Tuesday Night's News 2/17/09
CBS and NBC started off with the car manufacturers who had
to have their restructuring plans in by Tuesday. For GM, Saturn, Saab and Hummer
diivisions would be going away and Pontiac would become some kind of niche vehicle. The
death of an entire car division would have been big news back in the olden days when
kids cut class to see the new 1960 Ford Fairlane. It got mentioned here as an afterthought.
GM needs a loan of 16.5 billion from the government to stay afloat. Chrysler is looking for some sort of deal with Fiat. And five-billion dollars from us. CBS tells us that Chrysler has taken down all the clocks in its offices and hallways and turned off half the light bulbs.
ABC led this cold rainy Tuesday with stocks down 297.81. Then finally told us the President had signed the stimulus bill. Diane Sawyer went on to talk about “shovel ready” projects waiting for the go ahead, and some brilliant PR person in Missouri, had a bridge rebuilding project ready to go. The story is here after 15 seconds about string cheese.
Senator Burris is in deep do do again. He gave at least three different stories about his contacts with Illinois governor Blagojevich's people prior to his appointment. Looks like perjury someplace. Another Fraud in financial circles. This time R. Allen Stanford’s firms issued Certificates of Deposit that no one noticed had impossibly high returns. This is doomed to be a minor story because the money in the scam, if scam it was, is only five billion dollars.
A Rod was asked why he was so cagey about admitting that he
took steroids for three years. He paused for a moment, then told CBS “We knew
they weren’t Tic Taks.” His new nickname is "A-Roid."
NBC reported on the Wall Street Journal’s article about Boulder Colorado and its smart electrical grid. The experimental Xcel program allows the electric company to monitor a customer’s energy use in real time. Ann Thompson didn’t mention that the power company can also remotely turn down your thermostat and the hot water heater if it runs low on electricity.
I wish people would go to someone other than John McCain
every time they need someone to say the stimulus package “Wasn’t bipartisan.”
And why do people need to keep saying “It wasn’t bipartisan.” Time for new talking points.
Diane was back on the Appalachia beat again, this time with a dentist trying to fix cavities caused by overdosing on Mountain Dew. Diane promptly called Indra Nooyi, the head of Pepsico who promised to help educate and train more dentists and to provide the dental Samaritan with a second mobile office. Diane ended by saying that CEO Nooyi told her “all children are our children.” A couple of Bumpass residents have offered to send her their teenagers…
I don't remember what channel I was watching, but they said that other programs for the housing crisis didn't work! What other programs are they talking about?
Also they talked about the housing crisis being in the billions, then said the trillions - which is it?
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Help, the news is killing us and the economy. For the last 6-9 months the press has been saying "where is the money for main street and the housing forclosure crisis" Now that we have help with the forclosure crisis, they are complaining that it is not fair to home owners that have paid their mortgage. The press is a nightmare!!!!!
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