Subject: Chrysler LLC

• Daily Flog: Powell confined to Barack's; oil prices, Red Sox, confidence in economy all fall

  October 20, 2008

• Daily Flog: Saudia Arabia bails out homeowners while we still haven't

  October 27, 2008

• Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

  November 24, 2008

• Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

  November 25, 2008

• Clip Job: If I Were Krushchev

  December 2, 2008

• American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

  December 3, 2008

• Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

  December 4, 2008

• Obama's truth-or-dare press conference on Blagojevich

  December 12, 2008

• GOP to Motor City: Drop Dead (Updated)

  December 12, 2008

• Fellow Arabs honor journalist's feat

  December 18, 2008

• Bush Bails Out GM, Chrysler

  December 19, 2008

• A Blue Fitzmas for Rightbloggers -- But Wait'll Next Year!

  December 22, 2008

• Ricardo Montalban, 1920-2009

  Ricardo Montalban, who died today at his Los Angeles home, started out as a sort of ethnic utility man in Hollywood, playing not only a variety of South and Central American characters but also Asians and Native Americans. (He is shown here receiving an award in 1993 from Anthony Quinn, who knew how that went.) Montalban seldom got the chance to display his range, but he could handle comedy as well as drama, and danced with Cyd Charisse in On an Island with You and starred opposite Lena Horne

  January 14, 2009

• On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

  Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president to cheering crowds — that trip was truly astonishing. As a Oklahoma boy who used to ride his bike to the train station to see the 8:55 Oil Flyer pull into Bartlesville in the '50s, I would somet

  January 20, 2009

• Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

  Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site included not only the expected puffery but also easy-to-access news and transcripts and schedules and photos — a record of the presidency, even with George W. Bush's malaprops. I've e-mailed the

  January 23, 2009

• Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

  Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker away from toxic Citibank. No joke. As Ground Zero reminds us of 9/11, ShitiField would serve as a monument to the global financial meltdown caused by New Yorkers. ShitiField would remind us to burst any

  February 9, 2009

• For Some Black Parents, the New Home Room is Home

  Public schools are failing black boys, say a growing number of parents who are homeschooling

  April 8, 2008

• Flash of Genius Unbearably Dull

  October 1, 2008

• Dipset's Parole Model

  December 26, 2006

• For Aussie Garage-Pop Tarts, Life Begins at 30

  June 27, 2006

• In Living Color

  August 15, 2006

• Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex

  December 9, 1997

• Pundit-cide

  November 17, 1998

• If Walls Could Talk

  A restored tenement offers a window on city history

  December 22, 1998

• Year of Living Dangerously

  January 5, 1999

• Cruising Altitude

  August 3, 1999

• Letters

  September 12, 2000

• The Towers Tomorrow

  January 15, 2002

• Sky City Fantasies

  February 19, 2002

• NY Mirror

  October 8, 2002

• NY Mirror

  February 11, 2003

• Veteran Town

  January 11, 2005

• Through a Glass Darkly

  December 12, 2006

• Obama: Car Companies Get 30 Days; Better Plans or Bankruptcy

  The Obama Administration rejected the General Motors and Chrysler plans and GM CEO Rick Wagoner resigned at the President's request. The President just announced the next steps. Wagoner's ouster, he said, is not a "condemnation" but "a recognition that it will take a new vision and new direction to create the GM of the future." Because the car companies and industry "must ultimately stand on their own, not as wards of the state," Chrysler and GM will be given another 30 days to cook up a better

  March 30, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Obama told Chrysler and GM to get their shit straight or go bankrupt. The new head of GM said that was okay with him. (Aren't they supposed to whine and resign in the Times?) This of course made Obama a fascist. Rightbloggers were also mad when Obama went to Europe and wasn't nice enough to the Queen and was too nice to a King. Plus he helped the G-20 give away all our money. Back home his minions passed his budget. NY-20 had an election. A Libertarian who Republicans pushed off the ballot ba

  April 3, 2009

• This Is Constantine Maroulis. He Wishes You Knew That.

  September 26, 2006

• Crappy Car Company Performance Boosts Market

  Well, Obama's "30 Days to Chapter 11" auto company plan is going as expected. Chrysler is preparing to go bankrupt. GM is going to "stall out" 13 assembly lines in North America. And as Ward Harkavy puts it at The Smart Asset, "Ford loses $1.4 billion, and investors are... happy!" Yes, the company says that since they're now spending less, they won't need federal bailout protection, and its stock price rose. (The Kansas City Star calls them "America's strongest automaker.") And get this -- ther

  April 24, 2009

• A Guide to the Voice Blogs

  While we cherish the attendance of our dozens of readers as well as the helpful advice of our commenters (e.g., "Get your facts straight," "MORE MSM LIES"), we feel obliged to remind you that ours is not the only blog under the Voice umbrella, and suggest you check out our colleagues, who are at least as adept at wasting your time, and in several different genres:   Press Clips. Mr. Ward Harkavy used to get up an hour before he went to bed, smoke a pack of Luckies, read 126 papers (all the

  April 29, 2009

• Chrysler Goes Bankrupt?*

  (* Question mark added for plausible deniability.) They've been talking about it for a while, and today Chrysler is expected to announce it's filing for Chapter 11. The company had been trying to work out a deal with its lenders, but they won't take the necessary losses of their own volition, so bankruptcy is what's left. The Obama Administration is optimistic: 30 to 60 days, says Joe Biden, and they'll reorganize into a powerhouse! Despite its impending bankruptcy, Chrysler has also apparently

  April 30, 2009

• Obama: Yep, Chrysler's Bankrupt, Will Partner with Fiat

  The President just gave a statement in which he announced that Chrysler is bankrupt, but insisted that it will emerge stronger from the bankruptcy reorganization. He thanked the many "stakeholders" of the car company, including creditors and employees, who had "made sacrifices" to help put Chrysler's financial affairs in order, but noted that they had been resisted by "a group of investment firms and hedge funds" who chose instead to "hold out" for the "prospect of a taxpayer bailout... Some dem

  April 30, 2009

• Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

  Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney, AIPAC, Metro Dream Homes, Ken Lewis, Bank of America, Jay Bybee, John Thain, Lehman Brothers, Joe Cassano, Merrill Lynch, and swine flu. Polar bears ruined our economy.

  May 1, 2009

• Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Swine is the word! It started out as a mere public health emergency. Some kids got sick in Queens and they closed their school. Then it went viral, so to speak, becoming the new thing everyone's enemies caused. Another Queens school closed. A kid died in Texas. Two Brooklyn schools closed. The Israeli Health Minister tried to change the flu's name, was rejected. Google mapped the panicdemic. WHO and Joe Biden took it to Level 5. An Obama administration official got it. At this point we wish th

  May 1, 2009

• Drug Czar Ends Drug War, But Casualties Continue to Mount

  This has been a crap couple of days for the U.S. economy. As The Smart Asset details, California is selling off assets to avoid total collapse. Congress is watering down the credit card bill, removing the 15 percent cap on rates. Chrysler is closing hundreds of dealerships, and last month wholesale prices and unemployment claims rose. But the government, like your working press, likes to sweeten the mix with soft news, so we have the new Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, G

  May 14, 2009

• Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Chrysler Sale; Judge Clears End of 789 Dealership Contracts

  There was some concern for the Chrysler deal when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted a stay to Indiana state pension funds and others seeking to block the sale, previously cleared by a bankruptcy judge, of the collapsed car company's assets to Fiat, the Italian carmaker whose involvement was thought crucial to the bankruptcy-bailout plan, and other partners. The funds believed they were getting a raw deal and argued that the speeded-up reorganization flouted the integrity of the

  June 9, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  On Third Avenue. Albany went coup-coup! Pedro Espada Jr. seized the state senate with the help of Hiram Monserrate and billionaire Tom Golisano. After some skirmishes, which saw Tom Duane appearing to lean GOP to save gay marriage, the Dems locked the chamber, but Espada got the key and the GOP went in, but Monserrate, already vacillating, left a few minutes later. The fight spilled into a courtroom, where a judge punted to Monday while Democrats worked over Monserrate. The eventual winner: d

  June 12, 2009

• Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney Talk Truck Farming

  One of the attractions at yesterday's Good Beer at BAM could be found parked on the street outside of the event itself. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis' Truck Farm, a 1986 Dodge pick-up with delicate rows of greens sprouting in its bed, attracted plenty of stares from passersby, along with more than a few lustful sighs over the sight of heirloom basil growing just a few feet from BAM's entrance. Truck Farm is both the name of the mobile farm and the short documentary being made about its ongoing har

  July 30, 2009

• The Blogroll Gazette: The Many (Possible) Faces of Sam Sifton; Is Momo Midtown On Its Way?

  This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily imagined what sort of disguises Sam Sifton might use to hide his already public identity, including a retro Batman mask, Gael Greene-style hat, and Donald Trump wig. Midtown Lunch got excited at the prospect of a MomoMidtown... or is it MidtownFuku? Rumor has it the next David Chang endeavor will be in the Chambers Hotel. Grub Street noticed that Time Out's food section dropped a star for its reviews. Restaurant critic Jay Cheshes said the five star rat

  August 7, 2009