Tag: Humor

About that Marathon Oil refinery fire near my house

I guess you all might have heard that there was a fire at the Marathon Oil refinery near my house. Surprise

Here’s a picture:

The News-Herald, WXYZ-TV in Detroit, CBS in Detroit are all are reporting on it.

Here is what I know from the local reporting here: It was a diesel tank and a diesel tanker truck that was being filled; hence the small fire and a whole lot of smoke! Sick If that had been a tank something dealing with gasoline; it would have been much worse. WhewAnyhow, something caused a spark and hence the fire.

Now, judging from the headlines, in the blogosphere, this was a HORRIBLE EVENT! Just look: (via memeorandum)

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: EXPLOSION ROCKS SOUTHWEST DETROIT – Refinery Catches on Fire (Video)

Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars: Explosion Reported At Detroit Tar Sands Refinery

David Sands / The Huffington Post: Detroit Refinery, Owned By Marathon, Reveals Another Side Of The ‘Tar Sands Oil’ Debate

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Ahem… Well, it was a little overdone. 🙄

Um, Guys? Here’s the story from the local CBS Station:

A spokesman for Marathon Petroleum says no injuries have been reported after a fire broke out at a refinery in Detroit.

Shane Pochard tells The Associated Press the fire occurred Saturday evening in one of the small tanks at the Marathon Petroleum refinery. He says the fire has been put out.  Pochard says there are no reports of any injuries to employees or contractors.

If there was any sort of explosion around here at all, I did not hear it at all. I dont know There are two things that usually never get by me and that are noises and smells. NerdIf anything out of the ordinary happens, I usually know about it. Now, keep in mind; I am a little to the south of that location. In fact, we used to pass that refinery every Friday, when my parents and my grandmother would go grocery shopping in Lincoln Park, back years ago, when I was a kid living in Detroit.  I remember driving by there, and there were times; when that place reeked with odor! Sick  It really has not been that bad as of late, that I can remember anyhow. ConfusedThinking

So, to everyone who was thinking this was SOME HORRIBLY TRAGIC EVENT!!!111 ELEVENTY!!!! SurpriseRaised EyebrowAt wits endDohNailbitingHypnotized

I had to laugh at the headlines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo

Relax man, it was small refinery that was quickly put out. Nobody was hurt and nothing major was damaged; an diesel tank and a tanker truck….maybe. Everything is a-okay in Detroit. We’re all still alive here! HappyWinkingBig GrinBatting EyelashesLaughingWave Maybe a little crazy… SillyPartySighPhbbbtttCowboy But, happy nonetheless! WhistlingDancing

I sure hope that Henry Hager has more than one bathroom in that house

Jenna Bush Hager – New happy Mom. (Image via AP)

Because between Mom and Mila, Dad has lost that main one.  Also too, Henry, remember what I said before; you’re just the donor dude. Remember that. 😉

Former President George W. Bush is now a grandfather.

Bush’s daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, had her first child — a girl named Mila — on Saturday.

“Laura and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our grandchild, Margaret Laura ‘Mila’ Hager,” the former president said in a statement on Sunday. “Mila, daughter of Jenna and Henry Hager, is named for her grandmothers. She was born last night, April 13, at 8:43 p.m. in New York City. We met our beautiful granddaughter today.”

via It’s a girl for Jenna Bush Hager – POLITICO.com.

Either way, I am happy for them both. I hope that Mom and Mila continue to do well; and that they have a wonderful time together. I also pray that Henry does not lose too much of his hair! 😀

Others: Scared Monkeys

Funny Video of the Day

This comes via HotAir.com:

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I dunno what she is saying, but she sure sounds funny saying it! 😆

Reminds me of this here:

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I’m so bad…. 😛

Yes, and send me a few hundred million too!

I guess it is the wealthy’s job to bail out Detroit, which is swirling the drain.

DETROIT, MI – This city apparently has a friend in actress Mia Farrow who believes its times for the nation’s wealthiest people to help save the Motor City and other cash-strapped municipalities.

Farrow posted on her Twitter page Wednesday morning that “Detroit is near bankrupt” and that “now is the time for all good billionaires to come to the aide of our country” and “invest in USA and our youth.”

via Mia Farrow orders ‘all good billionaires’ to help cash-strapped Detroit, other cities facing fiscal woes | MLive.com.

 

This is the tweet that I sent back to Mia Farrow:

How much you want to bet that she will not respond? 🙄

On the resignation of the Roman Catholic Church Leader Joseph Ratzinger

My Mother and Father always taught me never to say anything bad about other people’s religion. So, I will forgo the wish to waylay the Roman Catholic Church. However, because I am Baptist, and very much a Fundamentalist Christian —– I steadfastly refuse to call that man Pope, father, or anything else like that. Having said that, I was stunned to see this news this morning. Here is the official word from the guy:

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

via Vatican Radio – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation at end of month.

I realize to many this man is like the leader of the papal Church and because of that, I can understand why many people were shocked to see that he resigned. First time it has happened, was 600 years ago in 1415; so I can see why this would be a great shock to many.

So, to you, Joe, I wish you the best in retirement; I can only imagine how rough of a job that can be. I mean, being the leader of that big of a cult Religion, must be terrible rough on a guy.

Blogger reactions from those I care to link to, Via Memeorandum, of course: Da Tech Guy’s Blog, Twitchy, The Anchoress, Hot Air, The Other McCain,Scared Monkeys, Red Alert Politics and The PJ Tatler, American Spectator, The Spectacle Blog, , Outside the Beltway, Hugh Hewitt’s TownHall Blog

Michelle Obama’s Butt

I am going to most likely end up in trouble for this one. But….

Via WaPo:

They’re at it again.

The latest public rant against Michelle Obama’s effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business. And then it quickly found its way around to the first lady’s posterior.

“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” said Bob Grisham, a high school football coach who was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.”

Grisham, who was suspended Monday, is neither the first nor the most high-profile person to feel moved to comment on the first lady’s physique. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly called her Michelle “My Butt” Obama. And Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the Wisconsin Republican, issued an apology after he was caught commenting on her “large posterior.” (Grisham has also said he misspoke.

This, is about as silly, as this right here. But, I do truly have one thing to say about this whole but thing….

CUE THE MUSIC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo

Others:  NewsBusters, CNN, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, The Hinterland Gazette, Althouse, Taylor Marshand Jammie Wearing Fools

Funny blog quote of the day

This is too good to pass up:

I’ve learned that using my wife’s blush brush to put on my own TV makeup is more than a little problematic from both a marriage stand point and the extra color it adds. I’ve also learned that my make up is more expensive than my wife’s make up, but that’s a whole other story.

Hmmm… I wonder if their dress sizes are the same too? Rolling on the floor

Sorry, I just had to. Tongue

Two examples of Democrats not getting the memo on guns

The first:

Via the Vegas Sun:

Assemblyman Steven Brooks — Someone forgot to give the man the memo!

A Democratic assemblyman is in jail, arrested for threatening Democratic Speaker-elect Marilyn Kirkpatrick, according to North Las Vegas Police and Democratic sources familiar with the situation.

Assemblyman Steven Brooks, 40, of North Las Vegas made threats to harm a public official Saturday afternoon, police said in a news release Sunday morning. A source said he was arrested with a loaded gun after threatening to shoot Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick and witnesses who corroborated the allegation prompted police to begin searching for Brooks. About 5:30 p.m., Brooks was seen driving in the area of Carey Avenue and Mt. Hood Street, where he was taken into custody without incident during a traffic stop.

Another Democratic source with knowledge of the situation said Brooks publicly threatened to harm Kirkpatrick because he was unhappy with the committee assignments given to him by Kirkpatrick. The 2013 Legislature begins Feb. 4.

The Second:

Democratic Delegate Joseph Morrissey — Ed Brother??!?! Just kidding. 😉 Another Democrat, who didn’t get the memo!

A Virginia lawmaker who drew gasps from his colleagues when he brandished a borrowed AK-47 during an anti-gun speech Thursday was found guilty in 2002 of committing a vicious 1999 assault, was sanctioned for legal misconduct while prosecuting a rape case, spent six months in jail for contempt of a federal court, and saw his law license revoked in 2003.

Democratic Delegate Joseph Morrissey brought the rifle to the floor of the House of Delegates to demonstrate how easy it is to carry firearms in Virginia. Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert interrupted Morrissey’s speech to ask him to remove his finger from inside the gun’s trigger-guard — a basic gun-safety practice.

“I don’t think you should be able to possess an assault rifle,” Morrissey told ABC News on Friday.

But yet, we, who support the second amendment are the crazy, Tea Party, domestic terrorist types.

How right you are Mr. Tex Avery, how right you are…. 🙄

With friends like these…..

Who Needs Democrats? 😯

The Story:

A group of Florida-based Satanists will be holding a rally in support of the Sunshine State’s Republican Governor Rick Scott on January 25. According to a press release for the event, the Satanic Temple, which organized the rally, will be showing “solidarity” with the governor for his “unwavering fortitude and progressive resolve in his defense of religious liberty,” specifically his approval of a legislation that will allow students to vote on whether or not to include prayers in graduation ceremonies and other school assemblies.

“The Satanic Temple embraces the free expression of religion, and Satanists are happy to show their support of Rick Scott who–particularly with [Senate Bill] 98–has reaffirmed our American freedom to practice our faith openly, allowing our Satanic children the freedom to pray in school,” the group said in a statement announcing the rally.

via Satanists Rally For Rick Scott | Politicker.

I would have loved to see the look on Rick Scott’s face, when his staff told him that he had Satanists supporting his bill. I bet that made him feel really good. 😉

Others: Riptide 2.0, The Raw Story and Pharyngula