Siphoning Gas

If you are in the market to buy a new car or just looking for a reason to upgrade your existing car, then you could not have picked a better time than now. Apart from local and foreign automakers desperately cutting prices to stay in business or to revive flagging sales, the US government is doling out tons of free stimulus money and tax credits/deductions to entice new car purchases. I have written about the three main programs in deta i l, but here is a quick summary and wa

A group of billionaires led by a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) search for things to bet on. They decide to pull a group of six strangers together to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to retrieve $2 million hidden in a locker. First one there gets all of the money. The first team are two addled brothers (Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, who talks indecipherably because of a newly pierced tongue). When they cannot catch a plane, they plot to destroy an airport control tower in a very f

[Updated March 4, 2009 following IRS rulings] In addition to the working tax rebates and home owner tax credits , the President has approved a scaled back version of the Auto Assistance Ownership amendment in the final economic stimulus package. This ammendment provides tax breaks for new vehicle buyers by giving them a federal-income-tax deduction on local sales and excise taxes, but not on the interest on loans, as was originally proposed. It is applicable to any new vehic

On Monday, February 1, 2009, MLPD units were dispatched to an address on Lupin Street in response to a cell phone call made by a female saying that her boyfriend was trying to kill her. She was only able to give her first name before the line went dead.

KIEV, January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday that Russia and Ukraine would not seek compensation from one another for losses caused by the recent gas dispute.