May
28
2008
Drilling For Gas In The (GMC) Yukon
Posted by Big Jim in What's So Funny About The News?- The Bush administration is asking Congress for $600 million to aid police in Iraq, while pushing for deep cuts in popular crime-fighting programs in the US. I’m guessing their logic is that the criminals over there hate the US way more than criminals here do…
- Police around the country are getting reports of a new kind of auto theft–vehicles whose gas tanks are punctured to siphon out the gasoline inside. I’ve heard that some people want us to be drilling for petroleum here, but this is not what I thought they meant…
- Meteorologists say they are unable to provide an answer as to why the US has suffered so many tornadoes in 2008–already the deadliest year for them in a decade. The problem is that tornadoes themselves are so difficult to predict–you’d have more luck guessing which party Joe Lieberman will be in next year…
- The Supreme Court ruled that employees can sue an employer when they can prove they were subject to retaliation for complaints about discrimination–which given the less literal interpretation of laws required makes it a surprising decision that doesn’t really track with today’s more conservative-leaning court. I wonder how many of tham have tried those "brownies" the new clerk’s been bringing in…
- A new study suggests that childhood obesity may have finally leveled off after 25 years of increases. So–those laxatives in the Happy Meals really are working…
- Toyota announced it will build a third battery-producing plant in Japan for its hugely popular Prius hybrid–just a week after they shared news of a second plant being built. Not surprisingly, there’s a four-month wait for most new orders in the US–after all, it will actually cost more to buy the car than it will to keep gas in it…
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