Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Al Franken!!!

Congratulations to Senator-elect Al Franken!!!!

> Vanity Fair has an interesting article about Gov. Sarah Palin. My favorite quote from the article is this:

....One longtime McCain friend and frequent companion on the trail was heard to refer to Palin as “Little Shop of Horrors.”.....

It appears that things were very, very tense between Palin, McCain, and the McCain staff. Could you imagine the disaster that they would have brought on the country if the GOP had won the White House???????

***** Ohioans are keeping their fingers crossed that some new jobs come through with the manufacture of railway cars.

Dispatch:

Eyeing federal stimulus money set aside for transportation projects, a Columbus company has purchased a defunct manufacturer of diesel-powered passenger railcars and is talking to the state about basing manufacturing operations in Ohio.

U.S. Railcar LLC would employ between 100 and 200 workers once a manufacturing site is established, said Barry Fromm, CEO of financial-services firm Value Recovery Group, lead investor in U.S. Railcar....