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  17. The nail in the coffin, why I will officially never buy a GM

    in Dumpster

    Posted · Edited by JRMMiii

    But they have nothing to do with GM at all, no relation, nothing.

    And for the record, I did get that from Wikipedia.

    I don't know an easy way to explain the corporate structuring of Chinese businesses and how Americans get their 'foot in the door' to sell their goods to China.

    Suffice to say it's more complex than the headline "GM sponsors Commie film".

  18. The nail in the coffin, why I will officially never buy a GM

    in Dumpster

    Posted

    You do what you gotta do to make a buck, amirite? C'mon, if you think about it, GM's capitalism is undermining the communism film it sponsored. So, how about them apples.

    Ohh, then there's this.

    GM responds to accusations that it’s financing Chinese communist film

    On Tuesday, reports surfaced accusing General Motors (GM) of sponsoring and financing a Chinese communist propaganda film. First reported by the Washington Times, the story is winding its way through the web and and risks becoming another blight on “Government Motors.”

    According to Greg Martin, director of policy and Washington communications for GM, the automotive company played no role in the film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

    “It was not GM,” Martin flatly told The Daily Caller.

    The sponsor, Shanghai GM, said Martin, is a distribution and sales network that “is a completely separate and distinct business entity based in China that has no organizational or financial ties whatsoever” to the Detroit-based company.

    “It is not GM. It is not GM money. And it is in no shape or form, or indirectly, taxpayer money,” Martin told TheDC.

    He confirmed that no GM vehicles appear in the film, though some of the actors were transported in Cadillacs.

    In 2009, GM received a $50 billion bailout from the federal government. While GM has been working to pay off the loan, the U.S. Treasury still owns a 33 percent stake in the company.

    China’s emerging auto market has been enormously beneficial to GM sales. The company not only surpassed Toyota in sales this year, but in 2010, GM sold more cars in China than it did in the U.S.

    “It’s disappointing and somewhat predictable,” Martin said of the news reports. “It’s unfortunate.”

    But hey.... *rabble rabble rabble* on ORDN.

  19. I'm officially in bizarro world...

    in Dumpster

    Posted

    I felt the same way when I read this little blurb --

    Texas House bans 'offensive' security pat-downs

    http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=8128623

    It was actually nice to see the pro-"personal liberty" GOP members instead of the pro-business, pro-security GOP'ers I'm often reading about.

    I giveth props and I taketh away.

    Via: http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2011/05/texas-seeks-sport-bike-discrimination/

    Texas seeks sport bike discrimination

    fat-bike1-599x394.jpgA bill just passed by the Texas state house of representatives seeks to give “sport bikes” a definition separate from all other motorcycles and impose unique restrictions on them. The legislation comes in response to the death of Texas A&M student Malorie Bullock, who was killed while riding pillion. So just how does the Lone Star State define a sport bike?

    Continued in link above (which is only active for 12 hrs), but additional linkage here:

    HB2470 via AMA

  20. 2009 Yamaha YZFR1 auction

    in LBTS GLWS

    Posted

    I've never done the police auction thing, but I'd imagine there's some title issues you'd have to jump through to be able to street that bike again, yes?

    It gets the equivalent of a salvage/theft recovery title, correct? So it'd need to be inspected, etc... Not that it would stop me from buying it for $3k, just additional details if you wanted to do anything but track it.

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