"WASHINGTON (AP) -- An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that
Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save
gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices."
"Mel Gibson tried to play matchmaker between his son and Britney Spears, it
has been claimed."
"All this adds up, Geryl said, to unprecedented catastrophe. First, a polar
reversal will cause the north to become the south and the sun to rise in the
west. Shattering earthquakes, massive tidal waves and simultaneous volcanic
eruptions will follow. Nuclear reactors will melt, buildings will crumble, and a
cloud of volcanic dust will block out the sun for 40 years. Only the prepared
will survive, Geryl said, and not even all of them."
"Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party bid for the White House is the longest
of long shots, but political experts say he may be able to exploit the unease
some die-hard conservatives still feel about Sen. John McCain, the Republican
nominee-in-waiting. Combined with the spike in turnout among Democrats during
the primaries and a difficult political climate for Republicans, they see what
could be a recipe for trouble for the GOP."
"Hoover, a business professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia,
wasn't surprised when his tickets didn't bring him the $75,000 grand prize, but
he was shocked to learn the top prize had been awarded before he bought the
ticket."
"Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on some Prius hybrids in
its next remodeling, responding to growing demand for 'green' cars amid
record-high oil prices, a source briefed on the matter said on Monday."
"The definition of “libertarian” in this case is even less exact than
usual. They asked voters to define themselves as liberal, moderate,
conservative, or “not sure” with respect to both fiscal and social policy, then
plotted them in a 16-box matrix. If you consider yourself fiscally conservative
and socially liberal, voila — you’re a libertarian."
"'Evidence shows that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly is unlikely to
pose any significant risk to morale, good order, discipline or cohesion,' the
officers states.
To support its contention, the panel points to the
British and Israeli militaries, where it says gay people serve openly without
hurting the effectiveness of combat operations"
"Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of
Muslims so as not to cause offence."
"It’s a well established pattern everybody gripes about SUV’s; nobody
gripes about pickup trucks even though they get about the same lousy gas
mileage. I think it’s because environitwits know instinctively that pickup
drivers are immune to their green guilt, whereas suburban SUV-drivers might be
more susceptible to it."
"Days ago I looked into the forged Obama Birth Certificate Myth and realized it
was all BS. Basically, we have a lot of people running around making mistakes
and then trying to pretend revelations that destroyed their first claims are
exposing other, new issues. All I see are people making wild claims, being
proved wrong, and then moving onto new wild claims - to be proved wrong again."
"By our count, BMW raised $400,000 for Fisher during the last election cycle,
but only about $30,000 actually wound up being available for her campaign to
use. The rest was plowed back into paying BMW and its affiliates for raising the
money in the first place. 'They make it seem like each of these people is a
private entity. But as you listen more and more and you get smarter, you realize
they all work together,' Fisher said in the interview with us."
