Tepid Toyota Reluctant Bride at American Justice Altar

From Denny: Well, it took Toyota's president, Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the founder, long enough to figure out he had ticked off 300 million people in the Western Hemisphere. What arrogance to think he could duck out of a Congressional hearing about an unprecendented almost 9 million car recall because of glaring safety issues.

What trust fund baby joy juice was this guy swilling? How long did he think he could continue to deceive and hide safety issues in America? Fortunately, one of his attorneys grew a conscience and revealed that Toyota had been hiding engineering problems for decades. Of course, Toyota fired him for telling the truth. "No good deed goes unpaid," as the saying goes. Millions of people's lives have been at stake for decades and all Toyota could say is, "I'll get around to fixing those problems"? And, "well, you know, all you have to do is take out your floor mat to prevent the accelerator pedal from sticking." Just how stupid do these guys think Americans really are? OK, people did stand by and allow Bush to get into office on not one, but two, stolen elections. Like sheep, stupid about politics, yes - stupid about their cars, no.

He finally agreed to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for the new investigation into the Corolla model compacts with potential steering problems. Currently, Toyota is facing heat from several American government committees: Transportation Department, The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Oversight Committee.


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26 Funny Editorial Cartoons - 6 Feb 2010

From Denny: The big Super Bowl weekend match up of the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts is in full swing party wise in both cities! The cartoonists predicted the Saints would lose against the Vikings in the NFL Championship and were wrong. Everyone in Louisiana is totally convinced the cartoonists are wrong again about the Saints' hope of winning the Super Bowl. People are practically "wired for sound" around here they are so excited about this team. The Saints had a 44 year drought of misery and to see them win this much is like catnip candy.

The rest of this week's visual opinions were devoted mainly to the President's budget spending and cutbacks, especially NASA. Where the cartoonists really went off on was their anger against Toyota's arrogance in this million plus car recall. Toyota has been declaring customer satisfaction for decades - only now America is finding out they have been hiding the truth about their cars.

Now we find out recently that Toyota hasn't been properly reporting to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation as required by law. Then they continue to insist these same dangerous cars are safe. Toyota car owners need to demand a buy back from the manufacturer as these cars are dangerous to everyone on the road driving near them. Short of that the President better do something serious and fast before this spirals out of control. Can you hear the Toyota used car value falling like a rock? Drive those cars until the wheels fall off or get the parent company to take it back. It's called The Lemon Laws in America.

Just when Toyota thought they would get to surge ahead in the American market to capture a larger share and capitalize on General Motors' and Ford's share of bad karma repercussion slap-back - they now experience their very butt kick.

Check out this week's cartoons lampooning everyone in the news!

Super Bowl - the Saints against the Colts in Miami:

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Politics of the national budget wars and public frustration over both parties doing so little to alleviate suffering across America:

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Finally repealing the Don't Ask Don't Tell mandate which never made much sense anyway since just about everyone but the clueless knew who was or wasn't gay:

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Toyota recall debacle that just keeps on giving to the politicians, comedians and the cartoonists as fodder to keep the public stirred up:

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Prez Obama cutting back and downsizing NASA since these guys tend to be wasteful and have been for 40 years, treating the national wallet like it's a money tree. Choose your projects wisely and plan a lot more carefully, then stick to it and quit with the budget overruns. Obama's next stop needs to be the guys who build military aircraft:

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