TheEye advised visitors that blogging would be erratic or incoherent this weekend as St. Crispin and myself were going to be sharing a beerage with a wide variety of the denizens of Gibraltar. This has turned out to be accurate.

Just after lunchtime was the hour of TheEye’s awakening.

Therefore TheEye is indebted to The Croydonian for emailing in a story which is just about as appropriate for here as it’s possible to be. Via a regular read for both of us, Pravda tells us: All Seeing Eye Curses US Dollar.

“From the very beginning the U.S. dollar has been having some kind of destructive influence on the world’s financial system. The people, who created first U.S. dollar notes, placed some mystical signs and symbols on them. The financial crisis may force the USA to issue a new currency because of those signs.”

Via verious other rambling nonsense about The Great Satan, we are offered the marvellously unbiased and rational view that:

“It is not actually difficult to find reasons to change the U.S. currency. For example, a union between Mexico, the USA and Canada can be created instead of the USA. This union will be based on the new currency called Amero, – says Alexander Baranov. The situation will be the same as in Europe.”

The insanity continues…

“Everyone is aware of the sign depicted on the back of the 1-dollar-note – the all-seeing eye. Many sacred books including the Koran say that one of the distinctive features of Antichrist include the following: “It has one eye which looks like a grape berry.”

Your humble host wishes to make it clear that you are not reading the scribblings of the Antichrist here. Just so you’re clear on that one.

“Any changes in the U.S. currency system will lead to changes in other countries. The signs, the symbols and even the size of U.S. dollar notes indicate the terrifying role that the dollar may play soon.”

Oh dear, what has your humble host started in motion? Ooops, sorry. Destruction of a world-dominating economy. Won’t happen again.

The un-named Pravda nutcase concludes:

“The fact that the width of the note makes exactly 66.6 millimeters (Satan’s number) may seem to be the most striking one. It is worthy of note that the all-seeing eye appears on Ukraine’s 500-hryvna note too.”

Hat-tip again to Mr. C for the tip on a day when a combination of no blogging, bed and headache-tablets seemed the easiest way forward.