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  • From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] supplements dont work for arthritis
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:40:50 -0700 (PDT)


Really? I did not realize you could just eat them like that.
I have all kinds of allergies, and they are just getting worse.
There is a hotel in town that is landscaped with junipers.  Everytime I
pass by there, I park and collect berries.  I have about a quart of
dried berries.   People think I am nuts.  I actually have never used
them, but I know they are potent medicine.  I had a cream once, made of
cucumbers and juniper berries that kept mosquitoes away.  No one knows
what is in Skin So Soft, but my guess would be juniper berries.
If this in any way might help my allergies, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
I'll check the bushes while I am in town.   Who knows, perhaps it will
help with my swollen fingers, too.  Thanks Sage, and although I did not
say it in the other thread, I am amazed at what you guys are doing out
there.  Great going...

Akka

eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
> That's probably it. I start about now swallowing whole juniper
> berries once a week so that I don't get "cedar fever" in the winter.
> It sure beats shots and is absolutely free. Only they are harder to
> find after a drought.




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When Long John Silver's mutinous aspirations would go awry, he would comment
in pirate-speak, "Aye, mates, this be a rum start!" or "This be the wrong
tack."

We have come into a world that runs off of credit. In the time of my youth,
and during the lifetime of most on this list, our currency was on a precious
metal standard. While not ideal, it was certainly very stable and reliable.
We went from that to having our currency have value because it was the reserve
currency for buying petroleum. In the past half decade or so as the petroleum
market has evolved to less dependence on the dollar, we have made the basis
of our currency to be debt.

Not being on the 'do not call list', yesterday I got 16 telemarketer calls.
Four were for TV cable and 12 were for credit cards or credit card
consolidation. Every other computer popup ad has to do with finding your
credit score or
how to improve your credit score.

Do any of you remember the old HFC jingle from the '60's:

"Never borrow money needlessly
But when you must,
Borrow from the oldest company
>From those you trust.
Borrow confidently From HFC"

Never borrow money needlessly. That is, in our recent past borrowing money
was not daily business as usual, but something you did only when there was
nothing else you could do. That has changed now. We hear that we must keep
credit flowing because "small" businesses can't borrow money to meet payroll,
buy
materials, etc. Utter hogwash. I've done business for many years with scores
of businesses. There is no small business, not one that stays in business
very long, that routinely borrows money.

When I'd go into a very small family business to do my thing, almost always
the owner would block the door as I was leaving and ask if he could settle up
right there on the spot. Not so large businesses. The larger the company,
the
longer I waited for my money. The only time in about 30 years that I have
borrowed money was a few years ago when my main gig, one of the largest
companies in the world, was five months in arrears in paying me. They owed
me more
than $13,000. I wanted to buy some horse equipmemt for $500 and so I went to
my
local bank and got a 90 day loan, paid it back in eleven days, and the bank
made 92 cents. Lost money really, and I apologized to them.

Debt is a bad thing. Living or dying by credit is a bad thing, a wrong tack,
a rum start. Just as many accuse Bush and conservatives as looking a war as
the first or preferred solution to a problem when it needs to be a very
reluctant last, likewise debt ought to be the last reluctant resort and not
the
normal, preferred, and first choice of how to conduct business.

Any business that has to borrow money on a continuing basis ought to go out
of business.

As to the notion that people who have worked hard, followed the rules,
trusted what they were told ... stand to be hurt - that's not a basis on
judging the
current debacle. In the 1850's there were thousands of people who also had
worked hard, followed the rules, trusted what they had been told and were
fixed
for a comfortable retirement or to pass along their "hard earned" wealth to
posterity. The the war came and the basis of their wealth was cancelled.
Then
should they have been facilitated in keeping their slave "property" since
they had followed the rules and trusted their leaders.

Like that, anyone who has hitched their wagon to the credit/consumerism/usury
star is simply witnessing the logical consequence of that. It matters not a
wit if they "followed the rules". The rules were a sham.

The good thing that could come out of this is that economies based on debt
could be largely done away with and replaced by economies based on the
production and trafficking in real goods and services. </HTML>




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