Category: Aggregated

I have always claimed, and not altogether jokingly, that you could build a house with Elmer’s glue and Duct Tape.  Both items are readily available, relatively inexpensive, and easy to tote around.  Given my penchant for common, everyday products that can be used dozens of ways, I thought it would be fun to once again look at some of the practical uses of duct tape around the house, camping, and of course, in a survival or emergency situation. You might recall that way back when, in the early days of this website, I wrote about the 34 Ways to Use … Continue reading →

BRAIN and NERVE function are important. Preserve them and make them better with supplements and lifestyle changes. Some of the KEYS to long-term health for brain and nerves involves keeping insulin, blood sugar, inflammation, and toxicity at low levels. HIGH BLOOD SUGAR and high insulin can damage the fine tissues of the brain and nervous system. You do not have to be diabetic to experience this. Eating a low glycemic diet is important. If you want more information, a good book is “The Glycemic Load Diet.” TOXICITY is also an issue in terms of brain and nerve health – especially … Continue reading →

Brian McNelis was still recovering from a police raid that wrecked his home and threatened to destroy his commercial painting business when he learned that the state intended to separate him from his daughter. On January 6, 2010, a counter-narcotics task force headed by the Ada County Sheriff’s Office invaded McNelis’s home in Boise, brandishing a warrant claiming that Detective Stephen Craig had discovered “marijuana trimmings” during an early-morning “trash pull” earlier that day. McNelis and his companion Leslie White were arrested on drug-related charges. Two days later, as Brian prepared for an “emergency shelter care” hearing for his teenaged … Continue reading →

Democracy is an incredibly successful long con. It works because of the illusion of consent. People actually believe they are “represented.” And so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a fuhrer or generalissimo. But when the “people” have decided… . Except of course, they’ve done no such thing. It is all an illusion, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that deftly hides the reality that it is not the “people” who decide anything but rather a small handful of individuals who wield vast – almost unlimited – power by claiming to act on their behalf. Which is … Continue reading →

FATCA, officially known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, is probably the worst law that most Americans don’t know about. I’ve written about this monstrous law repeatedly, most recently here. But now, it looks as if the prospects for FATCA’s implementation could be throttled by the courts of meek and mild-mannered Canada, of all places. If you haven’t heard of FATCA, you’re not alone. US citizens living in the US who don’t invest outside the US aren’t affected by the law. But if you’re a US citizen living in another country, or one who invests outside the US, FATCA … Continue reading →

Ultra successful people delight themselves by blowing their personal goals out of the water. They succeed along many different dimensions of life—their friendships, their physical and mental health, their families, and their jobs (which they are not only good at but also enjoy). TalentSmart has conducted research with more than a million people, and we’ve found that ultra successful people have a lot in common. In particular, 90% of them are skilled at managing their emotions in order to stay focused, calm, and productive. These super successful folks have high emotional intelligence (EQ), a quality that’s critical to achieving your … Continue reading →

I wear blue jeans almost everywhere except when going out to a nice dinner and of course for most business. Otherwise I am in them ever since a kid. The adult generation of the 1940s,50s,and 60s dressed much better than when the hippie and beatnik influence started in the 1960s as a protest to the ‘Nam war. Then protest inspired dressing down was a “cool thing”- and it is what many people at that time did. It showed their freedom to protest the culture and to show others they were different. Of course so many were “different” that they were … Continue reading →