by Charley James
GM is touting the Chevy Volt as getting 230 miles per gallon. Big deal. Been there, done that, never had to buy gasoline.
This is a tale of what could have been done a half-century ago - and wasn’t - to save energy, save the planet and save billions of dollars.
In the late 1950s, [...]
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The New Volt And An Old Nash Rambler
Posted on 12 August 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: American Motors, Charley James, Chevy Volt, George Romney, GM, Nash Rambler
The Week+ in Political Limericks
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 9/11 Sympathizers, Al Qaeda, Alternate Reality, Automobiles, bankruptcy, Bilingual Education, Blame, Cars, democrats, Dick Polman, economy, Finance, FOX News, General Motors, GM, GOP, Immigrants, Judiciary Satire, Krauthammer, Latina, Law Satire, Leonard Bernstein, lies, Liz Cheney, Maria, Mark Krikorian, Media, Media Lies, Mike Huckabee, money, Names, National Review, news, Newt Gingrich, obama, Obama Nominees, Pronunciation, racism, Republicans Humor, Sean Hannity, smears, Song Parody, Sonia Sotomayor, Speaker, Supreme Court, Talk Show Hosts, Terrorism, Twitter, Values
by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]
Motor City Madness: NCAA Tourney & $18,000 Homes
Posted on 30 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $18000 Homes, $2000 less than my parents paid for a 3-bedroom home in, auto bailout, average home price of just $18000, campaign war-chests of the Congressional leaders, Chairman Rick Wagoner, Chrysler merge with Italian automaker Fiat, Connecticut, Detroit, Final Four, GM, House Financial Services Committee, Michigan State, Motor City Madness, NBC, NCAA Tourney, Political Action Committee funds of senior managers, Pontiac, Pontiac Silver Dome, President Obama bracket favourite North Carolina, regulating it and dealing out TARP funds, TARP, tone-deaf, Troubled Asset Relief Program, US Treasury Department, Villanova
DETROIT March Madness. Win or go home. It’s that simple. 65 teams started two weeks ago. 4 remain and the financially battered city of Detroit will host one of its own (Michigan State) plus Connecticut, Villanova and perennial (and President Obama bracket) favourite North Carolina to play next weekend and determine the national champion of [...]
Don’t Take the Deal Senator
Posted on 04 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: a business worth $3 billion dollars, and for us to trust them that after dozens of years of, annual salary of just $1, asking Congress for a bailout of $15 billion, be allowed to keep present management in place, Big Three automaker chiefs, Denis Campbell, do away with executive perks, Don’t Take the Deal Congressman, give them a chance, GM, golf in clubs around the world, great group of guys, Here’s when and how you get my attention, invented the term living large, it’s not changing the metaphor, Joseph Campbell famously wrote you cannot change unless, learned their lesson and drove to Washington in hybrids, men’s men, no acquisitions or new business lines opened unless and, Not enough, take large dealers on fancy junkets, Tell me you are shutting down modernising re-tooling ev, the one’s who created this fiasco, they now know how to get it right, they’ll also sell the corporate jet, This is window dressing, tighten their lifestyle belts, we saved 34 million dollars, we'll own 49% of your company’s shares. That means all, You get a big new business partner the US Govt
By Denis Campbell
GM, a business now worth $3 billion dollars, is asking Congress for a bailout of $15 billion, be allowed to keep present management in place – the one’s who created this fiasco and for us to trust them that after dozens of years of getting it so very, very arrogantly wrong, they now [...]
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