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Just when you were going to get really mad about spending $50 to fill up your ride, oil giants BP and Shell announce their first-quarter profits.
The combined profits equal $17 billion.
These two companies are the largest oil producers in Europe, where drivers pay far more than Americans for a gallon (liter) of gas.
Needless to say, the punters are not happy.
Read the story here.
A short story on bakersfield.com and in The Californian, regarding the Bakersfield police department's crackdown on drunken drivers included this final sentence:
A bartender at Chalet Basque on Oak Street was cited for serving an obviously intoxicated person.
It's very rare to be in a bar on the weekend, any bar, where there isn't an 'obviously intoxicated person.' And if every bartender who has served a customer in this state were cited, soon there wouldn't be any bartenders left to pour...
A swimmer has been killed by a shark at Solana Beach, just north of San Diego.
Read the whole story here.
As a kid I used to get in a lot of trouble for whistling the "Jaws" theme tune when my family took our summer holidays to the south of France. Hearing the theme tune was enough to make my brother think twice about going in for a swim.
With summer vacations just over a month away, will today's fatal shark attack be on your mind when you head into the ocean for a refreshing...
Something like half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, leaving millions of engagement bands and wedding rings languishing forlornly in bedside tables across the nation.
But now the price of gold is so high that those who once were lovers have more reason than ever before to make some money from their misery.
Some opt to melt the gold down and make another piece of jewelry, or give it to a family member whose hate or sadness may not equal their own. Some simply toss the ring away, hoping...
From The Independent newspaper:
"Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible."
Even though most scientists say a vaccine is the best weapon in the fight against AIDS, if a vaccine might never be forthcoming, should we put our health research money elsewhere.
By the way, about 33 million people in the world are infected with HIV and...
Today is Earth Day.
I recently signed up for the blue recycling trash can (for a whopping $4 a month) and I planted some vegetables and I'm trying to keep them organic. I also stopped brushing my teeth with the tap running.
Mind you, I drive a car with awful gas mileage, and I live a mile from work and I haven't cycled in in about a year.
It's a constant battle for me, but I am trying.
It's Earth Day and it's a good a time as any to change one aspect of your life.
— Andrew Mockett
We've all noticed rising food prices, but now as supply lags behind demand, the unthinkable has happened (at least according to the New York Sun):
Food rationing.
According to the story: "Major retailers in New York, in areas of new England and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks."
Better get thee to a Costco.
Read the entire story here.
Some World War II veterans are up in arms over the latest edition of Time magazine, which depicts the iconic image of Marines raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, with the flag replaced by a tree.
“It’s an absolute disgrace,” one Iwo Jima veteran told the online Business Media Institute. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”
The cover, meant to illustrate coverage...
Time magazine has used the famous Iwo Jima photo on its front cover and replaced the U.S. flag with a tree, likening the current war on global warming with World War II.
Is anyone surprised the Marines aren't happy about it?
See the cover and read the story here.
This morning, Dean and Rachel of KGFM radio, talked about how they wake up in the morning and what kinds of weird alarm clocks there are.
For example, one that you implant in your ear the night before so it wakes you, and not your spouse. Another with a net over your bed that drops wooden blocks on you. Another that tosses a ball that makes noise until you get out of bed and grab it.
I personally wake up to Dean and Rachel. My radio goes on at 4:50 a.m. and about 5:15 a.m. or so, Dean or...
The Energy Department said today that the price of gas could cross the $4 threshold this summer. The Energy Department also said that Americans will be cutting down on long, summer road trips. Talk about stating the obvious.
Or is it? Driving around Bakersfield recently we still see cars circling the grocery store parking lot looking for a parking spot 20 yards closer to the store's entrance. On our morning commute to work we see hardly any bikes on the roads and even less cars with more...
The Bakersfield Rescue Mission is operating in the red to the tune of $40,000 to $50,000 a month. Its executive director, Dan Gorman, told The Californian last week that staff has been slashed by about a quarter and beds for crisis shelter clients will need to be halved from an average 211 a night to about 110.
Homeless men primarily will be affected, and begin to be turned away from the mission on Sunday (4/13) But on the brighter side of things, Gorman said meals will continue to be...
After ludicrous scenes in Paris and London when the Olympic torch was extinguished by officials many times for security reasons, perhaps it's time to end this tradition.
Check out the whole story here.
Seems like everywhere the torch goes it's accompanied by anti-China protestors intent on snuffing out the flame.
But despite the widespread protests of China's human rights record, it's inactivity in resolving the Darfur conflict, and it's actions in Tibet, no country has decided to boycott...
With news that global temperatures are set to decrease, yes decrease, slightly this year those one or two scientists or meteorologists who don't believe in global warming are chuckling to themselves, saying, "we told you so."
Here's the full story.
When Ted Turner speaks, it's a good idea to listen.
Saying that global warming could lead to canibalism, the CNN founder and environmentalist said it would be a good idea for the world's people to limit themselves to one or two children.
Fair point Ted.
Read Turner's interview with PBS's Charlie Rose here.
Turner also believes that CNN has gotten away from serious news coverage and now prefers lighter stories delivered by attractive female "chickies."
Easy Ted.
— Andrew...
Check out this story from Waycross, Ga.:
A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, authorities say.
That led the third-graders, as many as nine boys and girls, to plot an attack on the teacher at Center Elementary School in south Georgia.
Police Chief Tony Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and...
Whether we're in one or not, ordinary Americans are certainly feeling the pinch of a recession. But a British newspaper went a step further today, calling the current American economic climate: "The Great Depression."
The respected The Independent paper bases its claims on the record amount of Americans using food stamps to buy groceries.
Is this a fair assesment of our economy or is The Independent sensationalizing a tired topic in an attempt to sell more papers?
Here's the...
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