Wednesday, March 8, 2017

IS IRAN PROVOKING WAR?



Several high-speed attack boats belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 600 yards of a formation of U.S. and British ships in the Strait of Hormuz Saturday.  Attempts were made to communicate over radio, but there was no response and the interaction was “unsafe and unprofessional.”  The encounter came just two days after an Iranian navy frigate came within 150 yards of the U.S.N.S. Invincible in the Gulf of Oman, just south of the Strait of Hormuz.

COMMENTS:
These games of “chicken” have every possibility of someone getting fired upon and a resulting skirmish that could get a ship or two sunk.  I’m inclined to think we should just go take out their nuclear facilities right now and preempt some of this bull.   

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. How did Trump find out about the wiretaps at Trump Towers?  (Sondra ~ Corpus Christ, TX)
A. I would have to think that he has had his own security detail to conduct electronic “sweeps” of his office looking for “bugs” and that they discovered something besides cockroaches. 

Q. Is it true that a Wisconsin family is being denied the right to sell their property?  (Stu ~ Albany, OR)
A. Yes.  They own two separate but adjoining pieces of property.  One piece, the piece they are trying to sell, has nothing on it.  The State of Wisconsin says that the adjacent land with a cabin on it is too close to a nearby waterway and the cabin must be removed if they want to sell the vacant lot.  “Regulations,” they say.   Obviously, the regulations were written after the cabin was built and the family has been paying separate taxes on separate lots, so the one with the cabin on it should have no bearing on the other lot anyway.  But a state law passed in 1975 allows the county and the state to combine the two separate pieces of land for regulatory purposes if they have a common owner.  There’s always a catch when the government wants to screw somebody, isn’t there?  

Q. Some American Legion members were told they couldn’t enter a restaurant because their American Legion vests were gang symbols? (Pierre ~ Burley, ID)  
A. Correct.  Dave and Busters Restaurant in Kentwood, Michigan said the American Legion Riders vests had patches of the American flag, the Prisoner of War flag and a bald eagle, all evidently offensive to their other restaurant patrons.  What has this country come to? 

TODAY’S QUOTE:
“Regulation creates a moral hazard.” ~ P.J. O’Rourke

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