Fearless on my breath...

Ok this I have to share:

A Ford dealer angered over the proposed bailout of U.S. automakers blames the nation's sour economy on Congress and criticized buyers of Japanese cars, calling the vehicles "rice ready ... not road ready" in a radio ad.

O.C. Welch, who owns a dealership near Savannah in Hardeeville, S.C., began airing the minute-long ad on a dozen stations in the area over the weekend....

The car dealer, though, said Tuesday he had received more positive calls than negative ones. His dealership sold 15 new cars Saturday -- half of them to people drawn to the lot by the ad, he said....

I recognize that when times are tough people get scared and angry and profoundly, profoundly dumb. So some bigoted moron at a Ford dealership made a stupid commercial that some equally moronic people seemingly approved of...big deal, right? Thing is I think this is only the tip of the iceberg and that we're going to start seeing some serious and vicious racial hatred bubbling up to the surface over the next few years. Especially when the disenfranchised finally see just how screwed over they were by their Republican overlords and cast about desperately for some scapegoat they can put the blame on...and possibly beat the stuffing out of.

But beyond that can I just say that the reason people aren't buying Fords is that they are some of the biggest piece of crap automobiles on the road today?

Seriously, my first car was an '87 Escort and a month off the lot the transmission blew. I mean no warning, no accident, nothing, just no more transmission. I can't even begin to tell you how many hours of my life I wasted in car shops trying to keep the damn thing going. And let's not even discuss the money I spent.

But you know what? The Honda I've been driving for several years now needs no more than a routine oil change and purrs right along. I don't have to give it a second thought. And the miles per gallon I get on this thing are almost as good as a hybrid.

You wanna' know why people have turned away from American cars and happily embraced the Japanese models, that's it in a nut shell. While companies like Ford were happily building in planned obsolescence and racing to make the biggest, most bloated and fuel-guzzling vehicles they could, Japanese auto companies were doing the exact opposite. And that's why they're staying afloat while Ford is forced to go begging to Congress.

Did somebody forget to tell me that we now use religious affiliation quotas when it comes to governmental jobs? No? Hmm, perhaps they forgot to tell Mr. Romney:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters, given his position that "jihadism" is the principal foreign policy threat facing America today. He answered, "…based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration."

To which I can only reply, Article VI of the Constitution of the United States: "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

BTW, last I checked the Mormons weren't that much more plentiful than the Muslims in this country, and according to some surveys even less plentiful. Just sayin'...