Next time you run the program or link, take a closer look at the chart they offer up. You'll see that, no matter what the other boxes say, the boxes whose numbers are multiples of 9 all have the same "picture, label, word, whatever" in them... . If you re-run the link, the contents of the boxes that are multiples of 9 may change, but they're all the same as the other boxes that are multiples of 9 and will always be the same as the "magic item" you've chosen. Look closely next time and try the "mathemagic" on paper first, too.

You've probably gotten this or something like it, via email..

The Fix. There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg, FL, Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?" I think this guy nailed it!

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan":

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1. 1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings --- Unemployment fixed.
2. 2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered --- Auto Industry fixed.
3. 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage --- Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes...

It won't work and it can't work.

Ask yourself the following:

• Did you know that $40 million times 1 million people equals 4x10^13 dollars?
• A billion dollars is 1x10^9 dollars.
• A trillion dollars is only 1x10^12 dollars.
• This misguided idea would give forty trillion dollars to the "unemployed" to "get us out of this mess."
• The US Gross Domestic Product, as of 2008 was a bit less than $14 trillion dollars.
• You are suggesting that the "unemployed" be given about three times our GDP as a gift, to "solve our problems!
• Where will the money come from?
• It will come from your tax payments. ALL "Government money" comes from your tax payments.
• How will the money be distributed?
• By a government agency and a horde of bureaucrats, paid to implement and deliver on the program, and all are hired and paid out of MORE of your taxes.
• Someone needs their head and their math skills examined!

And this is going to make WHOM rich? All of us??

Stop and think... for a change!

And one more link for you, too... More Astronomical Myths, Debunked.

Air Force helicopters have flown in front of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, and sharks do attack their prey by leaping out of the water. However, a Great White shark has never attacked a helicopter in San Francisco Bay. The top image was created by an unknown hoaxer who pasted an image of a breaching Great White, taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell, into a picture of a USAF helicopter hovering in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, taken by Lance Cheung.