Do some research, don’t believe all the BS you see in mainstream media. Ted Turner wants to kill us and all we get is football games and mindless fluff on television. Some Turner quotes:

If steps aren’t taken to stem global warming, “We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions will be intolerable.”

One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population.

“We’re too many people; that’s why we have global warming,” he said. “Too many people are using too much stuff.”

Turner suggested that “on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world’s got to pledge to themselves that one or two children is it.”

Also, there’s a difference between bringing attention to overpopulation issues and “wanting 80 percent of humanity dead.” Studies have apparently shown that merely educating women and affording them the same opportunities as men slows down the birthrate. It doesn’t take slaughtering people to slow population growth down to a sustainable level.

10% of the US population is supposedly going to lose their jobs if the big 3 fail.

They want to use money that was supposed to go to designing more fuel efficient cars to “retool” and keep them afloat in 2008. The time for retooling is not right now, it was 5 years ago when everybody and their brother was buying an SUV.

For some reason as I read other blogs and news articles about this subject I’m reminded of a stalemate in Monopoly (the board game). When you get certain personalities together, one that won’t give an inch on a deal that gives their partner an advantage and another that demands a lopsided bargain in their favor in order to make a deal.. maybe this deal should just not be made and the person sitting on their cash on the sidelines should swoop in and take over the market share.

Give me a new car manufacturer, and MPG ratings more like 45 MPG, instead of bragging about 30 MPG!

Heard a great “bailout” idea on NPR the other day. Instead of giving the money to the auto industry instead give it to the communities where the plants will shut down and at the communities around at least some of the supply chain. Use the money to fund training and relocation programs for displaced workers. Extend unemployment benefits similar to what they did after 9/11. Directly benefit those most affected by the job losses and let GM and the others collapse under the weight of their own weakness and stupidity.

Personally the simple fact that we’re talking about the auto industry scares me. You think the auto industry is important? What about the truckers who move all of our freight? The airline industry? The aerospace industry that produces the aircraft used by the airlines — and oh yeah, all of our military aircraft as well? I’m waiting for them to line up. Now that’s a national security bailout.

Survive or fail on their own merits, all of them – that’s what I say!