Yeah — Tell that to the Iranians . . .

As GM and Chrysler struggle through their respective bankruptcies and attempt to survive as government-owned industries, the private sector is striking back in Louisiana. Yesterday LA Governor Bobby Jindal (R) announced that a brand new, non-government-owned automotive company will be coming to his state with a new factory located in Monroe. Workers there will earn $40,000 a year — which will go a looooong way in northern part of the Big Easy state.

San Diego’s V-Vehicle Co is that company, and it was said that it would be building high-milage gas powered vehicles. Venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, already a major player in Fisker Automobile, along with T. Boone Pickens and — wait a sec, I gotta take a deep one here — Al Gore, via Generation Investment Management. Mr. Global Warming his own wacky self is gonna be a partner in a gasoline-powered car company. The irony hangs heavy like the moss in New Orleans’ Garden District. Still, with Gore on board, the MSM will be giving these guys all the positive press they can muster.

But, back to V-VC. Tom Matano, father of the Mazda Miata (savior of the small, front-engined sports car!) and designer for Mazda for 19 years is staffing the place. The vehicle itself hasn’t been announced as yet, but with Matano in charge it should look good and be fun to drive. With an achieving of their stated goals of high-mileage to boot, what more can one want from an American-made small car? V-Vehicle Co. founder, former Oracle exec. Frank Varasano, said yesterday, “We’ve designed and engineered this car from start to finish to give the U.S. consumer a quality car with great value made right here in America.” They are projecting start of production in 18 months. Here are some video interviews..

Gotta be makin’ them g’vment lackeys back in Detroit a bit nervous, no?

The Obama administration is hell-bent to take away your right to choose a health-care insurance provider and put you into a single-payer, government-owned-run-rationed system that will destroy health care as we know it here in the good ol’ U. S. of A. There’s a petition you can sign that will be presented to Congress — they are trying to get at least a million signatures. Yours should be one of them.

Go here to sign this petition.

I’ve had a mental block about Twitter, to the point that I don’t use it, don’t track it, don’t really understand it — kind of like the derivative in Calculus. Thank the heavens that the people of Iran are more Twitter savvy than this ol’ Okie! The Anchoress writes in Twittering Liberty…and Hope.

Emily Dickinson wrote:

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words
And never stops at all…

How appropriate then, that the communications tool most responsible for keeping hope alive in shattered Iran is “a thing” called “Twitter,” and that the 140-character dispatches being sent and received by people in desperate straits are called “tweets.”

People are “tweeting” for their lives, and their messages are bold, frightened, determined and unbelievably moving. Students are sending out: “They are trapped in the dorms,” and “I cannot remain; I must participate.” They head off, unsure whether they are headed to a peaceful rally or a massacre, and they are not heard from for 18 hours; and people around the world -strangers- pray and wonder.

Then, miraculously, they are back, tweeting news, stories of destruction, injury, damage, hope; they are passing messages.

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It occurred to me over the weekend, while the MSM was, to their everlasting shame, not reporting on the Iranian uprising, that Twitter had become the pre-eminent tool for breaking news. Blogs immediately receded into the background and became secondary, and the big-time-professional news organizations were somnambulist non-players (perhaps they were unsure how to frame the thing until orders were received from “wherever”).

A CEO that I worked for in the ’90s would opine that the Internet was possibly the spawn of Satan. Tonight I would have said to him, “Perhaps, but in this moment, Twitter appears to be made up of legions of angels soaring high on thermals of the apocalypse.”

Effing-Amazing! Effing-Unbelievable!

Drudge reports: ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

Michell Malkin writes:

ABC: The All Barack Channel.

Rush calls ‘em our state-run media.

I call it government-controlled stenography.

Sharpen your pencils, boys and girls, and look spiffy when Dear Leader comes to greet you.

From the Drudge story comes this statement, part of a complaint by Ken McKay, the RNC chief of staff, to the head of ABC News:

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Drew over at AoSHQ is all over it, too: ABC “News” Whores Itself To White House On Health Care (With Apologies To Any Honest Whores Who Are Insulted By The Comparisson)

Looks like NBC just got some competition to be Obama’s network booty call of choice.

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I don’t know what else there is to say about this (I’m sure Ace will have some thoughts). It’s not like we don’t know the networks are in the bag for Obama, they have been for over a year. It is hardly surprising that ABC is simply trying to get in on Brian Williams’ sloppy seconds.

People are dying in Iran in search of their freedom and we’re laying down ours like it’s nothing.

Boycott ABC and its advertisers. Screw these guys!

Chris Muir’s Day by Day Cartoon

[Update: Bookworm also is calling for an ABC News / ABC / Disney (why didn't I think of that one?) boycott -- the discussion over there is getting pretty hot and heavy, too! Way to go!]

The people of Iran are pouring into the streets in protest of last week’s election, which has all the signs of having been stolen by current President/anti-Semitic lunatic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some of the protesters have been shot. News is leaking out of this tightly controlled country via Twitter!

What has been the very late reaction of our own fearful leader, President Barack Hussein Obama?

Mr. Obama said he was deeply troubled by the violence surrounding the election, but stressed it was up to the Iranian people to choose their leadership. He said he would maintain his policy of directly negotiating with Iran’s leaders on its nuclear program, irrespective of the vote.

Way to go, Barry. Give this homicidal A-hole legitimacy while the Mullahs charge the enforcers with the task to put down this protest before it becomes a new revolution. Can’t have freedom breaking out all over the place, now can we.

Especially since our own government is working overtime to abridge ours.

When even WaPo notices, that’s sayin’ something.

My message to the people of Iran?

Viva La Revolución!