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
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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