Kitco Bans Gay Marriage Opponents

What does gold investment advisor Howard S. Katz have to do with Miss California? Recently, Perez Hilton, a gay judge in the Miss USA contest, asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she believes in gay marriage. Prejean suggested that marriage ought to be between a man and a woman. There has been speculation that Prejean lost Miss USA as a result. Suppressive intolerance against all who disagree with extremist dogma is reminiscent of the the Fascist trial of Antonio Gramsci. The left has whined about McCarthyism for more than fifty years, yet it does not hestitate to apply McCarthyite tactics, ruining careers with ideological litmus tests, when an individual's views do not conform to left wing or homosexual dogma.

Howard S. Katz has been working on gold investing since the 1960s. He has successfully navigated gold, lumber and other commodities markets for 40 years, and frequently publishes on Gold Eagle, Goldseek, and other gold websites. Recently, on his personal blog that he had linked to a Kitco article, Katz mentioned that he opposes gay marriage. He did not write this in the Kitco article. He simply voiced the view that he opposed gay marriage in his blog, which was linked to the article.

Because Katz failed the Code of Gay Fascism, Ms. Cambone wrote Katz the e-mail below. It saddens me that the gay community and Kitco have taken to witch-hunting and McCarthyite tactics, such as attacking people's livelihoods because they merely store and do not lubricate their gold bars.

Does this mean that all current writers on Kitco support gay marriage? I will inquire. Please stay tuned.

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Subject: commentary
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:35:50 -0400
From: dcambone@kitco.com
To: howardkatz@hotmail.com

Dear Mr. Katz,

We have run into quite a few complaints with your latest article. It seems that when our readers clicked the link to your website, they found a blog against homosexual marriages. This has insulted many people. We at Kitco realize that your commentary did not make reference to this fact but we cannot be associated with individuals who share these viewpoints.

You are a longtime contributor to Kitco and we appreciate your commentaries. Unfortunately, we cannot publish commentator’s who have points-of-views that are offensive to readers.

If you would like to discuss this matter in further detail, please feel free to call me.

Sincerely,

Daniela Cambone
Content Specialist
Marketing Department

Kitco Metals Inc.
Direct Line: (514) 670-1317
Cell: (514) 928-5820
Fax: (514) 875-2579
dcambone@Kitco.com
www.kitco.com

Kitco Bounces Katz Over Gay Marriage

I just sent the following e-mail to Kitco. One of the several alternative gold sites where Howard publishes his articles is Goldseek.


Dear Friends: I am a blogger with an interest in gold and I occasionally submit op ed pieces to newspapers. Howard S. Katz told me that you have told him that he cannot publish in your website because he said that he opposes gay marriage in his blog. I find this interesting and would be interested in learning about your position on this topic and why you felt it was appropriate to ban him (assuming that is the case). I would be interested in setting up a telephone interview in the near future.

Best wishes,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

Gary Cooper as Howard Roark

Patricia Neal plays Dominique Francon. This is the best scene in the movie, but I do not think the movie version of the Fountainhead does justice to the book. A remake would be condign. Howard Roark was supposed to have red hair. I think Kenneth Branagh could handle it although he might be a tad long in the tooth now. Roark's speech is truer today than it was in 1943, when Rand wrote the book.

Goal Setting for Human Resources: A Revolutionary Management Tool That Works

My column "Goal Setting for Human Resources: A Revolutionary Management Tool That Works" appears in this month's AI-CPA Career Insider. I note:

"Over the past 17 years I have assigned a goal setting exercise to approximately 2,500 MBA and undergraduate students. The exercise involves the students’ development of a mission or visualization of what they would like to achieve in light of their personal values and a specific action plan. About one third of the students have considerable difficulty in expressing their mission and goals. Even when MBA students have been out of school for six or seven years and have achieved managerial levels of responsibility, it is difficult for many to “own” their career paths or to visualize achievements in which they believe. Only about a third of students can express a mission or visualization of what they aim to achieve in light of concrete values. Most students know that they want to make more money; move up in the hierarchy; or start a business. But few can express a tangible picture of what they would like to achieve or why."

Read the whole thing here.