"Start Me Up"



                                                       

         Chevy Volt painting by Ian Cook
                                               



Dear Bangor Daily News:

Ironic Barack Obama's accused of being the new Jimmy Carter  since our library's copy of "Life" says Carter's administration helped Keith Richards kick heroin by introducing him to Dr. Meg Patterson's .NeuroElectric Therapy Machine.


Manager Jane Rose said he would say "tomorrow I'll clean up" until a month before the 1978 "Some Girls" tour when she brought him an ultimatum instead of drugs: "Keith, today is tomorrow."


A 2008 Brookings - House Foreign Affairs Committee report states: "With half of the world's proven oil reserves...the Persian Gulf will remain an indispensable region for the global economy so long as modern vehicles run only on oil."


USA_TODAY says Saddam Hussein destroyed his chemical and biological weapons in 1991 and 1992.

UNICEF says 15.7 million Iraqi children were under 18 in 2010.Reuters says about 4.5 million of them were orphans.


The documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car" says General Motors repossessed every 1990 mandated EV-1 electric car it had leased and crushed them, even when lessees offered to pay the residual.

June 2010's Treasury Department and President Obama reorganized  bankrupt GM giving the government 60% equity with a new GM board + CEO.

GM introduced the Chevy Volt October, 2010.


481 Volts sold during May, 2011.


Last February GM announced its largest yearly profit to date.


1680 Volts sold during May, 2012


"Today is tomorrow" America.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_NFjWgJyaU - Rolling Stones: "Start Me Up"

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139902892/weekly-standard-obama-is-the-new-jimmy-carter - NPR headline: "Weekly Standard: Obama is the new Jimmy Carter."
From Keith Richard's "Life":
"Once again it was Bill Carter who came to my rescue...First he had assured the Canadian court when he posted my bond that I had a medical problem and that I needed to be cured of my heroin addiction. He made the same case to his contacts in the White House, where Jimmy Carter was president, using all the muscle he could work, talking to one counsel there who was Carter's drug policy man, fortunately charged, at the time, with finding solutions more effective than punishment...Miraculously, his White House contacts instructed Immigration to grant me a visa, and he got permission from the Canadian court for me to fly to the United States. We were allowed to rent a house in Philadelphia, where Meg Patterson would treat me every day for three weeks...And I've always been very grateful to the US Government for allowing me to come to America to get help to come off the stuff." (Pages 394,395 +396 of "Life" by Keith Richards)

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Jane Rose told KR "Keith, today is tomorrow" and paraphrases him saying: "tomorrow I'll clean up" (quoting her) on page 409 of paperback version of "Life" By Keith Richards, copyright 2010 by Mindless Records, LLC; Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company; Hatchette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 ( www.hatchettebookgroup.com ) Back Bay Books is an Imprint of Little, Brown and Company.


http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20094278,00.html - People Magazine says Dr. Patterson's machine helped Eric Clapton, KR, Pete Townsend and Boy George beat heroin.


http://www.drmeg.net/Home.htm -Dr. Patterson died on July 25, 2002.


http://www.netdevice.net/ - NET Device Corporation's home page


http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2008/05/22-oil-sandalow - 2008 Brookings report to House Foreign Affairs Committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-10-06-wmd_x.htm - USA TODAY quotes Iraq Survey Group that Saddam destroyed WMDs in 1991 + 1992.

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/iraq_statistics.html - UNICEF Iraq demographics.


http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/02/19/orphans-join-iraq-protests-over-food-she?videoId=188518042 - Reuters report stating about 4.5 million Iraqis are orphans.


http://gorillasguides.com/2007/12/15/5-million-orphans/ - Iraq's anti corruption board reveals nearly 5 million Iraqi children were orphans in 2007.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3632324?uid=3739712&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=56246861303 - Sharia law definition of orphan: Underage child with both parents dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F - Wikipedia on "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (third paragraph under: "Topics Addressed").

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/31/news/companies/gm_bankruptcy_looms/ - CNN GM files for bankruptcy June 1, 2009.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/stories/gm-formally-introduces-the-chevy-volt - GM officially introduces Chevy Volt on 10/10/10 (Oct. 10,2010).


http://green.autoblog.com/2011/06/01/may-sales-chevy-volt-481-nissan-leaf-1-142/ - 481 Chevy Volts sold May 2011.


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/02/gm-posts-record-7-6-billion-profit/ - GM posts biggest profit in its history in 2011, $7.6 billion.


http://www.plugincars.com/chevy-volt-sales-still-electrifying-nissan-leaf-slump-continues-may-2012-121818.html - 1680 Chevy volts sold in May, 2012.




First Toshiba High Definition DVD players sold in US cost $500 and $800 in May of 2006: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2006-05-10-hd-dvd-toshiba_x.htm -


This Toshiba High Definition DVD player cost $222.26 at Amazon.com on June 9, 2012 at 9:34 AM:
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-HD-A30-1080p-DVD-Player/dp/B000U6AHYS/ref=sr_1_4?s=tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339248808&sr=1-
Former President George H.W. Bush got his son Neil Bush a Chevy Volt for his birthday (January 22, 2011): http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/bay_area/news/article_7043110d-c06d-53c9-a269-d404a87fa7e3.html


2013 Chevy Volt to increase its MPGe (miles per gallon equivilent) to 98 MPGe from 94 MPGe in 2012, and the (extended driving included) range will increase from 375 to 380 miles:
http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2012/Jun/0607_volt.html

The Chevy Volt's battery is guaranteed for 8 years or 100,000 miles and can be warmed or cooled to increase efficiency in different climates:
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/07/volt-20100714.html













                                         Petards to Plowshares


















Dear St. John Valley Times:



Okay, Van Buren isn't the boomtown it was when Loring AFB assembled nukes. But cancer.gov says the US incidence rate for all cancer types rose from 1975 through 1992, the year the US last tested nuclear weapons, and has dropped since from 1993 to 2009.
And now Sunny Side Up Films is planning to use VB as a location in their movie, thanks to LaJoie Growers' Peruvian blue potatoes, which SJVT says they began growing about 11 years ago.
The LaJoies grow some of their potatoes in Cyr Plantation, which received a Federal Empowerment Zone designation in December of 2001. Empowerment Zones were created by the Democrat controlled Congress to stimulate businesses and job creation in distressed communities in 1994, the year Loring closed.
Hud.gov says each rural EZ received $40 million Health and Human Services grants and qualifying businesses received a 20% credit for each EZ resident employee's qualifying wages (up to $15,000), 0% tax on capital gains on property kept for 5 years and increased tax deductions on equipment.
Part of President Obama's deal with Republicans in December, 2010 to extend the Bush tax cuts was to revive the Federal Empowerment Zone designations, which had expired on December 31, 2009. But the Empowerment Zones were only extended to December 31, 2011, while the Bush tax cuts are still in effect.
A potato is a terrible thing to waste.
References at:

Keith Taft
98 Main St.
Apt. 101
Van Buren, ME
04785
Tel: (207) 399-8735
Email: takei132@aol.com
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/me/me0300/me0311/data/me0311data.pdf - Library of Congress says of Loring Air Force Base's North River Depot:
"The Assembly Area included structures dedicated to the assembly of weapons in preparation for
loading on bombers, or the disassembly of the weapons upon return. The main structures in the
area were Buildings 216, 232, and 233. Other buildings in this area included a fire station and a
power station." (5th paragraph down)
https://sites.google.com/site/loringremembers/history-of-loring-afb - Sitesgoogle.com says:

"During 1952, the North River Depot received the Mark-VI nuclear bomb, the first nuclear weapon delivered to the Air Force since the Fat Man bomb of WWII. The new bomb's nuclear material was in a "capsule" that would be inserted by the air crew just prior to dropping."
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/historicaltrend/joinpoint.noimage.html - Cancer historical trends all sites (sample is incidence rate for all cancer sites from 1975 - 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing - Underground nuclear test in 1992 was US's last.(4th paragraph).

http://www.sjvalley-times.com/view/full_story/16014560/article-Potato-crops-looking-good-in-the-Valley?instance=homefirstleft - SJVT says LaJoie Growers also grows potatoes in Cyr Plantation, and began growing them "about 10 years ago." (article is 8 months old on June 21, 2012)
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/ezec/01_Exec_Summaries/aroostook.html - USDA says part of Aroostook County was designated as a Champion Zone in 1998, and an Empowerment Zone on December 31, 2001.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm Round III Empowerment Zones(which include parts of Aroostook County including Cyr Plantation) signed into law Dec. 31, 2000.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/index.cfm - HUD info on Empoerment Zones.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/me/aroostookcounty/ - Aroostook County Empowerment Zone.
http://food-nutrition.knoji.com/the-blue-potato-or-peruvian-potato-history-and-nutritional-value/ - History of the blue potato.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insurance_Reauthorization,_and_Job_Creation_Act_of_2010 - "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010".

http://sjvalley-times.com/bookmark/18125322-LaJoie-Growers-expands-moves-to-Ferry-Street SJVT says LaJoie Growers expanded to Ferry St. building purchesed in 2000 from EDA (US Economic Development Administration) funds.
http://www.mainepotatoes.com/feed.php?num=1&news_id=93&feed_id=42 - Norman LaJoie patriarch of LaJoie Growers
Page 153 of the Cyr Plantation 1870 -1970 Centennial Book by Frances Levasseur says the LaJoie Family's "homestead" farm is in Cyr Plantation and was owned by Norman LaJoie in 1970, whose father was Gilbert LaJoie, the son of William LaJoie, who came to Van Buren from Edmunston, NB in 1874