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Rick Wagoner Chairman and CEO General Motors Corporation Op-ed submission to The Wall Street Journal December 1, 2005 Since mid-October, General Motors has announced plans to close 12 North American manufacturing facilities and eliminate 30,000 jobs by 2008; trim $1 billion in net material costs in 2006; and, in cooperation with the United Automobile Workers, reduce GM’s retiree health-care liabilities by $15 billion, or about 25 percent, for an annualized expense reduction of $3 billion. The reason for these dramatic actions is no secret: GM has lost a lot of money in 2005, due to rapidly increasing health-care and raw-material...

Money connected to Reid Senator arranged for grant now involved in indictment of pastors By TONY BATT STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- The money that led to the indictment this week of two Las Vegas pastors and the wife of one of them came from federal grants arranged by Sen. Harry Reid in September 2001, a Reid spokeswoman said Wednesday. Moving to distance Reid from a possible scandal, aide Tessa Hafen said the senator sought the money on behalf of a nonprofit social services agency and not for the churches or persons who have been accused of mishandling the money....

Trying to reason with the f@rt sucking left on the election has been less than productive.

Woman jailed for jury violation Lansing teacher gets $150 fine for skipping duty Cracking down Jurors who fail to respond to a summons will be sent a courtesy letter giving them 10 days to contact the jury clerk to explain. If deemed ineligible, the jurors will be excused. If not, they will get a new report date. If jurors fail to respond to the courtesy letter, an order to show cause will be served, requiring them to appear before a judge to show cause why they should not be held in contempt of court. Contempt carries a penalty of up...

Iraq behind the cameras: a different reality By TARA COPP Scripps Howard News Service December 05, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq - It's a little-known footnote in postwar Iraq that an unassuming Army Civil Affairs captain named Kent Lindner has a bevy of blushing female fans. Every time Lindner checks in on the group of young, deaf Iraqi seamstresses at their factory here, the women swarm him with admiration. "I love you!" one of them writes in the dust on Lindner's SUV. Such small-time adoration is not the stuff of headlines against the backdrop of a country painfully and often violently evolving...

Hi all,Thought you'd like to here the real story, with all the bs floating out there.We knew there was a dinner planned with Ambassador Bremer and LTG Sanchez. There were 600 seats available and all the units in the division were tasked with filling a few tables. Naturally, the 501st MI battalion got our table. Soldiers were grumbling about having to sit through another dog-and-pony show, so we had to pick soldiers to attend. I chose not to go. But, about 1500 the G2, LTC Devan, came up to me and with a smile, asked me to come to dinner...

I know there are many more serious topics, but I thought you folks would appreciate the creativity and craftsmanship involved in these creations.

GENERAL CLARK PRAISED CONDI, POWELL, RUMSFELD AND BUSH: 'WE NEED THEM THERE' **World Exclusive** Democratic presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark offered lavish praise for the Bush Administration and its key players in a speech to Republicans -- just two years ago, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal! MORE During extended remarks delivered at the Pulaski County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 11, 2001, General Clark declared: "And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George...

BLAST HITS NBC’S BAGHDAD BUREAU September 25 — NBC’s Jim Avila describes the scene from the al-Aike Hotel in Baghdad. An explosion just before 7 a.m. local time rocked the al-Aike Hotel in Baghdad, headquarters of NBC News in Baghdad. The bomb was placed about three feet from the outside wall of the hotel in a hut that housed the hotel’s generator, police said. Lt. Col. Salman Kareem said the bomb killed a Somali guard in his sleep and broke glass, but otherwise did little damage to the hotel, which is located in south-central Baghdad. Television footage showed damage to...

As I was spinning the dial last night, I came across the NBC Evening News during a segment about the success of U.S. policy and the performance of our troops in a place formerly known as Saddam City. It went on to note that the newly established Iraqi Police force were performing admirably which allowed our troops to concentrate on other tasks, such as water, sewage, rebuilding efforts, etc.I was absolutely dumbstruck and need conformation from someone, anyone, that this did air and what do you suppose those a-holes (NBC) are up to?

Ananova: Chicks to break with country scene The Dixie Chicks say they don't want to be a country music band any more. Violinist Martie Maguire told Spiegel magazine: "We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more." She said she was disappointed other country singers didn't back up the Dixie Chicks in their criticism of George W Bush's politics on Iraq. "A few weeks ago, Merle Haggard said a couple of nice words about us, but that was it," Maguire complained. "The support we got came from others, like Bruce Springsteen." Going...

Strange as it seems, Michael Moore wrote a letter encouraging General Clark to run. September 12, 2003 Dear General Wesley Clark, I've been meaning to write to you for some time. Two days after the Oscars, when I felt very alone and somewhat frightened by the level of hatred toward me for daring to suggest that we were being led into war for "fictitious reasons," one person stuck his neck out and came to my defense on national television. And that person was you. Aaron Brown had just finished interviewing me by satellite on CNN, and I had made a...

Toy Gun Gets Child Suspended Kristin Moore, Fox 47 News August 27, 2003 A seven year old in Jackson has been suspended from school, because a police officer spotted him with what he thought was a gun. The gun turned out to be a toy and no one was hurt. The child's mother thinks the situation was blown way out of proportion. The boy and his mother were waiting for the bus this morning. That's when a police officer driving past saw the gun and assumed the worst. Now the seven year old and his mother know that even toy...

God, I hope I get this right!!!

Schneider: In Canada, a brave defense of our flag EAST LANSING - A strange thing, war, with its endless opportunities for savagery and nobility. In an e-mail and subsequent interview, Bobbie Rosencrans of East Lansing described a remarkable act of courage she witnessed last week. It involved a hostile crowd, an American flag and a Muslim woman. "I just hope that what we are and what we're doing are worthy of that woman's courage," Rosencrans said. On a research mission to the Museum of Civilization, Rosencrans was in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, on the day the United States went...