It’s right around 11:30 here. Care to be disturbed? Thank goodness we don’t live in Houston!
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. The hairy, reddish-brown [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
One of the reasons gas is so expensive is the national gas tax, destined for road upkeep and repair. The problem is simple - there’s not enough of that work being done.
While we continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into Iraq, a study over at Scholars & Rogues finds that that money is desperately needed here at home, as our infrastructure is literally crumbling from beneath us. S&R: (h/t Mike Sheehan) “The United States has much more than failing bridges [...]
Unconscionable.
Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with the web site Weather Underground, has uncovered an amazing story related to the cyclone that killed thousands in Burma: The government buried a warning of the impending storm on [...]
Categories: Weather
Rising fuel prices claim another airline. Number six on the Top Ten Hit Parade..
Air Midwest, which flies to 27 mostly small cities, will discontinue all flights by June 30, becoming the sixth U.S. carrier to halt operations since March as fuel prices reach record highs and travel demand weakens. The shutdown will start May 23, Air Midwest [...]
Categories: Economy
And not a single stop at a gas station. See, it CAN be done!
Can you imagine a day when you never again have to pay for gas for your car? Or never pay for a tune up? Or never pay for the electricity that powers your house? Well, with some actual leadership from our elected officials, the days of cheap and clean energy are [...]
Categories: Economy
The headline says it all. Just click and read. And, of course, wait for the White House to say, once again, that the U.S. does not torture.
Categories: Bush Administration · Torture
Still no good news on the housing front.
More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday. Nationwide, 243,353 homes received at least [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
Yeah, I thought his comment about how he quit playing golf because it didn’t look good to be out there having fun while Americans were dying in Iraq was, at the very least, tacky. Here’s an even tougher assessment..
In an interview with a local ABC affiliate, Politico’s Mike Allen discussed his interview with President Bush yesterday, in which Bush said he has given up golf because of the Iraq war. Describing Bush’s “upbeat” mood about his presidency, Allen said it makes him realize that Bush “must not read the papers or watch TV [...]
UPDATE: Olbermann chastised the Pres. Wednesday night (Transcript and video on the link to Crooks and Liars:
Countdown Special Comment to President Bush: “Shut the hell up.”
In an astoundingly ignorant interview with The Politico’s Mike Allen Tuesday, President Bush insinuated that electing a Democrat in November would lead to another attack on America, and revealed that he made the ultimate sacrifice by giving up golf shortly after the start of the Iraq War — the timing of which he [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · George W. Bush
The military junta that runs Myanmar (Burma) is just horrible. It seems they’re spending a lot of time trying to make sure no reporters can tell the truth of the tragedy.
BBC reporter Paul Danahar had to go to great lengths in order to report from Burma. A secret identity complete with false contact lenses was just one method for avoiding the military intelligence agents who scoured the country looking for the journalist who dared to report on the devastation of the cyclone [...]
Categories: Weather
We’re spending more, the stock market is happy, and gas prices are down. Really?!? What gas stations are they looking at? They’re up at least a dime everywhere around here. At LEAST a dime.
According to the Bush Labor Department. WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation pressures eased a bit in April despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, [...]
Categories: Economy
It’s official. John Edwards is endorsing Obama. Can you say “V.P.”? Beyond that, this really wasn’t a bad day for Obama. Not bad, at all.
Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more superdelegates, offering fresh recognition from Democratic leaders of his inevitable nomination. An embattled Clinton is urging party leaders to take a hard look at [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Edwards · Obama
Still suffering with this cold/cough/crud, but it sounds like it’s running rampant around the area.
Still working my way through the various pieces that have been written to analyze yesterday’s West Virginia primary. Heck, with my head trying to explode, let’s start with some humor. It’s at the expense of Hillary Clinton, that’s true. That may upset some of you. Still, it’s funny.
You really have to read Dana Milbank’s piece in today’s Post. It’s hysterical - as metaphor for Hillary’s campaign he weaves in the dead parrot from Monty Python (he’s not dead, he’s resting!) - though this paragraph was particularly Clintonian: “2:57 p.m., Yeager Airport, Charleston, W.Va.: A steep descent brings Clinton’s plane to Charleston’s hilltop airport. After an appropriate wait, she steps from the plane and pretends to wave to a crowd of supporters; in fact, she is waving to [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
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