Entries from April 2006

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Star Wars Moment

This reminds me of a scene from a Star Wars movie.

Bush Orders Probe Into Gas Price Cheating
President Bush, under pressure to do something about gasoline prices that are expected to stay high through the summer, ordered an investigation into possible cheating in the markets. The government also asked states on Tuesday to guard [...]

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Congress Can Lower Gas Prices

Republican Congressional leaders are running around like headless chickens. They’re making a lot of noise without saying anything worthwhile.

Gas prices rise, and Republicans panic
Few things are less becoming in a political party than desperation, as Republicans are now demonstrating as they panic over rising oil and gas prices. If blaming private industry for [...]

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Today’s Blogmarks

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

McCain’s lettuce-picking remarks yield unwanted green
As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of [...]

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

Today’s Blogmarks

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

This Just In… U.S. to Try Enforcing Immigration Laws
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that it would be implementing a new, revolutionary, cutting-edge, state-of-the-art approach to the illegal immigration problem. What is this “new” approach? Believe it or not, the department declared that the U.S. would now be [...]

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Today’s Blogmarks

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

‘African-American’: Huh?
Welcome to my world, one which exists in another full of annoyances. The biggest one thus far? It’s the silly PC term, “African-American,” which is one of the most irrelevant PC terms ever. If I recall, wasn’t it invented by a kindergartner? What the hell is this nonsense? [...]