Laws of physics
From a senior level Chrysler person: Monday morning I attended a breakfast meeting where the speaker/guest was David E. Cole, Chairman of the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), an Engineer with 40+ years automotive experience, full Professor at the Univ. of Michigan.
You have all likely heard CAR quoted, or referred to in the auto industry news lately. Mr. Cole told many stories of the difficulty of working with the folks that the Obama administration has sent to save the auto industry.
There have been many meetings where this very experienced automotive expert has had to listen to a newcomer to the industry; someone with zero manufacturing experience, zero auto industry experience, zero business experience, zero finance experience, zero engineering experience, and apparently zero brains tell them how to run their business.
Mr. Cole's favorite story is as follows: There was a team of Obama people speaking to Mr. Cole. They were explaining to Mr. Cole that the auto companies needed to make a car that was electric and liquid natural gas (LNG) with enough combined fuel to go 500 miles, so we wouldn't "need" so many gas stations (A whole other topic).. They were quoting BTU's of LNG and battery life they had looked up on some website.
Mr. Cole explained that to do this you would need a trunk FULL of batteries, and a LNG tank as big as a car to make that happen. And that there were problems related to the laws of physics that prevented them from...
The Obama person interrupted and said (and I am quoting here),
"These laws of physics? Whose rules are those? We need to change that (while others wrote down the name of the law so they could look it up). We have the Congress, and the administration. We can repeal that law, amend it, or use an executive order to get rid of that problem. That's why we are here, to fix these sort of issues."
Three cowboys are about to be strung up for cattle rustling. The lynch
mob takes them to a tree at the edge of the Rio Grande. They put the
first cowboy in a noose, but he's so sweaty that he slips out, falls
into the river and swims to freedom. So they tie the noose around the
second cowboy's neck. He, too, slips out of the rope, drops into the
river and gets away. It's the third man's turn. He looks at the mob and
says, "Could y'all do me a favor? Tighten that noose a bit, I can't
swim."
A guy walks into the bedroom carrying a sheep in his arms and says,
"Honey, this is the cow I make love to when you have a headache."
The wife, laying in bed reading a book, looks up and says, "If you
weren't such an idiot, you'd know that's a sheep, not a cow."
The guy replies, "If you weren't such a presumptuous bitch, you'd
realize I was talking to the sheep."
Little Johnny is passing his parents' bedroom in
the middle of the night, in search of a glass of
water. Hearing a lot of moaning and thumping, he
peeks in and catches his folks in The Act. Before
dad can even react, Little Johnny exclaims "Oh,
boy! Horsie ride! Daddy, can I ride on your back?"
Daddy, relieved that Johnny's not asking more
uncomfortable questions, and seeing the
opportunity not to break his stride, agrees.
Johnny hops on and daddy starts going to town.
Pretty soon mommy starts moaning and gasping.
Johnny cries out, "Hang on tight, Daddy! This is
the part where me and the postman usually get
bucked off!"
If anyone doubts that Snopes has it's own agenda, please see what they have to say about this topic. They spend several pages describing how, even though those words are there, that through interpretation, they don't mean what you think. "Praise (be) to God." What is so hard to fathom? Who expended all this energy to take the wind out of the sails of an inspirational story? Why did they think it was necessary? Sorry. I don't know who left this soapbox here. If I find out, I will make sure that they are protected by a government so powerful that it will rule the world. http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/monument.asp Sometimes, I just go to Snopes to make sure that they are still on the job. They always are.
See how TruthorFiction.com treat the same topic. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/w/washmonument.htm
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