Joel's Rant

Call me crazy, as too many people do, but is there a conspiracy afoot?
 
Think about this.  Even though Toyota makes all kinds of its cars here in the United States, they do not hire UAW workers.  Only Ford, GM and Chrysler do that.  Since GM and Chrysler are owned by the Federal Government, getting Toyota to go out of business or at least be seriously damaged is in the government’s best interest.  Even more important, it’s in the UAW’s best interest.  And with about $40 billion in cash stashed away by Toyota management, its also in the trial lawyers best interest.  Since the UAW and other unions and the trial lawyers pretty much own Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party you can see the pieces of a puzzle coming together, no?
 
Isn’t it also interesting that for decades Toyota has been, by virtually everyone’s measure, the best car company in the world.  In this decade they have also become the biggest car company in the world.  Tens of millions of their vehicles are on the road.  But now, all of a sudden, here’s thousands of complaints about sticking gas pedals and other mechanical concerns outside the usual standard deviations.
 
What’s up with that?
 
Even that horrifying and tragic sounding testimony before Congress earlier this week had me thinking.  Here’s a woman, just a regular person, not a Navy SEAL or astronaut or someone used to extreme danger, who’s gas pedal gets stuck and she’s hurtling down the highway at literally 100 mph and about to crash at any moment yet she has the presence of mind to call her husband so she can hear his voice one last time.  That’s amazing.  At the same time that she’s attempting to take all kinds of safety maneuvers and frantically stop the car she decides to make a phone call. 
 
Something’s wrong with that story.  Obviously no one can challenge her veracity, but it doesn’t sound regular to me.

And then there were the hearing panels consisting of essentially self-appointed Washington safety lobbyists with a long history of serving trial lawyer interests.  You would have hoped that someone, anyone, from the Democrat Party, the party in control, would actually try to seek the truth rather then seek some sort of political gain.  Not a chance.
  
And what hearing can be complete without the ceremonial humiliating of the company CEO, making him come to Washington to grovel to the corrupt and disgusting Congressmen, a blatant attempt, by my reckoning, to humiliate him and ruin the Toyota brand.
 
Most kinds of accidents are caused by driver error rather than equipment failure or defect. Toward that end car makers are steadily bringing to market technology to save drivers from themselves.  Devices are now available to warn drivers when they’re drifting out of the lane or taking their eyes off the road, or when another vehicle is in their blind spot. Some cars will even cut engine power and apply the brakes when a crash seems imminent.  And now some cars will even parallel park the car for you. 
 
And yet the Toyota engineers, among the best auto engineers in the world, can’t really find or fix the problem?  They can’t duplicate the various scenarios or conditions that led to these acceleration complaints.  How is that possible?  Interesting, no?
 
Call me crazy, but I think the United States government is attempting to destroy this car company for the benefit of the UAW and the trial lawyers.  If Toyota employed UAW workers this story wouldn’t even be on page 1.
 
Instead this is what happens when the government invades the free enterprise economy of the United States.  And with Barack Obama and Democrats in charge there’s surely more to come.
 
And that’s all there is to it.
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704506104575083180509210638.html?mod=rss_Today’s_Most_Popular

As everyone knows, unless you just now arrived from Planet Krell, Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats and reluctant Republicans will meet tomorrow to talk about health care reform.
 
What BHO has done is propose his own outline for heath care reform (an 11-page document), in which he took both the House and Senate versions of the bill (totaling over 4500 pages) and melded them sort of together into one unified Democrat plan.
 
You need to know what’s in this Democrat plan.  The House bill, HR3200, has been detailed in the following video link below.  This is my gift to you. 
 
This is important stuff.  Unless you were age 21 during FDR’s New Deal, this is the single most important piece of legislation in all of our lifetimes, with far reaching impact on us, our children, grandchildren and all Americans for all-time. 
 
Regardless of where you stand on this issue you at least owe it to yourself to know what your president and lawmakers have in store for you if they get this passed.
 
Ignore this at your peril.
 
Watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
 
If you need to, check what you see in the video to the actual bill yourself:
 
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3200

We’re taking our country back on November 2, 2010.  Hope you can believe in…………..for sure.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZs8k4pJcyk

In his testimony before Congress some weeks ago, Eric Holder could not answer the question from Lindsey Graham, to wit: would Osama Bin Laden be provided Miranda rights if captured.  The Attorney General of the United States, and an agent of Barack Obama and the nations top law enforcement officer, replied that he didn’t know, that “it depended”.
 
Barack Obama and Eric Holder represent a sinister menace to the security and national defense of the United States.
 
Reading the link below, which provides counter information to everything Holder has stated to date, with facts and dates and precedents, should make blood shoot from your eyes.  If actual blood does not shoot, let me know.
 
http://article.nationalreview.com/424019/holder-on-holder/andrew-c-mccarthy

Did you know that as late as 1938 France and Great Britain were far more powerful than Germany?  At the time of the Munich disaster of “peace in our time” fame, either France or Great Britain alone could have kicked Germany’s butt had hostilities been declared.  Both of those countries had larger armies, formidable air forces, more tanks and heavy weapons and more experienced commanders with battlefield experience.

Unfortunately, both France and Great Britain did nothing to stop Germany, and by September 1, 1939 the balance of power had shifted, and the rest is history.  Very bad history, made all the worse by the fact that it all could have been prevented had those with power stood up earlier to their eventual adversary, who while talking trash and acting ultra-tough, was actually rather weak in comparison.

I love history.  You can learn so much, and even better, if you missed it on the first go-round you can catch it again later because it actually does repeat itself.  Just take a look at what’s happening with Iran today.  What are you willing to bet we’ll act in our own best interests while our eventual adversary is weak?  Hmmmmmmm, is that a bet you want to take?

In just the past two weeks Iran has taken the following steps:

• Launched a rocket carrying a small satellite into space. (Clearly their rocket is not yet capable of launching a nuclear weapon, but continuing to develop this working technology is their plan, no?),
• Completed an agreement with Russia for the delivery and installation of an advanced air defense system. (Yes, backstabbing our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic really got Russia to cooperate with us big-time.),
• Declared they have succeeded in enriching uranium to 19.75% purity, making the creation a nuclear bomb a foregone conclusion.  (Only the willfully blind, logarithmically stupid or leader of the free world could continue to hope this enrichment is for peaceful purposes.)

What has Barack Obama been doing in the meantime to mitigate these provocative acts?  Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  Oh yes, he did make a statement that tough sanctions will be necessary and blah, blah, blah……   Oh, and he did say he was happy to see Russia blah, blah, blah…….

This is nothing.  We’re France and Great Britain, looking on while knowing that a military confrontation is going to happen, but still taking no action.

But why should we care if Iran becomes a nuclear nation?  The Soviet Union was a nuclear nation and we lived with them, right?  So what’s the big deal?

The big deal is that it’s possible that Iran will not be contained the way the Soviet’s were.  The Soviet’s wanted to protect their populations.  The Soviet leaders liked the good life themselves and planned to live long and comfortable lives. 

Conversely, the Iranians are obsessed with death.  Their leaders have even made statements to the effect that death is what life’s all about.  They glory in death.  They recruit suicide bombers.  They advocate strapping bombs to children and sending them into crowded pizza restaurants, for crying out loud.  Here’s a glimpse of what could happen:

Remember when Saddam marched into Kuwait, thereby taking control of their oil fields and threatening the energy supplies of the free world?  Would we have taken those fields back and destroyed Saddam’s military if he’d had nuclear weapons?  What will the world be like if Iran has that nuclear prowess?  What kind of blackmail will they demand?

Other countries in the Middle East, like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan fear an Iranian hegemony.  If Iran goes nuclear, those countries will develop their own nuclear capabilities.  What kind of world will that be when every country in the Middle East is nuclear armed?  You think the Middle East is a dysfunctional tinderbox now?

Iran has at least two proxy “terrorist armies” in Hamas and Hezbollah.  What are the chances those barbarians will eventually become armed with nuclear weapons?  What about other terrorists like Al-Qaida and the Taliban?  Will they become nuclear armed?  What about outlaw countries like Venezuela and Syria and perhaps others?  Will they look to develop their own capabilities?

And what about Israel?  Iran has actually sworn to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.  Will the rest of the world stand by while a western democracy and ally of the United States is attacked with nuclear weapons?

In other words, the calculus of risk is hyper-inflated if these people are allowed to possess the most devastating and destructive weapons of all time.  While the scenario of a preemptive military strike is extraordinarily unattractive, the alternative is much less attractive, much worse and requires us to do what needs to be done.

We ignore this reality at our peril.

And that’s all there is to it.