Is this guy serious?  Imposing any type of speed limit to “save American’s money on fuel costs” is just stupid.  First, you can’t regulate what speed people travel at.  Second, more fuel is expended slowing and accelerating in rush-hour gridlock, not traveling at 75 down I-80 through Nebraska.

This guy is trying to make a name for himself, and idiot or attempting to divert the issue of rising fuel prices by finding ways to put the onus on drivers.

From CNN.com:

An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices.

 

Sen. John Warner has asked the Energy Department at what speeds vehicles would be most fuel efficient.

Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia, asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit.

Officials in Canada have found a sixth foot…

Read it on CNN.

This Thursday is “Juneteenth” Day. If you value your life and the lives of your family members, stay out of Milwaukee.

…who threw the puppy off the cliff?

Yeah, the Marines shit-canned him.

Stupidity+YouTube have been and continue to be the ruin of many-a-career.

A few months ago, a large tax cut was approved to help bring movie/commercial production work to Wisconsin. First, Johnny Depp came to town and got everybody all lathered up. Now… Epic Creative Communications announced that it will be building a huge new production facility in West Bend, down by the rihhhhhhver.

Congrats to Jimi, John, and the guys at Epic who have a nice studio… but really deserve this new one. (yes, that’s me sucking up ).

From an iReport on cnn.com…this guy has brass balls, no brains, or both.

(taken this morning @ 5:07am. Hwy 33, Allenton).

Vrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh-CLICK.

a) Members of Hillary’s campaign getting home, shutting off their vans, and taking off their seat belts.

b) A washing machine at the end of the spin cycle.

c) My sump pump.

ANSWER: If you picked any of the above, you are correct.

2,600 GM employees at the Janesville assembly plant will be out of a job soon as General Motors announced today that it will close the plant (and three others) by 2010.

High gas prices and a union that has always thought it was entitled to ungodly wages and benefits are to blame.

ThePlanet.com, home to over 9,000 website servers, suffered from a transformer explosion on Sunday afternoon. The explosion and subsequent fire at it’s Houston-based H1 Datacenter took all of their servers offline, though they did not destroy any servers. The radio stations’ (WBWI/WBKV) websites were among the thousands of websites that were affected by the blast, and at the time of this post, they are still not fully operational.

Since I heard the story of Elisabeth Witte, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra player who was slain by her ex-husband, every time I hear the word “symphony,” my heart breaks for her. What a tragic and horrifying story.

Stephen Colbert for Whitehouse Press Secretary!

Have you seen this ad on tv?  Where the spokesman for a company promising to save you from identity theft shows his Social Security Number on screen?  

Funny thing is, the LifeLock’s service didn’t help the spokesman, who became a victim himself.  Whoops!  Guess you shouldn’t have given out your SS# on national TV.  Nothing like daring someone to steal your identity.  Sorta like daring Kevin Mitnick to hack into something.

Even though the school district teaches some of its students in trailers, both of West Bend’s high schools were named in Newsweek’s Top High Schools report.

West Bend West is ranked number 1206. West Bend East is ranked 1248 (which is odd since they’re in the same building).

The top school in the area was Rufus King in Milwaukee.

Of course you have heard by now that the Home Depot is closing three stores in Southeastern Wisconsin. Of the stores are two near my home — Home Depot, Beaver Dam and Home Depot, Fond du Lac.

Before my kitchen-remodeling project, I bought some tiles from the Beaver Dam store. Luckily, I purchased the rest of my supplies from Home Depot or Menards in West Bend. Today, when I went to take back the extra tiles that I had, the lady at the Home Depot in West Bend said, “sorry, sir, all sales from Beaver Dam or Fond du Lac’s stores are final.”

WTF? It’s a national chain store that is corporately owned. What’s the difference if I bring back a box of tiles that it stocks at every single Home Depot store?

Since I’m sure I’ll end up buying from The Home Depot again, I’ll simply return the tiles without my receipt, so as to get in-store credit. It’s just ridiculous, though, that I have to jump through hoops to get $6.97 back.

On another note, I think that it’s completely ridiculous that The Home Depot will come in to a town, build these sprawling stores on vacant land, and then close up shop within three years. All while vowing to open 36 new stores in the U.S. this year. How about making your other stores profitable before building new ones?

Remember all of those college men who seem to get drunk and fall into a large body of water and die every year or so?  KSTP in Minneapolis conducted an investigation and found that many of these “accidents” can be tied together and seem to be part of a much larger thrill-kill spree.

This is a very serious situation with effects felt in LaCrosse, Eau Claire, Minneapolis, St. Cloud and in 9 other states.

Take some time to visit the KSTP site, and watch the investigative report.  It is really worth the time to watch.

John Oliver’s Terrifying Times standup on Comedy Central is just hilarious…if you have 60 free minutes, take the time to watch it.

From the New York Post… The US Government secretly bankrolled TV Panelists, billed as Military Analysts, to put a positive spin on the war in Iraq.  Calling these highly respected and decorated Military leaders “Message Force Multipliers“.  Or rather, “an influential but unacknowledged mouthpiece or propagandist for one’s interests”. (From www.mikarrhea.com)

Yale is saying that the aborted baby art scandal was a hoax, but that didn’t stop the ever-humorous IowaHawk from putting together a great brochure (you really should just read that whole thing - it’s too funny)

With your Yale Art School degree, the sky’s the limit! Our graduates can be found pooping, peeing and bleeding in some of the finest art galleries and warehouse performance spaces from the East Village to Park Slope. But that’s only part of the opportunity story for Yale Art alumni. Here are some of the other exciting things you can do:

* Spur an intellectual conversation
about psysiognomic boundaries
* Start a ruckus
* Get attention
* Get a part time job at Kinkos for rent money
* Return home to live with your wealthy parents for a while
* Go back to graduate school at Yale Art
* Get a job teaching Art
* Get attention