--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a LONG TIME AGO, in a galaxy far ,far away...... a republican bigshot gave me a hot tip which he got from another bigshot who got it from a Chicago industrialist, who was a Nazi emigre with a new name. THE GOLD PRICE IS GOING TO BE FORCED UP BY AN ARTIFICIALLY ENGINEERED SHORT-SQUEEZE. Invest in gold. (circa july 1978) He wanted to know if I knew anything about it. I told him the truth , as I always do. I told him I considered all forms of speculation immoral, none more so than the speculation in gold. After he whined for a while , I said I would sketch out a graph for silver prices If he agreed to stay out of gold. I gave him the prices for all of 1979, which were accurate. I called him up in Oct 79 and told him to get out. He didnt, which I considered poetic justice. Belatedly contrite,in February 1980, he wanted me to give him some ideas on a midwest candidate they could push. I told him the only decent candidate was Rumsfeld , who couldnt get elected because he was a man of considerable integrity. In the intervening years, nothing has happened to change that reccommendation. Rumsfeld is alone , at present, in telling the truth about the spyplane debacle aqnd outlining what future US policy must be . The rest of the Bushies are compromised and muzzled or lunatics or both. Kenneth B Thomas --- End forwarded message ---