Archive for September, 2010

Author Linda Brady Traynham One of life’s more difficult tasks is attempting to explain a complex subject to someone who knows almost nothing about it…in this much room. I’m counting on you readers (NOTE: meaning when this goes over in some form to the Mesh Report) to pitch in with comments from your experiences, please! [...]

Author Tony De Maio This is a “good” program—THAT is a “bad” program. How many times have those words been spoken? It is unfortunate that we often confuse value judgments with objective evidence. I do not believe that the words “good” or “bad” apply to most programs. I DO believe the words “successful” or “unsuccessful” [...]

Author Kurt Let’s play a little game shall we? You’ve probably played it before as a kid, and perhaps even as an adult if your job requires active thought on your part. Let’s play “What happens if….?”. Rules are simple, answer with honest thoughts, not what you think people want to hear. You don’t even [...]

Author Steve Foste I am sure most of you have played poker, or a game many of you may or may not be familiar with Tripoly, or you have been to Veags or some gambling Casino, and you have purchased poker chips. Well as I sit here writing this I have 12 ea 1oz silver [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Hillary Clinton proposed the odd notion that “it takes a village to raise (sic) a child.” This is, patently, nonsense, since what it takes to “raise” a child is two parents, preferably one of whom is employed while they other stays home and rears the children, and America contains very few [...]

Author Tex Norton In what turned-out to be the first of many different lives I’ve lived, I worked in the Advanced Engineering Department of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan during the last half of the 1950s. I shared an apartment with the late Carl Cameron who ultimately became the father of the Muscle [...]

Author Tony De Maio Folks, please forgive my insistence, but you’ve GOT to listen to Air America. It is so educating. Yesterday, a guest stated, “California cannot afford the retirement system of the public employees.” The host(ess) chided the guest saying, “A person should have a reasonable pension.” (Note the disconnect. One person says, “We [...]

Author David W. Franklin SELF-DIRECTED QUESTIONS and ANSWERS What are the probabilities that your conclusions are wrong? My Answer: Based on mathematical principles, The Supreme Law of Economics, and the reliability of History and Cycles repeating for reasons of similar cause, I would say the probabilities of being wrong are less than 15%. The mathematics [...]

Author David W Franklin TWO POWERFUL PARALLELS of HISTORY “We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions and we’d like to do our best to preserve that system.” Spoken by Timothy Geithner, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and presently Secretary of the Treasury. [...]

Author David W. Franklin Titanic Force No. 1: There exists today, untouchable, unseeable trillions upon trillions of digital units of modern “electronic money” in various forms of retirement “savings”: IRA’s, Keogh’s, 401K’s, etc. All these so called “savings” are “invested” in the Markets. These trillions are NOT TRUE SAVINGS! They cannot be eaten, worn, used [...]