This just came out of the blue. Before you make a change in longstanding tax policy ? I am talking 70 years or so ? you don't just up and do it in an energy bill.

That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talking to young people about education, always counseling young people to go to school, get an education. 'Education is your ticket to anything you want to do.' That's why she paid for so many kids to go to school.

If improved competitiveness is our goal, it may be penny-wise but pound-foolish to cut the successful Manufacturing Extension Partnership by more than half.

And, I'm going to stay in here all of 2006 ... and hope it continues for the rest of the years.

As long as we're in meetings going over the routes and how to play them and talking out the defense when we're out on the field, I think we'll be on the same page and be successful back there, no matter who we put in there.

I can't write five words but that I change seven.