Nobody’s Perfect: Mozilla VS GM

 Nobody’s Perfect:

This week, we have two companies that are trying very hard to cover up past mistakes. Let’s see if we can pick the lesser of the two evils

FIRST UP: Mozilla. Which runs a search engine called Firefox. It seems, the company’s owners found out too late, that it’s appointed CEO, Brendan Eich, had committed an unspeakable crime:

He helped set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in California—no wait. That was a California Senator.

No, Brenda did something evidently much worse…he donated money to outlaw same-sex marriage, which in California is a crime far exceeding setting up Al-Qaeda training camps.

Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is stepping down as CEO following protests over his support of a gay marriage ban in California. At issue was Eich’s $1,000 donation in 2008 to the campaign to pass California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that outlawed same-sex marriages.

HIS boss, who happens to be a woman, said this when she found out:

“We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better,” Baker wrote.

She said that Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech and that “figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.”

Yes, MS Baker just can’t seem to get the concept of free speech, which is why I’m immensely proud of the fact that I never downloaded Firefox, even though Kim Komando (I really like her) suggested it. I went with my gut: Google and Microsoft do enough damage to a computer, why add a third?

SECOND UP: GM. This now great Chinese company was in the hot seat this week, for cutting corners, and not replacing a small ignition switch that cost 57cents.

A safety watchdog group has released a study that shows General Motors (GM) airbag failures resulted in the death of some 300 people, eight times the number that GM stated.

GM said there had been 12 deaths in 34 cars; the study shows 303 in 1.6 million vehicles from the vehicles GM recalled last month. GM did not recall the cars until February, despite learning of problems with the ignition switch in 2001 and issuing related service bulletins to dealers with suggested remedies in 2005.

So what did GM do? They immediately promoted the smartest and most innocent looking woman they could find in their stack of employees and made her CEO to take the heat: Mary Barra. And Mary went before Congress to explain:

Barra, who has been CEO for less than three months, fielded questions from the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for two hours, avoiding any obvious gaffes and keeping her cool but also largely ducking specific answers, saying an internal investigation is underway into why it took GM so long to address ignition-switch problems first detected in 2001 this year.

She was battered for speaking “gobbledygook,” thumped for not firing an engineer who apparently concealed a change to the potentially deadly switches, and blasted because GM made an economic decision to keep the flawed component in production while knowing it didn’t meet GM standards.

So, who wins the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week?

Mozilla…basically hurt, not only one guy, who didn’t deserve to be ostracized for his own opinions about sex, but their bottom line. Many conservatives are going to stop using Firefox, and they will lose customers, and Mozilla might end up on the not very popular proverbial floor looking for CNN.

GM on the other hand, has killed 300 people with their negligence, and no one has been fired.(Proof that it’s been nationalized)

BUT…having said that…they are small peanuts compared to how many people will die due to the new Obamacare “less is more” healthcare law.

But, I know, I’m always doing this at the end of my Nobody’s Perfect opinions. So…

I pick GM.

If a bunch of gay people running Mozilla want to have only gay liberals working for their company, hey, doesn’t bother me. It’s a free country, and it’s a good thing now we know we don’t have to use your product.

But, GM…was bailed out by the American people…and murder is murder, no matter if it comes from a greedy bottom line, or a population-culling healthcare law.

So, to make ourselves forget both these companies…enjoy the SNL skit on what all scumbags do, whether they are big multinational companies or corrupt government officials…. when they are caught being…scumbags. They lie.

I could not for the life of me find it on Youtube, but you can see the SNL video HERE. It’s worth the watch!

April 7, 2014 Posted by Joyanna Adams | corruption, Globalization, GM, tyranny, Uncategorized | corruption, Gay Rights, GM | Leave a comment