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Friday, July 12, 2002:

For All Of Your Evil Needs

Go to
Villian Supply!!!

I'm just going through right now, assembling my list of supervillian accessories to begin my Empire of Evil. I'll update throughout the day.

I hear they go IPO next week. Three guesses who their accountants are.
BCM // 8:16 AM

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Thursday, July 11, 2002:

Mummar Tries To Reassure Us

From CNN

DURBAN, South Africa (CNN) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has said there is no evidence to prove his country is behind any acts of terrorism.

We burned and buried the evidence. We're damm sure we got all of it.

Speaking on Wednesday, he said Libya was at the forefront of the battle against terrorists.

Why yes, both sides usually are represented on "the forefront" of a battle. We're not stupid enough to think you're on ours, even if the State Department did talk lots about Arafat being on our side in the war against terrorism. Bush broke that old record like twig the other week in case you hadn't noticed.

"We term them heretics, actually. They are non-Muslims. They are outside Islam," Gadhafi told CNN Johannesburg Bureau Chief Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

"Outside my control, outside Islam, same thing really."

"These are terrorist peoples, and actually they are crazy and mad. ... They are really dangerous and they don't use law, they do not accept law, they do not allow you even to talk to them,

Been trying to come to an arrangement, have you? We'll remember that. Sounds more like you're pissed because they wouldn't give you the repect your gold braided uniforms lay claim to. But then again, how many children ever listen to their declawed and defanged elder statesmen?
... and they should be really dealt with accordingly."

In Durban for a meeting of the new African Union, Gadhafi, long accused by the West of harboring and sponsoring terrorists, said Libya's role in terrorism has not been proved.

"As a matter of fact, actually, we are only the victims of terrorism and Libya is against terrorism," he said.

Personal rule: when someone says "as a matter of fact", whatever is stated afterwards is a load of codswallop. (See also "to be honest", "truthfully", "it's obvious")

"I'd like also to reassure the Americans and non-Americans that Libya plays a very important role in combating and fighting terrorism."

Right. So, you'll be handing over the Al-Quedans you've captured, right? re-assure us? Buddy, we were never assured to begin with. Talking about reassuring us is a bit premature. Show me the money.

Gadhafi referred to "a number of elements from Afghanistan" that he said infiltrated Libya and caused "quite a lot of trouble" --

CNN reporters?

...one of the reasons he would not harbor groups like Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network or allow them to take refuge in Libya.

"Actually, we are not in need of bin Laden," Gadhafi said.

"We have plenty of experience ourselves."

"We don't need his money, we don't need his protection, we don't want to use him or be used by him. We just want to defend ourselves."

"....because we saw just how much good his protection did for the Taliban. Please don't hurt us."

If any members of al Qaeda are found in Libya, he said, "We shall arrest them and they shall be put on trial."

Gadhafi said he wants and needs to have good relations with other countries, particularly the United States, because sharing technologies would aid in Libya's development.


We'll consider sharing our social technologies first. The one called "retirement" could do great things for Libya in one certain case that I can think of.

He said "American reasons" are to blame for U.S. sanctions against Libya, which Washington has said it will not lift until Libya accepts responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Libya's continued refusal to do so is one of the remaining obstacles to establishing good U.S. relations, but Gadhafi maintained the Libyan national now serving time for bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is innocent.


Once that's resolved, we can work on the other obstacles. Lack of democracy, you, WMD programs, you, lack of human rights, you....

"The whole world -- actually, the observers of the U.N., the observers of the Arab League, the international observers -- they went and witnessed the court," he said.

And leaned nothing. Nothing of how a real legal system works, nothing about human rights, nothing about terrorism being utterly unacceptable.

"They all said unequivocally that the rule of the court was based on political base, not on legal base, and that the accused is innocent. Anyhow, Libya is innocent of that."

I'd hardly put it past the same nimrods who judged Israel guilty of massacres in Jenin without evidence to declare someone guilty despite evidence.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988, killed 270 people.

(Via Middle East Realities)


BCM // 1:14 PM

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There's Always An Apocalypse Theory, Part XXIIVIIV

Mr. Green slams the doommongers out of the part by bringing up some relevant facts.

Read all of it, please.


BCM // 12:14 PM

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Lileks. What More Do you Need To Read?

Having just read the fiftieth letter-to-the-editor / online article / blog commentary warning that dissent is being suppressed and civil rights revoked at a pace not seen since . . . since . . . since . . . well, like never before! I can only ask: what do you think will happen to Louis Farrakhan when he returns from his Iraqi Solidarity Tour? Imprisonment? Leg irons? A stint in the chain-gang under the watchful eye of a beer-bellied bigot cradling a shotgun?

Just curious. Me, I’m certain he’ll be arrested for treason and denied counsel, and when his supporters assemble outside the jail they’ll be mowed down by burb guns, and the lackey press will run banner headlines that shout GLORIOUS DAY FOR FREEDOM. Or words to that effect.



BCM // 11:56 AM

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Wednesday, July 10, 2002:

More Godammed Nihlism

From the West Bank.

"I want to kill them," Roa told a reporter. "I want to kill them but I can’t."

This from a 12 year old Palestinian Girl.

Palestinian television, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, regularly runs music videos that pay tribute to what they call martyrs, whether bombers or children who died at the hands of Israeli forces. The head of Palestinian television said the programs do not encourage dying or committing suicide for the cause, but are documenting what’s going on. The company isn’t trying to turn children into bombers, but providing a forum for young people to express themselves, he said.

Ever notice how Western media are eager to blame the Columbine attacks and misbehaviour by western youth on the effect of TV and movie violence, yet the palestinian childrens' agression is the result of "frustration" with Israeli "occupation"?


BCM // 12:50 PM

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The Swiss, So Peaceful, So Well Armed

There couldn't possibly be a correlation, right? So why exactly didn't Hitler invade Switzerland, anyway? The Banks, the fortrifications? Or the possibility of fighting an armed and competent populace?


BCM // 11:20 AM

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If...You are an American and you've heard

....wonderful things about Canada's socialized health care system,
please read this, and ask yourself if you'd be willing to wait eight months for an MRI scan.


BCM // 11:17 AM

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New Blog

I see David Horowitz has set himself up a

blog
. If the following is what we can expect on a regular basis, I'll be stopping by often.

The other day I was walking with my wife along the Santa Monica Mall, when we were accosted by a bow-tied Black Muslim peddling copies of Farrakhan’s party paper, The Final Call. When he thrust a copy of the paper at me, I said in a not so friendly tone, “No, I don’t want it.” Taken aback, he asked, “What’s the matter, don’t you like black people?” I said, “Actually, I like black people. What I don’t like is black people who don’t like white people.”

That pretty much sums up the principle I have garnered out of a lifetime’s involvement in racial issues. While working towards the goal of everyone being treated fairly, observe how others are actually treating you. This is the principle that Israeli “peaceniks” failed to grasp when they tried to make peace with terrorists, and that liberals generally have difficulty appreciating.



BCM // 9:52 AM

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Okay, This Pisses Me Off

In FrontPage
Magazine,
Lowell
Ponte goes into detail about what Hugo Chavez has been up to
in Venezula. (Attempting to follow in Castro's Footsteps) Throughout the article, there are a number of blue hyperlinks in the text leading to articles backing up his claims.

Or, at least that's what it looks like.

Moving the mouse over the hyperlinks, the mouse doesn't indicate the presence of a link. Hmmmm. The link must be broken or the writer didn't get his HTML correct. No matter, I'll bring up the source and copy the link address out of that.

Only looking at the source, there is no link. parts of the text have been highlighted in blue and underlined, nothing more.

So, anyone just reading the article would probably take it that the evidence to back up Ponte's writing is there. Only if one tries to see the information that he's citing do you find out that there's nothing there. This undermines the article's credibility, to say the least.

UPDATE: I emailed FrontPage. They were supposed to be links and they'll correct the problem. Speedy response too.
UPDATE #2 Two hours plus later, no links.

BCM // 9:32 AM

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Harken: The History.

The full history, not just the little bit the media spoon feeds to create the impression of a scandal, by Byron York.

Here's a bit which puts the sale in a bit more context of why Bush sold when hid did.

The next year, Bush got involved with a group of investors who were trying to buy the Texas Rangers baseball team. When the sale went through in March 1989, Bush borrowed $600,000 to purchase his stake in the team. At that time, his biggest single asset was his Harken stock, and he decided to sell the stock to pay off the baseball loan.

On June 22, 1990, Bush sold 212,140 shares of Harken at $4 a share, for a total sale of $848,560. Nearly two months later, on August 20, Harken announced a much larger than expected loss for the quarter that ended on June 30. In the months that followed, Harken's stock price drifted downward, hitting $1.25 per share by the end of 1990.


The document filings are also covered, and if you care to read the gritty details, there's links to the actual documents.




BCM // 7:39 AM

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Bush and Harken, the "Insider Trade" That Won't Go Away.

Just going to have to save
this link for my personal records, as I know that I'll be called upon to use it.
(Via Medpundit, via Instapundit)

In 1990 Bush unloaded most of his Harken shares for $835,000 about two months before Harken announced a big loss. That triggered an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into possible insider trading by Bush, but the SEC took no action.

A look at Harken's stock price may show why: Bush sold for $4 a share. Harken stock did dip to $2.38 the day after the bad earnings were released, but four days later bounced right back to $4 a share, exactly what Bush had been paid.

And the stock kept rising: Bush attorney Robert Jordan said, "A year later, in fact, the value had doubled to $8 a share."

So Bush could have done much better if he had waited.


Medpundit wonders why we don't hear about this aspect of the story in the media. Hmmm. perhaps because it helps justify the SEC's conclusion? Perhaps because it doesn't serve to make Bush look bad? perhaps bias might have something to do with it?

Nahhh.


BCM // 6:48 AM

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Cyborgization

Glenn Reynolds
discusses our gradual movement towards integrating our daily life with machines. I personally, am all for it. I'm all for cloning too.

You see, I have a personal interest in this. Years ago, I had a really bad infection in my right ear which required the doctors to remove the eardrum to get at the infection. Thus, I'm basically deaf in that ear.

I want my cybernetic ear, or a cloned eardrum, thank you very much.

To borrow a loine from Michael Leeden, Faster please.


BCM // 6:15 AM

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Tuesday, July 09, 2002:

Just Want To Go Back To This....

My "problem with capitalism" from yesterday:
"Small Repair Shops Fight Automakers"

Okay, having thought about it a bit more, this is actually a very interesting issue. I'm just going to repost what I'd blogged before and then progress from there.

[Today's Capitalism Problem

Anyone who's read my blog a few times has probably figured out that I'm an advocate of capitalism. Well, here's today's problem with the system.

"Small repair shops fight automakers" Car manufacturers are not sharing vital information needed by independent repair shops to fix cars, and those shops say it is threatening their businesses. Cars are becoming more complex and require sophisticated systems to diagnose and repair them. But independent service stations say manufacturers are not supplying them with the codes needed for diagnosis and repair, thus forcing many consumers to go to the dealerships for fixes. (Via Neal Boortz)

Here's the reasons the manufacturers give for their practice.

Car manufacturers counter that they are simply protecting their intellectual property and ensuring that their cars get fixed right. "It is in the manufacturer's best interest that the car is repaired properly," said Eron Shosteck, spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Mr. Moss, who works at a BMW-only repair facility, said BMW is particularly proprietary and Volvo is "notoriously difficult to get information from." To counteract the lack of information, Mr. Moss talks to other mechanics in the same situation, and they are in contact with BMW USA to try and reach an agreement to help alleviate the situation. Most cars are manufactured with onboard diagnostic computers. When the car malfunctions, the computer alerts the driver. Mr. Shosteck said problems arise when small repair shops replace malfunctioning parts with those that are not manufacturer authorized, which creates confusion for the computer. If the car malfunctions again, the malfunction will be misdiagnosed, the codes will be incorrect to fix the car and more damage will be done. Mr. Haas speculates the manufacturers are pressuring the dealerships to offer repair services to help retain business and make money because sales have not been as profitable. He also said the manufacturers might be afraid of being left vulnerable to a lawsuit.

One reason touched on but not explicitly mentioned that I think the dealers have: the non-manufacturer authorized parts. There is a quality issue no doubt, but there is also the business of the parts themselves. There's money to be made from the parts. ]

The reaction I had offhand was that this was an abuse of capitalism, the big guys using their advantages to lean on and cut out the little guy. Then I started thinking about it. Yes, this is competition, but competition by cutting off a competitor's supplies and the information they need to operate. This isn't competition on price or service. But what allows the automakers to do this? The fact that the small shops are using the automakers' information and materials to compete with them.

What duty do companies have to help their competitors?

Seriously, if you were interviewing for a job, would you think it would be fair to force you to aid another applicant for the position? Perhaps you have to coach others on how to answer questions in an interview because you have more experience and are regarded as "the best" at interviewing. Why should you be required to sabotage your own interests?



BCM // 11:50 AM

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Bush's Corporate Responsibility Speech
Here's the text. For real this time.

"The actions I'm proposing follow in this tradition and should be welcomed by every honest company in America. "

The appeal to intimidation wasn't necessary George. It is possible for a company to disagree with what you propose and still be honest. This statement stinks of "and when did you stop beating your wife?"

"Yet when a company uses deception — deception accounting to hide reality, executives should lose all their compensation — all their compensation —gained by the deceit. Corporate leaders who violate the public trust should never be given that trust again. "

Can we see this standard applied to politicians please? The New Democrats in British Columbia a few years

"My accountability plan also requires CEOs to personally vouch for their firm's annual financial statements. Currently, a CEO signs a nominal certificate and does so merely on behalf of the company. In the future, the signature of the CEO should also be his or her personal certification of the veracity and fairness of the financial disclosures. When you sign a statement, you're pledging your word, and you should stand behind it. "

This is going to have a very deleterious effect on american enterprise. The whole point of a CEO is to coordinate a vast enterprise to which he/she cannot possibly be aware of every detail and transaction that occurs. Every CEO will know that his career now rests on the veracity of his subordinates. Not only his subordinates, but on an ever changing accounting environment as well. in the last twenty years, financial transactions have been invented that weren't even dreamed of before that. These new ideas are constantly bieng integrated into accounting and it can take years to reach a consensus. Example: the transaction by Harken which led to the company restating earnings after Bush sold his stock. From yesterday's news conference;
"BUSH: Again, this is -- there was no malfeasance involved. This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures.

And the SEC took a good look at it and decided that the procedures used by the auditors and the accounting firm needed to, were not the right procedure in this particular case, or the right ruling, and therefore asked Harken to restate earnings, which it did.

I mean that's the way the SEC works. That's the proper role of an oversight group. There was no malfeasance, no attempt to hide anything, it was just an accounting firm making a decision along with the corporate officers as to how to account for a complex transaction. "


If you think CEO salaries are something now, wait until they start to incorporate the risk premium for possibly being slammed behind bars and losing their careers if an accounting decision goes against them or a subordinate covers up his malfeasance. Remember Nick Leeson? The Barings futures trader whose unauthorized trades caused Barings bank to fold? If investigators decide that the CEO "should" have known about something like Leeson's trades, he can lose his liberty and livelyhood. Welcome to the age of criminalizing CEOs.




BCM // 10:18 AM

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Bush's Corporate Responsibility Speech

Here's the text. My comments will be added after I read it.
Right. That's the press confrence yeaterday. Idiot me. I'll look at it anyway.

"Reliable, affordable energy means more and better jobs. " Subtitles: Forget Kyoto. (phew!)

"Excessive government spending is a drag and -- or will be a drag on our economy. "
George, how much pork have you authorized in the last six months? I'm not talking spending for the war, I'm taking Farm Aid that overwhelmingly ends up in the hands of millionaire farmers instead of small farmers.


BCM // 9:19 AM

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Media Bias- About Israel? Nahhh.

Couldn't be. A respected institution like the Economist would never fall victim to cheap hyperbole and bias.

Would it?


BCM // 8:05 AM

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Surveying Diversity

A week or so ago, I got a call in the evening from a marketing agency retained by Stats Canada. I have worked on the phone calling out a few years ago, so I generally don't hang up on telemarketers preemptively. I usually give them a chance to at least tell me what they are calling about. So, the girl introduces herself and tells me that she just has a few questions to ask for the Gov't's diversity survey. I politely refused to answer the survey and explained why when she asked. I don't support the idea of the government keeping racial statistics. In my mind, equal is equal. If we have enshined equality of race, then ultimately it shouldn't matter at all. Martin Luther King's dream where people are judged by the content of their character, not their skin is the world I want. I thank her for calling and end the call.

Well, I got a letter a few days ago from one of the bureaucrats running the project, asking me to reconsider my decision not to participate. Not likely. I'm sure my non-participation has been noted somewhere as a black mark on my citizenship records. (I don't believe for a minute that the HRDC database was ever actually dissasembled fully.) I'm waiting to see if they are going to attempt to compel me to participate in the survey. Given the way that the government builds in penalties for not answering the Census, I'm sure I haven't heard the last from StatsCan. (Which brings up the question: given that I was forced to participate in the Census, why does StatsCan need to do another survey? Money down the pisser.)




BCM // 7:20 AM

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How The Public Comes To Believe In Global Warming

Andrew Sullivan
fact checks the ass of Howard Raines in the New York Times. (Seems Andrew is taking over Ira Stoll's old "Smarter Times" beat.)

RAINES WATCH: More checkable untruths in a New York Times editorial. Here's what they wrote yesterday in another classic hack-liberal editorial about global warming:

"Then came a more narrowly focused but equally disturbing report by The Times's Timothy Egan about Alaska, where an astonishing seven-degree increase in average temperatures over 30 years has led to melting permafrost, sagging roads, dying forests, unexpected forest fires and disruption of marine life."

Here's what the Alaska Climate Research Center has said about that Egan piece:

"The article "Alaska, No Longer So Frigid, Starts to Crack, Burn, and Sag" written by Timothy Egan, stated that the average temperature has risen seven degrees in the last 30 years. This statement was repeated in an editorial by Bob Herbert of 24 June 2002. This statement is incorrect. The correct warming for Alaska is about 1/3 of the quoted amount for the last climatological mean 1971 to 2000 (see table below). It should be pointed out that the table presents data from first class weather stations, which are professionally maintained and generate high quality data. The three stations, Barrow, Fairbanks, and Anchorage, represent a cross section of Alaska from north to south. Further, Barrow, situated in Northern Alaska, which gave the largest temperature increase, is the only long-term first class meteorological weather station in Northern Alaska. All changes are based upon the time period 1971 to 2000 and are compiled from a linear trend."

Now this correction has been around since June 24. So has this chart which shows average temperatures in Alaska for the last century, in which the century-long rise has been around 2 degrees Fahrenheit. The Egan piece's assertion of such a temperature rise has no basis in fact whatsoever. It's made up. It's a non-fact. It has expired in verifiability. It has gone to rest among the fjords of Alaska. It is an ex-fact. So when will the Times correct this mistake? And when will they stop broadcasting it as if it were something they should be proud of?


This sort of blatant distortion (lying) done by the US' "newspaper of record" goes a long way to explaining why the fallacy of man-made Global Warming is believed by most of the population.

There's a great comment article in the National Post today that won't come onto the web until tomorrow. I'll link it then.

BCM // 6:21 AM

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Arafat's Baby Wipes

The only description of my feelings towards
this little riddle is "morbid curiosity".

Were Arafat not a politically correct icon, those wipes would be showing up in every political cartoon of him in the same way Bush is portrayed with a cowboy hat or a pretzel.

(Via LGF)


BCM // 6:12 AM

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It's Terrorism, Stupid

Daniel Pipes lays out the disturbing pattern of the US law enforcement establishment's refusal to characterize terrorism as terrorism. The pattern of attacks in the US performed by lone muslims is demonstrated not to be a recent phenomenon either.

- Rashid Baz, a Lebanese cab driver with a known hatred for all things Israeli and Jewish, armed himself to the teeth in March 1994 and drove around the city looking for a Jewish target. He found his victims -- a van full of Hassidic boys -- on the Brooklyn Bridge and fired a hail of bullets against them, killing one boy. And how did the FBI classify this crime? As "road rage." Only because the murdered boy's mother relentlessly fought this false description did the bureau finally in 2000 re-classify the murder as "the crimes of a terrorist."

- Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, a Palestinian gunman hailing from militant Islamic circles in Florida, took a gun to the top of the Empire State building in February 1997 and shot a tourist there. His suicide note accused the United States of using Israel as its "instrument" against the Palestinians but city officials ignored this evidence and instead dismissed Abu Kamal as either "one deranged individual working on his own" (Police Commissioner Howard Safir) or a "man who had many, many enemies in his mind" (Mayor Rudolph Giuliani).

Note in the second example- Florida- again.

I've seen mention about Rabbi Kahene(?) shot dead in new York in the early 90s as well. Is anyone prepared to blame this on the violence in TV and Movies? Or just maybe an intolerant religious philosophy has something to do with it?


BCM // 6:00 AM

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Monday, July 08, 2002:

The FBI's Continued Denial Of The Obvious

The
FBI continues to play dumb to the LAX attacker's rather obvious intent and hatred. (via Andrew Sullivan)

Israeli officials are calling Hadayet's attack an act of terrorism, but the FBI again refused to do so today --even though bureau investigators said they have not ruled out that possibility. The diverging points of view are partly a semantic difference.

The FBI said that it generally defines terrorism less broadly than Israeli officials and does not use the term to describe every violent act an individual commits against a state entity or racial group.

"There is no evidence, no indication at this time, that this is terrorists," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said.

Richard Garcia, the FBI official leading the investigation, said details of Hadayet's life and his motive for the attack are still sketchy but investigators believe he acted alone, shot his victims randomly and came to the airport "with the intention of killing people." Investigators said Hadayet carried no identification and was armed with two handguns and a six-inch hunting knife.


Every evasion serves a purpose. What are the FBI and the US Gov't trying to achieve by this? One possibility that springs to my mind after the very public fears of an anti-muslim backlash after Sept 11th is that they are trying to avoid such a backlash. If this is correct, it is a policy that is sure to backfire in the long run. The reaction I've been seeing in the blogs and from other people in real life is Do they think we're stupid? Of course it was terrorism, even if he wasn't a card carrying Al-Quedan! Why do they refuse to state the obvious? If the FBI continues this practice they are going to make an anti-muslim backlash more likely. When is "vigilante" action more likely? When the police act to safeguard the community from perceived threats, or when the authorities steadfastly refuse to do anything about a threat? When the authorities are trusted to do the right thing, or when they have expended their credibility and their word is not trusted and their pronouncements are taken as being patently false?


BCM // 8:22 AM

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Today's Capitalism Problem

Anyone who's read my blog a few times has probably figured out that I'm an advocate of capitalism. Well, here's today's problem with the system.

"Small repair shops fight automakers" Car manufacturers are not sharing vital information needed by independent repair shops to fix cars, and those shops say it is threatening their businesses. Cars are becoming more complex and require sophisticated systems to diagnose and repair them. But independent service stations say manufacturers are not supplying them with the codes needed for diagnosis and repair, thus forcing many consumers to go to the dealerships for fixes. (Via Neal Boortz)

Here's the reasons the manufacturers give for their practice.

Car manufacturers counter that they are simply protecting their intellectual property and ensuring that their cars get fixed right. "It is in the manufacturer's best interest that the car is repaired properly," said Eron Shosteck, spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Mr. Moss, who works at a BMW-only repair facility, said BMW is particularly proprietary and Volvo is "notoriously difficult to get information from." To counteract the lack of information, Mr. Moss talks to other mechanics in the same situation, and they are in contact with BMW USA to try and reach an agreement to help alleviate the situation.
Most cars are manufactured with onboard diagnostic computers. When the car malfunctions, the computer alerts the driver. Mr. Shosteck said problems arise when small repair shops replace malfunctioning parts with those that are not manufacturer authorized, which creates confusion for the computer. If the car malfunctions again, the malfunction will be misdiagnosed, the codes will be incorrect to fix the car and more damage will be done. Mr. Haas speculates the manufacturers are pressuring the dealerships to offer repair services to help retain business and make money because sales have not been as profitable. He also said the manufacturers might be afraid of being left vulnerable to a lawsuit.


One reason touched on but not explicitly mentioned that I think the dealers have: the non-manufacturer authorized parts. There is a quality issue no doubt, but there is also the business of the parts themselves. There's money to be made from the parts.


BCM // 6:10 AM

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