The post Michael linked to in a previous post details the federal government’s plan to assist the automotive industry.

The core of the bill — and its aim — was not in dispute. It would provide emergency loans to two of Detroit’s Big Three auto makers — Ford Motor Co. has said it doesn’t need an immediate cash transfusion — and create a presidentially named “car czar.” The federal overseer would supervise a broad industry restructuring and would be empowered to yank the money back if the carmakers weren’t doing enough to ensure their own survival.

How many of my readers support the idea of a car czar to regulate the automotive industry? In many ways this is the kind of goverment oversight many of you have argued for on many different topics. One can argue the car czar would be a high ranking executive position which is informed by many different expert as to the best way to manage the automotive industry.

Furthermore, the position would have the power to implement many of the things that several of you have supported. For example, Michael has for quite some time be quite vocal about forcing the automotive industry to produce more environmentally ‘friendly’ cars. The car czar position would facilitate this. Does Michael support the car czar.

Darwin on several different occasions has come out in support of unions over management. A car czar would assist by creating rules and regulation that force management to abide union demands. Does he support a car czar?

Based on previous arguments, it seems to me that several of my readers should be in favor of a car czar.

Wall-E was given a best movie of the year award:

Disney/Pixar’s robot love story “Wall-E” was named best picture of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. on Tuesday, marking the first time in the org’s 33-year history that an animated film has taken the top prize.

I hope this portends an academy award for the best picture of the year. Wall-E like many of Pixar’s movie simply are some of the best movies made.

Kiss your precious Free Market goodbye.

NBC selected David Gregory to be the full time host of meet the press. David Gregory is a rather obvious left partisan so it’s disappointing to see a good show ruined by someone like him.

The scourge of global cooling will adversely impact not only our children’s lives but our grand children’s and beyond. Something must be done.

This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.

Mandatory increased carbon output for all cars seems like a smart first step.

With my 7 Easy Steps for World Peace: 

1. War is not necessary for regime change, and alternatives to war produce better results with less bloodshed.

2. Economic sanctions produce negative results, decreasing wealth in the nation being punished and increasing the probability of belligerence, or at least the entrenchment of the target leadership. (see Cuba, Iran, pre-War Iraq, and WWII Japan)

3. Global trade increases wealth, empowering people in a repressive society to fight for their freedoms. (see China in 10 years)

4. America has the largest economy in the world. This and our military are our greatest geopolitical assests. They are also our greatest liabilities when used improperly.

5. Iraq was not a threat to us, nor did it produce terrorists before we came in.

6. Had we opened trade with Iraq we would have increased wealth and our influence inside the country.

 7.  With higher per capita income and more western influence inside Iraq, the regime would have changed with significantly less death and destruction.

Detroit automakers are back in D.C. to beg for your money.

In an unabashed plea for an emergency government rescue, G.M. said Tuesday that it needed $4 billion in immediate loans to stay in business after December, and another $8 billion to carry it through the first part of next year.

My burning question is this: how do these automakers plan to become profitable? Nobody wanted their cars when the economy was good, but now that we are in a recession business is suddenly going to pick up? I know Congress is stupid, but an 8 year old could figure this one out.

Michael Steyn’s recent editorial keeps the focus of the recent Indian terrorist attack on the virulent Islamic ideology that guides such horrendous actions. He writes:

Many of us, including the incoming Obama administration, look at this as a law-enforcement matter. Bombay is a crime scene, so let’s surround the perimeter with yellow police tape, send in the forensics squad, and then wait for the DA to file charges. There was a photograph that appeared in many of the British papers, taken by a Reuters man and captioned by the news agency as follows: “A suspected gunman walks outside the premises of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Victoria Terminus railway station.” The photo of the “suspected gunman” showed a man holding a gun. We don’t know much about him — he might be Muslim or Episcopalian, he might be an impoverished uneducated victim of western colonialist economic oppression or a former vice-president of Lehman Bros embarking on an exciting midlife career change — but one thing we ought to be able to say for certain is that a man pointing a gun is not a “suspected gunman” but a gunman. “This kind of silly political correctness infects reporters and news services world-wide,” wrote John Hinderaker of Powerline. “They think they’re being scrupulous — the man hasn’t been convicted of being a gunman yet! — when in fact they’re just being foolish. But the irrational conviction that nothing can be known unless it has been determined by a court and jury isn’t just silly, it’s dangerous.”

This silly journalism reminds me of the ‘respect’ CNN & company showed Muslims when they refused to air the images of the cartoons that Danish newspaper published.

Steyn’s overall argument is that you can’t handle such a virulent ideology as simply a law enforcement matter. I agree, treating this kind of terrorism as a matter of justice is simply missing the point. One must take a longer, wiser view of the roots of this kind of ideology and understand its best to be managed at a military, economic, and political level. That’s why I support military action to force political change that will ultimately lead to economic prosperity. When you got a picket fence, dog, wife, and 2.2 kids, you don’t grab an Ak-47 and shoot up a hotel.

I can understand how many think using the military to regime change virulent states is to costly. I get how some would argue that such a cost is much greater than just taking a hit from terrorist ever so often. Fine with me, but don’t lecture me on how understanding, tolerance, and law enforcement are the keys to stopping this virulent ideology. Simply just admit that you would rather take a hit from terrorist ever so often rather than deal with the problem properly.