We are being advised from the highest political levels that you are destroying our economy — please see our press photo above of a recent presidential speech from HealthcAir Force One (Air Force One) concerning extravagant spending executives who fly around in private jets.

I personally don’t own a private jet, but if I did, I’d quit using the #*%!  thing.  Just look at what all that jet flying did to the stock market last week.  Geez, down 600 points, then up 400, back down 500 or so, on and on.  It’s too much for a body to take.

We normally don’t comment on politics too often (chuckle) but WoodChips Central felt it would be irresponsible if we didn’t post this public announcement.

So just stop flying those private jets so we can get this economy and the stock market turned around and everything will be just fine.

Thanks, and have a nice day – J. Daniel

P.S.  Additional benefit — I gather that stopping all that extravagant private jet flying will cause the national debt to just disappear or something.

Here’s a couple of helpful tips for you. 

First, you can do this for free.   There are many free blog programs out there.  I’ve tried most of them and I can save you some time by telling you what I consider to be the best for beginning (and professional) blggers.

Overall, the best blogging program is WordPress.  WordPress is used by more bloggers than any other blogging software i n the world.  This site (The WoodChips) is actually created in WordPress, so you can see how far you can actually take the concept.

WordPress has two versions.  They are the internet version (the easiest) and the self-hosted version (more complex with more features).  If you want to start out, I’d recommend the WordPress internet version.  They take care of all the hosting for you and all you do is write and post your blogs.

You could literally have a blog posting out on the internet in thirty minutes to an hour from now by starting out this way.

The other advantage of this approach is if you really get into it, and want to move up to the more complex version, they have a conversion program that helps you make the change.  That way, all of your earlier work can be preserved.

So if you’ve got the blogging itch, and it’s something you’ve wanted to try out for some time, check out WordPress.  I think you’ll like it.

Go here and choose the Geting a free account on WordPress.com option on the page.  You’ll be up and running in no time.

Have a nice day – and good luck with your blog – J. Daniel

But why do they do this?  Have you ever wondered?

The trees are getting ready to survive winter.  They are sealing off their leaves, small twigs and sticks to keep frost damage from harming the rest of the tree.  And they are storing up sugars they will need in the winter.

Speaking of trees, twigs and sticks, one of the ideas you may like in the post is how to “stick it” to some of the “too big to fail” financial institutions who may be manipulating the markets – but more on that in a moment.

So the trees are planning for the future, adding to their savings and investment accounts by storing sugars, so they can draw on these during scarce times.

Of course I don’t think they are doing this deliberately, but we can learn a lesson from this, and WE CAN take deliberate action.

We all face financial winters as the economy expands and contracts – and, as some would say, the markets are manipulated by some of the “too big to fail” financial institutions in our country — to our detriment.

Here’s a fun idea you can use to …

1)      Save a little for winter like the trees.

2)      Make a small but good investment in a physically beautiful commodity.

3)      Possibly get even with some of the  “too big to fail” financial institutions.

What’s not to like about that?

So what’s the big idea?  It’s this.  Go to your coin dealer and buy a one ounce  .999 pure silver round coin.

I’ve been doing this for some time.  Tell the dealer you want to “buy a one ounce silver round with no numismatic value.”  The dealer will know what you mean.  Numismatic value is due to the rarity of a coin.  You don’t want to pay for this – just the pure silver.

How does this help, you might ask.

It helps YOU because over time silver will probably continue to go up in price. Some analyst think it will go to $500 an ounce, although I think that’s excessive — more like $50 maybe.

More and more people are turning to silver as an alternate store of value because our government is constantly depreciating the value of the dollar to pay off huge debts.  Your dollar savings will dwindle in value.  Your silver savings will probably increase in value.

And it has been rumored for some time that some of the “too big to fail” financial institutions (possibly J. P. Morgan among others) have been manipulating the market by taking huge short positions in silver.  That means they have been selling silver they don’t own.

If everyone in the country would buy just one silver bullion coin, that would put enormous pressure on them and they would have to “cover their shorts.”  They would realize, painfully, that they cannot continue to do this – that the game is up.

So if you would like to store up for winter like the trees, make a possibly good investment and stick it to the market manipulators, go out and buy a one ounce silver round this weekend.  It will cost about $28, and is beautiful and fun to own.

What’s could be better than that.

Have a great day – and always look for the silver lining – J. Daniel

P.S. The silver market is very volatile so prices can swing up and down, but long term, the indications are good for silver.  Silver has gone up 200% in the past year or so.

P.P.S. I’m not an actively liscensed financial advisor currently, so do this purchase at your own discretion.  There is a risk of loss with silver.  You know I had to say that – right.