For some reason, I love the hokey ’50’s-ness of the title. Reminds me of the ‘Cavalcade of Stars’ or something like that. I am thinking of starting a Gala, but I’m not sure what kind yet.
Anyhow, here are the highlights:
Perennial favorite, LAMoneyGuy on those two old ladies who were in the Law & Order-like plot to kill homeless men and collect insurance.
Bob of our Cavalcade Host, InsureBlog, writes about Single Disease policies.
Though I’m not sure how this is related to insurance or risk, I love this post by Wenchypoo. I find luxury creep an obnoxious result of advertising, hence my exhortation to kill your television.
This one touches a nerve. I went to the dentist recently and was handed a disclosure sheet about ’silver’ fillings which were really a mix of silver & mercury amalgam. It traces back to this article which also hits a nerve.
I have taken lots of herbal medicines as a child and I absolutely do not condone it. Herbal medicines have a serious physiological effect and too many things are unknown about them. DO NOT take herbal medications. They really do mess with your metabolism and physiology. I was meant to be underweight as a child and a slender adult. My mother would force feed me herbal medicines to fatten me up when I did not need it. In the end, IT DID NOT WORK. The effects were only temporary. Once the substances passed through the system my body returned to its natural metabolism and shed the weight I had put on while consuming the preparations. The net financial effect was also that my mother wasted thousands of dollars she could have been saving.
If you want to take packaged supplements of bee pollen and cranberry pills, be my guest. I have been known to pop an acidophilus pill or two. There’s nothing wrong with eating local honey, etc. But I absolutely do not recommend taking prepared herbs of unknown strength and potency for any reason.
I’ve got family & friends who consume this stuff and are practitioners of herbal medicine. It’s their choice, but I urge you to do some research about what the heck you are taking and err on the side caution if you think this is the choice you wish to make.
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