Posts Tagged “Gas prices”
- Pope Benedict XVI is in Australia, and while pilgrims from around the world are arriving for a six-day celebration of his visit, e the pontiff is spending a couple of days adjusting to the jet lag following a 20-hour plane trip. You often can feel as if you’re still airborne–which in the Pope’s case could mean the Boss wants to see him…
- The FAA is considering changing takeoff and landing procedures at New York’s JFK Airport after a second near-collision occured there in less than a week. Ideally, they shouldn’t occur on the same field at the same time…
- President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling established by his father in 1990 and wants Congress to do the same, something Democrats seem unwilling to do. They would prefer to drill Dick Cheney and Karl Rove’s brains…
- The three men charged with a plot to blow up airplanes using bombs made of soda bottles–and completely changed the entire air travel process–admitted in court that their intent was to cause explosions. Thanks to these mutts, I now have to figure out how to fit an entire bottle of Grecian Forumla into a tiny container…
- A New Yorker magazine cover, showing Barack and Michelle Obama dressed as a Muslim cleric and a gun-toting, fist-bumping radical has received almost universally negative reactions–even from opponent John McCain. Everyone made their judgement before or without reading the caption–which surprisingly is the point of the cartoon…
Tags: Australia, Barack Obama, FAA, Gas prices, homeland security, Pope Benedict XVI, President Bush
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- The Supreme Court Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a Washington, DC ban on handgun ownership, a ruling which many are calling the most significant Second Amendment decision ever rendered–likely because no court until now ever weighed in on whether the amendment actually protects the right to "bear arms", or that the privilege was tied to service in a state militia. Who besides me thinks that Charlton Heston is somewhere, collecting on a bet he made with George Washington?
- President Bush signaled a major thaw in relations between the US and North Korea Thursday when he lifted key trade sanctions and removed them from a terrorism blacklist–all as a reward for disclosure of their existing nuclear programs. For now, the president is not insisting that leader Kim Jung-Il wear business suits and start combing his hair…
- The stock market dropped nearly 360 points to its lowest level in almost two years, largely on news of another record price of just under $140 a barrel. In other words, Americans are nearly-just under-almost ready to string up everybody on Wall Street…
- The makers of anti-flu drug Tamiflu are offering employers an opportunity to pay an annual fee to reserve enough of the vaccine to protect every worker in case a new super-flu strikes again. It certainly makes for a cost-effective way to eliminate an awfully convenient sick day excuse…
- The Democratic National convention in Denver may be a real challenge to its attendees, but it will be healthy–the catering guidelines specifically insist that no fried foods be served, and that every meal should be nutritious and include, "at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white". Coincidentally, these are the identical colors that many Southern delegates will turn when they discover this…
- A House panel learned that a record 36 percent of commercial bee colonies have been lost to mysterious causes this year, which is twice the normal loss following winter. We haven’t seen a honey drop-off this significant since the local Hooters was closed…
Tags: Democratic Party, Gas prices, health care, House, North Korea, President Bush, stock market, Supreme Court
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- John McCain has distanced himself from an advisor who suggested that McCain would benefit politically from another terrorist attack on the US. This guy probably also thinks that an infectious outbreak of e.Coli or salmonella is a real blessing for a doctor’s business…
- Congressional Democrats charged in hearings Monday that large investors’ speculation in oil futures is behind its meteoric price increase. Those testifying denied the claims–then burped in unison, driving up prices $3 a barrel…
- Gloucester, Massachusetts’ mayor said Monday that there is no evidence that a group of its high school girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together–while the principal who helped break the story for Time magazine now says he can’t remember his source of information. With 17 of his students becoming pregnant in one school year–four times the average–maybe it just became a really bizarre case of wishful thinking…
- President Bush has nominated Lt. General Ann Dunwoody to become the nation’s first female 4-star general. Dunwoody seemed truly humbled by the president’s action, but still decided against participating in the generals’ traditional "longest pee" contest…
- China announced that it will begin work next year to clean up Mount Everest from its northern side, removing over 50 years’ worth of climbing debris–including oxygen canisters, tents, backpacks and more from a place called "the world’s highest garbage dump". It sounds like it could also lead to the world’s largest garage sale…
- A new study concludes that there is a relationship between low levels of vitamin D and deaths from heart disease, suggesting the nutrient we can get from the sun’s rays is intregal to good health. Like everything else, it’s a question of moderation–meaning turning yourself the color of a lobster will only make you about as smart as one…
Tags: China, Congress, Democrat, Gas prices, heart disease, John McCain, President Bush, terrorism
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- Saudi Arabia said Sunday that they will produce more crude oil if the global market needs it, but a summit it called between oil producing and consuming nations failed to agree on the central factors driving prices to record highs. I don’t understand why they all can’t see it’s because nobody knows what happened to Tony Soprano…
- The recent flooding in the Midwest will create an additional financial burden besides the massive cost of rebuilding and renovating countless cities and towns–acres of wiped-out corn and soybean crops, which will drive up prices of meat and dairy products. That’s nothing–I can only imagine what the cost of my soy sauce-flavored popcorn will be…
- Some Republicans say they’re concerned that former congressman Bob Barr’s Libertarian party bid for president may cost them enough votes to lose the election. Maybe Barack Obama has a running mate after all…
- The opposition leader running against long-time Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has withdrawn from Friday’s election, saying his party has been such a target of brutality by Mugabe’s police and other forces that the planned run-off vote between the two would be a sham. Mugabe reportedly plans to go ahead with the election anyway, since he obviously wants to be fair…
- Italian premiere Silvio Berluscomi has undertaken an uphill battle–convincing the Vatican to permit divorced and remarried Catholics–like Berluscomi himself–to be able to receive Communion. Yeah, that’ll happen–right after they OK the use of contraceptives…
- Retired NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw was named the interim host of Meet The Press, where he will take over for the late Tim Russert, who died suddenly June 13. Brokaw will fill in until after the November elections, giving network executives time to find the right permanent candidate–whoever won’t mind standing in Russert’s unbelievable shadow…
Tags: Bob Barr, flooding, food prices, Gas prices, Meet The Press, NBC News, Republican, Saudi Arabia, Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw
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The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Denver, and on center stage of this show of party unity and presidential history will be the wife of America’s first black presidential nominee, Michelle Obama–whose task will be to show America the human side to Barack Obama and that she is up to the challenge of being First Lady. So does that mean she will or she won’t fist-bump Howard Dean?
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