JUST HOLDING HANDS

MARTHA'S NIGHT OUT PROBED

Martha Stewart attended a dinner celebration of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" issue, a possible violation of her probation.

Stewart, the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is serving five months under home detention following her criminal conviction a year ago on charges related to a personal stock sale. Stewart, 63, must wear an electronic ankle bracelet at all times and is allowed to leave her upstate New York home for up to 48 hours a week, for work or other pre-approved reasons.

Federal probation officials confirmed Monday that Martha Stewart is being investigated for a possible violation of the terms of her house arrest by attending a magazine gala in New York City last week.

Well guess what...they (the probation officer) had approved Stewart attending the event ahead of time.

ARE THEY NUTS?

WHAT IS GM THINKING

I found the following on the WEB

It can make you dizzy, watching those numbers on the pump whiz by in such a blur that by the time you've pumped a measly 15 gallons of gasoline into your pickup truck, you've spent nearly $45.

But wait. What if you left your house in the morning, drove your 20 miles to work and 20 miles back -- by then, you'd have burned up $7 worth of gas - - and the whole trip cost a mere 50 cents?

That would be about the price of the electricity it costs to recharge your Ford Ranger electric-powered truck overnight. That's the truck that will go about 80 miles between charges, the one that looks the same as a gas- powered Ranger.

And there are other vehicles in this electric-powered class: the most original is General Motors' EV1, built from the ground up as a fast, economical two-seater, along with the Honda EV-Plus, the Ford TH!NK, Toyota RAV4 EV, Nissan Altra, Chevrolet S10 Electric and Chrysler Epic.

Pretty nifty cars, if you want to get out from under the thumb of the oil companies. There's only one problem: For the most part, you can't have them.

GM and other manufacturers have recalled most of their cars, leaving some in public agency fleets and others in museums or universities. In fact, GM has been hauling its EV1s out to the Arizona desert and crushing them.

GM is loosing tons of money but it seems to me they were riding the SUV and TRUCK love affair that they themselves created through ads that convinced the American drivers they needed and wanted these high priced gas guzzling vehicles that get poor gas mileage but makes BIG BUCKS for GM.

GM and the other Auto companies have had a 40 year wake up call to build fuel efficient cars. But they went the other way. Now they have even stopped the little research that they did do.

Man, Japan has been building better cars for years. GM needs to look in the mirror and just look around. I’m sure they have some smart people working there...JUST NOT IN MANAGEMENT.