Our Bad

"Sorry guys,

We apologize"

"Sorry". By now we're sorry we ever heard the word. From Tiger, to Toyota to even DC City Councilman, former Mayor and non-stop delinquent Marion Barry, they're all "sorry"

After rigidly controlling its corporate and product reputation for decades, Toyota is suddenly as out of control as their deadly cars. But now the lid has been wrenched off of their Pandora's box which is spewing vile revelations...the kind that cause many to believe the company values profits over human life

Merrily we bounce from one sad spectacle to another. The Toyota mystique has been so badly shattered the supreme leader has been forced out of the fortress in Japan, where apologizing is an ancient practice, to come to the United States and express his regrets to a snarling Congress. It's a last gasp effort to salvage the wreckage.

As for Barry, he continues to live down to his reputation. He's in more trouble for using government money to finance a girlfriend. A "mistake" he admits, but the authorities are once again investigating whether he broke the law. The man has spent so much of his adult (using the term loosely) life tip-toeing precariously close to more prison time. Think of it as government financed rehab.

At least all of this has finally taken our eye off the Tiger. So he can go back to his own rehab...personal and/or image, and we can decide whether he's sincere. Or whether we care, in light of all the other shameful stuff.

Yeah right.

They' so contrite.

No they're not.

They just got caught.

 

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Comments

[Callah]

01:50 PM on 02/24/2010

It's called "Distraction". Get everybody looking over "there" while you "rob them" over here. Hasn't that been the story in this country for over the past 30 years? While we all "freak out" over one thing, it gives the low lifes in Washington and in all the corporations that are busy wiping out everybody and everything to make a profit, before moving off to "Financially solvent Asia" soon, where they will have their "Cheap new upper middle class IT/Engineering class to work for 40% less than any American or European would. (Please notice that the EU is under financial attack as well). Thank whoever said that companies like IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel,ect can bring their "Outsourced B1 visa-ed corporate SLAVES over here when Americans need JOBS because they will work for cheaper. You know, if that was some California Ag company bringing Illegals in to pick crops, they'd be arrested in put in jail. What's the difference except not many people want to pick onions....