HOW STUPID DOES RYAN THINK WE ARE?

VP candidate Ryan says that only Romney's views on abortion matter.

What a load of male cow manure!

Hasn't Ryan heard the phrase, "a heartbeat away from the presidency"?

Ryan believes that abortion should not be available for any reason. If you disagree with this, you should vote for Obama, because Presidents have been known to die in office.

GOING BALD? TRY FOLIC ACID

I often do small health care experiments on myself. Here are some of the experiments and the results.

Folic acid helps my hair stay healthy. When I do not use extra folic acid, my hair gets thin and flat. Folic acid is also good for your nerves. (Literal nerves, not figurative nerves.) Folic acid also helps fetuses grow the nerves needed for healthy growth. Folic acid is a B vitamin so if you take too much it just comes out with the rest of your liquid waste. I think about twice the current recommended daily dose is enough.

Unfortunately, I have never convinced a balding man to try folic acid.

Canker sores can be cured by putting a Tums on the sore while you are sleeping. Many people have tried this cure and reported that it works. I guess the virus does not like an antacid environment. You can use any antacid  I use generic Tums as women need calcium to prevent bone loss. It is also important to keep your teeth clean, especially before bed. When you have a sore, always rinse your mouth with water after eating. (Forty years ago, a Tucson pharmacist told me of this cure.)

Vitamin E is a fabulous facial. It is important that the E be fresh, so cut open a couple of liquid vitamin Es, rub it over your clean face, and let it sit for several hours, then wash it off. The skin on your face will look really healthy. Be careful using Vitamin E on an open sore. The sore may heal up with the infection still inside. However, if you have an important event, it is OK to apply E to a zit.

If you get a cat scratch, apply hydrogen peroxide. It will sting, but the cat scratch will usually heal without infection. This also works for insect bites that have been scratched. (Yes, you know not to scratch the bite, but sometimes you or your children scratch anyway.) Of course you know that hydrocortisone stops the swelling and itch from insect bites.

Hydrogen peroxide is great for cleaning small wounds, but it stings. Mom always used to say, "No sting, no cure." I told my kids, "I am 36, you are 4. I get to make the decisions. Sit still and let me do this."

Rubbing alcohol kills lice. Apply it to the hair while the child is in the bathtub with a towel over his/her face. Get the hair completely wet, let sit for one minute, then rise out. Do this once a week until lice are gone. DO NOT LET AN OPEN FLAME OR CIGARETTE GET NEAR THE ALCOHOLED HAIR. When the child complains, remind the child that you told her/him not to share hats and combs.

TELEPHONE SECURITY CONCERNS

A Chinese company wants to build an essential part of the US telephone system.

We should learn from history. During the Cold War, the US allowed the Soviets to build a new US embassy in Moscow. The US never moved into the embassy because it had so many built in listening devices that it could never be secure. Eventually an embassy was built by sending walls from the US to be assembled under the watchful eye of US security.

Telephone systems are part of civil and military defense. It is DUMB beyond belief that the US would even consider allowing a Communist country to build such a system in the US.

In fact, the request for proposal should include the requirement that all of the components are manufactured in the US under tight security. Complex computer chips can contain hard wired code accessible to the county of manufacture.

BTW, Microsoft has stated that many inexpensive computers from China are shipped with viruses already loaded on them. This means that even if you buy a virus checker, it may miss the virus that came with the counterfeit Windows.

RICH COUNTRIES TRASHED GREECE AND SPAIN

During the housing boom and bubble, people from rich countries bought vacations homes at increasingly high prices. Some greedy "investors" bought dozens of vacations homes, thinking to make a killing renting them out.

People who live in Greece and Spain were encouraged to get loans on their homes. It was considered to be old fashioned to just pay off your home so one could have someplace to live during retirement.

Vacation homes in Greece and Spain were snapped up by people in Great Britain, Germany and France.

When the recession hit, foreigners just allowed the vacation homes to go into foreclosure. However, the Greeks and Spaniards tried to keep the homes that had been in their families for generations.

No one seems to care that the Greeks and Spaniards were trying to keep their homes when there was almost no money coming from their major industry, tourism. Did you know that some government workers in Spain are continuing to work even when they have not been paid AT ALL in over a year?

The rich countries are almost entirely responsible for ruining Greece and Spain. And the rich countries feel NO responsibility for allowing rich taxpayers in Greece and Spain to hide their money in Switzerland.

AUSTERITY DOES NOT WORK. It makes people suffer needlessly.

Think of money as if it were stored grain. You store the grain for the time of great harvests and give it out during the times of poor harvest so people do not starve. Sometimes it is necessary to go into debt to buy grain from other countries so that your people do not starve.

YOU IGNORE THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR PROFITABLE ACTS AT YOUR OWN PERIL.

Europe is teaching us all how to get countries together for the profit of all. Did you think there was no down side? It is like you all saying, "Join our family and we will all do better together. But do not expect us to help you if you get into trouble. OUR money is our own. YOUR money is useful to make us all rich, but that is all you second class citizens are worth to us."

If this makes you feel guilty, you can help by going on vacation to Spain or Greece.

THE VAMPIRE WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT

Last night, Romney wore whiter than white makeup as opposed to his usual matte tan.

He must be after the vampire vote. He couldn't possibly be saying, "Look how WHITE I am", could he?

Reporters did not seem to notice the blatant lie he told about insuring our adult kids. And he seems to live in a world where everyone can just go out and buy whatever health insurance they want.

My Dad would have said, "All sizzle and no steak".

But Obama has BRAINS! I prefer intelligence to rhetoric.

Sent from Pamela Smith's iPad at Starbuck's. 

bLACKMAIL IN HIGH PLACES?

I have been increasingly worried about the possibility that our newest security service has been blackmailing congresspersons, judges, and election officials. I have NO proof. 

Us old hippies remember the rumors that  J. Egar Hoover used blackmail to stay in power during 5 presidents. They used to say,"He knows where the bodies are buried."

I have been reliably informed that the FBI is reformed. If you ARE being blackmailed, TELL THE FBI! They do not have to tell your secret because security people are quietly fired rather than tried. You have to trust someone or you will never get your life back.

Last week I talked about my blackmail theory. Now my ergonomic keyboard has died a strange death just as my reply brief in my appeal is due.

It reminds me of a favorite joke,"Me and Sherlock Holmes just LOVE coincidences." (Yes. It is sarcasm.)

Sent from Pamela Smith's iPad.

WE CAN FIX THE WORLD

The November US election will be a test for democracy.

If huge sums of money can buy an election, then democracy may be doomed.

Please give as much as you can to get Democrats into Congress, into statehouses, as governors, as the president.

You also need to VOTE. The New York Times says that if every registered Democrat voted, we would take the election by 91%.

The life you save may be your own.