Monday, December 29, 2008

You can always find good news if you look hard enough

Oil company executives have received a late Christmas gift: tensions generated by a widening conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants sent crude prices up sharply to above $40 a barrel Monday, with gasoline and heating oil also making sizable gains.

Prices also were supported by indications that key OPEC members were acting on commitments to cut back production, in line with a decision earlier this month to take a daily 2.2 million barrels off the market.

Doesn't warm your heart that some people are not suffering during these economic hard times.


Tonight is the Fourth night of Kwanzaa. Tonight celebrates Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) - To build and maintain the community's stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Today in History -

December 29, 1170 -
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is slashed to death by four of King Henry II's knights at the altar of the Virgin Mary. "Is there no one who will rid me from this turbulent priest", cried Henry in frustration earlier that month. It was apparently not a serious demand for Becket's death, but that did not stop his brains from being splattered in Canterbury Cathedral.



So kids, remember, don't ask for things that you don't really want.


December 29, 1851 -
It's fun to stay at the YMCA. Formation of the first YMCA in the United States in Boston, on this date.



No, I'm not going to play that song.


December 29, 1890 -


The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in Wounded Knee, South Dakota as over 200 Sioux were killed by US troops sent to disarm them.



Another proud moment in American history.


December 29, 1946 -
Baroness Sacher-Masoch (Marianne Evelyn Faithfull), an English singer, songwriter, actress and inventor of the Mars bar tampon, was born on this date.




December 29, 1965 -
"Thunderball", the best James Bond title, premieres in US.




December 29, 1993 -
Former child star Todd Bridges (who played Willis on "Different Strokes") arrested for transportation of methamphetamine.



What the hell was in the water on that set.


December 29, 1959 -
Paula Poundstone, comedian, was born on this date.




And so it goes.

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