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GM recently announced a new partnership with Segway under which they built a new concept people mover the “PUMA”.  With any luck it will hopefully never see production.  One look at this bizarre vehicle will have you wondering what they are thinking.  An informal survey on CNN.com showed that over 70% of the people polled said they wouldn’t be caught dead driving around in it.  The PUMA is designed to be piloted around cities and is not intended for highway use.  Although it is capable of traveling 35mph.

Considering GM is on the verge of bankruptcy one has to wonder why GM would even contemplate such a vehicle.  Concept vehicles have their place and in many cases they stir up some positive PR for the company.  However, in the case of the PUMA it just goes to show how out of touch GM has become with their consumer.  They are designing concept vehicles which have no future, hopefully zero possibility of being built, and that give GM an even worse name.

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How often in the last six months or so have you heard your local newspaper or news station proclaiming that the sky was falling down on the economy? Probably more often than you would have liked. Certainly the global economy is in turmoil but at least in the beginning it wasn’t as bad as it was being reported to be. Unfortunately, news companies see bad news equaling high ratings in this country. So it was in their short term interest to make the economy seem as bad as possible in order for them to drive up ratings. (Read On…)

Despite what you might think or hear on the news world peace is achievable, at least in a broad sense.  Honestly, it isn’t even a very difficult problem to solve.  It all comes down to economics.  The “You have something I want” type thinking has been around since the days of Adam and Eve.  If  WWII showed us anything it was that kind of thinking is still alive and well.  Japan went to war and expanded throughout the pacific in order to bring more resources under their control.  Germany vilified the Jews because they were to convince people that Jews were responsible for their economic plight.

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For a while now a Facebook group has been circulating which contends “Because of Facebook’s huge popularity Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of offers from people wanting to buy Facebook. People Who WILL turn it into a paysite.” The original group can be found here.  Over 3 Million people have joined the group which is astonishing in itself.  However, the threat of Facebook becoming a pay site has absolutely no basis in fact.  It’s like saying Walmart is going to get bought out because it is so hugely popular and the new owners are going to sell off each store to families so it will be a family run business again.  Yeah it could happen but it is extremely unlikely.

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Lately it seems every time we turn around there is another story involving Chinese made goods which are causing health problems. In the past it has been lead tainted toys, tainted dog food and melamine in baby formula. Now it seems that Chinese made drywall is making people sick down in the South East, particularly Florida. The drywall is making homes smell like rotten eggs and even worse than that it is corroding the electrical wiring in the homes. People have also reported health problems from breathing the fumes.

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