GOLD

If you watch TV with any frequency as I do you might have noticed the recent
hysterical efforts to sell you gold by three or four heretofore unknown companies.
Several questions suggest themselves to your bemused blogger.
1) Where did they all of a sudden get all this endless supply of gold ?
2) Why, if is such a great investment do they want to sell ?

Suspicion : Maybe it isn't such a good investment after all. Perhaps they are trying to unload at the present high price before an expected crash in gold price. Time will tell.

Another possibility : As you know, the US has a large stash of gold in Fort Knox
Are they dumping this stash through these gold selling companies ? Hmm- I wonder.

True or false trivia question: All the gold ever mined would fit in an average apartment.

DISGUSTED

I make no secret of my conservative proclivities. That might be why I dislike the Houston Chronicle, the only daily newspaper in town. Several items in recent days reinforce my opinion.

1) The Republican National Committee let slip by a ( GASP) $2000 expense for attendance at sleazy strip joint. The fact that the expense was subsequently disallowed and the submitter fired is downplayed. Now all Republicans have been branded as sexual degenerates. This has been a huge story now for a number of days.

2) A crazed group of 9 nuts wanted to kill cops for some strange reason. Fortunately, they were discovered and stopped before doing any harm.
News item: Right wing extremist white supremacy group-----. Right wing!
They were about as right wing as Adolph Hitler, head of the Nazi (National
SOCIALIST) party in Germany. Hey, you progressives, he was one of your bunch.