thanks to Drew One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general. The Grandfather replied, “Well, let me think a minute, I was born before: ‘television ‘penicillin ‘polio shots ‘frozen foods […]
That’s a term you don’t hear much about now, but it is very important, because the recent failure of banks, were partly caused by derivatives. What is a derivative? Simply put, a derivative is a bet. If you go to Las Vegas, and you bet on where the cards closest to 21 will be, that’s […]
I think it is a fraud, and any temporary change in weather, has been on-going for hundreds of years. Colorado’s past winter has been very cold and snowy. Record breaking, I’ll bet, since Silverton has had close to 300 inches of snow, and Steamboat Springs has had over 400 inches. Here are a couple of […]
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 […]