Monthly Archives: July 2010

LAST WEEK

Week ending July 2, 2010

Monday
Russian spies arrested, 11 of them.
This stuff is no limited to the movies.

Paul Krugman warns we need to go deeper in debt to avoid a Depression
And he won a Pulitzer Prize in economics They should have given it to Joe the Plumber..

Senate gives Obama the power to close of your access to the Internet.
George Orwell should have called the book “2010”.

Tuesday
The stock market drops 268 points.
The Consumer Confidence index fell from 62 to 52 in one month.

Wednesday
Democrats deny Republican request to visit the oil spill, logisical problem.
As Yogi would say, Republicans can’t go there any more, it’s too crowded.

Congressional Budget Office projects debt to reach WW II levels by December
Krugman cries more! more! Poor Paul is puzzled, we dig and dig more, but still don’t reach the top of the hole.

Thursday
The New York Times reports Hillary warming up to Ukraine now that they have a more pro-Moscow president.

KIEV (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may initiate renewed U.S. interest in Ukraine after a flurry of pro-Russian moves by its new leadership when she visits the ex-Soviet republic on Friday, analysts said.

Clinton’s stop in Kiev, at the start of a five-country regional trip, is the first to Ukraine by a top U.S. official since President Viktor Yanukovich was elected in February, ousting pro-Western leaders and tilting policy toward Russia.

Friday
Random Thots takes a break

Bob B

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GUEST AND BEST-OF WEEK

Commencing on the 3rd of July, the entire staff of Random Thots is taking his beloved wife and decaying self on a week long sail aboard a schooner on Penobscot Bay which is in the State of Heaven, on Earth.

Posts have been written and scheduled for publishing in RANDOM THOTS each day we are away. There will be no reference to current news, of course, and no LAST WEEK can be composed because we will be out of this world while aboard the vessel. Please continue to visit. There is a lot in store for the week. We shall return.

PELOSI SETS NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

Most stupid statement ever uttered.

“[Unemployment compensation] creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.” Sure, and the quickest way to dry your clothes is to put them out in the rain.

Play the video. Her appeal is pathetic. The only thing that can be learned from it is how little regard some Politicians (D) Any State, have for the intelligence of their constituents.

As Monty Python would say, now for something completely different.

Hmmm…John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Jack Kennedy and now Al Gore. Why is it the Democrats have all the fun while the best a Republican can do is tap his foot on a men’s room floor?

Bob B

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THE BP 20B – IS IT OBAMA’S SLUSH FUND?

Only time will tell. Thus far it seems not. But the maneuver to get a 20 billion dollar reserve to be funded by BP and controlled by the Obama administration was a clever move indeed. BP supplies the money, Obama gets the credit.

Claimants will now come to Czar Feinberg who will dole out the money as Czar Feinberg sees fit. One wonders if the same criteria will be applied as in the selection of which GM car dealers to terminate. If your shrimp boat happens to be named The Sarah P you may be out of luck.

Here is the man you will come to for your share of the 20 billion. Sorry about the image. I am not very good at the graphics.

Bob B

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