Saturday - February 10, 2007

Saturday Silliness

On 16 March 1946 the United States Army Air Forces’ Flight Test Division and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) (now NASA) contracted Bell Aircraft to build three XS-1 (for “Experimental, Supersonic”, later X-1) aircraft to obtain flight data on conditions in the transonic speed range. The XS-1 was the first high-speed aircraft built purely for aviation research purposes and was never intended for production.

On October 14, 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate service, the tests culminated in the first manned supersonic flight, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager in aircraft #46-062, which he had christened ‘Glamorous Glennis’, after his wife. The rocket-powered aircraft was launched from the belly of a specially modified B-29 and glided to a landing on a runway. XS-1 flight number 50 is the first one where the X-1 recorded supersonic flight, at Mach 1.06 peak speed; however, Yeager and many other personnel record the possibility that Flight #49 (also with Yeager piloting), which reached a top recorded speed of Mach 0.997, may have in fact passed the Sound Barrier. (The measurements were not accurate to three significant figures and no sonic boom was recorded for that flight.)

As a result of the X-1’s initial supersonic flight, the National Aviation Association voted its 1948 Collier Trophy to be shared by the three main participants in the program. Honored at the White House by President Truman were Larry Bell for Bell Aircraft, Captain Yeager for piloting the flights, and John Stack of NACA for the NACA contributions. Years later, Yeager reported that his father, a staunch Republican, refused to shake hands with President Truman (a Democrat).

-- Wikipedia, “Bell X-1 Supersonic Flight”

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   Friday - February 09, 2007

Well-Armed Citizenry Report

From Down Under - Bad: The government forces you to turn in all of your guns. Worse: One of the government’s agents turns around and resells those same guns to the local outlaws. Worst: handgun violence suddenly increases 400% and your guns are now in the hands of criminals. Crikey!

_{(Note: “rort” - definition: (Australian slang) a dishonest scheme or practice, to manipulate something to personal advantage dishonestly or fraudulently)}

Buyback Guns In The Hands Of Outlaws
_{(SYDNEY MORNING-HERALD) - February 9, 2007}

A Network of firearms dealers has rorted the $600 million national guns buyback scheme, and weapons supposedly destroyed years ago have resurfaced in criminal hands in NSW.

The Herald can reveal that at least two of the so-called “phantom guns” - both pistols written off by the Queensland Firearms Registry - have been fired at the scene of separate unsolved robberies in Sydney in the past six months. Police believe there are hundreds more like them.

The buyback scheme has been credited with removing about 650,000 firearms from the streets in the past 10 years. A newly elected John Howard staked his political future on forcing it through after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. He still regards it as one his finest achievements.

But thousands of the guns were never destroyed. The man largely responsible for the rort is Frank Curr, a licensed firearms dealer and pawn shop owner from Wacol in Queensland.

Curr paraded as a civic-minded dealer concerned about drugs and violence in his neighbourhood while secretly arming criminals across the border with an estimated 2000 guns he had been paid to destroy or render inoperable. Only 50 of the weapons have been recovered.

Curr, who was convicted last year and will be sentenced next week, was brought down by a four-year covert operation by the NSW Firearms Squad, which describes him as Australia’s largest dealer in illegal firearms.

Police say Curr used a network of 20 other illegal arms dealers in NSW and Queensland, with links to Victoria and South Australia, to flood Sydney with 1600 to 2000 guns between 1998 and 2002. At the same time, Curr was being reimbursed by the Government for supposedly destroying or rendering harmless firearms he had received from gun owners who surrendered their weapons.

Detective Inspector Albert Joseph, of the Firearms Squad, and other undercover officers infiltrated the heart of the illegal gun trade operating from Queensland. He says only a few of Curr’s guns were recovered because of steps the dealer took to obliterate their serial numbers. Those that have been found had remnants of their serial numbers that were traceable by ballistic experts.

Police alleged that Curr made between $1.6 million and $2 million before he and his network of illegal gun dealers - which included a cartel on the NSW mid North Coast and Blue Mountains - was finally shut down.

Inspector Joseph said Curr corrupted a licensed armourer into providing certificates that weapons had been rendered harmless, so the dealer could then sell them as replica pistols in Queensland, thereby exploiting a loophole in the buyback scheme.

In evidence presented to the trial, police said official statistics showed handgun violence had increased more than fourfold since 1996.

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Ten Thousand BC

_{Scott Stantis - The Birmingham (AL) News}

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Through The Looking Glass: Lost Again!

Guess what? Mister “I don’t need no stinkin’ compass to fly this crate” has got hisself lost again. We’re lucky on this flight - no passengers, just a load of chickens in crates in the back. It has been a long flight though. The last time I checked we were coming in from Hawaii toward the mainland with freight from Hong Kong, bound for LAX. Somewhere about 800 miles out, we lost our bearings and drifted off course. Of course the stupid radio decided to go on the blink also. We’re gonna get shot down fer sure one of these days. You just wait.

Anyway, I need some help again fingering out where in hell we are I’ve made it easier this time by giving you a popup window with a larger (1080x910) view of what’s down below.Just click on the image and the popup window will open.

Here’s what I know: We went “feet dry” a few minutes ago so I know we’re over the mainland somewhere on the Left Coast. I couldn’t see the shore when we flew over due to lots of fog or smog - who knows? There’s a really large river off our right wing and some mountains off to our left. No major cities seem to be in sight but a few small towns nearby. Altimeter tells me the runway below is about 25-30 feet above sea level.

That USAF base down there looks familiar but I can’t quite place it. There don’t seem to be any dangerous birds (F-16’s, B-52’s, F-117’s, etc.) down there. Help me out here! Where the hell am I?

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Motivational Poster Of The Day

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Peace In Our Time?

(1) Pigs can fly? (2) Monkeys can write novels? (3) Fish can walk? (4) Chickens can get tooth decay? (5) Democrats don’t want our tax money? (6)Elvis is not really dead? (7) The Palestinians just want to get along with the Jews and be friends?

Which of the seven items above will come true first? I vote for #6. Numbers #1 through #4 are a 50-50 chance. Number #5 is at 1:5 odds. Number #7 is a complete, total impossibility due to the nature of the universe. You see, matter and anti-matter cannot occupy the same space-time location without destroying everything around that spot and leaving a black hole as a reminder.

C’mon folks! The Paleo-freaks cannot even get along with themselves for more than five minutes without taking a sword to their own pointy little heads. They are the wretched refuse of the Arab world. The “red-headed-stepchild”, if you will. No one wants them in their country. They don’t even want themselves in their own country.

They stink, they fight, they’re stupid, they are criminals and they’re breeding like cockroaches. They’re only good at two things: (1) fighting and (2) fornicating. Their total contribution to world society in all of recorded history is ... [NULL]. If you added up the IQ of every person in Gaza, you wouldn’t have enough intelligence to power a tumble-bug.

I have a solution though and all I need is your help in convincing the powers-that-be to help out. You see, all we need is a GIANT rocket ship and a really good marketing company. Here’s the plan: we start an advertising campaign telling everyone in the West Bank and Gaza about the vacation spot recently discovered on the planet Mercury (the dark side, of course). We play it up and convince everyone that paradise awaits. Then we suddenly announce that the EVIL JOOZ have invaded Mercury and taken over Paradise. We ask for volunteers and colonists to go to Mercury and retake the Promised Land from the Zionist Pigs. Free tickets for anyone willing to take jihad to the colony. They’ll never suspect a thing. C’mon! It could work. Let’s give it a chance! COLONIZE MERCURY TODAY! STEP RIGHT UP, MISTER PALEOSIMIAN. FREE AIR FARE! TWENTY VIRGINS FOR ALL COLONISTS. AK-47’s FOR EVERYONE!

Accord Is Signed by Palestinians to Stop Feuding
_{MECCA, Saudi Arabia (NY TIMES) - February 9, 2007}

The main rival Palestinian factions agreed late Thursday to form a government of national unity aimed at ending a wave of violence between them and an international boycott.

From Mecca, an Invitation to Form a Government (February 9, 2007) The agreement, signed here in Islam’s holiest city under Saudi auspices, appeared likely to end, at least for now, weeks of fighting that had ravaged the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Still, it seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community for resuming relations and support for the Palestinian Authority.

The accord, signed by Khaled Meshal of Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president and leader of Fatah, its main rival, is the first time that the two parties have agreed to share authority. It sets out principles for a coalition government, like the distribution of ministerial portfolios, but leaves many of the details for later.

Israel and international powers have said that they would lift their boycott of the Palestinian government imposed after the victory by the militant group Hamas a year ago only if it agreed to three conditions: recognize Israel, renounce violence against Israel and abide by previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Mecca accord addresses only the last of those and does so rather imprecisely, promising “respect” for previous agreements between the Palestinians and Israel. In Washington, a State Department spokesman, Tom Casey, said, “The international community has made it clear that in order to be able to have a broader relationship with the Palestinian Authority government, that those principles are going to have to be met.” He added that officials were still studying the accord.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Mr. Abbas and Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, on Feb. 19 in Jerusalem to work on a broader peace initiative.  In Mecca, Mr. Abbas read out a statement during the signing ceremony where he re-appointed Ismail Haniya as prime minister and called on the new government to abide by “international law” and agreements signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization. This appeared aimed at appeasing concerns of the international community.

The British foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, called the agreement “interesting” but said it would require further study.  In the streets of Gaza, Palestinians broke out in celebration as the agreement was being announced, with members of Hamas and Fatah firing into the air. Hamas officials in Mecca bristled at the insistence of accepting Israel, insisting that any concessions they offered would not be enough.

“I wonder why the issue of recognizing Israel is the key to everything?” Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas government, said earlier Thursday. “We are interested to end the siege but not at any cost.”

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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

If you think the crooked politicians in Washington are bad, you better go take a look at the local level first. Case in point: the story below from “Da Bronx”. Now for youse geographically-challenged pinheads out dere, da Bronx is in Noo Yark city and is home to da ‘Bronx Bombers’, otherwise known as da Yankees. Yeah, Bozo! Where Babe Rut’ played.

Now take dis state senator from da Bronx below. Not only did the rat steal from little kiddies but he used da money to pay for a swank apartment, jewelry and a broad on da side (if youse know what I mean). That’s only the beginning though. Now this rat turd wants the state to pay four large for expenses he rang up making copies of evidence at his trial. Do you believe dis bum?

BRONX POL IN 423G THEFT CASE CRIES POVERTY
_{(NEW YORK POST) - February 9, 2007}

State Sen. Efrain Gonzalez claims he is too broke to defend himself against charges that he ripped off $423,000 in state grant money - and is asking a federal judge to make taxpayers pick up the tab for photocopies of evidence in the case.

A lawyer for Gonzalez told Manhattan federal Judge William Pauley that the $4,000 fee charged by a government-chosen vendor to copy 41,000 pages of documents was too steep.

Gonzalez (D-Bronx) is accused of squandering member-item grant funds, earmarked for a nonprofit for Bronx kids, on luxury digs, clothing, jewelry and personalized cigars.

Pauley ordered him to submit an affidavit detailing his income, assets, expenses and how much he’s paying defense lawyer Murray Richman.

Gonzalez allegedly paid his wife’s $50,000 rent on a luxury apartment in the Dominican Republic - even as he shacked up with a girlfriend who ran a nonprofit and was his alleged accomplice.

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Happy Birthday

Stop The ACLU

It seems like it was only yesterday (actually it was June of 2005) that I got an e-mail from some young whipper-snapper named John (Jay) Stephenson, wanting to know if I would link to some of the posts on his new blog to help him build up readership for a worth cause ... namely, getting a grip around the neck of the evil ACLU. I offered him a few tips, posted links back to a few of his early posts and have been harassed mercilessly with e-mails from him ever since. (Just kidding, Jay)

Actually, I look forward to Jay’s e-mails as they let me keep up to date on the Commies at the ACLU. I still post links back to him on the best ones. Jay is currently on deployment overseas and can’t even read his blog, which is being kept alive by Gribbit and a few other of Jay’s friends. Go give ‘em a visit, wish Jay and the anti-ACLU troops a Happy Birthday and maybe help them reach the one million hit mark. Now, go on! Get on over to Stop The ACLU right now ...

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Ghost Town

I ran across this interesting little story in the pages of the Washington Post this morning and thought I’d share it with you and get your thoughts on the so-called “death” of a small town in Texas. The WAPO seems quite sympathetic to the plight of the illegals it seems to me. Aside from that, I find it interesting that there are two local “barons” controlling everything in this tiny little town, a Mexican and a Vietnamese. This reminds me of the movie “Giant” except the Anglos aren’t the overlords of the plains this time. And while we’re on the subject, what’s up with Swift Co. hiring all of these illegals. My Oscar Meyer weiner wants to know ...

Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton
_{CACTUS, Tex. (WASHINGTON POST) - Friday, February 9, 2007}

The streets of this small, isolated city in the Texas Panhandle are virtually empty nowadays, and “For Rent” signs decorate dilapidated trailers and shabby 1940s-era military barracks that just weeks ago were full of tenants. Sales of tortillas and other staples are down. Money wire transactions to Central America have mostly dried up. The “Guatemalas,” as local residents call them, are almost all gone, and so are a significant number of Mexican nationals. An estimated 12 to 18 children are now living with only one parent since the other was arrested in a massive immigration raid at the biggest employer in town.

On Dec. 12, hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clad in riot gear and armed with assault rifles descended on the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in a coordinated raid of six of the company’s facilities nationwide. The operation was the government’s largest single work-site enforcement operation ever. The plant in little Cactus—a town better known in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and in the department of Quiché, Guatemala, where workers came from, than in Texas—was the largest one raided. Almost a quarter of the 1,282 suspected illegal immigrants arrested in the raids were removed from the Cactus plant.

That an obscure town 600 miles north of the border and in the middle of High Plains country once owned by Anglo ranchers and farmers was a haven for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants was no surprise to anyone here. The draw to Cactus has existed since American Beef Packers opened the meat-processing plant in 1974. Swift’s predecessor company bought the plant in 1975, and it became known as Swift & Co.’s Cactus Beef Plant in 2002.

Although opened with local hires, Vietnamese and Laotian refugees became the dominant workforce by the late-1970s. By the mid-’80s the workforce was overwhelmingly Mexican immigrants, and by 2000 the Guatemalans, speaking the Mayan language of Quiché, had started to arrive. Before the Dec. 12 raid, Swift employed 3,050 workers in Cactus at a starting wage of $11.50 an hour to slaughter, process and package several thousand head of cattle daily.

Work inside the plant is hard, dirty, stinky and dangerous, and it is where Cactus’s biggest business owner and mayor, Luis Aguilar, and Cactus’s largest landlord, Thanh Nguyen, got their starts in the United States. Aguilar, a native of Chihuahua, began working at the plant in 1976 using false identity papers, he admits. In 1986, he was able to legalize his status in the United States, along with 2.7 million illegal workers, under the amnesty program authorized by the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Previously criticized by some local officials who thought he aided and even encouraged illegal immigrants to settle in Cactus, Aguilar took the raids almost personally. He canceled the annual city Christmas party because so many residents, including City Council members, had spouses or other relatives who had been arrested by immigration authorities. Aguilar subsequently lent one of his buildings to be used as a food and used-clothing pantry for residents whose relatives were caught in the raid.

“These are my people,” said Aguilar, 50, who today owns the largest house in Cactus, a nearby 575-acre ranch, a laundromat and the town’s only full-fledged grocery store. About half of his 26 rental units are empty now.

Nguyen and his family, part of the mass exodus of “boat people” who left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, arrived as legal refugees in nearby Dumas, Tex., in 1979 under the sponsorship of a restaurant owner who wanted cheap labor. Within six months, Nguyen and his wife left for the better-paying meatpacking plant in Cactus, said Nguyen’s son Phuong, 37, who is also known as Ben.

Except for the Nguyens, Asian immigrants moved out of Cactus, which is now 99.5 percent Hispanic. Some local officials recently said that 75 percent of the city’s estimated 5,000 residents before the raid were illegal immigrants. Aguilar disputes that, saying it was only 15 percent.

To Ben Nguyen, that number is not important. His father usually offered a few weeks of free rent to immigrants until they got a job at the meat plant and their first paycheck and provided thrift store mattresses and clothes, if necessary, Nguyen said. Now only eight of his father’s 60 rental units are occupied. Some were vacated the day of the raid, but the majority were abandoned within weeks, when frightened immigrants moved away. Since then, vandals have been kicking in the doors of the empty apartments, looking for any items of value that might have been left behind.

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Obituary

This is the offical “Anna Nicole Farewell Post”. Pay your parting respects in the comments if you please. Yes, we ogled her in the pages of Playboy, laughed at her marrying that old geezer who was 60 years older than her, followed the vicious war between her and the old man’s son as they fought over the millions he left behind all the way to the Supreme Court.

We watched in shock as she ballooned out to 300 pounds, wondered how she did it when she lost all that weight practically overnight and in recent years wondered how long she would last as her parties got wilder, her son died of a drug overdose and her own behavior spoke of probable problems with alcohol, drugs or both.

Now it’s over. Our morbid fascination with another sexy blonde is done. Where will the next one come from? Somehow I just don’t feel Paris Hilton can ever fill Anna Nicole’s bra shoes. RIP.

Anna Nicole Smith Dies in Florida at 39
_{HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - February 8, 2007}

Anna Nicole Smith, the curvaceous blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale - Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother - died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday. Just five months ago, Smith’s 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be a drug-related death.

Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel, which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith’s bodyguard administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital. Later Thursday, two sheriff’s deputies carried out at least eight brown paper bags sealed with red evidence tape from Smith’s hotel room.

Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief Broward County medical examiner who will perform the autopsy, said if her death was from natural causes, the findings would likely be announced quickly. He cautioned, however, that definitive results could take weeks. “I am not a prophet, and I cannot tell you before the autopsy what I am going to find,” he said.

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   Thursday - February 08, 2007

Through The Looking Glass

_{(Photo from Google Earth Desktop)}

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Motivational Poster Of The Day

Since you goobers didn’t like my first “Leadership” motivational poster, here is another one. Let this be a lesson the next time you decide to criticize The Skipper’s creations.

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Leftenant Declares The War In Iraq Is Illegal

Lt. Ehren Watada needs to be clapped in irons and frog-marched to the stockade - and left there to pound big rocks into little rocks for the next forty years. That is my decision.

“But, Skipper” you ask, “What gives you the right to pass judgment on this man?”

I’ll tell you what right. It’s the same right that allows Lt. Watada to unilaterally declare the the war in Iraq is illegal, therefore he is relieved of the obligation to report because to do so would mean following an “illegal order” which officers are allowed to do. This has to be the lamest excuse to avoid duty that I have ever heard and the full weight of the UCMJ needs to drop on his pointy little head.

An “illegal order” is when someone over you orders you to shoot unarmed prisoners or murder civilians or something along those lines. “Soldier, report for duty” is not an illegal order. On top of that the contention that the war itself is illegal fails the test because the Commander In Chief ordered it and the US Congress approved it by a wide 77-23 margin.

But no, this Lieutenant has placed himself above the law and is speaking out to every leftist, anti-war group in the country to try to gather support for his defense which hasn’t a legal leg to stand on. In other words .... Cindy Sheehan in uniform.

Now he’s trying to get other service members to follow his lead and violate their oath. Here is an excerpt from his most recent speech. The full text is at the link at the bottom of the quote ...

We have all seen this war tear apart our country over the past three years. It seems as though nothing we’ve done, from vigils to protests to letters to Congress, has had any effect in persuading the powers that be. Today, I speak with you about a radical idea. It is one born from the very concept of the American soldier (or service member). It became instrumental in ending the Vietnam War, but it has been long since forgotten. The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, soldiers can choose to stop fighting it.

Now it is not an easy task for the soldier for he or she must be aware that they are being used for ill-gain. They must hold themselves responsible for individual action. They must remember duty to the Constitution and the people supersedes the ideologies of their leadership. The American soldier must rise above the socialization that tells them authority should always be obeyed without question. Awareness of the history of atrocities and destruction committed in the name of America—either through direct military intervention or by proxy war—is crucial.

They must realize that this is a war not of self-defense, but by choice, for profit and imperialistic domination. WMD, ties to Al Qaeda, and ties to 9/11 never existed and never will. The soldier must know that our narrowly and questionably elected officials intentionally manipulated the evidence presented to Congress, the public, and the world to make the case for war. They must know that neither Congress nor this Administration has the authority to violate the prohibition against pre-emptive war— an American law that still stands today. Though the American soldier wants to do right, they must know some of these facts, if not all, in order to act.

-- Lt. Ehren Watada, “Soldiers Must Choose To Stop Fighting”

UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE

Article. 90. ASSAULTING OR WILLFULLY
DISOBEYING SUPERIOR COMMISSIONED OFFICER

Any person subject to this chapter who--

(1) strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him while he is in the execution of his officer; or

(2) willfully disobeys a lawful command of his superior commissioned officer;

shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, and if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial may direct.

_{(Full text of the UCMJ here)}

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Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

The homorons are mad at Snickers and now the depresstards are mad at GM. Surely these people have caught on by now to the fact that they’re only making colossal asses out of themselves with this ridiculous bullshit - ya think?

When is PETA going to sue GEICO for forcing that poor little gecko to work overtime with no pay and talk in that ridiculous Aussie accent? Is the AFLAC duck also being exploited? Can Budweiser be sued by the crab worshipers of Borneo? Will this silliness never end? We’ll have the answer for you right after this brief commercial message from our sponsor, Trojan condoms. Don’t go away ....

Suicide-Prevention Group Criticizes GM Ad
_{(USA TODAY) - 2/8/2007 12:31 AM ET}

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has sent a letter to General Motors (GM) criticizing an ad that shows a perfectionist assembly line robot dreaming about jumping off a bridge after dropping a bolt.

The group said the spot may encourage people to consider suicide as a solution to their problems. The group demanded that GM apologize, not air the spot again and remove it from its website.

“We wouldn’t see this ad around cancer or heart disease,” says Robert Gebbia, executive director. “Why’s it OK to make fun of mental illness or depression?”

GM has “no plans” to drop the robot spot, spokeswoman Ryndee Carney says. The ad currently is scheduled to air next during the Feb. 25 Academy Awards broadcast on ABC, she says. GM has received “more than a handful (of complaints) but not a tsunami,” she says. She says GM “did not intend to offend anyone.”

GM should drop the ad now, says former Energy secretary Donald Hodel, who also was Interior secretary in the Reagan administration. Hodel’s teenage son committed suicide 23 years ago.

“They should never have run that commercial, and they shouldn’t run it again,” says Hodel, who says he and his wife were shocked when they saw it. “If I had a child who committed suicide some time after watching that ad, I’d seriously consider consulting a lawyer and suing GM.”

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