Woman arrested for a drunk in public and thrown into the drunk tank. 6 or so hours later the cops return only to discover the inmate had previously had a stroke that caused her slurred speech. Another win for the idiots and another avoidable lawsuit for citizens to finance!
Below are the summary details of the California State budget. They call it the Democratic budget for two reasons: One because the Democrats actually proposed the budget below and Two because Republicans in the California State Legislature have so little clout . I thought this was interesting news (and will continue to be) because States across the Country are trying to fill their budget holes with new and creative taxes. Taxing the internet will be a big issue.
GM workers are getting to the point where, apparently, they’ve had enough. It must be tough for these High School graduates to go from making $60k plus a year with benefits, medical, dental, stock, etc to being unemployed like 10% of this country. Much like High School graduates they’re bad at controlling their emotions and will lash out to anyone close to them if something goes bad.
Personally they need to get over it. Just about everyone I know has either been laid off, knows somebody who’s unemployed or they themselves are about to get canned. This is typical Union employee BS. These High School graduates have lived the good life, now at the expense of the American tax payer visa ve our bailout and their exhorbitant union contracts, for long enough and now that they’re getting laid off they’re showing their elementary maturity level. If you’re going to fight people at least make it about sports or a girl. Not work. I thought we knew this?
I can appreciate, at a superficial level, the need or desire to erase bad memories in ones life but once you start down the rabbit hold of purging your perceived bad experiences from your memory bank what’s next? Maybe you had a bad relationship, would you then like to purge all memory of that relationship? What if you had a tragic car crash that has scarred you from driving in heavy rain, will taking this pill then enable you to drive in the rain without fear? Now I am aware this is a bit of stretch but my point is once you start playing god with your own memories then it can quickly domino into an overall effort to cleanse you of all of your perceived bad life experiences. More on that in a moment.
Personally it doesn’t make too much sense to me to help people forget about the bad things in their lives. If you were to forget all that went bad in your life how are you to then prevent it from happening again in the future? Just like the old adage says, “those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.” If you’re really looking to forget or get over something do one of two things: One confront it head on and get over it or just pick up the bottle .
Maybe this will finally be the wake up call that Detroit and the rest of the world needs to start creating cars that are efficient when it comes to gasoline consumption or run on alternative fuels.
As oil continues its epically awesome tumble, $.53 cents in 2 weeks, OPEC scrambles to try to save the only export, outside of terrorism, the Middle East and Venezuela possess.
In a desperate move to save oil prices from falling further OPEC members met in Vienna this week to decide what should be done to prop up the price of oil. Obviously they’re not understanding that oil has cost way to much for way too long. OPEC will probably make a cut in production soon (if they haven’t already) which could impact the quickly dropping price of oil as, “the member nations account for two-thirds of the world’s oil reserves, and, as of March 2008, 35.6% of the world’s oil production.” Russia, Mexico and Norway (non OPEC members) should help to fill in the gaps from lack of production from OPEC. Yet another reason to get our economy off oil energy.
A spokesman for OPEC, Jafar, pictured below, said in a prepared statement, “allah ak bar.”
Colin Powell highlights his displeasure with the Republican Party (I hear ya!), McCain’s “unsure” response to the economy and Sarah Palin as a viable running mate as reasons not to endorse the McCain campaign.
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