Two Things

First. I will be rooting for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. As much as I admire the Pittsburgh Steeler organization, they are winners. The whole country recognizes them as winners. The Cardinals, on the other hand are losers. Just rooting for the underdog eh Oulsham? Well, isn't that sweet? you might be saying. Nope. I don't like losers. I think losers stink for the most part, but I do think the world needs more winners, so if a loser can become a winner, well then we all benefit. This fits right in line with my political beliefs. So, I root for people to become winners, and that's why I am rooting for the Cardinals.

And another thing. President Obama is now going to allow each state to set their own emission levels for automobiles. Yay! States Right! Right, Oulsham? you might be exclaiming. Well not exactly. If the states want to set difficult-to-engineer emission standards for automobiles, making it nearly impossible for car manufacturers to be profitable, then the states should bail out the auto industry. The Federal government has already hammered a bunch of nails into the coffin of Detroit by removing the free-market from the auto industry, and now while they are on the other side of the coffin prying nails out with bailout loans, they are going to let the states hammer more nails in with a patchwork of unworkable emission standards. This is stupid.

American automobile manufacturers are surely to blame for their own condition, but the Feds have to share in that blame. Bowing down to Japan's tariff wall and forcing restrictions that fly in the face of what the market is demanding are also important causes for Detroit's current state. Allowing the possibility of fifty separate emissions standards with one hand while we are writing them checks on the other just defies logic.