Intro to gold site...

There is a lot of information on gold, silver and the precious metals available online. Much of it is coming from a strong Libertarian political and Austrian economics point of view or is trying to sell you some kind of investment product. Unless you want to pay for pure research you have to dig through all of this to get the facts and opinions.

I often feel that the people who are trying to sell something are easier to evaluate because their angle is more transparent.

Here is a good, relatively low politics, gold site that introduces many of the concepts you might find elsewhere on the web.

http://www.galmarley.com

Bees & Bats & counting...

These bats, with their White Nose Syndrome, reminds me of the bees and their Colony Collapse Disorder. What ever happened to the bee story?

NYTimes article: Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why

Sad to see so many little critters die. Is it fear mongering in a time when people are on edge about the economy/climate change/terrorism/etc to make this such a big story?

Seems the scary thing is that it is another unexplained event. We don't have an answer or control. And in specific sense it is another uncontrollable force that may have an impact on the food supply in the near future and raise food costs even higher...following the logic that bats eat bugs which if left unchecked will hamper food production.

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