Last Week Around the -ISTs
Schieffer's Out of Gov Race
- Now we know they were just slowly trying to make us dumber on the way to class as if we needed more help. Diesel exhaust proves to be an issue on the big yellow bus.
- Former Iraqui leader Saddam Hussein and his cohorts are faced with new charges; they are accused of and wlll be tried for genocide for the over 5000 killings in Halabja.
- Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Yousef al-Suwaileh won the Kuwaiti election on Tuesday for the final seat in the Municipal Court. Many had hoped that a woman would win the election in a state where women were allowed to vote for the first time.
- Wisconsin now has four Senators who support gay marriage. The state is proposing a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage which will be on the a ballot in November.
- A really busy hurricane season is predicted for the year. William Gray is predicting at least five with winds over 110 mph.
- Brian Doyle, a Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary, had trouble keeping his little habit a secret. He was arrested for attempting to seduce a child over the internet.
- Ex-Microsoft exec Charles Simonyi has decided to take a less traditional vacation and venture in to space. If you've got billions of dollars what else are you going to do?
- If the gas prices and availability were to get to an unreasonable state, Austin would fare relatively well without the stuff.
- As if there wasn't enough reality TV wasting your time, the Miss America Pageant is slated to become a new reality series. Oh yay.
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you read that macmanus? ABJ says we'll be ok come an oil drought so... what do you have to say for yourself now?
the rankings are very very stupid - a quick glance can tell you that they didn't do anything more advanced than "does this town have any public transportation". Dallas >>>>>>> Austin in this regard - electrified light rail can be fed with coal, hydro, nukular, etc. Our buses, and our diesel joke of a crappy commuter rail train, on the other hand?
btw kids fill up your tanks today. the DOE reported a hefty gasoline withdrawal this morning - approx 4.4mn bbls due to low production/refinery utilization and imports - so that means gas prices might ratchet up another $0.05+ before tomorrow.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/historical/2006/2006_04_05/txt/wpsr.txt