From msnbc.com: Oil prices spiked Friday as continued tensions in the Middle East and concerns of renewed violence in Nigeria pushed the price for a barrel of oil to a record near $146.
By midday in Europe, light, sweet crude for August delivery rose $3.53 at $145.18 a barrel...

Miss USA 2008 - Crystle Stewart - falls again!

From Wikipedia: Miss USA 2008, the 57th Miss USA beauty pageant, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2008.[2] At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Crystle Stewart, Miss Texas USA, was crowned the winner by...

With gas at all time highs, the home mortgage market going bust, banks in distress with all the subprime mess, no wonder a person can't keep their mind on the task at hand. This poor person is having a very bad day. I sure hope no one was hurt in this accident.

A new ufo mystery surfaces in Needles, California 1290 miles from Las Vegas as a large object with a turquoise hue plummeted out of the sky earlier this summer and plowed into the earth south of Las Vegas. Eyewitnesses say this was no meteorite, especially since a bunch of helicopters hauled it...

Every year we send $700 billion out of the United States to pay for imported oil. Now foreign oil is at the core of the three most critical issues America is facing today: the economy, our environment and our national security.