Fat, Drunk, and Stupid

It was such a weird thing. He points out how "nice" is a morally dubious notion as played out in our culture. Great. I concur. And then he is "nice" himself toward some egregious stuff. I don't know if David French or Jonah Goldberg have been this obnoxious in their blatant inconsistencies.

Strike that. It would take a heroic effort to top either one of those two. But Casey is at bat and seems to be trying to do so.

It's not just NHL but every sport from hockey, baseball and football to even the most obscure. If it's on TV or can be added to a gambling app. In the old days we had the neighborhood bookie now we get a gambling app and it's legal in almost every state. Don Corelone must be laughing his ass off. 

Remind Mrs. Flu that at least bowling balls are not responsible for their shape. Given that they have no feelings, no apology is expected.



This has to be the truth of it. My older brothers says that any lingering hope for humanity is dashed simply by one visit to the Shelton (hicksville) Walmart. But fat is all over now. It's probably the reason our life expectancy is suddenly going down. It has zero to do with the KFF.

I went hiking/biking today. I don't see too many fat people on the trails...but you do see some. But at least they are moving. I give them that.

One of the funniest (sometimes sexiest) pictures is to see some overweight girl jogging down the road, her boobs practically setting the tectonic plates in motion. But God bless her for putting in the effort (and the show). You got to start somewhere.

You may think the comparison a bit overdrawn, bit I see this as just another of the many moral surrenders, which have taken place over the last thirty-or-forty years, in order to enrich a few at the cost of society as a whole. Some examples of what I mean. 

1. When I was young, lawyers could not advertise. I recall the first time I saw some ambulance-chasing-scumbag lawyer on TV.  It must have been in the late 1980s. I was in a dump-of-a-hotel in Lovelock, Nevada watching TV. On comes a commercial which some shyster from California going on about automobile accidents and such. "Just call Joe (or whatever his name was.)" I found it somewhat shocking and very distasteful. Have you noted a degradation in our legal system over the last thirty-odd years since this type of thing has been allowed?

2. When I was young, physicians and pharmaceutical companies could not advertise. These days, does some schmuck watching TV understand anything being fed him about some new drug? Does he really  "need" to suggest his doctor prescribe some drug he saw on TV? Does anyone believe our medical system is more moral today than forty years ago?

3. When I was young, there was no legal gambling on sports. There were no state lotteries. Legal gambling was pretty much limited to Las Vegas and some horse tracks around the county. Is the population better off today?

This is not to say that there have never been athletes who gamble on games, or shyster lawyers, or greedy doctors taking money from drug companies. What I am saying it that the well thought out restrictions have been removed and the resulting corruption has been enormous. Much of the money generated by these things goes to buy crooked lawyers, judges, doctors, politicians, athletes and others who then have a very vested interest in maintaining and promoting the system. Sounds something like a corrupt bureaucracy doesn't it? 

This made me laugh my ass off. It would appear that many Americans truly are Fat, Drunk and Stupid. Let me emphasis Stupid in this case. The price of gold was set at $35/oz under FDR. It was allowed to float under Nixon, or Carter. I can't recall which, but I think it was Carter. Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard and I believe Carter allowed free trade in the dollar.

The price of 1 oz of gold on Friday was just under US$2,000.00. There is an extra charge for buying gold in coin form. I don't know what it is for the Canadian Maple Leaf coin. If someone took the coin into the coin shop to sell it, I guess they would get something like US$50-100 less than the price per oz at that moment. 

$10 or a gold coin?

My first question would have been, "Is this some kind of a joke?" If he replied, "No" I would have then asked to see the coin. Depending on the thickness, a 1 oz coin would be about the size of a quarter. I have sold a couple of gold coins in the past. One was a Sovereign and the other a Swiss 25 Frank coin.  Both were rather small. Neither were .999 pure. Coins generally aren't unless they are for collecting. I also sold a small gold ingot which was tiny, but being .9999 it was as valuable as the coins. 

I'm with you on silver vs. gold.  One more advantage is that if one is cheated by taking a "silver" coin, the damage is much less than if one is cheated on a "gold" coin. 

YouTube (or video) fraud is rampant these days. We don't know if this guy offered the coin (assuming he would give it to them, and I don't assume this) to a thousand people and edited down to what we saw. There is no data that I can see attached to this video in this regard, so I take it with a grain of salt.

But not even one person should have turned down the coin. I don't know what planet you are living on where it is not common knowledge that gold is extremely valuable. What we can say at least is that there are a lot of out-of-touch idiots...products of public schools, no doubt.

That is, even if the presentation is questionable, the results ring true.