Quoted from CICERO

The union can now buy the company and run it.

Quoted from Box A Rox

The same story over and over... and there are gullible people who believe the propaganda over and over.

Quoted from Box A Rox

That's not the deal offered... first the assets are drained from the company, then what's left is put up
for several buy/sell/trade/merge transactions.  What's left is an empty shell and a few rich investors.
(See Bain Capitol. )

Quoted from 55tbird

No, they did not... The sold them with a lifetime powertrain warranty.. I should know, because I have one.
You could purchase a lifetime bumper to bumper warranty, at an additional cost, but it was NOT underwritten by Chrysler.
I just had my truck in for it's 5 year no cost inspection to keep the lifetime warranty in effect..I have not been contacted by Chrysler, nor do I expect to.

Quoted from bumblethru

My brother bought a left over 2007 dodge dakota in 2008....and does have a bumber to bumper lifetime warranty (used to intice and sell the year olf vehicle that never sold).....that dodge wants to buy back from him.

They just repaired some rust on the vehicle....FOR FREE!!

Quoted from Box A Rox

This company could have struggled along making a profit and providing jobs. Everyone could have made
a living and profited.  Instead the CEO resigned and the sharks took over.  They will slice and dice this
business until the only thing left is a marginal operation providing minimum wage non union jobs, and a
huge sum of $$$ for those liquidating the business.  
The process isn't new... it's a well proven formula for an 'asset grab'.

You don't think today's 1% get that rich selling cookies do you???            

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Just look at all the amazing innovations modern technology has given us: at-home HIV tests, motion-activated screwdrivers and self-inflating tires. It’s easy to look down on our prehistoric ancestors for their primitive, electric screwdriver-less way of life. But one scientist says we shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

In a two-part paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics, Stanford University researcher Gerald Crabtree suggests that evolution is, in fact, making us dumber — and that human intelligence may have actually peaked before our hunter-gatherer predecessors left Africa.

(MORE: Creationists Boycott Dr Pepper Over ‘Evolution of Flavor’ Ad)

The reason? Life on the veldt was tough, and prehistoric humans’ genes were constantly subjected to selective pressure in an environment where the species’ survival depended on it. For humans, that meant getting smarter. ”The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples before our ancestors emerged from Africa,” Crabtree said in a news release.

The urbanization that followed the development of agriculture simplified survival by removing some of its challenges, which likely weakened natural selection’s ability to eliminate mutations associated with deficiencies in intelligence. Crabtree estimates that over the last 3,000 years (about 120 generations), humans have sustained at least two mutations that have eroded our intellectual and emotional intelligence.

“A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street executive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bonus and be a more attractive mate,” Crabtree wrote in the paper. He also noted that the average Athenian from 1000 B.C. would rank among the smartest and most emotionally stable in today’s society.

Not everybody agrees with Crabtree’s reasoning, however. Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College London, believes there is insufficient data to support his theory. ”Never mind the hypothesis, give me the data, and there aren’t any,” Jones told The Independent. “I could just as well argue that mutations have reduced our aggression, our depression and our penis length, but no journal would publish that. Why do they publish this?”

Crabtree does argue that no matter how deteriorated our intellectual abilities may have become over the millennia, advancements in technology will someday render these changes insignificant.

“I think we will know each of the millions of human mutations that can compromise our intellectual function and how each of these mutations interact with each other and other processes as well as environmental influences,” Crabtree said in the release. “At that time, we may be able to magically correct any mutation that has occurred in all cells of any organism at any developmental stage. Thus, the brutish process of natural selection will be unnecessary.”



Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/.....umber/#ixzz2CQJ04IZt

Quoted from joebxr

Quoted from Box A Rox

I'm sorry about the jobs lost, but IMO Twinkies don't fall in any of the USDA Food Groups.  They need
another category called, "JUNK FOOD"!

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Another radio company has said that Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke wound up
hurting its bottom line.

Dial Global, a radio programming company, said on Thursday that it will remove itself from the NASDAQ
stock exchange — a sure sign of financial trouble. In addition, it had multimillion dollar losses in its latest
quarter.

Dial listed a whole host of factors for its financial straits. But one of them was "advertisers' response to
controversial statements by a certain nationally syndicated talk radio personality in March 2012."

That personality was, of course, Limbaugh, who called Fluke a "slut" for her birth control advocacy,
prompting an advertiser exodus.

Other companies have cited Limbaugh as a partial reason for their weaker earnings. Cumulus, another
radio company, said that his anti-Fluke rants had cost it millions of dollars.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Jobs lost at the Twinkie Works... who do we blame?  UNIONS!

Jobs lost (and possibly a company goes belly up) who do we blame???