Washington Babylon — May 21, 2010, 9:21 am
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You’ve probably heard about Goldline, the precious-metals purveyor that buys advertising on the shows of a number of conservative commentators, most famously Glenn Beck.
Beck, of course, is a big promoter of gold, saying just this week, “In the ’80s, Congress realized that if we have problems, people take money out of bonds and put it into gold, silver and precious metals. When you do that, you are in control of your wealth.”
Congressman Anthony Weiner is calling for an investigation into Goldline, “a company Weiner claims employs conservative broadcast talkers to scare viewers into investing in gold -– at grossly inflated prices.”
Federal campaign disclosure records show that Daniel Cotter of Goldline has made five $250 donations to Connecticut Republican Senate candidate Peter Schiff. Not a lot of money, but Cotter presumably made the contributions with gold coins he keeps in a box buried in the back yard.
More from Ken Silverstein:
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Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
