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I was listening to a sermon that was speaking directly to my heart. Psalm 38 was mentioned. It's me. Reading it gave me great peace.

Psalm 38

A psalm of David. A petition.

1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger

or discipline me in your wrath.

2 For your arrows have pierced me,

and your hand has come down upon me.

3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;

my bones have no soundness because of my sin.

4 My guilt has overwhelmed me

like a burden too heavy to bear.

5 My wounds fester and are loathsome

because of my sinful folly.

6 I am bowed down and brought very low;

all day long I go about mourning.

7 My back is filled with searing pain;

there is no health in my body.

8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;

I groan in anguish of heart.

9 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord;

my sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;

even the light has gone from my eyes.

11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;

my neighbors stay far away.

12 Those who seek my life set their traps,

those who would harm me talk of my ruin;

all day long they plot deception.

13 I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear,

like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;

14 I have become like a man who does not hear,

whose mouth can offer no reply.

15 I wait for you, O Lord;

you will answer, O Lord my God.

16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat

or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

17 For I am about to fall,

and my pain is ever with me.

18 I confess my iniquity;

I am troubled by my sin.

19 Many are those who are my vigorous enemies;

those who hate me without reason are numerous.

20 Those who repay my good with evil

slander me when I pursue what is good.

21 O Lord, do not forsake me;

be not far from me, O my God.

22 Come quickly to help me,

O Lord my Savior.

The closer I draw to God, the more I weep because I realize how lost I am without Him. For a while, I was afraid of what people would think of me as a Christian. Like I'm not even allowed to be a Christian without being called crazy, and that's because I was said to be crazy by the VA for being a Christian. If you're a Christian, you don't want to use government run medicine. At the same time, I was very afraid of losing God. Wanting to stay on top of myself because I love God and don't want to lose Him. I have no purpose in life without God.

Let me preface this by making it clear that I do not sell bloodroot nor am I naturopathic doctor. I do not give people medical advice. I can remember after writing a piece about bloodroot salve, somebody had sent me an email inquiry about using bloodroot salve and I didn't bother to reply. I'm not a doctor. I don't claim to be one, and I won't give medical advice. All I can say is what has worked for me as well as my mother. My mother treated her cancer with bloodroot salve very successfully. I had a very good experience getting rid of a painful tumor with bloodroot salve before her. From what I've seen, properly made bloodroot salves are very safe and effective at treating certain types of cancer (e.g. melanoma, breast cancer). Better than anything orthodox medicine could provide. Absolutely amazing stuff. It does have potential dangers. It has to be used properly. The process of the salve getting rid of the cancer can be painful and it can look bad. Depending on the location and size of the problem area, the pain will vary. It can leave residual scarring, so caution must be exercised there. Nobody should use it without the direction of somebody who knows what they're doing. I've also never been one to claim that just because something is natural, it's super safe. A lot of things are natural, but unsafe. Taking bloodroot (not the salves, just the bloodroot) internally is not a wise idea at all. Haven't done it and wouldn't recommend it, yet it is sold (not the salves, just the bloodroot) in capsule form.

Everything I write above leads me to a paradox. My best guess is if cancer patients had the opportunity to try bloodroot salve, they would think of it as a miracle salve. It would save time, resources, health, bodies, and lives. Conversely, alcohol is dangerous and has no health benefits other than helping a person relax every now and then. Cigarettes are dangerous and have no health benefits whatsoever. People also foolishly claim that marijuana is super safe and want it to be legalized, too. For that matter, pornography is not good for the spiritual health, yet it's legal. Promiscuous sex is dangerous for the physical health, yet so long as everybody is an adult, it's all legal. So things that are unsafe and bad for the health are legal, and it's fair game to debate legalizing yet more bad things. In short, self destruction is perfectly legal. Some kind of strange health police state we live in.

Now take bloodroot salves. It's perfectly legal to buy and sell bloodroot salve. Just Google bloodroot salve. Nothing illegal about the ingredients. The salves don't make a person high. They are meant to be topically applied anyways. It's also perfectly legal to write about what bloodroot salves can do in terms of being used to treat cancer. You can buy a whole book on cancer salves by Ingrid Naiman. Google her name. But if somebody were to try to sell bloodroot salve in juxtaposition with saying what bloodroot salve can and has done, that person would receive a cease and desist letter and could even end up in jail. People say that if bloodroot salve worked so well to treat certain types of cancer, they would know about it. No they wouldn't. The government runs medicine. Doctors aren't allowed to deviate from protocol, or they lose their medical license.

It's time we have a serious debate about ending the war on naturopathic medicine. If we can have a debate about legalizing drugs, with some very respectable people even glorifying drug use, I think we can talk about letting naturopathic doctors save lives and practice medicine.

He helped stop Angle. It's not that I hate Angle or even dislike her. I didn't like the campaign she ran. I felt it my responsibility to right that wrong. President Obama helped stop her and that lifted a burden for me.

I just wanted to say thanks to VP Gore. He motivated me with some of his speeches.

I will share my trades with everybody. However, I want to make clear that I'm not endorsing any trades for anybody else. As I've done in the past when writing about futures trading, I've always added that disclaimer even though I wasn't selling any services at the time (in my commentaries, pre and post having held the Series 3 license). Only you know your financial condition and what's suitable for you. It's impossible to predict the future with certainty, which is why anybody who implies definite results for anything should be looked at with suspicion. I just want to share my trades so that others can see how well I'm doing.

I see gold dipped down today (i.e. May 9, 2012). I haven't really touched gold at all since I was waiting it for it to break out of the range it had been trading in for the last several weeks. Generally, I don't stick with a range too long. I also anticipated that gold could touch the 1500s until quantitative easing III is announced. At the same time, I wasn't confident enough to take a short position. Although nothing moves up or down in a straight line, I'm fairly certain that over time, the value of the dollar will go down. In ten years from now, the price of gold will be higher than it is today. That doesn't mean there won't be rallies in the short term, as there was today. Therefore, it's better to look for big dips to go long than it is too look for opportunities to go short. If you were you take a short position today and hold it for ten years, odds are you will lose. So ask yourself what you can do over the long term and be succesful? Here are a few rules I have when trading.

1)Know what it is you are trading. If you don't know something, don't trade it. I know the metals (i.e. gold and silver) and the grains (i.e. wheat, corn and oats). Those are the markets I follow and know. So that's what I trade.

2)I don't always need to have a position. I'm flat more often than not. Trading for the sake of trading won't help. Quality over quantity.

3)Don't over trade. No panic trades.

4)Although nothing will move up in a straight

I've been trading July corn. Not a lot. Very patient when looking for my entry point. I've been looking for the very low 600s (i.e. below 610) or even 500s to go long. I'm looking for the upper 620s or 630s to offset. My last trade, I was long at 609 and then offset at around 628. Since then, just like I was eagerly awaiting, corn dipped back down to the lower 600s and then moved back up to the upper 620s/lower 630s. Presently, the July corn contract is in the 620s. As of right now, I'm flat and hold no position in anything. I'm looking for corn in the very low 600s or 500s before I go long again.

Is very important. If you have a physician who tells you that hypothyroidism is asymptomatic, get a new physician. If you use the VA, you may get flagged and fired by your doctor before you're able to get a new doctor. Especially if you have a big heart and reverse yourself before carrying through with plans to get a new doctor, as I had done so.

I know I will be okay. My descent began in early 2010 due to depression due to an untreated thyroid disorder, in juxtaposition with getting involved in a political contest, going through the worse depression of my life, having literally nowhere to really turn, while also feeling like it's my duty to deal with it on my own, and I handled my depression the wrong way. But I'm past that now. I've been past that since late 2010/early 2011. I'm getting my thyroid disorder taken care of again. It's just taken a while to regain myself. But now that I have regained myself, I can say with certainty I'm going to be fine. The real me is animated by love and respect for others, is not prone to doing eccentric or outlandish things, and strives for humility.

Tom Carper has suggested that wind energy be stored in postal vehicles. I like the idea. That could make wind energy efficient, although I think the only way to ensure efficiency is through the unhampered market and the price mechanism. But that sounds like a plan that could pay for itself. About the only drawback is I don't think the USPS has the right vehicles to do that.

One thing about Ron Paul - and this has caused me some level of concern at times - is that he has occasionally sounded like an apologist for bin Laden and so forth when opposing certain policies. I've never liked that and I always did my very best to be careful about articulating certain issues. As an example, Ron Paul's statement on the killing of bin Laden he sounded like a bit of an apologist for OBL. He wasn't very clear on the fact that he's opposed to all executions absent due process of law because it's about due process of law.

Don't blame President Obama or anybody else for anything. It's the person in the mirror.