WARNING!!!
The Gateway Pundit post features a full-frontal shot of Moore wearing Bermuda shorts, while seated in what must be the best engineered chair in the world.
Update: Look for a return to classic, environmentally-friendly engineering when GM starts turning out the Obamobile...
Ah, yes, Michael The Moor, all the class of a Chicago loan shark 5 days dead, wrapped up in a bloated carcass large enough to influence the orbit of Jupiter.
ReplyDeleteObama keeps saying he doesn't want to be in the auto business, but I have trouble believing that when he keeps using our money to get deeper and deeper into Chrysler and GM.
ReplyDeleteAnd there is no way I'm clicking on that Gateway link. There isn't enough bleach in the house to wash my eyeballs to get rid of such an image of Moore. The descriptionalone is bad enough.
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Retread: You have chosen wisely.
ReplyDeleteI caught Pres Obama on TV just now announcing how 'taxpayers will now own' a 60% stake in GM, as if that was a good thing. So many questions came to mind:
ReplyDeleteFirst, is that a good investment? A bankrupt company? Obviously not. Either he doesn't understand, or he is disingenuous.
Next, here in Aust we had and have many 'publicly owned' companies: trains, gas, electricity ... all became (with exceptions perhaps) giant sinkholes sucking in money instead of generating it. Huge burdens on the taxpayer. As a result we sell off as much of them as we can to private ownership (which then often makes profit with the previous lossmaker).
The US is now, from our perspective, going backwards, into a past system already show here to have failed. I don't feel at all smug about it, since I believe the creativity and competitiveness of the US supports the progress of the whole world. In smug Germany too there is now 'unforeseen' economic decline - obviously Germany (and Canada and everywhere) relies much more on the US economic powerhouse that they admit.
Bruce: No, GM is not a good investment, if, for no other reason, than the inept hand of government is at the helm.
ReplyDeleteWith respect to investments, I'm thinking of cashing in my mutual funds and buying gold, guns and full-size trucks.
Paco, if the greenies were serious about the environment, they'd prefer a Stanley Steamer. It's slower (especially accelerating), but is more efficient. There's a reason why steam turbines are still used for large scale power generation.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that modern materials technology could improve the Stanley Steamer to be more consumer friendly, although it won't match the modern internal combustion engine for power and performance. But it would be a great alternative, especially if you use natural gas or propane for the fuel. Robert Heinlein once suggested using methanol.
But don't ask GM to market one; Heinlein also said that an elephant is a mouse built to government specifications, and that's so true. I shudder to think what Obama's Crack Crew™ would come up trying to design a new steam car.
Bruce, we are indeed going backwards, rather like a ship that has been torpedoed in the stern.
ReplyDeleteAck, Retread! I have seen what you didn't have to. And it was ugly in the extreme.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't denigrate fat people (as I regard it as a kind of handicap), but Moore is just a mountain of flabby, nasty-minded flesh begging to be ridiculed. Jabba the Hut was a sweet-natured Christian compared to him. His biggest drawback isn't his almost-immovable body, it's his sewage-filled personality, rife with hatred for the human race. When he dies, they'll have to bury him within 24 hours or suffer a rotten decay unknown since the fall of Lucifer.
Jeff: The really great thing about the Stanley Steamer is that you can stop and make a cup of espresso whenever you want.
ReplyDeleteBUAWHAHAHAHA!!!! Yes, Paco, that's right!
ReplyDeleteHa! Now if they would only bring back the Cord and some of those great touring cars of the 20's and 30's.
ReplyDeleteWhen they say they don't want to be involved in the car business they mean the day-to-day operations. The left has always considered productive employment as icky. Besides, that would make them responsible and these people have always been adverse to that.
By coming up with a new board of directors, including union reps, they have total control over the policy aspects of the the company; compensation packages, what cars to make, et al, while still maintaining plausable deniability if things go south.
What's not to like?
"Jeff: The really great thing about the Stanley Steamer is that you can stop and make a cup of espresso whenever you want."
ReplyDeleteQuite so, Packers, old chum. Nothing like a bit of a brew-up during the old slowdown on the George Washington Expressway...
Ra-ther, Frumley, old top. All that steam plays the devil with the scones, though.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the cucumber sandwiches.
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