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The no-frills startup airline JetAmerica — which currently owns only one airplane — yesterday started offering the absurdly discounted one-way tickets on flights from Newark Airport to such hot spots as Lansing, Mich., South Bend, Ind., and Melbourne, Fla. Between nine and 19 seats on every flight will be sold for nine bucks, but after that, tickets may top off at $199, spokesman Bryan Glazer said.

“This is not an introductory offer — this is for all eternity,” he said. “As long as we fill 70 percent of the plane, we are making a profit,” he said. The airline hopes to expand its fleet from a single 187-seat Boeing 737-800, which will make 36 flights each week, to 20 jetliners over the next five years. The deal is made possible by federal grants designed to encourage use of regional airports. “The airports are able to waive our landing and gate fees and help pay for the groundcrews,” Glazer said.

“This is à la carte airline — you pay two bucks for a soft drink, six bucks for beer and wine, $2 to $5 for snacks, $5 to watch TV, and $15 for the first piece of luggage,” Glazer said. Modeled after discount carriers such as Europe’s Ryanair, JetAmerica also charges passengers an extra $10 to choose a seat assignment. Despite the $9 price, the airline estimates the average ticket to be between $71 and $79.

Lansing Michigan is a hot spot destination? Who knew?

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Feds Probing Possible Oil Market Manipulation — Something is once more fishy about the price of oil. So I ran into this article to discover it was almost exactly one year old and describing what we are currently seeing. An interesting read in light of the fact that we now know we were scammed last year. It’s happening again and what is being done?

One year ago:

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the government agency responsible for overseeing the trading of energy contracts, has taken the unusual step of revealing a six-month investigation into possible price manipulation

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Analysis: Shuttered Chrysler Dealers Heavily Anti-Obama In Election | Bucks Right — This thesis could be bogus, but if it holds up there will be hell to pay for the Democrats. I was personally baffled by some of the closures of successful dealerships in Washington State. Many needed rural dealers (generally Republican) were shuttered while multiple urban Seattle (Democrat) dealers were left alone. In other words the dealers were not being spread out. It made no sense to me.

An analysis of the list of Chrysler dealers closed down by the Obama-run auto maker show that many were donors to Republican candidates and Democrat rivals of Barack Obama during the 2008 election cycle.

Many observers were confused by the list of 789 Chrysler dealerships that were ordered to close their doors before June 9, as the closings seemed to follow no pattern based on sales volume or profitability. Two preliminary studies found on the Internet seem to have located a common thread: Donations to politicians and political causes at odds with Barack Obama.

A document outlining campaign contributions by various shuttered dealers is posted here.

The question remains. What was the exact criteria for shuttering one dealer over another? We have not been told.

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North Korea warns of attack FYI

The North’s anger was provoked by the South’s decision to join a US-led international security initiative, established after the September 11 attacks to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

“Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless punishment,” said the military statement on the official Korean Central News Agency, blaming Washington and for the latest turn of events.

The PSI, which now groups 95 nations, provides for the stopping of vessels to ensure they are not carrying weapons of mass destruction or the components to make them. The South announced it was joining on Tuesday.

“Any tiny hostile acts against our republic, including the stopping and searching of our peaceful vessels… will face an immediate and strong military strike in response,” the North Korean statement said.

It said its military would “no longer be bound” by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war — in which the United States fought on the side of the South — because Washington had drawn its “puppet” Seoul into the PSI.

With no binding ceasefire, it said, “the Korean peninsula will go back to a state of war.”

Giant blob found deep beneath Nevada – msnbc.com — The number of jokes that can be written around this discovery can surpass perhaps any event over the past 100 yers. I’ll relent, for now. That said, here is the structure of a good one to throw at your enemies: “Really? I thought the lithospheric drip was *add name*.”

While studying the area, John West of Arizona State University and his colleagues found evidence of a large cylindrical blob of cold material far below the surface of central Nevada. Comparison of the results with CAT scans of the inside of Earth taken by ASU’s Jeff Roth suggested they had found a so-called lithospheric drip.