If you believe GM/"new" GM/"remnant" GM CEO Fritz Henderson that he intends to repay all government loans by 2015, then I have a brand-new 2009 Chevy Volt to sell you. Of course, with global warming denier Bob Lutz tapped to be GM's new marketing head, you wont' find a car like that on eBay or anywhere else.

In fact, contra GM's rushed claim, you won't find it on eBay at all. Not right now or in the near future. So, what WILL happen to those "green" cars Obama wants GM to sell? (Oh, and take note, at the first link, of how overvalued a price Team Obama has for GM, if you do the math on the loan value and the equity stake.)

So, between wrong announcements, "old" GM top brass touted for new jobs, and even "New" GM not expected to actually finish clearing bankruptcy for a full year or more, it's likely "new," aka "remnant," GM, will drift further into irrelevance.

So, Mike Allen from the Politico decided to join all the "old media" types from the White House press corps and eat free Obama-cue on the Fourth of July. And, go along with the old media hands from the press corps and not tell anybody.

Guess Politico staff can't break old WaPost habits of selling access. And, folks, it's not just the business side, it's the editorial side that sells access, too. Just in different ways.

Starting with your very own free GOP blood pressure cuff for the "ownership society"?

No, seriously, John Cornyn says the Senate GOP will present its own healthcare reform option</a>, complete with "state-based initiatives."

He refuses to spell out what those are, though.

So, as I note in detail on my blog, call his bluff. Send him a webmail. In addition to that, on my blog, I note that Cornyn offers the best reason yet for MoveOn to keep running its advocacy ads.

Much better than recent previous filings, the state of Massachusetts suit against the Defense of Marriage Act is surely more likely to get legal standing.

BUT... but... but...

As I discuss in detail, there's a downside starting with Massachusetts deliberately avoiding raising the  "full faith and credit clause" of the U.S. Constitution in challenging DOMA.

That's the best explanation I can think of for cyberattacks that knocked out financial and national security websites in the U.S. and South Korea over the Fourth of July.

Washington is being tight-lipped, but who else would do that?

And, I've got more speculation on worse-case scenarios.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?

My suburban Dallas newspaper group recently (last week) shut down, so I'm another casualty of the media implosion.

I'm still interested in staying in the newspaper world, if I can find the right job. (And I will relocate to most parts of the country. Or, I'll take something more "new media." Besides my own blog, I blogged regularly at my newspaper's blog, I know all the basics of Photoshop and digital photography, and have used video on at least the point-and-shoot level of digital cameras.

That said, here's the top part of a generic "communications" resume. Spelled-out e-mail address at bottom:

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OBJECTIVE: A communications position using my skills and experience in writing, editing, desktop publishing, management, public speaking, and analytical and synthetic thinking.

BACKGROUND: More than 10 years award-winning editing and writing; also marketing, public speaking, page layout/design, photography/editing, research. Strong analytical abilities.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATIONS: Editorial writing helped pass city and school district bonds, 2004-05, defeated other school bond, Lancaster. PUBLIC SPEAKING: Trained in public speaking and speech writing; have spoken on behalf of newspaper employers to various organizations. CREATIVITY: Have written opinion columns in haiku and other poetic formats; have created editorial cartoons in Photoshop. NEWS: Pollution investigative journalism led to company CEO being terminated; other investigative work connected to Centers for Disease Control tracking a medical syndrome to a Golden Corral restaurant, already closed after reporting on sub-par health inspections. Uncovered newly-constructed high school with non-lockable classrooms and cosmetology classroom in violation of state standards. MANAGEMENT: Partial oversight of four news editors and other staff as assistant managing editor, Today Newspapers; managed staff writer(s), Navasota, Lancaster; managed freelancers, Navasota, Jacksboro.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS
North and East Texas Press Association -- Journalist of the Year, weekly division, 2005.
Texas Press Association Better Newspaper Contests -- First place, sweepstakes: 2002, 2005; first, general excellence, 2004, 2009; first, page design, 2002, 2003; first, news writing, 2002; first, editorials, 2005; (partial list).

E-mail: socraticgadfly AT hotmail DOT com

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences suggests both that this is a fairer way to deal with carbon dioxide emissions as the world moves toward a hoped-for success at the end of the Copenhagen round of climate control negotiations, and specifically to that end, might break the ongoing U.S.-China logjam.

I also note that it could open the door to an internationalized market in carbon cap-and-trade, presumably regulated by the WTO.


And, here in the U.S., if it read to a "yacht tax," fine by me.