GE Continues to Journey with Obama into Facism

Facism - the joining of corporate and government interests. State controlled economy. Hmmm.

More rent seeking by GE. GE has now hired Linda Daschle as a lobbyist. Linda Daschle is the wife of Tom Daschle, the former Senate Majority Leader and Obama's first pick as HHS Secretary. GE was one of Obama's top 20 sources of corporate funds in 2008.

Great comments at the link. Such as this one from someone named Rick Caird: "GE has become the perfect example of a so called capitalistic company engaging in pure rent seeking. They want Congressional subsidies for things like wind mills and others of their product lines. You mention MSNBC as being heavily skewed left, but we also see John Harwood at NBC who needs to get a room every time he talks about Obama. Then, there is the censoring at CNBC. Dylan Rattigan is gone after a rant on the government funded payouts by AIG to the the likes of Goldman and foreign banks. Santelli has been muzzled after his rant suggesting tea parties. GE is a prime example of a rent seeking company that should not be allowed to own media companies to pursue its rent seeking. Rick"

Sundae, Bloody Sundae

While demonstrators in Tehran are gunned down by the forces of the "Supreme Leader", Obama ponders his most important decision of the day (Sunday, June 21st, 2009)

"I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away!

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long?
How long?

‘Cause tonight…we can be as one
Tonight…
Broken bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end streets
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts back up against the wall!"
-U2

Obama Got His 3am Phone Call

And the phone was off the hook. Or maybe he just voted present. Just a few short weeks after extending an open hand to the oppressive regime in Iran, Obama's 3am phone call came in the form of a stolen election there. Did his administration issue a statement supporting democracy? Supporting the people in the streets? No. So, then, it must have accepted the legitimacy of the elections. Well, it didn't do that either. It just voted "present."

GE enables Obama's Journey into Statism

Americas journey into statism is being led by GE, the conglomerate that has its own huge media arm. GE is using its media might to stifle criticism of its industrial policies, while at the same time using its media power to promote Obama administration policies that will directly benefit GE, such as government-managed healthcare, cap-and-trade, and other energy mandates.

Read the history of facsism and you will see that this sort of progressive government/corporate collaboration was the cornerstone of those systems (which were leftist systems that used corporations to their benefit as opposed to communism that dissolved corporations).

See this link to see what GE and Jeff Immelt have been up to lately.

Look at What Obama's Stimulus Has Gotten Us So Far

Innocent Bystanders has been tracking actual unemployment data against the promises the Obama administration made when they justified the stimulus package. Remember, Congress had to pass it so quickly they had no time to read it. It was a crisis. Yeah, right.

No More Apologies

From Michael Ramirez

Obama the Marxist

I'm going to start a series of posts showing how Obama and his administration are using Marxist tactics to create a new form of liberal facism before our very eyes.

Exhibit 1.  A blog has been set up to analyze the political donations of the Chrysler dealerships that have been selected for closure.  No one that I have seen has been able to come up with any sort of business rationale, nor has the corporation or government (they are the same at this point in time) come out with a rationale, for which dealerships were selected to be closed.  Some on the closure list are very profitable.  Others are not.  Some selected to remain open are money losers, some are not.

But look at the list of where the owners of the closed dealerships donated their money.  It all went either to the Republican party, Republican candidates, or to Democratic rivals of Obama's.

Summary from the first five pages of closings (from gatewaypundit via the original blog I cited):

During the 2008 Presidential Election, they gave:

$7,150 to John McCain
$2,300 to Gov. Mitt Romney
$500 to Gov. Mike Huckabee
$1,950 to Sen. Hillary Clinton
$0 to Pres. Obama

Where there is smoke, there is fire.  More to come.

The Duckies are in Oprah Magazine!

Check it out! The Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies made the online version of Oprah Magazine.

Great Honda Insight Review from Jeremy Clarkson

I did a lot of research into hybrid technologies while working at GE's Global Research Center. They have potential in applications that involve lots of starts and stops, such as delivery vans. But I always laugh when I see a granola-muncher driving a Prius at 60mph on the freeway. All they are doing is hauling 400lbs of batteries around with an undersized gasoline engine.

Check out this Times of London review of the Honda Insight by Jeremy Clarkson of the BBC's Top Gear. Funny stuff.

Awkward Family Photos

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