Psst, Wanna Know a Secret?

Wanna know a secret? A secret that multi-billion dollar Pharmaceuticals Companies don’t want you to know? They don’t want you to know because if you knew, they couldn’t sell you a $5.00 pill that requires a $6.00 pill to address side effects the first pill caused and on and on. Ya know what I’m talking about here, don’t you? I’m talking about a way to prevent the common cold, that’s what. That’s right, it works every time and only costs pennies. Alright, stick with me now, think back to previous winters when it turned cold and your house got really dry inside and all of a sudden you started blowing small amounts of blood into your Kleenex. What happens is that the capillaries inside your nose are very close to the surface, and when it gets dry outside, the inside your nose starts to dry out too, exposing the capillaries and causing them to leak blood. You now have exposed blood vessels inside your nose that will permit the direct introduction of germs into your blood stream. So when you breathe in through your nose, you are providing an avenue for cold and others viruses that are in the air a way to get directly into your blood stream. Viruses and germs that have a direct path into your blood stream will ensure infection. This nonsense of washing your hands to prevent virus introduction into your mouth is a bunch of hooey. This is not how most colds are caught. Most colds are caught because the virus has a way to get into the blood stream (inside the nose) and directly causing a cold infection. What to do? Every morning grab a Q-Tip and dab a generous amount of Neosporin on it and then put it inside your nose to thoroughly spread it around in there. Do it for each side of your nose. What happens is that the petroleum base of the Neosporin will reverse the dryness inside your nose and thereby permit the openings in the capillaries that are leaking blood a chance to heal and no longer be an avenue for virus to infiltrate into the blood stream. This simple step will prevent most viruses from gaining an avenue to infect you. Also, the antibiotic compounds in Neosporin will kill any bad guys that are still in there. Rather simple and oh so logical. Try it, it really works, and you will enjoy a cold free winter without all of the colds remedies and misery.

MONEY, MONEY,MONEY

Bloomberg News reports that the Federal Reserve has "bought" $1.7 Trillion dollars of Federal Government Securities (Bonds) through March of 2010. The Federal Reserve will buy an additional $600 Billion of Federal Government securities through next June of 2011. Combine these "purchases" with some $300 Billion of Mortage bonds the Federal Reserve has already "purchased" and you have a reported $2.6 Trillion dollars added into the economy. Please bear in mind that these amounts are what has been reported by the Federal Reserve. The books of the Federal Reserved are closed to the public so we really have no knowledge of any other Federal Reserve "purchases". To gain perspective to this number, I just paid $2.88 per gallon of gasoline. $2.6 Trillion is:
$2,600,000,000,000 and will buy a lot of gasoline. It's unclear what this "created out of clear air" money means, but it can't be good, can it? For example, the Federal Government issues a Bond for X amount of dollars and those dollars go to pay for highway construction or whatever. That money goes into the economy as wages paid and materials are bought. If the Federal Reserve buys the Government debt bonds they are in essence creating the money that goes into the economy. Bear in mind this money was not created by productive enterprise so it has no value other than the value assumed by combining with real money and thereby reducing the value of all dollars. So what happens when when the Bonds bought by the Federal Reserve mature? Does the Federal Government pay back the Federal Reserve back with tax dollars? Does anyone really know what is happening here?

2010 Election, Cities Versus The Rest of the Country

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this election is the patently obvious Cities versus the rest of the country outcome. Look at the 2010 election Red/Blue map. Don't underestimate the decades long development of the entitlement constituency among the mass population of the urban areas by the professional politicians. In other words, political and constitutional philosophy means little to the entitlement electorate and the historical schism between the Cities and the rest of the country is now fully realized within the body politic. This is the same schism that brought Rome to it's demise along with many other civilizations throughout history. The Tea Party movement and other political movements must understand this city/country schism in order to be effective in achieving political power.