Month: May 2010

  • Transocean to Pay $1 Billion Dividend to Shareholders

    11 dead, 17 injured and entire ecosystems and industries hang in the balance: Barely a month after the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers, the company announced at a meeting that it would pay its shareholders a total dividend of $1 billion this year. Last week, the company held a […]

  • Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

    Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

  • Sharks 'Finned Alive' to the Brink of Extinction

    Sharks 'Finned Alive' to the Brink of Extinction Australian naturalist Steve Irwin would walk out of Chinese restaurants when he found out they served shark fin soup.

  • CA Gov Candidate Promises to Create Pedophile Island

    Trying to think of a joke involving a smoke monster: As governor I will introduce legislation to impose mandatory expulsion of convicted pedophiles from the State of California as a condition of release from prison. Pedophiles in the State of California will have three (3) choices: 1.     Leave our State of California permanently; 2.     Live […]

  • Husband Tells Wife to Pick a Child to Kill, She Kills Him Instead

    Bordering on Euripides: An abusive Australian husband wrote down the names of his four children and demanded his wife pick which one he would kill, a Brisbane jury has been told. Mrs Falls, 42, has pleaded not guilty to murdering her husband by lacing his dinner with crushed sleeping pills then firing two bullets into his […]

  • Alabama Geometry Teachers Uses Assassinating Obama to Teach Parallel Lines

    Well, now you’re just being obtuse: “As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation.” A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. … No federal charges followed the probe.

 The teacher was […]

  • Saudi Woman Beats Up 'Virtue' Cop

    Glimmers: A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix. For unknown reasons, the young […]

  • How Karl Rove Will Win Again

    He’s ready for another close-up. The Rove brand was tarnished in 2006, when Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate. His exit from the White House the following year was dogged by scandals, from the political firing of U.S. attorneys to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. And with his longtime enemy […]