Everything you need to know about Olympic badminton. (Sorry, couldn’t find anything to match the swimmers.)
Bach’s big booster: His dad will watch S.F. badminton star go for glory [SFGate]
Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms defy the odds [Times UK]
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We’re starting to think the Harley fumes got to Geezer.
Facing a Constitutionally imposed deadline of January 20 to declare martial law or get out of Dodge, the Bush Administration has launched a government-wide mandate to undermine any laws it has not yet ignored.
“This one’s tough,” said a harried DoJ lawyer, speaking on background. “There’s not much left.”
Insiders were shocked that the Endangered Species Act had lasted this long, and blamed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for not dispatching it sooner. Kempthorne finally got around to knocking off bald eagles and polar bears Monday night, allowing federal agencies to skip scientific review and decide for themselves whether running an Interstate through Yosemite was likely to cause problems for non-voting rodents.
“Look, we’re busy figuring out how to stripmine Yellowstone,” said Kempthorne. “Cut us some slack.”
The new Suck or Die Initiative aims to secure George W. Bush’s place in history as not merely the worst but the most destructive U.S. president, amid concerns that a McCain Administration may challenge his standing. The initiative follows recent revelations that Bush included a signing statement with his oath of office.
Bush to relax protected species rules [AP]
| December 12, 2000 | $1.42 | White smoke indicates Supreme Court has chosen new president. |
| April 30, 2001 | $1.62 | Cheney: “Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.” |
| August 6, 2001 | $1.37 | "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." |
| September 11, 2001 | $1.52 | Bin Laden strikes in U.S. |
| September 11, 2001, 2:40 p.m. |
$1.52 | Rumsfeld: "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. at same time." |
| October 7, 2002 | $1.43 | Bush: "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." |
| March 27, 2003 | $1.64 | Wolfowitz: "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." |
| April 11, 2003 | $1.59 | Rumsfeld: "Stuff happens." |
| May 17, 2004 | $2.01 | Colin Powell, responding to Seymour Hersh’s report that Abu Ghraib was not an accident: "Watch America — watch how we deal with this." |
| April 20, 2005 | $2.23 | Bush: "I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow. I’d do that. Unfortunately higher gas prices are a problem that had been years in the making." |
| August 15, 2005 | $2.55 | The corner Mobil posts a sign explaining that adjusted for inflation, 1981 gas cost $3 per gallon… |
| September 5, 2005 | $3.06 | …but the sign soon disappears. |
| December 11, 2006 | $2.29 | "Access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030." (2007 annual report, Energy Information Administration) |
| September 20, 2007 | $2.78 | The U.S. dollar drops to parity with the Canadian loonie for the first time since 1976. The Canadian dollar was worth 62 cents in January 2002. |
| February 28, 2008 | $3.13 | Bush: "You’re predicting $4 a gallon gasoline? That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that." |
| May 20, 2008 | $3.79 | Newt Gingrich announces "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" |
| July 21, 2008 | $4.06 | McCain attack ad: "Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?" |
| July 31, 2008 | $3.95 | AP: "Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history." |
U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices [DoE]
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Oh pleasepleaseplease let it be — well, let it not be. Anyone else is fine.
Preacher Thomas Howell was driving to his Cincinnati church one morning last June when the Devil, assuming the form of restaurant cook April Evans, cut him off at the intersection of Burnet and Forest.
So, inspired by a vengeful God, he did what any man of the cloth would do: Pulled up alongside her, whipped out his pistol, “and asked if she knew who she was messing with before threatening to shoot.”
Apparently she didn’t, as the two cars proceeded to reenact the more exciting parts of The French Connection through the neighborhoods of Clifton, Avondale and Walnut Hills.
“Every time I get in back of him, he would pull the gun out on me and point it towards me and whatever,” Evans testified last week. “He said, ‘You don’t know who I am,’ called me another [name] and said… ‘I’ll shoot you.’ ”
Howell was convicted of aggravated menacing. A spokesangel for the Lord said He was too busy deciding which Olympic athletes to bless, and unavailable for comment.
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