Let us take a moment to review the indisputable facts of the Toyota sticking fuel pedal debacle. Toyota is a generally agreeable company, without a history of moral or ethical controversy. Toyota, probably more so than most companies due to its Japanese heritage, is a company that takes pride in its product. Toyota is a company that strives to be better than the competition- and one of the most important components of this is to provide safe, reliable vehicles. Finally, the United States government DOES NOT own the controlling shares of the Toyota Motor Corporation.
Nobody likes to hear about vehicle defects that lead to accidents, injuries or deaths. It is however, an assumed risk you take any time you step into a vehicle. In fact, in your average year in America, more than 40,000 people die in car accidents. Many of these accidents are results of flawed vehicle design, manufacturing, or improper maintenance. There are no guarantees when you climb behind the wheel of a car. This is the way it always has been and this is the way it always will be. After all, it is people make vehicles, people who design vehicles, people who fix vehicles and people who operate vehicles. And people are flawed.
I would never go so far as to say that Toyota made no mistakes. Like any incident of the sort, there were steps that could have been taken to take quicker action or deploy further research. Toyota themselves have admitted this. But to demonize a company for a mistake they clearly wish hadn’t occurred is an overreaction indeed.
And to think for a moment that the fact the government owns General Motors- primal nemesis of Toyota, has nothing to do with the brashness and might of the media and government blitz on Toyota, threatens to break the deepest layer of naivete.
Toyota, you did exactly what any good, ethical car company should do in the event of the discovery of a vehicle defect. You stepped up and took the initiative BEFORE you were pressured by our sorry excuse for a federal government. You issued a nationwide recall, admitting your fault. You brought transparency to your company by offering insight on the specifics of the design defect and the plans for its’ fix. You apologized and you are making it right.
From BigGovernment
This is Andrew Breitbart spanking a few little piggies at CPAC. Using their own tactics against them. Giving the little piggies a message to take back to their bosses.
Have no doubt, this is what it will take to break the libs backs, and those of their lapdogs in the press. Be ready to do the same, be informed, have your facts straight, and never back down!
Consensus, defined by Webster
1 a : general agreement : unanimity <the consensus of their opinion, based on reports…from the border — John Hersey>
b : the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned <the consensus was to go ahead>
2 : group solidarity in sentiment and belief
Rightly or wrongly consensus seems to be an important thing here in the 21st century. With consensus you can scam the population of most of the developed countries on the planet into believing that somehow man is more powerful than the factors in the Universe that influence the Earth’s weather, like the Sun. This consensus proceeds from admitted falsified data that was used to “prove” a result that was pre-determined.
That “result”? That “man” (defined as being any white male of European descent, who has been successful in any way at raising the standard of living for a group of people above living in mud huts, and worshiping the Sun, Gaia, or any number of liberal constructs that create guilt) has the power to make the Earth hotter, therefore damning the rest of the planet to bake in Hell for all Eternity. And creating the stage for a takeover of the world economy by a group of people (insert your favorite shadow conspiracy here) that could not care less whether Earth warms or not.
When these “scientists” were caught with their collective pants down, due to some still unknown operative spreading a substantial package of e-mails, data, and other goodies to the new media, the denizens of the internet, who spread that data far and wide. Their response was to double down, denying they falsified data, saying that only “peer reviewed” science (consensus) counted. They even brought out their Chief Useful Idiot, Algore, to proclaim that “the science is settled”.
It didn’t work. Since then, the house of cards has been crumbling, and there has been much new information about how many tentacles of the scam have been revealed, and how far they reach. They go to NASA, different universities, and into the governments of the USA and the UK. The UN has always been at the center of the scam from the beginning, and that is a world wide problem to be dealt with.
Here at home, Cap and Tax at least at this time seems to be dead. There is an end run coming from the EPA, who would have to claim powers they clearly don’t have in order to try and further the ball given to them by Beloved Leader, who at this point has been pretty much stymied in his attempts to get his agenda to kill the energy industry, and plunge the country into further disarray.
If these scams continue, and they no doubt will, continuing work will be required to keep us safe from those would would take your right to have a comfortable existence, and keep the fruits of your labor.
There will be more musings coming.
Well, well, well. Another victory for us so called Global-Warming-Deniers in the battle on climate change. Professor Phil Jones, the man at the center of the climategate scandal, has once again come out back-pedaling. He has now stated that due to his messiness, he has ‘LOST’ crucial data that supported the infamous hockey-stick diagram. Additionally, he has made some other concessions surrounding the global warming debate- indicating that there has been no statistically significant warming for 15 years and that the warming trend of the middle ages was likely warmer than period of warmth in the 90’s.
I have a couple reactions to this bombshell . . .
1. I think when given all the data- when one plays this situation out in one’s mind- it is laughable to think that this data is lost as Jones has stated. The paperwork featuring the most crucial data on the scientific trends of global warming have simply disappeared. The same data that worked as the backbone for massive political legislation and expansion of powers in so many countries in the civilized world. The same data that’s supposed findings have led to changes in the lives of hundreds of millions of individuals. The data that has lead to the rise of Al Gore and his film, the data that has lead to government subsidized used vehicle destruction campaigns. The data that has given the EPA sweeping new powers as they take down the trucking industry by forcing new exhaust regulations. The data the has lead to further starvation and death in third world countries, due to aid-providing countries refusing to allow these people coal-burning power plant opportunities.
Gone. Whoops . . . Lost it. My bad, I’m just a messy person.
Give me a break. You mean to tell me that Mr. Messy was the only person with these climate data hard copies? Nobody else had copies of the same findings? It was never generated and saved on a computer? There were no backup files? Did they just appear out of thin air? Data has to come from somewhere. Hell I know the significance of backing up my largely unimportant files on my home PC. You mean to tell me a group of climate science professors had one single copy of this incriminating evidence and they left it with their admittedly messy unorganized colleague? And since when do messy people throw anything away? The reason messy people are messy is because they are afraid to get rid of anything because they might need it some day. You mean to tell me that of all the shit this guy kept stuffed in his office, the most important paperwork of all was the only thing he had managed to dispose of?
I think its offensive to expect us to believe this. Its disgusting that freedom of information requests to Mr. Jones are being denied based on this deduction that it must be lost.
It seems to me that Jones himself makes it quite obvious that this whole theory was based on a house of cards. He has essentially stated- ‘look, the information at question is gone- lost forever, oh and did I mention that global warming isn’t quite as bad as we thought it was- oh and I may have forgot to mention we don’t seem to have been warming since 1995.’ If that’s not a nice way of saying ‘WE MADE IT UP’ . . . then what is?
2. My second and much more brief consideration in this whole scenario lies on the media. So I picked this information up off of drudge, pulled from the UK’s Mail Online. Perhaps considered to be a slightly sensationalized publication. But regardless of this- Jones’ statements are clear enough to warrant major media coverage.
I predict that we won’t hear a word of this on the major network news. I understand this is an easy deduction to make, but considering the implications behind this revelation I can honestly say that they are doing a great injustice by simply overlooking this groundbreaking news.
But lets be honest- media is a business. And they are a business that continues to leach itself onto the going-green trend. And many networks are largely funded by allies of this enviro-socialist coup.
It is a sad world we live in when so much power is in the hands of so few individuals. Especially when these individuals create false crises in order to get what they want. We’re just another step closer to a one world government, a one-world currency and a universal carbon credit trading program. I just hope that by the time it comes to be, I will be an old man who has lead a long, satisfying life. A voice to my children and grandchildren who will need to lead the revolution.
So I did it. Went to my local precinct caucus, to see who and what we have on the ground for the mid term elections. I really didn’t know what to expect when walking in, being mid terms and all.
There were eight of us preset, folks from the neighborhood, none of whom I knew personally. It was an all walks of life crowd from a Teamster, to a retired grocery store manager, to regular working stiffs like me.
There were the bookkeeping things to be done, and elections of temporary positions for the evening, as well as permanent/semi-permanent positions as well.
Being a group of eight, everyone got a job, save the one guy who was going to be working on the census. I was elected to be the precinct secretary, which will last until the Senate District meeting coming up in March. Also, I am an alternate delegate to said event as well.
There was an chance to offer amendments to the party platform, which I will post in separate article.
I did manage to run into a brother of a guy I went to school with, and I am hoping to perhaps meet some others at the SD event coming up in March.
I will be breaking down some of the platform as I see it in the coming weeks, I do however, need to research some things more closely before I start commenting on them.
All in all, I had a fine time, and it was good to be in the presence of like-minded folks.

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