Freckles for a Wednesday.

OMG, what was that sound??

Wow! This will sober up any driver.

The ultimate scam indeed, and it's all quite legal.

Amen, brother.

The Swiss appear to be considering a parallel gold based currency.

The first country to pull off a currency based on some sort of precious metal combo, will shake up the world economy big time.  If the Chinese did this it would be a huge bombshell, and the Renminbi would instantly replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.  It is also interesting that this is being proposed in Europe, where the Euro is in it's death spiral.

Aaahhh - Ooohh - Gahhh!  Full astern!

Local cabin porn from Sorensen's resort in Hope Valley.

Classic American transportation.

That convertible looks really cool.

Some questions that should have been answered in 2008, but weren't.

Kiss me 

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia is the President of the Supreme Council of the Ulema (Islamic scholars) and Chairman of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Issuing of Fatwas.  His words therefore have weight and standing in the Muslim world.   His latest brainstorm?


The Grand Mufti wants all churches in the Arabian Peninsula destroyed.

This guy is a major influence and leader in the Muslim world, and this is what he wants.

And perhaps unsurprisingly, he looks like this.

As of this year, you can no longer get an actual savings bond to hold in your hand.  It is all electronic.

Will this make any difference to anyone?

Welcome to Monday, drones!  Now get to work!

This is a picture of billions of dollars of gold stored in the vaults of the Banks of England beneath London.

This wealth of a "barbarous relic" represents the property of multiple nations, and in fact it is a relic of the days when the currency of a nation was actually backed by gold and silver.  

It is interesting to wonder how much of this gold, now poured into practical but boring blocks, was at one time worn by Romans, Greeks or Celts as lurid, savage jewelry, or how much of it was traded back and forth in ancient coin, or how much came from the defeated Incas and Aztecs of the Americas.