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July 02, 2009

In This Week’s Issue

Cool Links, Inspiration, Information, The Healing Power of Laughter, and these articles:

·    Politics: Ron Paul Wins Supporters to Fed Sunshine Bill

·    Politics: Auditing the Fed will Audit the State

·    Investing: The 3 Most Timeless Investment Principles

·    Investing: Invest On A Shoestring Budget

·    Investing: What Is Warren Buffett's Investing Style?

·    Investing: Stock Market Simulators: Play Your Way To Profits

·    Global Warming Scam: Media Ignore EPA Suppressing Skeptical Global Warming Report

·    Global Warming Scam: Cap and Trade: Another Nail in the Economy’s Coffin

·    Personal Finance – Savings: Save Money The Scottish Way

·    Money: 6 Millionaire Traits That You Can Adopt

·    FREEDOM: Happy Independence Day!

·    Computers: Buffalo’s 16GB 5mm USB Thumbkey: It’s really small

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” ~Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”

—Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)

“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”

—2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.

Tax-saved dollars are better than earned income; you don’t have to pay taxes on tax-saved dollars.

—Larry Crumbley

INSPIRATION

Four Things You Never Get Back

By ANDY WOOD on JUNE 15, 2009

Edited by David M. Voth

“Four things that you can never get back… the spoken word… your past life… wasted time… and neglected opportunity.”

You can never get back the words you have spoken.

It is possible to “undo” some of the things you have done, but you can never “unsay” the things you have said.  That’s what makes words so powerful.  That’s what makes angry words so destructive, and untrue words so demoralizing.  It’s also what makes kind and encouraging words such a healing force.  The next time you inhale and part your lips to speak, remember:  you are writing what you are saying on the hearts of the listener.  And once written, your words can never be erased.

You can never get back your past life.

That works on both ends:  your days of glory and your days of pain; your triumphs and your trauma; your victories and your failures.  If they are in the past, they can never be changed.  You can’t pretend the bad things didn’t happen.  You can’t deny the good you have done, either.  Painfully, sometimes cruelly, life goes on, and demands that you go on with it.  You can learn and grow from your past, or you can be condemned to repeat it.  But you can’t get it back.

You can never get back the time you have wasted.

That’s why the Bible talks about “redeeming the time.”  Have you ever wondered why the days seem to go by faster as we get older?  Maybe it’s because age teaches us to recognize how short life ultimately is, and how much of our time has been wasted.  Ralph Waldo Emerson (I think) said it a long time ago:  “Only put off for tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

You can never get back your neglected opportunities.

Granted, other opportunities may come back in a familiar form.  But doors of opportunity are only open for a season.  And those doors will eventually close - either behind you or before you.  The only difference is where you are standing when it closes.  The roads to hell, heartache, and hopelessness have been paved with the sad words, “If only.”

THE HEALING POWER OF LAUGHTER

We don’t stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing! 

The Cowboy and the Yuppie

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in Texas when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”

Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, why not?”

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, w here he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany within seconds he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”

“That’s right… Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re one of Obama’s new Cabinet officials in the White House, says Bud.”

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required,” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter you are than me; and you don’t know a thing about cows… this is a herd of sheep… Now give me back my dog.”

POLITICS

Mr. Popular? Ron Paul Wins Supporters to Fed Sunshine Bill

Rep. Ron Paul so far has won 245 co-sponsors to a bill that would require a full-fledged audit of the Federal Reserve by the end of 2010.

By Judson Berger, FOXNews.com | Tuesday, June 30, 2009

All of a sudden, Congress is paying close attention to Ron Paul.

The feisty congressman from Texas, whose insurgent “Ron Paul Revolution” presidential campaign rankled Republican leaders last year, now has the GOP House leadership on his side—backing a measure that generated paltry support when he first introduced it 26 years ago.

Paul, as of Tuesday, has won 245 co-sponsors to a bill that would require a full-fledged audit of the Federal Reserve by the end of 2010.

Paul attracted just 18 co-sponsors when he authored a similar bill, which died, in 1983. While the impact Fed policies have on inflation is once again a concern, fears about loose monetary policy and excessive federal spending appear even more widespread in 2009.

“In the past, I never got much support, but I think it’s the financial crisis obviously that’s drawing so much attention to it, and people want to know more about the Federal Reserve,” Paul told FOXNews.com.

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Auditing the Fed will Audit the State

By tmartin • July 1, 2009

by George F. Smith

If Ron Paul succeeds in getting the Fed audited, the consequences could be far-reaching. Assuming the audit isn’t rigged to protect the guilty, as a similar bill was in 1978, the Fed will need every obfuscating Keynesian to testify and write editorials on its behalf, to reassure the public that monetary matters really are best left to the gods who rule us, such as Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner. Monetarists, too, would likely join the “Save the Fed” crusade, perhaps arguing that even a great free market economist like Milton Friedman considered the Fed useful for preventing and curing recessions.

But the really appetizing part of auditing the Fed is knowing what stands behind it. The Fed is a racket at heart, a con game writ large — what else can you call an organization with the exclusive privilege of printing money in the trillions and handing it over to friends? But if this is true, what does that say about the state, the organization that created and sanctions it? Is the Fed an honest mistake in the state’s otherwise undying efforts to preserve our liberty, or might it be a key component of a bigger racket?

Read the Story

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INVESTING

The 3 Most Timeless Investment Principles

by Daniel Myers, CFA

Warren Buffett is widely considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time, but if you were to ask him who he thinks is the greatest investor he would probably mention one man: his teacher, Benjamin Graham. Graham was an investor and investing mentor who is generally considered to be the father of security analysis and value investing.

His ideas and methods on investing are well documented in his books, “Security Analysis” (1934), and “The Intelligent Investor” (1949), which are two of the most famous investing texts. These texts are often considered to be requisite reading material for any investor, but they aren’t easy reads. This Article condenses Graham’s main investing principles and gives you a head start on understanding his winning philosophy.

Principle No.1: Always Invest with a Margin of Safety

Principle No.2: Expect Volatility and Profit from It

Principle No.3: Know What Kind of Investor You Are

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Invest On A Shoestring Budget

If you would like to invest but think you don't have the money, think again.

What Is Warren Buffett's Investing Style?

If you want to emulate a classic value style, Warren Buffett is a great role model.

Stock Market Simulators: Play Your Way To Profits

by Gregory Gethard

Understanding how money and investing works is something we should all learn early in life, but for many people, investing is so foreign they don't know where to start. Even the concept of numbers can be intimidating. Fortunately, there are ways to make money management both fun and interesting. This is where online stock market simulators can come in handy.

GLOBAL WARMING SCAM

Media Ignore EPA Suppressing Skeptical Global Warming Report

By Noel Sheppard, newsbusters.org, June 28, 2009 - 11:21 ET

The day before the House was to vote on a controversial energy bill destined to be the largest tax hike in American history, it was revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency had suppressed an internal report challenging the entire global warming myth.

Despite the importance of this study, and how it related to a debate about to ensue on the House floor, its existence and suppression went almost completely ignored by America's media.

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Cap and Trade: Another Nail in the Economy’s Coffin

By tmartin • June 29, 2009

Download the column as an MP3 file here (3:38 minutes)

Cap and Trade Will Lead to Capital Flight

by Ron Paul

In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration’s health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This reality check may have given us a temporary reprieve on this particular disastrous policy, however an equally disastrous energy policy reared its ugly head on Capitol Hill last week.

The Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 was voted on last Friday. Proponents claim this bill will help the environment, but what it really does is put another nail in the economy’s coffin. The idea is to establish a national level of carbon dioxide emissions, and sell pollution permits to industry as the Catholic Church used to sell indulgences to sinners. HR 2454 also gives federal bureaucrats new power to regulate a wide variety of household appliances, such as light bulbs and refrigerators, and further distorts the market by providing more of your tax money to auto companies.

The administration has pointed to Spain as a shining example of this type of progressive energy policy. Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade, and many in Washington apparently like what they see. However, under no circumstances should anyone serious about economic recovery emulate an economy that is now approaching 20 percent unemployment, where every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

Read the Story

PERSONAL FINANCE – SAVING

Save Money The Scottish Way

by Andrew Beattie

The Scottish have long been famed for their frugality and practicality. Henry Duncan, a Scottish minister, founded the world's first commercial savings bank. Adam Smith, one of the most famous figures in economics also hailed from Scotland.

It's no coincidence that many of the successful businesses today have, among their portraits of former CEOs and founders, a painting of a side-burned Scot whose eyes suggest any spare change would have to be pried out of his cold, dead hands.

In this article, we will look at three ways you can give your budget a boost using some of the famed Scottish frugality.

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MONEY

6 Millionaire Traits That You Can Adopt

by Stephanie Powers, financialedge.investopedia.com | June 17, 2009

Millionaires have more in common with each other than just their bank accounts - for some millionaires, striking it rich took courage, salesmanship, vision and passion. Find out which traits are most common to the seven-figure bank account set, and what you can do to hone some of these skills in your own life.

1. Independent Thinking

Millionaires think differently. Not just about money, about everything. The time and energy everybody else spends attempting to conform, millionaires spend creating their own path. Since thoughts impact actions, people who want to be wealthy should think in a way that will get them to that goal. Independent thinking doesn't mean doing the opposite of what the rest of the world is doing; it means having the courage to follow what is important to you. So, the lesson here is to forge your own way, and let your success drive you to financial spoils - rather than doing it the other way around and trying to chase the money. (To learn more, read Getting A Millionaire's Mindset.)

Just look at David Geffen. A self-made millionaire with $4.5 billion to his name in 2009, this American record executive and film producer was college dropout, but made millions founding record agencies and signed some of the most prominent musicians of the 1970s and '80s. Although he didn't take what many assume to be the usual path to success, his tireless work ethic and sense of personal conviction about artists' potential allowed him to rack up a sizable fortune.

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FREEDOM MESSAGE:

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

—John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United Sates of America

Life is a gift; Freedom is a responsibility!

To my American friends… Happy Independence Day

Remember, it’s not called the “4th of July Day”. Yes, it is celebrated on the 4th of July day. But it is not the 4th of July Day. Please don’t wish anyone a “Happy 4th”. It is Independence Day! Every country in the world has a 4th of July, but only the United States of America celebrates its Independence Day on it.

Every time someone wishes me a “happy 4th,” I wish him or her a “Happy Independence Day.” It usually surprises them, but it’s important. It’s not just semantics. My challenge to you is that you can make a difference by waking people up and making them conscious of what’s important. Don’t let “them” take something special and make it ordinary. Reducing the most important day in American history to a date on the calendar just cheapens a great legacy.

It is about the Declaration of Independence (signed July 4, 1776) that laid down the foundation for the U.S. Constitution, endorsing the fundamental principles of freedom Americans still uphold to this day.

Reflect a little on what it is really all about and be thankful for freedom and thankful for what the forefathers went through to get America to the place it’s at today.

We have lost a lot of our freedoms over the past few years. It starts with complacency and believing that a little thing like calling “Independence Day” the “4th” does really matter.

If you’re still with me, I just have three more words to say…

Happy Independence Day!

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VALUABLE INFORMATION

“Know where to find the information and how to use it – that is the secret of success.”

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German physicist and Winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921

COMPUTERS AND INTERNET

Buffalo’s 16GB 5mm USB Thumbkey: It’s really small

by Joseph L. Flatley, posted June 24, 2009 | engadget.com

This isn't the first time Buffalo's blown our minds with its lilliputian tech. The WiFi dongle, you have to admit, was pretty sweet. What can we say about the 5mm Thumbkey drive? For starters, it's really small. And it has a 16GB capacity. And it''ll cost you about $136 when it goes on sale (any day now). Sure, that's a tad pricey for a device that lacks gears and rubies -- but did we mention how small this thing is?

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