Ok, this Judge is PAID OFF OR CORRUPT!  I don't care if he has years of experience and was the judge on the MCI/Worldcom bankruptcy case.  Here are the key quotes from the story at the story linked to the pic below.

 

"Absent a car manufacturing business, the dealerships would not seem to serve any purpose for the debtor," Gonzalez said, but added there may be a case for the dealers to pursue damages.

 

At Thursday's hearings, dealers from New York and Florida testified about the relative strength of their businesses in an attempt to show Chrysler was not closing its weakest locations. 

As your acquaintences talk of the Chrysler and GM financial extortions, please remind them that Ford is off the radar because they are profitable. Many will wrongly blame GM for all fault here. GM had a bigger budget and per capita profit prior to this than Ford.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ford-profit-target-on-track-rb-15244624.html

Correct people who make sweeping statements like "the future of the US auto industry". They have not done their homework. GM and Chrysler are being prevented from importing their smaller cars and they are being forced to retool their factories toward smaller cars. Ford's biggest market has been trucks. Farmers love the F-150 and F-250 models. Furthermore Ford has many law enforcement contracts (most I have seen have been FORD).

Bottom line, Obama will push GM out of the big car market and strive to do the same for everyone via CAFE standards. Until the CAFE standards kick in by 2016, you can suggest to your discouraged church trip drivers and big families that they will likely have to seek a Ford van or Escalade to replace that Chevy Suburban or GM van in the coming years.

In the end, Chrysler will be forced to merge with GM and both will be blamed by the thug in Chief who caused it. Your friends will be happy to have met their needs without coming in contact with this fiasco and the time and cost it will take to become profitable again after he is gone.

Bottom line here folks is that real pain is coming and you will have opportunities with news and market limitations to preach of free markets and a free country.  This is not too political.  We have come face to face with idea of health inspectors showing up at a church banquet or fundraiser near you. Also nonprofit status for churches has been questioned in the past in our hard times. After all, we can't afford any cuts in government payoffs--OOPS--services can we? Where is the publication or news conference on where the trillions have gone, especially TARP?

I plead with you help your great and spacious building acquaintences understand that their poster boy lacks the cool factor they feed on. I believe Ford is our best posterchild for this. We will be ready for a comeback starting next spring after tax sticker shock, but this FASCIST thug and his quarter flipping flankmen will never sit before a hearing of any kind until we chip away at his cult following. I am so sick of people ignoring the numbers and the freedom to ride his wave without thinking about where it is going.

This is the "focus of Evil in the modern world" that Reagan spoke of.

-JimJ

According to Jan Crawford Greenburg, the Legal Correspondant for ABC News, the left may have no recourse in attempting prosecutions of Bush Whitehouse lawyers who drafted the now famous "Torture Memos".  They were within the law in what they did, so they Obama legal team and legal enemy teams are looking for ethics complaints to the Bar Associations in states where these two have law licenses.  The problem is that the enemies of Bush and so called torture have waited beyond complaint deadlines to file ethics complaints.

You can read Ms. Greenburg's article on the latest Obama team botched legal initiative by clicking on her pic below from her page.



Didn't the Obama team just screw up Ted Steevens prosecution and trigger an investigation of proscuters just a few days ago?  Click on Sen. Steevens pic to read the Chicago Tribune story on that one (make sure to watch the embedded video where Eric Holder gives a pass to the prosecutors who misled the trial).


You may recall these memos were released by Barack Obama's legal team to help our enemies worldwide not be afraid of us anymore because now they know how to beat our interrogations and that we no longer remember our fear of September 11, 2001.

After all, just because Ramsi Yusef and other terrorists bombed the parking garage of the World Trade Center in 1993, doesn't mean that intelligence could not prevent Al-Queda from striking again in 2001.  Could it?

Here is the 1993 bombers and some of the horror they created. You can click on the video to watch it or click on the photo to go to the FBI's page on the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.



Despite being captured and questioned, they tried again in 2001.  In trial, mastermind they were defiant or silent.



In waiting until George Bush's attorney general to leave office, they missed a deadline in turning in John Yoo to the bar association to get his law license taken away.  They had four years to do it and now the 2002 and 2003 memos are more than 4 years old.



Likewise, the attorneys also know that this also dramatically weakens their case with Jay Bybee who was an editor, not author of the memos.  



Here is my take on what the state bar eithics boards are likely to say "It's too late for this complaint against the main guy John Yoo.  Now you are trying to get his underling, Jay Bybee, for his small role for the same thing that you didn't care enough about before?  Case dismissed!  Mr Holder and company will please follow statute of limitations requirements in all future complaints before this board please.  Next case please."

From the Covington and Burlington site...

[Covington and Burling] represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay.  The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case.  We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing.  We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case.  Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients.  On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.