“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz, screenplay
"I know nothing that I may say can influence you. You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy."
Jack London, The Iron Heel
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory, or one of unthinkable horror.”
C. S. Lewis
Stocks bounced today.
This was somewhat expected as noted yesterday. Their declines had reached the fibonacci retracements for a correction.
Gold and silver also had healthy bounces today.
Gold is a trading range.
Silver is in an intermediate consolidation pattern.
The Dollar laid off a bit from its recent gains.
Donholio continues to harm his chances for the next election by boasting or otherwise revealing things that he did. In this latest he confessed, over a recorded phone call, to Bob Woodward that he had purposely downplayed the virulence and threat of the coronavirus pandemic.
This will be excused, or simply be ignored, by the true believers and kindred souls. And as always, those who cannot recall, or could not have known.
"And we can carry on the practice of charity and prayers in our daily lives, in the little things, if we can take the first step when called. It is that first step, away from the path of selfishness and death, and into the arms of love and true life, that is the key. The first step out of the darkness and into the light is the hardest. But once there, in that loving and hospitable place, our true home for which we were made, we find comfort and place, and pray that we may never leave." Jesse, April 2014
Need little, want less, love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.
Have a pleasant evening.
