It’s Dick Cheney!!!

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Oil prices fell for the fourth straight session Wednesday, tumbling below $58 a barrel, after a government report showed crude stockpiles ballooned four times as much as traders and analysts on Wall Street had expected.
U.S. light sweet crude for March delivery fell $1.92 to settle at $57.65 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Just before the Energy Information Administration released its inventory report, the contract was up 29 cents to $59.86.

The government report showed crude supplies swelled by 4.9 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 10 to 325.6 million barrels, the highest level since the end of June. The rise more than exceeded estimates for a build of 1.2 million barrels.

Gasoline stocks rose for the seventh straight week, jumping by 2.2 million barrels to 225.5 million barrels, their highest level since June 1999, the EIA said. Analysts were looking for a 1.6 million barrel jump in gasoline supplies.

Crude prices edged up right after the report before turning lower.

“We’re building up crude stocks, we’re very comfortable on supplies worldwide,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service.

Oil prices have steadily declined over the past two weeks, losing about 13 percent since the start of February.

On Tuesday, the front-month crude contract fell below $60 for the first time in 2006, while gas futures sank as low as $1.3849 a gallon, their lowest in nearly a year.

“Late Show with David Letterman,” CBS:

-- “Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It’s Dick Cheney.”

-- “But here is the sad part—before the trip Donald Rumsfeld had denied the guy’s request for body armor.”

-- “We can’t get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney.”

-- “The guy who got gunned down, he is a Republican lawyer and a big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by wads of laundered cash. So he’s fine. He took a little in the wallet.”

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” NBC:

-- “Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C., Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear.

-- “That’s the big story over the weekend. ... Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter, a 78-year-old lawyer. In fact, when people found out he shot a lawyer, his popularity is now at 92 percent.”

-- “I think Cheney is starting to lose it. After he shot the guy he screamed, ‘Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?’”

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” Comedy Central:

-- “Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt ... making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting veep since Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, of course, (was) shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird.”

-- “Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. ... But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. ... moms, dads, if you’re watching right now, I can’t emphasize this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land, or energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted—it’s just not worth it.”

Letterman SUUUUUUUCKS!

“Maybe the White House Press corp was upset because we told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and not the New York Times” - Dick Cheney

and aliens regularly visit your nether regions, too.

WASHINGTON (CNN)—About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests.

I mean who do they think they are—Wolfie Blitzen?

*cough*

I may be crazy but…
this seems a bit more important than if Dead-Eye Dick had whipped out a .45 and plugged David Gregory square between the eyes.

...not that that scenario wouldn’t make some smile....

Some of the country’s busiest ports—New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, [New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia]—are about to become the property of the United Arab Emirates. Do we really want our major ports in the hands of an Arab country where al Qaeda recruits, travels and wires money?

The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, a Treasury Department-dominated group which reviews foreign investments, allows such purchases. The committee approved a $6.8 billion transaction between the ports’ current British owners and Dubai Ports World, a government-owned United Arab Emirates firm. The United Arab Emirates was home to Marwan al-Shehhi, a September 11 hijacker; the country is a transit point for al Qaeda, including several other September 11 hijackers; al Qaeda’s financing activities have involved the UAE; al Qaeda finds sympathizers there with ease, as it does in other Arab countries. 

What I find almost as discomfiting is that the Committee on Foreign Investment has put me in a position to agree with Chucky Schumer *ptui*.

“...this looks like [expletive] insanity”

One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts - during a meeting in the mid 1990s - a terrorist attack on the United States. “Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and told the British as well ... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction.” Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. “In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?” But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. “This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq.”

Also at the meeting was Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. “Sir, the biological is very easy to make. It’s so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it.”

The tapes also reveal Iraq’s persistent efforts to hide information about weapons of mass destruction programs from U.N. inspectors well into the 1990s . In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that U.N. inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq’s biological weapons program-a program whose existence Iraq had previously denied.

At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the U.N.

“We did not reveal all that we have,” Kamel says in the meeting. “Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct.”

...it’s oh-so-gooood!

THIS is why I have a little “thing” about Malkin having “a blog”. (those aren’t sneer quotes, I just don’t consider it one).

I prefer she sticks to what she really does best....like this!
WHOOT!

Lloyd

No one as of yet as explained to me why “uttering and publishing” is a crime, let alone wtf “uttering” is.
UDDering I’d understand in this context.

JohnR

Xenia Seeburg from the show LEXX

A truly GAWD Awful show, but it has Xenia and she knocks Angelina and Fairuza out of the running.

So, who is your favorite sci-fi babe?

I’m going to defend Paris Hilton!!!

Here’s a story....
When I was young, a punk and retarded a group of my fellow shit-heads went downtown Boston and ASSAULTED people wearing fur with water guns filled with kool-ade. We had our weapons taken away from us and were threatened by the police to be charged with assault.
I never behaved like that again. Wether or not my co-horts did I don’t know, but it was a lesson to me.

FWIW.

As far as I know, these people are adults and should be treated accordingly. 

A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender.
*~snip~*
Haynes was arrested in June after a DNA sample taken from the animal matched Haynes’ genetic material.

Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing, and was on parole for burglary at the time of the sex crime.

Sandi Dubowski, who won the Teddy gay and lesbian award in 2001 for his controversial doc “Trembling Before G-d,” may cause an even bigger stir with ”In the Name of Allah,” which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims.
Gay Indian Muslim helmer Parvez Sharma is directing the pic, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Sharma and Dubowski plan to submit the pic to all major festivals in the Muslim world as well as in the West, but if it’s rejected, Dubowski said, “We’ll find ways of screening it in every Muslim nation, even if it’s underground.”

Now that’s how you get a fatwa!  The KFC and McDonald’s franchises in Mohammadland best buckle up for this one.