How to Use an Olm Meter

This is an excellent video on using a meter to see if there is continuity, ie, if something is good or not. Check other Youtube videos to view instruction on how to use a meter. It really is not difficult.

If you're not mechanically minded, using a meter can be daunting. But it need not be that way. Meters can be bought for less than $10 and can be used to test light bulbs, batteries and electrical sockets.

Obama--Fairness

This is a telling point about Obama that Charles Krauthammer makes clear:

In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”

A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless.

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No 368

So I want to get rid of a grapefruit tree in my back yard. I make a free post on Craigslist, along with a couple of pictures of the tree. I write, you dig up the tree, you get it for free. In minutes I'm getting calls on my cell phone to come and get my tree.

Why I Love the Internet--Reason 367

I'm reading a book that I'm loving. I didn't think it would be this good. But good is when something I'm reading finds me saying yes to the author's ideas. I love that.

So when this author who I'm loving is talking up another book, I figure I should get that one too.

The book I'm reading now is titled Mortgage Free by Rob Roy and the book Rob recommends is How to Live Without a Salary by Charles Long.

So I go to my computer, click on Amazon in my bookmarks, type in the name of the author, and his book comes up. I click on the book and buy it with the Buy It With One Click icon. I don't believe this process took over 30 seconds, and the book will be delivered to my mailbox. The book is used at a little over a dollar, with a $4 shipping charge. Can't beat it. (Well I guess I first should have checked Open Library, Project Gutenberg, or epubBooks first.)

The EFFO Diet

As we all know, there are a ton of diets out there. Mostly they are divided along two lines: One that recommends a high protein (IE meat) diet, a la Adkins and the South Beach diet. The other is a high carbohydrate diet (high in the sense of percentage of calories to fat and protein), a la McDougall, Dr Dean Ornish, Esselstyn, and T Colin Campbell.

I am on the side of a carbohydrate diet, which is the opposite of what most Americans would consider the way to safely lose weight. But if one looks at world populations, and most suffer little obesity, it is because their diet consists mostly of carbohydrates.

But the carbohydrates I'm talking about are whole foods. Fruits, veggies, beans, whole grains. Not processed foods such as white bread, soda drinks and pastries. In fact, I wonder if refined carbohydrates are actually worse than eating meats, dairy and oils.

What it all gets down to is what I have dubbed the EFFO diet. Eat Fiber Foods Only. If one were to eat only foods that contain fiber, one could not help but lose weight and achieve delirious health. Look at how sick we are and look at the types of foods we put in our body. If you think there's no relation, I beg to differ.

The EFFO diet may seem to be a daunting exercise in asceticism, but after doing it for a few months, a whole world will open up that you would never have believed. People feel sorry for me for my spartan diet, while I wish they would just give the diet a chance that would change their lives in unbelievable ways.

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A Dollar Saved, A Dollar Earned?

In my last post, I wrote about how much I bought with so little money. Also how I saved over $75 by buying a cable with Amazon rather than buying the keyboard.

We also spent $25 on a lunch that for me was just too much to spend for what we got.

Onto the saying "A dollar saved is a dollar earned". It's not true. It takes a lot of earned dollars to save a dollar. In fact, many people are a paycheck away from being homeless. They have lived their whole lives and are in debt with not a dollar saved.

It is sad to say, it may sound like a novel concept but we are the ones who are in control of our finances. How we make our money and how we spend it is our decision alone. We must take responsibility.

Word of Mouth--99 Cent Store

Just got back from shopping at the 99 cent store. Twelve items, twelve dollars. The corn on the cob was five for a dollar and I bought 10. Three bags of candy for Halloween, three dollars. Needless to say, lots of stuff for a great price. Even Walmart is now getting into the produce business, but it's still way more expensive than this store. These same apples would have cost $4 at Walmart.

A guy in front of me at the check-out register purchased 3 huge melons for three dollars. He said they would easily cost $8 at Albertson's. Then he said "I should know, I work there".

Before going to this store my wife and I went to Best Buy to buy an adapter for my keyboard. It's an old school keyboard but it works really great. The adapter cost $36.99. The salesperson then said why not just buy another keyboard and took me over to the boards which were about $75. Instead we went to Amazon via my wife's phone and found the adapter for $2.39. Now I recognize it's not right to go in and take a person's time at the store, but I do believe $36.99 is gouging. Especially when whoever is selling the same adapter is making a profit at $2.39.

Google Mobile Payments By Phone

The day in not the too distant future, in my repair business I will be getting paid by simply bumping phones with a customer, transferring funds from his account into mine.

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. rolled out its mobile- payments application on Sprint Nextel Corp.’s network, and said it’s teaming up with Visa Inc., Discover Financial Services and American Express Co. to make the service more widely available. For more

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Dr McDougall's Youtube Channel

This is Dr McDougall's Youtube channel.

Rice Diet, Walter Kempner

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A Video About Longevity

Watch this interview about longevity. More people are talking about it. In roman days, the average age people died was 25. In 1850 as the interviewee points out, the age was 45. Today it is almost 80. And there is thought that people before long will average 100. Living not only to be a 100 years old, but to be viable and contributing to society.

Has Obama Learned Anything

Below is an article from Commentary. The article pretty much hits it, but I think it's even worse. Obama's arrogance, his lack of respect for the previous president, and his over-reaching rhetoric will come back to haunt him as indeed it should. The idea that Obama was somehow a messianic figure, while at the same time keeping from the public any of his writings, is absolutely pathetic. Obama's a loathable character deserving any ridicule that will finally come his way. My only hope is that he hasn't ruined this country so much that we won't be able to come back.

From Commentary:

Imagine you’re in the Obama White House, and this is what you face. Democrats lose a special election in a congressional district they have controlled since the 1920s and which was framed as a referendum on the president. There’s a possible scandal brewing over the White House’s effort to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion dollar loan to a solar-panel manufacturer, Solyndra. The most recent Census Report shows median household earnings fell for the third consecutive year, back to 1996 levels. A record number of Americans are in poverty. In Afghanistan, the Taliban mounted a fierce assault on the U.S. embassy and NATO military headquarters in Kabul. A new CNN/ORC poll shows Obama’s disapproval rating has reached a new high while the number of Americans who think he is a strong leader has dropped to a new low. And that’s just today.

On a human level, one can sympathize with what the president, his advisers, and his supporters are going through right now. But there is a cautionary tale in this as well. When Obama was running for president, he was dismissive of those who came before him. The problems we faced, at home and abroad, would be fixed by signing this executive order and passing that piece of legislation. Hope and change were on the way. “I’m LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game,” Obama is reported to have said back in 2004.


Being president seemed so easy before he actually was president. At the point he took the oath of office, the problems became harder to manage, more difficult, more intractable. “When I said, ‘Change we can believe in,’ I didn’t say, ‘Change we can believe in tomorrow,’ ” Obama told an audience last month. “Not, ‘Change we can believe in next week.’ We knew this was going to take time, because we’ve got this big, messy, tough democracy.”

Every person who runs for president, it’s fair to say, has a healthy ego. But Obama was different; the self-assurance, the arrogance, the sense that he viewed himself as a world-historical figure was almost palpable. “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions,” Obama told congressional Democrats during the 2008 campaign. A convention speech wasn’t enough; Greek columns needed to be added. “Generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment,” Obama said – a moment when, among other achievements, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” And during the campaign, while still a one-term senator, Obama decided he wanted to give a speech in Germany– and he wanted to deliver it at the Brandenburg Gate.

Yet now we see the Obama presidency coming apart, piece by piece, day by day. Democratic lawmakers are attacking the president on the record. The unhappiness in Obama’s own party toward the president might soon evolve into an open revolt. Those who supported Hillary Clinton in 2008 are saying, with some degree of self-satisfaction, “I told you so.” And the words of Solomon will be proven right again. “Pride goes before destruction,” he wrote in Proverbs, “a haughty spirit before a fall.”

If you dig beneath the rationalizations and the excuses, the field of strawmen, and the barrage of attacks on the motives of his opponents, one can only wonder: In his quiet moments, during times of self-reflection, has Obama –an educated and literate man — learned much of anything from all this?