We’re here

 We arrived at the hotel about 4:30 p.m. Tupelo time.
Two buses filled with folks ready to learn more about Toyota. We stopped in Nashville at Ryans for lunch. Our buses are known as “red” and “blue.” (I’m not doing an Ole Miss or State joke right here, but have heard plenty).
Marriott is a pretty resort [...]

On the road

I love Willie Nelson. I also love travel.
Just about four hours of a nap, then off to catch a bus to go to Georgetown, Ky., and see the Toyota plant up there. I’ll blog as often as possible during stops along the way and faithfully while we’re there taking tours of the community and the [...]

What about stem cells from unfertilized eggs?

This is a really interesting question asked by Wired. Scientist in Maryland have been using unfertilized eggs for stem cell research. What’s the answer? You tell me.

More on beef processing

OK. Let’s say Sean Carothers opts to withdraw his guilty plea. If Carothers pulls out, according to the bill of information filed in the U.S. District Court in Oxford, all deals are off. The prosecutors would have to go before a federal grand jury and seek an indictment, then, if they got it, come [...]

The beef processing plant saga continues

Senior U.S. District Court Judge Neal B. Biggers has said that a plea bargain with Sean Carothers, the president of the company that built the failed beef processing plant, “is overly lenient and too far below the sentencing guidelines for acceptance by the court.”
His sentence was to have been probation, $250,000 in restitution to to [...]

Deja vu

For those of us who remember Watergate:
By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents [...]

What’s really in your toothpaste?

After reading about the poison-laced toothpaste from China at this site. I wandered over to the FDA to see what else they had posted warnings and such about. Gee! Wish I had never looked now.

No judicial hearing yet

Have been keeping an eye on the Senate Judiciary Committee to see when Circuit Court Judge Sharion Aycock will appear for her hearing prior to a vote by the full Senate. After watching the drama unfold with the White House and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, I’m not sure that she and the others Bush has [...]

Jamie’s damaged truck

Thanks to cottonmouth blog for this tip. Seems like Phil Bryant’s car hit Jamie Frank’s truck on the Gulf Coast. Photos here.
We haven’t talked to either candidate for Lt. Gov., but received eyewitness details from the Mississippi Association of Supervisors meeting down on the coast.

Working women’s fashionista dies

 
Liz Claiborne made working women look good, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Her fashion house announced today that Ms. Claiborne died at age 78 Tuesday after suffering for several years from cancer.
Here’s background from The Associated Press:
Claiborne founded Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976 along with her husband Art Ortenberg and Leonard Boxer. Their goal was [...]