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In this issue:
Brainpower | Finances | Security | Health/Fitness | Factoid | Product Highlight | Thought for the Day
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1. Brainpower tip
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How about a date? Today is 10/10/10. Or is it 10-10-10? A month ago, was it
09-10-10 or 10-09-10?
When people express dates in all numerals, I find this inconsiderate,
unclear, and confusing. In different parts of hte world, the all-numeric
formats were different. In today's global environment, using any of them
(except one, which we will get to) causes needless confusion.
The solution is to use the standard format, which is dd/MMM/yyyy. For a
month ago, that was 10SEP2010. There is no way you can be confused by this
date. Acceptable variations include 10-SEP-2010, 10 September 2010, and
10SEP10.
But there is a problem with this format, and it shows up in any kind of
filing system (including a database, spreadsheet, or a file folder in a
computer). If you make a list of the months, you'll notice they don't sort
in chronological order when sorted alphabetically. This format also fails to
group the months of any given year together.
The solution for filing systems is, thus, different from the solution for
humans. For filing systems, use the format yyyymmdd. So using today's date a
month ago, it would be rendered as 20100910.
By using proper date formats (there are only two), you avoid those
brain-power draining miscommunication errors. This leaves your brainpower
free to do other things. |
2. Finance tip
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Many of us analyze our utility bills. But do you analyze your government
bill? Consider the "services" the federal govt provides for you at the
cost of a debt so huge it now exceeds the GDP of all nations combined.
One of the "services" we get is subsidized corn. Look at some of the
great things we do with it:
- Ship it to other countries, putting their local farmers out of
business and then "rescuing" those countries via the IMF with its
various attached strings. A case in point is Mexico; we put millions
out of work. And Americans complain when Mexicans come here for
work?
- Make high fructose corn syrup out of it, then add this toxin to
foods and beverages. While this creates great demand for Big Pharma
products, I'm not sure the huge toll in human suffering is a
positive benefit.
- Feed it to cattle, then slaughter them for their meat. Cattle
are ruminants. They eat grasses, not high-sugar grains. Put the
typical corn-fed cow on grass for 24 hours, and the e-coli count in
the feces drops by 80%. Corn-fed cattle have toxic meat.
- Create a fat stream of money flowing to executives and large
stock holders of Monsanto, rewarding them for crimes against
humanity.
The way I calculate things, it simply is not true that we get back
pennies on the dollar for every dollar we turn over to the federal
government. We don't even get that much back. We lose that dollar and
then some.
Here's another "service" provided by the federal government. It
mandates that folic acid be added to all refined flour products. We call
this "enriched" flour. The problem is folic acid that isn't organically
derived (the major flour companies use synthetic, because it's a whole
lot cheaper) is highly carcinogenic. In fact, eating ONE bowl of any
common breakfast cereal DOUBLES a man's risk of prostate cancer.
Wheaties is not the breakfast of champions, it's the breakfast of cancer
victims--courtesy of the whackos in Washington.
The single best thing CONgress can do for this country is disband the
federal govt. What we have now in place is merely a tool of criminals
and psychopaths. The folic acid thing is just sadistic insanity at work.
So is Daylight Carnage Time. There's a long list of mentally-deranged
"services" this band of buttheads provides us.
The current incarnation of the federal govt does offer some great
things (e.g., National Forest Service, Amtrak, the Veterans
Administration, etc.). As valuable as these are, their value is more
than outweighed by the long list of mentally-deranged "services" and
their attendant costs in human lives, personal freedoms, and property.
Hey, does that list of three things sound familiar? |
3. Security tip
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Read anything on security, and it's almost sure to talk about
preventing threats from this or that source. What mental picture do you
have of the kinds of sources (people) against whom you must take
security measures? Do you picture some guy wearing a black ski mask, or
maybe a nylon over his head? Whatever picture you do have, I'll bet it's
not a complete picture. There's a large group of psychopaths (look up
that word, it has a specific meaning) that do more damage to individuals
and businesses than all other "came to pass" security threats combined.
Their trail of death and destruction is well-documented, and also
well-ignored by the state-run mudstream media. They are very, very
dangerous. These psychopaths provide nothing of value to society, yet
society provides them with office space, generous salaries, generous
benefits, shotguns (70,000 were ordered in 2010 alone), free access to
private information, and a stack of "get out of jail free cards." The
alleged justification for this situation is these folks raise the money
the government needs to operate. But that simply is not true. The
government would have MORE money if these people were just paid to stay
home and do nothing (its actual funding is almost entirely from other
sources). Perhaps most of them, no longer immersed in a perverse
environment every day, could become sociable, decent human beings who
care about other people.
And the damage these people inflict goes way beyond just wiping out
their victims financially. They engage in personal smear campaigns
and do other things that ruin your reputation and wreck your life. Some
examples from actual case histories:
- Calling or writing to many of the people the victim knows (the
"Rolodex Raid") and telling vicious lies about the victim. This
includes employers, neighbors, relatives, and business associates.
- Contacting the local police in the victim's city with lies about
the victim.
- Making threats to the victim's employer.
- Making threats to the victim's bank, and/or passing along false
derogatory information.
- Making threats to potential employers in the victim's industry, and/or passing along false derogatory information.
- Making intimidating visits to your neighbors, and making insinuations or outright false statements.
- Stalking the victim, including phone harassment at all hours.
As noted, these are psychopaths.
I am, of course, talking about the American Psychopath Institute,
which goes most often by the euphemism "I-R-S." In other countries,
citizens are also at risk of attack from their own bunch of psychopaths.
For example, "IRD" is another of those "no truth in advertising"
euphemisms for "remorseless individuals who possess enormous power
thanks to gross abuse of government resources, structure, and
oversight."
Not only are you exposed to whatever crimes these "outside the law"
people choose to engage in, your exposure is approved by CONgress. And
therein lies some potential hope for the potential victims of these
psychopaths.
We have "elections" coming up this fall. Who among the candidates is
pro-psychopath, and who is sane?
The sad fact is, members of The Party are almost always
pro-psychopath. So a vote for a Demopubiclan or a Republocrat is almost
assuredly a vote against your personal security, the security of your
employer, and the security of people you care about. Yet, we do have a
way to find the most egregious of the pro-psychopath candidates, so that
in November we can at least register our dissatisfaction with those
inDUHviduals. Here's what that way is....
One of the provisions of Obamacare is to add more people to the
psychopath payroll. So, things are getting worse instead of better (this
is the "change" we got). But the silver lining here is you now have a
list of members of CONgress who are assuredly not your friend (with this
knowledge comes hope). It's public information as to which members of
CONgress voted for more paid psychopaths, and one place you can find it
is at www.ntu.org. The pro-psychopath
members of CONgress are the ones you want out of office as soon as
possible.
But it's unlikely the "election" will result in a transition to an
anti-psychopath Congress replacing the crime machine presently known as
CONgress. This means we are stuck with the current "paid psychopath"
threat for the foreseeable future.
Many experts advise you to make sure you file the correct paperwork
by the correct due date, pay the correct amounts whether you really owe
them or not, and basically follow all of the unfair rules you had no say
in making and have no say in revoking.
That's good advice, as far as it goes. It will protect you from
deliberately providing these people with a tenable excuse to come after
you. But they don't need an excuse to destroy someone. If the facts
aren't there, making things up doesn't seem to bother them.
How can you close this giant security hole? Many Americans are moving
to China, the one place on earth where these psychopaths can't reach out
and touch them. That's one choice. But China isn't exactly a paradise,
either.
The long-term solution is to shut down their counterproductive
organization. Movements like the Fair Tax
www.fairtax.org seek to do this.
Prevention (by compliance), as noted, does not always work.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything else you can do in the short-term.
If you have not yet come under attack, it doesn't mean you aren't
exposed. It just means you haven't come under attack. Relying on sheer
luck isn't a secure strategy.
To close this glaring security hole, you'll need to work with
organizations already on that task. And you'll need to make sure your
vote doesn't support The Party and its criminal antics. |
4. Health tip/Fitness tips
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Solid, well-developed shoulders look great on a
guy. The make him look balanced and powerful. Even without a
padded shoulder suit. When women reach
their genetic potential with shoulder development, their entire
figure is enhanced. This effect has to do with how the eye
follows an outline. This effect is why women's clothes often
have shoulder pads. And just try buying a man's suit without
shoulder pads--it's probably not going to happen.
Men and women can both ditch the shoulder pads and look
great. What happens when you are wearing something, say, a tank
top, that doesn't have pads? With proper shoulder development,
you can ensure you always have that powerful shoulder look.
Because it will be part of you, not part of something fake like
shoulder pads.
If you go to a gym, look around. What you don't see are
well-developed, cut shoulders. You do see large front delts from
cheating on the bench press, but that's about it.
Read more.... |
Shortly after turning 50.
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- The best workouts are short
and intense.
- A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.
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5. Factoid
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The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The US CONgress
takes with the left hand, and takes with the right. |
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7. Thought for the Day
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Some people are approval seeking individuals, and their need for
approval often leads to dumb choices. Other people get approval, simply
because they do what's right. |
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