In a preliminary proxy filing today, Ford Motor said the private air travel will continue for security reasons and to “maximize” the time the executives have available for company business. Mulally’s family will be allowed to accompany him when he travels on private aircraft.
Yup, thumb your noses are US/U.S. you arrogant pricks. OK, It make some sense if execs are flying to places without scheduled air service. But they aren’t. First class still isn’t good enough, they want BEST class. Families too.
Should Obama Be Too Busy Fill out a Bracket?* -
Not much harm in a guy taking time to fill out his NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket… as long as it didn’t take more than 15 minutes.
And he better screw up royally with his picks. Final Four OK, but he better not be picking the upsets.
He has better things to do.
UPDATE: This was an ESPN idea. So Obama spent more than 15 minutes because he chatted up the reporter explaining his reasoning.
A new company has taken the reigns of the often-delayed ZAP electric car plant, and it plans to move forward with a project slated for Franklin. ZAP Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky, a start-up company based in Prospect, will take over the project after Shepherdsville-based Integrity Manufacturing closed its doors last week after it reportedly ran out of money.
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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett tells CNBC today that the U.S. economy has “fallen off a cliff” but should be running fine in five years.
Common sense says this is a pretty safe statement by the Oracle of Omaha. Way to help reassure US/U.S. Uncle Warren.
“We thought it was part of a drama skit … when he shot, what you saw was confetti,” said parishioner Linda Cunningham, whose husband is a minister of adult education at the 1,200-member church. “We just sat there waiting for what comes next not realizing that he had wounded the pastor.”
There must have been some radical plays at this church for the members to think a man with a gun is part of the sermon.
Mexico troops move in to retake warring border city | International | Reuters
Send it the army. Mexico is putting thousands of regular army just across the border from El Paso.
While our army is overseas being the police in Iraq, Mexico is fixing their drug problem at home with troops.
War on drugs? Not until we put our military into the fight, until then we’re just chuck pebbles at tanks.
What to Do About Rush - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Why shouldn’t Republicans want Obama to fail? If they believe that he is wrong - and they clearly do - they want him to fail.
Democrats wanted the surge in Iraq to fail.
Limbaugh is right, why is it not possible to say exactly what you mean?
Because that’s common sense and it’s MIA.
