The perfect graphic!

Mrs. AOW found this, and I just had to put it here on my blog:

If these leaders really didn't know what was going on right under their noses, then the best I can say is, "They're unfit to govern."

Amazing!

A hawk's technique for flying through small spaces:

Trivia quiz

I got the first two right but not the others. My answer for number 3 was close.

1. Why are cashew nuts generally not sold raw or in their shells?

2. What distinctive feature is shared by Maryland’s state cat, state bird, and state insect?

3. What was the top speed of the first police car in the U.S., introduced on the streets of Akron, Ohio, in 1899?

4. Whose presidential portrait, rejected by its subject as “the ugliest thing I ever saw,” now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.?

5. What names did explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark give to the rivers known today as the Salmon and the Bitterroot?


Answers below.

Strong offense wins the day

Cats know how to win by attacking first (hat tip to Leticia):

Has he even seen the movie?

Joe Biden:

…Biden talked about his work in Congress on the Violence Against Women Act when he brought up the Deliverance reference.

“After those guys tied that one guy to the tree and raped him, man-raped him in the film, why didn’t the guy go the sheriff?” Biden asked. “They don’t want to get raped again by the system.”

Nothing like using a reference that makes no sense! Brain damage?

Was there even a woman in the movie Deliverance? Not out on the river, that's for sure!

And get this, Joe! Justice and survival were guaranteed by the gun in Deliverance.

Time for humor

A Muslim burglar broke into a Christian home one night. He shone his flashlight around, looking for valuables, and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying "Jesus is watching you." He nearly jumped out of his robe, clicked his flashlight out and froze.

When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head, clicked the light back on and began searching for more valuables. Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, "Jesus is watching you." Frightened, the burglar shone his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice. Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.

"Did you say that?" he hissed at the parrot.

"Yep," the parrot confessed, then squawked, "I am just trying to warn you."

The muslim relaxed. "Warn me, huh? Who among the Jinn of the underworld are you?"

"Moses," replied the bird.

"Moses?" the Muslim laughed. "What kind of stupid infidel would name a parrot Moses?"

"Probably the same kind of infidel that would name their Rottweiller Jesus," the bird answered.

Left behind in Vietnam?

As a Vietnam War era veteran, I found this story interesting, but I don't know if it's true:


More information here and here.

Coin Show This Weekend

I haven't been thinking much about blogging lately because I'm getting ready to go to another coin show.  I always study up for weeks in advance, and that's what I've been doing lately.

The precious metals market is still hot, but not as hot as a few months ago.

Right now, the experts are talking about getting better profits out of silver than gold.  Also, the price of gold is so damn high!  Buying silver doesn't cost nearly as much.

There are lots of coin collectors at these shows, and there are more coin collectors than precious metals investors.  But I don't see many kids collecting coins now.

It's a pity that there's not much jewelry at coin shows ever since gold went through the roof.  I like to buy jewelry for Mrs. AOW, but the material she likes - unusual pieces with nice stones such as sapphires and diamonds just isn't there.  I guess that a lot of people scrapped their jewelry for precious metal value.

Bill Mahrer and Islam

Too bad that this video isn't on every news show right now:


Bill Mahrer gets it!

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!

What a photo!

From the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, this aerial shot was taken inside St. Paul's Cathedral in London on April 17:

One more, taken in the Chapel of St. Mary Undercroft beneath the Palace of Westminster:

Final services fitting for a real Lady!