More Hyundai News

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The other day I received a phone call from Hyundai USA and was told to take my van back to the dealer so they could look at it one more time as a “good will jester”.

The service manager was very nice and worked with us and we believe they may have actually fixed the Entourage this time. Time will tell if it will start squeaking again like a old bedspring but I am hoping it doesn’t.

I am still not happy with the way Hyundai USA handled the situation and how Todd Archer’s management didn’t talk to each other, because it caused us a lot of wasted trips back and forth and a lot of stress in thinking we had made a bad choice. I doubt I would ever again buy a Hyundai.

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DEAD TEACHERS

Roads in Saudi Arabia are among the world’s most dangerous but one type of victim stands out: female teachers who are dying at alarming rates because of long commutes through the desert to reach remote schools.

The Saudi government appoints teachers to work in villages where local staff cannot fill all vacancies. But unlike their male counterparts, female teachers in this conservative Muslim country have difficulty living alone in the villages, forcing them to commute each day.

Nof al-Oneizi was so worried she would die that she wrote to education officials urging them to find her a school nearer to her home in the northern town of Jouf, rather than the one she was assigned to 108 miles away — a three-hour drive because of the bad roads. Since women are forbidden to drive, she carpooled in a van with a driver along with several other female teachers.

Her fears came true before a solution to her problem could be found: The 28-year-old English language teacher died in a horrific crash last November. Five other female teachers, their driver and four people in the car they hit also were killed.

There are no current statistics on how many female teachers die every year. But 21 female teachers were reported killed and 38 others injured in 11 accidents reported by Saudi newspapers since the school year began in September.

In 2005, four women made headlines when they decided to put an end to their hazardous commute: They married their driver and settled in a village near their school. Islam allows a man to take up to four wives at the same time.

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IRAQ PART DEUX

Bush has defended the recent disclosure of intelligence by the US on suspected nuclear links between North Korea and Syria. The move was meant as a “message” to the two states and also Iran, he said.

Last week, the White House briefed Congress on what it said was evidence that Syria had been building a secret nuclear reactor with North Korean help.

It presented intelligence seven months after Israel bombed the site. Syria said the US claim was “ridiculous”.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has criticised the US for withholding its intelligence.

The site of the alleged reactor, said to be like one in North Korea, was bombed by Israel in 2007.

White House officials have said it was within weeks or months of completion.

Syrian officials have said the site that was bombed by Israel on 6 September 2007 was an unused military facility under construction.

Building on the site had stopped some time before the air strike, Damascus said.

**** Does Bush actually think anyone would believe him now? ****

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“I’ve been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.”

–George W. Bush, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

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266 Days Left
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring
Freedom casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central
Command: 4527

Its more than a number

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