NOS2006

iced cappuccino

Joe

shovel?

Cedric

The Prius' battery is over 300 volts. I believe like 20 or so are lethal. Though the battery has a 100k mile warranty, it costs approximately $3000 to replace (when not under warranty). Those are two good enough reasons for me.

dick

Dove soap floats. IDK what's wrong with that though. Okay. So I'm with the LuvEwe. I'm hittin' it from all angles:

That thing looks rad as ever!

lmao You guys are outrageous.

lol Welllll I didn't think of it that way.

Wow.. it's.. stretched. Does anybody care?

gooey

No? You know what I mean.

paper.

Really, I didn't touch my I swear! Okay, really though. I like this girl and have for awhile. I'm pretty damn sure she likes me too. Well, I got the idea to tag her once at school.. and once at home. Last night I wrote a poem and split it in two. The poem is: In a vast valley of all Dandelions, You are the brilliant Rose; The Horizon where the Sun and the Ocean Relate and take a pose. Okay, whatever, kinda cheezy? idc. I took the top two lines and wrote them on one envelope and the same with the bottom two, but on a different envelope. Meanwhile, I also cut out a paper heart and ripped a portion of the edge off so that you couldn't tell it was part of a heart and wrote "Let this represent how much I like you..." Stick that in envelope one, attach with a rose and those little white flowers.. and voila. She loved it. Then.. just now I drove over to her house with the other envelope and larger portion of the heart that read "...and this is how much I'd like to have you in my life." Put that with three more roses (with the little white flower thingies), struck up a short convo with her dad, and that was it. I can't wait to see what she says once she puts (literally; envelope) one and two together...

I can see it in US History books about 20 years from now... "US VP Dick Cheney kills friend and goes to jail for murder in 2006."

I agree it's just good for PR (I've always guessed that to mean Public Relations), but pretty much just something that was necessary anyway.

Ooh, that's too bad... but you did get to talk to her..

Ooh, I can use a Chevy Keychain. I already have one that says "Camaro" Perfect!

(mine's usually) broken

LS2

Do anything special for/with anybody today? I'll explain later.

Story on Yahoo! News: By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Auto Writer PONTIAC, Mich. - General Motors Corp. said Tuesday that it will hire almost 300 workers and invest $545 million in five Michigan plants. While the news was good for GM's home state, which has lost an estimated 130,000 auto manufacturing jobs in the last five years, the investment is dwarfed by the struggling automaker's restructuring plan, which calls for shedding 30,000 jobs nationally by 2008. A big chunk of the investment — $163 million — will go to GM's Pontiac Assembly Center, which makes the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, GM spokesman Dan Flores said. Production of the next generation of those pickups is scheduled to begin later this year. GM plans to hire 280 people at the Pontiac plant, all workers who are currently employed at GM plants or have been laid off from their jobs. GM has several thousand laid-off workers in a jobs bank. They get most of their pay and benefits even when they're not working. The company also disclosed three improvement projects that have already been started but weren't announced earlier. The company is investing $152 million in its Ypsilanti transmission plant to increase production capacity for its rear-wheel-drive, six-speed transmissions, Flores said. It is investing $60 million in its Romulus engine plant for making the small-block V8 engines that will go into its new full-size trucks. It is also spending $32 million to update the hydroforming equipment in its Pontiac metal stamping plant, which uses water to help make the unique curves on the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters. GM said it is investing $138 million to expand the body shop in its Lansing Grand River assembly plant, a state-of-the-art facility that will make the new Cadillac CTS. The sedan will go into production late this year or early next year. Joe Spielman, vice president and general manager of GM's North American manufacturing operations, said the investments demonstrate GM's commitment to Michigan and to improving its products. But Erich Merkle, an analyst with the Grand Rapids-based consulting firm IRN Inc., said GM was simply putting a positive spin on investments that had to be made anyway because there are some significant changes to the vehicle models. "It's a little bit of puffery, to offset the bad news that's been out there the last three or four months," Merkle said. "In automotive terms, it's pocket change. It's really not that much money in the scheme of things." GM lost $8.6 billion last year as it struggled with falling U.S. sales and increased costs for health care and materials. But the company has said it won't sacrifice product development, and its global capital spending was up $1 billion to $8 billion in 2005. It has targeted 12 facilities for closure by 2008, including four locations in Michigan that employ 4,751 hourly and salaried workers. The closures must still be negotiated with the United Auto Workers union, whose contract with GM expires in 2007. GM and the UAW also are in talks now with auto supplier Delphi Corp., which has threatened to ask a bankruptcy court judge to void its union contracts by this Friday if it doesn't reach an agreement to lower its labor costs. Delphi is GM's former parts division and the automaker's largest supplier. Flores said GM's announcement Tuesday wasn't related to the Delphi talks. "This has nothing to do with any potential Delphi, GM and UAW agreement," Flores said. GM shares rose 8 cents to $21.83 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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