Obituaries
CINCINNATI - Johan Sklaark passed away in his sleep yesterday ending his night long battle with SIDS. Mr. Sklaark was 43.
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other bizzare things
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Indiana is the Best
BP gets break on dumping in lake
Refinery expansion entices Indiana
By Michael Hawthorne
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 15, 2007
The massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan, running counter to years of efforts to clean up the Great Lakes.
Indiana regulators exempted BP from state environmental laws to clear the way for a $3.8 billion expansion that will allow the company to refine heavier Canadian crude oil. They justified the move in part by noting the project will create 80 new jobs.
Under BP's new state water permit, the refinery—already one of the largest polluters along the Great Lakes—can release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more sludge into Lake Michigan each day. Ammonia promotes algae blooms that can kill fish, while sludge is full of concentrated heavy metals.
The refinery will still meet federal water pollution guidelines. But federal and state officials acknowledge this marks the first time in years that a company has been allowed to dump more toxic waste into Lake Michigan.
BP, which aggressively markets itself as an environmentally friendly corporation, is investing heavily in Canadian crude oil to reduce its reliance on sources in the Middle East. Extracting petroleum from the thick goop is a dirtier process than conventional methods. It also requires more energy that could significantly increase greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
Environmental groups and dozens of neighbors pleaded with BP to install more effective pollution controls at the nation's fourth-largest refinery, which rises above the lakeshore about 3 miles southeast of the Illinois-Indiana border.
I missed getting a Wii by 30 seconds.
I missed getting a Wii by 30 seconds. I walked into On Goody right behind the woman who got it. She walked into the store and walked right up the the counter. I walked in and went the other way, then noticed the sign saying they had a Wii.
If I had gotten there 30 seconds earlier? Or, really, just 15 seconds, or however much time it would have taken to be in front of that woman? I would have a Wii right now.
But I don't. Because I was 30 seconds too slow.
You know what? That woman is probably a time traveler. I bet she traveled through time 30 seconds into the future just so she could be in front of me.
DAMN YOU, TIME TRAVELERS!!!
So I still don't have a Wii, because of Time Travelers. But I do have Arrested Development, because it was on sale. And the Time Travelers could not take that from me.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Oh, Sweet Fucking Christ....
The Friendly Friends at Fox and Friend debated whether or not Mr. Rogers was evil.
Think I'm shitting you?
Oh, I shit you not.
Want to watch it?
Get your Hate On.
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