~CYNTHIA McKINNEY THE BLACK RACIST~STRIKES AGAIN~

Why in the hell people elect people like this women to represent them I have no clue. This woment has been a trouble maker for years now. She is and alwyas has been totally out of control. She needs to seek help bad ! SHE IS A HATER OF WHITES AND JEWS ! SHE IS WHAT YOU CALL A BLACK RACIST. I wish the country woudl wake up and quit senidng people like this to serve our country. It is embarrasing !
























THE POLICEMAN WAS ONLY DOING HIS JOB





WITH ALL THE FACELEIFTS AND NEW HAIR DO'S
WHY WOULD YOU NOT QUESTION WHO THIS
PERSON WAS ! ???






READ FULL STORY BELOW...

Republicans, Democrats trade barbs after congresswoman's scuffle with police officer
By LAURIE KELLMAN
ap
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the congresswoman who had an altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted it.
She has refused to apologize so far in a written statement and a brief on-camera interview.
The six-term congresswoman from the Southern state of Georgia apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House of Representatives office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.
Asked on-camera Thursday by an Atlanta, Georgia, television station whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment. Her office said she planned a news conference Friday morning. Late Wednesday night, she issued a statement saying she regretted the confrontation.
"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past, and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.
Capitol Police were considering Thursday whether to ask the U.S. Attorney's office to file charges against McKinney, a Democrat who represents Atlanta suburbs that make up one of Georgia's two black-majority districts.
Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle Thursday over the incident.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.
"I would not make a big deal of this," Pelosi said.
Ron Bonjean, spokesman for the Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert, responded: "How many officers would have to be punched before it becomes a big deal?"
The dustup is the latest in a series of tangles for the roughly 1,200-officer Capitol Police department.
The department faces a difficult task. It protects 535 members of Congress and the vast Capitol complex in an atmosphere thick with politics and privilege.
The safety of Congress' members became a sensitive issue after a gunman in 1998 killed two officers outside the office of Rep. Tom DeLay, at the time the third-ranking Republican in the House.
More recently, police obeyed an order by an angry House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Bill Thomas, to remove Democrats from a hearing room. Thomas later tearfully apologized on the House floor.
This year, police drew criticism for its actions during President George W. Bush's State of the Union address, first removing anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan from the House gallery, then evicting the wife of Rep. Bill Young, a Florida Republican.

McKinney Statement

POSTED: 11:48 am EST March 30, 2006
UPDATED: 3:07 pm EST March 30, 2006

WASHINGTON, DC -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) released a statement today on her web site about Wednesday's confrontation with Capitol Hill police.

In that statement she expresses regret for slapping a police officer who stopped her at a security check point.

McKinney admits she was not wearing a pin identifying her as a member of congress.

Channel 2 Action News has acquired a copy of McKinney's original statement that she decided against posting on her website.

In that original statement she complains that Capitol Hill police officers often fail to recognize her. She calls her treatment by Capitol Hill police being "harrassed at work."

Here's the original statement in its entirety:

McKinney Statement

Statement of Cynthia McKinney Re: Repeated Harassment from Capitol Hill Police

I have served as a Member of Congress for more than 11 years.

Throughout my tenure in Congress, I seem to evoke memory loss, especially from certain police officers who claim not to be able to recognize my face while I go to work everyday, representing the people of Georgia's 4th Congressional District.

Washington, DC and local newspapers, as well as authors of books, have carried my "working while black" stories of such encounters on Capitol Hill. In fact, the movie American Blackout candidly captures just such an encounter in one of its more humorous moments when after a two-year hiatus from Congress, a black police officer recognizes me and welcomes me back to Washington, and then just across the street, a few yards away, a white police officer approaches me to ask me what office I am with. In the film I remark, "Some things never change. That's what Tupac said."

Sadly, there are only 14 black women Members of Congress. And surely our faces are distinguishable. But why my face is continually unrecognizable can only be answered by these offending police officers. Capitol Hill Police are given face recognition instructions as a part of their official training. Capitol Hill Police are required to recognize, greet, and distinguish Members of Congress as a part of their official role and responsibilities. In fact, according to the US Capitol Police, their mission is to protect and support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities. The US Capitol Police mission statement makes no distinction about selective application of its mission depending upon whether a Member of Congress is black, woman, or has a new hairstyle.

But, honestly, this incident is not about wearing a Congressional pin or changing my hairstyle.

It is true that I have changed my hairstyle. It is true that at the time I was not wearing my pin. But many Members of Congress aren't wearing their pins today. Just in the last hour at least 8 Members of Congress have been spotted speaking from the well of the House without their pins and even more have been seen on the Hill today not wearing their Congressional pin. How many of them were stopped by Capitol Hill Police? Do I have to contact the police every time I change my hairstyle? How do we account for the fact that when I wore my braids every day for 11 years, I still faced this problem, primarily from certain white police officers.

This morning at approximately 8:57 am, I was going to a Budget Committee meeting due to start at 9:00 am. I was rushing to my meeting when a white police officer yelled to me. He approached me, bodyblocked me, physically touching me. I used my arm to get him off of me. I told him not to touch me several times. He asked for my ID and I showed it to him. He then let me go and I proceeded to my meeting and I assume that the Police Officer resumed his duties. I have counseled with the Sergeant-at-Arms and Acting Assistant Chief Thompson several times before and counseled with them again on today's incident. I offered also to counsel with the offending police officer. I have agreed to try to remember to wear my pin and to notify Capitol Hill police every time I change my hairstyle.

My father was a police officer. After the tragedies on September 11th, recognizing the strain that we all were under, I wrote a letter to Sergeant-at-Arms Livingood reminding him that police officers were operating under great stress while working long hours. I asked that they be allowed to use their cell phones to contact their families to know that they were alright. No one else did this. But I did. I will not let this or any other incident dampen my resolve to support those whose work is vital and supports us. It is, however, a shame that while I conduct the country's business, I have to stop and call the police to tell them that I've changed my hairstyle so that I'm not harassed at work.

McKinney Blames Police For Slapping Incident

POSTED: 4:21 pm EST March 29, 2006
UPDATED: 6:55 pm EST March 31, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) blamed a police officer for a confrontation this week that ended with her slapping the officer.

At a news conference Friday evening McKinney said she was the victim in the incident.

Her lawyer, James Meyer, also spoke at the news conference and said he expects McKinney to be arrested next week for the confrontation.

He blamed the incident on race.

"Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin. Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black," said Meyer.

Channel 2 Action News has learned that Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA.) intervened when word got out Wednesday night that McKinney might be arrested.

She says she approached the House sergeant-at-arms to discuss the situation.

Millender-McDonald sits on the House committee that oversees the Capitol Hill police and the sergeant-at-arms' office.

Millender-McDonald does not believe what she did constitutes “intervention”, said spokeswoman Denise Mixon. “She simply wanted some questions answered,” Mixon said.

Charges against McKinney could range from assault on a police officer, which is a felony carrying a possible five year prison term, to simple assault, which is a misdeameanor.

McKinney issued a statement yesterday saying she "deeply regrets" the confrontation with the police officer.

The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector. Members of Congress wear identifying lapel pins and routinely are waved into buildings without undergoing security checks. The officer apparently did not recognize McKinney, she said in a statement.

Asked on-camera Thursday by Channel 2 Action News whether she intended to apologize, McKinney refused to comment.

"I know that Capitol Hill Police are securing our safety, and I appreciate the work that they do. I have demonstrated my support for them in the past and I continue to support them now," she said in the statement on her Web site.

Democrats and Republicans, meanwhile, engaged in a rhetorical scuffle over the incident.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday labeled it "a mistake, an unfortunate lack of recognition of a member of Congress." She added that the police officer was not at fault.

"I would not make a big deal of this," said Pelosi, D-Calif.

Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., responded: "How many officers would have to be punched before it becomes a big deal?"

The dustup is the latest in a series of tangles for the roughly 1,200-officer Capitol Police department.

The department faces a difficult task -- protecting 535 members of Congress and the vast Capitol complex in an atmosphere thick with politics and privilege.

The safety of its members became a sensitive issue after a gunman in 1998 killed two officers outside the office of then-Republican Whip Tom DeLay of Texas.

More recently, police obeyed an order by an angry House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., to remove Democrats from a hearing room. Thomas later tearfully apologized on the House floor.

This year, during President Bush's State of the Union address, police drew criticism for first kicking antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan out of the House gallery, and then for evicting the wife of Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

Merle Black, a professor of politics at Emory University, says that while the scuffle was rare for an elected politician, it's unlikely to cost McKinney more than a few votes. Black says McKinney is in damage control -- cutting her losses by not insisting on right or wrong.

~SAGO MINE SURVIVOR ,RANDAL McCLOY,JR.GOES HOME TODAY~

ANOTHER GREAT STORY TODAY !! THE LONE SURVIVOR OF THE SAGO MINE DISASTER GOES HOME TODAY ! TWO HAPPY STORIES IN ONE DAY IS A BIT TO TAKE. Could it be this is a sign of days to come. I hope so.















Miner Can't Explain His Survival
Randal McCloy Jr. Set to Leave Therapy, Perhaps Thursday
By VICKI SMITH, AP


MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (March 30) - Randal McCloy Jr.'s memories of the 41 hours he lay trapped inside the Sago Mine are "not much really," just fragmented images he'd mainly rather forget.
Newfound Health and Fame
Watch Video: McCloy Ready to Go Home Talk About It: Post Thoughts
And when he thinks of the 12 friends and co-workers who slowly succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning after the Jan. 2 explosion, he pictures them elsewhere.
"I try to leave out all the gory details and stuff like that because I don't like to look at them in that light and that way," he said on Wednesday. "I just like to picture them saved and in heaven, stuff like that.
"That's really the best way you can remember somebody."
Doctors say McCloy, 26, of Simpson, was perhaps minutes from death when he was pulled from the coal mine Jan. 4 with kidney, lung, liver and heart damage. He was in a coma for weeks, suffering from severe brain injuries.
"I have no explanation of how I escaped it and survived."-Randal McCloy Jr.
But on Thursday, after just three months of intensive rehabilitation and medical care, he is expected to return home.
On the eve of his anticipated departure, he sat on a hospital bed with wife Anna, choosing his words carefully. Two of his co-workers' daughters have visited him and McCloy hopes to meet with all 12 families in the coming weeks and months.
"It's a delicate situation and it should be handled delicately. It's not something you definitely want to dive right in," he said. "I am going to choose to be careful about what I say and how I word things for the families' sake. I just feel I should show them great respect."
Doctors have repeatedly called McCloy a miracle, unable to explain why only the youngest of the 13 miners survived.
He is a fitness buff who ate well, lifted weights and rode bicycles. He doesn't smoke. He has two young children, Isabelle and Randal, waiting for him at home.
Still, McCloy himself remains mystified.
"I have no explanation of how I escaped it and survived," he said. "It's just crazy how that ended up being like that."
Some people speculated McCloy was deeper inside the mine, farther from the poisoned air.
However, "I was pretty much in the same area all the time," he said.
Nor does he believe a crushed lung helped limit the amount of carbon monoxide he inhaled.
"In a way, if you have a crushed lung, you'd be in pain," he said. "You'd probably inhale more."
What he does know is that his wife and children have motivated him through painful and challenging therapy, and he is going home months earlier than doctors first predicted.
"What I believe is that the people who are there for you tend to create a world where you can get better," McCloy said. "It's love, really."
McCloy is about 5-foot-10 and skinny, down from a normal 160 pounds to just 135. His throat still bears a deep purple mark from a long-since removed feeding tube, but his voice is clear and soft.
He smiles often and seems frustrated only by his limitations, mainly a right arm that remains weak.
"My hands, my grip, is not as good as I want it to be, but I'm going to try to exercise and stuff like that," he said.
Anna is providing some unexpected incentive: While he was in therapy, she ordered a present for his 27th birthday on April 14 - a red 2006 Mustang to replace the family's Taurus.
"I wanted to give him something to work for," she said, "to make him really want to push himself."
In the pool at HealthSouth Mountainview Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, he does. He tosses a beach ball with a therapist to work on agility and reflexes. He springs from a therapist's cradling arms into an upright posture in one swift motion. He grips the stainless steel parallel bars underwater and pulls his legs to his waist.
When he gets home, he will continue to use weights to help speed up his therapy. He also will return to HealthSouth three days a week, four hours a day, for a few more months.
Someday, he'll start to think about work again. He's considering a vocational school, maybe electronics. He won't be going back underground.
"No, I done learned my lesson," he said. "The hard way."
In a few months, the McCloys will take their first family vacation, a trip to Disney World. For now, though, they're looking forward to peace.
"It'll be a vacation just getting home," said Anna, who will fire up the oven for the first time in three months to make a big pan of lasagna for family members. Soon, he'll start working through the thousands of cards and letters he has received _ enough to fill a spare bedroom at a relative's house.
Until the last few days, his wife shielded him from news coverage of the accident. He doesn't quite know what to make of his newfound fame.
"A lot of people are writing, asking me to go hunting and stuff," he said with a laugh. " It's kind of amazing, that they want to see me that bad."

JILL CARROLL RELEASED UNHARMED IN BAGDAD~

A HAPPY DAY FOR JILL & HER FAMILY !







Good day !! now for some good news. Most days
it's always something bad. But, today Jill Carroll
who has been held hostage for 2 months now was released unharmed and healthy !!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, who has been held hostage in Iraq since January 7, has been released, her employer, The Christian Science Monitor, said on Thursday.
The newspaper's spokeswoman Ellen Tuttle said the release has been confirmed by Carroll's father.
Carroll, 28, was working as a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor when she was abducted by gunmen in Baghdad on January 7. Her driver escaped, but her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, was killed.

LACI PETERSON~WHY SCOTT PETERSON ? ~WHY DID YOU KILL HER ?

SCOTT PETERSON IS GUILTY AS HELL FOR MURDERING HIS WIFE AND UNBORN CHILD. NOW HIS MOTHER & FATHER ARE PUTTING UP A $250,000.00 REWARD TO FIND THE "REAL KILLER" GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK ! ANOTHER OJ HUH? PLEEEZ SPARE ME.








LOOK AT THIS EXCUSE OF A MANS FACE. HE IS THE MOST ARROGANT SCUMBAG I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME !








EVEN HIS OWN SISTER KNOWS HE IS GUILTY AND TELLS YOU WHY IN HER BOOK. MANY OTHER BOOKS WERE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS CASE. "MOST PEOPLE HAVE A BRAIN !" THEY KNOW SCOTT PETERSON KILLED HIS WIFE AND UNBORN CHILD. LACI NEVER HAD A CHANCE AND NEVER DREAMED SCOTT WOULD KILL HER !











MUG PRISON SHOT. WILL BE GLAD WHEN HE IS EXECUTED !
GOOD RIDANCE YOU SCUMBAG !

































AMBER BECAME A VICTIM AS WELL !












THIS IS THE LINK TO THE ORGINIZATION SET UP FOR LACI.
http://www.lacipeterson.com/index.html

Laci peterson's orginization. please check it out. you will find many helpful links there and a lot of beautiful pictures of Laci and her family. THIS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK ALL ABOUT LACI !












THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE COURT TV PEOPLE THAT FOLLOWED THE TRIAL CLOSELY.
ALL OF THESE BOOKS ARE GOOD. THEY TELL THE STORY.

Tempers flare on opening day of seal hunt in Canada

Please go to the link below and read about the first day of the seal hunt and what happened. It is totally disgusting. Those hunters are sick as hell. They need to go to jail !



NEWDATINGGAME2: Tempers flare on opening day of seal hunt



Activists, Hunters Spar Over Seal HuntApril 8, 2006

By the time the hunt is over 325,000 seals will have been slaughtered.
(CBS) On the ice floes of the Gulf of St Lawrence, tourists dressed in fluorescent orange life suits traveled thousands of miles to photograph and to touch the newborn seals. But the overwhelming beauty of the baby harp seal is overshadowed by the tragedy of its fate, reports Jennifer Santiago of CBS affiliate station WFOR in Miami. For three weeks during the months of February and March thousands of seals come to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to give birth, turning the whole area into a giant floating nursery. But unfortunately a third of the baby seals — according to some estimates — will become victims to the hunt. The hunt — which takes place every year both on the Gulf and off the coast of Newfoundland — has brought condemnation from animal welfare groups, particularly the Humane Society of the United States and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. International celebrities have also joined the cause, such asPaul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney, who traveled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to pose with the newborn pups. "Unless something is done about it, "he's going to be clubbed to death in a few weeks," said McCartney pointing to a seal pup during his trip. Hunters shoot and club the seals to sell their coveted skins to overseas markets. By the time the hunt is over 325,000 seals will have been slaughtered. But not everyone is against the hunt — including a man who put down his club almost 20 years ago. This ex-seal hunter — who doesn't want to be identified by name — now works for the Colorado-based Natural Habitat Adventures. NatHab organizes trips like the photo tour hoping that by bringing more tourist dollars to the area, the locals — who kill to provide for their families — will no longer need to do so on anything like this scale. The ex-seal hunter says he regrets his years killing baby seals: "Once you start working with nature — it's like your own children," he says. Yet he falls short of calling for an end to the tradition. "Its part of (the local hunters') income. It feeds their families," he says. So, on the ice floes — where cruelty and compassion collide — the debate continues with animal activists hoping the cries of the baby seals are heard around the world and the more likely public outcry demanding an end to a tradition.

SEAL SLAUGHTER IN CANADA MUST STOP NOW ! SIGN PETITION NOW!

Look at this precious baby seal !
Do you know what happens every
year in Canada every year !
Please sign the petition by simply
clicking on the title of this
article or go to the link below.










Please go to the link below and sign this petition to stop the slaughter of these precious baby seals.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047?ltl=1143071135

Every year when I see this happen it sickens me.











Go to the link below the read all about this
slaughter that goes on every year. Maybe
with a new Prime Minister we can do
something to stop it.
http://www.animalsvoice.com/PAGES/features/seal2.html

ALL PEOPLE THAT HAVE "HATE" IN THEIR HEART, READ THIS !

Where does hate come from?




Does it come from the mind like some distant creature trying to find a way out?
Screaming like a mad-driven bird ready to pluck the very eyes out of every human being?
Does it come quietly like a wind just before a hurricane, softly blowingthrough the trees?
Does it come like a sword stabbing you until you cry mercy and yet still wills itself
To bury a scar so deep that when one touches there the pain will still be new?
Does hate come from our imaginations, a little part of us that wants to hope
That the bible is not true and that as humans we invented hate?
I tell you this, hate comes from a power that destroys this world and drives us all mad
It turns our world upside down as a daily reminder that this being still exists
He lives in our hearts until we can let go to the one high power who lives in
The earth and the trees and the sky.
If you release this one hold that this creature has over you, then hate will
Be nothing more than a memory

~A good example of an idiot calling technical support~

Customer: "I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now my A drive won't work."
Tech Support: "Your A drive won't work?"
Customer: "That's what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won't work at all."
Tech Support: "Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?"
Customer: "I didn't get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn't come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out and that didn't work either."
Tech Support: "You did what sir?"
Customer: "I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it wouldn't budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit."
Tech Support: "I don't understand sir, did you push the eject button?"
Customer: "No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can't believe you would send me a disk that was broke and defective."
Tech Support: "Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?"
(At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the other techs to listen in.)
Tech Support: "Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat what you just said?"
Customer: "I said I put butter in my A drive to get your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out."
Tech Support: "Did you push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk eject button?"
( Silence. )
Tech Support: "Sir?"
Customer: "Yes."
Tech Support: "Sir, did you push the eject button?"
Customer: "No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer!"
Tech Support: "Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the disk in the A drive, didn't follow the instructions we sent you, didn't actually seek professional advice, didn't consult your user's manual on how to use your computer properly, but instead proceeded to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk out?"
Customer: "Ummmm."
Tech Support: "Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do record every call and have it on tape?"
Customer: (now rather humbled) "But you're supposed to help!"
Tech Support: "I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you. Have a nice day!"

~ HAPPY HAPPY SPRINGTIME TO ALL ~

WISHING YOU AND YOURS A VERY HAPPY SPRINGTIME !!!

~ CAR OF THE FUTURE ? CHECK THIS OUT ! ~

~COULD THIS BE WHAT WE WILL BE DRIVING IN THE FUTURE~ ?


330 MPG Wonder
By CHRISTOPHER PALMERI


A born tinkerer, Steve Fambro has built everything from go-carts to automotive racing parts. After four years in the U.S. Army working on testing equipment, he got an electrical-engineering degree and snared a good job designing robots used for research at San Diego biotech Illumina (ILMN). But it wasn't long before he was growing restless. "I wasn't challenged at work," recalls the 37-year-old Fambro.
He considered building a kit airplane in his spare time to indulge his interest in aviation, but his wife, Patricia, quickly squashed that idea as too dangerous. So Fambro turned to another passion of his -- cars. He bought books on car design at Amazon.com and, with gasoline prices soaring, began to consider ways to make more fuel-efficient vehicles. Fabro read up on Volkswagen's abandoned prototype for a "1-liter" car before abandoning it in 2002. His discovery: "70% of a car's energy goes to pushing air out of the way."
With help from a couple of colleagues from Illumina, Fambro has designed an entirely new vehicle that he thinks will revolutionize the automotive industry. It's an aerodynamic two-seater, built entirely from parts made of ultra-strong composite materials. Fambro says it will cost under $20,000 and get an incredible 330 miles to the gallon.
TRI-WHEEL TRENDThey've named it the Aptera -- Fambro says it comes from the Greek word for wingless flight. "For 50 years, cars have been designed as a styling aesthetic," Fambro says. "They start out with a shape without any regard for weight or aerodynamics. Then they try to make it more efficient."
The Aptera will derive its fuel economy from several sources. Its light-weight components give it an overall weight of just 850 pounds, a third that of a typical small car. The vehicle will run an off-the-shelf one-cylinder engine that Fambro is buying from a German company he declines to name. The car's design is also crucial. With the engine in the back, Fambro eliminated the traditional hood and fender, designing a swooping front end instead.

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To further slim down the Aptera, Fambro outfitted the vehicle with just three wheels -- two in the front and one in the back -- part of an emerging trend among major carmakers such as Toyota (TM), Mercedes-Benz (DCX), and Peugeot (PEUGY). Volkwagen, for example, generated a flurry of positive news clippings when it unveiled its three-wheeled concept car, the GX-3, at the Los Angeles auto show in January.
"HALO EFFECT"But Anthony Pratt, an automotive researcher at J.D. Power & Assoc., says these types of vehicles do more for a manufacturer's overall fuel-efficient image than they do for the bottom line. In other words, VW isn't setting its heart on moving a lot of GX-3s. In California, notes Pratt, you would need a motorcycle license and a helmet to drive one. "They are designed to create a halo effect for the company producing them," he says. "They will never realize high volumes."
The question confronting Fambro is whether horsepower-hungry Americans will really go for a one-cylinder car? Its creator says the horsepower focus misses the point. Most cars are way overpowered for their everyday use. The Aptera will be sluggish on the get-go, he concedes, taking 11 seconds to get to 60 miles per hour. But once it gets going, it will be capable of traveling 90 miles per hour. "This car is plenty fast enough for getting on the highway and passing people," he says.
The other hurdle Fambro faces is safety. Will an all-plastic car survive crash tests? Fambro says he has already tested some of the parts, putting them on the curb and driving over them to show how durable they are. "People are surprised -- they don't even bend," he says. The Aptera will have safety features just an insulation made of crushable foam and air bags built into the seat belts that will absorb much of the impact in a crash.
DETROIT CALLING?Fambro and his two collaborators formed a new company in January called Accelerated Composites, and will soon move into offices in an airplane hangar in Oceanside, Calif. The partners have already lined up $400,000 in financing from an investor group and have contracted with Katana Industries of British Columbia to build the first Altana prototype, which they hope will be ready be the end of May.
There are signs that Detroit is prepared to take Fambro's venture seriously. He says he received a call from a representative from one of the Big Three's composites divisions (Fabro prefers not to name the company), who peppered him with questions about his car. "I'm on their radar," he says.

~HOPE EVERYONE HAS A HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY !~

~ WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY !~

















EVEN THE FORMER ASK JEEVES YAHOO AND GOOGLE ARE WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY ST.PATTY'S DAY. :o)

~GOD BLESS THE USA & PRESIDENT BUSH~REMEMBER 9-11~

~WELCOME~THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.


REGUARDLESS OF WHAT YOU THINK OF PRESIDENT BUSH IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I ADMIRE HIM FOR DOING ALL THAT HE HAS DONE TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.
I KNOW THAT MANY ARE ANNOYED AT SOME OF THE THING THEY READ OR HEAR BUT ALL THAT YOU READ AND HEAR DOES NOT MAKE IT SO.
SIT BACK AND PUT YOURSELF IN HIS POSITION AND REALIZE ALL THAT A PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY HAS TO CONTEND WITH. ANYONE THAT CANNOT DO THIS HAS A VERY NARROW MIND.

LOOK AT THE "BIG PICTURE". RUNNING A COUNTRY IS NOT AN EASY JOB. NOT FOR PRESENT OR PAST OR FUTURE PRESIDENTS. THIS COUNTRY AND ALL THE PEOPLE WITH SO MUCH STRIFE IN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS NEEDS TO CHILL OUT AND GET A GRIP !

WE AS A PEOPLE AND A COUNTRY NEED TO WORK TOGETHER IN A POSITIVE MANNER AND PUT DIFFERENCES ASIDE. WHAT GOES ON IS A JOKE. AND...WHAT WE NEED TO HAPPEN IS NO JOKING MATTER.