Movie: Air Force One

Honestly? I’ve got nothing today. I’ve already talked about the Auto Industry News. Although, the news of the outgoing C.E.O. getting a nice severance package, was a bit of s shock. But it is , what it is…

I finally went back over and checked out Hulu.com. Holy hell. That place has grown since it first started.

Anyhow, enough of the babbling… here’s an awesome movie about Air Force One. The President’s Plane:

President Barack Obama asks G.M. CEO Rick Wagoner to resign

Full disclosure: My Father is a Retired G.M. Employee and a member of the United Auto Workers.

I have known about this for a while. I’ve just been waiting for as much info as I could get, before doing a post on it.

Originally Via the Politico:

The Obama administration asked Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, to step down and he agreed, a White House official said.

On Monday, President Barack Obama is to unveil his plans for the auto industry, including a response to a request for additional funds by GM and Chrysler. The plan is based on recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, headed by the Treasury Department.

The White House confirmed Wagoner was leaving at the government’s behest after The Associated Press reported his immediate departure, without giving a reason.

General Motors issued a vague statement Sunday night that did not officially confirm Wagoner’s departure.

“We are anticipating an announcement soon from the Administration regarding the restructuring of the U.S. auto industry. We continue to work closely with members of the Task Force and it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the content of any announcement,” the company said.

The surprise announcement about the classically iconic American corporation is perhaps the most vivid sign yet of the tectonic change in the relationship between business and government in this era of subsidies and bailouts.

Reaction from the Conservative Blogsophere has been predictable negative. Also I have observed via the local media, that some auto workers are not happy about the President asking a C.E.O. to resign.

I have an opinion on this. It is simply this. I want to wait and see what happens. I do not want to pass judgment upon this until I see what is going to happen. This could be a bad thing and then again, it could be a very good thing. I shall, like many from this God-Forsaken part of the Country are playing the wait and see game.

Reaction to this from the Editorial board of the The Detroit Free Press is not a good one:

The risk was there from the start.

The federal money flowing to Detroit to help struggling automakers was always going to come with strings.

But there’s a fine line between holding General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC accountable for a pile of taxpayer cash and inappropriate government efforts to actually run the companies.

President Barack Obama’s Auto Task Force may have crossed that line over the weekend when it reportedly asked for GM Chairman Rick Wagoner’s resignation as part of a plan to get more aid to the struggling automaker.

It’s hard to see how canning the chief executive is far shy of actually running the company. And if that’s the case, if GM’s federal overseers are stepping up their efforts to actually manage GM through its restructuring, this sets an awful precedent, both on general principle and in this particular instance.

The principle at stake says government shouldn’t manage private businesses. GM has a board of directors that, no matter its many mistakes, is accountable for the company’s fate. The government should ensure the board doesn’t squander taxpayer funds, but that doesn’t include selecting the company’s leadership.

It didn’t for banks, mortgage companies or insurance outfits like AIG. Why should GM be treated differently?

Something tells me that there is going to be a huge blow back from this and it might just cost Obama a reelection, should be try and run in 2012.

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Seriously…. Why do Conservatives do stupid stuff like this?

I was over on Memeorandum and I saw this story here. It’s about the torture or as the Wilsonian Neo-Cons call it, “Enhanced Interrogation”.

Anyhow, I’m reading the Blog reactions and I saw this crap here on Sweetness & Light, which is run by an old friend of Ann Coulter’s.

The Stupid Quote of the Day:

Once again we have a string of wild assertions made by the Washington Post via some “anonymous officials” and unrevealed “documents.”

Of course we are supposed to believe these anonymous sources over Mr. Zubaida’s own claims. (The Post helpfully notes that he has memory problems, due to a head wound.)

We are even supposed to believe these claims over the anonymous assertions by other government officials.

But obviously this is just the Post once again beating the drum for show trials about the (entirely legal and ethical) interrogation of terrorists.

It really is too bad that the terrorists Flight 77 hit the Pentagon instead of, say, 15th Street.

That last part is what bugs the living hell out of me. Who in the hell in their right mind would wish death or even a terrorist attack on another American Citizen?!?!?!? Seriously!

Dude, I don’t remember your name, but I have talked to you in e-mail before. I don’t know if that was your rather piss poor attempt at snark or what. But any of us, no matter what end of the political spectrum we’re on should never engage in this wishing of someone’s demise. Ever.  It is uncalled for and it is wrong and I think someone owes the rest of American an apology.

I am no fan of the Socialistic agenda of President Barak Obama or the liberal media that is in the tank for him. But this sort of nonsense is totally uncalled for. It is wrong with the left does it and it very wrong, hypocritical and totally asinine when the right does it.

I am all for the furtherance of the political discourse in America, I am for being the loyal opposition in America, but the continual inference to violence towards those who are in disagreement with us is totally and unequivocally uncalled for. This is not the way to further the message of the Conservative movement and it is not a way to sell our message to the American people.  We are a civilized Nation; of whom peaceful disagreement occurs. This sort of nonsense here, makes the Conservatives look no better than say, Al-Qeada themselves. It needs to stop!

The owner of Sweetness & Light needs to apologize, rework the posting or he needs to shut that idiotic blog down and go the hell away.

Color me among those that say this posting does NOT speak for me!

Once again….. I am agreeing with Ed Morrissey

Me and Ed have had our disagreements in the past. In fact, he outright pissed me off once. But this time, I’m agreeing with the bald headed little twerp. 😉 😛 😀

He is, by the way, referring to this bunch of idiotic stupidity here. Only reason I’m linking to it, is so people will know what I am talking about.

Sometimes news people and people in general, can be such lowlife scum.

….and to the idiots in the comments section over at HotAir.com, you idiots had better thank your lucky stars that *I* don’t run the comment moderation over there. Because ALL of your sorry asses would be banned for the crap you’ve been pulling over there, as of late. That stupid Sarah Palin argument is so non-sequitur. Palin’s Daughter was prego and Mom tried to cover it up and it came back to bite her.

This is different, this young lady is not even in politics and they’re trying to use Her to smear Biden and it’s wrong. Period, end of story, don’t fucking come here and try to argue, else I will ban your ass from even viewing this Blog. 😡

I’ve said this before, and I will say it again; Politics sometimes is nothing more than a damn sewer. 🙁

Update: A big thanks to Memeorandum for the link in! I guess I’m not banned from there after all. 😛

The 4:00 AM Music Club Presents……. Jimi Hendrix

I have always said that everything in this existence that we call life, can be usually summed up in a song. This is one of those songs that just sums my whole personality up.

Politics is one thing, my real life is another…..

I was down the street, hanging out with a couple friends that I’ve known for years. Matt and I are alike in a few ways, but in other we’re quite different. He’s got a woman, the poor fool. 😆  Me, I’m the carefree one, don’t like some…um, bitch chick telling me what to do, tied down, you know me, always the rebel.

I’ve always said I was either a stinkin’ hippy or a biker dude from the 1950’s born in the wrong stinkin’ era.

Anyhow, enjoy. This is “Highway Chile” (and if you pronounce that “Chili” you so do not get it…) (It’s pronounced CHILD without the “D”.)

An excerpt from a book about Hendrix

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