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I don’t think that headline is bold enough for this story. Fuck you, Texas book board. And every single Texan who doesn’t personally do something about this, fuck you.UPDATE: All of us can help. Support this candidate and also this other candidate, both of whom are running to replace the FUCKING MANIACS WHO JUST BANNED THOMAS JEFFERSON FROM TEXAS HISTORY TEXTBOOKS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

After many years, the real history of how things were done begins official exposure. It’s a good thing that the journalist who tried to expose this during the Watergate era is alive to be vindicated. According to this story, his case is still in court after nearly 40 years.

If you know anyone who has just about any model Toyota made since 2000, please remind them of this: if the accelerator acts up, put the car in neutral. Every Toyota model, gasoline or hybrid, allows you to do this while the car is running, even if the engine speed accelerates out of control. Dozens and dozens of people have avoided a crash by doing it. This guy, understandable, was afraid to do it. The result was quite frightening.

When the accelerator stuck, he said he weighed all his options. He feared turning the car off in the middle of traffic, expecting the steering wheel to lock. If he shifted into neutral, he worried that it would slip into reverse. The floor mat, he said, wasn’t interfering with the gas pedal.

“It was accelerating out of control. Period,” Sikes said.

Sikes said he had never had a problem with Toyota vehicles. But when his friend showed up this morning to take him to the dealer in a Prius, he hesitated. “It just felt funny,” he said. “I love Toyotas. I will not drive a Prius again.”

His fear of “going into reverse” led to a mistake that was very near fatal. He went some 30 miles at 90 miles per hour, pursued by the State Police and weaving through traffic. Toyota’s has hundreds of thousands of cars on the road in the U.S. that are still prone to sudden unintended acceleration. This includes cars that have already been recalled and “fixed,” in my opinion. The car at issue in this story was not even part of a recall, yet just read what happened with it and there are many other stories like it that involve cars not part of the recall. Just as importantly, the “fix” being applied by Toyota (replacing accelerator pedals and floor mats on some cars) is completely irrelevant to and ineffective at fixing the main problem.

It will save money, not “waste” it. Remember that the next time every single mainstream media outlet repeats the opposite without question, totally operating every single day on the presumption that the bill is “expensive.” It will actually cost the taxpayer more money to defeat the bill than to pass it.

The “unanimous consent” bull is bullshit and should be done away with.

Also manages to whine that he’s missing a basketball game to do so. This is pure evil.

It hardly gets more comic than this. Watch the video linked here. Keep in mind that Gibbons was also accused of rape in 2008.

Bonus points:

Here’s Gibbons with his girlfriend on the trip and a famous Appalachian trail hiker:

It turns out that the recent radioactive leak at Vermont’s nuclear power plant was not the first, and that executives covered up at least one previous leak by lying under oath that the very pipes that leaked didn’t exist.

This guy’s a hero.

I’ve noticed that Jon Stewart taking the word of Fox News in order to criticize Obama, usually about some purported minor embarrassment, is becoming a more frequent occurrence. It needs to stop.