I don’t know Jack Shit about finances and this is not financial advice.

What it is , is a very precise analysis of what is going on in the Silver Market behind the scenes and describes a desperate attemp at controlling the continuation of the historic throttling of the price of Silver around the world and how the dirty tricks deployed in the middle of the night on the night before Christmas Eve and the deliberate timing of it right at Christmas when the markets are closed is doomed to failure.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the price of an ounce of Silver has jumped from $30 an ounce at the beginning of the year to over $71 dollars an ounce just yesterday and the predictions are, it is going to go over $100 dollars an ounce in the first half of next year.

The dirty tricks were employed to protect the gamblers who hold paper contracts instead of physical Silver. The demand for actual physical Silver is expected to exceed the yearly supply this next year due to it’s uses in Solar Panels, Electric Automobiles and the planned AI plants coming.

The only thing I will say, is the same thing the gentleman in the video says.

If you currently have any physical Silver, hold on to it.

It has already doubled in value in the last 8 months and it is most certainly going to go up.

The hold on suppressing the price is about to be broken permanently.

This is a very informative video.

Finding a version of Silent Night being sung in Gaelic is pretty easy. Finding one with Gaelic subtitles, not so much.

After searching for a full length version that you didn’t have to click through to see for fifteen minutes, I gave up. So click the link.

It is quite beautiful.

But compared to this guy, I am a fucking stud.

Now all these young guys can save up to throw one on their Ricer shitboxes.

I see more and more younger women deciding to go back to the more traditional roles and it does my heart good.

Whoever put a ring on her finger is a very lucky man these days

Wild.

It was perfect…

Pay attention Aussies,

Tell them to Go Fuck Themselves this time.

Just remember that they can’t take what they can’t find.

It’s tragic.

Greg Biffle was a local boy.

He grew up in Camas Washington which shares a border with Washougal and is 20 minutes from here. I have lived in Camas myself.

Although I never met the guy personally, I know several people who knew him as he was growing up.

He made his name in NASCAR but what really hit me when I heard of his death was his humanitarian side that I remembered.

When the hurrican wiped out parts of Appalachia last year, he took his own helicopter, using his own fuel on his own time and delivered desperately needed supplies to those people who were hopelessly cut off way back in the Hollers.up in the hills of North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

That says it all about the man’s character to me.

My condolences to his family and the families of the folks who went down with him.

Boy Howdy.

You may or may not have heard about these Atmospheric Rivers we have been dealing with here in the Pacific NorthWest for over a week but I’m here to tell you that these things are no joke.

They come out of the SouthEast clear from over by New Zealand and just piledrive water, wind and seasonally warm temperatures right into the Pacific Northwest, relentlessly.

There is massive flooding going on North of me clear to British Columbia and it’s not supposed to stop until like this coming weekend.

Inches of rain, PER DAY and saturated soil means rivers going over full flood stage, dikes failing and entire valleys completely flooded from foothill to foothill along with the cities, towns and communities in them.

On top of that, there are Blizzards happening in the upper mountain passes with lots and lots of road closures.

Last night, The Winds hit.

And they hit hard around here. My buddy told me at work yesterday that they clocked a wind gust up on Mt. Hood at 138 miles an hour.

Here locally, the lights went out at 1:28 AM last night and they didn’t get power restored at my house for 12 hours.

My buddy lives up on a big hill just North of Washougal, about 20 miles east of here and he has 100 foot Fir trees all over his property. He sent me a picture of part of his yard after he got home yesterday afternoon showing the top of a huge Fir tree that had broken off and landed in his yard. Just the top, was 10 inches across and he got massively lucky because it landed IN BETWEEN his and his wife’s cars without toucjing either one of them.

The people up North of me, between here and the Seattle area, have been double and triple fucked by these storms with videos of entire houses and large barns floating down rivers. Some people have literally lost everything they own and there are massive mandatory evacuations up and down the Western part of the state.

Oregon didn’t excape unscathed and they have similar issues going on in some places down there, mainly closer to the coast.

It ain’t over by a long shot and this is going to go down in history as one of the greatest series of storms ever recorded.

If you are the praying kind, there are a few MILLION people who would certainly appreciate you saying a few for them.

By some stroke of luck, other than the power going out last night, we have so far remained relatively unscathed here.

I Thank God for sparing us that.

I stumbled across this on Youtube when I had it going on in the background and it had been so long since I had heard it I didn’t recognize it at first.

It’s been AT LEAST forty years since I last heard this, back when I was living in San Jose CA.

It captures Ronny James Dio in his prime.

This one will piss you off.

It does me as I get ready to drag my broken old ass off to work again.