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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A LOOTER AND A CITIZEN

This short video will do your heart good. It might be called the act of a private public servant. The scene is Toronto.

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.

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

Commentary.

“It is a gloomy moment in the history of our country. Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so incalculable as at this time. The domestic economic situation is in chaos. Our dollar is weak throughout the world. The political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs, as usual, like a cloud, dark and silent, upon the horizon. It is a solemn moment. Of our troubles no man has seen the end.”          Harper’s Magazine  1847

Dare we Hope our beloved land will once again triumph over trouble as it did in the wake of Harper’s nineteenth century view? Or is Change changing our path to that once trod by Rome?

“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be reduced lest the State become bankrupt. The people should … work and not depend on government for subsistence.”          Marcus Tullius Cicero   106 BC

So you see, some things just don’t change much over time, even a very long time. Madison, Adams, Jefferson and that whole crowd understood as much when they formulated our Constitution.

Bob B

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SENATOR ROBERT BYRD, R.I.P.


West Virginia has lost an icon. Robert Byrd was one of the most colorful members ever to take the Senate floor. One of his most memorable actions was the time when he stood at the mike on the floor of the Senate for 14 straight hours reading passages from the bible and favorites among his grandmothers cooking recipes.

Those were the days when the rules of the Senate required the continuation of active debate to maintain filibuster status to block voting on legislation to which you were opposed. Freedom to frame those arguments howsoever you choose is basic to our principles of government. Sen. Byrd applied the principle of freedom of speech and made a fool of the rules. You must respect the old curmudgeon for that.

Few people knew it, but until his death, as Secretary Pro-Temp of the U.S. Senate, Sen., Byrd was 4th in line for the Presidency. In practical terms it is little more than an honor as there has never been a tragedy requiring us to need to reach to the 4th on the ascendancy list.

In life we were adversaries, after his death we are not. We are glad his vote has been lost but sad his life has come to an end. We would not have had it this way. His inimitable elegant diatribes shall be missed. May he rest in peace.

Watch and listen to the video and meet a Robert Byrd you never knew to exist.

Bob B

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‘White Folk Done Took This Country’

Obama and Wright before political expediency

The irreverent Jeremiah Wright has bubbled to the surface again. In a week long seminar at Chicago University’s Theological Seminary you could have sat under the latest teachings of Obama’s “God damn America” minister and mentor.

The theme of his message, in his own words, was “White Folk Done Took This Country”. His audience was meager and mostly African-American.

“You are not now, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be a brother to white folk. And if you do not realize that, you are in serious trouble.”

They’ll step on you like a cockroach and keep on movin’, cause you not a brother to them.’ “

Martin Luther King, he said, “was misguided for advocating nonviolence among his people born in the oven of America.”

From the New York Post

In March, Wright told The Washington Post that he expects to speak to Obama again, when “he is out of the White House.” Last June, he told a Virginia newspaper that the only reason he and the president were not speaking at the moment is that “them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.

These are the teachings of the man our President has said did more to shape his life more than any other.

Bob B

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LAST WEEK

Week ending June 25, 2010

Monday
Speculation goes public that Rahm Emanuel will leave White House by November
Burn out, disagreements over strategy, Obama is uncompromising… or it may be Blagojevichgate

Tuesday
UK raises the VAT from 17.5% to 20%
A VAT is akin to a national sales tax. It This European invention will be coming to our shores.

Wednesday
MacChrystal is gone, Petraeus gets the duty.

Thursday
Obama and Medvedev do Burger King
Well, it was Ray’s Hell Burger’s, a sort of upscale Burger King

Friday
The New York Times expresses their “glimmers of hope” for the Democrats in November
They can hope, but what is coming is change.

Gallop reports
Self proclaimed Conservative in America outnumber self proclaimed Liberals 42 to 20

Bob B

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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.