Too Coincidental for Me to believe

Prince William helps bust $80m drug smuggling boat.

Yeah right... I don't believe a bit of it. According to this article Prince William helped the U.S. Coast Guard bust a boat carrying cocaine worth a minimum of $80 million. He supposedly was the one who spotted a speedboat later found to be carrying nearly a ton of cocaine speeding across the Atlantic. Is anyone else not buying this load of malarkey? Isn't this the same guy who was just recently flying a helecopter and landing on his girlfriends front lawn? I think it's all just a P.R. stunt trying to rehab his public image. Either that or they are trying to make the future king look like a real member of the British Armed services like little Brother Harry who actually did fight and was POed off when they pulled him out of Afghanistan. Am I off my rocker or does anyone else think this story is a big P.R. job?

-Doc

4th of July - Always Worth a Read

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.... (declaration complete text here)

Enjoy your 4th of July folks but of course remember the reason.

-Doc

Thursday Random Thoughts 7/3/2008

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-Odd or interesting search note of the week. I have it on pretty good authority that my old friend Jennifer Wilbanks may have found our blog last week by googling herself. I am not going to say how or why but I am pretty sure on this one.... Hi Jennifer stop in and make a comment or two. We love to have new readers.

-I am sorry but I saw the commercial for the new Will Farrell movie "Step Brothers" this weekend and that movie looks really stupid. I think it's time for someone to tell Will that this silly ass formula he has been using for these movies is old and played out and really hasn't been funny since possibly Old School and certainly since Talladega nights..

-Is it just me or does the blogger world seem very flat during the summer months?Posting seems to be way down and certainly our visitor count has gone way down since Memorial Day. Does this happen every summer or have you all just gotten tired of us?

-Horror of all horrors!!! There has been a rules change to the annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island NY. The length of the contest is being cut by 2 full minutes. I sure hope this doesn't hurt the Champ Joey Chestnut's performance. He needs to crush Kobyashi again this year. Stay tuned

-After last weeks random thoughts where I mentioned the "WTF" license plates in NC what did I end up behind on my way home from work that afternoon? Yep a WTF license plate. I took a picture of him with my cell phone cam but I can't get it off there so you will just have to take my word for it.

-Tomorrow on the 4th Patrick is going to ride in the annual kid's bike parade over in my parents neighborhood. Well actually he is going to get pulled in his wagon by Daddy. I get to play the proud papa and I am looking forward to it. Look for pictures coming soon.

-Check out the new feature here on YJKOBT. It's the 'US People Required Reading' list. It's over there on the right hand side of the page. It takes you guys our friends blogs and shows links to the last 5 most recently updated postings. Check it out!

- I also want to thank Sassy Mamma Bear for naming Mt. Cat and I the Blue Ribbon Bloggers for July. This is a great award and we hope to live up to our reputation this month. Please visit Mrs. Penelope at The Cafe whenever you get a chance!

-While doing our monthly audit for May follow up calls my supervisor gave me a call. Normally I am at 100% compliance for these follow ups but for some reason my percentage slipped to 90% in May. he called me to ask if I was off work or if something happened on May 20th because he found two follows that weren't done until May 21st. I have no idea why or how I could have possibly missed any calls or follow ups on May 20th do you?

-Yesterday when I was driving home I heard the great tune on the radio that contains the following line. "I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana" Real quick without looking it up can anyone name the song and group on this one? (Not you Mt. Cat I know you know it)

-On a bit of a sad note I know some of you read yesterday that my cat Josette has gone missing. Here is a picture of her to the left. Josette is a bit of a tortured soul. She tries to be sweet but she was taken away from her mommy too soon and raised by me. At the time had no idea what to do with a cat so I tried to teach her to hunt and defend herself. I guess I did it a bit too well because she will go from sweet to attack cat in the blink of an eye. Just ask Mt. Cat who thought he was on great terms with her only to have the vicious claws of death (the total opposite of the jaws of life) turned on him. I hope that nothing has happened to her but I fear that it has. I have not seen her since last Thursday night or Friday morning. She has never been gone longer than overnight before. I miss you Josette and hope that you are well.

-Enjoy your 4th and if you have time check back tomorrow morning for a special Independence Day posting and the rest of the weekend for a couple of special things that I have found.

-Doc

Knight Time is the Right Time

Congrats Knight you win my Lion Kiss Award for your tearful comment:

'Leighann shows up with her huge boobs and the next thing I know the cat is out of the closet. I can't keep up with you people. I need to occasionally work during the day.'

Too funny. Enjoy your award, it will be ok.

-TMC (He's dynomite).

Friday's Top Ten List

You mean it's not Friday? Actually since everyone will be out of their offices blowing their appendages off with fireworks on Friday and tomorrow will most likely be a half day, I will give you my top ten list today. Enjoy.

Top Ten Things The Mountain Cat did do on his vacation:

10. Re-read Tolstoy's War & Peace.

9. Went ballooning with Steve Fossett, Jr.

8. Doorbell ditch.

7. Broke it off with Reese Witherspoon.

6. Put the rap patrol on the gat patrol.

5. Nursed Amy Winehouse back to health.

4. Siphoned gas.

3. Trained for the Iditarod with MorganDog.





2. Checked for fake IDs with Gandalf at a gay bar called The Flame of Anor. 'You shall not pass! '







And the #1 thing The Mountain Cat did do on his vacation is...

1. Returned to his mothership.




Did I do anything else??? Hmmmm???

- The Mountain Cat

Word Game Winner

OK everyone, after yesterday's edition of Tuesday Word Game is there any doubt who the winner should be? I didn't think so. I think everyone could agree that Bina's huge torrent of crazy kidnapping (or kidnappins) stories certainly qualifies for the win. I was laughing all afternoon! When you get a chance make sure and check out her blog "Just another Day" it's great. She posts just like her comments and she is really funny and real. Congrats Bina here is your THIRD peach:


And for winning your third Peach award you qualify for a spot in the YJKOBT Hall of Fame (still under construction) Congrats again Bina!

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 7/1/2008

It's Tuesday again and time for word game! Today's word game comes to us via a suggestion by our good friend Leighann. Apparently we share the same taste in odd news stories because I love this one as well. This story is about a kidnapping. What is odd about that you may ask? This kidnapper grabbed his ex not for money or to kill her but to bring her back to his place to iron his clothes. Give this article a read .
This is a pretty odd reason to kidnap someone for sure but I bet we could come up with a few more. Complete the news article below with a funny or strange reason that someone may kidnap someone else:

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.

Police say that other kidnappings have been for ______________________ .

Answer as often as you like in the comments and of course the best answer wins a peach tomorrow morning. Thanks for playing.

-Doc

Good morning to y'all

My body is here but my mind is still on vacation. This cat is still very tired.

Nothing new to report. I live a boring lifestyle.

What's new with y'all? Please share.

Have a good day and happy July.

- The Mountain Cat