You Can't Make This Stuff Up

[Supercilious]

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http://wonkette.com/401018/anti-gay-...ught-being-gay

Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay

This may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant. Bonus: The dude’s wife caught him, in their bed. This is the rumor that the AG’s office has officially denied, so now of course everybody is spilling the sordid details.
AG in question is Troy King, who, of course, is only interested in outlawing homosexuality and sex toys. His gay lover is either a college “buddy,” or a very young youngster and “Homecoming King” from Troy University. What are the odds of a dude named Troy King getting caught in bed with a Homecoming King from Troy University? This seems like a wacky sitcom plot, on a gay porn channel. (Is this what that Will & Grace was about?)

I guess, one may say that Troy King is promoting wide stance anti-gay policies ...

[Supercilious]

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http://www.oilvoice.com/n/Production.../d5ff8156.aspx

The price of crude oil took an unscheduled fall to its lowest in more than a month, yesterday in New York, after a disruption to production in Nigeria. The price of a barrel fell $5.31, or 4 percent, to close at $129.29, the lowest on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMX) since June 5. It traded at $130.77 at 2:54 p.m. Singapore time.

[GRG55]

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http://www.oilvoice.com/n/Production.../d5ff8156.aspx

"...The price of crude oil took an unscheduled fall to its lowest in more than a month, yesterday in New York..."

An unscheduled fall? I know the iTulip community has access to a wide range of resources, so it would be truly helpful if someone who has access to the timetable for scheduled crude oil price declines would post it for the benefit of the rest of us.
Many thanks in advance...;)

[Supercilious]

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"...The price of crude oil took an unscheduled fall to its lowest in more than a month, yesterday in New York..."

An unscheduled fall? I know the iTulip community has access to a wide range of resources, so it would be truly helpful if someone who has access to the timetable for scheduled crude oil price declines would post it for the benefit of the rest of us.
Many thanks in advance...;)

GRG55, I believe you missed an important detail:

"...The price of crude oil took an unscheduled fall ...
... after a disruption to production in Nigeria."

But I completely agree with you. Can someone, please, be so kind to provide that timetable for scheduled crude oil price declines and post it here for the benefit of the rest of us? ;)

[GRG55]

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GRG55, I believe you missed an important detail:

"...The price of crude oil took an unscheduled fall ...
... after a disruption to production in Nigeria."

But I completely agree with you. Can someone, please, be so kind to provide that timetable for scheduled crude oil price declines and post it here for the benefit of the rest of us? ;)

I didn't miss anything. I think you take the blatherings of financial journalists about the daily movements of crude oil far too seriously...

Now about those scheduled price declines...anybody out there able to help $#* and the rest of us out??? :rolleyes:

[metalman]

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I didn't miss anything. I think you take the blatherings of financial journalists about the daily movements of crude oil far too seriously...

Now about those scheduled price declines...anybody out there able to help $#* and the rest of us out??? :rolleyes:

it was me. didn't fill the hummer today, sorry. had the flu. oh, and iran called to say they're cool with shutting down the centrifuges if we send them a refinery.

[Supercilious]

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He ventured forth to bring light to the world

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.
The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.
And there were other wonderful signs.

In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.


Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.
And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

[Supercilious]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25423465/

Court: Exorcism is protected by law

Texas justices throw out jury award after teenager alleged church ordeal



FORT WORTH, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday threw out a jury award over injuries a 17-year-old girl suffered in an exorcism conducted by members of her old church, ruling that the case unconstitutionally entangled the court in religious matters.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices found that a lower court erred when it said the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God's First Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion did not prevent the church from being held liable for mental distress triggered by a "hyper-spiritualistic environment."

Laura Schubert testified in 2002 that she was cut and bruised and later experienced hallucinations after the church members' actions in 1996, when she was 17. Schubert said she was pinned to the floor for hours and received carpet burns during the exorcism, the Austin American-Statesman reported. She also said the incident led her to mutilate herself and attempt suicide. She eventually sought psychiatric help

[metalman]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25423465/

"hyper-spiritualistic environment" short of common sense describes the usa over the past few years, eh?

[Supercilious]

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"hyper-spiritualistic environment" short of common sense describes the usa over the past few years, eh?

I don't know....maybe it describes better the no-oil-bubble faith on this site ;) because the situation in usa over the past few years, probably, it's a little bit more complex:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/wa...ll&oref=slogin

Report Faults Aides in Hiring at Justice Dept.


According to the report, officials at the White House first developed a method of searching the Internet to glean the political leanings of a candidate and introduced it at a White House seminar called The Thorough Process of Investigation. Justice Department officials then began using the technique to search for key phrases or words in an applicant’s background, like “abortion,” “homosexual,” “Florida recount,” or “guns.”

And according to the official report the Nexis search string used by the White House liaison for selecting DOJ candidates was:

[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!

"or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount" ??!!! they missed "wide stance" and "troy university"

That is not just a "hyper-spiritualistic environment"... it's more than that

[Supercilious]

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The Straits of Tonkin....:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slgBrbNXrbs

[Supercilious]

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...fjw&refer=home

Ambac, Using an Accounting Change, Posts Net Income

Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Ambac Financial Group Inc., the bond insurer that lost 92 percent of its stock market value in the past year, posted second-quarter net income after using an accounting change to record a $5.2 billion gain related to its debt securities.

[...]
Ambac, MBIA Inc. and three other bond insurers have posted record losses and were stripped of their AAA status after expanding from guarantees on municipal bonds to securities tied to mortgages that are now going delinquent at the highest rate since 1985. ``We won't know for sometime whether Ambac is going to be one of the long-term survivors,'' said Rob Haines, an analyst with CreditSights Inc. in New York.
Without the use of the accounting rule that allowed Ambac to book the gain, ``the numbers look weak,'' Haines said.
[...]
Ambac, once the second-largest bond insurer, reported a $1.7 billion net loss in the first quarter after a $3.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2007. A rise in the risk premiums on Ambac's own debt in the second quarter lowered the value of bond guarantees, which was allowed to be reflected as a gain under new accounting rules, resulting in the quarterly profit.

[Supercilious]

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You know it's peak oil when ....
http://ukpress.google.com/article/AL...Fg_a9Zb1-GxF6Q

Diddy forced to give up private jet



Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs will now fly on commercial airlines instead of private jets because of soaring fuel prices.


Combs complained about the "too high" price of fuel and pleaded for free oil from his "Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters" in a YouTube video.


He said he is now flying on commercial airlines instead of private jets, which Combs said had previously cost him 200,000 US dollars and up for a roundtrip between New York and Los Angeles.

[GRG55]

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You know it's peak oil when ....
http://ukpress.google.com/article/AL...Fg_a9Zb1-GxF6Q

Maybe Prince Alwaleed can give him a lift...

http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthr...19853#poststop

[Jay]

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200k for a plane flight. Wow. The rich get richer don't they.