by John Curtis | Apr 3, 2014 | John's Blog
Recently I was in Mexico to thaw out from the brutal unending Minnesota winter. We, my saintly wife and I, were staring at the blue Pacific rolling and crashing on the perfect seven mile beach near Barro de Posta, Mexico, a town of 300 beautiful, gentle natives. It’s...
by John Curtis | Mar 20, 2014 | John's Blog
What is the World’s Reserve Currency? It is the U S dollar. It is used by most nations to buy goods and services from other countries. If Germany wants to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, it must first buy U S dollars, the reserve currency. Then and only then can they...
by John Curtis | Mar 12, 2014 | John's Blog
Vitamin D is very important to the folks that live in the northern climes. I didn’t know much about it until I was diagnosed with a deficiency of vitamin D. Vitamin D comes from the sun when exposed to the sun and its ultraviolet light or radiation. It also comes...
by John Curtis | Mar 3, 2014 | John's Blog
Putin has made a big deal out of cleaning up corruption with his own Russia party and the Oligarchs (rich people) that support him and his lying, thieving KGB way of thinking. He did not overthrow anyone. He did not win a fair election. So how did he amass so much...
by John Curtis | Feb 19, 2014 | John's Blog
Green cards used to be the highest priority for immediate members of family living in foreign lands. That was until the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) was overwhelmed by the President’s order to shift attention to give deportation deferrals to young...
by John Curtis | Feb 5, 2014 | John's Blog
Gappers are the folks that fall in between. Gappers fall in between the government programs created to help the disadvantaged, the unemployed, and mortgage payment problems. My gaping gap is in the mortgage rule book. If one has a government mortgage guaranteed by...
by John Curtis | Jan 29, 2014 | John's Blog
The tax return season is upon us. Soon, eighty million Americans will hire some of the one million tax preparers at a cost of $370 billion to wade through the 73,954 pages of tax code, more than 500 IRS tax forms, supplements, and guides to make sure we do it right....
by John Curtis | Jan 22, 2014 | John's Blog
Alcohol, Nicotine and Cannabis. There is no question that these products do a great deal of damage to society and the World. They have also been around for thousands of years. Regulations are numerous for each. Restrictions and banns have been attempted from all...
by John Curtis | Jan 15, 2014 | John's Blog
Getting old can be enjoyable or not. My father-in-law, Vern, a World War II veteran, has been my educator on growing old. I have known him for almost 40 years and have watched as he has grown old, (87 years). I remember when he was a strong young father watching...
by John Curtis | Jan 8, 2014 | John's Blog
How convenient for the former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, to stand back, criticizing the President for his handling of the Afghanistan mess now that his book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” is newly published. He praises him as a rigorous thinker,...
