Corruption or stupidity?  I say it’s combination of both.  Here are some examples of both, but ALL originate in that capital of absurdity, Washington D.C. At the end of 2010, 96, mostly Democrat, House members paid their office staff $6.7 million in bonuses, all paid by taxpayers, of course. Obama Care is so wonderful, […]

  Vapors?  It’s an old expression I suppose, but when a car is just about out of gas, some people say “It’s running on vapors.”  The entire world’s economies are running on vapors, but none are as close to being out of gas as is Japan.  They will have 5 premiers in the last six […]

  Celebration? Yes!  Let’s celebrate some more!  Let’s see how wonderful the ATF is, shall we?  You know, the  Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms division, and which has recently been enlarged to ’Explosives.’  Do we need to spend hundreds of billions a year to control Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and  now explosives?  I think EVERYONE should have […]

  Celebration? Yes!  Let’s all celebrate, because now, one out of seven Americans receive food stamps!  According to the ding bat ’economists’ in that home of ding bats, Washington D.C., they say that food stamps gives people money to spend, and thereby helps the economy.  According to them, welfare has the same effect on the […]

  The space station, exploration, supposed moon landings, trips to Mars, and now a six year trip to Jupiter, as far as I can see, is, and have seen, a total waste of probably a trillion dollars.  How’s that for a blanket statement? Of what value is that space station, which keeps getting additions to […]

  “The Rock Island Line,” was a popular tune decades ago, and I’m certain many of you remember it.  I’m a railroad buff, as you perhaps already know, and it occurs to me that the demise of the Rock Island Railroad, whose last train ran in 1980, might be comparable to the mess in D.C., which […]

  To watch the London riots on TV, was shocking to me.  The “bobbies” (London police) had no guns!  They had little round shields, and a few dogs against hundreds and maybe even thousands of mostly black rioters, who succeeded in burning an entire neighborhood over a three day period.  They were breaking into homes, […]

This column, I wrote in 2006  The free coinage or silver and gold had been adopted in 1792. This meant that anyone could take gold or silver to the mint, and have it coined. A silver dollar would have a dollar’s worth of silver, and the much smaller gold coin would have a dollar’s worth […]

  “It’ll never get to $300.”  When you are ancient like me, and have been doing this for as long as I have, you remember the past, and “It’ll never get to $300,” was spoken to me a hundred times, I’ll bet.  That was about gold, of course.  As the years passed, it wasn’t difficult […]

  In the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her little dog Toto, were swept away from Aunt Em and Uncle Henry’s Kansas house in a tornado, and found themselves in a Technicolor land of Oz, with all sorts of strange things, people and animals..  “The Wizard Of Oz” was […]