so I had to take it to the top of hills to talk very far.     For some reason, right from the beginning, I was interested in the new…the future. So it was natural for me to be an electronic technician in WWII, working with radar and sonar, as well as radio. Then, soon after the war, I was busy pioneering amateur radio teletype (RTTY), narrow-band FM (NBFM), and the single-sideband (SSB).     It was the fun of RTTY that got me into publishing. I just had to share the fun with as many other hams as I could, so I started publishing a monthly Amateur Radio Frontiers journal in 1951. RTTY was a lot like email today, where we could send a message to any ham with the equipment, it would automatically print out on his teletype machine and be waiting for him…plus it would return an acknowledgment signal that the message had been received. Morse code? Come on, that's 1900s technology, not 1950s.     My journal led to me running an RTTY column in CQ, and then I was made the editor from 1955 to 1960, pushing my interest in building projects and emerging new technologies. Alas, the publisher, who was not a ham, invested in a yacht and got behind on paying me. When it got to a year's pay he fired me. So I scraped together what money I could and launch my own competing magazine, 73 Amateur Radio Today.     Since everyone in the hobby knew me, I had no problem getting subscribers and advertisers. Within a few months my magazine was on the counters of over 300 ham radio stores around the country every month and I was pushing new ideas like communicating by bouncing our signals off the Moon, and building equipment using transistors. Meanwhile the technical editor of QST wrote that transistors were going nowhere and hams would always be tube people. Lordy!     Then, in 1963, the ARRL got the FCC to propose what they called Incentive Licensing. This would require the radiotelephone users to have to pass a new Extra Class license test to continue on the popular phone bands. Ever dedicated to Morse code, the League had  the new license require us to pass a 20 words per minute code test. The result was that tens of thousands of hams said no damned way, and put their equipment up for sale at bargain prices.     This stopped the sale of new ham equipment, eventually helping to put our American manufacturers out of business, and closing about 90% of the ham radio stores around the country. It also discouraged newcomers, stopping our growth, which had been 11% a year ever since WWII. Many school radio clubs disappeared.     The FCC, faced with the massive reaction against the proposal eventually did establish the Extra Class license, complete with the 20 wpm requirement, but just gave the holders some special frequencies, without putting the old timers off their phone bands. I never did bother to get my Extra license. 20 wpm? Phooey! Why click along at a few words per minute when I could talk? Or type via RTTY?     I kept pushing new ham technologies with my magazine and soon had subscribers in over 200 countries. When, in 2003, it was clear that no new technologies were in sight, I folded the magazine. It was never a way to make money, it was always my way of sharing the fun I was having with the hobby. So, when the fun stopped, so did I.     Yes, I'm critical of the ARRL for not taking the trouble to promote the hobby with PR releases to the media about our successes so that kids would know there was such a hobby and the fun we were having with it.     For years, with my Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science, I've been lecturing at colleges such as Yale, BU, Princeton, RPI, Case Western, etc., encouraging kids to consider the fun and money to be made starting their own businesses. And I always ask for a show of hands of those who know about amateur radio. A few ask if it's something like CB. Most have never heard of it.     Well, I moved on to promote personal computers with one magazine after another. They were fun and exciting for kids.     These days, when I take the time to visit a ham radio convention, I see a bunch of old men like me, and hardly any kids. 7/31/10 The Gulf Stream     Some worry-warts are concerned that dumping all that gunk into the Gulf could affect the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europeans from freezing their asses off every winter.     Well, it's the warm water circulating in the Gulf of Mexico that feeds the Gulf Stream, so that isn't quite so far-fetched. Without all that nice warm water we send them, Europe would be in a fix. They're on the same latitude as Greenland, Iceland, the Yukon, Alaska, and Siberia. Ice skating on the Thames this winter? Well, they did during the Maunder Minimum, which iced Europe a while back. In 1709 the Rhine stayed frozen over until summer. 7/30/10 State Bloat     While you were busy watching the Red Sox, Oprah, Maury, and Dr. Oz, the NH state government has been busy bloating, just like the federal government. As C. Northcote Parkinson chronicled some fifty years ago, governments normally tend to grow about 7% per year (compounded annually), although it looks as if our state and federal governments have been substantially exceeding the norm.     The 2011 New Hampshire Business Review Guide had a list of our state bureaus, departments, divisions, councils, authorities and boards…239 of ’em! And 117 have their own web sites! No wonder the state is running at such a huge deficit! So the legislature you keep electing every other November is looking for where to raise taxes or introduce some new ones. Hey, guys, let's find productive work for a few thousand of those state employees…work with businesses that are bringing money into the state. Let's stop making being a bureaucrat a career choice, just as we need to do for politicians.     Now zip down to my 11/17/06 entry and see what New Zealand did when an election kicked out the socialist empire.     Everything the government runs is a mess and losing money. Our government-run public school system is, at a huge cost, turning out kids who are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Freddie and Fannie are in chaos and losing billions. Make a list.     In my letter #10 to Governor Lynch I explain how any government department can be cut in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. And half again three years later. Pfft goes the state deficit and a need for higher or more taxes.     If you are aware of any government-run enterprise that's profitable, please let me know. Their experiment with socialism nearly wiped out the Jamestown and Pilgrim colonies, a lesson that liberals still haven't learned.     If you feel you are getting your money's worth with the 60% of your pay that's going to taxes, please sit out the coming election so those of us who want to exercise our Never Re-elect Anyone prerogative can put a strain on those ballot boxes. 7/28/10 Cows     If, despite the influence of thousands of lobbyists and the stonewalling of the major media, including radio and TV networks, I'm somehow able to get the word to start leaking out about the importance to our, and our children's health, of switching to raw milk and avoiding the pasteurized stuff like the poison to our bodies it is, this will make some huge changes in our milk industry.     Figuring a cup of milk a day, mainly to go with that bowl of breakfast bananas and berris, that comes to about two quarts a week per person. A Jersey cow gives five to six gallons of milk a day, so let's make that 5.5 gallons a day, 38.5 gallons a week, 154 quarts. So each cow will be able to feed about 77 people. That's 13 cows to feed a thousand people, and 13,000 cows per million people. A few more if kids also drink milk instead of just using it for breakfast, the way I do. I only drink water, and that not with meals. By the time I've finished chewing each bite to liquid, I have no need for water or milk to drink during a meal.     Now, since the cows must be fed grass for us to get healthy raw milk, we need to figure about two acres per cow. That's 26,000 acres of grassland per million people. So, if we're able to get a third of Americans interested in ending their health problems and living in excellent health over a hundred years, we'll 2,600,000 acres devoted to feeding dairy cows. At 640 acres per square mile, that's about 4,000 square miles of farm land, just for milk for the third of us interested in our health. Two cups a day? Double that.     All this health will put a serious dent in the 164,721 dentists we keep busy today. Ditto the 788,949 MDs. It'll raise hob with Big Pharma and shut down a few thousand hospitals. Well, we can keep them all busy growing organic crops to keep us healthy instead of repairing the mess we've been making of ourselves.     As the wiser of us change to eating raw meat we're going to need far less meat to satisfy our appetites. When you chew your food thoroughly it's surprising how little it takes before you feel full.     7/21/10 Hold the Mayo     A large (10" x 14") envelope arrived in the mail from the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. Inside, described on ten 8-1/2" x 12" pages, was the pitch for a $30 a year (15 8-page issues) for their Health Letter.     Several years ago I had dinner with a Mayo doctor, where I explained how easy it is to cure any illness when we free the immune system from fighting the toxic things we put in and on our bodies, as proven by several doctors. I don't think he dared mention it at the clinic. No, I've never heard from him again.     If the news gets out this would put Mayo and all the other clinics out of business, so there's no way they're going to use this approach. Indeed, when King Hussein of Jordan got leukemia, he went to Mayo, where they killed him with the chemo routine. My letters to his wife and others in Jordan, offering to help, all went unanswered.     At some level of the Mayo management they have to know the truth. I'll bet they're quietly selling their stock, a little at a time, so as to not attract attention.     What a crime it is for 550,000 Americans dying, just of cancer, every year…and millions worldwide, just because the simple, totally free cure is being kept a secret. Compared to the something over 50 million people world-wide who are dying every year for lack of this knowledge, the WWII Nazi holocaust was insignificant. 7/20/10 U.S. News     The magazine had to go monthly instead of weekly to survive. The August issue is a beaut, with 128 pages, 50 of which are medical advertising.     When people wise up and stop making themselves sick, that'll be the end for such magazines. Eventually we'll have new industries to replace pharmaceuticals, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and other toxic products that are shortening our lives.     Just count the pages of Big Pharma ads in your magazines. Then ads for things to drink other than pure water, and to eat that's not live, natural, and organic. How likely is this magazine to publish articles on natural health? And the same goes for your TV and radio stations. 7/16/10 Careers     Today's kids are getting some lousy advice on colleges and careers. When I was in high school the subject of a career never came up. Nor did it at home, where my dad never talked with me about anything, and my mother not much. You can read about my career advisors saga at 6/4/08.     In high school I had several serious interests which were whetted by the after-school clubs. I spent many afternoons in the Camera Club's dark room developing, printing and enlarging photos I'd taken with my grandfather's old 1880s Pony Premo #5 5" x 7" plate camera . I used cut film instead of the old glass plates. Oh, that was fun.     The Radio Club got me to get my ham radio license, which kept me at the work bench for the next thirty years building electronic stuff  The Choral Club gave me singing practice five mornings a week, with many afternoons spent rehearsing Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. We put on The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance, both with me singing the lead parts (Pooh Bah and Major General Stanley). Well, I'd been in love with G&S since I was first introduced when I was seven (3/21/09).     Teens have to decide whether they want to go to college or into the job market. Their families, with few exceptions, want them to go to college, so I was interested to read an article in Business NH magazine listing the top twenty career paths they recommended for youngsters. The top two, and seven of the other twenty, were in the health fields. If the word gets out and people stop making themselves sick with their diets and addictions, most of these careers will have been built on a trap-door and disappear.     There'll be a need for cold fusion-powered equipment manufacturing, sales, installation, and service experts. A huge need for organic food, including raw milk from grass-fed cows. Well, we won't need any of that GM corn for making alcohol or feeding cattle.     Unless colleges start wising up they're going to continue to waste four to six years of kids lives, and at great expense, memorizing (and soon forgetting 99%) stuff few will ever use. The money and freedom lie in entrepreneurialism…owning one's own business. Heck, read the Rich Dad, Poor Dad books.     With health, despite the ban on how to avoid making ourselves sick information in the media, the word will get around. That's going to force some major changes, and kids would do well to consider that when it comes to career choices. It'll take a while, but people will be eating organic remineralized raw food, driving cars powered by mini-batteries, and living under sharia law (unless we have some major changes with respect to the Muslim invasion).  7/15/10 Milking Cancer     With our lifestyles giving half of us cancer, it's a fantastic bonanza for doctors and hospitals, running around $350,000 per sucker. The worst nightmare for the American Cancer Society and researchers would be the word getting around as to how easy it is to cure any cancer, mainly with a diet change.     So I groan as I read reports about 91% of terminal cancer patients being given chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatments, which increase their pain, long after they've been diagnosed as hopeless. And that oncologist salaries have increased 86% in the last ten years, plus they do very well on the chemo drug markups.     The only cure for cancer is the immune system, which is destroyed by radiation treatment. Worse, the body then has no protection against any invading germs or viruses, which hospitals have around in abundance.     The insurance companies (and Medicare) benefit from the expensive treatments and care, since they pass the costs on to all their customers, plus a percentage for their profit. It's a win-win situation for everyone except the patient and the patient's family.     So, are you changing to a raw food diet yet? Or are you going to be one of the 550,000 American suckers who will die very expensively and painfully of cancer this year? Hey, it's your choice. Yeah, I know, make that a large order of fries. 7/14/10 City Life     Yeah, we've got a couple cities here in New Hampshire, but they're more like overgrown villages, and not all that far from farms offering raw milk and locally-grown organic food. Having lived in cities for most of the first half of my life, except for summers at my grandparent's cottage in Bethlehem, it was a no-brainer when I started my first magazine to get the hell out of Brooklyn move to New Hampshire.     Now that I've learned about the enormous importance of eating live, organic food…preferably locally grown, where chemical fertilizers are unknown…there's no way I'd ever move back to a city. The air is toxic. The food is toxic. And there's no 15-acre field across from my house to walk through and enjoy the forty or so kinds of wildflowers. Or plenty of room for my own garden. Today I was out there in my shorts, with no shirt, so I could build my vitamin-D as I picked raspberries. The first blackberries are just starting to ripen and the wild blueberry bushes are loaded. They'll be ripe in another month.     At least, here we have the option of buying the same processed, irradiated, probably high-fructose GM corn syrup infused food they sell in cities instead of healthier local produce…and then getting cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's and other resulting illnesses, instead of living to a ripe old age in good health.     One more consideration for those living in cities is that should the power grid go down for any serious length of time, city dwellers will be trapped. With gas stations shut down there would be no food coming into the cities, plus no water in the homes. Unless they had plenty of gas in their car, there would be no way to escape, and the roads out of town would be jammed solid anyway. No radio, No TV. No cell phone service.     I consider those experts on the sun's activities who are warning that the sun is acting very strange these days, and could hit us with a solar flare which would destroy the power grid, to be the usual alarmists…like those who panicked some of us about the year 2000 bringing a breakdown.     With most of our manufacturing moved to Asia, what do we need cities for anymore? They're just a hold-over of our manufacturing past. Hmm, maybe the Illuminatti, who seem to be running things, and want to get the world back to around just a few million people, have something. 7/13/10 Pets     Since my dad was allergic to cats and dogs, those were out for me as pets. But we did okay anyway, starting with a Brazilian blue and yellow macaw when my dad's boss, Jim Eaton, moved from his apartment in Washington DC to one in Manhattan, which didn't permit pets. So we inherited Arrara, who lived another 33 years with us.     He had originally been caught in Brazil when he was fully grown and flown to the U.S. via Pan American, where Jim was a vice president. Jim then left Pan Am to manage Luddington Airlines, which was owned by millionaire Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart, and he brought my dad in as the airline's passenger and cargo manager.     When Luddington Airlines was sold to Eastern Airlines we moved to New York, where Jim and dad were starting Marine Airlines, a flying boat service between downtown Manhattan and Boston harbor.     Our second pet was Susie, a Rhesus monkey. At that time Jim and dad were starting American Export Airlines, the first trans-Atlantic airline. Capt. Groves, the skipper of the American Export Lines ship Excaliber, was a friend, so when he came back from India with a load of monkeys for research labs, dad got one as a pet. We had a big cage for her in the back yard, but inside she had the run of the house.     When I moved away from my folks to New Hampshire, also being allergic to cats and dogs, I started with non-allergenic Italian Greyhounds, and then a Burmese cat, also non-allergenic. A six-foot snake presented no allergy problems, but he was fun to wrap around my neck when salesmen would come to the door. I still laugh when I remember their faces. I went on to horses, goats, a Korat…a bright blue cat treasured by Thai royalty. And more Italian Greyhounds. The next step was greyhounds, a Scottish Deerhound, and even an Afghan.     These days Sherry has a couple cats, a tabby and a fuzzy, and that's it. I'm no longer allergic to anything, including even the fuzziest of cats. But the pet I miss the most was Arrara. I have pictures of him around which remind me daily to pause and send his spirit my message of love. 7/12/10 Blacks     I have an obviously twisted gene which just naturally rebels against anything mandatory. I wouldn't have lasted long as a slave. Hmm, I wonder if the blacks may have a problem with the natural selection process working over several generations as slaves, thus tending to make them more inclined to be followers than leaders? Sure, call me racist, if that makes you feel superior. But it makes sense, and I haven't ever seen anyone come up with that concept before. It could help explain a lot of what's been going on. 7/11/10 Balloon Festival     It ran July 8-9-10-11th in Hillsborough. It's the big deal of the year for the town. Well, unless you suffer from astrophobia, going for a hot air balloon ride is wonderful fun. Alas, at $200 a head, it's also damned expensive. As a member of the press I've gotten free balloon rides a couple of times at the Festival. It's something you sure don't forget.     I was busy on the 8th, so Sherry and I drove up on Friday, the 9th for lunch. Yikes, none of the booths were open and no one was there. Well, almost no one. A chap got a Festival program booklet for me. There were balloon lift-offs on Thursday and Friday around 6pm when the midway opened, but that was all. Saturday and Sunday the midway opened at noon.     On Saturday I was planning to go to take some pictures, but it rained all day. Good for my blackberry crop, but lousy for a festival. Sunday was sunny and hot. I got there right after that noon parade, parked and walked to the midway. There were a few vintage cars in the field, but no balloons. The midway was mainly food vendors and booths for a few politicians, one with a selection of a few hundred kinds of knives. There were the usual show booths to throw baseballs or darts for prizes, and about a dozen or so kiddy rides. What there weren't were kids, so the rides had to operate with one or two kids on the merry-go-round horses, little cars, motorcycles, and other things that go around.     Now go to my 7/13/08 entry about the festival. Little has changed. There's almost nothing for adults to do except eat the unhealthy, over-priced food, and little of much interest for any but very young kids. Which explains why there were so few people there. $3 for a small cone and $4 for a normal-sized cone. With ice cream down the road at the supermarket costing $2 for an almost half gallon? Phooey. No helicopter rides this year again.     Whoever is running the festival needs to come up with things for adults to do other that eating blooming onions or throwing darts at balloons for prizes.     My old friend Tom Boris was there with his old time photographs booth, playing my old Scott Kirby ragtime CDs. But I don't think he did much business. A pity, since he does such wonderful portraits.     In a series of letters I sent to Governor Lynch when he was first elected, I described a whole bunch of ways to make New Hampshire a better place to live and work. I've reprinted the 52 letters in my Greenprint for New Hampshire 2020 booklet #39 ($5). No, I didn't get any response from the governor. None.     Considering that unemployment is one of our major problems, it's time to seriously consider my #1 letter to the guv…how the state can set up Business Incubator Groups (BIGS) in every New Hampshire town to help get new small businesses started. With startup help and funding, this would be a big lure for entrepreneurs to come here to ease our unemployment problem (and sagging home sales). We have a couple hundred towns that could support BIGs, so if they started an average of three per town per year, that's 600 new businesses a year. It's a win-win situation for the state.     With the big box stores putting the old mom-and-pop stores out of business, leaving some main streets looking like ghost towns, we need new businesses. I'd like to see the north country developed into an Aspen-East, attracting several million vacationers every year. We have the mountains, the beauty, and loads of undeveloped land to build homes. I'll bet we could get a million or so boomers to retire here. Well, maybe a half a million. 7/9/10 What a  Mess!     Don't you dare re-elect anyone this time. No one! The overstuffed (with lobbyist dollars) turkeys you've elected have been taking your social security money and, instead of investing it, immediately spending it and leaving an IOU. In Chile they're investing the money and thus able to pay retirees about ten times what our older people are getting.     In the car business, it's bad enough that our companies have been saddled with unions demanding salaries that make it impossible to be competitive with imports or cars made here in the US at non-unionized plants. Now the government is running General Motors. Okay, name one business the government runs profitably. The postal service, despite steadily increasing postal rates, is always losing money. Medicare ditto. And so on. But your Congress does have enough money to vote themselves lifetime salaries and ever increasing benefits. Oh, and then there are those endless earmarks they sneak into the bills. Senator Hillary is known as the Queen of Earmarks.     By keeping the border with Mexico open we are assured of a steady supply of drugs for our addicts, plus an endless supply of workers who will work for less than any American, gutting the low end job market and thus inflating our unemployment numbers.     Our government-run school system is graduating students who can barely read, and are coming in at the bottom on international surveys. Oh, and at the highest cost per student of the developed world. Please take time to thank your Congress person.     Your government-run healthcare system is also the most expensive in the world, with the US around 37th in health, and even worse in longevity. Right now it's costing an average of $8,000 a year for every man, woman and child. That's $32,000 off the top for a family of four. Per year. And the worst part is the secrecy about how easy it is to cure any illness with no drugs and never get sick again. Shhh.     We need a Congress that will get rid of the Department of Education and the Department of Health. And that would be a good start. Russia got rid of their czars, now it's our turn. Congress, please can Obama's czars.     In the June New Hampshire ToDo editorial I explained three alternative sources of revenue which the government could use in place of the income tax. That would give everyone almost a doubling of their paychecks and put some 100,000 IRS people out of work. Hey, let's move them to Texas and Arizona to stem the half million more Mexicans sneaking up here every year. Oh, and plus we don't know how many tens of thousands of Muslims, none bent on becoming real Americans. Viva sharia law!     With some honest management we could get back to having a pretty decent country. We could start getting our old industries back and stop exporting new ones. 7/5/10 Birther     I love conspiracy theories and the theorists because every now and then they turn out to have been right in their suspicions. So, when another theory comes along I keep watching for more info, without paying much attention to conjecture.     The latest really big one has to do with Barry Soetoro's birth country. So, was Obama, as he calls himself these days, born in Mombassa, Kenya, or Hawaii? Have we actually elected a Kenyan Muslim as President? The whole idea is so ridiculous that anyone writing a book using that for a plot would be panned by the critics.     So, why has Barry spent over a million of our dollars on lawyers to fight the attacks of "Birthers" in the courts? Are they right that his grandmother claims he was born in Mombassa? And how come the video with Michelle saying they had "made a visit to Kenya, where Obama was born." The video sure looks real.     Well, I have my birth certificate right here in my office, plus a miniature copy to take with me when I travel to some weird country and might need it. So how come Barry has refused to produce his? And how come a clerk in Hawaii says he's checked their files carefully and there is no record there of his live birth?     Maybe you've seen the quotes from Barry's Dreams of My Father: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites." And, "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race." And, "There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white." In his Audacity of Hope, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."     Apparently his school records, when he was a youngster in Indonesia as Barry Soetoro, show his religion as Islam. His school records at Columbia and Harvard are missing and the students supposedly in his classes have no memory of ever seeing him. Weird.     Maybe the conspiracy theorists have gotten on to something this time. If you get reliable information, please pass it along to my email address. 7/4/10 The Fourth     Bet you've had some memorable Fourths. The one I'll never forget was July 4, 1944. Yep, 66 years ago. By way of celebrating the Fourth, we sneaked into the Fais Island harbor, surfaced, and had a great time destroying a Japanese storage building with our 5" deck gun.     I was on the radar, as usual when there was action, and I could clearly see each shell we fired as it traveled and hit. Thus I was able to tell the gun crew exactly where each shell landed so they could perfect their aim. Now and then I'd take a peek through the periscope, which was right behind me in the conning tower, and watch the explosions. We left the place a mess. What a great way to celebrate the Fourth!     It was an experience few others have had. 7/2/10 Organic     Big business is after profits, and if they kill people doing it, well there'll always be more…particularly now with the Muslims having eight to twelve children per family, outdoing the Catholics and Mormons at the baby game.     The doctors, hospitals and drug makers know that chemotherapy and radiation for cancer has between a two and seven percent survival rate, but we're talking $300,000 per victim, and with half of Americans getting cancer, there's an endless supply of suckers. It's costing us an average of $8,000 a year for every man, woman and child so we can indulge in Big Macs, fries and a diet colas…and all the other junk we're accustomed to eating that's toxic to our bodies. And cutting our lives decades short.     Thank heavens I got the hell out of New York City almost fifty years ago, soon after I started publishing my first magazine. Now I have three nearby farm sources for raw milk, eggs from free-ranging hens, and meat from local cows eating grass. The weekly farmer's markets in nearby towns give me all the fresh, organic produce I need.     City dwellers have to make do with pasteurized milk, probably trucked in from factory farms in Minnesota or even California. Instead of grass, the cows are crammed with genetically modified corn, grown on farms long devoid of minerals, so chemical fertilizer has to be used to get the corn to grow. This makes the plants unhealthy, attracting pests. They then have to be sprayed with poison to kill the pests.     If feeding the cows this junk instead of grass isn't bad enough, they're given growth hormone shots to speed up their growth. This, of course, makes them sick (mastitis…pus in their milk), so they're fed antibiotics to keep them going. The milk city folk get has remnants of the fertilizer, pesticides, growth hormone, and antibiotics. Oh, and a little cow manure.     The bovine growth hormone (RBGH) is very close to human growth hormone (HGH), which accounts for so many children going into puberty early these days. The last Big Mac I had was 28 years ago, when I, and a small group I had taken to visit China for a few days, had an unplanned meeting at the Hong Kong MacDonald's to readjust our pallets to American food instead of sea slugs and fried baby birds. Chow mein and chop suey are American inventions, by the way.     If you really don't care if you get cancer, diabetes, and other expensive diseases that inevitably come from knocking your immune system out, go ahead and buy your meat and pasteurized milk from the supermarket. And pay no attention to those little notes telling you the food has been irradiated. Who wants to bother with raw food when there are those quick TV dinners? And fast food places everywhere?     Doctors, nurses, dentists, Big Pharma, most of today's food industry, the insurance giants, nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid, and undertakers are depending on you. 7/1/10 Mental Health     Psychiatrists, like medical doctors, are mainly taught what drugs to prescribe for what symptoms, which helps explain why their cure record is so close to zero…just like medical doctors. And, just as it is simple to cure any physical illness by stopping the poison barrage keeping your immune system from doing its work, there is a fairly simple way to cure any mental problems.     One of your body's most basic rules is to survive. So, when any part is damaged you get a pain message to make sure you stop whatever is causing the pain, and not do it again. You, as a child, only have to touch a hot stove once to instinctively avoid touching hot stoves again.     When you experience pain, physical or mental, your subconscious mind records the pain and everything you're sensing at the time, as equal to pain and to be avoided.     Under hypnosis one can be returned to the time of the pain and, by reliving the painful incident several times it, and it's associated memories, can be eliminated as a subconscious influence. See my 3/30/07 entry.     Instead of giving PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) patients pills for the rest of their lives, just going back and reliving the trauma a few times will get rid of it's influence. Anyone with some experience could take care of that in an hour for returning veterans. 6/30/10 A Legend!     The Peterborough Chamber of Commerce, this morning at a breakfast meeting, gave three of us beautiful plaques, honoring us as Legends of Business for our, "Outstanding contributions to the economic vitality of the Monadnock Area."     Well, the many magazines I published out of Peterborough, with up to 250 employees, did bring millions of dollars into the area. But not mentioned in the presentation ceremony was the impact these publications had on the world. I probably should have mentioned in my acceptance speech that we helped start the cell phone, personal computer, and compact disc industries.     Rather than talk about what I've done, I thought the audience might be more interested in the opportunities I see ahead that will result from people learning that a raw food diet is necessary if they are going to stop giving themselves cancer and all the other diseases. Alert entrepreneurs will see endless opportunities in the changes this will make in the whole world. Investors will be able to take advantage by short-selling Big Pharma and big food company stocks, like those in on the 911 attack did with the airline stocks, netting hundreds of millions.     The coming of cold fusion power will also offer endless business and investment opportunities. With over 121,000 filling stations around the U.S. eventually going out of business, as battery-power replaces gas for new cars, an entrepreneur with a creative use for them could do very well. There'll be a huge market for miniature steam engines and little generators to turn cold fusion's heat into electricity. And steam radiators will be back to heat buildings.     What will be left of supermarkets with no customers for breakfast cereal or canned food? I walk down the long aisles, looking to see what will still be around on grocery shelves in twenty or thirty years. Not much. All those products will be replaced by new ones, presenting unlimited opportunities for entrepreneurs. Hmm, I'd better start updating my Secret Guide to Wealth to alert youngsters to this coming huge change in food and wellness.     Anyway, it was nice to get some credit for what I've done and the plaque is beautiful. Most of my awards are on shelves somewhere. I should find them and hang ’em up so visitors can be properly impressed with my greatness. Alas, I seem to have an ego shortage, so I'll add that project to the bottom of my "needs to be done someday" list. 6/29/10 Wellness     The cost of wellness is insignificant compared to the cost of sickness. Yes, sigh, you do have to give up your addictions to cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine, which can be too tough a price to pay for the weak-willed. Discounting the pain and suffering of many illnesses, your chances of getting cancer are around 50-50, with the cost of radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery running $350,000 before your almost inevitable death (there's only a 7% survival rate).     The average lifetime cost of diabetes is $450,000, which is really stupid considering that two to four weeks on a raw food diet is curing it..     A stroke is costs over $100,000 a year for speech and physical therapy. Perhaps you'll be more fortunate and just have a heart attack, where by-pass surgery only runs around $65,000 these days.     Sure, a fully-loaded pizza tastes wonderful. I had a couple bites of one yesterday. Now that I'm in the habit of chewing every bite of food until it's liquid, it took me about five minutes each to down those bites. But the flavor was great for every minute of the chewing. Sherry has been getting the $10 pizza specials at Pizza Hut about once a week and eating a slice or two a day for lunch. Twice now she's cut off a two-bite piece for me to enjoy, and it takes me as long to deal with those two bites as she to polish off two slices.     Oh, I used to love coffee ice cream. But it wasn't any better than the ice cream I'm making now with bananas for sweetness instead of sugar, raw milk instead of that deadly pasteurized crap, raw farm-fresh eggs, and chocolate whey powder for flavor.     6/28/10 The Oil Mess     As if the situation isn't awful as we see it on the TV news, we have "experts" predicting interesting ramifications. Like the build up of methane down there at 100,000 pounds per square inch, resulting in one hell of a blow out that would send a tsunami 50 to 80 feet high of Gulf water and oil perhaps hundreds of miles inland, ruining the land for hundreds of years.     Another expert suspects the oil supply under the Gulf, where there are 3,359 oil wells already tapping the huge deposit, may be connected to the New Madrid Fault area, resulting in an earthquake which would separate the country right on up to Canada, filling in the separation with Gulf water and oil.     Then, if another hurricane like Katrina comes along it could spray maybe a million acres or so with oily water, killing everything. Spraying a city with oil would soon have it in flames.     Any of these catastrophe scenarios could take out the national power web. Without power our cities would be death traps. No power for gas stations to let cars get very far out of the cities. And, even so, to where? No fuel for the trucks delivering food anywhere. Hmm, have you some food stashed away, just in case? And seeds to start growing food next summer?     The estimates of the leak run from 250,000 gallons a day to 4.2 million, This enormous reservoir of oil and methane should be enough to convince even the most stubborn of minds that oil is not from dead dinosaurs and prehistoric trees. It's abiotic, made by the Earth.     6/27/10 Failure     If you've ever looked into psychiatrist's success rate in curing mental illnesses you know it's abysmal, and for the same reason medical doctors have been so unsuccessful in their efforts to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so on. They got their diplomas, legalizing their work, by learning what drugs to prescribe to deal with symptoms, not by learning how to find out what caused the problem and dealing with that. Sicknesses, physical and mental, all have a cause.     Which explains why Dianetics was so amazingly successful and had to be fought by the psychiatric establishment, just as helping the immune system cure any physical illnesses is fought by the medical pill-pushers. Here was a therapy that used hypnosis to go back and find the events that were causing the patient's mental problems, and then erase the impact of the events so they no longer had any effect on the person.     Even worse, no hospitals or pharmaceuticals were needed. Nor even years of expensive training. All one had to do was buy L. Ron Hubbard's $5 paperback book, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health, and follow the simple directions in it. That's what I did sixty years ago, and it totally changed my life. See my 4/21/09 entry for the details.     Alas, it's the same with physical illnesses. You don't need years of medical school to treat them, just read my Secret Guide to Health and get the person to stop poisoning their bodies so their immune system can fix whatever's gone wrong. 6/26/10 Bio III     How come, I wondered, I've always had an interest in new scientific developments? Hmm, maybe somehow it's inherited. My mother's mother was a Bushnell, a descendent of David Bushnell, the guy who invented the submarine for the Continental army during the revolution, back in 1776. It was called the Turtle, and it torpedoed the British ships.     My mother's father, Tully Willson, not long after college, while working for the Garland Stove Company, invented the gas-oven thermostat. Then, when his college buddy, Henry Dougherty's dad died and left him a factory in Brooklyn, he got Tully to move to Brooklyn in 1909, where they started the Improved Appliance Company, with Tully improving things with his inventions and Henry marketing them. It was quite successful, so Henry began investing in oil wells out in Pennsylvania, since they could see the future of the automobile.     The oil business, under the name of Cities Service Company, quickly grew, allowing Tully to retire in the early 1920s. By 1929 he had over $1 million in Cities Service stock. That's around $25 million in today's dollarettes (thank you Federal Reserve). An uncle of Tully's, out in Ohio, invented a new kind of brake lining (Rex Hide) that was far better than anything else available, so in 1931 Tully became a distributor for it for the eastern area.     Alas, Tully's smoking cigarettes, pipes and cigars, helped him die of pneumonia in 1935, at which time his Cities Service stock was only worth $3,500. The company name was changed to Citgo and prospered, eventually somehow landing in the hands of Venezuela.     My dad's grandfather, Thaddius Sanger, was the town doctor in Littleton (NH), a pioneer homeopathist. Dad joined the Army Air Corps in WWI. When he got out of the Army he went to work for the Department of Commerce, doing a survey of the country's airports. By 1930, when it was obvious that commercial air travel was coming, Philadelphia hired him to design and built an airport for the city. It was the first airport with paved runways, Central Airport. That's how I got to be a passenger on the first commercial flight between Philadelphia and New York, though, just like today, we had to land in Newark.     So I guess it's no surprise, with that heritage, that my interest has been in the frontiers of science. When, about a year after Tully died, I got interested in radio and electronics, it wasn't long before I got my ham radio license and was building equipment for the newest aspect of the hobby, the very high frequencies (VHFs). My first ham contacts were made using a little two and a half meter walkie-talkie, while out walking down the street.     It was my excitement over the possibilities for digital technology that got me to start my first publication in 1951. And that got me the job as the editor of one of the two ham magazines (CQ), where I pushed one new radio technology after another…such as narrow-band FM (NBFM), single-sideband, satellite communication, moonbounce, and so on. It was my enthusiasm for repeaters and all the articles I published to advance the technology that brought the world cell telephones.     When the first computer kit for hobbyists was announced, even though the manufacturer hadn't yet made it actually work, I saw the future and started the first personal computer magazine. Then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and so on.     Next it was compact discs. It's interesting that in every field of science the establishment has vigorously fought any new ideas. If there are any exceptions let me know. Every major development in the medical field has been fought. The AMA, at one time, decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would lose his license. Scientific American, while the Wright Brothers were flying their plane around Ohio, wrote that heavier-than-air craft were a hoax. They said the same about Edison's light bulb, even though Edison was lighting up the neighborhood around his laboratory with them.     So I'm still pushing new technologies and discoveries, and being fought by the establishments...in health, energy, education, and so on. 6/25/10 Cold Fusion II     Now that the oil spill is scaring the hell out of the oil industry, as well as environmentalists and the government, maybe some enterprising researchers will start developing practical cold-fusion powered units. It's a waiting, desperately needed, trillion-dollar market.     The basics are simple. When you pass an electric current through water it separates into hydrogen and oxygen. If you have a metal with lattice structure in the water it acts like a sponge for the hydrogen, which is a very small molecule. The oxygen molecule, which is much larger, passes off.     Research has shown that a number of the metals have a lattice-like structure can be made to produce excess heat. Metals such as rhodium, rubidium, platinum, and nickel have all performed well. It was discovered that it was necessary for hydrogen from the water to be absorbed in the metal’s lattice before the reaction could take place. This lead to the use of a thin film of the metal being deposited on tiny plastic spheres (by Jim Patterson) or the use of powdered metal, both of which provide a maximum of surface area per unit of volume and thus allow the hydrogen to fill the metal lattice faster. With this advance, the “cold-fusion” reaction could be made to start up in minutes instead of taking hours to days. It also makes it possible to use nickel instead of palladium, which is much cheaper, and plain water instead of the far more expensive deuterium (heavy water) used earlier.     What's happening is that the hydrogen is absorbed into the metal’s lattice. Then, when the lattice is 82% full of hydrogen, an electric current is passed through the metal, making the hydrogen atoms get very agitated, which is understandable — who doesn’t get agitated when an electric current is passed through them? — and, the hydrogen, constrained by the lattice, has nowhere to go, and the trapped neutron triggers a reaction which produces energetic particles to start a breeding reaction, so the hydrogen neutron is forced into one of the metal atom’s nucleus, changing it’s atomic weight, making it a new element. For instance, let’s take nickel, which has a weight of 58.7, picks up five nucleons, bringing it up to 63.7. Copper has a weight of 63.5, so that leaves 0.2 that is turned into heat. By the time we stick that into Einstein’s E=mc2, the mass of 0.2 is multiplied by the speed of light squared, so the resulting energy released is enormous for a very tiny bit of matter converted.     The resulting heat turns the water into steam, which we can use for radiators in rooms and to drive steam engines to generate electricity. Despite memories of the famed Stanley Steamer of a hundred years ago, the mini-battery will, I suspect, prove better for powering cars. It's invention is serendipitous.     Patterson's tiny plastic spheres served him two purposes. Since he already had a patent on making the plastic spheres, he was able to get a patent on using them with the metal coating. Cold fusion wasn't mentioned, since the hint of it would be a poison-pill to the Patent Office. Secondly, it's a lot easier to circulate water through the micro-spheres than through powdered metal, which tends to stick together, not allowing the water to reach all of the powder.     Well, that's something for researchers to deal with. Have I got you looking up sources for powdered nickel yet? 6/24/10 The Enemy?     After looking at photos of a large American armada, led by three enormous aircraft carriers…then those photos of hundreds upon hundreds of Air Force planes parked somewhere out in a desert, it was enough to get me wondering who the enemy might be that warrants us having, by a wide margin, the largest military in the world.     It would have come in handy for WWII, but we've flubbed everything after that. All this armament, but no detectable brains planning or running it. So, at a cost of $664 billion this year, what country's army, navy, and air force have we spent trillions to fight? And make that one without nukes, the big neutralizers.     If our generals had used any brains they could have easily won in Vietnam, and not wasted 58,000 American lives and several trillion dollars of our money losing it. The feds are dipping deeply into our weekly paychecks, with taxes taking half or more of what we make. I didn't feel proud looking at that armada, I was angry that my and your money is being spent making armament manufacturers and contract armies rich. Instead of outthinking our enemies we're outspending them.     Now I read that Obama is planning on sending thousands more Americans to Afghanistan. I've described how we could put an end to both wars in a few days at almost no cost (3/6/10). If I were a general I'd probably suffer a fatal accident if I suggested such a money-saver. It would be bad for business.     6/23/10 Chewing     Sherry has been taking advantage of the Pizza Hut "Any pizza for $10" special, then microwaving and eating a slice every day. Having enjoyed pizza back in my cooked-food days, for memory's sake I cut off a bite to try. Now that I've made it a habit of chewing every bite I eat until it is liquid before swallowing it, I noticed that it was taking me quite a while to get that bite ready for my stomach to work on…to get it digested enough for my colon to extract whatever good it had to distribute to my cells.     Being ever the scientist, I cut off another bite and timed how long I had to chew it before I should swallow it. It took almost seven minutes! Lordy, if I tackled a whole slice it could take me almost three hours to chew something that everyone else polishes off in a few minutes!     Interestingly, while I was chewing those two bites, the wonderful flavors never stopped delighting me. The flavors just kept going, on and on. And that's one of the beauties of eating raw food. Once you've learned to actually chew your food, you'll discover a whole new world of flavors with ever bite you chew. 6/22/10 73 Magazine     Much to my surprise I got an email from a chap who has gone to the trouble of downloading the tables of contents of the 514 issues of 73 Amateur Radio Today, I published from 1960 to 2003. Plus there's some history about me, too. Check it out at: www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/files/ham/73.html.     While you're there click on the radio interview.     There's also background on me when you Google "w2nsd," and also "Wayne Green." Being more interested in the future than the past, I haven't checked these very closely.     The main thing I hear from my past 73 readers was that the first thing they read was my editorials, which were almost always controversial. Hmm, it would be nice if someone would go to the trouble to scan all those in so they  could be downloaded and then searched for things you want to know about. That's what I recommend for these blogs.     A really thorough collection of my editorials would have to include those from five years editing CQ, and then all the magazines I've published for computers, compact discs, and cold fusion. Oh and five years of .New Hampshire ToDo. 6/21/10 Cold Fusion     With Barry Soetoro's approval ratings tanking, and sucking the Democratic Party down with him, he desperately needs to do something spectacular. Well, I have just what he needs, only I haven't a clue as to how to get this through the wall surrounding him.     Drilling for oil a mile down in the Caribbean? What could possibly go wrong with that? Well, the ghastly mess they've made could be an opportunity to ring the death knell for oil. This could be the time when some previously cemented-shut minds may be cracked open enough for them to take a new look at the facts about cold fusion.     Cold fusion wasn't the hoax of the century, it's burial by the oil industry was the shame of the century. Non-polluting energy at a tenth to a hundredth the cost of oil was a nightmare for the OPEC crowd. Pfft would go Abu Dhabi, and the Saudi riches. It would impoverish the Middle East and waste our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.     But, considering the growing panic over the millions of gallons of oil spilling into the Caribbean, soon to ruin the Florida beaches, and then waft into the Atlantic, up the coast and off to Europe on the Gulf Stream, Barry (a.k.a. Obama) might suddenly be a hero by pulling the cold fusion rabbit out of his hat, and it might even rescue the sinking Democratic Party.     I'm open to any suggestions on bridging the wall around Barry. Big oil has monumentally screwed up, so let's kick ’em in the slats while they are weak. 6/20/10 Father's Day     I wonder what kind of father I would have made, if I'd had the opportunity? Oh, I had two daughters, one by each of my first two wives, but both of them left when they were about 18 months old, so I missed out on dadding or being able to bond with them.     My dad was no role model. He never, that I remember, ever sat and talked with me, or even read to me. Fortunately, my mother did read to me, from my earliest days…so as soon as I learned to read, I read a lot. Dad never talked about his work, his interests, his past, or his friends. Not even the current news. He smoked heavily and was drunk many evenings when he got home from work.     When I got interested in electronics and set up a workshop in the basement, I don't recall his ever visiting it or having any interest in what I was doing. When I angered him he'd spank me…sometimes with his hand, but more often with a hair brush or his razor strop.     Bridge playing was the big thing, with he and Mom having dinner and playing bridge with their friends, or having them over for dinner and playing bridge at our house. When they had dinner out I was given 35¢ to go down to the corner Chinese restaurant for an egg-drop soup, chicken chow mein, and ice cream dinner..     In my teens, we had a couple vacation houses a few miles away, out on Jamaica Bay. One was for living, the other, next to it, had the roof removed so the second floor was a place to lie in the sun, and the downstairs was a big ping-pong room. Dad and I sometimes played ping-pong there.     Would I have been an uncommunicative dad or been more like Pop, my mother's father? When I spent my childhood summers with Pop and Ma at their cottage in Bethlehem (NH), Pop showed me how to do things and sat with me in his lap after dinner, reading Brer Rabbit and Grimm's Fairy Tales to me. He never once spanked me, nor was ever mean to Ma, much less hit her and knock her down, like Dad did Mom when he got mad. 6/19/10 The Berries     Today, just two days from the official start of summer, was the first warm, sunny day in weeks, so I was out there in my shorts and no shirt, generating vitamin D. This was my first opportunity to check the 17.23 gazillion blackberry bushes to see how the berry season was going to work out.     Well, there may not have been many bumble bees, but smaller bees and wasps have done the job and done it well. The bushes were packed solid with tiny green blackberries, We're going to have a fantastic crop!     When I checked the raspberry patch yesterday I found every bush loaded with tiny red berries. My freezer is going to be loaded this summer. Since berries are a mess when defrosted, I'll put ’em in the blender before freezing and plan on eating ’em with a spoon…like I do grapes.     Say, if you know of any way I might be able to filter out the blackberry and raspberry seeds, let me know. On the other hand, considering how good apple seeds are for you when you chew them, maybe it'll be healthier to just take the time to chew them, seeds and all. 6/18/10 The Father?     60 Minutes had a segment naming some guy the father of the cell phone. Where's a lawyer? I want to sue.     Computerworld gave me credit for starting the cell phone and personal computer industries with my publications. Heck, check it out. Grumble. http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World     Maybe I should bill myself as the grandfather of the cell phone. Anyway, here's how it happened.     My ham radio interests, right from the beginning, were in the newest developments of the technology. In 1938 this was the amateur two and a half meter (112-116 MHZ) ultra-high frequency band. So I built what was then called a walkie-talkie transceiver from a circuit in Radio magazine. It was a little two-tube affair, using the new miniature 1G4GT and 1Q5GT tubes. The GT meant they had octal bases and were tiny.     The day my amateur radio license (W2NSD) arrived, I was out walking the streets with my walkie-talkie, talking with other local ham experimenters. An article I wrote about it was published in the school literary magazine (Said One Transceiver To Another). I've got a copy of that issue up in the attic somewhere.     It was this interest in new technologies that got me to become an electronic technician during WWII, and to start my first publication, Amateur Radio Frontiers, in 1951. And then, 73 Amateur Radio Today in 1960.     When a few ham radio clubs started putting automatic relaying stations (called repeaters) atop mountains and tall buildings to extend the range of their mobile and hand-held transceivers, I quickly put one (WR1AAB) on top of my nearby mountain, Pack Monadnock. With that repeater, instead of being able to talk a mile or two with my little handy-talkie, I could talk with amateurs anywhere in New England as I was out for my morning jog.     Naturally, I published every article I could get on this new technology in my magazine. And mine, was the only magazine doing this. Next, I organized meetings of the ham repeater groups around the country to establish standards. And then I organized a meeting with the FCC Commissioners to have these standards made part of the amateur radio regulations.     In just a few years what had been a couple dozen ham repeaters grew to over 8,000, with me publishing a yearly Repeater Atlas. And since I had subscribers in over 200 countries to my magazine, repeaters spread all around the world.     Our repeaters not only allowed us to communicate with each other, the repeaters were also connected to phone lines so we could make phone calls through them. It was my editorials explaining how I was able to ski the mountains of New Hampshire, Vermont, Colorado and Utah with a little hand transceiver and make telephone calls through a repeater anywhere in the world, something I thought everyone would want to be able to do, that got Motorola to start the cell phone industry, when Art Housholder (K9TRG) brought my editorials to the Motorola brass' attention. 6/17/10 Doom?     I've great news for doom-worriers. There's a new catastrophe you can worry about. It's a huge pool of oil under much of the U.S. which is topped by explosive gas under high pressure. If something sets it off, blooey will go much of our country. You want to look into this.     But let's not forget Nostradamus' prediction that shortly after the millennium there will be a pole shift which he predicted would wipe out 97% of us. The new poles would be over South America and Siberia. The suddenness of the shift would send mile-high waves crashing on every coast in the world, wiping out most major cities. The 600 mile an hour winds would wipe out trees and buildings.     As icing on the cake, Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, also made a similar prediction.     David Booth, who had a past prediction of an airplane crash that was right on the mark, envisioned Yosemite, that super volcano, blowing, wiping out all life within 600 miles, and knocking California into the Pacific. Yosemite has been doing some strange things recently, so who knows? Booth's vision included Planet-X triggering the volcano as it swung by between Earth and the Moon. He also saw a ripple going across the country, so he built an underground shelter using those twenty-foot steel shipping containers.     Remote viewer Ed Dames has had visions of a sun flare coming our way. That could fry our bacon in a twinkling. And the sun has been acting very strange lately. Has Planet-X been perturbing the sun?     As Alfred E. Neuman says, "What, me worry?" Look, if something big does happen, that'll wipe out the power and communications infrastructure, and without that, I'd just be useless 88-year old codger. I'd do best to join the pileup at the Pearly Gates and come back when I can be of some use. 6/16/10 The Frauds     The biggest fraud, by a long shot, is the multi-trillion dollar so-called healthcare industry, which is totally dependent upon us ignorantly making ourselves sick. Why am I reminded of those tobacco executives testifying before Congress that cigarettes were not addictive or health hazards?     In second place I'd put the burying of cold fusion, which could be providing us with non-polluting energy at a hundredth the cost of oil. And would eliminate excuses for building nuclear power plants (hello Iran!). No more electric bills.     Then there's our government-run public school system, which has intentionally been designed to dumb us down, and is doing a great job of it. Oh, you haven't watched Jay Walking on the Leno show? Figures. So, turn on the TV and sit back, reading a novel while you watch…thus scrambling your brain even further.     The Federal Reserve Bank system is high on my list of frauds.     All those programmable voting machines are a minor fraud.     Our super-bloated government counts as a fraud. Parkinson warned us fifty years ago that government bureaus, unless prevented, tend to grow 7% a year. We (including Congress) have ignored the wonderful example New Zealand set when they cleaned out their bloated bureaus. With some constituent pressure, my proposal for cutting any government bureau in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating, can get some traction and save us a few hundred billion, which could be much better spent.     The drug war is another fraud. Despite our spending billions a year on it, drugs are cheaper than ever and easier to find on our streets. Have you read the book about the CIA being a major drug importer and quietly using the profits for black operations they'd rather Congress and us not know about?     Then there are the minor frauds such as global warming, the swine flu panics, Mad Cow, where the gold from Ft. Knox has gone, and so on. Maybe you haven't read about the piles of gold bars that turned out to be tungsten, lightly plated with gold?     Whoops, I almost forgot the fluoride fraud. Sticking that poison in our drinking water is a total fraud. Get an inexpensive still, quick, (steamdistiller.com). And the dental amalgam fraud. That stuff is deadly. Pasteurized milk, vaccinations, 911, GM crops and foods, the war on poverty, the space station…oh, the fraud list seems endless. I won't even get started on the illegal alien situation, another multi-billion dollar fraud.     6/15/10 Economics     One of these days I'll have to go out in the barn to see if I can find my college textbooks on economics, because I don't understand how the government spending hundreds of billions on WWII pulled America out of the depression.     Oh, it was fabulous for the so-called defense industries. I still can't get over their changing the name of the War Department to the Department of Defense. Well, at least they managed to actually win WWII, defending us against Hitler and the Japanese that Roosevelt intentionally provoked into attacking us.     They did sell a lot of War Bonds, but those were just IOUs, so where did the money for the huge cost of the war come from? And, instead of building things to sell, we built them to be destroyed. Somehow all of us had to pay for all that. Hmm, perhaps the Treasury Department, taking our income taxes out of our paychecks every payday (withholding) instead of once a year, as before, is a hint. But how did this get us out of that depression that lingered on for years after the 1929 stock market crash?     If there are any economics professors out there reading this, please give me your educated opinion. 6/14/10 Democracy     Well, it sure looks as if we've managed to elect a Muslim president. Something isn't working right about this whole election deal. Look at the bummers we've elected! Like Jimmy Carter, Nixon, Ford, Johnson, the Bushes, Clinton. So this is the best and brightest we've been able to get? No wonder we're in trouble.     The Obama birther stuff on the web is fun, with a video of Michelle saying he was born in Kenya. His grandmother says so too. And now they've come up with a birth certificate from Mombassa, something Barry has so far refused to produce…spending a million dollars on lawyers to fight off the demands. Apparently no one has yet managed to find any of his college records to substantiate he actually went to college. Though claiming to be a 1983 Columbia University graduate, no one in that class recalls ever seeing anyone like him. He's a no-show in the class photos. And how come both Barry and Michelle "voluntarily" surrendered their law licenses? Neither are now lawyers! The University of Chicago says Barry was never a professor there. When an investigator looked into Barry's past he found 49 different addresses and 16 social security numbers.     His Indonesian school record shows him registered as a Muslim. His father was a Muslim. When he gave a talk at Cairo University (in Egypt) he repeatedly quoted from the Koran.     Not that we're doing a lot better with our congressional elections. These, along with Barry Soetoro, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama II, and his predecessors, have made a humongous mess of running the country. We were once the most prosperous and respected country in the world. Now we've moved most of the industry that made us so prosperous to Asia, and under Congress' management, become the most bankrupt of all the developed countries.     It looks as if the dollar could easily tank, reminding me of the 20,000,000 Deutchsmark postage stamps I collected as a kid, a reminder of the runaway German inflation after WWI. And Zimbabwe today. I'd like to see some standard size and shape pieces of pure silver made available as a hedge. A four ounce piece (quarter-pounder) would be worth about $80 at today's prices. Add a buck or two for making it a standard size and a few bucks profit for the entrepreneur person or state, and we'd have something safer than our Federal Reserve paper.     When our country was formed the idea was that business people would take two to four years off from work to serve in Congress. Instead we've bred professional politicians who've gotten very wealthy quietly tailoring legislation for their benefactors. Congress, of course, has voted itself it's own annuity…a lifetime salary, even after just one term, their own very generous social security system.     If we weren't intentionally brought up to obey orders and instead, to ,learn to think, our elections would be very different. My approach is simple: Never Re-elect Anyone. Dump the incumbents. End being a politician as a career path. And that holds on both the federal and state levels. Let's elect people who are in there for a term with our best interests guiding them, not theirs (and the companies buying their favors). I see Washington today as a toilet that's desperately in need of flushing.     When America got started a few British came over here with a higher technology and shoved the Indians they didn't kill into reservations. Then they opened immigration and in poured the Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, and Germans. Most of them assimilated after a generation or two into just Americans. Speaking English.     Slavery brought cheap labor from Africa…one of the best things that ever happened for the blacks. Before that, the African tribes were continually at war with each other, just as our Indian tribes had been, and the winners killed the losers. But, once the losers were worth money, instead of killing them they sold ’em to the highest bidders, who exported them.     Okay, come the November elections, are you going to re-elect a politician, like the people on welfare will? If so you deserve everything that comes of it, little of which is going to be good.     Immigration via our open southern border is changing our country. The newcomers have brought their languages and customs with them and are not assimilating. The Muslim are producing some eight to ten babies per generation, while we are averaging one and a half. So, as in the European countries, we'll see fast-growing Muslim communities with no interest in Being Americans or speaking English. Islam will rule.     We see this with the millions of illegal Mexicans, who refuse to learn English and proudly gather in large mobs, waving their Mexican flag and turning ours upside down. Mexifornia. Frankly, Arizona has the right idea and I'd like to see more state legislators have the guts to join the movement to oust their illegals. Let's make it a crime to hire an illegal alien. Also, I'd like to see our immigration officials start interviewing the Chinese working in the hundred thousand or so Chinese restaurants.     If we start paying attention we can get back our manufacturing might. If we change our school system so we can raise a generation of geniuses, who are able to think for themselves, America can become great again. We won't need the world's largest military, spread out in over 144 countries. But we will have to protect our borders and be picky about who we let in. We are not really in need of a larger population.     Will it be 2020 or 2030 before we see the end of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power? And people happily living without using nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and other poisons? When pasteurized milk is banned? When farmers have all remineralized their lands? When we can all eat organic and healthy? And we'll be eating raw. 6/13/10 Hero?     When I got a promotion about Honor Flights for WWII Veterans it looked like an interesting adventure. It was a one day flight to Washington from Manchester to visit WWII memorials. Gee, why not? So I signed up.     A week before the flight we were prepped for the trip at the Manchester VA Hospital. There would be 23 of us, plus a Guardian for each, on the trip. We would leave at 5:30 am Sunday from the VA and we'd get back around 11:30 pm. Hmm, that's a loong day. The Honor Flight organizers would handle all the travel and meal details. And we were given special Honor Flight tee shirts and name tags to wear, which set us apart from the general public.     Daron was kind enough to volunteer to drive me to the airport, leaving at 4:14 am, and then come back that night to drive me home. He figured it might be safer than me driving back after a very tiring, long day. And, he was right.     Our bus ride to the Manchester airport was interesting. Our procession started with a string of motorcycles, the American flag waving on the back of each. Followed by a string of police cars, their blue lights flashing. Rather than take the more direct Interstate 293, our procession wound through the Manchester streets, with the police preceding us, blocking off any cross traffic, allowing us to go right through, red lights and all, without stopping.     At the airport we debussed, with our walk into the terminal lined on both sides with people waving flags and clapping to honor us. We still had to take off our shoes, send our carry-ons through x-ray, and pass through the metal detector to get to the boarding area for a Southwest flight to Baltimore. The flight to Baltimore costs less than to DC, it was explained.    This was a regularly scheduled flight, so we shared the plane with what seemed like an endless stream of paying passengers. My, those 737s sure hold a lot of people!     Southwest served us a sumptuous Sunday morning breakfast…a half-ounce bag of lightly salted peanuts. The trip organizers plied us with bottles of water.     About an hour and a half later, when we landed at Baltimore, we waited until the paying passengers deplaned, then we left, walking through another group waving flags and clapping as passed…some of us walking, several in wheelchairs, pushed by their Guardians.     We milled around for a little while in the terminal, allowing us a needed toilet break. Then onto a bus, each with our Guardian sitting beside us. Mine, Bill, had made the trip twice before, so he was an expert at this. And off we went, with a police escort leading the way.     We visited the WWII Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Air and Space Museum, and the Iwo Jima memorial. Around noon, aboard the bus, we were given a box lunch. I chose the chicken-salad sandwich. It was mostly salad dressing and red grape halves, but I did run across a couple small chunks of chicken. There was also a small bag of potato chips, which I gave away.     We had plenty of bottles of water to drink, and enough rest room stops to keep me comfortable. For dinner we went to a buffet restaurant. Biggest buffet I've ever seen. The place serves some 3,000 people for dinner, about 2/3rds black, I'd estimate. It was so noisy the five other people of our group sharing my table could hardly talk. I opted for a tomato and spinach salad, with a small dab of bread pudding for dessert.     Then, back to the Baltimore airport, another hour bus ride, only to find our flight had been delayed until 10:30 pm. I finally got to bed by 1:30 am.     All that fuss over my serving in WWII? It isn't like I had any choice. I was 19 when war was declared, I knew the draft board would soon haul me, a crummy C student, into the Army…trench meat. So I tried to enlist in the Army Air Force, but when I admitted I had hay fever they rejected me. Then, a reserve officer, Lt. Commander Tom Jones, who had been working for my dad at American Export Airlines (the first transatlantic airline), and been recalled to active duty, put me in touch with Commander Borne at the Naval Research Lab at Anacostia, Virginia, just across the river from DC.     I went down and interviewed. Borne was anxious to have me for his lab, but first I'd have to attend the Navy's radar training school. So, one day before the draft board had me scheduled for induction into the Army, I took the train to DC and was sworn in as a Radio Technician 3/c at the Washington Navy Yard.     The first three months was at the Bliss Electrical School, in Bethesda, Maryland, on the outskirts of DC. The school was fabulous, the first school I'd ever enjoyed in my life. I graduated first in my class.     Then a train ride to San Francisco for six months at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island. It was another wonderful educational experience and I graduated as an Electronic Technician 2/c. At this time I was supposed to notify Commander Borne so he could get me back to his lab. But it seemed to me that a plum job like that should be reserved for someone with a family and not as dispensable.     Since I've always hated taking orders I needed to select a small ship, where I would be the top technician. That would be either a destroyer or a submarine. With submarine duty far more dangerous, and me not really caring whether I lived or not, I chose submarines.     A University of New Hampshire study found that most teenagers who committed suicide had been spanked as children, just as I was. It wasn't until Dianetics erased all of the painful subconscious memories of the beatings that I was able to escape that poisonous load. Changed my life.     So all this hero crap fell on deaf ears and blind eyes for me. The war came along. On way or another I had to be a part of it. So, I did, and I've managed to stay alive for another 65 years. I don't think that counts anyone as a hero. I did my job, and did it well…even saving my boat from being sunk twice, but that wasn't what this Honor Flight was all about. None of the watchers cheering us knew anything more than we hadn't yet managed to kill ourselves with our diets. What a claim to fame!     As we drove by the acres upon acres of little identical crosses at Arlington, the reason for the millions spent on the memorials we visited seemed a waste. Wars are political and big business, and all those crosses are irrelevant. We fought WWII mainly to save Britain's ass from Germany. The Japanese part of the war was necessary to get us into the war and was orchestrated by Roosevelt for that purpose.     The Korean war, which we never won, was political…to prevent the spread of communism. Ditto Viet Nam. The Gulf War, like Iraq and Afghanistan, had to do with oil.     The millions spent on war memorials are a waste of money. Wars are for politics and business, and the deaths involved are irrelevant. Just like the trillions businesses are making on the healthcare fraud. Our cemeteries are filled with the graves of people who've killed themselves at what should have been the mid-point of their lives with their belief in healthcare instead of a healthy diet.     Me a hero? Baloney! 6/6/10 Montgomery College      The Spring issue of Insight, the Montgomery College alumni magazine, had a nice Class Notes item about Wayne Green ’43 which surprised me by giving a search target of "W2NSD." Sure enough, there's a lot of stuff about me there. Well, I knew you could search for "Wayne Green" and find a bunch.     It's nice to get recognition, but I don't thirst for it. Mostly, with an item like this, I hope to hear from some old classmates, if any are still around. This item hasn't brought any response, nor have several class note items about me in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni magazine. 6/4/10 Bees     By the looks of things we should have a whopping crop of blackberries and dewberries this summer. Acres of bushes in bloom, a fantastic display. I've never seen anything like it before.     But then, when I get up close and watch for a while I notice there are no bees servicing the blossoms. Oh, a few little wasps about a half inch long here and there doing their best, but I haven't seen any bumble bees, so I wonder how many of those blossoms are going to bear fruit.     Last year it was the bats that disappeared, leaving us with the worst mosquito summer I've ever seen. Now the empty hive disaster seems to have arrived here. Early in the season, when the first blossoms came, there were bees busy servicing them, but the acres of blossoms we have now seems to have outclassed them. 6/3/10 No Smoking     Today, with what we know about the destructiveness of smoking to our bodies, one has to be either painfully ignorant, or a stupid jerk (or both, probably) to smoke. It's a vicious drug habit, not only for the lungs, but it helps keep one's immune system busy fighting the poisonous nicotine instead of fighting off invading germs, viruses, parasites and fungi.     When I was a kid virtually all adults smoked. My dad, mother, grandparents, aunts and uncles smoked. My mother's dad, who smoked cigarettes, cigars and a pipe, died of pneumonia when he was sixty. My dad quit smoking when he was sixty, but he spent the next twenty-seven years with emphysema and either an oxygen generator or oxygen bottles with him. In his last few years he could only walk a few steps before having to rest, and I had to take him to the hospital every few weeks to have his lungs pumped out.     So, when I see kids smoking I know they are stupid. Why else build a drug habit that's both expensive and destructive? And the nicotine drug addiction is one of the toughest to break. Oh, and just to add icing to the deadly cake, the nicotine habit goes hand in hand with the alcohol habit, abetting it. Most smokers are also drinkers.     One of the things I'd like to see are small groups of seniors monitoring the malls, snapping pictures of teenagers who are smoking to post on local school and post office bulletin boards as Our Stupid Teens. Oh, and on the web too, of course. 6/2/10 Bio     Our barn is huge, but it's packed almost solid with stuff. I like to point out, up there on a shelf, is the meat slicer I used in college to make sandwiches to sell in the freshman and upper class dorms. The upper class dorms were for guys who were too nerdy to be pledged as freshmen by the fraternities. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute naturally had a good share of nerds.     My first entrepreneurial adventure was when I was thirteen. I'd been bitten by the radio bug, so I needed money to buy parts and the 35¢ weekly allowance from my dad didn't cut it. Thanks to a handful of Democrats in an after midnight session, and okayed by President Wilson, our money issuing authority in 11913 was turned over to a bunch of European bankers and called the Federal Reserve Bank. That's when inflation set in, gradually devaluing our money, so that 35¢ in 1935 today is equal to about $8,00.     Before I got infected by the electronic bug I'd been into stamp collecting. So, when I needed money I set up the Elm Stamp Company, selling one pound boxes of unpicked stamps for collectors. You see, people working in office buildings were cutting the stamps off envelopes and welling them by the 50-pound bag. So I bought the bags and split them into fifty of my boxes. There were often some valuable collectors gems for anyone willing to sort through, like the Type-2 2¢ U.S. stamp, which was worth a couple bucks (Around $50 today).     Came WWII and I'm in the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco for six months. It didn't take me long to see a market there, so I ordered cartons of sandwiches from downtown every day and sold them evenings in the barracks. I made enough so I didn't have to take any pay for the six months. At the end I was able to draw around a thousand dollars, which I invested in a 1909 painting of the sea by Willy Hankin I'd seen in the window of a downtown art gallery. It's hanging over the fireplace now. I wonder what it's worth today?     After the war I went back to RPI to finish my remaining two years, which had been interrupted by the war. I got the fraternity cook to make sandwiches and a crew of students to sell them in the dorms every night. The proceeds went into more ham equipment. And even more. The fraternity basement was a ham's paradise. 6/1/10 911     An article mentioned that about 30% of Americans are skeptical (or worse) of the official 911 report. My message to the other 70% is to turn off the TV and skip Oprah, Maury, The Doctors, Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, and your other brain-free ways to waste a lifetime, and spend some of your remaining hours finding out what's actually going on. And it's nothing like the stuff our entertainment companies and major media (and government) are feeding us.     On the Moon landings I had no problem coming up with 55 darned good reasons not to be more than skeptical the official story. With 911 the list would be even longer. Since there are so many well done books exposing the latest "Pearl Harbor," I won't bother. Oh, you haven't read Stinnett's solidly documented Day of Deceit, so you still believe the Japanese attack was a surprise and not orchestrated by Roosevelt? Lordy!      If you start doing your homework on 911 you'll be joining me in being skeptical that  the Muslims had anything to do with it. You'll wonder about how much the Bush family long time oil industry involvement had to do with 911 being the pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq for oil and Afghanistan to enable an oil pipeline to run to the Gulf of Oman.     Sure Saddam was a lousy dictator tyrant, but the first Bush sucked him into invading Kuwait, and our Gulf war, which we didn't actually win. So Bush Junior took care of that.     I wonder how long it'll take before the truth of all this comes out. It took about sixty years for the real Pearl Harbor story. 5/30/10 Speaker Wayne     In one of my frequent, but futile, efforts to straighten my office, I came across a box of pens. Presentation pens, memento gifts from my talks to Rotary, Kiwanis, and other groups.     Giving talks is a way for me to share things I've learned, so they're fun. As I mentioned in my 1/15/10 entry, I gave my first talk when I was six. But it wasn't until high school that I hit the stage again. There, I performed the leads in The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. Plus, the music teacher was so impressed with my voice that he urged me to become a professional baritone and frequently had me get up front in assembly and sing a song. Not seeing many professional baritones around, I resisted that calling.     When I got into publishing ham radio magazines I gave many talks to ham clubs and at hamfests all around the country. Next it was computer magazines and more talks. Then entrepreneurialism. I counted ’em up, and I've given talks in 38 countries so far. Bunch of colleges, such as Princeton, Yale, Boston University, Babson College, Case-Western, Rensselaer, and several more.     It's been quite an honor to give keynote talks at national conferences on communications, computers, education, music, and consciousness. At a Tesla Society conference I lectured on cold fusion, and why we have gravity and inertia (6/17/09). I've listed some of the topics I enjoy talking about (5/22/09). 5/29/10 Aspartame News     Anyone who is not a clueless overweight consumer knows that Aspartame (Equal) has been causing thousands of cases of multiple sclerosis and lupus. Oh, and it also make you crave barbs, making you fatter. It's the sweetener in most diet sodas and a thousand or so other diet products. So I was not surprised to learn they've changed the name to AminoSweet.     5/28/10 The Illegals     Illegal aliens are flooding into the U.S. at around a half million a year, and there are few, if any, we want here. Sure, Congress passed laws against this invasion, but they haven't made a serious move to enforce them.     So we have our prisons filling up, costing us around $30,000 a year per alien criminal. We have tons of narcotics being smuggled in. Oh, and don't forget the OTM (Other Than Mexican) terrorists and Muslims (if there is a difference).     The Muslim invasion of the European countries, where they are out-baby-ing the natives and rapidly becoming the majority, is a lesson we can't ignore. Are we ready to accept Islam or face death? Well, on the bright side it would end women in politics…like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary. Oh, make a list.     So we're supporting, one way or another, some twelve to twenty (or thirty) million illegals who are putting Americans out of low wage jobs, and costing us billions of tax dollars for welfare, school, hospital costs, etc.    As I wrote a year ago (6/9/09) we need to outlaw the mailing of Spanish language publications, and shut down Spanish language radio and TV stations. We should encourage every state to emulate Arizona, making it illegal for illegal aliens to live or work there. If you want to come to America, come here legally and be prepared to accept our language, our customs, and our flag…leaving yours behind. And let's close all those Muslim mosques the Saudis have built. We really don't need the worshipping of a religion that preaches death to unbelievers.     It's not just Muslims that worry me. Those friendly, smiling Chinese, working in the thousands of Chinese restaurants which were funded by the Chinese government, watching Chinese videos and reading Chinese papers, not bothering to learn English (except for the waiters…to a limited extent), should be checked by immigration authorities. Are we being infiltrated for some reason? 5/27/10 Bio     The first sickness I can recall was measles, when I was three. It only lasted a few days and was no big deal. The big deal hit when I was four and my mother went along with her doctor's recommendation that I get vaccinated. I have no idea what it was for (or against), but it sure raised hell for little Wayne.     Soon after the shot my sinus trouble started and, despite daily nose drops of neosilvol and ephedrin, I was seldom able to breath through my nose for the next several years. A couple months after the shot I was in the hospital to have my swollen tonsils removed. Mostly I remember getting to eat ice cream for my first week after the operation. Ice cream was a rare treat in those days.     Next, a few months later, I was back in the hospital to have my swollen adenoids removed. Ice cram again.     But, by far the most traumatic, was my ear infection. I was sick in bed and our doctor came. After looking in my ear he went away, only to return a couple hours later with a second doctor. They both checked my ear and then went out to the living room to talk. A few minutes later they came back into my bedroom, followed by my mother and dad, but not saying anything.     Suddenly the four of them pounced on me, with my dad holding down my legs, my mother my left arm, one doctor holding down my right arm, and the other doctor clamping a mask over my mouth, giving me ether. I felt totally betrayed. I don't know what they did, but it did end my ear aches.     It was such a traumatic experience for me that it was the first thing I returned to twenty-four years later, when I was regressed during my first Dianetics experience.     A year or two after the tonsils, adenoids, and ear operations, I began noticing allergies, and hay fever. Using scratch tests the doctor said I was allergic to ragweed, goldenrod, cheese, mustard, trees, and some other foods and plants. All I had to do during hay fever season was eat a slice of watermelon and I'd lose my voice.     Since changing to a raw food diet I no longer have any allergies. No hay fever. I can eat anything I want and roam the fields full of goldenrod freely. No boxes of Kleenex every fall.     So, are you going to let ’em shoot your next baby full of stuff that could well plague them the rest of their lives? Get a good midwife, birth at home, and keep away from doctors as best you can. 5/26/10 Coffee     All too often, when I go through the list of poisons we are dumping on our immune system, keeping it from doing it's routine inspection and repair work, when I mention caffeine there's a gasp. "You mean I'd have to give up my morning cuppa coffee?"     When I explain that one drop of pure caffeine injected into your body will kill you, it's that powerful a poison, they're okay with giving up cooked food, but not their coffee.     So, what's the harm of that stop at Starbucks or Dunkin Doughnuts? Well, coffee does give you a blast of energy, followed by your getting tired, irritable, and depressed. In the longer term it's action on the brain contributes to memory problems. And on the body it's fatigue, osteoporosis, breast cancer, high blood pressure, and poor circulation. Cancer researcher Bruce Adams rates coffee as the number two cause of cancer.     Not only does coffee contribute to miscarriages, it shown to significantly lower a baby's IQ. D'uh?     So, how many lumps of sugar do you want, along with that shot of pasteurized cream, in your toxic brew? 5/25/10 Death     An email from Cheryl Shay (NMMT2@aol.com) saying how much she enjoyed what she learned from May Sewall's Neither Dead Nor Sleeping, which I reviewed on page 14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom. My very good friend Richard Hussey, who has made the reprint of this 1920 book available, has done the thinking world a huge favor.     There's so much we need to learn about death, reincarnation, consciousness, and so on, fields where there are few funds for research. Fields that most religions will do what it takes to prevent our learning more, since that could hurt the revenues their belief system provides. So you're going to have to do your own research, as I have, by reading the best books you can find in these fields. Several I've found are reviewed in my guide.     The Sewall book is an excellent start. Just Google the title and be prepared to be amazed.     See  http://www.neitherdeadnorsleeping.com 5/24/10 The Cancer Business     With the average per patient treatment running over $50,000, and, according to the American Cancer Society, over 550,000 Americans dying of it every year, it's a very big business. So we're talking about an over $50 billion a year industry. Hey, it's dangerous to mess with that!     Most of the patients had chemotherapy, which gives about 7% of them remission. But, since they continue to do what caused their cancer in the first place, most eventually die from cancer.     Studies by Dr. Hardin Jones, at the University of California, showed that people who avoided chemotherapy and radiation lived up to four times longer. Most cancer patients die of chemotherapy, not cancer.     Scientists have found that strong immune systems quickly find any starting cancer cells and trash them. So, instead of strengthening the immune system, chemotherapy destroys it, killing over a half million trusting Americans every year.     It's understandable why the medical/pharmaceutical industry has shown no interest in Dr. Comby's 100% success in curing cancer via a raw food diet, and has been smearing Dr. Day for endorsing this approach. And why the thousands of well-healed lobbyists tending Congress have kept interest in this at a minimum. Money is far more important than lives. 5/23/10 The Father?     60 Minutes tonight had a segment naming some guy the father of the cell phone. Where's a lawyer? I want to sue.     Computerworld gave me credit for starting the cell phone and personal computer industries with my publications. Heck, check it out. Grumble. http://www.cio.com/article/444065/Tech_Visionary_and_Byte_Magazine_Founder_Wayne_Green_on_Changing_the_World 5/22/10 Baklava     The Hancock farmer's market opened for the summer, complete with the lady selling baklava. Before and between my marriages I had a number of memorable affairs, but only one "first." See 5/4/08 for the details on how baklava helped me nail a virgin.     It's still too early in the summer for many foods, but I did come home with a bag of kale. That stuff is packed solid with health. Since I eat it raw, of course, I popped a quart of defrosted ripe bananas into my blender, added a cup of pure water, stuffed the blender full of kale, and blended away. Once the kale leaves were liquidified I had room to stuff in some more…and blended them too. I ended up with a quart and a half of kale smoothie. Wow, is that good!     Being thrifty, I buy the over-ripe bananas at 19¢ a pound instead of the normal 54¢ to 64¢ a pound. My freezer is loaded with quart containers of them. They're also the main ingredient in my no-sugar super-healthy ice cream. 5/20/10 Millions!     How'd you like to be a zillionaire? Well, I see a great opportunity by being ahead of the curve and getting set up to provide a new product that will sell big time.     As the word gets around that it's what we've been eating that's making us sick, not a lack of pharmaceutical drugs, the interest in not just organic food, but what I call super-organic. Food that's been grown on land that hasn't been poisoned with chemical (NPK) fertilizer and pesticides, that's been treated with rock dust to get the minerals back into the soil, which all those past crops have removed.     There's also going to be a growing demand for raw milk and raw milk products like butter, cheese and yogurt. And let's have this super-organic too by grazing the cows on remineralized grass land.     With really healthy food you can do pretty well just selling locally. But how can you work this up to serving a national market? Even an international market? First off, you're going to need a much bigger farm. No, you're eventually going to need a bunch of large farms.     For my lunches and dinners I pull a tray out of the fridge with about a dozen little pint containers in it. In some I have minced vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, asparagus, yams, Brussels sprouts, snow peas, turnip, beets, cabbage, and lima beans, each mixed with some of my cole slaw sauce (10/28/09). In others my raw tomato soup (also 10/28/09), and some smoothies made from ripe bananas and kale, spinach, Swiss chard, or collard greens (8/26/09). One with raw meat, also minced, and a couple with salmon, tuna, or sardines. I mince the fish and add sweet-pickle relish and mayonnaise.     Each container provides a super taste treat, so I go from one to another with my spoon, making sure to chew every bite until it is liquid before I swallow it, so I get all of the taste. It takes longer when you chew your food, but that way it takes a lot less to fill you, and it's super-healthy for your digestive system.     Another big plus for food fixed this way is that you can fix it ahead of time and freeze what you don't need for the next week or so. They freeze just fine. Just what you needed to know if you're going to package pints of your super-organic food for sale commercially. Or maybe trays with compartments with the different foods frozen in them…like the tray in my fridge with the containers of food.     If your breakfasts are like mine you're going to need berries and bananas. These are better unfrozen. My oranges, grapefruit and grapes have been blenderized and do just fine frozen and then thawed. If raw berries aren't easily available, the frozen ones will do, since they are raw. Except for bananas, which go all to hell when frozen and then thawed. Oh, they're still great for making smoothies and my super-healthy ice cream.     The future has to be raw super-organic food, so how's your entrepreneurial spirit? And let's call those frozen pints of pure health Hundred-Plus brand, for people who want to live a hundred-plus years in robust health. Or maybe Mea Cuppas. 5/17/10 Mallove     As I proved, first with starting of the cell phone industry, a magazine about a new technology helps the pioneers keep in touch and advance the technology faster. Further, it attracts new people to the field, bringing them up to speed so they, too, can help pioneer the technology. And, thirdly, It offers a way for entrepreneurs to start offering products in the new field and reach potential customers. The next thing you know there's a new industry going.     So, in 1975, when a little outfit in Albuquerque NM brought out a kit for computer hobbyists, I thought I could do it again, and started Byte…which helped start the personal computer industry.     In December 1993, when I attended a cold fusion conference on Maui (in addition to scuba-diving the six Hawaiian Islands), I knew it was time to do it again. I hired Gene Mallove, an MIT grad, who had written a book on the subject (Fire From Ice) and we launched Cold Fusion magazine in June 1994.     Everything went fine for the first three monthly issues. We had plenty of article submissions, lot's of subscriptions, and the newsstand sales were going well. Then one day I came in and found Mallove's office empty. He was gone, along with our advertiser and article files. Cleaned out!     It turned out that, with backing from Arthur C. Clarke (in Sri Lanka), Mallove was starting his own Infinite Energy magazine. What I didn't realize at the time was that he had very probably saved my life.     Here was a magazine that threatened to put the oil (OPEC), coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro-power, solar and wind-power industries out of business by helping a non-polluting energy source at a hundredth the cost of oil be developed. Trillions of dollars were at stake.     Well, that was the end of my monthly glossy newsstand magazine. I found John Kane, a physicist from Vermont, to help me technically and we limped along with a book-sized journal I printed (folded and collated) for the subscribers.     Mallove made the mistake of trying to organize a Congressional hearing on cold fusion, so he was murdered. If I had become a serious threat to the oil industry, I'm sure that would have been my fate, too.  5/16/10 Railroaded     I see there's a proposed high-speed Boston-to-Montreal rail line, with several stops in New Hampshire along the way. I didn't see any cost estimates to build and operate it, but it would sure be handy for the dozen, or even dozens, of people heading to Montreal from Boston every day and prefer not to fly.     On the New Hampshire stops, there'll be a need for car rentals, since you can't do or see much without a car. Back, eighty years ago, when Bethlehem was in it's summer vacation prime, limos from the hotels ferried people from the railroad station in Littleton, some five miles away, to the 30 hotels, where most of the people spent the summer in rocking chairs on the hotel porches .     A few played golf, and some went for daily one-hour horseback rides down through Cherry Valley. Most just rocked.     With the coming gasoline elimination via micro-batteries, the cost of using cars will be almost zero, other than for occasional repairs. So is this proposed rail line something you'd be interested in as an investment? 5/14/10 Obama      I was fascinated, though not surprised, to read about Obama's trip to London for the G-20 summit. No wonder the British press had a field day reporting on Obama's entourage, with 500 staffers, including 200 Secret Service agents, six doctors, his White House chef and kitchen staff, food and water, 35 vehicles, four speech writers and 12 TelePrompTers.     In addition to Air Force One, he also brought along the presidential helicopter and a fleet of identical decoys to ferry him from the airport to downtown London.      Well, they didn't expect him to take a seat on a commercial airliner, did they? Our ex-Barry Soetoro was a class act. Yeah, after following the media search for BO's birth and school records, I'm joining the Birther Society. Old timers will remember B.O. Plenty from the Dick Tracy comic strip. Oh, Google it. 5/13/10 Grapefruit     Mmm, that's delicious! You've just got to try this.     First, out comes my blender. Next a cutting board and a sharp knife, Then I take two grapefruit (the red ones are best) and peel off the outer skin, while leaving on that inner skin. Next, I break it into four segments and cut each of the segments a little off center twice, squeeze out and throw away the seeds. Put the segments into your blender add a couple tablespoons of maple syrup, and blend the hell out of it. Whatever the highest speed you've got…and let it run for a minute or two.     Dip a teaspoon in and see how fantastic it is, then pour it into a quart container…preferable glass. This is going to be your first course at breakfast, and you're going to chew each spoonful well before swallowing. You'll get the benefit of the juice and all that fiber, that would normally be thrown away. Plus you'll have a better chance to enjoy the wonderful flavor.     Yes, keep it in the fridge.  5/12/10 Oil     What a mess oil has us in! The recent large oil spill in the Caribbean, and the whole Mid-East situation is revolving around oil. Like our invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Like the threats of $8 a gallon prices if the Mid-East gets into a more active Sunni-Shiite war, closing the shipping of oil through the Straits of Hormuz.     It wouldn't take much, maybe five to ten million dollars, to do the R&D and come up with a practical home cold fusion-powered unit that would supply all of the heat and power a family could want. And maybe another ten to twenty million for a high-capacity miniature rechargeable battery factory to power cars and trucks.  Oh, and computers.     No more pollution from cars. No more gas stations. No more oil wells and tankers. No more windmills, solar, nuclear, coal-fired, or hydro-electric. No national power web for terrorists to sabotage. No more off-shore messes or threats to dig up the huge reserves out west.     The raw materials for a cold fusion power unit would be nickel and water for the heat, then a steam engine driving an electric generator. And we're not talking about much nickel, either. Einstein's equation for the conversion of mass to energy, E = m x 186,0002 shows that a tiny bit of mass converts into an awful lot of energy (heat).     So, how come cold fusion has been discredited and ignored, despite proof that it works? Consider the trillions of dollars invested in oil, coal, natural gas, propane, butane, nuclear and hydropower, the electric power web, hundreds of thousands of gas stations, and so on. That's an awful lot of inertia, considering the disruption of the lives of millions of Americans working in these fields, and the loss of trillions in investments.     Yes, the world will change. It always has, even when new inventions have changed things big time.     Somewhere, very quietly, some one or group will develop a commercial cold fusion heat and electric unit and the world will change.     When my mother's parents moved to Brooklyn (NY) in 1909, the new house they bought had gas pipes in every room for the gas lights. This was before electric lights, and that was only a hundred years ago. The ice man came every few days with a big block of ice for the ice box in the kitchen. The mail man delivered mail twice a day on weekdays and once on Saturday through the mail slot in the front door.     It'll be comforting to see those Arabs chiefs back riding camels and sitting in their tents. 5/11/10 Oklahoma City     With the recent Oklahoma City bombing anniversary celebration, out poured the usual band of rag-tag conspiracy theorists, screaming, "Government Cover-up!"     The official story is simple…this guy, Timothy McVeigh, set off a home-made bomb in a truck across the street from the Murrah Federal Building and blew the front off it, killing a bunch of kids. I forget what he was mad about, but it must have been important for him to go to all that trouble. Anyway, he was convicted, got the death penalty, and executed.     The conspiracy crowd point to the copy of the TV newscasts that morning, which had interviews with people who had been in the building and claimed that there were two explosions, seconds apart, with the first being inside the building and the second across the street. Further the newscasts show bomb squad trucks and crews taking two unexploded bombs out of the building. Aerial views of the site showed no hole where the truck bomb had been, just a scattering of debris. And local seismograph recordings show two explosions, a few seconds apart.     I have a copy of the TV news broadcasts available on my #53 DVD ($10), for anyone interested in becoming a conspiracy theorist.     The next thing you know they'll be wondering if, after his "execution," McVeigh got a new identity and a comfortable out-of-the-way place to live.     Oh, there was also a report that the FBI staff, for some reason, did not report for work that morning.  Just a coincidence.     Like you, I totally trust my government. It wouldn't lie to me about this, 911, UFOs, the Moon landings, Pearl Harbor, crop circles, Waco, and all the other wierdo conspiracy theorist imaginings. 5/10/10 My Favorite Bookstore     It's the Hancock town dump. It's amazing what great books people throw away, so I find gems every now and then. This time it was the book that had, by far, the biggest influence on my life…Hubbard's 1950 Dianetics, The Science of Mental Health. Totally changed my life. You can read the details in my 4/21/09 entry.     Not only did Dianetics straighten out my life, which hadn't been going anywhere, it taught me how to help anyone get over any psychological problems…and in hours instead of months or years. Using Dianetics there are no incurable mental problems.     I bought the book when it first came out, tested it with a fellow announcer at WSPB in Sarasota (FL), and the results were so amazing I quit my job, just as I was getting a big raise, to go to the Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth (NJ) to learn more. 5/9/10 Pissed     The more I think about it, the more pissed I get. The years I wasted in grade school, high school and college. Wasted! Day after day, for years, taking tests on things I memorized the night before…called home work. Then the hated cramming for the finals.     If you think all that helped you learn anything much, how'd you like to sit down and retake those exams again today? Har-de-har.     Out of all those grinding years of short-term memorizing, the only school that was fun and really taught me things was the Navy's electronics course, with the first three months at Bliss Electrical School (now part of Montgomery College) in Maryland, and then six months at the Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco. Wow, that was fun!     They took kids who didn't know an Ohm from a Volt, and in just nine months, had them able to repair any radio, radar, sonar, or test equipment. And with little homework involved (see 3/26/09 for how they taught).     Today I'm an expert in electronics, thanks to that start. But I'm also an expert in many other fields, with little thanks to those school years. How many other people know how to cure any physical or mental illnesses? Well, on the mental illnesses, I did take a six-week course at a research foundation to get practical hands-on experience. And that's what was so wonderful about the Navy's electronic course…hands-on experience.     Alas, our teachers are prisoners of the system. Ditto the management. Which is why I champion the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA, where there are no tests or grades…where kids learn what they want and are not separated by age. If there is any home work, it's completely self-inflicted out of interest.     Ever since my emancipation in 1950 at that research foundation I've been busy doing my homework, but on subjects I want. I read books every day, highlighter in hand. And then more books…and it's all fun. 5/8/10 Mysteries     If you don't have a child around with a need for a school science project, you can do the research for yourself. Maybe take pictures and post them on YouTube.     Take seeds from the same package and plant them in separate pots, using the same potting soil source for them. You set one pot aside as a reference standard, allowing it sunlight all day, with no glass between it and the sun, and water it with your regular faucet water.     Then you put a second pot over a magnet's south pole. A third over a similar magnet's north pole. Another, use water that's been heated in a microwave oven and then allowed to cool. Another, using distilled water. Another, with glass between it and the sun. Another, you lavish with love every day. Another, you tell it how much you hate it and how ugly it is going to be. Another, use water you've put in a blender and spun just before using. Another, with a paramagnetic rock in its pot. Another, with water that has been set out in the sun over the south pole of a magnet for a few hours and then vortexed in the blender. And another, when it's leaves sprout, give it the Sonic Bloom treatment.     Your result will be a very educational exhibit.     Now, you are going find that some of these treatments make a substantial difference in the growth of your plants, and that, at least for me, raises the question of how these treatments might make a difference in human growth and health? Will drinking sun-exposed pure water that's been over a magnet's south pole and then vortexed, make a difference? Will nearby paramagnetic rocks effect our growth or health?     Unless you have pure spring water to work with, and considering that city water is likely to include fluorides, chlorine, lead, and other pollutants, your best bet is to start with distilled water.     It doesn't seem a stretch for me that we'll find that things that effect plant growth and health can also do the same for humans. Okay, now get busy and prove me wrong. 5/7/10 Stephen Hawking     This renowned British theoretical physicist is going around in a cart and using a voice synthesizer because he has ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). Will someone please tell this mighty brain on wheels about the raw food diet so he can get back on his feet? Oh, and talk again.     Step two is to try and wise him up about the Big Bang theory he loves so much having been disproved. Golly, how establishment professors resist new ideas and challenges to their deeply embedded beliefs.     It was great a few years ago when the Tesla Society held yearly conferences where innovators were given an opportunity to present their ideas. It was at one of those that I met Dr. Hal Huggins, who gave a talk on curing multiple sclerosis by removing dental amalgam from teeth. He showed a film of a patient confined to a wheel chair with MS who, a few weeks after having the amalgam removed, was out playing tennis.     At that conference I gave a talk on the reality of cold fusion and also explained my theories for why we have inertia and gravity.     If it is even possible for Hawkings to consider a cure for his ALS, I wonder how one could get through to him to present it? 5/6/10 Windmills     The Mass. legislature, their technology blinders firmly in place, has okayed the construction of a windmill farm for the Cape. Will they be able to get it done and up and running before home cold fusion-powered units start hitting the market?     Once LED light bulbs come down in price a home's power needs will drop way off. 5/5/10 Distance Learning     For over 2,500 years teachers and students met face to face for discussion and lectures. Technology has been changing that.     First it was books. These enabled the best brains in the world to reach people anywhere. Technology has been steadily lowering the cost of books, enabling billions of people to share what only dozens could just a few generations ago.     Plus, we now have radio, television (with a couple hundred satellite-induced channels), magazines, CDs and DVDs, and (yes) the Internet.     Kids no longer have to walk “three miles through the snow” to get to school. They’re either homeschooled, or a bus goes by their house and picks them up.     Until the Internet is wirelessly available via satellites (which will be coming soon) I see books and DVDs as the knowledge delivery systems of choice.     Books and DVDs make it possible for people to learn when it’s most convenient for them, not at the convenience of the teacher. For working people this is usually nights and weekends…unless there’s an “important” ball game.     With American colleges and universities already offering over 10,000 accredited courses on the Web, we’ll be seeing this movement spreading world wide as the Internet goes wireless, enabling people anywhere to participate.     Until the Web goes wireless, I see DVDs as the media of choice. With professional actors as teachers, aided by state of the art graphics and the ease of using stock film or setting scenes to demonstrate ideas, it’s a very flexible and inexpensive media. We’ll be seeing interactive lab experiments in every field of science. No more fire in the chemistry lab when you make a mistake…except on your DVD screen.     The inexpensive availability of education on any subject and in any language is a revolution on the order of the printing press. This enables people anywhere to rise from poverty and ignorance. It’ll raise hell with the current political and religious systems, which rely on ignorance to control minds and countries.     The one thing that’s been lacking so far has been some system of evaluating the worth of distance learning products. I’m doing my best with my reviews of books I say you are crazy if you don’t read. That’s my $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom. But that needs to be expanded to embrace all distance learning media and with input from millions of people, just as I did with my CD Review magazine.     I’d love to get such a publication started…first as a magazine…then as both a magazine and a Web resource. Twenty years ago it cost about $500,000 to start a nationally distributed magazine. Now it’s over $1m. If you know anyone with an extra million or so to invest in changing the whole world, please advise.     Am I being extravagant? It cost me about $250,000 to start Byte in 1975, the first personal computer magazine, and look at the impact it’s had! 5/4/10 The Fiend     When I was a kid anyone who was into photography was a “camera fiend.” Hams were “radio fiends.” The fiend term dropped out of use, replaced by “nut,” as in camera-nut or radio-nut. So I’ve graduated from being a fiend to a nut.     The terms were applied to anyone who was seriously into anything…anyone who is different. Golf-nuts, sports car nuts, cross-word puzzle nuts, health nuts and so on.     Having been an only child, I was brought up by and with adults, so I never got the hang of this kid peer-pressure thing. Still haven’t. When I got to my teens and the other kids were smoking I tried it and said yuuuk. That was before the big health brou-ha-ha over cigarettes. My father smoked, so did everyone in my family.     When I dutifully went off to college (I didn’t know any better then) and joined a fraternity, beer drinking was the big deal. They had weekend parties where my fraternity brothers would get a keg of beer and drink until they puked, and then drink more. I tried beer. Ugh. Phooey, again. And this despite everyone in my family drinking. Heck, during prohibition my dad had a bar in the cellar where he entertained his aviator friends—like Amelia Earhart, who kept her plane at dad’s airport. Everyone those days smoked and drank. But me. I wasn’t righteous about it. I wasn’t worried about my health, I just didn’t like the taste, case closed.     I’m still marching to my own drum, and to hell with peer pressure.     And this holds for my essays, too. I’m unswayed by the general public’s Conventional Wisdom. .   As I’ve been saying in my editorials for the last 50 years, I do my homework carefully before I write—but, if you have data that I haven’t found that has lead you to another conclusion, please let me know what I’ve missed. I’ve insisted that it be information, not a belief that you want me to share.     This attitude has naturally alienated a lot of readers…because I’ve researched and written about many controversial subjects…subjects where belief systems are deeply inculcated.     When I write that things like dowsing, remote viewing, precognition, psychokenisis, past lives, and so on are real, it’s much easier to slough me off as a nut than to do some reading to find out if I know what I’m talking about.     I’ve been writing about NASA faking the Moon landings. I agree, we’ve been sold a great bill of goods. We saw and trusted what we were seeing and being told. Heck, we wanted to believe. We all wanted so much to believe in America’s great achievement that the voices of the few skeptics were drowned out. When René sent me a copy of his NASA Mooned America, which was obviously a self-published book, I laughed at the whole idea. I get a lot of conspiracy-theory books like that…full of speculation and short on reliable references. Short on facts.     But René was citing facts and he had clear color NASA photos which, once I looked at them critically, backed up René.     Since then I’ve read every book and viewed every video on the subject, plus I’ve written about what I’ve found, always asking if anyone had facts which would refute the growing mountain of evidence of a hoax. Instead, I got letters and calls from more whistle-blowers.     But I can understand why the casual reader would find it easier to call me a nut than to do their homework. Here I am, telling you that all this psychic stuff is real, that you can manipulate clouds with your mind, that our government has been covering up Amelia Earhart’s last flight for over 70 years, that the Moon landings were faked, that our school system has been intentionally designed to dumb us down, that they’re putting fluorides in our water for the same reason, that sugar and pasteurized milk are poison, that amalgam fillings are poisoning us…whew, what a nut case. Oh, I forgot vaccinations, 90% of our food supply, and our whole so-called health care system.     With around 60% of our adult population either illiterate or just barely able to read, I can understand why so few people have bothered to follow up on the references I’ve cited to back up everything I’ve been writing. Heck, the average school teacher only reads one book a year, and that’s a novel.     I get discouraged when I visit people and see almost no books around. If you get a chance to stop by my place you’ll see almost 1000 feet of book shelves. Packed solid. That’s sixty six-foot book cases of books. I’m not exaggerating when I claim that I do my homework before I sit down to write.     For me this is fun. I love learning new things. I just wish I could get more people to enjoy the fun and excitement of reading…and learning. We’d sure have a whole lot better country. 5/3/10 Monopoly Mail     Congress didn’t do us any favors when it set up the U.S. Postal Service as a monopoly. They made it illegal to compete with it. And what a franchise it has, with the exemption from taxes, zoning laws, and vehicle license requirements. It admits that it has 26,000 offices that are not making money, but any attempt to close them or to downsize their enormous work force is vigorously fought by Congress.     Many other countries have seen the light, recognizing that socialism doesn’t work, and have privatizing their post offices. New Zealand has closed more than a third of their post offices and is privatizing the system. So are or have Sweden, Finland, Australia and most European countries.     It is illegal for a private company to put anything into a customer’s mail box of through the mail slot in their home. It is illegal to consolidate mail, such as sending bills from several companies in one envelope.     Because the Postal Service faces no competition there is little incentive to control costs or maintain quality. It is able to overpay its bureaucracy in salary, benefits and perks. There is no pressure to minimize waste. The bureaucracy has fought every effort to introduce new technologies to speed up and cut the cost of services. Why, that would put some workers out of work! Thus mail delivery is slow, unreliable and even lost. I’ve found that about 2% of the books I mail to customers never arrive! Just disappear.     A study by the Postal Service found that on routes where private carriers had been contracted the costs were half those of the Postal Service carriers.     According to the Postal Rate Commissioner, “U.S. Postal workers are the highest paid semi-skilled workers in the world.” Including overtime and benefits, they’re getting a yearly average of over $85,000 per worker.     A postal audit showed that they damaged half the packages marked “Fragile” that they carried. 94,000 letters were found buried in the back yard of one carrier. Doubleday did a survey and found that 14% of their properly addressed third class mail vanished in the postal system. A Postal Inspection Service audit found properly addressed mail dumped in the trash in 76% of the offices they inspected.     We’ve gone during my memory from two home deliveries on weekdays and one on Saturday to one on weekdays, and from 2¢ for a letter to 46¢. Now they’re planning on ending home deliveries. And yet the service has always lost money, with the shortfall (subsidy) provided by the government—which means that we all are paying for it, one way or another—whether we use it or not.     If you’re interested in the skinny on the situation, invest $13 in the Cato Institute book, Free The Mail. Get their free book catalog anyway. 224 2nd Street S.E., Washington DC 20003. If you want a second opinion, then check out Monopoly Mail by Douglas Adie, also from Cato. 5/2/10 Coke™     Since my wife is addicted to Coke (the drink), I thought you might be interested in the following email someone sent: Just when you thought you knew everything... 1. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. 2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days. 3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl...Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. 4. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. 5. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola. 6. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. 7. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. 8. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. 9. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. FYI: 1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. 2. To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials. 3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours.     Yes, indeed, things go better with Coke!     And that doesn’t count any aluminum you get from the cans. With that stuff able to disolve almost anything,     I’d like to see some proof that we’re not getting aluminum when we drink a can. Hello Alzheimer’s.     That also doesn’t count the effect that the 12 teaspoons if sugar you get with each can are going to do to your body. As Dr. Page discovered 50 years ago, all it takes in one teaspoon of sugar a day to disrupt your body’s calcium-phorphorus balance, leading to arthritis.     Then there’s Diet Coke™! I’ve just updated my Aspartame (NutraSweet) book to 12 pages on the damage this so-called diet drink that’s making people fat is doing. And killing ’em.     Heck, even 60 years ago my mother knew not to drink that stuff. I never ever tasted Coke until I was in high school, when I was forced to drink some as part of a fraternity initiation torture. First I had to chew some lye soap. That ate away the lining of my mouth. Then I had to drink Coke, which was real torture. It was a long, long time before I tried Coke again. I never have liked it much. Thank you, my old fraternity brothers! 5/1/10 Drug Addiction News     I see where some researchers at the Buffalo School of Dental Medicine (NY) have discovered a mouth rinse that makes smoking taste terrible. Rinsing with this stuff makes cigarette smoke taste so bad that smokers can’t get past the first puff, and the effects of the rinse last 8 to 12 hours. It only seems to effect tobacco smoke.     Since cigarettes killed my dad, and cigars killed my grandfather, I take a personal interest in this deadly addiction. I know I shouldn’t get upset when I see teenagers with a cigarette in their mouths, and that nothing I can say will have any effect, other than to make them angry. But I can’t help thinking how incredibly stupid a kid has to be these days to start a lifelong addiction to an expensive drug that is going to make their older years absolutely miserable, and substantially shorten their lives.     I remember the last ten years of my father’s life, having to drag around an oxygen bottle everywhere he went, and having to sleep with an oxygen tube in his nose.     When the researchers finish their pilot study they’ll be looking for a company to bring the product to market. 4/30/10 Burying Their Mistakes     Didja see the 60 Minutes segment on how hospitals are covering up their doctor’s errors by either not bothering to order a postmortem or even refusing to do one when a patient dies? The Institute of Medicine did a study and found that about 40% of the Cause of Death on the death certificates of dead hospital patients was flagrantly wrong. They estimated that hospitals have been burying around 100,000 doctor-error-caused patient deaths a year.     Now, when you get sick and go to the hospital, what are your chances of surviving? There are doctor errors, medication errors, the potential for catching something even more deadly than you went in with from some other sick patient, and that doesn’t count the food, which is almost guaranteed to keep you sick.     Ooops, I should have written that when you make yourself sick, not when you get sick. 4/29/10 Global Crime     As a result of several years of hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, it’s Chairman, has written a book, The New War. It’s 210 pages chronicles the extent that crime has gone global, with the world’s major crime and terrorist groups now cooperating in the running of a $1 trillion crime industry.     They’re operating much as international corporations do, but with the goal of taking over countries and running them for the benefit of the cooperating syndicates. They already essentially control Russia, Colombia, Nigeria, Mexico, and several Caribbean nations. Their tools of business are bribery, murder and intimidation.     This new global crime cooperative has little opposition to its growth. The nations of the world have no system for cooperatively combating this threat. Each has its police systems, but there are no international laws, nor international police, so the crime cooperative is able to play one country against another.     Senator Kerry’s book goes into detail about the problems and the scale of the threat—which could easily escalate into the use of terrorist tools such as nuclear weapons or biological attacks on our cities. What it doesn’t do is propose any realistic solution to the problem. Nor is there even one tiny hint of legalizing drugs as a way to take the enormous profits out of their sale, their main source of revenue. That’s just too hot a potato for any politician to touch.     Without the hundreds of billions in drug profits from American customers, it is unlikely that the crime/terrorist coalition would hold together.     The longer the crime groups are able to function, the more they branch out into other fields. There’s no mention in Kerry’s book of how the crime families in America got started as a result of liquor prohibition, and are now powerful influences in dozens (if not hundreds) of businesses. Just try getting involved with the newsstand delivery of newspapers and magazines without dealing in the Mafia and see what happens to you (and your family). Ditto with hat checking, garbage collection, beer delivery, radio station music director bribery, and so on.     Oh, yes, gambling too. Let’s not forget who built Las Vegas.     Sure, alcohol is a problem, particularly for alcoholics. But passing laws against it only raised the price people had to pay, making it so enormously profitable that a whole new industry was spawned. And exactly the same thing has happened with drugs. 4/28/10 The Strad     Back in 1917 my mother's high school boyfriend, when he was drafted and went off to fight in WWI, left his violin with my mother to keep for him. He said it was valuable and his family might sell it while he was gone if he left it at home.     Like millions of other youngsters, he didn't come back, so the violin, in it's beautifully crafted wooden case, sat off in a corner in the attic. And when my mother died seventy years later, the violin, with everything else from the house in Brooklyn, was brought to Hancock and it was put up in the attic.     When I was a youngster in Brooklyn I noticed the violin case in the attic and opened it to see. Inside was the violin and the name Stradivarius. Hmm, could it be real, or just a Sears Roebuck knock-off?     Recently I got to thinking about it. If it really was a cheap knock-off, why would the guy have asked my mother to keep it safe for him while he was away at war? Why would he worry that his family might sell it? Worse, the violin had disappeared from our attic, presumably stolen by an ex-housekeeper's son, who had been caught stealing things from our house.     If the violin was a real Strad, there would be no way to sell it without headlines in the papers. What a predicament!     Oh well, it was probably only worth a few million dollars. 4/27/10 Melanomas     These are the top cancer-related cause of death for 25-30 year old Americans. Alas, the drug companies haven’t yet been able to come up with a drug.     Hey, guys, it’s your weakened immune system that is causing the trouble, not the sun…nor a lack of interferon alpha-2b or some other patented concoction. Our ancestors spent most of their days in the sun and they didn’t get any melanomas.     According to Dr. Lorraine Day, and several other reports I’ve read, when two groups of lab animals get the same amount of sun exposure, with one group eating the standard American diet (SAD) and the other fed raw foods, only the American diet group get melanomas. So, if you’re going to nosh at McDonalds and eat cooked food, stay the heck out of the sun. At least you’ll have a better chance of living into your 50s before your diet-caused heart attack…probably preceded by some by-pass operations. 4/26/10 Dragons     After several weeks of looking for a movie worthy of the hour drive each way to go see, encouraged by a positive thumbnail review in The New Yorker, we went to see How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. Alas, unlike the 99% of the people they said would recommend the movie to friends, my review can be put into one word: Ugh!     The $4 each for the damned 3D glasses was tough on my, er, thrifty, nature. But the movie gave me no sensation of depth. There was no 3D feeling while watching. Eight bucks wasted. And it didn't help that the film had almost no story.     So we have a bunch of enormously over-fed Vikings busy fighting fire-spouting dragons with spears. Then, along comes a kid who befriends a dragon and gets to fly around the place on his back. The end.  4/25/10 Fired!     As the recession continues, with our larger companies laying off thousands of employees (I almost said workers), there’s an up side for the survivors and a “What in the hell am I going to do now?” sudden shock for the downsized.     The mid-level survivors are moving up to top-level jobs. The lower-level survivors are finding themselves having to do the work that two or three did before. This should not be difficult.     Job survivors are no longer complacent about their jobs. What if the recession continues? How long will it be before the ax swings again and my head is staring up blankly from the basket?     If you’ve been reading my essays for long you know what my advice to both the downsized and the potentially downsized is: Start your own business.     The only way any of us can have a degree of freedom and the potential to make plenty of money is by owning our own business. I figured that out fifty years ago and have been preaching to profoundly deaf ears and blind eyes ever since. Well, not totally. I’ve gotten some comforting thank-yous from people whose lives I’ve changed and that makes it all worth while.     One of them was featured in an article in Business 2.0, making me proud of him. He became a leader in the security field. He’s the same chap, by the way, who while working at NASA, accidentally found computer tapes which proved they’d faked the whole Apollo 11 Moon Landing trip.     My Secret Guide to Wealth goes into detail on how anyone can get someone else to happily pay them to learn what they need to know to be an entrepreneur. These are things, unfortunately, that few colleges teach. I almost got Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to start teaching entrepreneurialism, but the faculty, none of which had ever been in business, scuttled the project. It was a threat to them.     Presumably, if you’ve been employed, you’ve become an expert on something. Step one would then be to sit down at your word processor and write some magazine articles about what you’ve learned so you can help others learn from your experience. That’ll establish your credentials as an expert.     The next step is to put all this in a book. It’s so easy to publish a book with today’s technology that I’m writing, printing, and producing my own books, one after the other…some by the thousands of copies. Then you want to promote your book. I’ve found the best route for this is via talk radio. You can buy a list of almost a thousand talk radio shows and that’ll get you started.     Of course, if you’ve managed to hold down jobs without ever learning anything worth writing about then you sure have been wasting your life. A job should be more than a paycheck…it should be the gateway to a learning experience. Whatever job you have, you should do everything you can to be the very best in the world at it. Money comes and goes, but the skills you build and the things you learn are going to be with you no matter what happens. Except Alzheimer’s. Read my health guide to find out how to avoid that misery.     While most people tend to do the least amount of work they can, I've always pushed myself to do more and learn more. When I was hired on as an engineer at WPIX, Channel 11 in NYC, I was given an opportunity to try out as a cameraman. In a few weeks I was so good at it that they had me doing the Gloria Swanson one hour variety show all on my one camera. And that was back before the invention of zoom lenses.     Well, that’s enough rah-rahing for now. Read my wealth book. Do what it says and you’ll know the exhilaration of freedom. And maybe I’ll be able to recruit you in my drive to make all of us freer. 4/24/10 Coins     With the increasing threats of a coming dollar meltdown it would be nice to have something on hand that will retain it's value. We're seeing more and more ads urging us to invest in gold or silver coins, so why not take that one step further? I'd like to see New Hampshire make pure silver Old Man coins available. Being made of pure silver, no matter what happens to our Federal reserve money, the silver coins will be worth the then current silver price per ounce.     A three-inch diameter coin would weigh four ounces…a quarter pound…and be designated a Quarter coin. At today's silver prices it would be worth about $70. Add 15% for the coinage and distribution and the coin could sell for $80. Cheap enough as inflation insurance. With something easily spendable like that I'd empty my bank account to buy them.     A smaller, one ounce coin, would be worth about $20 in today's dollars, and who knows how much in 2012 dollarettes.     With the supply of new silver severely limited by no new finds to mine, and the need for silver by industry, the basic value of silver can be depended upon. Of course, as the news of this new inflation hedge gets around, the demand for silver for the coins will drive up silver prices, enriching the early adopters.     Well, somehow it may be possible, despite our country's enormous debt, and the money printing presses running 24/7, not to see the dollar evaporate in value. Yeah, sure. 4/23/10 Gullible's Travels     One of my more serious character flaws is my inability to believe in things I'm told or have read. Alas, the power of belief, which is able to reject even the strongest of contrarian data, has made me curious about and open to investigating conspiracy theories.     So, I don't "believe" we ever put a man on the Moon. Nor the government's version of the 911 attack. Nor that there was just one bomb at Oklahoma City. And so on. That's made it possible for me to objectively look into the data on conspiracy theories.     My Moondoggle book lists 55 good reasons to suspecting a massive cover-up on the Apollo missions. Just to cite one, it's the bootprint we've all seen in the Moon dust. First, go into any lab with a bell jar and vacuum pump, put in any dust you want, evacuate the air, drop a steel ball on it and it will bounce without leaving a dent. It's necessary to have some kind of gas to hold he dust particles apart. Without it they form a concrete-like solid. So, how can there be dust on the Moon, where there is no air?     Okay, you can't find a nearby bell jar and vacuum pump, then let's see you make a bootprint in dry sand at the beach. Without moisture to hold the grains together, the sand fills in your bootprint, leaving a small featureless indentation. Hmm, so we have to have both air and moisture to get a clear bootprint.     Considering the daytime temperatures go over 200°F and at night under –200°F, the likelihood of moisture on the Moon is more than remote.     What a disappointment in our government to find that they faked America's biggest accomplishment of the 20th century.     So, do you still believe we put a man on the Moon? Do you believe that a small group of Arabs pulled off that 911 stunt? Heck, we still have a bunch of seemingly intelligent scientists who believe in the Big Bang theory. But then, it should be no news flash that the scientific and medical establishments have rejected every new discovery. Like when the AMA decreed that any doctor caught washing his hands before an operation would have his license revoked. Germs? Preposterous! 4/22/10 Good Fortune     My Chinese buffet lunches, back before I went all raw food, ended up with a fortune cookie. For instance, one said, “A person of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.”     Okay, what kind of a mark will you leave on the world to show that you were here? Have you created anything of significance? Music? A work of art? Written a book? Maybe an invention? Or perhaps you’ve done some research? If not, why not? It isn’t as if there aren’t an unlimited number of things that need to be done.     We are in desperate need of creative music and art. And there sure is a shortage of first rate books.     In the research department, as I’ve written endlessly over the years, all you have to do is grab an anomaly that establishment science has swept under the rug and go with it. This is what John Mack, the psychologist, did. He wanted to find out more about the contactees, so he started interviewing ’em. And that led to his discovering that these people weren’t refugees from the National Enquirer, but had consistent stories to tell. And he wrote Abduction, a landmark book (reviewed on p.30 of my Wisdom Guide).     Drs. Pons and Fleischmann noticed an anomaly with palladium that had been ignored. They upset the hell out of the physics establishment, the oil, coal, natural gas, and power industries, with their discovery of the cold fusion reaction. Big money finally put them out of business, delaying the demise of OPEC.     Michael Cremo’s Forbidden Archeology (p.33 Wisdom Guide) is a compendium of artifacts archeologists have dug up for which there is no comfortable explanation. Like a gold chain embedded in a 300 million year old lump of coal.     The history of science is a long history of the establishments of the day doing their best to keep new ideas from gaining ground. Ditto the medical field. And ditto just about any other field.     And stop complaining about greed ruining things. Greed is here to stay. It’s what capitalism is all about. The alternative is socialism, and that approach has failed every time it’s been tried. Instead of fighting greed, figure out how to use it to your advantage.     Greed is everywhere. Look at any square inch of ground, on land or under water, and you’ll find there is a constant battle going on for territory. Dandelions are greedy as hell. They do their best to take over your lawn. You either have to fight them constantly, or relax, admire their beauty and eat their leaves.     Of course there’s always the sheep approach, as long as you don’t mind being fleeced regularly.     Will the mark you leave in the world be only a cypher? 4/21/10 Guess What     Our business, church, and political leaders all have a strong vested interest in you being dumb.     Our business leaders want you to buy their products. Our church leaders want you to sit in their congregations, give money and not ask questions. Our political leaders want you to keep on voting for them while they spend your money.     So our schools dumb us down and we’re kept from noticing by endless entertainment…ball games, television, radio, and vigorous political arguments. If you think this dumbing down is accidental you sure haven’t done much reading on the subject. It’s on purpose.     Is this another wild conspiracy theory? Stop snickering long enough to become unignorant by reading Charlotte Iserbyt’s meticulously researched book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. It’s a huge book…8-1/2x11 inches and nearly 2-inches thick…over 700 pages! You will be excited…and appalled when you read this $30 book.     You’ll also want to read John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education, another whopper of a book. My copy is highlighted on almost every page. John is the prizewinning New York City (including inner) teacher who quit, saying he just couldn’t continue to do that to children.     Or you can grab the remote, a bag of cheeze-puffs, a beer, sit back on the couch like Homer Simpson and watch a ball game. Let someone else worry about how lousy our school system is…and why it’s that way. The Administration and Congress are depending on you to do that.     We get all upset when we read about parents who have locked their children in a closet for years, but we don’t blink an eye when the government does essentially the same thing to our children’s minds.   4/20/10 Puzzling     The first thing I do when I get on a plane is turn to the cross word puzzle in the airline magazine. The bigger and more difficult, the better. Jerry Rockwell, a fan of mine in Santa Rosa CA, sent me bundles of NY Times cross words and cryptograms. I love ’em.     Back in the 1930s Womrath’s, then a national chain of book stores, rented jig-saw puzzles. The wooden ones, not today’s stamped-out cardboard affairs, complete with a picture on the box to make it easy. My dad would bring one home every weekend and we’d lay the pieces out on the dining room table and put a 500-piece puzzle together. A thousand-piece puzzle was a real challenge, and they even went to 1,500 pieces!     My research work today is much like putting together those jig-saw puzzles when I was a kid…only finding the pieces of the puzzle is more difficult. But what satisfaction there is for me when suddenly the pieces fit together. Wow! Then I can hardly wait to share the picture…through my editorials, books, and radio talk show programs.     If you have any kids, or grand-kids, you’ll help their minds to develop by bringing home an occasional jig-saw puzzle. And hide that damned picture on the box. The wooden puzzles are still available, but now you have to find a company who makes ’em and send away to buy or rent ’em.     Another good thing my parents did, back before TV, was to sit down at the dining room table after dinner and play games. This was great for me. Of course, in those days, they’d have friends in for dinner and a game afterward. When’s the last time you had friends over for dinner and a game? Or didya ever?     As an only child I was brought up in the company of adults, so I never got the hang of dealing with kids, thus I wasn’t influenced much by kid peer pressure. I learned to play games and discuss things on an adult basis.     We played wonderful games…Liar Dice, Michigan Rummy, Pounce, Russian Bank, Lazy-Eights, Up and Down the River, Cribbage, Acey-Deucy, Backgammon, Hearts, Gin-Rummy, and Pitch. I got to be very good at games.     Later, aboard the submarine during WWII, they had Acey-Deucy, Cribbage and Pinochle tournaments during each patrol run. After winning the Cribbage and Acey-Deucy tournaments for three patrol runs in a row, I decided to learn how to play Pinochle…and won that tournament. That was the end of the tournaments.     Games are great training for kids, and the earlier the better. It helps their brains develop and will pay off for them later in life in many ways. Games, cross-words, cryptograms, all keep our minds growing…unlike passively watching TV. Most TV, anyway. What a terrible waste of time and minds soaps, TV talk shows, and Judge Judy are. Stupid, mindless pap. They’ll turn your brain to oatmeal. 4/19/10 Cooked Goose     Don’t you pity the poor bastards who are addicted to cocaine or heroin? And those kids exhibiting the monumental stupidity of smoking, building one hell of a lifetime (though short) powerful addiction?     Well, step up to a mirror, sucker. You’re a drug addict too and, like all drug addicts, you won’t face the obvious.     No, I’m not talking about drugs like caffeine or alcohol, I’m talking about eating cooked or processed food.     For some reason our schools (including medical schools) don’t mention the work of doctors Weston, Price, Pottenger, Comby, Bieler and Howell. I’ve written about all of them except Dr. Edward Howell. I even review their books in my Wisdom Guide.     Howell’s research showed that rats fed cooked and processed food lived about two years. Those eating raw food lived about three years. In people years that’s the difference between living 75 years and 112.     Rats fed only processed food got fatter and fatter, while their brain weight went down. D’uh?     Howell reported that before Eskimos were introduced to a cooked diet they mainly lived on raw whale and seal blubber and meat—with no heart disease, cancers, high blood pressure and so on. They lived long, healthy lives, even without fruit and vegetables.     A study done with hogs fed one group cooked and the other raw potatoes. Those eating the cooked potatoes gained weight rapidly. Those fed raw potatoes didn’t get fat. Howell states, “it is impossible to get people fat on raw foods…regardless of the calorie intake.”     Now, will that be a Big Mac, a Whopper, or another slice of pizza?     Oh, yes, I particularly want to thank the many readers who have written, thanking me for getting them to change their lifestyles to raw food and telling me of their resulting amazing weight losses and their feeling decades younger. 4/18/10 Quacks     The 60 Minutes show spent two thirds of the show exposing some quacks charging $150,000 or so for stem cell treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Lou Gherig's disease, telling their viewers that there are no cures for these diseases.     How frustrating for me to watch that baloney. Yes, they did well in exposing the crooks selling supposed stem cell cures and making a mint doing it. But to tell the public there is no cure for MS is criminal. And I have a personal interest in this because my dad's mother died of MS.     One cure is to stop drinking diet sodas. Aspartame is causing tens of thousands of MS, but the paralysis goes away when the people stop poisoning their bodies with the stuff.     The second MS cause is mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings. Read It's All In Your Head by Hal Huggins. While in Colorado Springs to give a talk on cold fusion at a scientific conference I attended a talk by Huggins in which he showed a film of a woman crippled up in a wheel chair. He then removed her amalgam fillings, which are half mercury, and showed her a few weeks later out playing tennis.     Dr. Comby, in his Maximize Immunity, says that by changing to a raw food diet and stopping poisons such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine, the immune system will cure any illness…and that includes MS and Lou Gherig's disease.     MS is also known as Rumsfeld's Disease. You can read about that in my 3/23/09 and 7/4/06 entries, and in my #38 booklet (two for $1). They should have skull and cross-bones stickers on diet soda bottles and cans. 4/17/10 No Oars     As a country, America is up that creek with the Congress you've been re-electing paddling in random directions. Never mind that socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried…starting here with our early settlers. People just won't work hard for the common good, only for their own benefit. And turning business decisions over to bureaucrats is a death wish for any industry.     So, here we are, one of the sickest, shortest-lived countries, with the least effective schools of the developed world. Both India and China are graduating about twenty times as many engineers from their colleges. We've exported most of our best industries to Asia. We have the largest military establishment in the world, and by far the biggest debt.     We're up to here in illegal aliens, with a half million or so more sneaking in every year. And, of course, there's talk in Congress of amnesty for them. We have the highest percentage of our population in prison of any country, with a high percentage of them illegal immigrants…at a cost to keep of about $30,000 each per year.     There are some practical solutions for all of our problems, but the bribery money that makes being a politician so great a career path is all on maintaining the status quo. Wars are hugely profitable. Sick people are enormously profitable. Lower-cost Asian products are wonderfully profitable, and who cares about the millions of unemployed Americans resulting? Our oil-nuclear-coal energy system generates trillions of dollars, so whatever we do, we must avoid developing cold fusion power sources. Or that super-efficient battery for our cars.     Getting people to stop poisoning themselves would destroy the $2.5 trillion pharmaceutical market, put hundreds of thousands of doctors out of business…plus a bunch of other businesses making the stuff we're happily slowly killing ourselves with.     We turned issuing our money over to the Federal Reserve, which has been happily devaluing it for the last 97 years. And I understand all that the gold which used to back our money has been looted from Fort Knox.     Our government, which has doubled in size in the last few years, shows no sign of slowed growth. It would be cheaper to keep people on unemployment checks.     Let's see. Social Security is bankrupt. Medicare is bankrupt. Medicaid is bankrupt. The post office is bankrupt. Our government-run school system is giving us the poorest educated kids in the developed world…at the highest cost. So Congress, which is responsible for the mess we're in, voted themselves another raise, plus they get their salary for life, even if they only serve one term. You know about all those earmarks, right?     So here we are, drifting along with no oars, with the potential of there being falls ahead in the form of a massive devaluation of the dollar. 4/16/10 The Sauce     In my 10/28/09 entry I gave the recipe for my magical coleslaw sauce, but I left out a small detail. You put a quart of organic plain yogurt into your blender. Make that made with raw milk, if you can find it. Add a cup of extra virgin olive oil, a cup or organic apple cider vinegar, a half cup of raw honey, a heaping teaspoon of sea salt, a heaping teaspoon of cracked pepper, and two heaping teaspoons of celery seeds. Blend. You now have a yummy sweet-sour-creamy sauce.     It's fabulous with any minced raw vegetables. I use it with cauliflower, carrots, yams, broccoli, both red and white cabbage (the red is sweetest), and turnip. With tomatoes, I mix it half tomatoes and half sauce in the blender. The dark green vegetables such as spinach, kale, and Swiss chard I blend with ripe bananas and pure water into smoothies.     It isn't until you've learned to thoroughly chew your food that you can realize the wonders of raw food flavors. Unless you concentrate on your chewing, the tendency is to go back to your old habit of chewing just enough to be able to swallow your food. So think about each bite and its taste. 4/15/10 Suckers     Make that prize suckers, today being income tax day.     Okay, not having learned any of our country's history in school, maybe you don't know about the long term mess President Woodrow Wilson made of our country. That's when he turned the issuing of our money over to the Federal Reserve Banks and instituted the income tax…which started out at about 2%, just levied on the rich. He also, as a bonus, got us into WWI, after promising not to.     Before that the government got all the money it needed to operate by taxing imported goods…duties. In a period of about a hundred years America went from being just a bunch of colonies to one of the richest countries. We manufactured and exported our products to the world. We were the land of opportunity.     Before The Fed we never had any inflation which, just in my lifetime, has grown over 25 times. My 1957 Porsche cost $3,300 brand new. My Tecraft float plane $1,600. My Chris-Craft Express Cruiser was $1,600.     Today there are three ways Congress could totally eliminate the income tax, thus almost doubling our paychecks. Gee, this might even make it so wives wouldn't have to work to make the family ends meet, instead staying home and bringing up their children.     (1) Go back to taxing imports. This would have the added benefit of encouraging more manufacturing in the US, thus eliminating our unemployment miseries. Plus save money now being spent on unemployment benefits, food stamps, and welfare.     (2) The Flat-Taxers make a lot of sense with their plan to institute a small sales tax on our purchases…thus eliminating the income tax.     (3) But my favorite is using the profits from some 80,000 government agency investment accounts rather than just rolling them over into more investments. Maybe you've read about the Consolidated Auditing Financial Reports (CAFRs) the agencies in each state report annually (see cafr1.com).     Once we've gotten rid of the income tax and the IRS, let's dump the Federal Reserve Bank system and let the US Treasury issue our money. No more theft of our savings by inflation. And then let's get busy downsizing the government.     Now it’s time to read my 11/16/06 entry on what happened in New Zealand when the socialist government was thrown out by the people. And then my 1/25/08 entry on how to get any government bureau to cut itself in half in three years, with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating. 4/14/10 Boy Scouts     Yep, me and my good friend Alfie were boy scouts, back when we were fourteen. In Brooklyn, Troop #34. We met monthly in the basement of the Dutch Reform Church on Avenue N and East 10th, where my grandmother, went to church.     I first knew Alfie (Alfred E. Lake, 1129 East 14th Street, Brooklyn) when we were four years old and I was living across the street from him in the apartment house on the corner of Avenue K and East 14th Street. We lost touch when my folks and I moved to Philadelphia for a couple of years, then to Pennsauken NJ for a couple more years, then to Washington DC for a couple more years…and back to Brooklyn when I was eleven, moving in with my mother's folks on Avenue N and East 15th Street, about three long blocks from Alfie's house.     Alfie had two older brothers, who were into Harley Davidson motorcycles.     It was when we were twelve and going to Sunday School at the Dutch Reform Church, which had moved from Avenue K to East 19th and Avenue M, that the angel, with a big box of radio parts, offered them to Alfie. He took one look and asked if I was interested. Changed my life. Totally.     The scout troop was divided into patrol groups. After my first patrol meeting I was fed up with that. It was spent with us going around at night peeking into the ground floor windows of apartment buildings. I was too young to know just what we were hoping to see.      What was fun was the weekend camping trips to Staten Island, complete with a tent. That's when I learned about snipe hunting. We'd take the Staten Island Ferry from Brooklyn, then a bus to a forested area, where we set up our tents and built our campfires.     While the other scouts were toasting hot dogs and marshmallows over their fires, chef Wayne made a pot of lamb stew. While it was cooling to mouth temperature they set up a snipe hunt. All I had to do was stand by a little trail with a bag while another scout would chase the snipe along the trail into my bag.     With no snipes appearing I finally got tired of waiting and went back to my tent and my stew…which had all been eaten.     4/13/10 Scouts II     It was on one of my scouting weekend camping trips with Alfie to Staten Island that a life-changing event happened.     It was a hot July Sunday afternoon, so several of the kids stripped down and went skinny-dipping in a pond near our camp site. Though the water was pretty cold, I hopped in for a swim. When I was coming back out of the water I saw several of the kids laughing and pointing at me. I asked Alfie what was going on. He said they were laughing at how small my penis was.     I'd never paid any attention to other kids penises in locker rooms, so this came as a surprise. As a young kid I'd stood there on the curb with other kids, seeing who could pee the furthest out into the street. I'd never thought about penis size one way or the other.     But, from then on I hid myself in locker rooms and avoided public showering. And for sure no more skinny dipping.     Later in life I remembered my dad, when he'd call one of his old army buddies on the phone, would announce himself as, "Your short-peckered friend." As a two to five or six year old, I had no idea what a pecker was, so I didn't think anything about it. Thanks, Dad, for short changing me.     Actually, this perceived short-coming gave me the best sex of my life. I'll tell you about that some time.     Back in those days high schoolers weren't yet into sex. It was before the pill, and girls were "saving themselves for marriage." When I was a freshman in college I paid to have my high school girl friend, Martha Jane Wicht, come up to Troy from Brooklyn for the prom. After the prom, in her hotel room, I tried to get her to have sex, but she was saving herself.     Being in what then was a boy's college, I didn't have much opportunity to date. Then came the war and that kept me busy for four years, so my first sexual experience wasn't until I was 24, just out of the Navy and on my way back to college. It was most memorable. Jeeze, and kids of 14 and 15 are having sex these days. Sigh. How things have changed! 4/12/10 The First Time     My grandmother, Netta, had asthma, so my grandfather, Tully, took her and my mother, Cleo, to a summer resort in Vermont for the hay fever season in 1919. That was a two-day drive from their home in Brooklyn in those days, and when I was young. The first day got us as far as Northampton (MA) and a stay at the Hotel Northampton, with dinner in Wiggin’s Tavern.     In Vermont, my mother got to be good friends with a young girl named Osa, who soon after that married Martin Johnson, the explorer, and the two of them were off to Africa, where they turned out a number of popular movies. I still run across Osa in crossword puzzles.     The next summer they went to Bethlehem (NH), which is high up on the side of Mt. Agassiz, and a popular Jewish hay fever resort. They stayed at the Valley View Inn, run by Johnny McCauley, who was also the cook. They liked Bethlehem so much Tully got Johnny to look for a place in the area he could buy.     So, in the summer of 1921 Tully, Netta and Cleo spent their summer vacation on an old hundred-acre farm on Cherry Valley Road, about three miles from town. Their home, Cherry Valley Cottage, was on a triangle of roads, with the Midacre Farm on one side of the triangle and the Longley house on the third side. Longley had a chain of restaurants in Connecticut and a daughter Ruth, my mother’s age (20).     Word didn’t take long to reach Littleton, five miles away, about the two pretty young girls. So my dad and Herb Pearce were soon dating them. Herb went with Ruth and dad with what was to be my mother. By August both couples were off to the county seat, Woodsville, to get married. They eloped. The following September, the day after mother reached her 22nd birthday, I was born. And a few days later Helen Pearce was born.     Okay, cut to 1946. After four years of fighting WWII in the Navy I was mustered out and scheduled to go back to college in the fall, courtesy of the government. Why not spend the summer at the farm?     Well, one drawback was the lack of electricity. No power. So I called Johnny McCauley and asked if I could set up my ham radio in the shed in back of the hotel where his pastry cook, Mamie Stevenson’s son, Harry Stevenson W1CUN, used to have his. Sure, no problem. So I loaded my car with ham gear and was on my way. I put up some long wire antennas and was in ham heaven talking with guys all around the world. Wow, what fun!     One evening after dinner with Netta, as I was driving along Route 302 to the Valley View, a girl was thumbing her way, so naturally I stopped to pick her up. And, wonder of wonders, she was heading to the Valley View to visit a friend.     I told her about my ham station out in back of the hotel and invited her to come and see it. And she did. She worked at the Maplewood Hotel, about a mile east of Bethlehem. Lynn Brown. Gorgeous. I suggested we go for a drive down through Littleton and out to Patridge Lake and back. At the lake we stopped to enjoy its beauty and the next thing I knew we were kissing. I mean really kissing. So we got out of the car and lay down on the grass beside the lake and my first time at sex was about to happen. Our clothes came off and we embraced, but no matter how I fumbled, I couldn’t find my target. What a predicament! She was willing and I didn’t know what to do! What an embarrassment!     So we got dressed and I drove her back to the Maplewood. Well, that was surely the end of that romance. Sigh.     But, the next day she phoned and apologized for having “been on the rag” and plugged up with a tampon. But all the activity had stopped her period, so let’s go out again. Hey, let’s!     The next night, again on the bank of Patridge Lake, I had no problem finding the target and we were in business. Not having a condom and not wanting to get her pregnant, it was gummy tummy time.     There was a summer cottage nearby that was closed for the season, so we moved our sexual activities to the couch on the porch, with a skinny-dip in the lake afterward from the dock.     But it was September by now and I had to be off to college in Troy (NY) and Lynn back to her apartment in Manchester for the winter. With Netta back in Brooklyn, on weekends I drove over from Troy, picked up Lynn and we drove to the farm, where we spent several weekends enjoying sex. Hey, what’s more fun? Particularly on a bearskin rug in front of the roaring fire in the fireplace.     As college got more demanding, our weekends finally ended.     One coincidence was that Lynn's apartment was in the same building that my dad's mother lived in during the ten years or so she was in bed with multiple sclerosis, with a full time care giver. That was back in the 1920s and early 30s. 4/11/10 Lydia     Communications on the amateur two-meter VHF band are line-of-sight, so for more range it’s off to the top of mountains or tall buildings. One afternoon, back in 1947, I was having fun talking with amateurs out to about fifty miles while parked on top of a Troy (NY) hill.     I was surprised when a car drove up and a teenager came over. He was interested in getting his ham license and had heard me operating, so his mother drove him up to say hello. He was Judson Snyder, 16, and his mother was Lydia. His father, Paul, had a print shop in downtown Troy.     They invited me over for dinner and to see Judson’s ham gear. They lived in Brunswick, a small community a few miles from Troy. Then more dinner invitations. We got to be good friends, with me visiting two or three times a week. And Judson loved my ham shack in the basement of the fraternity house.     One weekend, when I was going to drive down to Brooklyn to see my folks, Lydia asked if she and Judson could come along so they could visit her sister, who lived in Manhattan. Heck yes!     When I told my mother about them coming down with me she insisted they stay for dinner before going to stay with her sister.     After dinner, as usual, we all sat down at the dining room table to play a game. Dad helped out by mixing a couple Manhattans for us. Just after the second Manhattan Lydia and I were in the kitchen for something while Judson, my mother and dad were in the dining room playing the games. Suddenly I grabbed Lydia and kissed her. Well, she was a gorgeous long-haired blond. The best part…she kissed back, complete with her tongue. Wow! Up until this time my only sexual experience had been with Lynn, who lived in Manchester (NH). I’d met her in Bethlehem the previous September (1946).     The next day, Saturday, Lydia and Judson came over on the subway and we three went to Coney Island, just five more subway stops away, to have some fun. And we sure did have fun with the dodgem cars and hot dogs. But the most fun was the Tunnel of Love, where Judson sat in the car ahead of us, with Lydia and I, kissing away, on the car behind him in the dark.     I let Judson drive my car back to Troy Sunday night, with Lydia and I kissing in the back seat. Judson never caught on.     A couple days later, I stopped to see Lydia in the afternoon after school, while Judson was still in school and Paul was downtown in his print shop. We kissed a while and then I brought up the subject of our having sex. Lydia was surprised. She’d been brought up with sex having never been mentioned, so she didn’t realize that I knew about it. Her initiation was her wedding night, when it came as a huge surprise to her. She didn’t like it because it hurt a lot, but since I wanted to, she agreed.     It turned out that the main reason she and Paul weren’t getting along was that he was hung like a horse and each sex session was a painful experience, so he had to spend most of his time in the bathroom masturbating. My equipment turned out to be an exact fit and she just couldn’t get enough. We spent afternoons by a nearby pond, having sex and swimming nude. We really enjoyed screwing while in the water, with me standing on the bottom and pulling her onto me as she floated.     She got Paul to invite me to move in with them, setting up a bed in Judson’s room. In the morning, after Paul and Judson drove off to school and work, we’d have sex. Then, when I’d come back from school for lunch I’d shout out, “EF or FF?” Her consistent answer was, “Let’s eat later.” Then sometimes one more after my school and before Paul and Judson got back. And the nice part was that with me there, Lydia, Judson and Paul all got along fine together for a change.     One weekend Lydia and I drove to my folk’s summer cottage in Bethlehem (NH). We had sex fifteen times over the weekend. Yes, I counted. And no, Paul never caught on. Nor did Judson.     When I finished school the next summer I got a job as the chief engineer and announcer at WEEB in Southern Pines, NC. Well, it wasn’t long before Lydia drove down to visit her other sister in Florida. Only she didn’t make it any further than Southern Pines, where we moved into a motel for a few weeks. Then, her sister called, it seems her father-in-law had died and she had to go back to Troy for the funeral.     Not long after that I left that job, where I’d had to work 80 hours a week for 50¢ an hour, to work as an engineer at WPIX-TV in New York. Lydia drove down several times for weekends in a hotel with me, but the romance was beginning to fade. Too much distance and too few times together. And then I left my job as chief cameraman at WPIX for one as a producer-director with KBTV in Dallas. And that was it. I never saw her again and we didn’t keep in touch.     Lydia had a spare time job with the Daniel Starch organization, interviewing homeowners about their newspaper reading, so she had a good deal of freedom. She’d go through the previous day’s paper and ask the people if they’d read this column, that ad, and so on, reporting on what the people had either just seen or read.     It was a fabulous affair for both of us. 4/10/10 Bioterror     A few years ago I was about the only one writing about the bioterrorism threat. Then it was the cover story of Newsweek and Time, and feature articles in Fortune, etc. The 911 attack finally woke the media into its usual pack action. But, how about you, are you awake yet?     Yes, the government has been asleep on this too—despite a 1993 federal study reporting that 250 pounds of aerosolized anthrax sprayed over D.C. could kill up to three million people. The fact is that America is almost totally ill-prepared to deal with such an assault.     Bush’s appointment of Tom Ridge as the antiterror czar, but then not giving him control over the counterterrorism budgets, gave him little real power. With dozens of federal bureaucracies, all fighting for more money, and doing their best not to communicate with other agencies, it’s the usual D.C. mess. We have the State Department, Defense Department, Customs, FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, CDC, NIH, FEMA, FDA and on through the alphabet, all protecting their turf.     I hope you took time to watch the PBS series on the drug war. It demonstrated the incredibly stupid way Congress went about dealing with the drug problem and the mess it’s made—plus hundreds of billions of our tax money that’s been totally wasted—not to mention thousands of lives.     Alas, I suspect this is a blueprint for the war on terrorism.     To start at the beginning—anthrax seems like one of an enemy’s most likely weapons. It’s easy to make and freeze-dry into a powder. It’s easy to disburse. By mail—pouff, you’re infected, from crop planes, a hot air balloon, a drone aircraft, spray cans, the Empire State Building observation deck, and so on. Well, what about getting vaccinated against anthrax? Sure, once the company (Acambis) that’s supposed to be making it gets the bugs out of their system. Once they’re able to safely make the vaccine the first few million doses will go to the military and then government employees.     Oh yes, there’s one more complication. The immunization requires six doses of vaccine given over 18 months, followed by yearly boosters. There’s no word yet on the “acceptable losses” due to adverse reactions to the vaccine. We do know that many Gulf War veterans who got anthrax vaccinations had hellacious long term reactions to it. This does not inspire confidence in the whole immunization process. You’ll have even less if you read Walene James’ (see page 7 of my Wisdom Guide), or Harris Coulter’s Immunization, The Reality Behind the MythVaccination - Social Violence and Criminality - The Medical Assault on the American Brain.     Now, the gritty nitty—here’s what you can—no, make that must—do.     Since telephones are usually the first service to fail in emergencies, and since our government has not established any national emergency communications alternative, it’s going to be radio amateurs who will, as in all past serious emergencies, provide it. •If you don’t have a ham license, for heaven’s sake get one—just memorize a few Q&As. •Get a handy-talkie and get trained on emergency procedures over a local repeater. •Join the local radio club and help them set up a van which will be able to permit all of the mobile radio services intercommunicate. Like fire, police, doctors, hospitals, ambulances, sheriffs, the military, CB, CAP, FBI, Secret Service, and so on. •Urge every inactive licensed ham in your area to get on the stick. •Keep a couple gallons of silver colloid on hand, plus the ability to make a whole lot more. This is one of the most powerful antibiotics there is and it costs pennies to make. The anthrax death rate is around 90% for those without antibiotics, and within three days after the first symptoms of a fever and a cough appear.     The best protection against any pathogen is a powerful immune system. For that you need my Secret Guide to Health. 4/9/10 Your Imagination     My Secret Guide to Wealth urges the readers to figure some field that sounds like a lot of fun and look for a job with a small company in that field, and then learn everything possible. But I’m getting letters from whiners saying they don’t know what they’re interested in. Good grief!     All you have to do is open your eyes and look around! There are endless opportunities for new businesses. For instance, if you’ve been reading my stuff you know that there is a growing need for day care centers as women are forced by today’s prices to keep on working instead of staying at home, caring for their babies. Well, one thing you should know by now is that few, if any, of the day care centers are very good. Okay, put on your entrepreneurial hat (even if it doesn’t fit yet) and start visiting as many day care centers as you can. Maybe pretend you have a toddler. You can even volunteer to come in and help in your spare time so you can learn more about how they handle the children.     That was step two. Step one is to read every magazine article and book you can find in the library about day care. It won’t take very long before you know more about the subject than 90% of the centers. And then you’ll learn more and soon know more than 99% of the centers.     About this time you can start consulting for day care centers. That’ll be the time to get a used Macintosh) and start publishing a day care center newsletter and website which explain what you’ve learned. You’ll be able to evaluate new products they might want to know about. You’ll be able to cross-pollinate good ideas from one center to another.     Okay, that was just one idea. The day care center of the future will be able to provide every baby with the materials it needs at the right time in its development—and all babies develop on different schedules. You might be able to help get foreign language people in the area to teach babies five or ten different languages at the time their brains are ideally suited for this learning.     A friend of mine came by one day with a fabulous New York cheesecake she’d made. This is almost a lost art, so I suggested she make more and take them around to restaurant managers in the area and build customers. She could do a great business selling the cheesecakes to restaurants for $20, made fresh. They get $5 a slice, at eight to the cake, so they clear $20 on the deal. And the customers will quickly become addicted, helping bring them back.     As I say, there are opportunities at every turn if you can keep your imagination alive. 4/8/10 Movies     Being thrifty, I go to the matinee performances at the cineplexes. Well, it's about a hour aqnd a half drive, but that’s the penalty of living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. With most of the movies not worth the trip, much less the thirteen bucks entry fee (for two seniors), I don’t go very often. But when Sherry and I do go, the theater seldom has more than a half dozen in the audience. Sometimes we’re the only ones there!     Lordy, when I was a kid the nearest theater was just a few blocks away. It had two features and six acts of live vaudeville between the movies. I’m talking Pennsauken, New Jersey, not a city.     Later, when we moved to Brooklyn in 1933, I used to go to the movies on Saturday afternoon. For ten cents they had two main features, a full length western, two serials, six cartoons, the news, and they had drawings for prizes. I, who hated baseball, won a catcher’s mitt. The nearest theater was down at the corner, with six theaters within easy walking distance.     The evening movies were 25¢. The theaters ran two main features, a cartoon, a newsreel, and the performances were continuous. The idea of a starting time for a movie wasn’t even considered. We just went in and watched.     Unlike today’s cineplexes, our theaters were huge, with a thousand or so seats, and they were usually packed every night, including the balcony. Often I’d have to stand at the back of the theater, watching for someone to get up and leave before I could get a seat. Then there was the race to get to it first. That was before popcorn and drinks had been invented. However, they did have a candy counter and Hollowy’s Milk Duds (now Hershey’s).     During my high school days I often took the subway to Coney Island, where I’d get a plate of fried scallops, lots of tartar sauce, and a plastic fork at Nathan’s Famous, across the street from the theater. Nathan’s was famous for their hot dogs, though at that time the Coney Island stand was all they had. Now I see Nathan’s on Broadway and even at airports. Why are their hot dogs outstanding? The secret ingredient is nutmeg. Don’t tell anyone. The stand was started by Nathan Handwerker in the 1920s and it’s still going strong.     Coney Island was a fairly high class amusement area until the 1939 World’s Fair. The Fair drew away people with money, so Coney Island had to lower its prices to attract poorer people, and it never recovered. The quality amusements gradually were driven out of business, leaving the area more like a cheap carnival, with a large black and hispanic clientele. And it’s filthy today.     TV sure has changed the movie business. I remember in 1948, when I bought an 8” RCA 630-TS black and white TV for $350. That's about $7,000 in today's dollarettes. My mother thought it was a terrible waste of money—no one would bother watching it. It didn’t take long before my dad was watching every western, wrestling, and so on. Soon my mother and dad were glued to the TV every night. I wasn’t there at night because I was the chief cameraman at WPIX channel 11. From there I graduated to being a producer-director in Dallas and then Cleveland, where I directed their network news program for all of Ohio. It was at about that time that I figured out that working for others wasn’t the key to getting anywhere and started manufacturing a loud speaker enclosure for hi-fi nuts.     You’re probably old enough so the old movie theaters, with SRO, isn’t news—but maybe, if you take your grandchildren in your lap and read this to ’em, the way my grandfather used to read to me, they’ll enjoy this ancient history visit. 4/7/10 How We’re Doing     Not well, that’s how.     I was just looking at the results of international tests of our eighth graders. In math our kids came in last in comparison with the kids in 13 developed countries. Our kids scored 500. The kids in Singapore scored 643, the Koreans 607, and the Japanese 605. In science the Singapore kids again were number one with 607. Korean kids were 565, and Japanese 571. Our American kids were 534.     Well, our teacher’s unions tell us, all we have to do is spend more money. Sure. The per student expenditure for secondary schools is an average of $10,000. Korea left us in the dust education wise for $2,170 per student.     The teacher’s unions also keep saying that we need smaller classes (and thus more teachers). Our secondary schools have 16 students per teacher. Korea has 24 students per teacher. Our primary schools have 17 students per teacher vs. 31 for Korea.     Maybe we should send someone to Korea to find out how they’re able to run circles around us with schools that cost one third of ours to run.     We don’t have to do that. There are several books I’ve reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom, which tell about American schools which are graduating outstanding kids at a fraction of our public school costs. But as long as you keep reelecting your crook to Congress, the NEA’s millions of dollars in reelection campaign donations are going to cost you and your children billions and put American businesses at a competitive disadvantage with other countries. 4/6/10 Do Gooders     The campaign rhetoric over abortion and right to life is a triumph of emotion over reason. Phooey. Yes, I know, you are passionately in favor of the right to life. Or abortion rights. Well, shame on both your houses. First, this is a religious matter that our beloved courts have managed to get embroiled in. It’s a case where one set of true-believers wants to force another set to do as they believe, just because their belief is right.     We see examples of people killing to force their beliefs on others all around the world. Indeed, some right-to-lifers are willing to kill people to enforce their belief.     My question to the right-to-lifers is: where were you when nearly a million people were slaughtered in Burundi not long ago? And what are your beliefs about the slaughter in Rwanda and Darfur? And about a dozen other African countries. Don’t look away from me.     Either life is valuable or it isn’t. Your silence over the deaths in Kosovo, Chechnia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma, East Timor, and so on is deafening. I want to see some shred of evidence that you actually do care about life.     Americans twiddled their thumbs, eating popcorn and watching ball games while Stalin killed tens of millions of his people. Ditto Mao. Ditto Amin, and so on.     Oh yes, you were smiling while the Iranians and Iraqis were at war, killing off a generation of their kids. Well, those kids aren’t nearly as important as the teenage mother abortion of an American illegitimate black crack-crippled for life baby, right? 4/5/10 Reform?     McCain made a lot of fuss over campaign finance reform. That’s a crock of campaign rhetoric.     Firstly, if money didn’t buy measurable, reliable results, big businesses and big unions wouldn’t be spending tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to bribe Congress. Yes, of course they’re bribes. And if the bribes weren’t working, the money would quickly dry up and the thousands of lobbyists would be seeking other, possibly more honest, work.     Congressmen have to spend hundreds of thousands to millions to get elected and re-elected, so they have to accept the bribes, or they’ll be forced to go back to their law firms.     Why do election campaigns cost millions? Because money buys votes. Like any war, the more arms your opponent has, the more you need to keep from being wiped out. So if your opponent for office buys newspaper, radio and TV ads, you damned well better do it too, or you’re a dead duck on election night.     All politicians understand this situation. But they also know that the public is upset when they learn that millions are being spent to be elected, so they cater to this emotion, knowing that there isn’t a chance in hell of any real change being made in the system.     It gets worse. Republicans have a serious cross to bear, one which forces them to shake the money trees much harder than the Democrats. In the last election 89% of the media voted Democratic. In practical terms this means that most reporters are going to be slanting their stories toward liberal candidates. There isn’t even a remotely even playing field for the Republicans. And that goes for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV.     One possible solution to this, if there were to be any interest in easing the problem, would be for Congress to pass a law which made it illegal for them to discuss on the floor or vote on any legislation where they might have a conflict of interest. Yes, I know, there’s no way Congress is going to do anything which might slow down the cash flow, so that’s just an empty proposal.     Unless…     Unless state legislatures passed state laws to that effect which would impact their Congressmen. And this is one reason why I’ve been asking the people who have read my three Secret Guides and benefited from them health and wealth-wise to consider running for their state legislatures. With this leverage they could effect Congressional finance reform, plus get busy cutting school costs, while enormously improving the educational product, and ditto health care.     Any presidential candidate who talks about campaign finance reform is blowing smoke, and he knows it. They’re lying because they know this is a hot button with the voters. Ditto any Senator or House member on the campaign trail. 4/4/10 60 Minutes     Easter Sunday, with me out there for an hour in my shorts and no shirt, getting as much vitamin D as I could, checking the fields for any wildflowers. So far, just the hundreds of periwinkles on our south lawn, plus the first daffodil, now in bloom, a couple weeks earlier than usual.     The 60 Minutes show started out with a complaint about the patenting of genes making cancer tests very expensive. The whole mindset of the report was the total ignoring of how to avoid cancer with diet, and how easy any cancer is to cure with a change of diet. Their approach was with women having their ovaries and breasts removed to avoid cancer. Ugh! Any ideas on how to get through to the show's producers?     The second segment was on AIDS in Uganda. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted helping the Ugandan people get pills to treat their AIDS. Apparently no one involved has bothered to do any homework on this. I've published the circuit for building a blood purifier unit, using $19 in parts. In clinical tests, just running it an hour a day, this totally cures AIDS in a few days.     And Dr. Comby has had no problem curing AIDS patients with a raw food diet. So we have two very low cost ways to eradicate AIDS. But, of course, this could cost the drug companies millions in lost revenues, and money trumps lives every time.     See if you can get through to the 60 Minutes producers and wise them up. 4/3/10 Serendipity II     Just in case I even remotely considered it as a coincidence, as I reported in my 3/12/10 entry, today, as I was driving to Peterborough to get my weekly raw milk supply, I was, as usual, listening to my iPod with it on random shuffle. Just north of town, out of the over 1,500 selections to choose, it played Gottschalk's Tarantella, one of my super-favorites.     Here I was, on the same stretch of road where I first heard this piece, many years ago…and where my iPod selected it three weeks ago.     Now check back on my 4/5/07 Serendipity entry, where composers Von Weber and Delius got together to influence my iPod to play their music when I wished for it. Is it the power of consciousness or did Gottschalk in some way help?     Also check my 12/32/07, 4/3/08, and 6/17/08 entries on the subject. We have so much to learn about the mind, consciousness, and time.  4/1/10 A Mess     Under the management of the Congress you have been re-electing, and then re-electing over and over, our country is in one hell of a mess. We were once the best educated and most prosperous country in the world. Now look at us! What does it take to get your attention?     We need a whole new Congress, hopefully with as few career politicians and ex-lawyers as possible. And we need to then keep on their ass to make the needed changes to restore our country as a world leader.     No, I'm not going to make a list of our miseries and my proposals for solving them. They're scattered through my blogs. But, with rumors that Obama and some Congressional leaders are preparing an amnesty for our twenty to thirty million illegal immigrants, plus the 500,000 to 700,000 more arriving every year, the election this November will, from what I see, be a make or break deal for our country.     We don't need to further depress wages, further crowd the poverty parts of our cities, make English less and less used, further fill our prisons, and spend further billions on anchor-baby families, schools and medical expenses for illegal aliens. And spend $35 million a year on food stamps for them.     We have been catching 130,000 Other-Than-Mexicans every year that sneak in, and no one knows how many we don't catch. Those we catch, we turn loose, so they're still here somewhere. Oh, and many of ’em are Muslims.     It's Congress that's let our borders be wide open. Meanwhile we have 572,000 troops in some 700 bases in 120 countries on our payroll…doing what, other than costing us a few hundred billion dollars?     By the way, we don't really have room for more people. We're out of new land for farming. Our cities are jam-packed. Our suburbs are crowding out farmland. Our water supply for all this is inadequate. And we already have to import food to have enough to eat. The blueberries I had for breakfast came from Chile. 3/27/10 Babies     There's a huge opportunity for someone to start building a chain of day care centers that actually take advantage of the enormous capacity for a baby's brain growth during the first four years. Instead of the current system of baby farming, placating ’em with TV.     Researchers compared babies under two years old who were exposed to Baby Wordsworth DVDs with those not exposed, and found they learned fewer words than the control group.     It's worse. When TV is substituted for a parent's personal care, children, right on up through teenagers, are less bonded to the parents. It may be like the imprinting phenomena we see in baby animals and birds. Indeed, researchers are recommending that parents keep a TV out of their children's rooms. And, with computers and teens, the estrangement from the parents is even worse.     Kids who spend their time doing homework and reading were found to be much more attached to their parents.     Babies, given the opportunity, can learn to read by the time they are two, and by three able to speak several languages with no accent, and think in each of them. Indeed, we're just learning how amazing the learning capacity of the baby brain is. And conversely, that lacking the stimulation for brain growth during these critical years, lowers IQ permanently. 3/26/10 Executive Orders     These Presidential Orders have the force of law, so watch out!     Anyway, I've started a rumor that Obama might issue an Executive Order that will establish serious fines for any family with children between the ages of five and fifteen who have not arranged for their children to have experienced a hot air balloon flight by the end of this year.     By an odd coincidence, there will be a balloon festival in Hillsborough NH in early July, so there's still time for you to get in under the wire on this. You can get more details on the festival in my 7/13/08 entry. 3/25/10 Entrepreneurship     Since I see the formation of thousands of new small businesses as the best solution to our country's growing unemployment misery, it's important for these new businesses to be successful. And for that, the people starting them need to know a lot of things that few colleges are teaching. I said few. Fortunately, a growing number of schools are offering entrepreneurial courses…many via the web. The March issue of Fortune listed a few of them, but a web search should turn up anything you need to know.     What's important for the budding entrepreneur to know? Check the list in my 2/14/10 entry. 3/24/10 Dr. Rowen     In his March Second Opinion newsletter he had a paragraph that is a must for repeating.     "The absolute failing of the American disease maintenance paradigm is its failure to treat the cause of disease. In so many cases, pain and other symptoms are your friend. It is the canary warning you of something toxic in the coal mine, so to speak. Smother the canary (with pain-killing drugs) and there's nothing to direct attention to the real problem."     Since the cause of all disease is the failure of our built-in super-protective immune system, which we overwhelm with a steady barrage of poisons, a huge, very profitable, industry has grown to take advantage of this golden opportunity. Leaders in the resulting sickness industry are the drug companies, medicine (drug) dispensers (MDs), and hospitals.     Enjoy that Big Mac, super-size fries and a shake, so you can help our 788,948 doctors enjoy drug company paid excursions to the Bahamas, Caribbean islands and Hawaii. And keep our undertakers busy. Or stop poisoning yourself with cooked food, cafeine, nicotine, alcohol, mercury, etc. Your choice. 3/23/10 Sleep     I've got going to sleep down to where it takes me maybe a minute to be sound asleep when I lie down. Even for an afternoon nap. It's easy.     First, you want your room to be as totally dark as you can make it. Second, no radio or TV to keep your brain busy so it can't sort out your memories for you while you sleep. I find an air filter blower that generates enough noise to keep sounds from the hall outside my bedroom door, or a distant telephone ringing, from waking me, does the job.     I've always been most comfortable going to sleep lying on my left side, with a pillow between my legs, and in a fetal position. It's easy to make going to sleep a habit by deciding on a comfortable position and then always using that. Pretty soon the habit is ingrained and nodding off is easy.     There's one more block that'll keep you awake. Thinking. Like going over things you are planning to do. With a little practice you can learn to stop thinking. When I think of nothing I'm off to the Land of Nod in seconds.     That's the conscious mind that's asleep. Your subconscious is busy providing dreams, and sorting out memories to save. It also keeps track of time. When I ask it to wake me in an hour it usually does it right to the minute.     With my bedroom across the hall from my office, whenever I feel tired, I take a nap. 3/22/10 Cold Fusion     Yes, it's real, it's non-polluting, and has been proven. But it would put the oil, coal, natural gas, propane, butane, solar, wind, nuclear, wave, and geothermal energy industries out of business, so it's been stymied…so far.     I have a little $2 pamphlet (#20) that explains in simple language how and why cold fusion works. But I was going to put the explanation in a blog for you…and then I happened to read through the entries in my "Letters to Mensa," and there it was, already done for you.     A while back the Mensa Bulletin asked for article submissions, so I wrote a few and sent them in. I never heard back, and none were ever used. Too controversial, I guess.     Mensa has been an enormous disappointment for me. When I founded it back in 1960, I envisioned high IQ teams offering their brain power to help businesses and government solve their problems. It didn't happen, except once with my New Hampshire Mensa group, when I was the Local Secretary for New Hampshire and organized it. Instead, Mensa turned into a party organization.     If we'd used brains instead of guns and Agent Orange in Viet Nam we could have won that one easily. I much prefer outsmarting the enemy to outfighting them (see 3/6/10). It costs less in dollars and troop losses. The same with the wars in Iraq an Afghanistan. If we'd use our brains we could end the fighting in a few days. Well, I've gone into detail on that in my 9/25/08, 11/3/09, and 3/6/10 entries. Three times is enough.     Just imagine how the world could be with energy available at a hundredth the cost of oil! No more gas stations or oil tankers. No more middle east problems. 3/21/10 Ritalin     I just read through the eight-page article on Ritalin in Time, and you know, there was not one hint that any doctor or parent has ever given any consideration as to what is causing ADHD…Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder…in kids. Just what to prescribe to deal with the symptoms, namely Ritalin.     Now  researchers have discovered that giving kids Ritalin stunts their growth. Permanently. Well, they can measure the growth loss, but how can they measure the probable accompanying brain loss? I'll be surprised if Ritalin isn't dumbing down the kids taking it. For life.     Well, that has the advantage of making them into less trouble-makers. And we do have a major need for supermarket cart retrievers from their parking lots. And baggers for the check-out counters. Oh, and voters who can be counted on to re-elect incumbents. And be sure to get their vaccinations for each new potential pandemic, like the recent bird and swine flues.     Being a contrarian, I say, hey, this ADHD plague is fairly new. We didn't have it when I was a youngster. Gee, could it be that kids are eating differently today? Is it the kids eating Sugar-Frosted Os and pop-tarts for breakfast instead of oatmeal with cream and soft-boiled eggs? Or, better yet, berries, bananas and raw milk, like I eat?     But then, doctors aren't taught anything about what causes medical problems, only what to do to stop the symptoms. Nor are they taught about the importance of diet for health. Makes sense, for if they did know about that and explained it to their patients, they'd go out of business. People who eat what their bodies are designed to use for nutrition, get enough sleep and exercise, don't get sick.     Medical doctors (MDs) deal with medicines…hence the name. They used to be called medicine doctors. Little has changed but the name.     For some reason my mother, over eighty years ago, knew enough to feed me well. I never had any cold cereal for breakfast until I went away to choir camp for a month. And that was my introduction to white bread and jam, too. 3/20/10 Cooking     Since cooking makes almost 90% of the nutrients in food unavailable, destroys the enzymes, vitamins, phytonutrients, and most of the protein, it is digested with difficulty. Further, cooking seals off the minerals we normally could get from the food and deteriorates the mucus membranes of the mouth and stomach, What a waste to spend extra for organic food and then destroy most of its value through cooking.     Dr. Ann Wigmore, in Be Your On Doctor, explained how cancer cells, taken from a human body, thrived on cooked food, but couldn't survive when the food was raw.     So we Americans happily go along, gorging daily on cooked food and, despite the most expensive so-called health care industry in the world, we're one of the sickest people of the developed countries. And shortest-lived.     Maybe you've read that people who eat well-done meat have a 60% higher chance of getting pancreatic cancer than those eating their meat rare. Back when I didn't know any better than to eat cooked meat I always asked for my steaks to be very, very rare. And I just barely singed my hamburgers when I cooked them. 3/19/10 How About Drugs     Other than a few hundred or so New Hampshire residents growing marijuana, I’m not aware of a significant drug problem in New Hampshire. Yes, now and then there’s a drug bust, so we’re not by any means immune. But I don’t see TV news reports of crack houses in Nashua.     My approach to solving America’s drug problem is an anathema to many people. I favor legalizing drugs…sort of. I’m not talking about encouraging the cigarette companies to sell pot over the counter in our supermarkets. I may be naive, but I’m not stupid.     We know one thing for sure by now: There’s no way to keep drugs from being smuggled into the country. We’ve tried everything except shooting down incoming drug planes. It is going to keep coming in and it’s going to come in whatever quantities can be sold here. Why? Simple…because it’s so incredibly profitable. You can’t stop capitalism, not even with the military.     The sooner we recognize that interdiction hasn't worked, and isn’t going to work, and start considering alternatives, the sooner we’ll be able to stem the drug traffic and cut down on our huge and growing prison population.     Suppose we were to not just flat out legalize drugs, but were to kind of partially legalize them? What I have in mind is having all drugs available, sold inexpensively through state-run drug stores. Heck, why not use our present state-run liquor stores?     The state would buy the drugs from authorized American suppliers, thus helping put a few foreign countries out of the business. They’d be sold through our state stores at a profit, but at a price which would eliminate the huge drug profits now being realized.     Part of the profits would be used to cut other state expenses. Part would be put into a continuing advertising and promotional campaign aimed at educating kids to not be stupid and get hooked on drugs. One more thing: I would prohibit any and all advertising for these drugs.     Even worse, if I had my way, I’d put all alcoholic beverages, including beer, into the state stores and stop their sale via convenience stores, groceries, supermarkets, and so on. That might help stop the beer cans on my farm road. It might even help make it a little more difficult for our teenagers to kill each other and us by driving drunk.     There’s more. I’d move all tobacco products to these stores, too. And, like drugs and alcohol, I’d make their advertising in New Hampshire illegal. Yes, that would raise hell with the Marlboro magazine ads. Tough. And what about beer ads on TV? Fine, but not on N.H. TV stations.     Not even wine ads? Nope.     What are we going to do, stop magazines with illegal ads from being sold on New Hampshire newsstands? Why not? All it would take is a fine of a dollar for each displayed magazine that has tobacco or alcohol ads in it, and our newsstands would be wiped clean of that garbage. If a couple more states followed suit, the magazines would be forced to turn to other revenue sources and our kids wouldn’t be under constant ad pressures to drink and smoke. Our kids might even buy the idea that these aren’t exactly smart things to do.     How did I get to this kind of Calvinistic frame of mind? Being almost 90, I’ve watched most of my friends who smoked die long and painful deaths. I watched my father suffer through years of emphysema, having to have an oxygen bottle with him everywhere he went. I’ve heard months of screams of pain as neighbors slowly died of lung cancer.     Drinking? Mostly I’d like to stop drunken driving. I don’t mind if people are dumb enough to think it’s smart to get drunk. Getting drunk was part of going ashore with my shipmates when I was in the navy. If we sell all alcoholic beverages through our state-operated drug stores, it’ll be more difficult for teens to get beer. And stopping advertising will eventually make it less attractive for kids to drink.     The revenues from alcohol and tobacco products—sin taxes—could go a long way toward reducing our state tax burden.     If my ideas are too revolutionary for you, how about some of yours? Most of you are business people and used to thinking in positive terms, so I expect that instead of telling me all the reasons why my ideas won’t work, you’ll come up with some better ones.     Equating smoking, alcohol and drugs with stupidity should help dissuade teens from getting involved with these poisons…and could help reduce drunk driving accidents. So let's get busy putting the drug cartels out of business in America. 3/18/10 Energy     The April U.S. News (it's gone monthly instead of weekly) cover had "The Future of Energy" in huge letters. And most of the 72-page issue had to do with energy and keeping the world green.     It covered oil, coal, nuclear, solar, wind, waves, and so on. And much to my total unsurprise, not a hint of cold fusion. That's how deep that technology has gotten buried.     What a bunch of hack writers, and, even worse, a hack editor. Phooey! And with ten pages of drug ads out of thirty, if I can put the drug industry out of business, they won't be able to even print a monthly edition.     Big oil has been able to bury cold fusion, but not deep enough to prevent it eventually putting those sheiks back in their tents, riding camels. The bell from the cold fusion grave is ringing and I'm out there with my shovel.     By 2020 we'll be rid of oil, coal, natural gas, nuclear power plants, the electric grid, and even solar and wind power. Cold fusion, which has been proven, can provide all the energy we want for around a hundredth the cost of oil, and with no polluting by-products. We'll have no further use for our hundred nuclear plants or our three hundred coal-fired plants.     With cold fusion-powered units about the size of a dish-washer generating all of the heat and electricity a family could want, and all this at about a hundredth the cost of oil, that'll be the end of the power grid. Lordy! Fifteen years ago Jim Patterson demonstrated a little cold fusion cell at an energy conference, where it had one watt of electricity going in and a thousand watts of heat coming out, for the length of the conference.     My hope is that the factories making these units will be here in New Hampshire. 3/17/10 NASA     Houston, we have a problem!     And what have we got for the hundreds of billions we've spent on NASA, their thousands of employees, and their rocket ships? Well, there were those trips to the Moon forty years ago. And the space station.     After researching the Apollo Moon trips carefully, I wrote Moondoggle, in which I gave 55 good reasons to suspect that all the manned Moon trips had to have been fictional. Faked. We didn't then, and don't yet today, have the technology to land a man on the Moon. Or even to get someone safely out beyond the Van Allen Belt.     Okay, how about the space station? Yeah, it's real, and out there in a low Earth orbit, well below the Van Allen radiation Belt. Let me know if you can find any scientific, or other, discovery or development it's brought us.     Well, there's the Hubbell telescope. Yeah, so?     So let's fold up the NASA operations in Houston, Huntsville, Cape Canaveral, etc., and save a few billion. 3/16/10 Diabetes     If you know any of the millions of Americans with diabetes, see if you can at least make a small crack in their total belief in medicine as the answer to illness by telling them about my Secret Guide to Health…which explains how anyone can be restored to health with no drugs. I'd say "cure," but I think it's illegal to use that word.     Clue them in to http://www.rawfor30days.com, where a $27 DVD (from Amazon) shows six diabetics curing themselves in a month just by eating a raw food diet. In fact, for many diabetics it only takes two weeks.     Countering the deeply impregnated belief that medicine is the answer to illness, rather than stopping what caused it, is going to take time. And, with trillions of dollars invested in our being sick and hardly anything in our being well, there will be little support from our media for change.   3/15/10 Time Capsule     Here's some of my thoughts from ten years ago. Disclaimer     While some of my proposals for solving our more serious social problems are original, some aren’t. I’ve done a good deal of research, looking for solutions to our problems which have been proven successful elsewhere in the world. Educators and bureaucrats may have trouble following my thoughts because I’m used to writing for the general public and, while I can translate the arcane gobbledegook used by educators and bureaucrats into plain English, I’m not skilled at reversing the process.     I hope you’ll stick with me as I try to explain my vision for New Hampshire (which should apply to just about any other state, for that matter), our country…and for the world.     For instance, I’m convinced that it’s possible for us to change our public school system and make it far more productive…allowing kids to learn much, much more in less time and have it cost less than half what we’re spending today…even including computers and other modern high-tech tools. I believe it’s possible for us to cut the costs of government to less than half and end up with a substantially more respon¬sive system for us citizens. I believe it’s possible for us to enormously reduce crime and to almost com¬pletely eliminate poverty. Before you dismiss me as a Pollyanna crack pot, please read on.     I hope you’ll buy into my utopian vision and then help make it happen. I don’t underestimate the problems ahead. It means fighting organized crime, an entrenched reactionary government bureaucracy, both political parties, our eductional establishment (and unions), some huge industries, and probably most of our liberal, scum-sucking media. Hey, this oughta be fun! It all started……     …about ten years ago (twenty years, circa 2010) with a phone call from Governor Judd Gregg’s office. Would I be interested in being a member of an Economic Development Commission, which was being formed to help guide New Hampshire out of the punishing 1990-1991 recession?     At the time I was publishing 73 Amateur Radio Today, Radio Fun, CD Review, Music Retailing and the Independent Music Producer’s Journal, plus producing CDs from my recording studio, brokering CD manufacturing for about a thousand independent record companies, and promoting independent music through a series of over a hundred Adventures In Music sampler CDs, so what’s a little extra work to help New Hampshire?     But I warned Judd that I am a known trouble-maker. He said that's exactly why he wanted me on the Commission. New Hampshire is a small state, so it isn't all that difficult to know a governor. I've known, had lunch with, etc., most of our governors over the last 30 years.      After a few short, leisurely Commission meetings, a month apart, meetings at which, with 32 members present, there was almost no opportunity to ask questions or offer ideas…meetings at which the political appointees to the Commission, who made up half of the group and dominated the Executive Committee, totally controlled the agenda, my frustration limits were exceeded and I resorted to writing reports to the members on what my research had uncovered of our problems and what I’d come up with in proposed solutions.     As you’ll see, I was not particularly successful in hiding my frustration. And as I wrote, I found myself saying the hell with the political agenda, here are our problems, here’s why we have them, and here are some ideas on how we can solve them. Once I got going on this track, there was no stopping me.     To get New Hampshire going again I proposed a number of initiatives. Most of these could be used to help improve any state. Beyond that I’ve looked for solutions to our long range national problems, such as the mess our American public school system and colleges are in.     The result was a series of reports to the Commission in which I proposed ways to solve many national problems such as the imbalance of payments, poverty, welfare, drugs, crime, our crowded courts, overloaded prisons, the federal bureaucracy, government waste, the mess Congress is in, health care, state government costs, inner city riots, escalating college tuitions, teacher pay, school dropouts, family values, and so on. My proposals, some of which are original, but most discovered while researching for my reports, can help us to put America into the number one spot in the world in education, health, technology, manufacturing, wealth, and even in honesty and efficiency in government…two characteristics which do not currently describe it.     Yes, we can educate our children far, far better and at a much lower cost. Yes, college educations can be made available tuition free, and without any taxpayer (via the government) support. They can even be made relevant to the realities of today’s world! Yes, we can virtually eliminate poverty in America, but not through any program proposed so far. Yes, we can have far better health care at a fraction of today's cost. Yes, we can eliminate most of our drug and crime problems, and in short order, but certainly not the way we’ve been trying to do it. We have some new ideas…new tools to use…and we should use them.     The one basic problem we have in America…perhaps our worst problem…I don’t have any instant fix for…and that’s the sheep-like willingness of so many people to ignore what’s happening and refuse to lift a finger to do anything about it. The "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore" attitude is just a figment of movie fiction. Oh, we have a few people who get upset over some particular issue and demonstrate for or against it. But these are more often in support of religious beliefs…and I don’t see any way to turn making our country strong and healthy for our children into a new religion.     As you’ll see, I did find out why hardly anyone cares enough to do anything about our problems, and I have a good solution for that one too.     Our political parties, our unions and other organized groups are dedicated to resisting change. Yet, as our problems mount, we know we must change. And that all comes right down to you. You are the problem. You are our teachers who are not teaching…and who will fight to continue not teaching. You are the civil servants watching billions being wasted and fighting to keep it happening. You keep re-electing Congress, no matter how bad it gets. You are the only ones who can change the road our country is on. Only you can get your state legislatures and administrations to change your educational system…and without that fundamental change, the future for America is bleak.     It’s time to stop being a Democrat, Republican or any other political party, and vote what’s in the best long range interest of your state, our country…and yourself.     You have to decide whether watching soaps, sitcoms and ball games…being entertained constantly…is more important to you than upsetting your state government. Will you be happier with yourself if you close your eyes and ears to the mess and hypnotize yourself with entertainment, or if you start forming local groups to bring about change? To force change!     I hope, as you follow the evolution of my thinking that got started with New Hampshire’s problems, you’ll be excited enough to get others to read what I’m proposing…that you’ll help start a second American revolution. The 21st Century is here, so let’s break away from the miseries we've let ourselves get into and let fester, and get a fresh start. Let’s put an end to government corruption, to the homeless, to drug rings, ghettos, chronic illnesses, and your kids who can’t read or write. Let’s end our fear of crime.     There’s a lot of media griping because so few people bother to vote. Vote for what? It’s no wonder Perot was able to build so much excitement in 1990. It suddenly looked as if we might have a real choice for a President for a change. It’s been a long time since I was offered anything but the decision as to which candidate was the lesser of evils. Well, I’m fed up, and this is my answer. I’m not trying to con you that my solutions are the only solutions. If you’ve got some better ideas, I challenge you to put ’em forth, I'd love to hear ’em. But please be able to back them up with facts and reason, not just a real deep conviction that you're right. Let’s leave convictions to the courts.     As I point out later, I’m not a politician. I’m not even remotely interested in running for anything, so don't even think about it. I’m an entrepreneur. I make my living by promoting new technologies and solving problems. I really enjoy that, I’m good at it, and reasonably successful.    I sent copies of my suggestions for change to the Commission members. Most said they “didn't have the time to read” ’em. Introduction     While many of the problems that helped sink New Hampshire could be traced to Washington, there were some critical factors peculiar to our area that some of us saw coming and warned against years ago. By the time you added our own special miseries to those affecting the rest of the country, it’s understandable why New Hampshire was the hardest hit of all states by the 1990-91 recession.     We know many of the basic problems that brought the recession about. We know that we’ve lost one industry after another to Japan…and now China. We know we’ve been borrowing money from other countries in order to overpay ourselves to do uncreative, poor quality work. The deficit was at $5.6 trillion, which means that just the interest payments were running $350 billion…and never mind the principal. And that doesn’t count a few trillion more that’s “off the books.” We didn’t even use the money to invest in better plants or worker skills. We borrowed it, as Senator Moynihan puts it, to throw a party. Now, with the party was over, it was time to clean up the mess.     Since New Hampshire was the hardest hit state, we had the most to gain from making changes. Walt Kelly had it right when Pogo said, “We’ve found the enemy, and the enemy is us.”     Like most big messes, there aren’t any quick fixes. We’re familiar with the enemy (us), so we already know where our campaigns will have to be aimed. We know our state and federal governments are a mess. We know our educational system is a mess. We know our so-called "health-care" system is a mess. We know about our problems with welfare, the homeless, drugs, crime, the environment, nukes, global warming, a coming ice age and so on. What’s Gone Wrong     There were many factors which had impacted the American economy, resulting in the 1990-91 recession. Many of our problems were due to the domino effect of a loss of manufacturing to foreign countries.     For instance, the less New Hampshire firms are able to sell outside of the state, the less money there will be in New Hampshire with which to build new homes, to spend on entertainment and travel, and even to buy food and clothing or a new iMac.     New Hampshire firms are in competition with those in other states and other countries. In general, higher technology products tend to have higher prices and thus result in higher profits. Thus, in the long run, the more technically educated our New Hampshire work force, the higher the likelihood that we’ll attract high-tech businesses to the state.     Changing our educational system so we will be able to provide the work force we need to attract high-tech businesses is obviously a solution to our long-term problems and is not something which will bring about an immediate increase in revenues from out of state, but it’s something we have to consider and plan for. Big Vs. Small Business     Our job loss has primarily been from cutbacks by large corporations which are owned outside of New Hampshire. Indeed, entrepreneurs and their small businesses have been the main source of new jobs. Thus, in the long run, it is worthwhile for us to pay particular attention to ways we can provide the best business climate possible for small, entrepreneurial companies. Technological Blindness     Much of New Hampshire’s economic woes stem from the management blindness of mini-computer giants such as Wang, Digital Equipment, and Data General. These Massachusetts-based companies expanded into New Hampshire when they found the Boston area running out of workers.     As one of the largest publishers in the computer field I tried my best to warn the presidents of Wang, Data General, DEC, and Prime, the major minicomputer giants that the same thing would happen to them from the introduction of the personal computer that they did to the main frame companies a few years earlier. Their $100,000 minicomputers put most of the $1,000,000 main frame companies out of business. Now, here were $5,000 microcomputers and they’d do the same to minicomputers unless some major changes were made. They all told me I was wrong…and they’re all gone today. Thus, the 1990 downturn was merely a harbinger of even worse job losses to come.     Just as Digital Equipment bet their farm on a dying technology, New Hampshire bet its "farm" on DEC and the other minicomputer firms. There were voices such as Will Zachman, who was the V.P. of the International Data Corporation and later a columnist for P.C. Week, warning those who would listen about this paradigm shift and the disastrous business results likely to follow.     For those unfamiliar with the paradigm shift concept, it means viewing a system (or industry) from a completely new frame of reference.     Thus my report draws upon my technical background to predict which technologies will be best for us to bet on for the future. Then we need to provide the educated work force these future technologies are most likely to require. And since small business is both a major source of new jobs and highly resistant to technological obsolescence, it is important to build the friendliest climate possible for the incubation of new entrepreneurial businesses. I have in mind our encouraging things such as continuing education for entrepreneurs in marketing, advertising, promotion, importing, exporting, financing, public relations, communications, data processing, desktop publishing, personnel handling and development, etc. What About Now!     Having served on many committees and boards, I understand how they work. While there are a few creative, positive people, most groups tend to concentrate on negatives. Thus, when ideas are suggested there is generally far more effort spent on shooting them down than on developing them. And this holds in spades for paradigm shifting concepts, where people have to make a major change in their entire frame of reference. It’s natural and normal for most people to resist change. Indeed, many will fight it to the death of their business (and to their own death in the case of most illnesses).     Thus, I plunged into the economic development project knowing that I probably wouldn’t get anywhere, no matter how good my ideas were. But the challenge was exciting anyway. I love a good intellectual challenge. Perhaps that’s why I’m so addicted to crossword puzzles.     The first idea I had would have added about four billion dollars in added revenues to the state by doubling the tourist industry, which would have resulted in about 100,000 more jobs, which should ease any state’s recession. This would have wiped out the unemployment, then at the 44,000 level. It would also substantially increase state tax revenues. The plan I had in mind would double the state tax revenues from the room and meals tax, providing an additional $150 million. Being practical, I asked, how much would be reasonable for the state to invest to initiate a self-financing project which would generate at least 100,000 jobs and $150 million in additional tax revenues? Yes, I already knew the answer…sorry, we don’t have it in the budget. We can’t even budget one dollar to earn $150 million.     Now where did I get those two numbers? Were they the usual grossly exaggerated figures which people bring in from left field to try and convince others of something?     First I checked the "Economic Conditions in New Hampshire" report (September 1991) and found that we have about 650,000 people employed in the state. Next I found the gross state product listed in the "1990 State Development Plan." Dividing one into the other showed that we had been generating about $40,000 in revenues per worker…thus an additional four billion in revenues should put about 100,000 more people to work…particularly if we added the revenues in people-intensive businesses rather than automated manufacturing. Thinking Long Term     Our best bet for achieving short-term revenue gains, I figured, was to look creatively at the larger New Hampshire industries and come up with ideas for expanding them.     In the long run, a technologically educated work force will help attract high-tech businesses. But how can we hope to buck not just the New Hampshire educational establishment, but that of the whole country? We know one thing, and that’s that our educational system is the pits. We don’t need to waste time arguing about ways to marginally improve it. We need a complete paradigm shift. It needs to be re-invented, right from the bottom up.     I believe it’s possible for New Hampshire to prove to the country (and to the world, for that matter) that it’s possible to produce a high-tech work force without having to spend any additional funds. Indeed, it may well be possible to cut the state educational budget by at least 50% and still produce a far better educated and motivated work force. Communism and Socialism     With the worldwide failure of these two closely related political systems, it may be getting close to a time when it will at least be possible to consider reversing some American socialist experiments—particularly those which have been the most spectacular failures. On the other hand, perhaps we’ve been so thoroughly inculcated with socialist beliefs that it’s too soon to even consider thinking about changes.     For instance, I’ve grown suspicious of government-run businesses. How many can you point to which are run efficiently? Every study of the post office shows that we’d get far, far better service at a fraction of the cost if we’d allow private industry to compete with it (Monopoly Mail by Douglas Adie).     As an entrepreneur I tend to think in terms of making projects pay for themselves. If you read Inc. magazine you know that studies of successful entrepreneurs show that (a) none of ’em are driven by a need to make money and (b) very few bothered to complete their college education. Bill Gates dropped out, as did Ted Turner. Steve Jobs didn’t bother to go at all.     Entrepreneurs don’t become successful unless they recognize that their businesses must make money, but they aren’t money-driven. So I tend to think in entrepreneurial terms when it comes to providing government, education, health care, and other services. Let’s set them up as for-profit enterprises.     But what about people who are too poor to afford medical services or an education? I’ve got some good practical answers to just about every one of the almost endless arguments against capitalism. We don’t have much of a homeless problem in New Hampshire, so we’re probably not the best state to set up a beta test site to show how this can be resolved on a for-profit basis. We don’t even have a serious welfare problem—for which I have some ideas that, if we ever get around to tackling the problem, I think you’ll like. Again, welfare can be solved, I’m convinced, by using a well-known successful model from another country, on a for-profit basis.     But what about the dramatically increasing costs of health care? What can we do to solve that seemingly intractable problem? Having served on the Monadnock Health Services board of directors, I’m intimately acquainted with all sides of this situation. I believe it will be possible to provide far better services at a much lower cost if we recommend some basic changes in the whole system. I’m talking about another paradigm shift. Lower cost? How about 90%? [To be continued…watch for Time Capsule II] 3/14/10 Anti-Matter     Like my challenging accepted "facts" of science, such as the Big Bang theory…well, that really should be called the Big Bang belief, not theory, as I explained in my 6/13/06 post…and then the theories (beliefs) of why we have inertia and gravity (6/17/09), now I've an IAD (idea) to blow the anti-matter theory (belief) out of the old text books.     When it was discovered that all matter is made up of rapidly spinning particles, the geniuses mused, hey, what if some matter were made of particles spinning in the opposite direction? Anti-matter! We should see one hell of an explosion when matter and anti-matter collide. Let's spend a few billion bucks and build a collider to see.     Worry wart scientists panicked. Gee, that might initiate the destruction of the whole world! The scientists said, hey, let's try it and see.     Okay, we've got gazillions of atoms, all spinning clockwise. So where are the anti-matter atoms that are spinning counter-clockwise? That's easy, guys. Just take anything spinning clockwise and turn it upside down, and presto, it's now spinning counter-clockwise. So, since atoms are all spinning in random axies directions, pfft goes the anti-matter theory.     So what else is worrying you? 3/13/10 Unlimited Memory     Yes, I know, I’ve written about memory before, but since (a) there are some new readers and (b) your memory of what I’ve written is probably aproaching zilch, let’s walk through all this again.     Firstly, scientists don’t know where our memory is stored. Oh, they know if they poke an electrode into the brain about here they can stimulate a specific memory. But that’s like sticking a test prod into a telephone switchboard.     If you’ve read much about the brain you know that we have had people with accidents which have removed around 90% of their brain with no loss of their memory or other functions. Worse, other people have also lost 90% of their brains, but another 90%, and they’re doing just fine too. We don’t seem to have any limit to how much we can learn. Our memory, unlike that of our computers, seems completely unlimited. Not that possible memory limitations are much of a potential problem for most people. They read (but not much) and they forget most of what they’ve read. Inputting Data     Reading makes it possible for you to get your information from the most knowledgeable people in the world. It’s a direct line. It’s also an excellent source of strongly held, but unfounded opinions, so you have to be pickey about what you accept as valid data.     Most of us are taught to read in school. But just barely. A growing percentage of our graduates, even from college, are virtually illiterate. Lordy, I wish you could see some of the letters I get!     Reading is a skill and as such it can be improved by your forcing yourself to read faster and faster. But you have to push. It’s the same as with running or swimming. You get better at skills by pushing yourself and then pushing harder. The really great thing about reading faster is that the faster you read, the more you retain of what you’ve read.     Until, with your help, I can get our educational establishment to start producing outstanding educational videos which will teach all of the K-12 subjects in a fraction of the usual time, and make the material available anywhere the student is, your best bet for learning is reading books. The trick is to find books which are both easy to read and reliable. I’ve made a stab at this with my Secret Guide to Wisdom review of around a hundred outstanding books. But I keep asking my readers and listeners to keep their minds peeled for outstanding books. And I’ve been keeping Barnes & Noble busy trying to get them for me. Improving Your Memory     You can retain virtually everything you’ve read if you take a little time to refresh your memory. This is a secret technique that I’ve never seen mentioned by anyone, and it’s simple.     This is best done with the help of someone else. Someone with patience. They’re going to sit down with you and help you refresh your memory. What you do, just after you’ve finished reading a book is to sit or lie down and get comfortable. Close your eyes and go through the book, from beginning to end in your mind, remembering every detail you can. Your helper will stop you every now and then, asking you where you are and what you are remembering. Then you’ll continue scanning the book. When you get to the end, go back and start all over again, remembering every detail from the first scan, and adding other parts that you missed the first time through, as they come to mind. You’ll find you can scan the first run through in a fraction of the time, but without skipping anything. When you are stopped you’ll be able to say right where you are in the book. By the fourth scan of the book you’ll take just seconds to cover every detail of the whole book.     Every couple of months you’ll want to refresh your recall of the details, so scan the book again in your mind a couple of times to get back up to speed. In this way you’ll be able to keep the details of hundreds of books right fresh in your mind.     Like any muscle or other function of the body, the more you use your mind, the more powerful it will get. They say we’re using about 2% of our brains. I suspect that’s a serious understatement. It’s probably more like 0.1% of its real potential. Alas, laziness being what it is, many (most?) of us tend to avoid thinking as much as possible. And exercising, too. Thus many of us end up doddering, hunchbacked geezers who haven’t thought an original thought in years. Spirit Memories     When we are able to contact departed spirits via psychics, oui-ja, tape recorders, near death experiences, etc., we find that the spirits seem to still have all of the memories they had when they were alive. If our memories aren’t electrically or chemically stored in our brains, but in some other medium which we don’t yet understand, that could help explain how we can have unlimited memory storage.     This isn’t exactly a new idea — I wrote anout this at least 30 years ago. But, you know, in spite of the many books I’ve read on the brain and the mind, I don’t recall anyone else proposing such a controversial concept. But that might help explain why people who have lost large parts of the brains in accidents still have all of their memories. We may be doing well with our electronic technology, but when it comes to consciousness, we’re still in the middle ages. We know plants can communicate with each other, and with us. We know we can also communicate with any living thing, but we have few clues as to how it works. We know our cells are able to stay in instant communication with us, no matter how far removed. Again, no clue as to how. There are still powerful barriers preventing research into this area. Barriers of disbelief, kept in place by a refusal to look at the data. Barriers of a lack of funding. After all, even if it’s all true, where are the bucks to be made from funding consciousness studies? 3/12/10 Serendipity     Do you believe in reincarnation and our having past lives? My first introduction to past lives surprised me. Oh, I’d read a little about ’em, and then there was the famous Bridey Murphy case, but that, I thought, had been explained away. Then one day I was regressing a patient under hypnosis, trying to find the root of a problem that had been making his life miserable. We went back and relived several relevant earlier traumas, removing their impact on his life for him. Then I asked him to go to an earlier event which was connected to his problem and suddenly he was telling me about something which had happened in an earlier life.     I didn’t know if it was real or not, so I had him relive the traumatic event just as if it were one from his present life, and he was never bothered by this problem again. Hmm. It didn’t make any difference to me whether it was real as long as deconditioning the trauma did the job.     After several more patients had flipped into past lives, and more often, past traumatic deaths, the reality that these weren’t just the mind’s way of handling a current life painful event, but were some sort of past life memories, I began to help my patients explore and remember more of their past lives. I found that they could recall people, places, and events with a remarkable degree of detail and that these memories could be tied to historical records.     That reality took some getting used to. The ramifications took even more getting used to, and got me to questioning the accepted beliefs in Heaven, Hell, God, Satan, and so on. It got me to reading to see what other people had discovered or thought.     If you don’t believe in past lives and reincarnation, it’s because you haven’t read very much about it. There are several books reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom which will help fill in this neglected part of your education.     Sunday school teaches you about heaven, but the “real world” teaches that when you die, that’s it, and never mind all that Bible baloney.     I’ve told this story before, but knowing how short your memory is, I’ll repeat it. It has to do with how I discovered a book that I recommend anyone read who wants to know about death. It’s a great book for comforting someone with a recent loss.     My mother had always been sensitive to things. Using a oui-ja board she found out that her uncle would be returning from France after WWI, and was able to describe his cabin and exactly when he would land and call.     One time, when I was in the middle of the most upsetting moment of my life, she called and asked what was wrong. That was the only time she ever did that.     One day, a couple of years after her mother, Netta, died, mother was washing the dishes and one of the elastic straps holding her stretch pants down suddenly broke. She thought, “Oh, darn! I’m going to have to drive down to Littleton and get a new elastic.”     When she finished the dishes she sat down to rest and read a little. But it was kind of cool, so she decided to go out to the barn and see if she could find a shawl in Netta’s clothes trunk. She dug down into the trunk and found the shawl. When she shook it out, an elastic strap fell to the floor. “Hmm,” she said, “Netta, are you trying to tell me something?”     She went back to the house and sat down again to read. But none of the magazines looked interesting. She suddenly got the notion to go back out to the barn and pick out a book at random from the old books in one of the cow stalls. These were books from her father-in-law’s estate which had been moved to the barn and just left there.     She picked out a book with no title showing on the spine and went back to the house to read. The book turned out to be a 1920 book, Neither Dead Nor Sleeping, by Mae Sewall, with an introduction by Booth Tarkington. The story it told gave my mother the answer to her question.     Mae Sewall, who was a world famous woman of her time in the woman’s rights field, told about how her husband, after he’d died, contacted her to help her find several missing papers she needed. He then went on to set up a communications system and did experiments with his friend on the other side, the pianist Artur Rubinstein. It’s a fascinating story and one of the best I’ve found about communicating with the dead.     Every time Artur Rubinstein needed her to make a major expenditure for his experiment, those on “the other side” arranged in some way for her to get a well-paying lecture tour.     Anyone who believes that when we die that’s the end should read this remarkable book. I’ve reviewed it on page 14 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom, where I lamented that someone really ought to reprint this valuable book. Well, my good friend Richard Hussey has done just that. Now you can buy the book, complete with my Foreword by ordering it from any book store (Xlibris), or online via http://www.neitherdeadnorsleeping.com. It’s $30 in hard cover and $20 in paperback.     How much of what we think of as serendipity actually has been organized by those on “the other side?” There are a couple of books reviewed in my Guide to Books which cite some incredible “coincidences.” Things which have no logical explanation.     Reports from “the other side” try to explain to us that time is different there. It isn’t linear as we experience it, so they’re somehow able to arrange things so they’ll happen in our time stream for us. Our past, present and future are just another dimension for them — which puts a different aspect on our birth and death.     When something serendipitous happens, try not to ignore it. Follow it up and take advantage of the serendipity. 3/11/10 Cold Fusion     Here's a proven energy source that will cost about a hundredth that of oil, and if you are hearing anything about it at all, it's that it failed.     Gee, why's that?     Simple. Here's an energy source that will put the coal, natural gas, oil, hydropower, solar, wind power, geothermal, tidal and wave poswer, and nuclear power industries out of business. Plus wipe out the electric companies. And take away the funding from the scientists and institutions wanting to develop hot fusion. Thus there are trillions of dollars invested in the current technologies and no constituency for the benefits of cold fusion.     But, what about the scientists? Okay, name one major development in science or medicine that hasn't been vigorously fought by the establishments.     It's the same as with health, where thousands of hospitals, hundreds of thousands of doctors, the entire pharmaceutical industry, tens of thousands of drug stores, nursing homes, Medicare, Medicaid, most of today;s food industry, thousands of commercial farms, and assisted living facilities would be put out of business if the truth about a raw food diet were to get around.     Plus, without all those food and drug ads, we could lose the TV networks and many of our magazines. And it would wipe out the supermarket chains as we know them today. 3/10/10 Small Biz     New small businesses are thriving in Europe, helping to reduce their serious unemployment situation, and bringing new life to their economies. While the large businesses have been cutting payrolls by 4% a year, these new small businesses have been adding employees at the rate of 16%.     I wish I had the time to organize a lecture tour of Europe, including visits to their heads of state, so I could explain the benefits of setting up my new style of business incubators. I’ve written about this before, and my system is explained in detail in my book A Greenprint for New Hampshire 2020 ($5)(#39). This tells how business incubators can be set up in any town to help fund and guide the growth of new small businesses.     Large businesses are moving their manufacturing to the least expensive countries and replacing much of their middle management with information systems (a.k.a. computers), so we can’t look for job growth there for either blue or white collar workers. Worse, large businesses tend to be predatory, looking always for growth by swallowing up smaller businesses, and to have the political clout to get away with almost anything they want.     The health of any country increasingly is dependent on the growth of entrepreneurial businesses…and my incubator system makes their successful startup simple.     Our states and other countries could do worse (and will) than set aside a fund for business incubators to draw on. It would be a profit-making no-lose fund and would result in more jobs and increased business revenues. 39/10 Headstart     New Hampshire's ex-governor Shaheen pushed hard to have all NH schools start with kindergarten when kids are five years old. She was pushing this agenda when she and I were on the Economic Development Commission Education Subcommittee several years ago, and she was as impervious to facts then as she was later. Her mind was made up and facts were only a nuisance.     As Thomas Sowell says, "It's amazing how much time and ingenuity people will put into defending some idea that they never bothered to think through at the outset."     Headstart was supposed to give disadvantaged kids a better chance of getting an education. With 2000 agencies and 36,000 classrooms, it was an expensive experiment. The long term effects of Headstart were carefully researched. They found no long lasting effects on IQ, teen pregnancy, welfare, crime, later economic success, etc. The only people who benefited were the Headstart employees and administrators.     When the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences reviewed every post secondary training program of the last 20 years they found that none of the programs worked. Billions of our money have been wasted.     More Headstart programs? More social spending? I sure hope you'll do your best to stop these wastes of money.     The Swedish, whose students outperform ours by a wide margin, don't start school until they are seven years old. 3/8/10 Schools     A review of a book by Fred Holden had this quote: “Our system of education teaches just about everything except the three things that matter most: How to make a living, how to live, and how to understand life, especially in areas of economics and politics.”     Since, if our schools did teach these basic concepts, our country and our lives might be vastly different, I wonder if the neglect of these subjects is entirely accidental. These are exactly the things I’ve been writing about, but I should be writing for kids instead of old people whose minds are so closed that the light of reason is unable to penetrate the gloom. Well, I may be exaggerating, but that’s the impression I get much of the time.     As far as living successfully and making a good living are concerned, around 90% of the stuff that is “taught” in high school is a waste of time and 100% of college. That was my experience, and things were supposedly a whole lot better those days than now.     Most of what I was taught in science classes has subsequently been proven wrong. Most of the math I suffered through has never been of any real use, and I’ve be involved with a lot of different businesses. The English literature classes were a huge waste of time. And so it went. Bah, Humbug! 3/7/10 Indians     The Indians have been doing well by setting up casinos on their reservations. I'm seeing more and more ads on TV by these casinos, so it's obviously a thriving business. Take the Foxwood Casino on Connecticut. Less than 15 years ago there were only three people living on the reservation. Now they've got gaming revenues of over a billion dollars and the tribe has somehow expanded to 260.     The Indians are complaining that the Europeans came in with higher technology and took their country away. Well, they're right, that's what happened. But the same thing has been happening all through history. The guys with the bigger and better clubs win and take over. The Jews did it when they pushed the Arabs aside and formed Israel. The Arabs are still angry over that, but not angry enough to educate themselves. Israel then took the West Bank away from Jordan with their army, they've kept it, and don't seem to be much interested in giving it back.     It was their higher technology that allowed the European countries to take over most of Africa and big lumps of Asia. Through massive mismanagement they've managed to lose most of it. They did the same thing in the Caribbean, with England controlling most of the islands, the French a few, and the Dutch a few. Spain was doing fine until the US shoved ’em out.     All the people who are begging for peace should take a good long look at history and see if they can find any instance where might didn't make right. When you lay your weapons down you are doing it to grab for a yoke to wear. And today, technology is providing us with the bigger club. 3/6/10 Winning Wars     Despite having the largest military machine in the world we botched the Viet Nam war, didn't do much better in Korea, and have made an unholy mess of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.     So our admirals and generals build bigger and more aircraft carriers, thousands more planes, going the route military machines of the past have always pursued. Alas, there's a good, logical reason for this insistence on doing what's always been done, and to fiercely reject new ideas.     W.S. Gilbert hit it right on the nose when he wrote the admirals' song for H.M.S. Pinafore. One of these days, with Daron on the piano, I'll sing it for you. But it's simple, in the corporate, government and military worlds you get ahead by doing what you are told and always voting with the party. Those who stick up their heads get them lopped off.     So here's this old man in a super-hick town in New Hampshire with a simple plan for ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan successfully in a few days. Oh, shut up. Just send in more troops.     My approach is novel, I admit. It has to do with outsmarting the enemy instead of trying to outfight them. A truly outrageous approach. Well, hell, it worked 250 years ago when a bunch of rag-tag farmers outwitted the then largest war machine in the world, the British. So, instead of lining up in rows to exchange musket fire, like they were supposed to, our sneaky ancestors cowardly hid behind trees and mowed down the British troops lined up out there in the fields. Outrageous!     Well, look at how our government creative genius leaders have done everything they could to discourage millions of Mexicans from sneaking into our country. So we have a Swiss-cheese border, plenty of good-paying jobs, free medical care, free schooling for their kids, any kids born here are automatically American citizens, generous welfare payments, lots of Spanish-speaking radio, TV stations, newspapers and magazines for them so they don't have to bother learning English, and so on.     Okay, Afghanistan and Iraq. Here we're fighting Muslims, who are taught from birth to kill the infidels. That's us. So let's unfairly take advantage of their unshakable religious beliefs. For instance, as General Pershing did in the Philippines back in 1913, use their belief that if they touch pig products they will go to hell for eternity. No seventy virgins and no Paradise.     Let's get some video cameras out there the next time some idiot commits suicide in order to kill a few infidels and gain Paradise. Do a video of picking up pieces of the idiot and burying them in pig shit. Pfft, no Paradise! Hell everlasting! Then, the next time we shoot an enemy, video burying his body in pig shit and show these videos on TV. And that'll quickly end the suicide bombers and snipers. Yes, I know, that's being terribly unfair. So?     By the way, one of the first things I've suggested we do when we invade a country is to set up Voice Of America radio and TV stations and start teaching English and airing our old TV shows.     With Viet Nam, I wrote to our Congress people suggesting we use our brains instead of our guns. I noted that we were spending over a half million dollars each to kill the enemy. Hey, there's a much cheaper approach. Why not set up a toll booth on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and give the North Vietnamese soldiers a chit good for a small home, basic furniture, a plot of land for a garden, a TV set, the electricity for it, and a job in one of the factories we set up? Hey, bribery works every bit as well in Asia as it does in Washington with Congress via an army of lobbyists.      Factories? Sure, see my 10/25/07, 8/25/08. and 12/14/08 entries, where I explain how Singapore went from an impoverished mess to one of the Asian Tigers in just a few years.    We'd have ended the Nam war at a fraction of the cost and without having lost some 58,000 American troops in the process. No Agent Orange spaying, either. 2/24/10 Wetbacks    What's it take to get you fed up with that bunch of professional politicians you've been electing and endlessly re-electing? Please start getting together with your neighbors and help flush that Washington toilet come November.    The head of Homeland Security admits that some 130,000 Other Than Mexicans (OTMs) cross our border every year, are caught, charged as immigration law violators, and then released, allowing them to disappear into our country.    And we're paying the bill, for the OTMs and the Mexicans, not just for their healthcare, public schooling, in-state college tuition, and housing subsidies. They work for lower wages than taxpaying Americans, so they're contributing to our unemployment miseries. And worse, many of the illegal immigrants are criminals, making our cities more dangerous and increasing our police, court and prison costs enormously.    There are an estimated twenty million illegals here, with a half million more streaming in every year. The Pew Research reported that there are forty million Mexicans that would like to come here. And you are helping to make it easy for them. Never Re-elect Anyone come November! 2/23/10 Amelia    PBS did a show on Amelia Earhart which, like the recent movie, rewrote what actually happened to her and navigator Noonan. And this, despite the Fred Goerner 1966 book, The Search for Amelia Earhart, which explained exactly what happened to her.    Why the big cover up? Our government is enormously embarrassed that President Roosevelt recruited the most famous woman in the world to be a spy, and the Japanese government is embarrassed that they killed her, since she was a spy and got caught with her spy pictures of the Japanese installations on Truk Island. See my 4/15/08 entry for the whole story and how I knew about her spy mission a year before she left on her flight around the world and knew about where she landed and what happened to her.    So, both the recent movie and the PBS show continued the cover up. 2/20/10 Anti-Aging    Time (2/22) devoted the cover and 21 pages of the issue to anti-aging. And the bottom line was that if we eat less we will live longer. Well, they haven't done any research with people yet, but with animals it works.    It'll take a while to prove, but that may be partly true. However, it makes sense to me that if we give our bodies the food it has been designed to use, don't put in any poisons, give it plenty of exercise, sleep, laughter, sunlight, and plenty of pure water, it should give us the 120 to 200 years of reliable service scientists predict.    Regarding eating less, my personal experience is that when I chew my food until it is liquid and don't drown my stomach while it is digesting my food, that it takes surprisingly few spoons of food before I feel satisfied. Full.    Occasionally a non-raw fooder is visiting at lunch time, so we go to the Chinese buffet restaurant in Hillsborough. Yes, now and then I eat cooked food. What I've noticed is that now that I'm used to chewing my food tho roughly, while it takes me as long or even longer to eat, I'm full by the time I've eaten about half what I used to.    I wonder, have you ever in your whole life chewed a bite of food until it was liquid? 2/20/10 About Me    One of these days I'll find a hypnotist to regress me to my past lives, for I suspect that may be a key to much of my character. For instance, for some reason I've always been interested in the forefront of new technologies. Pioneering.    When I got interested, at 15, in amateur radio, my main interest was with the newest ham technology, the ultra high frequencies (UHFs). My first ham contacts were with a 2-1/2 meter walkie-talkie I'd built. And when WWII came along I had a wonderful time learning about radar and sonar, becoming an Electronic Technician (ET1/c).    After the war a ham friend invented narrow band FM (NBFM), Which preserved the benefits of frequency modulation, but required far less radio frequency band space. I was one of the earliest pioneers of that new communication mode.    When I discovered a few hams exchanging messages with surplus teletype machines (RTTY), akin to today's email, I quickly started a small magazine to promote the technology. Pretty soon, where there had been a few dozen hams using RTTY, there were hundreds.    Next came single-sideband (SSB) mode. Wow, six times the power with the same transmitter! I was one of the first to exploit that new mode.    To help promote new ham radio modes I started my own ham magazine, pioneering building with transistors instead of tubes. The other ham magazines would have nothing to do with them. Next it was slow-scan television, allowing us to send photos on our ham bands.    The real big one was when a few ham clubs started extending the range of their mobile and hand transceivers with automatic relay stations (repeaters) atop mountains and skyscrapers. I put one atop a nearby mountain (Pack Monadnock), which made it possible for mobile hams anywhere in New England to talk with each other, instead of being limited to just a few miles.    So I started publishing repeater articles in my ham magazine, helping the technology to develop. Next I published, as well, a repeater journal and yearly atlases, listing the repeaters around the country and their coverage. What started out as a couple dozen grew, in a few years, to over 8,000 around the country. Plus many in other countries. When I was flying in a small plane from Johannesburg to Mbabane in Swaziland, I was having fun with my little handy-talkie (HT) talking with hams around South Africa via the Johannesburg repeater. Suddenly the Swaziland repeater came on, allowing me to talk with hams around that country. Repeaters were everywhere.    I wrote editorials in my magazine telling about the fun of skiing the mountains of New Hampshire and Colorado with a little HT in my pocket, allowing me to make phone calls via a nearby repeater, anywhere in the world. I pointed out that everybody would want to be able to do this. Well, Art Housholder K9TRG, who worked for Motorola, took my editorials to the top brass and that got the cell phone industry started.    In January 1975 I read about a small outfit in Albuquerque making a kit for computer hobbyists. I quickly got one…and again saw the future. Within weeks I started a magazine devoted to this new technology (Byte), which became the largest magazine in the country, running some 800 pages a month. When this caught on I started a second for the technical nuts, and then the first magazine devoted to a specific computer (80-Micro). That grew to 600-plus pages a month, becoming the third-largest magazine in the country. Then one for the Apple, one for the Commodore, and so on. The PC revolution was started.    When compact discs were introduced in 1982 our hi-fi and music magazines ignored them. So I started CD Review magazine help the industry get going. Within a year it was the largest music magazine and CDs were off and running. I asked the readers to rate every CD they bought for sound quality and performance. Those with a 10-10 rating were big sellers. The major labels, most all foreign-owned, had to rebuild their recording studios to provide the sound quality the CD buyers demanded.    Other than hoping to change the energy industry with cold fusion, our school system with a proven new paradigm, make healthcare almost unnecessary, and make it possible for cars to run maybe five hundred miles on one charge of a new type of battery, I'm taking it easy. 2/19/10 Minimum Wage    Despite the fact that socialism has failed in every country where it's been tried, I see the US deep into this failed system, and digging deeper.    For instance, Congress is considering increasing the minimum wage, ignoring the fact that Hong Kong has no minimum wage, but is one of the most prosperous economies in the world.    It started out at 40¢ an hour. When I got my first job, as the chief engineer and announcer at a 5,000 watts broadcast station in North Carolina, I was making 50¢ an hour, then the minimum wage. But it mounted up since I was working 60 hours a week, plus time and a half over 40 hours. And no spare time to spend it.    The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 and hour. It's the same in New Hampshire, but in Massachusetts it's $8 an hour…which is about the same as 40¢, considering the twenty times decrease in the value of the dollar (thank you, Federal Reserve).    Increasing the minimum wage is a benefit for millions of illegal immigrants, who are working off the books. Well, those that aren't in prison, aren't making a good living in crime, or are on welfare.    Our government-run school system (that's socialism) is a mess, turning out the worst educated kids of the developed world. Now the Dems are pushing for even more government-run healthcare than we have now, a recipe for disaster for the people. Businesses need to be run by businessmen, not bureaucrats.    Government agencies tend to expand at an average of 7% a year, with no known end to the process. 2/18/10 No Accident    There's a perfectly logical reason why the US, despite having a whopping healthcare tab, has one of the poorest health records, and are one of the shortest-living people of the developed world. Could it have anything to do with the millions our pharmaceutical industry lavishes on Congress via their swarm of lobbyists? Oh, and the same gang are the ones running most of the medical schools to make sure their products are used to the max. Three cheers for compulsory vaccinations! So they're causing Alzheimer's? Big deal, we've got drugs for that.    There's a similar reason why our kids are coming in at the bottom on international educational tests, making the US less and less competitive in the world economy. With our SATs reaching newer lows every year. Oh, and despite many college grads being just barely able to read, skyrocketing tuition costs.    There are still a few industries we haven't exported.    When a 44¢ stamp buys poorer service than I got as a kid with a 2¢ stamp, I know that Congress gave our money supply to the Federal Reserve Banks. Thanks, guys. Our country went along for 137 years after it was founded with zero inflation, now we're being threatened with it accelerating at warp speed.    When Congress instituted the income tax it was 2% for the wealthy. Now it's running almost 50%.    How much of this baloney does it take to get people to wise up and stop making being a politician a career choice?    I'm already starting to get mailing pieces asking for my vote this fall. Phooey! 2/17/10 Jobs    No, not Steve Jobs, I mean employment…which is a hot topic these days, with millions out of work and new jobs few and hard to find.    With the government admitting to 10% unemployed, the real number is probably closer to 17%, and the prospects of the situation improving very much seems slim. With millions of foreclosed houses on the market, the need for construction workers has faded. And with Congress encouraging our manufacturing industry to move to Asia, factory jobs aren't likely to grow.     The big hope, according to U.S. News, lies in the growing healthcare field, what with millions of boomers retiring and some 98.5% of them having health problems (according to the Department of Health). Thus, my drive to get people to stop poisoning their immune systems and regain perfect health, could aggravate the unemployment problem.    While some businesses thrive on selling the lowest price stuff, this has quietly moved much of our manufacturing to lower wage countries. If we returned to the old system of levying a tax on imported goods, this would help to even the playing field for American workers. Indeed, when we had tariffs, the revenues they produced made an income tax unneeded. I'd rather pay more for an iPod that was made in America than dish out almost half of my pay to the government for Congress to waste big time.    When I was young something imported was a big deal. Now, something made or grown here in America is the rarity. Sure, I enjoy my dollar-a-pound grapes from Chile, but I'd much rather pay two dollars for California grapes and keep the other half of my pay check.    With seven of the ten jobs listed the U.S. News article projected to grow fastest were in the healthcare field, perhaps, for the good of our workers, and to hell with our personal health, we should keep right on eating cooked food and cutting our potential lives about in half. Let's keep those hospitals full and home health aides busy. Let's see, will it be Pizza Hut or Wendy's for dinner tonight? 2/16/10 Haiti     A couple hundred years ago Haiti was a major exporter of sugar. But that was when the French ran the country. Then, when the French passed a law abolishing slavery, the Haitian blacks mass-murdered all of the whites. In 1804 Haiti became the first black-ruled country. That soon ended the sugar exporting and the country became a poverty-stricken mess.     In 1915 we sent the Marines to rebuild the place, feed its starving people, and get sugar growing again. We spent millions building roads, and towns, and re-establishing law and order.     In 1934 the Haitian government demanded that we leave. Again run by blacks, the farms stopped growing sugar, people were starving again, and the rule of law blew away.     When I first visited Haiti by boat in 1958 it was a god-awful mess. Our group came tha-a-at close to being killed. Only my high-school French saved our lives.     In 1973 the U.S. started giving Haiti millions of dollars to help them survive. These handouts were of no more help to the Haitians than our billions of welfare handouts have been to American blacks.     In 1994, having learned nothing from history, Clinton sent our military to again rebuild their infrastructure, followed by Peace Corps volunteers to help educate the Haitians. Indeed, we spent almost a billion dollars feeding and educating them between 1995 and 1999.     After the earthquake we rushed our people and money down to help them. And, after we leave, it won't take long for the place to be a mess again. With no exportable crops or products, they'll soon run out of money.     My 12/25/07 entry explains that when the British established the black African countries in the 19th century, unable to get the blacks to work, they had to bring in Indians to build the railroads and for other work. And when the British left, their African countries resumed tribal warfare, the farms all went to seed, and became poverty-stricken. Hundreds of thousands of blacks were massacred in Uganda, Rwanda, the Congo, and so on.     Do you know of one black-run country in the world that isn't a poverty-stricken mess? I don't. 2/15/10 Schools     Time (2/8/10) pointed out that under our present public school system the teacher unions have made it almost impossible to fire a teacher or to evaluate teachers by using student test results. And cave-man local school boards, along with apathetic parents haven't helped. We have an archaic, industrial age school system, with every effort to bring about change being vigorously fought.     Alas, this is making the U.S. less and less competitive in the world economy. 2/14/10 Geniuses     A baby's IQ is only partly determined by genetics…less than half, scientists tell us. The major IQ contributors are in the prenatal and in the early years (2/1/10 entry).     Alas, our meekly re-electing, term after term, our Congressmen, has allowed Congress to first turn the government purse over to the Federal Reserve Banks, and then they quietly installed the income tax…which was an insignificant 2% on the rich.     As we slept, the Fed has inflated our money, which had maintained it's value for the 137 years since the founding of the country, while under the control of the U.S. Treasury, to where almost everything today costs over twenty times what it did when I was a kid. Just in the last fifty years the Porsche I bought brand new for $3,300 in 1958 is now over $75,000. And Congress has continually increased the income tax,, with the result we're now taxed over 50% of our earnings, and this forces most families to have both parents to be out working every day.      Thus, working mothers have to dump their babies into day-care centers, where they are kept quiet watching children's TV shows. Thus, few mothers have the luxury of helping their babies to expand their brains during the first few years, permanently stunting their IQs.     A mother with the time and interest can teach her baby to read by the time it is two years old. And a baby can learn to speak several languages without any accent in the first three years…if given the opportunity. Day-care centers aren't staffed to give every baby the individual loving attention needed.     By the age of five a baby's brain is 90% developed, so it's too late to do the early brain-expanding teaching, thus limiting the baby's brain potential for life. Pfft goes another potential genius.     With good prenatal teaching, a baby will already have an understanding of up to a hundred words at birth. Then parents should start the baby with simple words and add new and bigger words as the baby is able to understand and use them. Parents who have never bothered to learn to speak good English will thus cripple their baby's ability to learn to speak well.     By the time the baby is four the window of opportunity for learning languages is closing, and this includes the ability to learn to read. And since our public school system is geared to teach children to read when they are six  (first grade), this helps explain why so many people have such trouble with reading, and never really learn. When I took a black recording artist who came to record in my studio out to dinner I had to read the menu to him…he couldn't read.     It also helps explain the horrible time I had in high school trying to learn to speak and read French. Well, you had to have a second language to be accepted by most colleges, and the idea of not going to college was unthinkable in those days.     Today, until colleges make some major curriculum changes, I'm advising teens to not waste four to six years and tens of thousands of dollars being educated mainly to work for large companies and, instead, to think in terms of starting their own businesses, where they'll have the potential to make much more money and have more freedom to enjoy it.     Colleges, like our public schools, are still "teaching" by giving homework assignments to memorize things for tests. This fiendish system was instituted purposely by the government over 150 years ago under pressure from religious leaders to make sure that people didn't learn to think, just to do what they were told.     Colleges of the future will offer entreprenurial courses in speaking, salesmanship, bookkeeping, business law, advertising and promotion, graphic arts, product photography, purchasing, ergonomics, building and site selection, production planning, office planning, dressing for success, print buying, bill collecting, taxes, word processing systems, communications systems—including paging, fax, bulletin boards, intercoms, data services, etc. (11/3/08 entry).     My hope is that you'll help me get the word out on how to raise children with genius-level IQs, who have been permitted to learn to think, and to read books at a few seconds a page. And, with most of the entrepreneurial courses being available via the Internet, kids will be able to learn what they want, when they want. With an intelligent and educated citizenry we'll see an and to electing people like we have now in Congress, and then compounding the situation by endlessly re-electing them. We might even be able to look forward to an intelligent president! Preferably now a Muslim.     It seems unlikely to me that intelligent, well educated people will keep the religions in business. 2/13/10 Haband     I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty. For instance, I wear black clothes because they don't get dirty. So, even though I have 15 pairs of pants in my closet, I've been wearing just two of them for the last two years.     In the warm weather it's a $10 pair of pants made in Mongolia for Haband. They're still going strong after two years of daily wear, seven months of the year. And, since they're black I haven't had to wash them.     When it gets cold I shift to my Haband Ice-House flannel-lined pants, made in Pakistan. Well, after two years, about five months a year, of daily wear, they're beginning to wear out. I think they were $15.     Both of these pants I wear every day both around the house and when going out to events, give talks, etc.     My winter favorite shirt is a $15 Haband flannel-lined black Ice-House shirt-jacket, made in China It has snap buttons, so it's easy to whip on and off. And it has nice easy-to-use side pockets. They have a very similar lined shirt, but without the side pockets, made in Swaziland.     When I go out in New Hampshire winters I need more warmth, so I wear a black $10 Weatherman shirt, also made in Swaziland (yes, I've been there). I have some of these in blue and red, but they get dirty and, when washed, tend to pill.  I wear it under the Ice-House shirt-jacket.     In the summer I wear the $10 Haband golf shirts, but they don't come in black, so they have to be washed now and then. They're from Mongolia.     For shoes, most of the time I wear their $15 black Omega Joggers. With a Velcro strap instead of laces, they're easy and fast to put on and take off. Comfortable, too.     Haband.com – 800-742-2263 will have you inundated with envelopes of their catalog pages, and I see their ads in the American Legion magazine. 2/12/10 I’m Proud To Be An American!     Just look at everything we have to be proud of. We all know that America is the greatest country in the world. Love it or leave it, right? Well, we all love America. And we are justly proud of a country which used to be the car capital of the world. Which used to be by far number one in electronics and high-tech.     Well, we’re still number one in a great many ways and we shouldn’t forget it! We have one of the most corrupt governments in the world. We have one of the most expensive and least effective school systems in the world. We have one of the most expensive health care systems in the world. We have some of the most corrupt unions in the world. We have the worst crime problem of any country in the world. We have more murders per capita than any other country. We have more racial strife and bigotry. We have one of the worst drug problems in the world. We have more lawyers and lawsuits per capita than any other country. We have the highest federal deficit in the world. We have the worst trade deficit in the world. We have the most homeless in the world. We have the most dangerous cities in the world. We have the best music in the world, but of course, 83% of our music comes from foreign-owned companies (mostly Japanese). We have more people in prison per capita than any other country. We have the wealthiest organized criminal groups in the world. We have more employees in government than in manufacturing. And we’re world-class when it comes to encouraging entrepreneurs…to tap our government via HUD, food stamps, and endless health care scams, all dutifully reported on our exposé TV shows.     We can well be proud of our street gangs, our riots, our welfare system, our decaying cities caused by rent control, our polluted rivers, our radioactive and industrial waste record, black family disintegration, smog and air pollution, the IRS, Bill and Hillary, our obscene music lyrics, guns in schools, vapid sitcoms, illegal immigrants, our foreign aid program, our lobbyists in Washington and all state capitols, our porno industry, our military procurement system, our banking mess, our savings and loan mess, our tobacco farmer subsidies, corruption on Wall Street, NASA’s monumental inefficiency, our eager acceptance of eco-scams…you continue the list please.     Gee, I almost forgot Blackwater and the other military contractors…and most of all our black, possibly Muslim, President.     Rome had its circuses, with Christians fighting lions and each other. We have TV so we can gawk at mayhem in Bosnia and Somalia, so we can spend our days enjoying important things like a severed penis, an attacked skater, our Bureau of Firearms killing a dangerous colony of religious nuts, and more religious nuts fighting or defending abortion. We relish every murder in the news, and then turn to crime shows for more. We shine our media spotlight on any protest group. We fan the flames of sensitivity. We’re sensitive to women, to homosexuals, to the “disadvantaged,” to blacks, to the poor, to the short, the fat (so don’t eat so damned much, you fat slob), the homeless, the lunatics, and so on.     I’m proud of our choice of presidents. Of Lyndon Johnson who so enthusiastically pursued the expensive, pointless, and lost war in Vietnam and launched the long, expensive and lost war on poverty. Of Nixon, who insisted he was not a crook. Of Ford, who gave us lots of laughs. Of Carter, who gave us hyper-inflation. Of Reagan, who gave us the movie star president we’d always dreamed of. Of Bush who gave us—gave us? Oh yes, of Bush, who finally fed us up with both the Democratic and Republican parties, forcing us to turn to, ugh, Ross Perot—who then crumbled under the weight.     And most of all, I’m truly proud of my fellow Americans, who are able to stomach all this corruption and waste with barely a whimper. I’m proud of how our factory production school system has changed what was once a fiercely proud nation into a nation of wimps. I’m enjoying the spectacle of a people trying to enact a constitutional change to limit terms—please stop me from endlessly re-electing my crook. And another to balance the budget—please stop me from letting my representatives spend my children’s money. I’m proud of our stomach for congressional pork.     What other country would allow pedophile (man-boy love) groups to parade? Would provide police protection for hate groups to parade? Would listen by the millions for hours a day to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and G. Gordon Litty? What other country would watch Donahue, Oprah, and Geraldo on TV every day exploiting sickos?     I hope you are as proud to be an American as I. I’m proud of the National Rifle Association and the American Association of Retired Persons for their effective lobbying, no matter what it is doing to our quality of life. Do you know that we have the most corrupt newsstand circulation system in the world? And the most corrupt music industry too? When it comes to superlatives, we’ve got most of ’em cornered.     Now, if you happen to be a trouble-maker and less of a Pollyanna than I, you might look at the downside of some of the superlatives I’ve listed. Yes, the Mafia is ruthless and into hundreds of businesses, but by golly, it works! It works fabulously. The average Mafioso makes well over a million a year, and what spells success more in America than making big money?     When we heard that Perot was a multi-billionaire millions wanted him for president, and never mind some screws that seemed to be loose. Maybe we’ll run Bill Gates next time. Bill, who I happen to know personally, also has some screws loose, but the recent media campaign to make him a household word should successfully hide those blemishes.     But even if someone were to actually get upset over the negative aspects of the things I’ve mentioned, we’re all on this big train going a hundred miles an hour toward hell and there’s nothing any of us can do to change things. Right?     Wrong, actually. I’ve got a challenge for you. Let’s see how creative you are. What is one thing that you could do which could change almost everything many probably clinically depressed people see as negatives? Let me make that even more of a challenge. What is one thing you could do which would take an average of about 12-seconds a day and which would inevitably change the welfare system, the social security mess, the deficit, crime, crowded prisons, the drug war, foreign aid waste, unemployment, housing values, lower taxes, and so on?     Any takers?     Now, if you look back over the list, you’ll see that virtually every outstanding misery in our country comes down to being caused or encouraged by the government. The government you elected and are paying for. Is the situation hopeless? Yes, unless you change. Look, your politicians aren’t going to change by themselves. It isn’t going to be easy to change them—but it actually can be done. Here’s a scenario for you to think about. Let’s suppose that no matter how good an elected politician seems to be doing his job, that without fail he is replaced in the next election by someone new. This would destroy the congressional seniority committee system, which lies at the heart of most of our problems. Many congressional freshmen come in hoping to make changes. It doesn’t take them long to learn that they either play ball or they’ll get zip. No committee appointments worth spit. No pork. Nil.     Never, ever, re-elect any politician. If we keep flushing the toilet long enough we’ll finally begin to see clean water in the bowl. One term. Period. Next! I’d love to see NRA bumper stickers all over the country. Never Re-elect Anyone.     Our founding fathers expected civic-minded businessmen to volunteer for Congress, and then to go back to their businesses. Instead, we’ve built a cadre of ex-lawyer political professionals who will do what it takes to keep their jobs. 2/12/10 NH Budget     Gov. Lynch announced a need to cut government expenses. If he’d bothered to read the letters I sent him four years ago he’d know how to drastically cut expenses,.     My letter #10, which is on page 21 of my GREENPRINT for New Hampshire 2020 (#39 $5), and letter #21 on my web site, explains how any government department can be cut in half in three years with everyone involved enthusiastically cooperating.     We’d end up with a much more efficient government, and savings in the millions. C. Northcote Parkinson’s research showed that governments normally grow at about 7% per year. You’ve sadly neglected your education if you haven’t read his books. Tsk. See pages 24 and 53 in my Secret Guide to Wisdom (#02 $5) for reviews of his marvelous books. 2/11/10 Clinton     President Emeritus Clinton made the news when he went in for another operation for his blocked arteries. If some kind soul would send him a copy of my Secret Guide to Health he could save himself a lot of anguish, pain and humongous expense.     A raw food diet would end his health problems. That would free up his immune system to clean his arteries. An alternative would be to get him a copy of Dick Quinn’s Left For Dead, which explains the power of cayenne to roto-root the arteries.     In matters of health, ignorance sure isn’t bliss…it’s pain, expense and death. There are a lot of ways to have more fun with your money than paying for sickness insurance or hospital bills. 2/10/10 Bumper Sticker     Some clever bumper stickers sayings have arrived via email. One that I particularly liked was: “So I guess we’re even on that slavery thing, eh?”     Well, you’d be hard put to find blacks that aren’t still deeply resentful over their ancestors being brought over here as slaves from Africa. And they are “proud African-Americans.”     The truth is that slavery was the best thing that ever happened to blacks, as I covered in some detail in my 7/6/09 entry.     Slavery saved their ancestor’s lives! Check it out. 2/9/10 Iraq     Why are we there? What are we doing, now that we’ve spent hundreds of billions and a few thousand lives? Sure, we know now that we were lied to about the reasons for the war. Saddam had nothing to do with 911. He had no weapons of mass destruction. He had no connection to Al Qaeda.…and we know now that Bush and company knew these were lies.     So we went over there, bombed the hell out of Baghdad, killing thousands of civilians, and unleashed massive looting, all because Rumsfeld refused to pay any attention to the advice of his generals to send enough troops to maintain order.     We could do a lot of good before we leave…if we actually have any plans to leave all that oil. We could help small businesses to get started with micro-loans, and larger businesses with Business Incubator Groups.     We could also put a quick end to the suicide bombing as I explained in my 11/3/09 entry…and to most of the fighting. 2/8/10 Tariffs     The income tax, when Congress started it, was about 2% and levied only on the wealthy. Like inflation, which started soon after Congress authorized the Federal Reserve Banks to issue our money, the income tax has followed the boiled frog syndrome, gradually growing to today’s monster without our noticing.     As a side note, the income tax amendment to the Constitution has never been authorized by all of the states, so technically it is not a law. But that fine point is irrelevant to the IRS.      Before the income tax, for 125 years, the federal government did just fine on the tariffs collected on imports. The eliminating of tariffs on imports has put American workers in competition with foreign workers, forcing much of our manufacturing industry to move to lower wage countries to be competitive. That’s why one major industry after another has left the country.     I’d like to see tariffs reinstated so we could start rebuilding the industrial strength of America…and maybe even cut back or even eliminate the income tax.     Of course, if you’ve been following the CAFR postings (Consolidated Audit Financial Reports), you know that the income our federal government, states, cities and towns make from some 85,000 invested retirement funds, which are now just rolled over into more stocks, would more than cover what the income tax is taking. Whew! No more IRS!     This CAFR investment is so huge that it owns about 70% of the industries on the stock market.     So, are you going to say “baa” and re-elect your Congressmen come November? Hey, it’s your money they’re stealing…close to half of what you’re earning. I’m sure going to say “bah” and vote out the incumbents. It’ll be great to see their damned gravy train derailed.     And I’m going to do the same in 2012, which might help put a few thousand  lobbyists out of work.     Sure, we’d have to pay more for the imported stuff, but we’d have all that income tax money to ease that pain…until the manufacturing starts returning. 2/7/10 Suckers!     The Bob Livingston Letter says it clearly, “Conventional allopathy medicine is harmful. It simply is a drug system for suppressing symptoms. What makes the system work is that it gives temporary relief by suppressing symptoms.  So these repressive drugs must be taken again and again. Repeat business builds the drug culture.”     Symptoms are the body’s alarm signal, telling you something is wrong. So, rather than checking to see what is causing the symptoms and curing that, our so-called health-care system only is trained on how to turn off the alarms.     Medical schools teach almost nothing about the causes of illness, and even less about diet, so doctors, like almost everyone, think inside their familiar box.     So, here comes Wayne, asking people to think…a process that has purposely almost been eliminated by our public school system. Though very few doctors are aware of it, scientists have investigated the human body and determined that the immune system, if permitted to do its job, can get rid of any invading germs, viruses, parasites and fungi, plus trash any starting cancers, and repair most things that go wrong with the body.     That’s as long as you don’t dump poisons on it, which take priority and stop any other defense or repair work. Make sense?     The poisons, scientists tell us, are cooked food, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, mercury, drugs, vaccinations, etc. So, it’s simple…if you are interested in being healthy you are going to eat a raw food diet and avoid the other popular poisons. My Secret Guide to Health goes into the details and backup. 2/6/10 Serendipity     As I was driving to Peterborough, about ten miles away, for my regular Saturday morning raw milk pick up, I was listening to my iPod and had it on “shuffle” so it would randomly select tunes from the over 1,500 I keep in it.     As I neared town the next selection it chose was Gottchalk’s Tarantella, one of my topmost favorites. The weird part was that, as it was playing, I was driving on the same place on the same road as the first time I heard the piece, while I was listening to a classical music station on my car radio. I was so taken by it I bought a Gottschalk CD, which included it. And, of course, it made it’s way into my iPod.     Just random chance of such serendipity? Yeah, sure. 2/5/10 Alzheimer’s     Since my mother died of this more and more popular disease, I’ve taken more than a casual interest in it.     As I’ve pointed out in several of my entries, doctors tell us that getting flu shots three years in a row give one a ten times chance of developing Alzheimer’s. It’s the mercury and aluminum in the thimerosal adjutant in the flu shots.     Another proven cause is the mercury in amalgam fillings. If you’ve got any amalgam fillings please find a dentist experienced in removing them and replace them with plastic.    A cause of memory loss like that of Alzheimer’s is not allowing the brain to rest when one is sleeping. Sleeping with talk radio or the TV on prevents the brain from sorting out the day’s memories.     You see, the brain can only do one thing at a time. It can’t multiprocess data. So, if one reads or does puzzles while watching TV, the brain has to jump back and forth between the sensory inputs, and has no way to put them orderly into memory. When you are sleeping you really must have total darkness and quiet so your brain can do it’s job without interference. Make sense?      On the bright side for Alzheimer’s patients, a raw food diet has been proven to cure it. Once the immune system is freed from a steady input of poisons it has ton fight it can cure anything…as confirmed by Drs. Day and Comby.     Well, that’s raw food and no sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and other known poisons, as per my Secret Guide to Health.    2/4/10 Belief    Between inculcated beliefs, long ingrained habits, and addictions,making changes in our lives can be very difficult to achieve.    Sure, smokers know it's bad for their health. But, hell, that's off somewhere in the future, where's my matches? And the grossly obese know that eating doughnuts isn't healthy, but gee, they sure taste good, particularly the honey-dipped. And they're hungry.    Religious beliefs, ingrained from earliest childhood, are the basis for the largest business in the world, with several retail outlets in every town…called churches, synagogues, mosques, etc.    The power of belief is no less when it comes to science and medicine, where every new discovery has followed Schaupenhauer's observation that, “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”    So, what do you believe in?    Being a practicing pragmatist, I aim not to ridicule new ideas, nor oppose them, nor accept them. So I enjoy looking into conspiracy theories, and new discoveries, looking for data to support or discount them. There are so many wonderful mysteries out there to investigate when one's mind and imagination are not imprisoned by beliefs. 2/3/10 Megadocs    So, here in America, we have some 800,000 medical doctors, few of which have a clue as to what causes most diseases, and some 70,000 psychiatrists and psychoanalysts who know little about how to fix problems of the mind. And then we have Wayne Green, who has learned how to cure any illness with no drugs, and how to cure any mental problems, usually in an hour or two.    I don't expect these professionals to be even slightly interested in what I've learned…because it would put them out of business. And would cut our sickness costs by about $3 trillion a year, and that's just here in America.    And worse, like any expert, they believe what they were taught in medical school and will vigorously oppose new concepts or developments.    We'll need maybe a tenth as many doctors to deal with accidents. 2/2/10 The Deficit (A 1996 73 Editorial)     Let’s say that you buy a house and find an old painting in the attic. You take it down to a local antique shop and they give you $100 for it. Wow! Found money! Then you read in the paper that the store has sold it for $7 million. Would you be upset? Remember, you got what you thought was a good price for it.     Well, there’s this 1872 law on the books saying Uncle Sam has to sell land for $2.50 an acre. One parcel of 17,000 acres they sold recently for $42,500 was resold a few days later for $37 million. Did that make Uncle mad enough to change the law? Har de har. Some of the $2.50 parcels of land are near the gambling casinos in Las Vegas and have appraised values up to $47 million. Nearer to our hearts is the incredible Uncle Sam (and that means us taxpayers, buddy) giveaway of radio frequencies. We’re giving away our radio and TV channels for free, even though the users are making billions using them. Ditto cellular telephone channels, and so on. Isn’t it about time we started getting a piece of the action back from these humongous industries which are using our property to make money? Recent FCC auctions of spectrum have brought in billions, but that doesn’t change the free ride our radio and TV stations are getting. And the FCC should be leasing frequencies, not selling them. This is a non-renewable resource.     If someone set up shop on your front lawn and started selling things, wouldn’t you at least expect a cut of the action? When you open a store in a shopping mall you have to agree to pay a percentage of your sales to the mall in exchange for the location. Is there any reason we shouldn’t ask the commercial radio and TV users to pay maybe 10% of their revenues for the use of our property? That would add a few billion to the Treasury. The estimate is that we’re giving away $32 billion a year just for the cellular channels.     Of course, until you get Congress to change, all more revenues will mean is more spending. It won’t cut our taxes one nickel. There are tons of ways for Congress to cut spending, but none of them are yet deemed necessary. What most people don’t understand is that no one is actually running the government. Congress makes laws and the President handles foreign policy and is Commander in Chief of the military. But there’s no one minding the store, so we see endless bureaucratic waste, with no easy way to curb it.     Waste? How about $4.9 billion (with a B) a year for outside consultants for government bureaus? That’s according to the Government Accounting Office.     How about $1.5 billion for Congressional staffs? We could cut $30 billion if we ended farm subsidies, and that doesn’t count how much we’d save on lower food prices which are now being supported. Then, there are failed farm loans, where we’ve donated about $10 billion to the farmers. We might want to cut down on the $22 billion in food stamps too. Hmm, could we make it so the stamps would only be valid for buying raw food?     There are some fascinating recent books which go into the gory details on how Congress is screwing us, but a warning—they might possibly make you mad.     They could even put a strain on your twelve to sixteen years of conditioning in our school system to not cause trouble and to shut the hell up and do as you’re damned well told. I know I almost got mad. Worse, it almost made me think!     One of the most amusing books on government waste is O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores. P.J. shows how Congress could quickly cut $337 billion off the budget, without even getting to the small, half-billion-dollar, items. Then there’s Gross’ Government Racket—Washington Waste From A to Z. And if that doesn’t hold you, read Kelly’s Adventures In Porkland—How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won’t Stop. These are just books on the subject.     There’s nothing new about egregious waste in Washington. I’ve got stacks of books going back ten, twenty and thirty years, all describing the waste—and nothing has ever come of it—or changed.     The probability is high that nothing will change this time, except that the deficit and taxes will continue to rise and the government’s percentage of your pay check will continue to grow. 2/1/10 Better Youngsters  •  (A 1996 73 Editorial)     My search for a way to generate more young hams has taken a strange turn.     My original goals were to (a) provide a solid excuse for the hobby to be kept alive, despite the pressures for our valuable spectrum by rapidly expanding commercial interests and (b) help provide the high-tech work force our country needs to compete against the other industrial countries.     If we’re going to do this we have to get kids interested in amateur radio.     This brought me head-to-head with the mess our schools are in. And that, in turn, got me to reading about our educational system. I’ve found that I’m not alone in criticizing our school system.     Now, before I get really started on how lousy our schools are, let’s just consider what you might do if you were interested in having the very best child or grandchild you could. First, let’s talk about what can go wrong, and then we can discuss how to fix the situation. I’m presuming, of course, that you might have a shred of interest in giving your children the best start in life that you can. Maybe you don’t give a damn. Many parents obviously don’t.     By the time your kids are seven the largest part of their characters will have already been formed. The child at seven won’t be very different fundamentally from the teenager at 15, or the grown-up at 30.     Your child starts with the sperm and the ova. Anything you do to screw up your DNA before conception is going to affect your kid, and not positively. If you mess up your sperm enough, there’ll be a miscarriage. But a lesser disturbance of the DNA message will just burden your child with problems. There may be health, behavioral, or even cosmetic problems.     So what can we do to give our kids the best possible start? Well, research has shown that there are a lot of things that affect our sperm. There are drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. There are magnetic fields such as we find with electric blankets or living near power lines or power sub-stations. There are poisons such as mercury, silver, and nickel, which we can get from amalgam fillings in our teeth. Most of us already know about crack babies, and terrible problems from cocaine, pot, and the hard stuff.     So let’s say that you and your wife go out of your way to give your kid the best start you can. The Prenatal Classroom by Van de Carr and Lehrer will help your baby get off to a fantastic start. Then comes birth. I’ve got to get you to read The Continuum Concept by Liedloff. That’ll keep you from letting the hospital put your baby in their nursery. This is a wonderful guidebook for the first year of life.     Next comes the pre-school era from one to five. This is a time of incredibly rapid learning. It’s a wonderful time to teach babies several languages, if you have a way to continue and develop their use later on. Use it of lose it.     Unfortunately, even if we’ve done everything the best we can until we send them to public school, this is when we will permanently screw up the rest of their lives. I hope I can get you to get the book by John Gatto, the New York State Teacher Of The Year, Dumbing Us Down, The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. It’s inexpensive and a humdinger. Of course, since you are an alumni of this school system, the chances are great that you do not have any interest in reading books. Do you know that the average American schoolteacher only reads one book a year. And then, even if you do read Gatto’s book and get all upset when you find out what’s been going on in schools, you have been so conditioned by your own school experience so the odds are that you have been made into a gutless wimp and won’t have the initiative to even try and do anything about it.     Heck, I’ve discussed the major problems facing our society and proposed inexpensive, creative solutions to them in my Declare War book. Several thousand people have bought it, yet I’ve seen no movement to try and implement any of my proposals. “It can’t be done. It’s hopeless.” Until I read Gatto’s book I hadn’t realized why I was getting verbal and written support, but not seeing any sign of people actually doing anything.     I was around eleven when it finally dawned on me that kids had no more rights than slaves. By law I had to go to school. The only rights I had in school were those the authorities let me have, and they have been backed up by the Supreme Court in this. I was forced to comply by the use of embarrassment and humiliation. You do nothing unless the teacher tells you to—which stifles thinking and makes you dependent on the teacher. I see this pattern in most of the youngsters I’ve hired. They are unable to think for themselves. They sit and wait until they’re told what to do. They are unable to plan work. They’ve always been stopped by the bell before finishing something, so they’re not familiar with the concept of completing work.     Gatto says, “It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among even the best of my students’ parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things. Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United States. Originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from regimentation made us the miracle of the world; social-class boundaries were relatively easy to cross; our citizenry was marvelously confident, inventive, and able to do much for themselves independently, and to think for themselves.”     Gatto points out that it only takes about one hundred hours for a person to learn to read, write and do arithmetic, as long as they’re willing to learn. From then on they can teach themselves. “Schooling, through its hidden curriculum, prevents effective personality development. Indeed, without exploiting the fearfulness, selfishness, and inexperience of children, our schools could not survive at all, nor could I as a certified teacher. Nobody survives the curriculum completely unscathed, not even the instructors. The method is deeply and profoundly anti-educational. No tinkering will fix it—don’t be fooled into thinking that good curriculum or good equipment or good teachers are critical determinants of your son’s or daughter’s education.”     He points out that before television children had enough time to themselves to learn about self-motivation, perseverance, self-reliance, courage, dignity, and love. Now kids, on the average, spend 55 hours a week in front of the TV. That’s one-third of their time. Add to that the stresses of a two-income or single-parent family, and our kids have too little time to learn to become human.Is it any wonder that our engineering universities are running out of potential students, and are having to continuously lower their admission standards? Only 7% of the high school graduates in America have enough math and science background to be accepted by an engineering college. The colleges have responded by turning to foreign students. That’s great for other countries, but it sure leaves ours in a fix. Here we are heading into a high-tech future and we’re turning out fewer and fewer American engineers, technicians and scientists.     The time was, 60 years ago, that youngsters wanted to be hams so badly that they’d put up with learning the code as a barrier. I did, even though I hated being forced to do something which did not make sense to me even then.     Very few of the kids these days have the passion to surmount obstacles, so we’ve instituted the no-code license. Well, we’ve been lowering the standards for school grades in order to get our kids through school, which is the same thing. They’ve even had to lower the SATs because our kid’s scores have dropped so much. Now I see some hams pleading that we lower the technical exam standards so kids won’t have to memorize so much to get a ham license.     There may be some American schools that are pretty good. I’ve read about a few. But most of the better educated children today are being schooled at home by their parents. Maybe you’ve read about it in Newsweek.     Home schooling will be a lot simpler once we have a good video educational series parents can use. These would use top-notch performers, plenty of graphics, and be fun to watch. PBS has been producing some superb educational videos. Now we need to have them to cover everything being taught in the K-12 years, plus everything that should be being taught. And also plus everything kids might want to learn, but which isn’t being taught. We need thousands of these videos.     We’ll still need schools to provide the hardware and facilities to teach skills. You can teach a lot about driving with a simulator, but then you need a car. Ditto flight simulators, etc. You can’t lean to juggle with a simulator, or to throw a boomerang. Or do glass blowing.     College? There may be some that are okay, but if you read the books on education you’ll find that most aren’t much good. Most of the “teaching” is done by student instructors. Get a copy of Thomas Sowell’s Inside American Education, 1993, Free Press, $25.     If you learn much about nutrition you won’t let your kids near a McDonalds. Granted, it’s difficult to get the facts on nutrition. The field is overgrown with fads and scams. But if you want to raise healthy, happy, intelligent children, you’d better learn.     Though it’s far from perfect, the best school I’ve found so far is the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Mass. Here’s a school that accepts children from 4 through 20. It has no curriculum! No classrooms. No tests. No grades. The kids learn what they want, when they want, and if they want. The results are spectacular. I’ve read eight books about the school and visited it personally. It turns out that kids, if give the opportunity, love to learn and run circles around those forced to take courses. My Secret Guide to Wisdom reviews the books about the school and explains where to get them. I wonder what I might have been like and accomplished in life if I’d been able to go to a school like that. 1/31/10 Your Government At Work (A 1996 editorial of mine I thought worth repeating)     Last year one of those TV shows devoted to the weird did a show interviewing farmers and their children who were involved with that supposed 1947 UFO crash in New Mexico. They sure made a good case for the reality of a crashed UFO and its dead occupants being covered up by the government. It certainly was enough to cause any intelligent person to shake off the bindings of “conventional wisdom” and start looking for more information. Or should that be called “conventional ignorance?”     Of course, having always been interested in the UFO phenomenon, I’ve done a lot of homework. I’ve read dozens of books over the last 50 years or so, some very thoroughly researched, others a waste of time. I think I mentioned that back in 1963 Jay Stanton (darn, I forget his call!), a writer and ham friend who was a total UFO skeptic, set off to expose the whole UFO business as bunk. About two years later, no longer a skeptic, his book telling about his conversion was published. He cited some most convincing cases.     I’ve read enough books, talked with enough people who have had personal experiences, and had enough experiences of my own to know that something real is happening. I also know from several incidents that our beloved government is up to here in a cover-up. Yeah, I know, the old government cover-up baloney.     Well, if I hadn’t had a firsthand inside experience with the cover-up in the Amelia Earhart case, which is still being covered up over 60 years later, I might be less easily convinced.     Then, a few days ago, there was another TV weirdo show on the New Mexico UFO crash. This program interviewed the children of some of the Air Force people who were involved. They, like the farmers, had seen the ETs. And their parents, like the farmers, had been threatened by government agents to keep quiet. Or else. Again, their story was most compelling.     But a federal agency wouldn’t threaten private citizens, would they? Well, they did me. Agents from one federal agency got me into a room and explained that if I ever published anything about that agency again they would have me put in prison and make sure that I’d never get out alive. No, I have never written about them again. And I won’t, except in my memoirs, where I will have a whole lot of interesting things to write about. But unless you start paying attention to my advice on nutrition, drinking more water and avoiding poisons, the chances are I’m going to outlive you. 1/30/10 Trumpeting     As Gilbert & Sullivan put it: If you wish in the world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.     Far's I know, I'm unique in that I know how to deal with any health problems, either physical or mental.     The physical is easy…just apply the Greenopathic cure of changing to a raw food diet, with no sugar, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, fluorides, chlorine, and other poisons. Oh, and get plenty of exercise and sleep.     Dealing with mental problems calls for an expertise in Dianetics, with which any psychological or mental problems can be solved.     The Dianetic approach is fairly simple. You see, when something either physically or mentally painful happens to us, our subconscious equates that pain with whatever it perceives at the time so that, in the future, if anything similar is perceived to be happening, we'll automatically avoid it. It's a simple survival strategy built into all living things. And it all happens on a subconscious level. So we have a whole bunch of what are called engrams. These are equations of pain to sounds, sights, and feelings.     With Dianetics, we go back under a light hypnosis to the moments of pain and relive them, over and over, until the engrams have been eliminated. It doesn't take very long to eliminate each of these engrams. And then the person is no longer motivated by subconscious memories, plus the mind is freed up so it can think better.     In my case we mainly had to go back and relive a whole bunch of beatings by my dad. When he'd get mad at something I'd said or done he'd take out his anger with a hairbrush or a razor strop on my butt.     The 1950 book, Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron. Hubbard, is still in print. It explains step by step how and why it works, and how to initiate the hypnosis. You can do it right out of the book.     I got the book when it first came out and tried it with a friend. It was so fantastic I quit my job and went to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth NJ to learn more. After six weeks, and auditing (it's called) a couple dozen people, I got very good at it, and with the painful memories of my beatings no longer affecting me, I have never again been depressed. Before that I really didn't care much whether I lived or not.     Researchers at UNH have shown that most teen suicides are the result of childhood beatings.     Wild animal trainers have learned that the best way to train their animals is with love, not punishment. The lion tamers of old, with their chairs and whips, are a past era. Now, if only more dads would get the message.     Give me any case of PTSD and I'll have it but a memory in an hour or two.     But we Dianetic auditors had a major problem. We couldn't legally do our work because we weren't licensed like psychiatrists, psychologists and psychoanalysts. Hubbard solved that by forming a pseudo-religion, Scientology, making it legal to do religious consulting. I've never gotten involved with Scientology, so I don't know much about it. And I wasn't interested in making a business out of Dianetic processing people. Mostly I stuck to occasionally helping other Dianetic auditors who had problems. 1/29/10 EMPs     Just in case my 12/6/09 piece didn't get you thinking, which unfortunately is probable, I now read that Iran's main rush to develop nukes has to do with their plans for using them to cripple America via EMPs.     So, what plans have you made to protect your family should the power go off…probably permanently… along with all transportation, thus ending the public food supply? And, unlike Haiti, with no rush of emergency food and medical help from foreign countries?     What a great way to take over a country, and with most everything in good shape except the people, who will have died of starvation. Well, all but a few people in farming communities who have planted gardens.    1/28/10 Dowsing     Okay, what do you think about dowsing? Can people really find water underground dependably? Your answer will probably be determined by how knowledgeable or ignorant you are on the subject. It is easy for people to hold strong opinions on things of which they are ignorant.     Some time ago I reviewed Vibrations by Owen Lehto. This is one of the most practical how-to books I’ve found on dowsing. But Owen doesn’t waste a lot of time trying to convince the ignorant. Christopher Bird does in his monumental The Divining Hand. Once you’ve read this book you will no longer be a skeptic. You won’t even be on the fence. Bird goes over the history of divining, which goes back at least a thousand years. Then he covers the scientific research done in the field. And there’s been plenty.     One scientist set up an experiment with two iron posts in the ground. He fed a small voltage to them to see if dowsers could detect it. He found that 80% of the people he tested could invariably detect a 20 mA current. A few could detect currents of 1 mA, and one chap was able to detect 1 µA of current without fail.     This chap was also able to direction-find any radio station while blindfolded. They gave him the frequency and his dowsing rod would point to it.     There are well-drilling companies who use dowsing to find wells and charge nothing if they fail to provide water at the rate of flow they guarantee. They’ve never failed.     Experienced dowsers can find water veins and tell you how far down they are and the flow in gallons per minute to expect. They can even do this working with a map. They can reliably find lost objects and people. They can dowse for metals, oil, coal and natural gas. With oil they can tell how far down the top of it is, the size of the deposit, and its depth.     Dowsers can diagnose illnesses and locate the site of the trouble. They’ve found that many, if not most cases of arthritis and cancer involve people sleeping over several veins of water. When their beds are moved to a place where there are no underground water veins they miraculously recover.     Well, if something coming from the water is making people sick, then it should be possible to detect it scientifically, right? They can! Using a gamma ray detector. In some way the moving water projects a narrow beam upward, which, over time can generate many different illnesses. But you don’t need a gamma ray detector when a simple pendulum will do the job.     An experienced radiesthesiaist can use a pendulum to find the cause of an illness and to find the best medicine to cure it. They can even do this from afar! And it works on animals as well as people.     By shielding a dowser’s body they’ve been able to locate the areas of the body which do the detecting, with one being located in the head by the pineal gland and the other by the adrenal glands.     If you’d like to become an expert on the subject get the Bird book. It’s $30 and is available from several sources. It’s a big, glossy, well illustrated book. 1/27/10 Experiment     If all the ways of stimulating plant growth for a science fair project I cover in my booklet #86 (Super-Organic Food) aren’t enough, I’ve got one more for you. This has to do with voo-do…no, it’s what’s called paramagnetism. It seems that if you hang things by a string and put a magnet near them those which are paramagnetic will be attracted a little bit. Stuff that’s weakly repelled is called diamagnetic. Like wood and water. Most organic stuff is diamagnetic and the most paramagnetic are volcanic rock and ash. Like basalt, which is almost off the chart.     It’s difficult to measure paramagnetism with a string and a magnet, so the experts in the field use a pendulum. Well, why not. Once you get the hang of it a pendulum will dowse for just about anything you ask it to.     But you don’t have to buy into any of this to do the experiment and see for yourself. Some high school kids have won local and state science fair contests with this one.     Since basalt has the most power, if you can find or make a basalt rock about 3” in diameter and 12” long, you’re in business. Granite will do. The idea is to emulate in miniature the round towers of Ireland. About 65 of these still remain, and the fields around them are in much demand by local farmers, who want to fatten their cows on the luxurious grass that grows there.     For the experiment use two plastic buckets or dishes filled with potting soil from the same bag. Plant radish seeds about a half inch deep around the pots, three or four seeds per hole. Water both pots the same and keep both in the sunlight the same, but in one place the stone in the middle. The shape of the rock isn’t critical.     After eight days in a growing temperature of 70-80°F pull them up and weigh the roots “held in place” soil. You’ll see that the plants to the east are the smallest and lightest. Those to the north and south will be middle-sized, and those to the west of the rock will be the largest and heaviest. The plants in the control pot should all be the same.     Now why should a rock in the pot have such a startling effect on plant growth? The next step, naturally, is to start using this phenomenon to our advantage.     If you’re interested in reading more about this you can read Paramagnetism by Phil Callahan (#6158 from Acres USA - $15) and Enlivened Rock Powders by Harvey Lisle (#6103 Acres USA $15).     I’ve been interested in the using of rock powders to both stimulate plant growth and as a way of providing the minerals which are missing from our commercially grown produce. In the Hamaker-Weaver book, The Survival of Civilization, Weaver mentions his eating a quarter to half teaspoon of rock dust very day to supply the missing minerals. Talk about nitty-gritty! But it solved his chronic constipation problem.     There are a bunch of enlivened rock powders on the market that farmers feed to their livestock. It makes the animals more alert, have glossier coats and be generally much healthier, so they should help people too. Hmm, have you any rock powder recipes for me? Yum. 1/26/10 Selenium     (Here's another 1996 disinterred editorial )     As I read the news magazines I kept seeing obits for local well-known people who have died of a heart attack or stroke. Veterinarians solved that problem for animals decades ago. Farm animals don’t die of heart attacks or strokes. Farmers add pellets with the minerals which are almost universally missing from today’s crops to their animal’s feed. But don’t ask your doctor about preventative medicine, vitamins or minerals; they’re not his field. If doctors were taught anything about health maintenance instead of just about sickness symptoms amelioration they wouldn’t be dying younger than the rest of us on the average.     They’re only taught how to treat symptoms, not the illnesses causing them.     Cows, pigs and horses don’t die of heart attacks or Alzheimer’s because farmers give them the minerals they need with their feed. Well, that’s something for you to think about as the ambulance rushes you to the emergency ward. That old ounce of prevention. Or more likely, 50 mg of selenium or some other missing mineral that’s critically important to your body’s function.     No, I’m no MD, nor even a DVM, so I don’t ask that you believe me. But I recommend you do your homework the way I have. I realize that you may not have much time to read, what with your spending a little time at work, and then watching ball games, sitcoms, soaps, and talk shows, making you a living example of the boiled frog syndrome. That’s where, if you drop a frog into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. But if you put him in warm water with a fire under it he’ll enjoy the warmth until he's boiled.     And that’s the way it is with sugar, white bread, smoking, using drugs, and eating food that lacks the basic minerals and vitamins our bodies developed a dependency on over millennia's of design. Our bodies were designed to work on raw wild foods. They were never designed to cope with coffee and doughnuts or Big Macs, fries, and a malt. So, either we have to figure some way to get our bodies the materials they need or settle for half a life. The expression, “You are what you eat,” is right.     For instance, in one of the ham radio club newsletters there was a very nice obit about Travis Baird W9VQD. Travis stroked out (a mineral lack). He was into music, opera, speed skating, photography, sailing, football, computers, the violin, amateur television, and so on. Now he’s gone. Diet.     Forty-one of the books in my review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read” are health oriented. The most important is Maximize Immunity by Dr. Bruno Comby. If you read The Secrets of the Soil, another of my recommended books, you’ll find out how to grow food that has the missing minerals.     Ever since the invention of the flush toilet we’ve been getting rid of the minerals in our crops instead of refertilizing our fields with them, as people did up until the 20th century. Now we use chemicals as fertilizer, and we’re suffering the consequences.     Hmm, I wonder how many of you grew up on a farm with a back house and had to shovel out the privy every spring? My family’s farm in Bethlehem NH had no running water and no electricity, so I know what it is to take a flashlight out to the privy in back of the barn at night in the rain. And there was no heat until the first one up (me) started the fire in the kitchen stove with newspaper, kindling, and some kerosene to get the wood going fast. And another fire in the living room fireplace when it was really cold. While the stove was warming up I’d refill the kerosene lamps. The stove had a water tank at one end, so once the water was warm enough I’d scoop some out into a 5-gallon watering can. Then, in the summer kitchen, out by the woodpile, I’d hoist the can over my head with a pulley and take a fast shower. That part of the house was unheated by the stove, so 5 gallons of water was plenty.     Few farms today have a privy, so farmers today are flushing what few minerals they’re getting in their food into their septic system, not into a privy and then the compost heap. You either get your missing trace minerals from a health store or you make the doctors even wealthier as you have your heart attack or stroke. Your choice. You can learn exactly what trace minerals your body needs by reading a most entertaining book by Dr. Joel Wallach. It’s Rare Earths—Forbidden Cures. 500 large pages, $20 from Wellness Lifestyle, Box 1222, Bonita CA 91908 - 800-755-4656. Yes, it’s reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom. . 1/25/10 Kaku Kookoo?     Art Bell has had Professor Kaku on his program several times (seven, actually) discussing cosmology. Unfortunately the Professor is completely mired in the Big Bang theory of how the universe got started. I wrote about this situation years ago when I reviewed Eric Lerner's 1992 book, The Big Bang Never Happened. In the interim, researchers have continued to make discoveries which have forced the Big Bang believers to ever more extravagant excuses to support their belief.     Recent research has shown that photons are slowed down when they collide with ions in space. Space is not empty, it’s just that ions and hydrogen atoms are spread out. But, by the time a photon has traveled a few million light years it’s significantly slowed, causing the red shift.     Hubble noticed that the further galaxies were away, the redder they were. He attributed this to the Doppler Effect, which meant that the further they were away, the faster they had to be moving away from us. Lordy, the universe was expanding! And that meant that, looking backwards in time, it had to have started from some point. Voilà, the Big Bang.     I published an article by Bill Hoisington K1CLL around 40 years ago entitled, Light Naturally Runs Down. Bill had it right and Hawkins and Kaku have it wrong.     So much for the age of the universe being 2 (cosmologist’s early guesses) to 14 billion years old.     But, you ask, what about that universal background microwave radiation? That’s not echoes of the Big Bang, it’s the result of the interactions of light with charged particles in space.     This fits in a lot better with Sir Fred Hoyle’s theories in his Evolution from Space (see page 11 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom for a review).     The Hubble telescope has gone a long way toward destroying Hubble’s expanding universe theory. No matter how sparse the visible light in any direction, no matter where the telescope is aimed there are a seemingly infinite number of galaxies to be seen. A recent Art Bell guest said there are more than 10,000 galaxies for every blade of grass on Earth. He was probably being too conservative. 1/24/10 American Wars     We are, at least for the time being, the world’s mightiest power…both militarily and in business. And  boy, are we a mess!     In the war department, there was our War on Poverty, which put millions on welfare and helped trigger the greatest foreign invasion of any country in history.     And our War on Drugs, which has helped make millionaires out of over a million criminals. Drugs have never been more plentiful or so reasonably priced.     How about that Vietnam war? We lost that one, too.     Did we win in Korea? Yeah? What did we win?     Let’s not discus our Somalia invasion. Or Grenada. Or Haiti. Or Panama.     Well, how are we doing with our War on Terror? Har-de-har.     Have you been reading about what a terrible mess we made of our Afghanistan invasion? Iraq? Let’s not discuss that mess, either.     We have a dozen or so (or is it fifty?) so-called government intelligence organizations, with no hint of intelligence resulting.     I’m pretty good at coming up with creative solutions to problems. In this case I see what the problem is, but I have no solutions to propose. Maybe you can come up with something?     The same problem that’s making the government and the military so stupid, is doing the same thing to our major corporations.     In the government…in the military…and in big business, you get ahead by sticking to your desk and looking busy. If you are crazy enough to propose changing the way things are, you’ll have almost everyone fighting you. You’re a goner. The status quo stifles any creativity or out-of-the-box thinking. The result, obviously, is that only those who play the game and are incapable of thinking, survive in an organization. So we end up with Generals, Admirals, CEOs, Presidents, and heads of government agencies who have never had an original thought and are used to fighting any they encounter.     They surround themselves with people who make them comfortable. Yes-men. Ooops, I mean yes-people.     Why are the student graduates of our most expensive in the world government public school system coming in absolutely last on international surveys? It's the bureaucracies running them.     How come we’ve been outsmarted in our invasions of Cuba, Haiti, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, and on down the list? Dumb leadership. We’ve got dim bulbs lighting our way.     This is nothing new. It’s what changed Great Britain into Britain. Sir William Gilbert, over a hundred years ago, twitted the British government with H.M.S. Pinafore (among other operettas). The Rt. Honorable Admiral Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., when asked how he got to that high position, finished his song, “So, stick close to your desks and never go to sea, and you all may be a Ruler of the Queen’s Navy.”     If our forefathers hadn’t been creative and hid behind trees, mowing down the British ranks, instead of marching in rows like the British soldiers, we’d probably be another colony, like Canada. 1/23/10 DAV     The Disabled American Veterans meetings are as dull as those of the American Legion, judging from a letter from a nearby member.     Well, their magazine, like that of the Legion, has had nothing of interest in it. So I sent a letter to the editor offering to submit an article for his consideration on how veterans could improve their health substantially via a diet change. The response from Gary Weaver, their National Director of Communications, was that he had no interest in getting my submission.     Figures. 1/22/10 The War We Lost—and Lost Big     (This is a disinterred 73 editorial from 1996…14 years ago)     Short quiz: What is the most expensive war in American history? It is a war that cost more than WWII, Korea, and Vietnam combined? Hint—it’s one we lost. One we lost in a big way. One that has brought about catastrophic changes in our country.     It’s President Johnson’s (Lyndon) War on Poverty. Welfare. Welfare mothers. Hey, it’s your money your politicians are shoveling out. Over $5 trillion so far, and with no end in sight.     When the government pays women welfare benefits equivalent to $12 an hour, two and a half times the minimum wage, in New York and Washington, not to work, what do you think this does to wages in those areas? To be “entitled” to this largess at our expense the women have to have children—the more the better—no job, and no husband that’s working.     In 39 states welfare benefits are equivalent to about $16,600 a year. In eight it’s over $20,000.     Later I’ll tell you about a woman with two children who is on welfare in my small New Hampshire town. Her food and apartment are provided, plus schooling for one child, complete with a paid driver to ferry the child to school and back every day. The woman is bitterly complaining that her welfare-provided cable TV only gives her two paid channels. Oh yes, her husband is working, but they are “separated.” A recent exposé on welfare showed a couple of women in Laconia (NH) sitting in their apartments getting fat on this same system. Work? And lose all those benefits? You’ve got to be kidding!     So we complain about the single mothers. We complain about the loss of family values that’s turning out one generation after another of uneducated welfare mothers and resulting criminal children with no incentive or skills to work. Compassion gone berserk, and to hell with the survival of the fittest concept. We’re making sure that the least fit survive and proliferate, dragging us all down.     What can you do about this mess you’ve meekly let fester? Two things. First, we’ve got to stop Congress from making things worse. Second, we’ve got to make sure Congress strikes out all of the laws they’ve made that are screwing us up. Get the feds out of the mercy business, which is just another name for socialism. My bumper-sticker approach to this is to start with Green’s NRA: Never Re-elect Anyone! Get those bribed (via lobbyists) scoundrels out of Washington. Let’s build a whole new breed of one-term semi-politicians.     But most important is to take a few days off from watching mind-numbing TV and educate yourself. There are some damned good books which will help you understand what’s gone wrong with our school system (which is a disaster), with the war on poverty (which we lost), the war on drugs (which we’ve also lost), our so-called health-care system (another enormously overpriced disaster), our “correctional institutions” (which exacerbate, not correct) and so on. Hey, we have the potential for having a pretty good country, but it’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to undo Congressional mischief and make it happen.     The multi-level marketing (chain-letter) approach will work for us. First you educate yourself. Then you get two or three other people started being educated. And they do the same for two or three more. Then form a local action group. The next thing you know, we’ll have a movement.     I’d like to see local political action clubs (PACs) get going. Members would be encouraged to read a book and report on it at the next meeting. There are an awful lot of books out there, but only a small percentage of them are both interesting and educational. By distributing the work of separating the wheat from the chaff, a group can easily do something that no one person could possibly accomplish.     The next thing you know some entrepreneur will start collecting the book reports and submit them to me for publication. And I’ll pay for ’em. The resulting sale of the better books will help discourage publishers from unloading crap on us, and will encourage the writing of even better books.     My $5 Secret Guide to Wisdom is a review of “books you’re crazy if you don’t read,” and covers a wide variety of topics. Reading these books will beat the heck out of a college education, be thousands of dollars cheaper, and take several years less time. Maybe you can get some high school kids interested in learning to read.     Perhaps I’ve let my idealism run away with me in even suggesting that we try to run our country on reason instead of fanaticism. Maybe screaming protesters and terrorism are the rule of the day and reason passé.     Anyway, if you feel that people who prefer not to work are worth $335 billion of your money being taken out of your paycheck every year, then go back and watch that ball game on TV. As long as you’re satisfied that you’re getting your money’s worth it’s no problem. If you’d get Congress to stop wasting your money we could go back to where a one paycheck family could live comfortably and a mother could have the time to spend with her children. One reader suggested a way to solve the deficit problem would be to fire the top three layers of management of all federal bureaus on the basis that it’s unlikely that anyone lower down would notice much difference. Oh, the bureau’s jet planes would get less use. But why not fire ’em down five levels and start reducing the deficit instead of just stopping its growth?     Oh yes, one more innovation. Since many of our more serious social problems have been caused by federal judges running amok, bypassing the legislative system, how about putting term limits on those rascals too? It would also be nice if we could somehow encourage the Supremes to stop trashing to Constitution. There is no place in the Constitution which supports the social programs Congress has enacted and the Supremes have endorsed. 1/21/10 Roswell     If you're into the UFO world, you've read plenty about the UFO crash in Roswell NM in 1947, with the ensuing government cover-up. UFOs have been and still are being spotted all around the world. There was a recent TV show on USOs, Unidentified Submerged Objects…UFOs that dive into or come zooming out of the ocean or lakes.     There are endless reports of sightings and contactees. Frankly, I'm pissed, considering my long interest, in their not bothering to contact me. Lousy bastards. Anyway, here's what I think is going on.     First the occupants are not ETs, they're time travelers from the future. And those little grey things are their versions of live robots.     Time travel? Ridiculous, you say? Well, go back to around 1850 and try to tell people that in the future there will be trolleys going around the world in the air at hundreds of miles an hour. Every home will have light in every room that can be instantly turned on and off, with no kerosene needed. Everyone will have a self-powered wagon, needing no horses, that can go a hundred miles an hour. Telephones, radio, TV, etc.  Well, you make the list. They'd consider you a total nut case.     I'm convinced that time travel will be invented because we see the images of the round UFOs in the cave paintings from 17,000 years ago. And they are described in Alexander The Great's notebooks as hovering over his battles. Of course, when time travel is made possible one of he first uses will be to document history.     It may be that it's not easy to go to a specific date, which could explain the use of crop patterns, which only last a few days, and which no two are the same.     We don't know much about time. There not being any money in it, there's little for researching time. But we do know there's been man, many cases of proven precognition, so something is going on we don't understand. And people that report back after death try to explain that time over "there" is no longer linear. They can go into the past or the future.     Why all the secrecy from the UFO occupants? It probably has to do with their avoiding changing their future with things they do when going back. Can they go forward in time? I'll let you know when I find out. You'll get some powerful clues by reading Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe (reviewed on page 41 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom), and the Chet Snow's Mass Dreams of the Future (reviewed on page 46 of my Secret Guide to Wisdom).     Yes, the so-called ETs communicate via telepathy. Radin describes the successful research that's already been done with that. Communicating thoughts avoids having to learn new languages. 1/20/10 Dancing     While in high school in Brooklyn I used to take dancing lessons at a downtown dancing studio. Well, it was a great way to meet girls, and to be ready for the school proms. Having rarely, if ever, danced since, I doubt if I could deal with anything beyond a foxtrot now.     If I was faced with an upcoming cruise or a party, where dancing is part of the evening's entertainment, I'd grab Sherry get busy relearning to dance.     I was reminded of this when a book I picked up at the town dump had a program from a Virgin Islands cruise and they had dancing after dinner every evening, with disco going on to 2 AM.     Having already been on all of the cruises I'll go on for this lifetime, and my high school reunions long gone, my need to know how to dance is remote. So I haven't bothered, even though Sherry is selling about 150 different how to dance DVDs that she's produced.     She got started about 20 years ago. She got Kathy Blake, a prize-winning dancing teacher from a nearby town, to put some dance lessons on video tape, doing the taping in a TV studio. The customer reaction was so enthusiastic they kept taping more and more lessons. Beginning, intermediate, and expert for the more popular steps, and then into the Latin dances, disco, dirty, lambada, and so on.     Well, dancing is great exercise, both for the body and the mind. And it's romantic, often leading to the bedroom.     When Sherry is out I often take orders from her customers who call, so I get to hear their raves over how great Kathy is at teaching…often from people who've tried other dance lesson videos.     When DVDs came along Sherry got all of her tapes put on that medium, so she has the titles available either on tape or DVD now. Look up Butterfly Video or Kathy Blake Dance Lessons.     The last cruise I was on was around the Caribbean in a converted ferry with a deck for cars. They converted the car deck to hold small boats for scuba diving tours. So we cruised around every night, diving somewhere new every day. The ferry didn't have a dance floor area, so my lack of dancing skills didn't present any problems. Well, if another scuba diving cruise comes up, I might just go for one more cruise. 1/15/10 Saga     When I was three I vaguely remember we were living in the ground floor of an old brownstone on Rodgers Avenue, in Brooklyn. Dad never (in his whole life) talked about his work, so I had no clue as to what he was doing. I know he was a Hupmobile salesman for a while. Then we moved to an apartment on the corner of Avenue K and East 14th Street, in Brooklyn, about three blocks from my mother's folks, on East 15th Street and just off Avenue N.     By then dad was working for the Department of Commerce, testing people applying for pilot's licenses. I heard later that he'd refused to give Admiral Byrd, the Arctic and Antarctic explorer a license because he was a lousy pilot. Dad had pilot's license number 73 and commercial pilot's license number 89. His car license was C89.     Then, when I was turning five, in 1927, we moved to an apartment (3,000 Samson Street) in Philadelphia, while he started building an airport across the river in Camden. Dad had made a trip around the country for the Department of Commerce, doing a report on the airports, which was put into a book for pilots. Central Airport, in Camden, was, I understand, the first with concrete runways. Dad designed and built it, and was the manager for several years.     I went to kindergarten in Philly, and to first grade. When I was six, if someone will check the old newspapers, they'll find me listed as a passenger on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and New York (actually, across the river, in Newark NJ), where there was a small airport with the usual cinder runway and something like a mobile home for the airport administration building. From there we flew to Lakehurst NJ, where they kept the dirigibles. I still remember the enormous hangers.     At school the next day, since I'd made the newspapers, they had a special assembly where I got on stage and told about my flight. My first public speech.     We moved from Philly across the river to Merchantville, NJ, to be closer to the airport. I'd often ride my bike to the airport after school and play around the planes…including Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega. Well, I think is was the Vega, but it may have been the Lockheed Orion. It was the nicest plane at the airport.     Dad had an bar from a defunct speakeasy in the basement of our house at 1937 Hillcrest Avenue. This was, of course, during prohibition, so there were no bars for pilots to spend their time. Well, dad's basement bar made coming to dinner at our place popular. And that, several times, included Amelia Earhart.     Jim Eaton, who had worked for Pan American, and had a blue and yellow macaw (Arrara) he'd brought from Brazil, had a hacienda-type house on the outskirts of Philadelphia. It even had a small pool, where I'd go swimming when we visited him for dinner. Jim had a Korean man-servant, Shi, and a chow dog that loved to play with Arrara.     The next thing I knew we moved to Washington DC, where we had an apartment in Woodly Park Towers at 2737 Devonshire Place, across the street from the Washington Zoo. Dad was now passenger and cargo manager for Luddington Airlines and Jim Eaton was the president. Jim was now living in an apartment a couple blocks from ours, still with Arrara, Shi and the chow. And I was walking about four blocks to the Oyster School every day.     When WWI got started in 1917, dad was 20 years old and prime trench bait for the Army. So his folks enrolled him in the New York Military Academy. He graduated as a lieutenant and opted for the Army Air Force. They sent him to Kelly field outside San Antonio to learn to fly. By the time he got his pilot's license the war was over. But the other pilots were frequent visitors for dinner at our house for the next few years. Like Tom Carroll and Carroll Cone.     Mom and dad got married when he was back home in Littleton NH on leave, so after I was born we lived on the base at Langley Field in Hampton VA while I was one and two years old. That's where General Billy Mitchell came to our house for dinner a couple of times. They made a movie about his court marshal when he insisted that airplanes could sink a battleship. So, he proved it.     When dad's enlistment was up we moved to Rodgers Avenue in Brooklyn.     All went well with Luddington Airlines. I remember being on the inaugural flight between Washington and Norfolk VA, with a band playing, the governor and mayor being on the flight, much speeching and hoopla, and me loving the limelight. The airline was owned by Tommy Luddington and Amelia Earhart. Then, in 1933, they sold it to Eastern Air Transport, later to be Eastern Airlines…and then, many years later, Continental Airlines.     So we went back to Brooklyn, moving in with my mom's folks on East 15th Street. And Jim Eaton moved to an apartment in Manhattan, where he wasn't allowed to keep the macaw, so Arrara lived with us for the next 30 years. I don't know what happened to Shi and the chow dog. Jim and dad were busy starting Marine Airlines, which would use flying boats and provide a daily service from downtown Manhattan to downtown Boston.     Eastern and TWA (Transcontinental and Western Airlines at the time…later to become TransWorld Airlines) liked being able to add Boston to their destinations via Marine Airlines, so they invested in the stock. Everything was going fine until Juan Trippe, the president of Pan American, who wanted no competition in any flying boat airlines, got his good friend President Roosevelt, to issue a Presidential Order saying that no airline could own stock in another airline. Poof, Marine Airlines was out of business.     So Jim and dad went to American Export steamship lines and proposed starting the first trans-Atlantic airline. American Export was, by far, the largest steamship line, with huge liners like the Exeter, Excambian, Exminister, and so on, mainly servicing the Mediterranean for vacationers. And the airline would use flying boats. American Export loved the idea.     The route would be via Belem in Brazil, over to Dakar in Senegal and up to Genoa in the winter, and via Botwood, Newfoundland to the Azores and then to Genoa in the summer. Dad spent a year organizing the docking and support facilities around the Mediterranean     They just got it up and going when WWII came along and the government stepped in. The airline was used during the war to move generals and their staffs over to Europe in hours instead of weeks via ships. Then, as the war was winding down, Juan Trippe got Roosevelt to issue another Presidential Order. This time it said that no steamship line could own an airline. American Export Airlines was up for sale. Pan Am wanted it, but American Export refused to sell to Trippe, so American Airlines bought it, making it American Overseas Airlines for a short while. Then they sold it to Pan Am.     Jim and dad were out of work again. But not or long. It wasn't difficult to convince Ireland to extend their airline from just servicing Europe to adding a trans-Atlantic service. So Jim and dad set up offices in Manhattan, ordered the fly