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TANKER BLAST

This howler comes from Reuters. An explosion aboard ship damaged a Japanese oil tanker at sea in the Strait of Hormuz, in an area patrolled by the Coast Guard of Oman. One crew member was injured. There was no oil leak.

“A crew member saw light on the horizon just before the explosion, so (ship owner Mitsui O.S.K.) believes there is a possibility it was caused by an outside attack.” Although that seems highly improbable, a response from the agency patrolling the area would be on order.

The Oman Coast Guard came up with this zinger;

“There was no attack. The ship was hit by an earthquake!”

Now earthquakes can cause tsunamis but they don’t create explosions aboard ships. Perhaps they meant to say “a water quake.”

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH !

LAST WEEK

Week ending July 23, 2010

Monday
New York City may set a record hi temp for July

Maybe the “warmers” are right.

Tuesday
Hillary says the Pakistani government knows where Bin Laden is.
I wouldn’t doubt it, but they are not going to tell us.

Record cold temperatures throughout South America,
175 deaths from cold reported so far.
It looks like the “warmers” are wrong.

Wednesday
Louisiana Governor Jindal beseeches Obama to end drilling moratorium.

Loss of drilling activity to cost up to 20,000 jobs in Louisiana alone.

Thursday
Rangel wrangles for time.

More corruption from the party that points the finger of corruption at others.
Our power is still out
The New York Times fails to report it.

Friday
North Korea threatens war against the U. S
.
North Korea promises a “physical response” if planned naval maneuvers take place. Hillary says the maneuvers will occur as scheduled.

Bob B

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RANDOM NONSENSE

If the world were expected to end tomorrow, I think the New York Times headline would be:
“World to End Tuesday. Women and Children expected to be hardest hit”

Here’s a real headline
Transexual Loses Bid For State-Paid Breast Enlargements.
As Johnny Carson would say, “I kid you not.” This is a real story.
If you are perverted enough to want to read the story, here it is.

Hugo Chavez sings to Hillary
“I don’t love you, either”. Listen to it here. Warning – Hugo doesn’t have rhythm.

For some better music put your mouse over the little triangle below and press its left ear.

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POEMS IN PRAISE OF PRACTICALLY NOTHING

Ode to a boor
The jungle is a kind of grove
Where elephants, lions and Rajah’s rove.
It is not the sort of place that I
Should choose to live in, or to die.
But I would just as soon be in it
As to hear you blab another minute.
Rudyard Kipling

Where we are
Black is white, the sky is brown.
Bad is good, the world is flat.
Nothing to do but live with that.
The world sits now, with upside down
And waits for a knight to turn it around.
Bob B

Reminiscences
My hookie days are over,
My pilot light is out.
What used to be my sex appeal
Is now my water spout.

Time was, when of its own accord
From my trousers it would spring.
But know I’ve got a full time job
Just to find the blasted thing.

It used to be embarrassing
The way it would behave.
For every single morning
It would stand and watch me shave.

As my old age approaches
It sure gives me the blues
To see it hang its little head
And watch me tie my shoes.
Un-confessed author

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.

SANTELLI FOR PRESIDENT !!

Rick Santelli loses it again. Who can blame him?

While Santelli is screaming stop spending in video, Paul Krugman is screaming increase spending in print in the New York Times.

BLAGO, OBAMA, and JARRETT MADE SIMPLE

Obama wanted the vacant Chicago Senate seat, correction, Illinois Senate seat to go to Valerie Jarrett. Blago wanted  an appointment to the President’s cabinet. Blago thought they had a deal. Obama says – what deal, I never talked to Blago. The question is, whom should you believe, the Chicago politician or the other Chicago politician.

Blago could have settled for a reasonable fee from Jessie Jackson Jr.  However, he thought he had a better deal but it did not pan out. There are many disappointments in the life of a politician.

A TENDER MESSAGE

HELEN SAYS “JEWS – GO HOME”

Helen Thomas tells the Jews to get out of Israel and go home. Home she says, is Germany, Poland, America and everywhere else. The Jews belong everywhere else, but not in Israel.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1%5D

Helen is a staunch Democrat. The specifics of her comment are simply stupid but the sentiment is widely shared by Democrats. It is one of the great enigmas of our times, why Jews overwhelmingly vote with liberal Democrats. No less a figure than Norman Podhoretz has attempted to explain it. In fact he wrote an entire book on that one puzzling question, Why are Jews Liberals? The best he could do is to propose some possibilities and offer a weakly supported opinion.