Posts Tagged ‘oil’

Strange In San Antonio reports:

I truly wonder sometimes what motivates our local news media.

Look what KSAT-12 is reporting now:

San
Antonio is seeing it’s [sic] share of tough economic times this summer.
AT&T is moving it’s [sic again] headquarters to Dallas. The highly
touted savior of the southside, Toyota, will shuttle [I think they mean
"shutter". --ed.] production until late fall. And two airlines have
said goodbye to the San Antonio International Airport.

The changes, along with rising gas and grocery prices, has [sic] many worried, and wondering, when will things turn around?

It’s a question we posed to psychic Sean Harribance, who quickly zeroed in on issues surrounding the airport.

Yep. Everyone’s wondering when the bad times are going to get better, and obviously the first person you’re going to visit is a psychic who "in 1994 correctly predicted today’s price of a barrel of oil."

The K-SAT article continues:

San Antonio will weather these tough economic times because businesses
like to be here. As for those companies that leave, “Any company that
leave … they’re gonna want to come back to San Antonio”, says
Harribance. “A lot is going to happen in San Antonio”, he says, “it
will be world famous for sports, medical discoveries, and tourism”.

Our mayor and city council all get the thumbs up from Harribance, who
says “Most politicians do deals and contracts and they cheat .. I would
say we have an honest city council and mayor”.

Still, San Antonio
will see crime increase this fall, and the city raising taxes next year
and in 2010. Outside the city limits, he sees large tanks used for
storage, possibly water storage. And in 10 years or so, “all of
downtown is going to have casinos and slot machines”, Harribance tells
us.

At the bottom we find out:

Shari St. Clair and Ursula Pari contributed to this story

Are they really that bad at their jobs?

From ABC News via the Drudge Report:

Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is "jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West."

A completely vague, undefined threat from anonymous sources relating to a ridiculous trifecta of Weapons of Mass Destruction™ that will be released in video format in the next day. I’m sure it’s already on rapidshare.

"There have been several reports that al Qaeda will release a new message calling for the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against civilians," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko told ABC News in an e-mail.

Who is this group, al Qaeda anyways? How come they just looove killing innocent people so much? I understand that there were terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC, and London, but nobody has ever conclusively proven or implied to have proven that any of them were committed by a rag-tag band of oil billionaire fundamentalist muslims called ‘al Qaeda.’

"Although there have been similar messages in the past, the FBI and [Department of Homeland Security] have no intelligence of any specific plot or indication of a threat to the U.S.," the e-mail said. "The FBI and U.S. intelligence community will review the message for any intelligence value."

Again, we have no intelligence of any credible threat to the United States. So what the in the hell are we paying for? Who in the world did the email come from? Why is there never any conclusive evidence of anything when these are released?

Sometimes, one pukes when confronted with the truth.

from the NY Times

BAGHDAD — Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip Monday to Baghdad, where he plans to push Iraqi political leaders toward opening the country’s vast oil fields to international companies, a senior Bush administration official said.

Today I have a recipe that I stole from a Homesick Texan living in New York. Remember, recipes can not be copyrighted, so they make perfect content for lazy days!

Sopapillas

Ingredients:
1 package active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tablespoon of butter, melted
1 tablespoon of sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
vegetable oil
sugar
cinnamon
honey

Method:
Mix the yeast with the warm water and let it sit for five minutes.
Combine the flour and salt.