Odds ‘n Sods:

I’ve run across some interesting news stories on the Internet in the past few days…

President Bush’s recent Asian Avian Flu speech:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/1/120104.shtml
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/01/D8DJLB180.html
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/01/D8DJPD9O0.html

H5 Asian Avian flu virus (but thankfully not the dreaded H5N1 Strain) has been found in wild birds in Canada:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/051031210450.5y8rg6u2.html

Some interesting commentary by Jason Hommel on the emerging silver shortage:
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/hommel102505.html

On the absurd heights of the Housing Bubble. How about buying a small, run down, flat top house in a bad neighborhood for only $1.2 Million?:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9870962/