Only great minds can read this This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it

A rare type of western sidereal astrology is practiced by Ken Bowser, several cuts above the typical western astrologer in terms of his knowledge about astrology. His approach is VERY different than a typical western astrologer.

You can find out more about his style and readings by investigating westernsiderealastrology.com

His other contact information, found on his site:

Ken Bowser
1130 Jeffersion St. NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-331-1475.
WesternSiderealAstrology.com

Someone who had bedbugs wrote this and sent to me on how he finally got rid of them. Since it might be of use to someone out there, I’m posting it on the web for everyone to make one man’s experience publicly available.

1. diatomaceous earth – WORKED. it scratches the heck out of them and makes them
slow and stupid, it was much easier to kill them, they were not as good about
hiding, and when they would come to bite we could almost always feel them (as
opposed to before, when we could only feel the bite a while after they left) and
it’s pretty dang cheap. it works best combined with deep cleaning.

2. deep cleaning – absolute necessity. Use a vacuum, suck up every little corner
nook and cranny. We found deep cleaning not to be enough by itsself though, there
were just too many areas they could hide in. Get rid of every mattress and couch
they have been in, it’s no use trying to save the furniture. We would put the
diatomaceous earth down, wait a day then vacuum, then put the earth down again and
repeat until they disappeared.

3. pesticides/herbicides – BIG NO. the only one proven to kill them is ddt, which
will also kill you, and is illegal in america.

4. rubbing alcohol to keep them away from things- YEAH RIGHT. they always made it up
anyway. i caught a few and poured rubbing alcohol on them, the next day they were
still fine. doesn’t work

5. not killing them because you are a buddhist and think killing is wrong, even bugs
- and what about the health of your family, (no one with bed bugs gets a good nights
sleep) and the health of your neighbors family? they spread like the plague, they
invade your house and attack, suck your blood all ninja-like in the night when you
can’t see them. 1 female can have 3 hundred babies, who can live up to a year and a
half without eating, waiting for the chance to eat just once and make more babies.
these are not the bugs you gently lay outside, they will come back or they will go
find your neighbor.

Carol Reed’s “The Third Man” is a film that stars Orson Welles. You’ve heard the theme song for the movie a million times but probably didn’t know it:

What strikes me is one of the quotes from the film, probably the most famous:

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

In times of crisis they say heroes arise.  That’s the meaning. The same lesson comes from Chinese and Roman cutlure as well.

And now for something fun and completely different to break up your day ….

And now for the real thing … listen for the lyrics that they left out when Dean Martin or Gérard Darmon sings …

I know people love Micheale Buble but Dean Martin did an excellent job with SWAY …

And when I want a little fun I like to watch this now and then … their story is inspiring:

People who meditate tend to become a little too serious. Relax and enjoy culture now and then. That’s the lesson.

Finally, one of the researchers on Gardasil speaks out:

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/25/top_stories/doc4ae4b76d07e16766677720.txt

In October 2007 — yes, two years ago, I told you to use common sense to figure this out,…and now my common sense view has proved correct despite all the PR and articles and “we’ve got to do something” claimed by Merck and the media. Remember when I wrote:

Gardasil, that Merck vaccine I warned you about several blog posts back, has already been linked to 5 deaths and over 2000  adverse reactions, bringing the “known total” of such problems to an astronomical amount.

This is happening to  little girls, mind you, with no risk of cancer at that age — and they’re still pushing it. Duh? Who’s getting compensated that they pushed this so strongly in spite of the logic against it and who’s not thinking straight? Which legislators should lose office?

Conventional wisdom – You want to risk vaccinating 11-12 year old girls (with practically zero risk of cervical cancer at that age)  with an untested vaccine with no long term studies of effects (such as causing cancer itself, or even the possibility of induced sterility) … and you want to do this when only 4000 people per year (out of 150 million women) die of cervical cancer and this is the initial response rate ?

I also told you about the recession WAY before the government and press did, once again from common  sense. IBM says THINK — don’t buy into the PR you see on TV. For instance, “the recession is over” — nonsense.

Another case — President Obama recently said we were in a state of national emergency for 1000 flu deaths. Now considering that over 25,000 people die per year from the flu, what’s that all about? Frankly, we have normal flu behavior — nothing to strike fear into the hearts of people, unless they don’t THINK.

Here’s what CBS uncovered about the coverup regarding the disaster hoopla  that never came …

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/27/Obama-Declares-Swine-Flu-Emergency.aspx

Other points you should think about — the Options Arm mortigage problem and commercial real estate problems are yet to hit next year, so how can you say a recession is over when THAT and the fact that unemployment is rising (and will probably hit 20% in some places by 2011 if those problems aren’t solved) exist … and how can you stimulate jobs if we’ve outsourced both service jobs (phone answerers, customer service, etc.) and MANUFACTURING, which is the basis of national wealth. Sorry, can’t be done. We’re in for a ride.

And do you really think that (1) health care costs will now go down and (2) insurance premiums will decline with the government’s new plan? You really believe that  because of the budget projection the Senators are so proud of? When was the last time a government program came in on budget (NASA, Medicaid, …)? A doctor who makes rounds in a hospital can stop and see you for one minute, mark his name down on the chart, and they’ll bill you $250. You’re never going to stop that behavior because that’s how he makes his money.

Another example: Surgeons have a minimum numbers of surgeries they must do each year in order to keep their license and hospital privileges … all designed to keep the money rolling in. So you might NOT need a knee operation, but there’s a tremendous pressure for a  knee surgeon to find 250 people to operate on to keep those rights even though far less actually need the surgery. That’s how it works.

Go read the Gardasil article again and what I predicted would happen … all 100% true. All from just common sense. Please understand profit motive causes corporations to push things people would not normally do, and yet employees within those organizations will do it because they don’t want to lose their jobs OR they just convince themselves that wrong is right or black is white (note in the article that the Gardasil researcher wanted to sleep at night) … like smoking doesn’t cause cancer, etc.

THINK. Expand that understanding to business, politics, and cultivation. Don’t get cheated. Money now controls so much of public policy so your chances of getting cheated are going to rise if there’s big money to be made by some group which can grab politicians and the airwaves and pro-whatever groups that say “We HAVE to do something.” Sometimes doing nothing is the best something because any other “something” would make things worst. Seems that’s the case with much of our interventionist foreign policy, which is now seeing continuining rises in blowback and backlash, and with the rise of the internet and modern communications in other countries where wrongs can be instantly telegraphed everywhere, we’re in trouble if we don’t change strategies.

 

All religions have warts. Over time, we tend to paste a veneer of sugar coated lovey dovey on top of the injustices in the world done by religion, especially when it is our own denomination.

Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism — in each of these religions (and others, of course)  barbaric acts  have been committed  and injustices performed and maintained in the name of that religion … especially when religion combines with politics and activities/laws/customs that maintain  the social order in a certain way that keeps a particular elite in society entrenched in money and power.

Tibetan Buddhism is no different. We romanticize the past, and tend to ignore the realities of what  really went on when it comes to religious matters in the past. An example from an article I long ago wanted to post just so you know what the real world is like:

http://www.swans.com/library/art9/mparen01.html

I always get a kick out of all these people who think Dec. 21, 2012 will be any different than any other day. Nothing will happen at all.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091011/D9B8P09O0.html

The Chinese calendar, which has cycles too, simply starts a new cycle when it reaches a point where the cycles within it line up. Does it mean anything? No.

What you should worry about is the next wave of Option Arms mortgages set to reset next year and stay high into 2011. The recession over? That’s pep talk to drive up consumer confidence.  You can read about the “options arms” problem — which they are keeping quiet to keep up the confidence — if you just do a google search on it. That’s what’s going to hit because it’s bigger than the sub-prime problem and on top of that is the commercial real estate problem. Mums the word from Washington on all these. THIS is serious. Mayan calendar — get your head on the ground.

To see how serious the Options Arms problem is, the famous Credit Swiss chart of this problem can be seen below:

www.butthenwhat.com/?p=3205

The gist of a LONG TERM economic recovery comes down to this — new jobs, but from manufacturing, not services. But manufacturing has been outsourced and is not likely to come back to the US. You can talk all you want about the service sector taking up the slack but economies aren’t built that way. In the history of the past 500 years, countries got rich by switching from raw material -agricultural-commodity production (including timber, mining, fishing, etc.) to manufacturing, and they protected manufacturing through tariffs, quotas, subsidies, etc. to get it started. You did not get rich by losing your manufacturing industry. Every country that did that became poor.

Read that again — historically, if you lose your manufacturing sector, you become POOR. And that means the US ….

If you gain manufacturing in your country, real wages go up and poverty decreases. If you lose it the country goes into poverty. It’s almost a rule. The reason is simple:

Agricultural/commodity production is characterized by diminishing returns — as you produce more, your margins go down over time. Plus, being commodities your sales  compete against everyone else on pure price, which tends to drive down the price and margins. You can only make it up in volume, but volume makes you even more subject to diminishing returns. So as one economist put it, by basing your country on commodity production, you produce yourself into poverty over time as mines get depleted, fisheries are fished out, timber gets cut down, agricultural land  loses fertility or requires increasingly expensive inputs, etc. The next extra unit of production always costs more than the previous ones. You produce yourself into poverty as you deplete your resources.

For manufacturing, however, as volume grows your margins increase –  manufacturing is characterized by increasing returns to scale. So the 100,000th handheld calculator or mobile phone costs much less to build then the first. And if it’s an innovative product, sales grow, too. Multiply (increasing sales volume) times (increasing margins) brings WEALTH. That’s the rule. That’s the way countries got rich.

In fact, the countries over the past fifty years that thumbed their noses at the misleading economic advice of the world bank, IMF and so forth to choose the well demonstrated road of tariffs and protections (India, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc.) are now rich whereas those that listened to “increase your commodity production, etc.” (Ecuador, etc.) are poor and will remain that way until they change strategies. You have to protect your flourishing industries before you allow free trade in, otherwise it will kill them off and the high paying jobs (and ripple effect) they foster.

It’s as simple as that.

Commodity Production:

Decreasing Margins * Increasing[???] Volume (subject to price competition)

Industrial Production:

Increasing Margins * Increasing Volume = Growing Wealth

Guess which builds wealth? You can see it from the formulas. The service sector only thrives if manufacturing is there to demand-pull its services. Otherwise, no jobs. And the financial services industry CANNOT pull the slack without a higher value added manufacturing sector. Never could, never will. That’s an intellectual fallacy, just as it’s an intellectual fallacy to believe in communism … something that suckered in many intellectuals.

If people are encouraged to purchase things within an economy based on DEBT then the economic decline can be tempered until the debt burden is too much. History also shows that’s a  terrible way to design an economy, and such a structure gets readily destroyed after a severe downturn which ALWAYS happens due to the banking system and too much debt. Go check countless stock market crashes all the way to the 1700’s and you’ll find a problem being too much debt. Never let the bankers control the economy. To make more money they increase debt to a load that cannot be repaid and then a recession or depression comes. It’s almost always debt, and the same pattern was repeated this time around by giving loans to people who could not afford it, and selling them off because you didn’t want to keep them. It wasn’t a failure of capitalism, but a failure of regulation.

So President Obama wants to stimulate jobs? What jobs? Manufacturing is gone – the jobs that count. Outsourced jobs will never come back because they are cheaper elsewhere and they’ve already been switched over, so why would they come back? Construction jobs are not a long term solution … and to construct what that will increase incomes? Like wars, we spend money but get no financial remuneration in return…you spend and spend and spend but get nothing back but just become poorer. 

The only long run solution is to craft policies to restore manufacturing once again because that creates wealth and jobs.

Over the next two years, as the economy hurts more and more, that’s what I’m worried about. Long run sustainability of the economy. Let’s not go into all the issues. Just forget all these 2012 notions. In 2012 we will still be bearing the brunt of an economic downturn because of multiple problems hitting us from all sides — a “perfect storm.”

And US hegemony-supremacy? We’ve put an end to our #1 spot, and it has nothing to do with the spirit of the American people. China is now the manufacturing center of the world, or becoming it — not the US. The US has a shrinking middle class that drives consumption, whereas it’s growing in China, Russia, India and Brazil. Those are first time buyer markets whereas ours is a replacement market for most items, or a market that only grows based on home construction. We’re overextended in debt; China and India are not.

Furthermore,  other countries want to drop the dollar as the reserve currency. We are engaged in trillion dollar wars and uncountable money pumping (which has paid for those wars, but countries won’t allow that free pass any more if they drop the dollar standard) that will turn into serious inflation within five years … make no mistake about it. The Fed will be able to  handle this coming inflation with as much expertise as they’ve shown in predicting a recession, which means near zero capability. If you trust the government for your investment advice, you are bound to go bankrupt.

Go search on the history of Rome and you’ll find many parallels, including the inability to pay for wars on so many fronts (especially when they bring in no tribute). You’re darn right Obama better re-examine our role in Afghanistan, a region no Empire has successfully been able to handle in centuries — including the Russians and England more recently. The conflux of all these things taken together — the perfect storm –   is what you should worry about this generation– not some date in the Mayan calendar. Only if Congress starts crafting policies that foster the return of manufacturing at home and the return of jobs to US shores (a stimulus package will not do that at all — pray tell me how it will) can we even begin to dream of our Clinton-peak in world predominance.

This article proves the point I have stressed many times, that you cannot put the national security issue of seed health in the hands of purely profit seeking companies

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101

Just as the banking industry, in pursuit of profits, has landed us in a mess, the various seed companies will land us all in a state of hunger one day in their “safe” attempts — with no risks because their stance is “scientifically proven” — to control the world food seed supply. Some unforeseen disaster will happen that the old system would have prevented or dampened, but., well, just read and think …

Just ask yourself one question: is it SAFE to put so much power in the hands of a few purely profit seeking companies, who will do everything possible to lock in monopoly profits at the expense of public and national security (while deluding themselves all the while, as did the banks), versus distributed agriculture wherein we have some protection because farmers here and there plant their own varieties of seeds not owned by the Monsantos of the world, etc.

One of the problems with helping people naturopathically is that they take the wrong brand of supplement, or wrong dosage, or wrong quality/quantity of main ingredient, or not long enough for it to take effect, or on haphazard schedule … or one of several different reasons that prompt people to prematurely/unfairly say “it didn’t work.”

Sometimes people make the opposite mistake and think something worked from the alternative field when it didn’t. What are some of these possible errors?

1. the disease ran its natural course
2. the disease is cyclical, with ups and downs, and the “cure” coincided with a cyclical downturn
3. the placebo effect may have been responsible
4. the original prognosis/diagnosis may have been wrong (for which they took the supplement)
5. a temporary mood improvement may be confused with cure
6. people who hedge their bets by doing multiple things may credit the wrong thing
7. psychological needs can distort what people perceive

next time someone said a supplement didn’t work, or worked, better step through these possibilities in your mind.

Ever since Aaron Russo passed away, I have always urged people to understand the difference between a Republic and a Democracry. This short video, which brings Roman history into account, explains nicely. I like it a lot:

http://www.flixxy.com/political-systems.htm

Most people don’t realize that the majority of “democracies” in the world are actually oligarchies, which means rule by a leader and a group of a powerful few behind him/her. It has always been this way. In ancient China, the Emperor had several strong families to contend with that controlled many matters. In Persia (go read about the foundations of the Persian dynasties) it was the same. Same for Rome and so forth.

Go to the Philippines, Indonesia, and South America in our modern times and in country after country (as Confessions of an Economic Hit Man pointed out) you’ll find a few rich, strong, powerful families who have their hand in most of the wealth creation and money flows of that state. Nothing significant happens without their involvement, ie.  ”take.”

It’s always been that way. Hence the talk of the CFR, Bilderbergers, Council of 300 and so on. Ex-President Clinton knew of this (CFR) and used it as part of his ascension. Obama needs their support so his advisors and officials are all part of this group of “keep the status quo for the most part”, a group which does not want any of its members to lose money/fail even at the expense of the public (and so they may topple the whole house of cards as they blindly try to stick to that, paradoxically having urged Japan during its lost decade to do exactly what they now refuse  to do).

Only the ignorant refuse to believe that powerful people do not get together and try to promote their interests. The problem is, do they have wisdom and compassion for the well being of the common folk? Russo, in his talks with Rockefeller, argues no. In my book on Kuan Tzu, I show how one can become leader of this group and how one should act to become such a leader or single most important person in the country, but emphasize the principle of virtue and compassion as opposed to Machiavellian and Sun Tzu type principles. Then one can become a political savior of a nation.  Other principles inevitably lead to destruction – note the present as a perfect illustration of the the typical way things play out, and the video points out this is typical as well.

A few parties jostling for power – note the oligarchs of Russia – it has always been this way. The Morgans, Rockefellers, Rothschilds and so forth at the turn of the century are just another example. In fact, it probably SHOULD be this way IF that set of individuals has culture, learning and wants what’s best for the people. They also need good advisors, otherwise without moral remonstration they tend to grab too much.

The written history of China  shows this and the fact that we all need good advisors that offer a moral conscience, otherwise in pursuit of power and money we tend to trespass. The Nestle debacle on mother’s milk is one such example. The extremes of several Roman Emperors in raping the wives of nobles or of Michael Jackson (if you are super rich and thus free of most backlash, who will you respect and listen to to make sure you don’t go too far in self-destruction?) When the mentality of asuras abounds, destruction results in the economic, political and most of all cultural field. Today the leaders, for the most part, are all interested in more power, money and control. TV shows the decline in the cultural arena due to asura-type reasoning. The economy – you see what happens when one does not store money among the people but tries to suck it out.

In Chinese history, as an example again, perhaps only five or six Prime Ministers (Chuko Liang, Kuan Tzu and a few others) really cared about the people. That’s all – in the long history of thousands of years, only a handful fit the bill. So Cheney and Rumsfeld –  sorry, don’t kid yourself … they are perfect examples of individuals who do NOT truly understand how to help the masses and make a nation strong, though they think they do. The ear of ministers today is lent to corporate and banking interests, thinking those are the interests of the people because it makes more money for the country.

Too much to say. No ears to listen. Or ears that have no power, or ears with power that will not or cannot act.

One weeps for the  country because in restoring Republican principles it can aright itself, but the restoration will not be done because vested interests - people with money and  power – will not voluntarily give up the little bit extra they have to set the whole system aright. When they sacrifice it, it’s a even playing field (hence no loss) and the money machine is also then preserved for their own best interests, but asuras don’t think that way. They want to cut down the forest of ALL trees to get the cash immediately, and then walk away and try to find some other place to take control of. That is why there are three targets that are preoccupying their attention as untapped: China, India and Russia.

My prediction? Within a few decades the US will split into several nations — two or three with the West coast splitting off as one of them. Not because of anything I do or say, but because of the federal government and its over-extensions and wrong policies. This is a horrific,  terrible fate for a country with no natural enemeies due to its wonderful geographical location, but who creates them all the time because of its actions that profits these interests.

Terrorists? nonsense. Replace the word with “criminals” and then you see we spend too much time and money blowing things out of proportion. Think of them as “criminals” and then sanity will return to the country, but keep using the word “terrorists” to scae people and you can justify all sorts of excesses, infringements and extremes as Bush did. Idiotic policy, and the destruction of the national fabric, fiber and culture.

Already the excessive intrusion of the Federal government is provoking responses by states , and in Britian ex-Ministers are warning that things have gone too far. History shows that they will continue to go too far and then break, and then the powers that be will wonder what happened even though, like the reckonging of the banking crisis we all warned about, it is perfectly obvious.  

A man weeps for his country. I have no voice, there is nothing I can do.

Several points I warned about:

1. Control of water by non-government entities. They do NOT care about the public good, but profits. Profit seeking in this case is at odds with the public good. The current economic crisis is exactly because Washington stopped considering “national interests” and started listening to corporate and banking interests instead. The two are EXTREMELY different.

Profit seeking ventures will do almost anything to make more money, and it’s government’s job to regulate them to keep this in check and in line with the national good. Otherwise, see what happened … if instead of keeping the loans I make I sell them instead, then I will eventually have an incentive to make lots of bad loans I can sell because collection and default will be someone else’s problem. Exactly what happened – Common Sense 101.

The problem proliferates from this point onwards. Rating agenices will eventually continue to say “all is well,” and if you are in charge of investments and warn your firm not to buy these loans while everyone else is, you will likely lose your job. So the problem proliferates due to lack of ethics and common sense.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/25

2. You cannot “stimulate” jobs where there are none – you need to recreate the manufacturing sector and it will take 30 years of policies to do so, especially since we are a high cost environment that cannot compete due to labor costs and health care costs. Rejuvenating the industrial sector is the only thing that will restore national prosperity to our peak of supremacy because the jobs that have left US shores are not going to come back – we’re too expensive. Two things can help. Tax incentives for manufacturing at home, and also a revamping of liability laws to encourage production of products that otherwise would not be made here. Too manyproducts are not made because of liability laws. Sorry, but liability has to be rethought.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article9109.html

3. The long term cycles do show the stock market rebounding late this year into late 2010, and the dropping from then on into late 2014/early 2015. Here’s a video I made of the current short term seasonality of the stock market calling for a low right about now or in mid-April. Options traders use to your advantage. I’ll release this software sometime soon so you can analyze any market by western and lunar seasonals, by political conditions, by economic conditions, by trend following, by cycles and that’s about it.

http://www.screencast.com/users/wbodri/folders/Jing/media/14d55f26-9769-4a99-99de-349f42a649f3

( http://www.screencast.com/t/Fueshusm )

Just watch:

http://vimeo.com/2769845

This ad recently appeared on Craig’s list, and has been requoted everywhere.  It’s about why a man with wealth shouldn’t marry a girl just for her looks. I’ll save my comments for the end because I alwasy wanted to write about this. The Craigslist ad starts off with a girl looking for a guy.

Girl Asks – What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York . I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 – 250. But that’s where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won’t get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she’s not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars, restaurants, gyms

-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won’t hurt my feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I’m 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I’ve seen really ‘plain jane’ boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I’ve seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What’s the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows – lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY

Please hold your insults – I’m putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I’m being up front about it. I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match them – in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth.

The Guy Replies – We would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold

I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.

Firstly, I’m not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here’s how I see it.

Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here’s why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here’s the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity…in fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won’t be getting any more beautiful!

So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you’re 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold…hence the rub…marriage. It doesn’t make good business sense to “buy you” (which is what you’re asking) so I’d rather lease. In case you think I’m being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It’s as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.

Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as “articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful” as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn’t found you, if not only for a tryout.

By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn’t need to have this difficult conversation.

With all that said, I must say you’re going about it the right way. Classic “pump and dump.”

I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.

* * * *

Okay, now for my comments I’ve always wanted to write. To read them, please see

http://www.meditationexpert.com/life-wisdom/l_honest_craigs_list.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy

http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/877/1/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jivb7lupDNU