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"Driving" GM and Chrysler to health.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, February 23, 2009 12:07:38 PM
I think the advice from the team that President Obama has assembled to guide the U.S. auto industry back to health will be to use the Federal bail out money and their union pension funds to buy stock in Honda, Toyota and Nissan.

The Detroit News uncovered some interesting things about the members of the team. Only two of the eighteen people currently slated to be on the committee (eight primaries and their top assistants), own a vehicle from an American manufacturer. One of those is a Harley. Two just happens to be the same number as those who don't own a vehicle at all. Yes, the members of the team that is going to guide Detroit back to prosperity are equally likely to own no vehicle at all as they are to own one from a Detroit manufacturer. The majority have a history of owning vehicles from foreign manufacturers.

At least we know that they have an understanding of why people would not buy from Detroit!
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Those who don't know history are doomed to ...

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:56:11 AM
... believe President Obama. His overblown comparisons of the current economy to the Great Depression have become so egregious that even his home town paper is crying foul. Perhaps the Guiness records people would be interested in a new record category: most expensive pack of lies. The "stimulus" bill would be a hands down winner.
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Something the EPA should be in charge of.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:27:45 PM
Forget all the "stop smoking" campaigns. Just put the ecozealots at the EPA in charge of what comes out of people's mouths and let them apply the same standards applied to industrial smokestacks. No smoker could light up with less than $10,000 in fines and the ecozealots would get a little something to help them get over not being allowed to regulate the tailpipe emissions of livestock.
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What John Murtha and Kurt Weldon have in common

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:45:51 AM
Both have had the FBI search offices of people associated with them and remove records. What is different is the timing and how it was covered.

The Weldon-related searches happened shortly before the election with reporters there to take pictures of the FBI taking things from the offices. Weldon lost reelection.

The Murtha-related searches happened after the election and one in November just now made it into the deep recesses of ABC News. Murtha won his reelection bid.

I suspect there will be another difference. The Weldon investigation seemed to dry up and blow away immediately after the election. It seems unlikely that it will ever be found that Weldon did anything wrong. I suspect that will not be the case with Murtha.
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Thanks, Deb, but we already have a standard.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Friday, February 06, 2009 11:38:34 AM
During an interview on a failing liberal talk radio station Senator Stabenow (D_MI) said:

I think it’s absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whether it’s called the Fairness Standard, whether it’s called something else — I absolutely think it’s time to be bringing accountability to the airwaves.
Gee, Deb, I thought we had a standard. It is called "Freedom of Speech" and was instituted in a thing called the First Amendment that is part of a document called the Constitution of the United States. Isn't it amazing how Liberals can spot rights lurking in the shadows cast by the Constitution ("the right to privacy"), but entirely miss ones that are smack in the middle of the text itself?

Hat Tip to Politico.
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What About a Compensation Cap on Book Deals

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:33:14 PM
Just as President Obama is outlining his proposal for curbing executive salaries, Drudge is running a link to an article on the "seven-figure" book deal that PO's campaign manager just got for a book on the campaign. The book will, of course, have the word "audacity" in the title. What I find audacious is that the hack thinks he can get away with accepting this much money for a book about how to get people who will limit the earning potential of people who run businesses that actually create wealth and jobs.

Perhaps there should be limits on book deals for political hacks. While we are at it, I would certainly be in favor of requiring that book money for books by criminals be given to a fund that benefits the victims of crime or their families. Yes, let Mamia Abu Jamal write a book about his life, but give the money to scholarships for policemen who die in the line of duty!
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Let's be consistent on "socialism" and public ownership of stock.

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:35:21 PM
One of the issues brought up by the various bailout plans is whether government ownership of stock constitutes "socialism". The definition my teachers always used was the the government ownership of the means of production was the defining characteristic of  Socialism. many Conservatives are concerned that the government buying stakes in various businesses in the process of bailing out industries moves us towards that classic definition of Socialism. Many of these same Conservatives supported that government ownership when it came to getting them a better return on their Social Security money.  This surface inconsistency brings out what I think is the real problem with Socialism.

Overall, it is a good thing if the government owns stock in businesses. There would be a lot less ill-advised anti-business legislation if the resulting drop is stock values and dividends hurt the politicians who made the laws. The problem is when government tries to run businesses. A sure way to drive businesses to ruin is to let the same people who run the government influence the running of the business. There is a way we can have the positives of government investment without the drawbacks of having government influence the running of businesses.

What we need is a class of stock with no voting rights that is the only kind of stock ANY government is allowed to buy in U.S. companies. This includes the U.S. government and any foreign government or sovereign wealth fund.
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So You Think You Can Dance?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:15:23 PM
Mark Cuban had better hope he is better at legal dancing than he was at ballroom dancing during his (brief) stint on Dancing With the Stars. The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing him for insider trading related to, of all things, Mamma.com.
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Senator Barack Kevorkian

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Monday, September 29, 2008 9:43:50 PM
A little medical analogy may help elucidate just how wrong Obama is about the economy. The economy is sick. There is understandable debate as to whether the best treatment is antibiotics, gene therapy or vitamins. Along comes doctor Obama who prescribes cyanide. You don't want to be his patient.

What does the economy need? Curbs to abuses? Maybe. Internal system changes? Maybe. Some incentives to strengthen it? Maybe. Tax increases? Only if you want to see it keel over dead!

A vote for Senator Barack Kevorkian is a vote for a dead economy.
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Nobody is qualified to be President by their own knowledge

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:05:45 AM
Even otherwise insightful columnists get lost when talking about executive qualifications. Kathleeen Parker's recent article about Sarah Palin is an excellent example of this.

The worst person you could ever elect as President of the United States is someone who thinks they know it all. The job is just too big for one brain. McCain and Palin have the three key skills needed in a president.  

A president must surround himself or herself with specialists who know more about particular areas than the president does. Good judgment about who to have around you is more important than specialized knowledge. Two names that disqualify Obama: William Ayers and Tony Rezko. (I give him a pass on what Jeremiah Wright has said due to previous experience with the preaching style of Black pastors. Saying that he sat in the church for 20 years and didn't know it was being said is another matter altogether.)

A president must listen before deciding. Surf up some articles where Obama's campaign staff talk about his leadership and decision making styles.

The third key skill is gaining the trust of key decision makers so that the ideas generated by the presidential team can be communicated effectively and convincingly. Palin's wowing of a few foreign dignitaries one-on-one is a promising sign. That Obama can't form a clear though without a TelePrompter is not.

Character and judgment are more important than knowledge in any executive position. They are pretty much the ONLY things that can qualify someone to be the President of the United States. It is pretty clear which ticket wins on that score.
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Why Obama should not be a professional football player or President

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:33:41 PM
Professional football players are not selected primarily for their verbal abilities, but even they are expected to know when something they are thinking of saying will go on their opponents locker room bulletin board and serve as motivation. Understanding how your words will be taken, in or out of context, is much more important for the job of President of the United States. It is also much harder to do when you are dealing with people of different cultures as Presidents must do.

Obama's "lipstick" comment is strong evidence that he is not qualified to be President. There are two possible explanations for it. One is to take him at his word that he really didn't mean it as a slap at Sarah Palin, in which case his inability to anticipate the effects his words will have completely disqualifies him from such Presidential duties as negotiating with nuclear armed rogue regimes. The other possible understanding is that he did mean it that way and is now lying about it. This is also a Presidential knockout for most Americans.
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Community Organizer = Lobbyist

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 06, 2008 6:57:34 AM
Just keep repeating it.
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
Community Organizer = Lobbyist
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What's really scary is that this isn't Obama's scariest "friend".

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 06, 2008 6:51:33 AM
I suspect that Obama's big hug and proclamation of friendship with Kwame Kilpatrick was more political expedience than truth, but it makes for some great attack ads as noted here. While Kilpatrick is definitely an unsavory character and putting a big hug on him strong evidence of poor judgment, Bill Ayers is ten times worse and a much closer friend of Obama.
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Gee, I wonder why she changed her attitude towards a bi-partisan investigation?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:41:57 PM
One of the emerging slaps at Sarah Palin showed up on Politico. The current accus-question is why she has retained a lawyer and is seeking a change in who will investigate whether she overstepped her bounds in the firing of her former brother-in-law. Gee, what may have changed that would have her no longer be content with a bi-partisan committee of Alaska state legislators looking into it? Maybe it was that she knew she would get fair treatment from the Democrats on the committee when it was something nobody outside of Alaska, and few people within it, cared about. Now that every part of the national Democratic machine and every MSM “investigative” reporter in the country will be pushing the Alaskan Democrats whose phone calls they would not have even returned prior to this to find and leak some dirt on Palin, it needs to be handled differently. Understanding how things like this need to be dealt with differently when the situation changes is, of course, above the pay grade of Democrats and the MSM. That Sarah Barracuda understands is one more bit of evidence that leading is not above her pay grade.
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Confessions of a Midnight Crop Duster

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:00:57 AM
OK, I admit it. I take my crop duster out late at night and spray insecticide on organic farms.
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