Parts of a column I wrote 6/17, 2003) Picture a hunter who is a poor shot. Picture a wounded deer limping off into the woods to lick its wounds. The hunter goofed, and isn’t going home with venison. The deer is mortally wounded, and is doing its best to survive. It can’t, but continues licking […]
“Geezer: slang, usually an old man, sometimes a woman.” When I was growing up in D.C., there was no such thing as a “nursing home,” that I was aware of anyway. My grandparents and my Dad, died without their existence being known to them. That was in the 1950’s and early 60’s. My Mom died […]
“Morality: Moral quality or character; rightness or wrongness, as of an action.” Webster’s Forth Edition. In other words, ‘morality,’ is a matter of opinion. The world is full of ’rightness,’ or ‘wrongness,’ and millions of opinions about everything. We, in America, are of the opinion that we are the greatest nation on Earth. There are […]
It already has!!! “Socialism; The stage of society in Marxist Doctrine, coming between the capitalistic stage and the communistic stage, in which private ownership of the means of production and distribution has been eliminated.” Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. That’s a polite way of saying that government controls our life, as opposed to the Tenth Amendment of […]
“AG” stands for silver, and comes from the Latin “Argentium.” Silver has been in use as money and other uses, since ancient times, and is used in the book of Genesis many times to decorate, and even used as money. Silver is soft and malleable, and as a result of this characteristic, “Sterling” was developed, […]
This column was originally written in 2005, but it’s just as relevant now! “Shave and a haircut, two bits.” Ah those were the days! We know that a quarter is also known as “two bits,” and that when a shave and a haircut was a quarter, it was back in the 1930’s and earlier. Actually, […]
Last week, I elucidated that the Fed printed the dollars, usually as instructed by Congress, President, or various un-elected bureaucracies, as is required by the Constitution. Do the various state, county, and local bureaucracies, contribute to inflation? The answer, is NO. They have to deal with ever decreasing value dollars, as that’s what they have […]
Tuesday night (3/14/23), PBS had a two-hour special on the Federal Reserve, and after two hours, I arrived at the following conclusions. The Fed is an absurdity, and most of it should not be in existence. Where in the Fed’s charter, does it give it permission to set “interest rates,” for America? The interest rate, […]
Picture this: A widow is sifting through her late husbands’ safe, and realizes he has provided well for her, in the form of silver and gold. As maybe millions of others, who have come across gold and silver, which they did not buy, and who are not economically ‘well versed,’ and to be kind, they […]
On December 23, 1667, a 14.717 acre Island in New York Harbor was sold to Isaac Bedloe. In 1732, his estate sold it to the U.S. Government for an undisclosed price. The island had always been called “Oyster Island,” due to the huge number of oyster beds surrounding it. It was named “Bedloe’s Island” […]