Osama bin Laden: still dead........ General Motors: committing suicide

Here's a math problem for you:

Overall cost to manufacture a Chevy Volt:    $70,000

Retail Price on a Chevy Volt---------------:     $40,000

Current cost with new discount------------:     $30,000

AMOUNT LOSS ON EACH CAR-------:     $40,000

Number of Chevy Volts sold in August '12:    2,800

Loss to General Motors based on the above:  $112,000,000

The math question is as follows:

What kind of troglodytical moron runs a company in which the sale of each product results in a loss of more than half of the total manufacturing cost and considers a loss of $112,000,000 in one month a good sign? 


General Motors still owes the US Taxpayer $42 Billion.    Kiss it goodbye.  It's never going to be repaid if this is how they continue to do business. 

A Non-Muslim Riot

Up to 600 riot police were deployed.

A party invitation which went viral on Facebook ended in rioting and injury after thousands of revellers descended on a small town in the Netherlands.

Haren had been braced for trouble all week after what should have been an invite to a small-scale celebration was passed on to 30,000 people.

The girl whose 16th birthday was being celebrated had not set her Facebook event to "private."

Riot police broke up crowds of revellers who flocked to the town.

The girl who issued the invitation fled her home in Haren, a town of just under 19,000 near the city of Groningen, on Friday.
 

I think this is interesting news.  It's about a riot that didn't involve Muslim Rage, and therefore, unique.   Also, there were no cartoons or YouTube videos involved....or deaths.

It's That Time of Year--- OKTOBERFEST

 

I've never understood why Oktoberfest took place in September, but that's not important.  I have had the pleasure of participating in this annual event.  I've witnessed beautiful Italian lady tourists having their heads shaved while they were passed out in a puddle of drool.  I've spent 10 hour days bouncing from one brewer's tent to the next.  I, quite possibly, had more fun in that week than all the following years combined.  And, the year I was there (1989) I couldn't help noticing all the travelers coming in from the Easter Bloc through Hungary, and deciding on an ABSOLUTE CELEBRATION upon reaching Munich's most famous party.

 

The Berlin Wall came down weeks later, and the party was just warming up.  What I recall that resonates now is that while I was in Munich I read in the paper (and saw on TV) that Gorbachev was in Berlin making a speech.  It was your typical political speech in a way.  In a way, it was not.  For the first time, publicly, hecklers were really letting him have it from the peanut gallery.  They were shouting, yelling, and making themselves heard.  This just was not done to the Soviet Leader.  Yet, they didn't seem to be afraid.  Weeks later, we found out why.

The UK Guardian...and the Mohammad Toons

The Guardian (UK) has a poll up that reads thusly:

Are Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the prophet Muhammad a necessary stand for free speech or a pointless provocation?
 

Free Speech

Provocation
 

I find it downright amusing that The Guardian is asking this question.  It's amusing (and disgusting) in the fact that they refuse to print these cartoons, but are asking their readers to form an opinion as to whether they are free speech or provocation.

Quite simply, if they were really interested (or even a relevant media outlet) they would present the item to which the poll applies so that the reading public could provide an informed opinion.  Ah, but they don't want to offend the delicate sensibilities of a religious faith.

Incidentally, it is indeed free speech.   There is no need for a poll.  And, here's a little article on the issue, and the managing editor of the magazine in question.  The editor, who calls himself,  Charb says all the right things, as far as I'm concerned.  While he does that, Muslims across France (and the globe) prove once again that Islam is the religion of victimization.  They are either creating victims or becoming one themselves.

Justice... Democrat Politician Style

WASHINGTON -- California Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters will not be charged with ethics violations.

At a meeting Friday, House Ethics Committee members said they found no violations in their investigation of allegations she steered a $12 million federal bailout to a bank where her husband owns stock. Waters is a senior Democrat on the Financial Services Committee.

The committee, however, said Waters' chief of staff, Mikael Moore, did take actions in Congress in an attempt to help the bank and violated standards of conduct. Moore likely will receive a letter admonishing him for his conduct. but will not face more severe punishment, such as a reprimand, by the full House.
 

Shocking!!!  No...not really.  There are different laws, these days, for politicians.  Additionally, there are even more different laws these days for black politicians.  Just ask Charley "free as a bird despite breaking the law" Rangel. 

Maxine Waters' chief of staff is going to get a nasty letter.  Gosh...that's going to leave a mark. 

Is There a Disclaimer in the Attorney General's Job Description?

Via CBS News:

AG Holder cleared in Justice gunwalking probe
 

Also, via the same article at CBS News:

 The inspector general found fault with the work of the senior ATF leadership, the ATF staff and U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix and senior officials of Justice's criminal division in Washington. He also said that poor internal information-gathering and drafting at Justice and ATF caused the department to initially misinform Congress about Fast and Furious.
 

So, since the Attorney General heads and oversees the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice screwed the pooch...how is Attorney General Holder cleared of that incompetence?  He must have a disclaimer in his job description.  Good thing they never applied Sarbanes Oxley (2002) to goverment offices.

Rand Paul: ‘I think the election is over. I think that Romney has already won’

Yeah...me too.