What a Surprise!

The Congressional Oversight Panel today announced that any hope of payback to the taxpayers of the $81 BILLION to GM and Chrysler - well fuggedaboutit. I'm shocked, shocked! I hear they are talking with Nissan about building the Cube under their own label. Why not go all the way? I say bring back a hybrid Aztek!!! We could name it the Gore.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tarp_oversight_panel_2

Diagnosing Lung Cancer with a Breath Test

Wouldn't that be a miracle? An Israeli research team is working on it and pleased with the results so far. My dad died of lung cancer and to be able to give people effective and cheap breath tests for lung cancer would be a real Godsend. This is one technology that cannot come on line too soon.

news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10346594-247.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

New Nominee for Ugliest Car

For a long time I have thought that the Pontiac Aztek was the ugliest car of the last 25-30 years and a lot of people agreed. www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658544_1658540,00.html Nissan has come out with a new model that I saw in the flesh (in the metal?) today and it is one ugly sucker. See what you think.

Tiger is a Quality Guy

Here is a son who did not forget the sacrifices of his father or other members of the military who have lived and died to protect the United States. His father would be proud. The speech was at the Obama inaugural festivities when he introduced the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club.


www.pgatour.com/2009/r/01/19/woods.inauguration/index.html

St. John the Divine Returns

Former governor John Kitzhaber has deigned to grace us with his presence. Oh be still my heart! He wants to transcend partisan differences - which is liberalspeak for runover any Republican opposition on the road to Big Government. I mean seriously, how could Oregon government not be good with St. John the Divine in charge? For example, who needs Obamacare when we have Kitzhaber's Oregon Health Plan for which employers are now about to pay a 1% tax on health insurance premiums to fund in addition to their income taxes. I suspect that we can expect more such non-partisan "solutions" if the ex-gov returns to power with a solid Democratic majority in both houses. If a $2.2 billion tax increase in this recession year was good, then I'm sure these "non-partisans" will think that $4.4 billion is even better to meet Oregon's "needs" which, of course, they define and control. But I digress in my enthusiasm. Stay tuned. Idaho is looking better and better.

Dazed and Confused

The Salem City Council said "no" to a new tax. "No." What a nice word. I am dazed and confused, but thank you city councilors who voted "no." I guess it can be done!


www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909010349

Just a Blob of Fetal Tissue

That's what Planned Parenthood would have you believe. And for a small (maybe not so small) fee, it can be whisked away in a quick and easy procedure. More about "quick and easy" in another post, but let's talk about the blob of fetal tissue because the more science advances, the more the complexity of the baby is revealed. As Breakpoint reports, did you know, for example, that a baby remembers the sound of his or her mother's voice? Or songs sung during pregnancy? Or twins can remember games they played in the womb? Hardly are babies blobs of tissue. Rather they are bundles of complexity and potentiality, just as God intended them to be.

www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/12310-a-peek-into-fetal-memory