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Obama in Indianapolis Friday to talk about hybrid buses, reducing oil imports by Eric Loveday (RSS feed) on May 4th 2011 at 7:53AM President Obama will visit Indianapolis, IN on Friday, rescheduling a trip to Allison Transmission, a global provider of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid-propulsion systems, that was delayed due to budget negotiations. The White House says that the President will tour Allison's facilities before speaking to workers about the importance of slashing oil imports, while also addressing the immediate need for a cleaner and more secure energy future.

This is worthy of a SNL skit if you ask me. Herbert Allison Jr., Fannie Mae's president and CEO, has been named to run the TARP program. Yes, Allison was an advisor for McCain during his presidential run and is supposedly bipartisan in his politics. None of that matters. Having the CEO of one of the biggest causes to the economic meltdown run the program that is supposed to help get us out of that meltdown is just rediculous.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has announced that Fannie Mae's president and chief executive, Herbert Allison Jr., has been chosen to head of the federal government's $700 billion bank rescue effort. He would replace Neel Kashkari, a holdover from the Bush administration. Allison must be confirmed by the Senate.

<p>Chairman and Chief Executive John A. Allison voiced strong reservations about the government's plan to help the mortgage market.</p> <p>In a letter to Congress dated Tuesday, Allison didn't oppose government action outright. But he suggested changes to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s proposal to inject $700 billion in fusion to liquefy mortgage assets.</p>

Posted: 02/23/2005 12:00 AM CST John MacCormack Express-News Staff Writer CRYSTAL CITY — On Valentine's Day, lawyer Jesse Gamez sent City Manager Diana Palacios two dozen long-stem red roses as a tender tribute to their long-term relationship. That same day, Palacios was sworn in as a juror in a multimillion-dollar product liability suit against Ford Motor Co. over a wreck two years ago that killed two people. It was something that everyone in the county but the Ford lawyers knew: Juror No. 17 was the main squeeze of one of the plaintiff's lawyers. Like all small town secrets, this one...

George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability' The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants revealed yesterday. Linda Allison told the political website Salon.com that throughout the time Mr Bush was in Alabama she never saw him in uniform and had no idea he was supposed to be in the National Guard. "Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and...

I was reading the new book just out by Robin Moore entitled, "The Hunt for Bin Laden" and came across some excerpts that I wanted to cite in honor of my NY friends. This book has been hard to put down and parts of it are simply hilarious. So, with the setting in Afghanistan early on in the conflict...quoting from pages 74-75 and 99: ----------------------------- Like it's Vietnam predecessor, "Puff the Magic Dragon," the Spectre is easily described by Special Forces troops on the ground as "raining death." With Chain guns, and autoloading 105mm cannon, a 25mm Gatling gun and...