"We want to see the Tolyatti plant produce high-quality vehicles and become as efficient as any GM facility in the world," GM chairman John Smith said as he unveiled the new production facility at the giant AvtoVAZ plant some 1,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

However there are major problems. A  Chevy-Niva employee claimed that 99 percent of parts do not fit or are damaged and have to be sent back to the supplier.

To get vehicles off the line GM - AvtoVAZ must use some defective parts.

Both General Motors and AvtoVAZ claimed the problem was not that severe.

A spokesman said we are having all cars blessed before sending out of the plant. This is to reduce the potential for severe injury and death if an accident occurs due to defective parts.

Priest blessing Niva GM SUV as they come off the assembly line

The Russian Orthodox church refused to comment when contacted.

A Ritual Sacrifice to the Gods?

Today one of Religion's major authorities announced his preliminary findings on Formula One racing. Doctor Robert P. Sperry said "We were shocked by our results. "

We decided to study Formula racing when we could find no logical explanation for its popularity and wide following. Our first test was to show Formula racing videos

This let us to believe there must be something more to Formula One Racing. It attracts millions of viewers for "ceremonies/races" that a person who is not exposed to finds boring beyond belief.

So our initial conclusion is that Formula One must be a cult or a religion. There is much in common between Formula One races and cult or religious ceremonies, said Mr. Sperry. Repetitive ceremonies, large groups gathering at one place, performing repetitive acts(head motion formula one) and of course a very boring ceremony that the congregation watches with intensity. To be continued

At a joint meeting of American and Canadian leaders, Mr. Bush and the Prime Minister of Canada voiced strong support for the law.

Congress today passed Legislation pushed hard by President Bush. The new law will ban all web sites, newspaper articles, editorial, cartoons, etc. that make fun of the President or any other World Leader.

It is un-American to make fun of any World Leader. 

The President firmly supports free speech but ridiculing World Leaders is not free speech.  Ridiculing World Leaders is the same as propaganda. It is the same as supporting the other side, the terrorists or Saddam Hussein. It will no longer be tolerated.

Making fun of terrorist or Saddam Hussein is perfectly acceptable.

A giant 19 stories high, the Atlas 5, successor to America's first intercontinental ballistic missile, blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and roared into space to deploy a satellite.

But Yankee smarts had little to do with the fiery success of the rocket's engines.

Instead, the brains were Russian. Moscow may have lost the cold war, but its companies are
beating Western capitalists at the game of making rocket motors.

This story is true, not one of our lies