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Delta buys oil refinery but travelers still pay high prices
Wed May 2, 2012
- One of the excuses we've heard over and over again for high gas, heating oil, and other petroleum products is that we don't have enough refineries. Now here we have a case of an oil company ready to shut one of the 'few' we have down.
Failed rocket launch? What rocket launch?
Fri Apr 13, 2012
- I think we in the West are making a critical mistake. It wasn't really a rocket. It was the world's biggest firework.
Study aims to settle climate battle over temperatures, CO2
Wed Apr 4, 2012
- The longer the oil, gas, and coal barons and their lackeys can create the illusion of reasonable doubt concerning humans and global warming, the more $$$ they stand to make. What do they care if the planet isn't habitable in five generations? They'll all be dead by then.
Gingrich says Romney must ‘earn’ the nomination
Fri Mar 30, 2012
- And for 50 bucks MR can have his picture taken with Newt!
Student called 'slut' by Limbaugh dismisses apology
Mon Mar 5, 2012
- To apologize for the wods you said and not for the meaning behind them is just another thinly veiled insult. ;I'm sorry for how I said it but not for what I said
Trump says Scotland leader 'hell-bent on destroying' coastline with wind farm
Thu Feb 9, 2012
- Would 'The Donald' rather have a coal fired power plant or a nuclear plant with cooling towers that generate plumes of steam you can see for 20 miles next to his golf course?
A single fish sells for nearly three-quarters of a million dollars
Thu Jan 5, 2012
- Once the blue fins are gone, the fishermen will just switch over to the yellow tail tuna until they are extinct. Learning requires thought, and that is something we humans seem to avoid at all costs.
'Doomsday' minister mum on 2012 forecast
Wed Dec 28, 2011
- Which is worse? An aging religious zealot making a prediction for the end of the world that turns out not to be true. (Surprise, surprise!) Or all the media outlets that make a big deal out of him and his failed prediction to make money?
11 Christmas songs we hope never to hear again
Thu Dec 22, 2011
- I would be very happy if I never heard Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey again. I must admit, the first hundred times or so that I heard it, I liked it. After that, ut got very old.
What's the best Christmas movie?
Wed Dec 21, 2011
- For me, nothing beats Ernest Saves Christmas.

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Delta buys oil refinery but travelers still pay high prices
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