Okay, wait – so they have $9 billion wriggle room in their budget/planning?

NYTimes.com

The Ford Motor Company told Congress on Tuesday that it wanted access to $9 billion in loans but that it could survive and become profitable in three years without the money unless the current recession “is longer and deeper than we now anticipate.”

I want robots to decorate my Christmas tree – wait, I want to decorate it, the robots can protect it from Mishka.

WellMedicated

As a child, I truly believed that at this point in my life I would be living in a space-dome community with a flying car and a robot maid. I can even remember the utter disappointment of realizing that most of the things I read in my dad’s back issues of Popular Science magazine would never see the light of day.

11th-Hour Rush to Enact a Rule That Obama Fought – NYTimes.com

The Labor Department proposal is one of about 20 highly contentious rules the Bush administration is planning to issue in its final weeks. The rules deal with issues as diverse as abortion, auto safety and the environment. One rule would make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas. Another would reduce the role of federal wildlife scientists in deciding whether dams, highways and other projects pose a threat to endangered species.

Or, as my friend said:

I love President Bush. Always willing to stick to principals and fuck over the little guy.

Well, this sucks – via Cute Overload