coffee, Iran, Toyota

Though I'd talk about coffee this morning. I have had my own blend for more years than I can count. I (obviously) put it in the excellent category. Reason for my choice of lead things to talk about is that Consumer Reports doesn't have much to say that is good about the coffees commercially available. My blend, by the way, is 6 oz Italian, 6 oz Viennese Roast, and 2 oz Sumatra. Yum. Years ago a specialty food chain carried my mix as Captain Ev's Blend. My 15 minutes of fame, I guess.

In other news, seems Iran has announced a rocket launch into space carrying a mouse, two turtles and some worms. I wonder what the worms do. Mouse - captain, Turtles - flight engineer and copilot. Worms ??? The Iranian press is mum on the purpose of the flight, except to say that it will put a satellite into orbit next year.

Toyota has new problems: seems the Prius is in trouble because of its brakes. Hari-Kari time for CEO Toyoda-san? Seems Wozniak of Apple has declared that the problem is not with the pedals, but a software problem - but, noone at Toyota will listen to him. Wonder if the problem he describes could be solved with every Toyota getting an IPad on the dashboard?

Toyota, bailout

Toyota's CEO has finally made his statement as predicted. His name is Toyoda (duh). Maybe the goverment of Buttwipistan should give the company a bailout? - Too big to fail as a carrier of car bombs? yada yada yada.

Toyota

Toyota is really putting on the full press ad campaign. (As expected). I think that it is a wonderful way to get attention. Remember the old adage no press is bad, it's all good. As an analogy, think of the movie stars, sports stars, etc. that have had their mug shots released after being arrested. Did that hurt their careers not likely. They "did the right thing, yada yada yada. I'm just waiting for the president of the company to come out with his fireside chat 30 second sound bite.

Obama, Haiti, Toyota, Ankle Fusion

My commentary today is threefold, First Obama: has he given up on his wide spread shotgun approach and is now deciding to concentrate on one thing at a time - jobs? Hope so. He has spun his wheels so far and needs to settle down to something he can work on and prove that he is a focused leader. Haiti is winding down as a front page item. Seems that plenty of stuff is getting there. But, the food and water is not getting distributed to all the people. Heard one woman complain that only the young strong men are getting the food, etc. as they bully themselves in the lines. Lotsabucks have been channeled to the relief effort. Hopefully it will do something to raise the standard of living in that country - not just line the coffers of the government and crooked big business interests. Toyota is really in deep do-do. All the recalls, etc. However, th cut back of sales on some models may be a boon for Toyota. The company can reduce the production lines, pay less wages, use less materials and ultimately save a bunch of bucks in advertising. The supposed tragedy may actually make money for the company. I love it.

On a personal note, the podiatrist folks want to fuse my ankle - 8 to 12 weeks off my feet. If anyone has had this done let me know the pros and cons.