Posted on 02/24/2010 12:38:07 PM PST by Kieri
You can shut the ignition off and keep turning the key downward to accessory or whatever it’s called and that keeps the steering working. It seems to me it has to be in park for the steering wheel to lock, but shutting the engine down to accessory and putting it in neutral should do the trick.
GM had no choice. Chrysler went first because the unions targeted them. GM fell because everyone thought they were too big to fail. Ford survived only because they mortgaged everything before credit disappeared. Ford is next.
It’s not a level playing field because our unions cannot control what happens in Japan, and because the states have resorted to economic warfare to get foreign automotive plants. This is no different than the tariffs states imposed on each other during the days before the Constitution.
Obama thinks he is fooling people into thinking he is leveling out the playing field. In reality, he is just paying off his trial lawyer buddies by waging economic warfare on Japan. It’s hamfisted and dangerous, considering China is selling our debt to Japan. Obama just has no idea what “friend” means - just look how he treated Poland over missle defense.
We handed a child the remote to the TV and now we are stuck watching Sesame Street. The entire world is waiting for his remaining three years to end.
I am curious why you make this assertion. I have seen pictures of the truck, which is one of the “exhibits” Harry Pearce refers to. I tried to find them on the net but have not. It has been a few years, but my very clear memory is that the motor was still visible on the truck.
And to pick at your nit, a car-to-truck “test” is still a test of the truck (and the car as well). But in my haste and sleepiness this morning, I should not have called it a test. It was a lie, a fabrication, a staged fantasy, a defamation. It was anything but a test.
The description most of the drivers give really do make it sound like some sort of computer glitch. Perhaps a spurious signal from a passing cell phone tower or some tv repair guy's two-way radio, a nearby garage door opener. Who knows, but it sure is scary!
It's a perfect scenario for high level corporate sabotage or just a single disgruntled employee. The most difficult thing in the world to pin down in a computer is the irregularly irregular glitch that strikes without warning and then doesn't show up again or a long time.
She got her 15 minutes in the limelight......and a chance to bias a jury in civil court.
Obama is working out the model for Government Health “Care”?
Jaded? Yeah, a bit as I was ticked. I had forgotten about Ford. I would buy a Ford, but the trucks are too big. I don’t care for the cars. It just seems like Toyota wants to do the right thing and the govt is piling on...could be my misperception as I lack perfection in all areas...
THE SCANDAL WAS EXPOSED ONLY BECAUSE FIREMEN FROM AVON AND BLOOMSBURG, Indiana, have more ethics than the NBC crowd. The firemen were called to the test site outside Indianapolis as a safety precaution, and they watched as the rocket motors were put under the gas tanks. Chief Andrew S. Burnett of Avon asked what was going on and was told that "they didn't want a tank rupture and no resultant fire." But was this fair? Someone replied that the procedure would be explained when the segment aired. During the tests, a fire truck was parked on the road just beyond the GM truck. A video camera mounted on its dashboard had a "head-on" view of the crash. The video showed a brief burst of flame upon impact, then a patch of grass burning alongside the truck for perhaps 15 seconds. In contrast to NBC's angle, which implied a fireball. the firemen's video showed how small and brief the fire actually was. When the segment aired, the firemen were surprised that NBC did not mention the rocket engines.
EVENTUALLY ONE OF THE FIREMEN READ A SKEPTICAL COLUMN ABOUT THE NBC segment written by Pete Pesterre, editor of Popular Hot Rodding, of Los Angeles. Pesterre had owned GM pickups and gone through a crash in one of them and simply did not believe what NBC reported. The fireman called Pesterre and told him how the tests had been rigged; Pesterre called GM, and in due course GM lawyers scoured Indianapolis junkyards and found the four test vehicles. A rocket motor was still on one of the trucks, held in place by duct tape. The "burned" vehicle proved to have only minor paint blistering on one door. The lawyers also obtained the firemen's tell-tale tape and statements about how the test crew overfilled the gas tank on the test truck, and proof that the gas cap was defective. GM asked NBC for a retraction but said nothing publicly. When NBC refused, GM made its evidence public during a two-hour press conference during which general counsel Harry Pearce, announcing that GM was suing NBC, said he would be happy to have an Indiana jury judge NBC's ethics. NBC retracted the next day.
http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1993/03a.html
This highlights the difficulty in investigating car crashes - no independent tape, no independent eyewitnesses. And in jurisdictions owned by the plaintiffs' lawyers like John Edwards and others, no honest cops or firemen standing by to do the right thing - they are often volunteers, who get paid for alerting the lawyers to a good case.
I agree with your assessment.
I just assume we are being monitored and occaisionally address them directly. Yes, boys of the FBI,CIA,NSA, (and the owners of chinese resturants)...I’m talking about you. I do thank you for your service and commiserate with you regarding the bosses you currently are working for.
I figure my life is open book and there is nothing they couldn’t do to destroy my life if they wanted to so better to relax and let God judge or not judge the matter. That’s why I use my real name in my posts...they can track my IP anyway! Better to be a proud patriot openly, and work to change the evils of society peacefully in order to try to avert what may become open conflict. The alternative would destroy us all.
The Obama-nomics debate is reaching critical mass:
” ... most economies around the world are again growing.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455228/posts
[But not in the US.]
As for this raid, just imagine if all US cars are made by unions. Look at union-run Greece. If Toyota is crushed and only unions are left to build US cars, we’ll be Greece ...
Strike Paralyzes Greece
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240004575084853361540506.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_world
Greenspan: Recovery ‘extremely unbalanced’...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/100223/business_us_usa_greenspan.html?.v=3
Toyota: Dems ‘not industry friendly’ [This BEFORE the FBI raid]
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]
Freddie Mac likely to need more cash support
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2458857/posts
FDIC reports 27% jump in problem banks...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Regulators-report-27-percent-rb-3180263608.html?x=0&.v=1
Thought you guys might be interested in the “big picture” view provided in post 473. FRegards ....
Elizabeth Warren Introduces COP’s February Report (almost 3,000 more banks will collapse)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455798/posts
FreddieMac will finish us off, if nothing else does.
Stuart Barney [sic?], an economics reporter, has said twice on Hannity [radio], that a million census workers will be laid off this summer. Until then, we will be artificially propped up through debt-based spending.
For a review of Fannie/Freddie leading to economic meltdown:
The Timeline Project / Link List of Bailout History
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093845/posts
So the scam is this: Under-employed people ( intentionally or not) get hired by the census. Get whatever the census pays. Get laid off. Collect unemployment for almost TWO years.
Am I missing something here?
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