Open Letter To Rabbi Daniel Lapin

7/1/2014 Rabbi Daniel Lapin PO Box 58 Mercer Island, WA. 98040 Dear Rabbi Lapin: Find enclosed a copy of my latest book America In Decline. As the title indicates, I believe our country is in serious trouble. Unfortunately, unlike Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, I do not believe the situation can be turned around at the ballot box. I hope you will have the time to read the book. I believe you will find it informative and rife with suggestions on how, short of revolution, we can turn our floundering ship of state around. I Love your radio show and listen to it on 560 AM most Sunday mornings. I hope you will address this question sometime on your show. I believe that Jews are the smartest people to ever walk the face of the earth. Always were and always will be. That having been said, why is the average Jew so stupid (liberal) when it comes to politics? For the life of me I cannot explain this dichotomy. Sincerely yours, Daniel C. Merrill MD docmerrill@aol.com

Open Letter

The Use Of Coffee Grounds In The Garden

Coffee grounds are a near ideal soil amendment. Although the NPK value of the grounds is relatively low (2.3-0.06-0.6), each cubic yard of coffee grounds contains 10.31 pounds of nitrogen which the soil microorganisms slowly release over time; as such, coffee grounds are an ideal slow release organic fertilizer. Coffee grounds also are rich in magnesium and copper essential trace elements that are necessary for vigorous plant growth. The carbon nitrogen ratio for coffee grounds is 20 to 1 which makes them an ideal food for composting earthworms and, with a pH of 6.2, a perfect organic fertilizer for acid loving plants like tomatoes and blue berries. Furthermore, each cubic yard of coffee grounds adds 442 pounds of organic material to a garden, thus, the grounds are a valuable source of humus. This is an especially important consideration for gardeners who do not have a ready supply of animal manure, earthworm castings or other type of organic material with which to enrich their garden soil. Most gardeners are well aware of the value of coffee grounds, especially if they garden the organic way; however, many of you may be questioning the practicality of incorporating large volumes of coffee grounds in your garden considering the high cost of Starbucks and Pete's coffee at the grocery store, which now sells for around $9.99 for a 12 ounce bag. You also may be questioning the relevance of this essay considering that most of us use instant forms of coffee at home and only resort to coffee made from expensive ground coffee beans on special occasions. However, at this point in time Americans are literally nuts about their coffee and are more than willing to pay big bucks for the pricy beverage when they go shopping or while commuting to work. As a result, there is a coffee shop in every food store and on nearly every street corner in the country. The entrepreneurs that manage these coffee shops invariably sell fresh brewed coffee and generate hundreds of pounds of coffee ground waste each and every day of the year. Guess what, disposing of this waste is a big problem for these people and they are more than happy to give it away. So, the next time you go to Safeway, stop by the coffee vendor and ask him if he has any used coffee grounds that he wants to get rid of, I know from personal experience that they invariably will. Most likely you will come home with a plastic sack containing 20 to 30 pounds of spent coffee grounds. All you have to do is carry it home and dump it in the garden. Happy gardening!

The United States Invaded By The Children Of South America

Forty two thousand children from South America have entered the United States so far this year and it is estimated that over 90,000 will have entered our country illegally by year's end. Somehow these children, who are mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, make their way across Mexico and simply walk across our porous southern border. Once here they sit down; wait to be arrested by border patrol agents; and then request asylum based on humanitarian grounds. Ultimately, the vast majority of these requests will be granted and the illegal's will become wards of the state. This, of course, would not be possible if the Obama administration made even the slightest effort to protect our southern border from the invasion of illegal's from South America. I make no distinction between illegal's that cross our borders for economic reasons and those who come here to escape the atrocities of their homeland. In either case they should not be here! Of course, we all have empathy for those who were unlucky enough to have been born in places like Honduras just as we do for those who were born in hell-holes like Haiti, Sierra Leone, Niger or Liberia. However, we are a relatively small bankrupt nation and there is little or nothing we can do to eliminate worldwide hunger or the enslavement and ill-treatment of the peoples of the world by their corrupt and incompetent leaders, most of whom, by the way, are of color. The point I would like to make is this. As I describe in my latest book America in Decline, many, if not most, of the problems that America faces today (poverty, illegitimacy, crime Etc.) are a direct result of the low IQs of our citizens. In this respect, the mean IQ of Americans has been falling an average of 1.5 IQ points a generation since the Elizabethan era. This problem is worsening by the day because birthrate of intelligent white women is now only 1.7 (a birthrate of 2.3 is required to maintain the status quo) while the birth rate of low IQ blacks and women of Mexican descent is three to four times higher. Can you see where we are headed if these disparities in birthrates between white and collared America are allowed to continue? In any case, what we do not need in twenty-first century America is tens of thousands of low IQ children crossing our borders each year from south America, or anywhere else for that matter! The mean IQs of children from South America are 14 points lower than whose of the average white American teenager. Educating and providing shelter, nourishment and healthcare for these intellectually challenged children will be a tremendous burden on the already beleaguered American tax payer. Allowing them to stream across our borders on a daily basis is unforgivable and Obama should be impeached for it. Better yet, he should be tried for treason and when found guilty executed! Many, if not most, of those who read this blog will question the validity of the statistics on racial IQ that are used to support my contention that we should, once and for all, put a stop to illegal immigration whether the illegal's be adult or children. If so, I recommend you read The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray. I believe this to be the most important book written in the last 150 years, maybe the most significant ever!

Sun Dried Tomatoes

At this time of year gardeners are anxiously awaiting for their first tomatoes to ripen. In a few short weeks many of them will be complaining that they have too many tomatoes and will be attempting to find ways to get rid of them, usually by giving them to their neighbors. I do not believe that you can ever have to many home grown tomatoes. This is especially true if you grow them organically without pesticides and poisonous chemical fertilizers. I make tomato sauce out of some of my wonderful home grown organic tomatoes and freeze it for use in the winter months. I expect that many of you do too. However, most of my excess tomatoes are sun dried and used to season the dishes I prepare throughout the year when fresh tomatoes are not available (store bought tomatoes are tasteless and don't count). This is a relatively simple and inexpensive way to utilize the excess bounty from your garden. By the way, have you noticed the price they charge for sun-dried tomatoes in the local food store? Outrageous! To sundry tomatoes you will need a drying rack. You also can use a dehydrator but dehydrators are expensive, costly to run and dehydrated tomatoes are not as tasty as are their sun-dried counterparts. I make my racks from 1 X 4 inch fir boards nailed together and covered with window screen on one side. The window screen is stapled to the 1 X 4 inch frames. The finished racks are 8 feet long and 3 feet wide. You will need two such racks for your drying assembly. Place one rack, screen side down on two saw horses, or something similar that will keep them off the ground, and position the second rack, screen side up, over it. The space between the two screens is 1.5 inches, just right for drying tomato halves! To prepare the tomatoes for drying cut them in half, through the middle, not the bottom where they were attached to the vines. Now make five or six right angle cuts across the exposed flesh of the tomato halves with a sharp knife so that they will, with a little pressure, lay flat on the drying rack, skin side down. Finally, salt and pepper the crosshatched tomato halves, cover them with the second rack to keep the flies off, and let them dry on the racks until they are nearly crisp and dark reddish black in color. This, usually takes about 5-7 days. If your nights are misty, cover the screens with a tarp at night to keep them from becoming moist during the evening hours. Sun dried tomatoes made in this way will last indefinitely if stored in a plastic bag or container. Sun dried tomato halves may be used whole or sliced into small pieces to season almost any dish imaginable; however, I usually run the dried tomato halves through a blender to form a dried tomato seasoning powder which I sprinkle generously on the dishes and salads I prepare in the kitchen. You may not like my politics, but you are going to love my sun dried tomato powder, I guarantee it!