Are you really
Born Free?
This might
explain all the earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcanic activity...
Is it Star Trek or is it
Phobos?
The meaning of
sex...
Yeah this is the change we signed up for...God Bless
Obamacare...
Introducing artist/illustrator...
Morgan Schweitzer...
As William Wallace once said..."It's all for nothing if you don't have
freedom"
The real star wars...
HAARP...
29 simple pleasures...
Knowledge
Diagnostic Tests, The Family Health Guide
"What do you have to do to prepare for a MRI? Will having a liver biopsy be painful? Will I need to do anything special afterward? How soon will it be safe to go home after a cardiac catheterization and what are the risks? How soon will the results of that antibody test be back?" Get answers to these concerns as well as those surrounding many other medical procedures. The Family Health Guide is actually a book published by Harvard Medical School. The site is designed for access to the various chapters and also includes information not found in the hardcopy. There are sections on First Aid, featured Advice from a Harvard doctor as well as Tools to help you assess your risk for cancer. This site should become one of your favorites for managing your health and associated care.
Pastimes and Paradigms: Games We Play
The general public might think of games as child's play, but even professors at Cornell University's Carl A. Knoch library are getting into the spirit, with good reason. "We might think of games as charming historical artifacts, but they are also telling reflections of social values and mores." Now you have an opportunity to explore the evolution of games since the 1800's with sections that feature different games from different cultures around the world. After you get 'game history' under your belt, try the Crossword Puzzle to see if you can indeed keep up with the professors. Good luck!
"The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history.... GALEX’s observations are telling scientists how galaxies, the basic structures of our Universe, evolve and change. Additionally, GALEX observations are investigating the causes of star formation during a period when most of the stars and elements we see today had their origins." Come join this mission that is providing data that will help scientists find answers on 'the history of star formation in the Universe,' 'what nearby galaxies look like in ultraviolet light' and 'when and where did the stars and elements we see today have their origins.' Browse the Image Gallery for your own space experience and visit the News Room for the latest on the project. This site is a good resource for delving into the formation of the universe!
National Geographic King Tut
"Egypt's boy pharaoh has fascinated the world since the first glimpse of his tomb in 1922. Now modern forensics and high-tech imaging offer new insights into his life — and death." Here's your opportunity to get a glimpse into the mysteries of King Tutankhamun, thanks to National Geographic. Check out the Photo Gallery, follow the Field Notes of the researchers. You can take your own a personal tour of the tomb with descriptions of the new research that has been done on the mummy, some of the presentations with audio. Here's a great opportunity for an armchair exploration of the world of this renowned figure from ancient Egyptian history.
Spice Up Your Health
Your favorite marinades may provide a beneficial source of natural antioxidants, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Western Ontario.
After analyzing seven popular brands of marinade that contained herbs and spices as their primary ingredients, they found “very good quantities” of antioxidants remained, even after cooking and marinating.
Although marinating meat reduced antioxidants levels by 45-70 percent, there was still a benefit over cooking meat plain, with no marinade.
Consumers can help boost their intake of antioxidants by choosing sauces with the highest levels of antioxidants to begin with, according to researchers.
“Foods rich in antioxidants play an essential role in preventing cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, inflammation and problems associated with cutaneous aging,” Science Daily reported.
Insight
DECISIONS
As I think back over the years, I have been guided by four principles for decision making. First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they are made.
Robert Rubin
Have a reason for making a decision. You won’t always be right, but be sure your reasoning was correct.
Eddie Kasko
Today's Quotes
EXPERIENCE
“Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last 10 years, I would suggest that’s long enough!” —Jim Rohn
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later, a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” —Denis Waitley
“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” —Sophia Loren
“If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.” —Euripides
Today's Quotes
EXPECTATION
“Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.” —Denis Waitley
“It is funny about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will very often get it.” —W. Somerset Maugham
“Life... it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.” —Richard M. DeVos
“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.” —Barbara Pletcher
Fun
Heavy snow had buried my van in our driveway. My husband, Scott, dug around the wheels, rocked the van back and forth and finally pushed me free. I was on the road when I heard an odd noise. I got on my cell and called home. "Thank God you answered," I said when Scott picked up. "There's this alarming sound coming under the van. For a moment I thought I was dragging you down the highway."
"And you didn't stop?"
Whiskey & Gunpowder
By Don Stott
April 16, 2010
ColoradoGold.com
How Did We Get Here?
The year 2010 has America reeling on the brink of total, disgusting, annihilation, whether the D.C. Gang admits it or not. Look at us. We have debts, currently at close to $13 trillion, and committed spending of $170 trillion, both amounts far too large to comprehend. We have borrowed and borrowed from the citizens, China, and anyone else who will lend. The more we borrow, the more we owe, and the more interest which will accumulate. The lenders are now having second thoughts about lending us more. Without the loans, we are lost, and may be lost eventually anyway. It used to be that the income tax paid for our expenses, but now it doesn’t even pay the interest we owe each year. We cannot ever pay the debt, which grows larger each minute.
We have managed to create enemies around the world by interfering in others’ business, lifestyles, and politics, especially in Muslim nations. Why are we in Afghanistan, and Iraq? Why are we responsible for millions of innocents being put to death in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea? Did any of these nations harm or threaten us? It goes back to economics again, because those wars have reduced the value of our dollar so much, that it will buy but perhaps 10% of what it bought before Korea. The devaluation of the dollar has made saving in it stupid, but most still do. We have decapitated cities, jobs and manufacturing gone overseas, and a huge underclass. How did it happen?
Several things happened, and not just when FDR came into office. They all have been committed by...the federal government. Every single problem or situation we have now, in this once land of the free and home of the brave, was instigated by the federal government and the Congress and Presidency which operates it. The concept of public schools, and for that matter ‘public’ anything, is certain to lead to corruption, inefficiency, huge costs, and little accomplished. Would you rather use a private bathroom, or a public rest room? The concept of public schools, arose from the usual reasons, which politicians always use, and that is ‘for the public good.’ ‘Everyone should have an education!’ Everyone should be rich too, and have a car, nice home, ample food, vacations, free air travel, and admission to movies and amusement parks also. But everyone isn’t going to get those things, at least for now, so why should government make taxpayers pay for and force attendance to a public school? Public schools are a disaster, simply because they are ‘public,’ and everyone thinks they are ‘free.’ Before public schools, America was infinitely better educated than it is now. Check out a McGuffy’s Reader of 125 years ago, and see for yourself.
Voting used to require people to be able to pass a literacy test and pay a small poll tax before they were allowed to vote. This sifted out those who were unable to make a good decision, or even know what they were voting for, and the poll tax paid for the cost of the election. When the voter rights act was passed, do-gooder liberals invaded poor sections of America. As a result, we had, and have even more now, inept voters, who always vote for the Democrat who promises the most largess from the public treasury. This takes us back to economics again, and a huge debt. America has a crop of politicians in office, who are an absolute disgrace, because of the overwhelming number of inept, low IQ, un-educated, voters. What is wrong with a voter being able to know what’s going on, and to have to pay a dollar or so to be able to vote? As an addition, why not require a voter to prove he has a job, or even own property?
When FDR and his Democrats passed Social Security, which has naturally become a habit-forming nightmare, Americans forgot how to prepare for the future, and Social Security will be with us forever. Its cost will escalate infinitely, and is already bankrupt, with not a single dime in the till. A nightmare conceived by politicians, because everyone ‘needs to have a good retirement,’ which is the same as saying, “everyone needs an education.” The result of both is a disaster. What everyone ‘needs,’ and what our Constitution says government should do, are opposites. People should have to work for what they “need,” and not have it given to them, because it destroys the mind and incentive when they are given what politicos have told them they “need.” For every freebie or subsidy, the deficit grows larger, and collapse grows nearer, which will bring on violence. Try to get out of the big cities before the inevitable happens.
The public school idea, has proven to be a disaster of titanic proportions, but no one knows how to stop it or tame it. It’s that way with all supposedly important and needy things, such as food and health care, to name two more examples. When Medicare was passed in 1965, because ‘everyone needs to have good health,’ the camel got its foot in the tent, and now he is in the tent, and the medical system will go down the tubes. Medicare, was simply the first step towards what Obama, Democrats, and probably too many RINO Republicans want, and that is what Canada, the UK, and other socialistic nations have, and that is total government medical care. This will mean that America will no longer be the primary discoverer of new drugs, and have the world’s best hospitals and doctors. We’ll just be another cog oin the big wheel of socialism, communism, and totalitarianism, or total gov ernment.
When the first public housing was built in 1937, because “people need to have a place to live,” that spelled the ruin of our cities, caused white flight, huge oil consumption for commuting, expensive, taxpayer paid for highways, air pollution, frayed nerves, billions of hours wasted in travel time, and lost tax base in the cities. There will always be public housing now, because no one could possibly do away with it. Those people vote for their Democrat representatives and senators.
When food stamps were started in 1972, because ‘poor people need to eat,’ another cog in the communistic wheel of total government was cast, and it will never go away. I haven’t even mentioned the income tax and Federal Reserve, which was sneaked into law in 1913. (The word “snuck” is terrible grammar, and far too many use it!). The Federal Reserve, which is not ‘federal,’ and has no ‘reserves,’ caused the great depression, as well as the one we are currently in, but no one in D.C. has the guts to look at the fed, and realize that it has helped to kill America. The 16th Amendment (income tax) was not legally ratified, but the Supremes say it was, even though absolute proof exists that its ratification was totally unconstitutional. Two volumes in my possession, titled, “The Law That Never Was,” volumes one and two, give every state’s vote, and every single detail of that state’s vote for the 16th Amendment, and this unequivocally proves that it was never constitutionally passed. So we continue to pay, and probably always will. No one in D.C. has the guts to stand up and say ‘ENOUGH.”
If all these things were immediately stopped dead in their tracks, we would have mass rioting, which we might have anyway, when the debt problem causes a dollar melt-down. There may be ways to correct it still, if the Tea Party Movement gets really into gear. Here’s how it could happen if the right politicians got into office.
(1) Prohibit any new entries into Social Security, but allow those in it already to continue. Give a refund of all that was put in, for citizens under the age of 30. That would rid us of it in 32 years.
(2) Prohibit any new entries into Medicare, and refund all that those under 30 have put in, plus abort the new Obamacare law.
(3) Eliminate all federal subsidies for public schools, public housing, and public anything. Let the states decide what to do, and what to tax.
(4) Gradually eliminate 90% of federal bureaucracies, beginning with immediate removal of the Department of Education. Want a shocker? Google “Federal bureaucracies and agencies,” and you’ll be amazed at the nonsense that goes on in D.C.
(5) Eliminate all federal mandates to states, counties and cities. These cost taxpayers lots of dollars, and are throttling their legitimate functions.
(6) Naturally, bring all the troops home, and declare total neutrality, which might bring a semblance of sanity to D.C.
(7 to 100) you name it!
We are at a time in history, when it might be possible to save America from the natural progression of things throughout the history of all nations and civilizations, which seem to have had a lifespan of about 200 years. We’re way past that. It will be difficult, seeing the low quality of voters who always vote for the Democrat who promises them the most. We got the low quality because of the above. To win, the thinkers and logical, patriotic citizens, must out-vote those who are hooked on handouts, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps, public schools, and public housing. It will not be an easy job! There is so much wrong here, all caused by ever growing government. Mistakenly, people look to government to fix things, but government not only makes things worse, but creates ever more destructive laws, bureaucracies, and mandates, which have destroyed America. Ten years ago, would any American have thought we’d have a couple dozen “Czars?” Chin up, protect yourself, and go to one of 2,000 Tea Parties today!
Regards,
Don Stott
P.S.: From several sources: the feds are seriously considering capturing your IRA’s and substituting annuities in treasury bills, which could mean seizing your metals. I urge you to consider removing your gold an silver from your IRA’, pay the taxes, and take the gold and silver home. Evidently the Fourth Amendment no longer holds.
Bits & Pieces
CREATE YOUR DESTINY
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Take the tools in hand and carve your own best life.
Douglas Lurton
Peace, love and happiness...until next time...
