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Just wait until you have to do your schedule D in the spring. Buying is not a problem - it's the sales your Uncle is interested in. Ain't that right Peaches?
 
Birch,

I got overwhelmed on the schedule D crap last time. Bad experiences are great teachers and that's why I only trade my Roth. Our Uncle can go suck wind when it comes to my earnings cuz they ain't taxable on that account. hee hee
 
Back from day one of the Honeybee seminar. Very cool stuff about CCD (colony collapse disorder) and bee nutrition.

Summary: If you feed the cheapest CRAP to your livestock (honeybees) as a supplement during dearth and/or winter and it does not have the proper nutritional value, you will get very sick livestock subject to illness and disease or a number of both. Sound familiar? Try Mad Cow Disease.
 
DennisFAA said:
Probably I'm gonna over state the obvious..But I take it you're a Bee-Keeper?

That is too cool...I get honey from a guy near by and he only filters his and blends it from one hive to another and sells it to me by the gallon..Since I eat at least two tablespoons a day of it I seem to be immune to any local airbourne allergies..any Truth to that or placebo affect?
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Yes, I have been a beekeeper on and off since about 1980. I just got back into pursuing it full bore this year because of the problems the honeybee industry are facing. I have a feral colony of bees that may be what is considered "survivor" bees. They can survive all of the pests that man has introduced to them over the years from importing. They are getting the Royal treatment on the farm. No artificial food or chemicals to treat them.

I have not seen any scientific study on it but I have heard the same thing for many years. I believe it to be true because the nectar is collected from many different plants to make the honey and in that honey there will be small grains of pollen from the same plant and many others.

It MUST be locally produced honey (local flora) and it must be processed to a minimum. "Raw Honey" is considered as close to "organic" as you can get. No artificial heating of the honey to increase "shelf life" or filtering. From what I understand you want some of the "debris" because that is the pollen and if you pasteurize and filter you remove some of the goodies.

Comb Honey is the best bet for the rawest form of honey. I smear the wax and all on my English Muffins. Mmm mmm good.

Honey facts:

Honey is the only food known to man that will not spoil.

Honey was used and a wound dressing in the Civil War because bacteria can not survive in it.

If Honey crystallizes, don't throw it away, just submerge it in very hot water and it will liquefy. I set it on the dash of my car in the summer and voilà.

Have'n some coffee and head'n out for day two. See ya.
 
Hi Show Me:

My best friend runs an organic orchard and farm up in Kettle Falls, WA.He also is a bee-keeper...not to mention a better sailor than I am. The raw honey from his bees is to die for..His bees seem to like it and have not suffered from the decline that seem to be rampart where there is large use of pesticides and fertilizers..Amazing...the secret is ..keep it natural and we all prosper..

Good Luck in your nvesting next week..Looks like you're doing well on the tracker..

FS
 
Hi FogSailing,

Back again. Basically that is what the Dr. and another well known beekeeper are saying. All of the crap in the environment is taking a toll on the creatures from the lowest part of the food chain. That in turn is making them weak to fight off the natural problems they have had before. It is a confluence of many different things causing a catastrophic collapse of the bee colony.

When bee know they are going to die they fly away from the colony to die. That way they do not infect the rest of the colony.
 
Dennis:

Probably...since we've outsourced everything else...and the African's probably work at a fraction of the cost..:D:D:D

FS
 
The lower States do have a big problem with African's, but they have some really good traits in their gene pool. The little buggers are very, very defensive and have killed many people. When the fight pheromone is triggered they all come out of the hive like flooding water. Devastating attacks because in Africa they needed that trait to defend the open hives that they occupy. African's don't hive in a tree cavity, they will build a hive on a limb of a tree in the open. That leave them open to all kind of robbers so God gave them a very aggressive defense gene to protect the very open colony.

Now that we have them here in the Americas were there are tons and tons of tree cavities and man made cavities and they don't need the heightened defense gene. People here can not see them from a mile away to avoid them like the folks in Africa can. So what happens is a unexpected person stumbles on a African hive and triggers the defense mechanism and bang a sad headline on the news.

There are new laws in some State that you can not capture feral hives and any possible African colonies must be destroyed.
 
One day plan and then .............

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$FTSE&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p51972347693

OK, now back to business. I took a major chance today in hopes of a relief rally based on some basic trends and a pattern I see. The CitiGroup news should have really tanked the market harder than it did IMO. So the market must be looking for a rally.

The FTSE has had three big old red candle stick in a row which in the past has led to a at least a one day rally. Also, it touched the 200 dma and closed above the 50 dma so it seems that support has held for now.

The dollar had a small relief rally today and the I fund was just to tasty a peach not to pick. A big +FV was the worry of the day.

We have a Hindenburg in the house and all the major charts appear to have a double top going on. And it that is not bad enough the high for the year has been tested twice and no joy on a number of different charts.

I'm not any more optimistic about the economy than I was before the sub-prime BS, but I recognize a possible opportunity to grab a few pennies. I really need to make up ground and this looks like a good place to pick some fruit.

One day is my plan, but sticking to my plan is a problem most of the time. :embarrest:
 
Tin foil hat time.

Tin foil hat time as the guy from no where steps up on the soap box.

When is this thing going to really POP? I mean the commodity prices are unreal. Look what SLV did today. We have $15 plus silver :D, $800 plus gold :D, $97 plus oil :(, $10 plus beans and the market rallies??? Even the oil companies a starting to squeal about the tight margins.

Yea, foreign money is pouring into the market because we are a Nation on sale, but our dollars are not worth the paper they are printed on and the "economy" is "consumer driven". Retailers are going to get crushed this year and if they don't the credit card companies will be the next sub-prime headline.

Got my Christmas Club in the bank waiting on the SALE. :cool:
 
I need a DCB and bad. One more day is all I ask. lol Tomorrow we will see, the ECB and BoE will release their rate policy statements and then we will know. Good luck.
 
DCB or no DCB I'm out tomorrow. Odds are that I will get lucky, but my "luck" has not been the best this year.
 
No kitty for me and I was sweating major bullets today. WOW, what a ride down and up. Freaked me out.
 
This is funny.

http://www.decisionpoint.com/TAC/NEWMAN.html

The Government's Stats Lie
Oil at $96 per barrel and supposedly, inflation is a whimpering child instead of a blustering bully? Well, we don’t believe it. In our view, inflation numbers have been kept to a barebones level if only to keep a lid on social security cost-of-living adjustments. Three years ago, the program paid out over $500 billion in benefits. In 2006, the outlay increased to $544 and it has undoubtedly increased this year at much the same rate as last year. Add inflation adjustments to the increasing pool of recipients and you will see one good reason why there is a pressing need to keep the inflation numbers as low as possible. Lest we forget, the oldest baby boomers are now beginning to collect their retirement benefits. In the charts of Oil and Gold, one can easily see a relationship between the rising price of crude and spikes in inflation in the mid and late 1970s. Although the economy is sensitive to price increases in oil in so many ways, somehow the impetus has disappeared. Are producers and shippers not passing along their own increases costs to consumers?
 
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