Gulf Oil CEO says gas could hit $1 next year

05Dec08

Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski said on Wednesday that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel, and there is a chance gasoline prices could drop as low as $1 per gallon by early next year. Speaking at a South Shore Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Lombardo’s in Randolph, the Brockton native said [...]

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Tags: Cars, Economy, Energy, Gasoline, Global warming, Gulf Oil, Oil reserves, Overseas, Petroleum, Price of petroleum, United States

What’s the Drunkest State in the Land?

19Nov08

Welcome to Wisconsin, the Wasted State: a bleary paradise where teenagers can drink legally (hey—their parents are getting loaded, too!) and you have to rack up five DUIs before the Man files felony charges. We know cheeseheads are a festive people, but we had no idea that they support more liquor licenses per capita than [...]

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Tags: Alcohol, Alcoholic beverage, Binge drinking, Business and Economy, Drunk, Mental Health, Society and Culture, United States, Utah, Wisconsin

Cheer Up Any Bad Day: Watch Steven Seagal Run Like A Girl

13Nov08

Let’s face it; times are tough right now. Even Barack Obama’s biggest supporters have to concede that he is facing some impossible challenges and it’s going to take years to sort out our economy. Fortunately, we have something to distract us until then: a collection of clips of action star Steven Seagal running. Whether thin, [...]

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Tags: Action film, Barack Obama, Exercise, Film, Martial Arts, Movie, Politics, Steven Seagal, Under Siege, United States

Barack is Mac

12Nov08

Apparently, America’s president-elect is a Mac user, and a fan of sticking stickers on one’s laptop. I dig the pac-man eating the Apple logo. Commenters: let the Apple/Obama fanboy flamewars fly! Incidentally, if I’m looking at these photos right, it looks like he uses a Crackberry, not an iPhone. And Biden is also evidently a [...]

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Tags: Al Gore, apple, BlackBerry, election, iphone, Mac, MacBook, Macintosh, Pacman, Steve Jobs, Technology, United Nations, United States

Why McCain Lost – And the 10 Quotes that Helped

11Nov08

An overwhelming majority of voters cited “economic concerns” as their main issue during this election, and with McCain bumbling over economic issues, he was easy to beat. We’ve all heard him say how “the fundamentals of the economy” were strong, but did you know McCain wanted to set the middle class/rich income threshold at the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Crisis, Economy, election, Health insurance, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Politics, President, Quotes, republican, United States, Wall Street, Washington

Sarah Palin didn’t know Africa is a Continent

06Nov08

With the election over, it’s clear that John McCain’s aides absolutely despised Sarah Palin, as they’ve leaked tons of embarrassing information about her. This latest batch may be the most damning, as it’s reported she couldn’t name all the countries in North America (for the record, there are three, and she lives in one of [...]

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Tags: Africa, Bill O'Reilly, election, Geography, John McCain, North America, Politics, republican, Sarah Palin, United States

See the Best Bloopers From the 2008 Campaign Trail

05Nov08

Many feel there’s never been a bigger screwup in the White House than our current president, but as this clip proves, behind every politician is a bumbling human. ABC News has collected the best “Flubs and Follies” from the 2008 presidential campaign trail, and there are real doozies here. Watch John McCain flub the pronunciation [...]

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Tags: ABC News, Barack Obama, Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, Bloopers, funny, Joe Biden, John McCain, Sarah Palin, United States, White House

Obama Flips Off McCain

03Nov08

At a campaign rally in Florida on Monday, November 3, 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama scratched his face with his middle finger while congratulating John McCain on a hard-fought campaign. Some blogs theorize that Obama’s gesture was meant as flipping the so-called “bird” at his Republican challenger. (But we all know, that isnt the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, Democrat, election, Florida, John McCain, Politics, republican, Sarah Palin, United States

Obama’s Grandmother Dies

03Nov08

HONOLULU – Barack Obama‘s grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Death, John McCain, Lolo Soetoro, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, Madelyn Dunham, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Michelle Obama, United States

Sarah Palin Prank Call

01Nov08

Sarah Palin was prank called by Canadian CKOI comedic duo The Masked Avengers, who fooled the Alaskan governor into believing that they were French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The pranksters and Palin discussed such issues as hunting and foreign policy in the 6-minute faux interview. The Palin camp later issued a statement that the governor was [...]

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Tags: Alaska, Call, CKOI-FM, Comedy, Dick Cheney, Foreign policy, France, John McCain, Masked Avengers, Nicolas Sarkozy, phone, Politics, Prank, President of France, Sarah Palin, United States