November 27, 2018 The first mistake, the one that allowed all the others to be made, was letting Lee Iacocca...

November 27, 2018

The first mistake, the one that allowed all the others to be made, was letting Lee Iacocca, a superb Eye-Tie snake oil salesman, convince two administrations that if Chrysler went into the crapper, the world would end. And not with a whimper, but with a large bang.

Chrysler should have gotten one in each ear. Chaos in the market, which is why you have markets, isn’t it, would have been over shortly. GM and Ford would have filled the gap. Having let that window of opportunity close, we wound up with Government Motors financed by Mandarin money lenders 27 years late. r 

Chrysler never borrowed money from the American taxpayer. Rather, they had a loan guarantee from Sam. It enabled them to secure financing because their credit was worse than mine. [There aren’t enough months left in this millennium to bite into the $42,000,000 IRS-held chit. And that’s before penalties and interest.]

I’ll say this for Iacocca. He tried to get the Treasury to give back the warrants that were issued for the loan guarantee. Taking a shot doesn’t make you a bad guy. He had as much a chance of getting that past Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury, a combat Marine and head of Merrill Lynch, as dawn had of getting past a rooster.

“Fucking Jews” – A Somali man holding a Koran, symbolic of the more irenic elements of Islam, was heard to shout that as he was trying to mow down Jews exiting their shul. It is not known if he supports Trump.

Attention must be paid to Venus. It lies like low hanging fruit in the almost Southeast pre-dawn sky. But how can you mention Venus without mentioning Mars? Yesterday, after a 6-month trip, NASA landed a mini-lab on Mars. It is a tribute to American exceptionalism that the majority of work was done by the low bidder. I remember the glory days when we got to the Moon, and more importantly for the guys on the bus, and back cum recuerdos. No sense bitch slapping gravity unless you can come back and brag about it. Just like we did. It’s almost 50 years and there is still no race to see who will be #2. Maybe we should go back to show how easy it is.

It’s been several years since I asked the guardians of our freedoms at the Miami Herald and the Sun Sentinel to publish the Mohammed cartoons. Perhaps I was too quick and too acerbic when I pointed out that their modern American Liberal genetically induced caterwauling about “slippery slopes” and “chilling effects” seems to pause when it came to Islam. Let me paraphrase Orwell here. “All speech is free; some speech isn’t as free as other speech”. I used the example of “Piss Christ” to buttress my argument. “Piss Christ”, an example of taxpayer subsidized art, shows a vat of piss, and I don’t know if it is human or porcine, into which a crucifix is hung. And just think, Marcel Du Champ’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” caused a riot when it was first shown. It may have led to the Great War. Their silence is deafening. Perhaps Fascism, long familiar with a more enlightened and humanistic Europe, is coming to America. If so, it will be self-imposed. And, of course, it gives more credence to the legendary Big Mike from Bayonne who has been asking for decades why he never sees anybody swimming TO Cuba.

Does anyone else remember Sewell Avery? He ran a company called Montgomery Ward. There is a picture of him being carried out of his office. Still sitting in his chair, by several US Army regulars. It didn’t pay to piss off Harry Truman. [BTB, Montgomery Ward is a favorite of archaeologists who specialize in dead retailers. Too bad Sears and Lord & Taylor didn’t read the autopsy report]

President Kennedy told his kid brother Bobby to wake up J. Edgar Hoover and to have him send the FBI on a 3:00 AM raid on the home of Roger Blough, the CEO of US Steel. His “crime” was to raise the price of steel. Also, his father, Papa Joe, had told him that “businessmen were SOBs”. It didn’t pay to piss off JFK.

Now comes GM. It used to be known as General Motors but after we gave them enough money to end teenage bullying, lower everyone’s bad cholesterol, ban all GMO foods, and end the heartbreak of psoriasis, it is now known as Government Motors.

Modern American Liberals were quick to remind us during the Kavanaugh show trial that much weight must be given to stare decisis, except when it came to Plessy v Ferguson. If the past is prologue President Trump would be well within his rights to order an air strike, a few wings of A-10s would be enough to take out world HQ of GM in beautiful downtown Detroit. Besides, they’re used to gun fire. A dozen or so Apache helicopters would take care of any wounded stragglers.

The G20 is meeting in Argentina. That’s like a gaggle of hookers meeting for a novena in a French Knocking Shoppe. A word or two about Argentina: It is the birth place of Papa Francisco. His father was a successful businessman under Peron. That meant he knew of mordidas, of white envelopes followed by a wink or a nod from the inspector. And he’s telling us about business? Dulce nino Jesus! The boobies are running the hatch! But I digress. Argentina is a land blessed by God. On what the land and the sea provide it should be in the first row of nations. It is not. In almost 2 centuries of existence their only contribution to the Western canon has been the tango. And, truth be known, they stole that from the Eye-Ties. They will not be planning any Moon shots either.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – Late Breaking News! – The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of people over Mississippi dusky gopher frogs. One of the interesting contentions made by the government was that even though the friggin’ frog was never seen on the land so what ‘cuz it might show up later. T. Jefferson covered this in 1776 thus. “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Move over furbish lousewort and delhi smelt.