Posted on 02/24/2010 12:38:07 PM PST by Kieri
(WXYZ) - The FBI is confirming raids at the offices of three Michigan auto suppliers who do work for Toyota.
Search warrants were served Tuesday evening at Yazaki North America, DENSO International and Tokai Rika. Yazaki sells electronic components and DENSO makes accelerator pedals.
Denso has released the following statement about the situation "DENSO International America, Inc. (DIAM), U.S. subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, was inspected on February 23, 2010 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice in regard to U.S. antitrust laws. DIAM is cooperating with this investigation."
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Welcome to FR!
My 2001 Camry-CE (bought new) has close to 270,000 miles, and it is still is going strong! (No major repairs on it.)
My wife’s 2003 Sable had a major oil leak the day we drove it home from the dealers, so much for Ford’s QC!
But there were plenty of whispers and murmers all around town about how Obama blew it and also lack of trust in him OR his "snoring/daydreaming/napping" EOP/NSC team with him here in Japan (no kidding!!).
Sheesh. Somebody needs to read DALE CARNEGIE.
Obama-nomics ping. [More news to follow in response to this post.]
[Other topics in response to this post]
Obama-nomics Madness:
FDIC reports 27% jump in problem banks...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-report-27-percent-rb-3180263608.html?x=0&.v=1
” ... most economies around the world are again growing.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455228/posts
[But not in the US.]
Elizabeth Warren Introduces COP’s February Report (almost 3,000 more banks will collapse)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455798/posts
Cash for Convicts? [Stimulus checks for first degree murderers]
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/26044849/cash-for-convicts.htm
[Stimulus]
How Did John Stossel Get a Free Golf Cart From the Government ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585395,00.html
Frank Fires Shots Right & Left On Deficit (BLAMES Hussein? Still no Banking Queen investigation)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456497/posts
OUT THE BACK DOOR DALAI; DON’T SLIP ON THE GARBAGE...
http://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/96834730/AFP
[How pathetic of us. We, the US, land of the indebted, pushed around by China.]
‘GOVERNMENT MOTORS’ CEO Gets $9 Million Pay Package...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GM-CEO-Whitacre-receives-9M-apf-362235582.html?x=0&.v=5
Stealth Unionization (of home daycare providers in Michigan)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411601/posts
Toyota: Dems ‘not industry friendly’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456395/posts
“Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “activist” and “not industry friendly,” a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker’s top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall.” [snip]
Report: Taxes prop up ‘dying’ abortion industry
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125372
“70 years of Giving to the Po and they Still Po”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2455807/posts
Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure
http://www.infowars.com/frustrated-owner-bulldozes-home-ahead-of-foreclosure
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Obama-nomics Lite:
Olympic carbon offsets for dummies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456060/posts
Unsustainable Spending [Real Clear Politics]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456202/posts
A spectre is haunting Europe, and America — the spectre of Keynesianism finally gone nuts. ... Little things, such as the heart of the U.S. space program, are being gutted to make way for metastasizing social security entitlements and debt service payments that will soon swamp the entire federal budget — thus requiring the elimination of more little things such as the army, navy and air force. ...[snip]
Governors: Bad economies in states to worsen...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61J26V20100220
The Audacity Of Dishonesty: The One Year Anniversary of The Stimulus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456184/posts
[Obama-nomics] Oil above $80...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100222/D9E13JSG1.html
[ And who OWNS gas prices? I want gas prices at rock bottom! Drill-baby-drill! ]
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THUG-OCRACY
Obama’s ‘Chicago mafia’ blamed for paralysis...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7034910.ece
Homeland chief: Domestic extremism is top concern (1st Amendment about to be attacked?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456378/posts
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100221/D9E0R8H02.html
BUILDING OF HORRORS! Dozens Of Frozen Fetuses Found During Doctor’s Office Raid...
http://cbs3.com/local/West.Philadelphia.Dr.2.1512077.html
Sestak Scandal:
The Spectator is calling this a “Bombshell”, the reason being is that it’s Demcorats who are accusing the White House of offering jobs for favors.
“In the face of a White House denial, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak stuck to his story yesterday that the Obama administration offered him a “high-ranking” government post if he would not run against U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
February 19, 2010
[Link to Spectator article — fairly quick load]
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/22/specter-race-scandal-sestak-ac
Shady tie-in: Moveon.org, Soros, Oil, shady dealing, and Obama
JustPiper is concerned about a PRO-Obamacare march on DC. She mentioned ‘moveon.org’.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2437390/posts?page=675#675
MoveOn.org ... Soros.
Obama Helps Soros Drill For Oil In Brazil | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-helps-soros-drill-oil-in-brazil
Michelle Malkin » Obama, Soros, Petrobras, Brazil & offshore ...
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/19/obama-soros-petrobras-brazil-offshore-drilling-double-standards
Zero has chosen a very interesting law firm to represent him in certifigate:
Perkins Coie
http://yesbuthowever.com/perkins-coie-massachusetts-8136453
“The firm has successfully navigated close elections for Minnesota Senator Al Franken [recounted until it was ‘right’], Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and helped bend [break] election laws in New Jersey to benefit Senator Frank Lautenberg in 2002.”
Gordon Brown told: You must not abuse Downing Street staff
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252584/Gordon-Brown-told-You-abuse-Downing-Street-staff.html
[Brown is a class warfare leftist.]
Blasts from the past — our own Thug-ocracy
Stephanopoulos “All Too Human”. Clinton made him feel like a “battered wife”
Hillary Clinton — keep her away from ashtrays and Bibles.
Alec Baldwin — “Selfish little pig.” Called audience to stone Henry Hyde to death along with Hyde’s family.
Deadfish Rhambo Emanuel, A fish tale - Rahm Emanuel once mailed a dead fish to a pollster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2211485/posts
Kathleen Willey’s dead cat.
Betty Currie’s brother — beaten and later killed by TWO truck collisions.
IRS Audit of Paula Jones and many other targeted audits
David Cameron brands Brown’s class warfare “petty, spiteful and stupid... “
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2009/12/david-cameron-brands-browns-class-warfare-petty-spiteful-and-stupid.html
Kerry — made a joke about assassinating Vice President Quail: “Quail Hunting”
Bomb terrorist, Bill Ayers, and his army of intellectual supporters [friend of Obama].
Looking at their own short fuses, it’s no surprise they think people shouldn’t be trusted with guns.
Nor do they blame others:
Mirandizing terrorists, giving them special rights, pleased that only 20% of terrorists released from Gitmo return to terrorism, votes for prison inmates, amnesty for illegal aliens, etc.
Leftists believe that everyone is the same, neither good nor evil, just altered by our environment like turkeys pecking at marbles.
OK — getting off soap box.
Thug-ocracy Operative:
Romney’s Alleged Attacker was Los Angeles Rapper...
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/dpgonc-mitt-romney-alleged-attacker-was-rapper-sky-blu-fc-20100219_6163072
[In response to this, a quick look for the latest.]
Other news
Byrd: Keep the filibuster, but make ‘em talk . . . and talk . . . and talk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2458874/posts?page=4
[Sheets gave us another excuse to talk about his own filibuster against civil rights.]
ACORN’s fruits [not dead yet, just scrambling for new hiding places]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458122/posts
Greenspan: Recovery ‘extremely unbalanced’...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/100223/business_us_usa_greenspan.html?.v=3
America on Verge of Extinction: Address by Former U.S. Senator, POW, & Admiral, Jeremiah Denton
World Net Daily ^ | Feb. 17, 2010 | Jeremiah Denton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458119/posts
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125280
I’d rather just straighten up the US as a whole and let the rats cry about secession.
First Minoan Shipwreck: An unprecedented find off the coast of Crete
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2457922/posts
Canadian Premier on US health procedure: ‘This was my heart, my choice and my health’...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA
[Goes to Florida, not trusting Canada-Care.]
Dem Congressman Laughs Out Loud at Pledge of Allegiance Suggestion at SEIU Meeting (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457532/posts
Media Death Watch:
Massive Cuts at ABC News; 300-400 Positions to be Eliminated
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457691/posts
Loony Left:
Marion “Crackpipe” Barry apologizes (again...this time for giving girlfriend contract)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457704/posts
No raid of CTS, the American maker of the defective gas pedal assemblies?
I about threw up in my mouth when the guy from PA told the Mr. Toyoda that one day he will be able to look back and be honored that he testified before congress!!!!
The whole display was sickening!
Jim Rodgers moved his family to China, right? Soros’s ex-business partner Rodgers. Is this related to some China-Soros power play? Or just dumb-ass union thuggery?
By dumb-ass I mean they drill a hole in the bottom of the boat we ALL ride in.
we’re on about the Govt taking down comp and you are trying to justify that and that is why you are a troll.
Another Thug-ocracy outrage [along with other hot headlines added]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2458782/posts?page=12#12
NYT UNLOADS THE DIRT: Questions of Influence in Abuse Case of NY Gov. Aide...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/nyregion/25paterson.html?hp
‘Choked her, stripped her of much of her clothing, smashed her against a mirrored dresser’...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/nyregion/25paterson.html?hp
You and I may have been taught in drivers ed how to handle a runaway car — I know I was, in high school driver’s ed. That included, in not the last resort, turning the ignition key off. The last resorts after that were throwing the automatic transmission into PARK, and then into REVERSE, the last with the intent of blowing the transmission out. And the final resort was a planned crash.
Well, in some cars, in a panic situation, turning the key causes a person to turn and pull it out in automatic learned reaction, and can lock the steering wheel. Depends on the car. And as cars become more and more fly by wire — the shifter is not directly mechanically linked to the gearing in the transmission — there are electronic and hydraulic logic intermediaries.
The solution, I think, is to include that which race car drivers have as standard — a battery or ignition circuit interrupter, a kill switch, located in a place a driver can reach it, but is not at all likely to be accidentally thrown.
Thanks AiT for the detailed response. Still, it doesn’t make sense to me. If you look at the Dunham’s in Hawaii in the 1960’s and 1970’s you see a lot of red Japanese in their inner circle. Maybe there’s some event in Barry’s live as yet unreported related to some personal rejection by Japanese ex-pats.
Just like CBS did on Audi, and ABC did on Toyota, NBC hired some quack involved with plaintiff trial lawyers to rig a test. In this case, it was a crash test of a pickup with rocket motors strapped to the gas tank. NBC lied and said the truck had been scrapped. GM hired an investigator who tracked the truck down, with rockets still strapped to it. GM sued NBC for defamation and pulled its advertising. NBC read a a long, on-air apology.
And now you know why the news media has always run down GM.
Then I'll drive a Honda.
“Correct. Static friction is clearly stronger than sliding friction.”
Or put another way. Static friction is always higher than dynamic friction.
I had not heard that story. Thanks for telling me. NBC, once a great broadcasting company, produces nothing but partisan, yellow journalism. They are despicable, and it’s sickening that other media closed ranks behind them and blackballed GM, not that I care about GM now. Their caving in to the UAW several years ago sealed their fate and lost my respect. They, too, were once a great company.
Our ‘government’ is easily despised!
No, not quite right.
The truck was stationary and a Estes like rocket motor was buried in the dirt below the trucks side mounted gas tank. A car was remotely driven into the side of the truck.
In slow motion video you could clearly see the rocket engine ignite - flames shooting upward from the ground.
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