change the racist policies of the democrat party !

Its like deja vu all over again...

Is change still change if it hasn't changed?

Is that "Meat Head" in the blue shirt and pants?

wonder how many Holloywood idiots will be in the VIP section at the Nazicrat Party convention in Denver this year ?

At least BO doesn't have that stupid grin (I hated it when I was 12 and I STILL hate it!).

Look out for the rabbit, dude!

re: #4 SalsaNChips

Is that "Meat Head" in the blue shirt and pants?

Either him or Thurman Munson.

So is 1970's-style change the same as 21-st century style change?

ACCURSED MOUNTEBANKS!

Is Obama afraid of rabbits?

Is it just me or...

(a) does "Change we can believe in", make no sense,
(b) does "Change we can believe in" seem straight out of "1984".

But that election turned out so well for the country

/

Smack! That's gonna leave a mark!

Oh please not more of Jimmy Carter to listen to. We had 4 years of him already. Why won't he just quietly go away?

Wow, a Ford Bronco and two old Saabs (96s) parked in the same lot!

re: #12 savage_nation

I'd outlaw the fucking Democrat Party. Shut their asses up permanently.

indeed and agreed

but first, we have to get everyone to adopt their new name

"The Nazicrat Party"

It's gonna be just peachy.

The more things change...

re: #18 Adrenalyn

Take it easy there boss...as bad as the Democrats might be/seem...they are VERY VERY VERY far from Nazis.

Don't be a dumbass.

re: #20 rawmuse

The more things change...

How is that in French?

re: #9 vxbush

So is 1970's-style change the same as 21-st century style change?

Except in the '70s, it was double knit.

The more things *ahem* change, the more they stay the same.

Rabbit Bait surrendered to the Soviets and Iranians.

B. Hussein will do exactly the same thing.

And the outcome would be the same too. Misery indexes, actual recession as opposed to the talked down economic growth we continue seeing despite the doom and gloomers, appeasement, and it's all the change you hope never to see again.

Meanwhile, Barry was walking the beach, trying to score a lid.

re: #21 WrathofG-d

Take it easy there boss...as bad as the Democrats might be/seem...they are VERY VERY VERY far from Nazis.

Don't be a dumbass.

I have to disagree
they are very totalitarian
first thing they want to do is confiscate guns
much like the Nazi's

and stifle dissent, much like the nazis

I know it may be a bit over the top to use such a strong label
but I truly feel they are worthy of it

It's like the 1955 and 1985 mayoral campaigns from Back to the Future.

re: #25 lawhawk

And the outcome would be the same too.

I think you're right. I'm getting ready to tighten my belt and survive the Obama presidency the best I can.

Is it weird that i feel naseous after watching that.

Like seriously i don't feel well.

re: #25 lawhawk

And the outcome would be the same too. Misery indexes, actual recession as opposed to the talked down economic growth we continue seeing despite the doom and gloomers, appeasement, and it's all the change you hope never to see again.

Yep, double-digit interest rates, stagflation, you name it.

re: #31 Ward Cleaver

THE MUSTANG II !

Change? Be careful what you wish for. My life is so horrid right now///

What do Jimmy and Barry have in common?

One was a peanut farmer the other has a peanut brain...no wait, both have peanut brains.

One raises nuts the is nuts.

re: #31 Ward Cleaver

Yep, double-digit interest rates, stagflation, you name it.

VIVA LA MALAISE!

What's all this talk of "change?" I don't want change. I want dollars, not pennies.

re: #32 pegcity

THE MUSTANG II !

no, worse

The Pinto II
The Vega II
The K Car II

re: #29 Killgore Trout

I think you're right. I'm getting ready to tighten my belt and survive the Obama presidency the best I can.

* * *
Relax, a Carter II presidency tightens your belt for you!

No gas, no food, no 6% mortgages, no worries!

re: #37 Adrenalyn

no, worse

The Pinto II
The Vega II
The K Car II

The Gremlin II: The Next Batch

re: #37 Adrenalyn

hey there bring back the ford fiesta just in time for Obama to ruin the economy.

re: #37 Adrenalyn

no, worse

The Pinto II
The Vega II
The K Car II

oh crap

re: #27 Adrenalyn

I'm not going to go back & forth on this issue, as I couldn't disagree more with you on this issue. They are NOT Nazis, they are NOT even like Nazis, and in fact they have very little in common with Nazis. You are just going over the top with this one. Its like when the LLL compare Bush to Hitler...complete nonsense.

Sure there might be similarities, but that doesn't mean A+B =C. I drive a car, get up in the morning, put on pants, and comb my hair...but that doesn't make me Mario Andretti.

re: #32 pegcity

THE MUSTANG II !

The Dodge Aspen (Rex Harrison singing, "Unbelievable") and Plymouth Volare!

The Ford Granada! "It looks like a Mercedes!"

I've been waiting all my life for change. Change in the SSI program ponzi scheme. Change in income tax regulations. Change in the government's energy policy. Change in the government's deficit spending. Basically, more common sense in government and less politics. (I can dream, can't I). I don't think any of the candidates are going to bring the kind of change I've been waiting for.

And don't forget the Chrysler Cordoba, with its rich Corinthian leather!

re: #40 pegcity

hey there bring back the ford fiesta just in time for Obama to ruin the economy.

* * *
And Ford Motors is opening a Fiesta factory in MEXICO just in time then.

(Seriously, it was in the news)

It's amazing how many videos there are of snippetes from Obama's speeches set to music and beats.

Here's a remix of Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come with Obama talkin' of "change" and "hope".

Scary stuff, cultish.

re: #37 Adrenalyn

no, worse

The Pinto II
The Vega II
The K Car II

The Plymouth Volare

/'nuf said...

re: #47 alegrias

* * *
And Ford Motors is opening a Fiesta factory in MEXICO just in time then.

(Seriously, it was in the news)

Fiestas were great rat-racers.

They may pedal this "Hope-Change" message. They problem is that there are so many that buy the message. There are so many that want to change the United States so much that we will end of looking like France.

re: #42 WrathofG-d

I'm not going to go back & forth on this issue, as I couldn't disagree more with you on this issue. They are NOT Nazis, they are NOT even like Nazis, and in fact they have very little in common with Nazis. You are just going over the top with this one. Its like when the LLL compare Bush to Hitler...complete nonsense.

Sure there might be similarities, but that doesn't mean A+B =C. I drive a car, get up in the morning, put on pants, and comb my hair...but that doesn't make me Mario Andretti.

But a guy can pretend on his way to work, cant he?

/

re: #46 Ward Cleaver

And don't forget the Chrysler Cordoba, with its rich Corinthian leather!

you forgot to channel Ricardo Montalban...

re: #43 Ward Cleaver

re: #49 CIA Reject

GMTA!

re: #43 Ward Cleaver

The Ford Granada! "It looks like a Mercedes!"

My parents had a Granada...double crap.

Don't forget the American Motors Pacer.

some one should put this one up on t.v. and not just u-tube

BEEN THERE DONE THAT.

Nothing is new under the sun. esp in politics.

re: #53 Adrenalyn

you forgot to channel Ricardo Montalban...

"KHAAAN!"

re: #43 Ward Cleaver

The Dodge Aspen (Rex Harrison singing, "Unbelievable") and Plymouth Volare!

The Ford Granada! "It looks like a Mercedes!"

I had a Volare. It was sitting on the lot next to a Mustang Mach I at the same price. Insurance was the killer. Body and and interior went to shit, the 225CID slant six ran forever.

re: #53 Adrenalyn

you forgot to channel Ricardo Montalban...

You look mahvelous!

re: #42 WrathofG-d

I drive a car, get up in the morning, put on pants, and comb my hair...

Have you considered doing those things in a different order?

re: #50 Ward Cleaver

Fiestas were great rat-racers.

* * *
This is excellent news for Mexican workers, able to work on Ford Fiestas in their own country, just as people want cheap cars that use less fuel. Change!

re: #55 jorline

The Ford Granada! "It looks like a Mercedes!"

My parents had a Granada...double crap.

Don't forget the American Motors Pacer.

And the Granada's sibling, the Mercury Monarch. More crap.

Carter had nothing to run on except he was "not Nixon", which he claimed Ford was.

Likewise, Obama-of-the-short-resume is running on "not Bush", thus "change." BUT, he is also "not Clinton", thus change "you can believe in."

Because even their fans know the Clintons are liars.

re: #58 jcm

I had a Volare. It was sitting on the lot next to a Mustang Mach I at the same price. Insurance was the killer. Body and and interior went to shit, the 225CID slant six ran forever.

Volare', whoa-oh-oh-oh!

re: #38 alegrias

* * *
Relax, a Carter II presidency tightens your belt for you!

No gas, no food, no 6% mortgages, no worries!

Sounds like the closing theme of Gilligan's Island

No phone, no lights no motor cars, not a single luxury, like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be.

Obama could be the worst of Clinton, Carter with a Kennedy veneer.

re: #21 WrathofG-d

Take it easy there boss...as bad as the Democrats might be/seem...they are VERY VERY VERY far from Nazis.

Don't be a dumbass.

You have to look at the foundation of their ideologies and attitudes.

Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Worker's Party are the crazy relatives that the present day Left goes to great effort to avoid talking about.

The pragmatic brand of socialist (as opposed to the doctrinaire Marxist) will strike the pose that will have the most appeal in the target audience's minds. Thus in Germany, where the army was traditionally held in the highest esteem, the NSDAP assumed in public the form of a substitute army (ersatzarmee) with a mass of clean-cut men in spiffy uniforms marching about in disciplined formations. In the United States, where the standing military was traditionally looked upon with suspicion if not ridicule, the Left rejected the militarist paradigm. Unfortunately (for them, not necessarily for us), they assumed the form of what decent people came to call dirty-stinking hippies, a mob of unwashed savages attired in cast-off or otherwise ridiculous clothing who moved about in a sloppy mass.

The American Left in its manifestation as the Anti-war Movement had in effect taken on the modern form of a barbarian horde. But given that Socialism is essentially barbarian brigandage in modernistic makeup, why should we be surprised?

re: #62 Ward Cleaver

And the Granada's sibling, the Mercury Monarch. More crap.

* * *
You lizards trying to lose Michigan again, or in the general election, by offending our autoworking voters?

Sheeesh.

re: #58 jcm

I had a Volare. It was sitting on the lot next to a Mustang Mach I at the same price. Insurance was the killer. Body and and interior went to shit, the 225CID slant six ran forever.

I used to see a Volare around here recently, a clean low mileage one. Torsion bars in the front, leaf springs in the rear. Chryslers were high tech then. Not.

re: #62 Ward Cleaver

And the Granada's sibling, the Mercury Monarch. More crap.

I had a Monarch. It was truly a piece of crap.

re: #58 jcm

I had a Volare. It was sitting on the lot next to a Mustang Mach I at the same price. Insurance was the killer. Body and and interior went to shit, the 225CID slant six ran forever.

My Dad bought a '76 Volare station wagon brand new. The DAY he brought it home, I spent 2-3 hours in it running the interior panel screws in all the way.

It was the shortest-lived car ever in our family (replacing a 14 year old Pontiac Catalina Gran Safari), and only made it to 1979 to be replaced with a Datsun B210.

re: #65 redstateredneck

Volare', whoa-oh-oh-oh!

And, of course - Newbomb Turk!

re: #50 Ward Cleaver

Fiestas were great rat-racers.

mr redstateredneck has a Ford Fiesta he uses for a delivery vehicle. It's painted with Chrome-Illusion flip flop paint.

re: #63 Iron Fist

,

Don't forget price controls, gas lines, hostages in Iran (new and improved with Nukes!). And this is just if Obama does what he has promised he will do. It could get worse. Imagine if the Senate goes 60+ Democrats.

No check on Power except for the Supreme Court. And not even that if the right Justices are replaced. Carter II: revenge of the L³eft.

Good Lord.

That gave me a headache!

I think I'll go home now.

re: #72 OldLineTexan

My Dad bought a '76 Volare station wagon brand new. The DAY he brought it home, I spent 2-3 hours in it running the interior panel screws in all the way.

It was the shortest-lived car ever in our family (replacing a 14 year old Pontiac Catalina Gran Safari), and only made it to 1979 to be replaced with a Datsun B210.

The auto unions seemed to enjoy making crappy cars.

re: #55 jorline

The Ford Granada! "It looks like a Mercedes!"

My parents had a Granada...double crap.

Don't forget the American Motors Pacer.

AMC Pacer, the wide small car. You still see some super low mileage originals for sale on eBay occasionally.

I once owned an AMC Pacer. But, I don't think much of it. I used to vote Democrat also.

re: #27 Adrenalyn

I will have to agree the use of the term Nazi or fascist in america has cheapened its real meaning. No American President of eather party was or is a nazi. it is meaningless use of this term that distorts it true meaning.

there have been blood thuristy mass murderes in our time, pol pot, saddam, mao and a few others but none of them are American.

one can completley or mostly disagree with the current crop of democrats or republicans without going into this swamp.

I know what the real nazi's, stalinists, and ottoman islmo facists really were because of the blood spilled in my family.

re: #77 Ward Cleaver

AMC Pacer, the wide small car. You still see some super low mileage originals for sale on eBay occasionally.

The bubble car...crap!

He looks downright satanic in that end shot

Hmmm... "Change"" --another thing that Obama has "borrowed"...

re: #64 Silhouette

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

re: #74 redstateredneck

mr redstateredneck has a Ford Fiesta he uses for a delivery vehicle. It's painted with Chrome-Illusion flip flop paint.

Wicked. Not to be confused with the Ford Festiva, which was a Mazda design (the Mazda 121), built by Kia.

I have neighbors who are card-carrying Democrats. They say they will sit out the election or maybe even vote for McCain if Obama is nominated. Their daughter, who is usually a bit less left-wing than they are, is an Obama supporter.
The difference?
The parents remember Jimmy Carter. The daughter is too young.

re: #52 DownRightMeanAmerican

But a guy can pretend on his way to work, cant he?

/

Wrath, I agree with you. I find it beyond offensive when people decide to call others they don't like Nazis. Democrats are not Nazis and I even am offended by someone suggesting that the Democratic party be outlawed. This is America and half of our population are not Nazis. My father and my uncles fought in WWII - they knew(all passed on now) what the Nazis were about and what they did- even more so because we are Jewish. I guess the person who started this really doesn't know what the Nazis did- or is not affected by it enough to refrain from throwing the word "Nazi" around.

re: #76 debutaunt

The auto unions seemed to enjoy making crappy cars.

* * *
We should give equal credit to the bad car designs.

Ugh, nightmare of nightmares, it's Dhimmi Carter.

OT: Has anyone here gotten a call from a place called "Fortress Credit" asking you to authorize a $10,000 credit limit? They have one of those 877 numbers and called me about 1/2 hour ago. As I am on the Do-Not-Call List, I just reported them so they can be investigated.

It was very odd, as I've never filled out any paperwork for them.

/I think it's a scam.

In a related note, the Warner-Lieberman is going to impose a whole new level of pain in the name of "green". Yet another indoctrination into the cult of eco-nonsense. Carbon trading is a scam, and anyone with a pulse should recognize that it's Enron writ large.

Of course, since it's a government imposed program, it's here to help you. Help you to lighten your wallet and paycheck, all while making it far more expensive to do just about anything.

And where will all that money go? Into the black hole of government accountability.

re: #83 WrathofG-d

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

I'm guessing it will turn out to be a new and improved style of communism.

re: #42 WrathofG-d

well, I'll try to keep a lid on it

but there are many similarities than perhaps you think of right this second, that I observe

racial policies - being a white hetero male, is getting to be as bad as being Juden in old Germany
media control - see ABC,NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, Gannett, NYTimes Co.
etc..
gun control - self explanatory
forced labor - we pay taxes for their wild spending (a stretch...I agree)
government contract preferences - white male businesses need not apply, like Joo businesses
killing joos - let Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza wipe out Israel

there are some similarites - in my opinion

We had a VW Bug and a Chevy Nova...

The bug had pleather seats and a crank sunroof.

re: #80 jorline

The bubble car...crap!

Lots of glass, which required a big-ass air conditioner.

re: #83 WrathofG-d

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

* * *
It's like a rock lyric, or a market tested brand, that makes people swoon.

It's conditioning, you're supposed to feel better about those WORDS THAT WORK.

The Democrat Party has Changed so much that the old-style dems can't recognize it. It has moved steadily and stealthily leftward and left the sensible democrats behind. They have moved reluctantly toward the Republican Party, which has been pulled leftward by their influence. Today's Repubs are much like yesterday's Dems. And us conservatives are left behind by all parties.

Change! Let the Obamalaise begin...

re: #46 Ward Cleaver

Nonono, it's pronounced "Reech Coreeenthian layther." (Khaaan!)

re: #58 jcm

To this day i will never forgive my parents back in the 80's for selling a mint condition 1968 Mustang that had been replaced with a new car exactly 1 month before i got my drivers permit. this was back 1984. my mom had been driving it as the family car for years, the only problem with it was it had a rain leak coming through that grate between the wipers. my dad at the time said that it wasn't worth fixing "a 16 year old pile of junk" and told me that I didn't really want the car.

/still resentful.

re: #85 wolfie

I have neighbors who are card-carrying Democrats. They say they will sit out the election or maybe even vote for McCain if Obama is nominated. Their daughter, who is usually a bit less left-wing than they are, is an Obama supporter.
The difference?
The parents remember Jimmy Carter. The daughter is too young.

I think that is a big key to why Obama is so successful amonfg the college-age crowd... No recall of the disaster that was Jimmy Carter...

re: #87 alegrias

* * *
We should give equal credit to the bad car designs.

Equal credit to design and crappy manufacture. A perfect plan to lose our top standing.

Cadillac Cimmaron
anyone get that wonderful car yet
a Malibu dolled up as a Caddy

re: #83 WrathofG-d

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

Who the hell knows, but damn(!) don't it make you feel good?

re: #83 WrathofG-d

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

Before the election, it means whatever the voter wants it to mean, after the election, it means whatever Obama wants it to mean.

re: #87 alegrias

We should give equal credit to the bad car designs.

Very true. And, we should also remember that most of the cars from then were hit or miss. I mean, how many 1970s Civics still ply the highways?

re: #92 loppyd

We had a VW Bug and a Chevy Nova...

The bug had pleather seats and a crank sunroof.

what about the VW Thing...crapola

re: #88 Honorary Yooper

Either that, or they must be pretty new...

re: #92 loppyd

We had a VW Bug and a Chevy Nova...

The bug had pleather seats and a crank sunroof.

* * *
Lucky you! Everyone wanted to ride in those bugs with sunroofs--Schiebedachs in german.

Does this mean that my pair of baby blue angel flights are back in fashion?

Ssswwweeettt !

That and a groovy polyester long sleeve with a bitching long collar.

Man I'm so getting some at the club later.

In AIPAC Speech, McCain Hits Obama on Iran, Iraq

SNIP

WASHINGTON – Senator John McCain of Arizona used a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby, to lambaste Senator Barack Obama on two fronts: he charged that Mr. Obama’s calls for diplomacy with Iran were misguided and insufficient, and that his proposal to begin withdrawing United States troops from Iraq would lead to chaos in the region and endanger Israel.

“The Iranians have spent years working toward a nuclear program,’’ Mr. McCain was to say, according to excerpts from the speech provided by his campaign. “And the idea that they now seek nuclear weapons because we refuse to engage in presidential-level talks is a serious misreading of history,’’ he added, noting that previous overtures by the Clinton administration had failed.

“Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before,’’ he said in the advance text of his speech, which was provided by his campaign.

My family had a 1973 Ford Maverick when I was growing up...

It was stolen from in front of my home in 1993...

Obama, Carter and Iran's foreign minister all agree.

“The American people need change”

re: #91 Adrenalyn

Sorry, I don't agree and I find it offensive that you continue this line. Dislike the policies, hate the people- but I am positive you won't find yourself being killed or your children or parents killed and half of your "people" being destroyed. Please drop it-now.

re: #104 jorline

what about the VW Thing...crapola

actually, it outlasted the Nova...

re: #64 Silhouette

Carter had nothing to run on except he was "not Nixon", which he claimed Ford was.

Likewise, Obama-of-the-short-resume is running on "not Bush", thus "change." BUT, he is also "not Clinton", thus change "you can believe in."

Because even their fans know the Clintons are liars.

To complete the picture - Obama's general election campaign will be based on labeling McCain as 'Bush" because Bush's poll numbers are low nowadays, just like Ford was "Nixon".

Seriously, what in the world does; "Change You Can Believe In" mean?

I live in the East, but I think it's a variation of the jingle for Heileman's Old Style beer.

re: #100 Adrenalyn

Cadillac Cimmaron
anyone get that wonderful car yet
a Malibu dolled up as a Caddy

Baby Caddy.

re: #86 madisonsfriend

Wrath, I agree with you. I find it beyond offensive when people decide to call others they don't like Nazis. Democrats are not Nazis and I even am offended by someone suggesting that the Democratic party be outlawed. This is America and half of our population are not Nazis. My father and my uncles fought in WWII - they knew(all passed on now) what the Nazis were about and what they did- even more so because we are Jewish. I guess the person who started this really doesn't know what the Nazis did- or is not affected by it enough to refrain from throwing the word "Nazi" around.

I AM IN 100% AGREEMENT WITH YOU IT ANGERS ME WHEN MOONBATS DO THIS TO AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND IT IS WRONG TO DO IT TO THE DEMS AS WELL. IT CLEARLY SHOWS A TOTAL LACK OF KNOWAGE WHAT THE REAL NAZIS WERE.

the current crop of democrats are very much like the european social democrats, the canadian liberal, green party and/or NDP. and one can disagree with them with out going into a DINGBAT/MOONBAT SWAMP.

re: #113 funkyfantom

To complete the picture - Obama's general election campaign will be based on labeling McCain as 'Bush" because Bush's poll numbers are low nowadays, just like Ford was "Nixon".

Yes and it just might be a winning tactic...

re: #106 alegrias

* * *
Lucky you! Everyone wanted to ride in those bugs with sunroofs--Schiebedachs in german.

I had a '64 with a canvas covered sunroof. Some of the snaps were broken and it flapped in the breeze. Snowed inside the car too.
Bummer.

re: #93 Ward Cleaver

Lots of glass, which required a big-ass air conditioner.

parents had several Ramblers as well...no wonder I'm so screwed-up now...my whole childhood was spent in crappy cars.

re: #6 joncelli

At least BO doesn't have that stupid grin (I hated it when I was 12 and I STILL hate it!).

We must be about the same age. My house was in love with his grin. Including me. Was such a change from what I had seen before.

Thought he looked like a fun guy. Gosh, glad I grew up.

re: #101 redstateredneck

Oh. I thought it was "chains you can believe in"- a goth thing.

re: #100 Adrenalyn

Cadillac Cimmaron
anyone get that wonderful car yet
a Malibu dolled up as a Caddy

It was a J-car (Chevy Cavalier). Cadillac's still trying to live that one down.

re: #109 tfc3rid

My family had a 1973 Ford Maverick when I was growing up...

It was stolen from in front of my home in 1993...

I had a '71 Maverick when I was first married. It was 7 years old then.

re: #112 loppyd

actually, it outlasted the Nova...

LOL

re: #106 alegrias

* * *
Lucky you! Everyone wanted to ride in those bugs with sunroofs--Schiebedachs in german.

I really loved that car.

It's an advertisement for the US Mint...

The US Mint: Change You Can Believe In!

re: #78 rawmuse

I once owned an AMC Pacer. But, I don't think much of it. I used to vote Democrat also.

I thought of buying one used years ago. But when I put it in drive, it wouldn't go. Went fine in reverse.
Didn't buy it.

The progressive left has been throwing the accusation of "NAZI" at the republicans for years. There isn't a Damn thing wrong with throwing it back at them. The majority of these historically challenged fools no nothing about Nazism, most don't even know that the word means National Socialist... the exact goal of their own party. In my educated opinion, the only other organization that comes close to paralleling the Nazi Party besides Democrats would be Islam, which is probably why they are such close allies.

My parents even had a ceramic peanut with that grin on it. Sat on their what-not shelf for years. Think it got broken. Accidently, I'm sure.

re: #124 redstateredneck

I had a '71 Maverick when I was first married. It was 7 years old then.

My auntie had a Maverick. I was riding in it in Maine when they announced that Elvis was dead.

re: #95 cookielady

The Democrat Party has Changed so much that the old-style dems can't recognize it. It has moved steadily and stealthily leftward and left the sensible democrats behind. They have moved reluctantly toward the Republican Party, which has been pulled leftward by their influence. Today's Repubs are much like yesterday's Dems. And us conservatives are left behind by all parties.

Change! Let the Obamalaise begin...

That's a fine, insightful summary of US political trends, IMO.

re: #91 Adrenalyn

Hey nothing personal against you, I just suggest you read the other posters on this topic: Yochanan, Madisonsfriend, etc.

Although there are are many reasons not to like agree or like Democrats, your comparrison of them to the Nazis, belittles the TRUE horror of what the Nazis were and did. Go to a Holocaust/WW2 memorial site, look at the pictures of the dead people, the concentration camps, the outlawing of religions/people, the terrorism on the street...then see if you really want to compare the Democrat party to the Nazis.

If you still do...then...I really don't know what to tell you. I guess read my Mario Andretti analogy over & over again until it makes sense.

Some nightmares are recurring.

re: #131 loppyd

My auntie had a Maverick. I was riding in it in Maine when they announced that Elvis was dead.

Who's Elvis?

/

re: #99 debutaunt

Equal credit to design and crappy manufacture. A perfect plan to lose our top standing.

* * *

Michigan's problem (like democrats') was expecting the proletariat to keep buying poorly designed, crappily manufactured products, AS IF there weren't competitition available.

ONE United Auto Workers
ONE national healthcareprovider
ONE national teachersunion
ONE green global climate administration

They were shocked, shocked, anyone came up with better products for less $$.

re: #124 redstateredneck

Aw, shucks...and here I'd always thought you were a lot younger than me... :)

re: #109 tfc3rid

My family had a 1973 Ford Maverick when I was growing up...

It was stolen from in front of my home in 1993...

I guarantee you it is still running.

My good bud in high school had one, and her parents said she could get a new car as soon as that one wore out.

You. Cannot. Kill. Them.

We tried.

re: #138 Silhouette

Sugar in the gas tank?

re: #37 Adrenalyn

no, worse

The Pinto II
The Vega II
The K Car II

I had a Vega, along with a couple of friends who had the same model-year. WORST CAR EVER MADE. All of our cars died beyond repair within 4 weeks of each other, approximately 3 years to the date after purchase.

That could be me on the right of that picture. Except the hair isn't long enough. And I don't see either a beer or doobie. Never mind, it probably isn't me circa 1976.

Ol' Jimmah Cahtah was a trickster, he was. I actually voted for him in '76. In my defense, it was only my second time to vote for POTUS, and that Nixon vote didn't seem to have worked out so well. JC sure enough brought change. A recession and inflation at the same time, dayum who woulda thought that possible. Chunk a decades long ally to the wolves in favor of a radical Mussulman cleric, which didn't work out so well for the sovereign territory of the US embassy. Asking your middle school daughter about what to do with all those nasty nukes, worked fine (for a fool). Lusting in his heart, and then not having enough sense not to mention it to Playboy. Gas lines and shortages. Chased down by a killer rabbit (did Monty Python steal that bit?). I don't blame JC for Billy, but who would have guessed that Billy would turn out to be the smarter Carter?

But I remember ol' JC alright. A Navy man, a nuclear scientist (not really), farmer, governor, salt-of-the-earth type guy.

And a moonbat. A barking, raving, howling-at-the-moon type bat. Kinda like the pale glimmer of the coming Obama.

re: #131 loppyd

My auntie had a Maverick. I was riding in it in Maine when they announced that Elvis was dead.

The timing is about the same. Elvis died the summer I was married!
Got the car the next spring.

re: #128 Kosh's Shadow

I thought of buying one used years ago. But when I put it in drive, it wouldn't go. Went fine in reverse.
Didn't buy it.

That's too funny! Last week a carload of high school kids drove by my house in reverse.

I think they're more likely to bring back the Maverick if McCain gets elected.

I met Jimmy in '76 at the Young Democrats Convention in St. Louis. I thought he was an amiable nobody.

I was right about the latter, wrong about the former. Or maybe he's just a crazy old man.

one thing of the seventies I remember fondly...you could balance pencils on those babies...

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re: #135 tfc3rid

I've gone to his cousin's concerts, twice-annually, lately...pretty good music... :)

re: #90 debutaunt

re: #102 zmdavid

re: #101 redstateredneck

I should ask a LLL friend of mine...i'll go do that now. I'd love to know what those who put it on their car think it means. (this could be very interesting).

be back with an answer.

re: #89 lawhawk

Occasionally lizards will call Carter senile. He is not. He's always been a dimwit.
John Warner, on the other hand, has definitely lost a good chunk of gray matter, not to mention testosterone.

re: #130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My parents even had a ceramic peanut with that grin on it. Sat on their what-not shelf for years. Think it got broken. Accidently, I'm sure.

I'm sorry - I broke it.

re: #137 Ma Sands

Aw, shucks...and here I'd always thought you were a lot younger than me... :)

Ma, we'se young at heart!

re: #12 savage_nation

Oooo, Savage... Tell us how you really feel! LOL.

re: #138 Silhouette

I guarantee you it is still running.

My good bud in high school had one, and her parents said she could get a new car as soon as that one wore out.

You. Cannot. Kill. Them.

We tried.

It's probably being used as a taxi in Venezuela...

re: #151 redstateredneck

Amen to that! :)

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

And they are really really stupid.

In the end, all I want, is the outcome to be the same as it was in 1980, a resounding Republican victory.

"Someone please make it stop!"
George Costanza

re: #150 debutaunt

Don't be sorry. I am quite sure you didn't break it.

re: #157 ccrnyc

In the end, all I want, is the outcome to be the same as it was in 1980, a resounding Republican victory.

Amen to that!

re: #104 jorline

re: #129 ethanxxx

The progressive left has been throwing the accusation of "NAZI" at the republicans for years. There isn't a Damn thing wrong with throwing it back at them. The majority of these historically challenged fools no nothing about Nazism, most don't even know that the word means National Socialist... the exact goal of their own party. In my educated opinion, the only other organization that comes close to paralleling the Nazi Party besides Democrats would be Islam, which is probably why they are such close allies.

Sorry, but did your mommy ever say " if your friend jumped off the roof, would you?" It is wrong no matter who does it.

re: #144 zmdavid

I think they're more likely to bring back the Maverick if McCain gets elected.

Speaking of that... Ever since he became the GOP Nominee, I haven't heard that term used to describe Senator McCain at all...

Hmmm... Wonder why that is?

Here's why Obama is loved by the young:

Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories, according to a study to be unveiled at a global media conference Monday.

Read the whole thing.
"Change" and "Hope" ? Cool.
What's that other dude saying? Man, that takes too long to listen to.
/young idiot mode off

re: #142 redstateredneck

The timing is about the same. Elvis died the summer I was married!
Got the car the next spring.

I was nine years shy of driving legally.

re: #120 jorline

parents had several Ramblers as well...no wonder I'm so screwed-up now...my whole childhood was spent in crappy cars.

We had a Rambler, a '66 American 440 4-door, with the 232 2-barrel "Torque Command" six, with 155 screaming horsepower. And the crappy Borg-Warner automatic. The factory air conditioner (semi-underdash) had the "Desert Only" setting on the thermostat knob, which we always put it on. Ironically the styling holds up better than the '66 Nova, Falcon, or Valiant.

God only knows how I managed to pass parallel parking on my driving test in that car, with its manual steering and 6-1/2 turns lock-to-lock. I had never parallel parked the thing before, and did my behind-the-wheel in a automatic Datsun B-210.

re: #144 zmdavid

I think they're more likely to bring back the Maverick if McCain gets elected.

* * *
You may be right, McCain mostly drives American cars.

His 96-year old mother is the one with the red BMW, Jaguar before that, Mercedes another time...

re: #105 Ma Sands

Either that, or they must be pretty new...

Well, 1. I am on the Do-Not-Call List, and they're not supposed to call me. 2. When I hit "0" for the operator, the phone call suddenly ended.

Hence why I think it's not legit.

re: #163 Kosh's Shadow

Here's why Obama is loved by the young:

Read the whole thing.
"Change" and "Hope" ? Cool.
What's that other dude saying? Man, that takes too long to listen to.
/young idiot mode off

My 18 year old says she gets car sick if she rides with me and I have news or talk radio on.

re: #163 Kosh's Shadow

Understanding the reasons why the IslamoFascists want to kill us just takes too much time...

Back to Grand Theft Auto IV!

re: #145 Mardukhai

I met Jimmy in '76 at the Young Democrats Convention in St. Louis. I thought he was an amiable nobody.

I was right about the latter, wrong about the former. Or maybe he's just a crazy old man.

Unfortunately, crazy old men can cause a lot of trouble. Jimmy and his "noble elders" are a bunch of crazy coots.

It means what it means. Change means not the Bushs or Clintons, who have been in the WH for 18 years.

"that you can believe in" is playing off the Clinton impeachment for lying and the "Bush lied" meme.

Obama's slogan is about what he is not, not what he is.

re: #167 Honorary Yooper

Well, 1. I am on the Do-Not-Call List, and they're not supposed to call me. 2. When I hit "0" for the operator, the phone call suddenly ended.

Hence why I think it's not legit.

I doubt it is legit...

If anything todays democrats are more like NEVILE CHAMBERLAIN than hitler in there defeatism, appeasement and isolationism. and frankly obama foolishness will allow the Iranians mullahs to get and try to use a nuke. John McCain gets that and if that were the only reason i agreed with John it would be enough for me to support him. no point to use the Nazi or nazicrat baloney, it belittles what my wife's and my step fathers families went through. SO PLEASE STOP IT.

Tech question for anyone who knows about these things:

This is a problem that has been driving me nuts for years, and I've never found a solution. It has to do with video editing.

I take a video with my digital camera. Upload to my computer. It's in "AVI" format. I want to upload it to YouTube. However, there is (for example) a three-second part at the end of the minute-long video that I want o chop off (because the camera jiggles or a car horn honks or something like that).

Is there any way to just "lop it off" while maintaining the format and file size?

Up until now, I've been using "iMovie" which comes with Macs. I "import" the video clip to iMovie, and I can lop off the last three seconds easily enough. But then my problem arises. iMovie doesn't alter the original movie file: it creates a new one. What I do is choose "export" or "share" (depending on which version of iMovie you use), and then one must select from a bewildering variety of options to export a new video -- with those last three seconds lopped off. I choose "Expert Settings" and then can export back to an AVI file easily enough. But here's the problem: The resulting video is always LOWER quality and yet MUCH LARGER file size.

Furthermore, I've experimented with all of the various formats and options iMovie allows you to export to, and they all present some sort of problem: either YouTube won't accept the format, or it creates a video with a gigantic file size, or it's low-quality, or a combination of those three. I've tried just about every possible export-format that iMovie has, and determined that "AVI" format with "Cinepak" compression is the best compromise: YouTube accepts it, the file size is only moderately huge, and the quality is slightly better than unacceptable.

But why must this be so? Isn't there a way to simply chop off the last three seconds without having to totally degrade the video quality and make a huge file? Seems like such a simple request. Shouldn't I end up with a video with a smaller file size, since it's shorter? But I've never found a program that can do that. I just want to take a pair of virtual scissors and chop off the last three seconds of film. Should that be so hard?

iMovie is overkill for my purposes, allowing all sorts of effects and subtitles and fancy editing and so forth. I just want something simple that produces high-quality videos with small file sizes. Does anybody know of a program (for Mac, obviously) or technique that can allow me to do this?

Thanks. And now back to your regular programming.

re: #164 loppyd

I was nine years shy of driving legally.

See, I'm old enough to be your really cool auntie!
;-)

re: #86 madisonsfriend

Wrath, I agree with you. I find it beyond offensive when people decide to call others they don't like Nazis. Democrats are not Nazis and I even am offended by someone suggesting that the Democratic party be outlawed. This is America and half of our population are not Nazis. My father and my uncles fought in WWII - they knew(all passed on now) what the Nazis were about and what they did- even more so because we are Jewish. I guess the person who started this really doesn't know what the Nazis did- or is not affected by it enough to refrain from throwing the word "Nazi" around.

I also completely agree.

I should have made it clear, I only pretend to be Mario Andretti.

re: #168 redstateredneck

What do you expect from the consumer, TV, Computer, Instant Message, Text Message, quick, fast, now, sound bite, marketed to, generation?

I remember seeing Jimmy Carter campaign in 1976 when he rode down 5th Avenue surrounded by Hamilton Jordan and thinking "This guy is a weird looking dude."

re: #98 tfc3rid

I think you are being too kind to todays batch of college age liberals. The problem with that is that Dhimmi C. has forced himself back on the world stage with his anti-Israel diatribe and his "negotiation" with terrorists. One need not remember the 70's to know that Carter is a pile of shit.

re: #55 jorline

pregnant roller skate

re: #149 wolfie

Occasionally lizards will call Carter senile. He is not. He's always been a dimwit.
John Warner, on the other hand, has definitely lost a good chunk of gray matter, not to mention testosterone.

* * *
There's nothing DIMwit about Carter. He let America and our allies down intentionally, for the "best" of reasons, because we weren't worth fighting for in his/democrats' book.

Carter wanted the respect of those who will never respect us and he tried to earn it by tearing us down to paper lion.

re: #88 Honorary Yooper

Ugh, nightmare of nightmares, it's Dhimmi Carter.

OT: Has anyone here gotten a call from a place called "Fortress Credit" asking you to authorize a $10,000 credit limit? They have one of those 877 numbers and called me about 1/2 hour ago. As I am on the Do-Not-Call List, I just reported them so they can be investigated.

It was very odd, as I've never filled out any paperwork for them.

/I think it's a scam.

I have gotten several calls recently from "877" numbers - actually, there are 2 that keep calling me. I am also on the do-not-call list, but I could find no listing for these numbers so I don't know who it is that is calling.

Contacted the phone company to see what they could do to help me get rid of these calls - nada.

re: #133 WrathofG-d

no, I read them (and this can serve as a reply to them as well)
(and thanks for being civil in disagreement)
but even though the democrats have not been killing people (well, except the Clintons - if you belive 'those' rumors)
I still think their policies mimic the early Nazi's
and would hate to see them get a real stranglehold on our society

the Nazi's did the same thing in Germany
and I don't think those who voted them in
forsaw the horrors they would bring

though I see horrors in the current Democrat party coming on

just not coming about the same way
but the end result could be the same
lots of people dead
worldwide misery and hatred

re: #182 reine.de.tout

I got two calls for credit type things on my cell phone! Luckily, they were voice mail

re: #179 Creeping Eruption

I think you are being too kind to todays batch of college age liberals. The problem with that is that Dhimmi C. has forced himself back on the world stage with his anti-Israel diatribe and his "negotiation" with terrorists. One need not remember the 70's to know that Carter is a pile of shit.

True but do they perhaps just see him as a former US President and nothing else...

Maybe they miss the point that he is really shilling for the enemy...

re: #140 reine.de.tout

I had a Vega, along with a couple of friends who had the same model-year. WORST CAR EVER MADE. All of our cars died beyond repair within 4 weeks of each other, approximately 3 years to the date after purchase.

I've had two Vegas, a '75 in high school, and a '76 in the '80s and '90s. Amazingly, the '76 (GT, 5-speed) went 218k without the head ever being off, and I got $750 for it in '96. The last I heard of it, it had been sold to a collector in Lubbock.

Keep in mind I'm in Texas, and cars don't rust here. My '76 still had the original exhaust system on it, with no rust out.

With Obama I am reminded of another candidacy.

It was also supposed to usher in change. Bring a new day with the election of the first Black.

The Times was besides themselves with joy when he was elected.

Change came.

Including the first pogrom in America.

The hope, then, was David Dinkins.

re: #174 zombie

My initial thought was Windows MovieMaker. Not sure if you have access to Windows box though. I think it came as part of the basic OS package with XP media center edition.

re: #164 loppyd

Elvis died on my fifteenth birthday. The same day my future wife and her family moved to town.

re: #161 madisonsfriend

re: #129 ethanxxx

Sorry, but did your mommy ever say " if your friend jumped off the roof, would you?" It is wrong no matter who does it.

What does that have to do with the VW Thing? Did I miss something?

re: #163 Kosh's Shadow

Here's why Obama is loved by the young:

Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories, according to a study to be unveiled at a global media conference Monday.

Remember when young people were BETTER at learning new things than old dogs?

re: #12 savage_nation

We now may be seeing the denouement of the Democratic party, and the opening of the door to the formation of a real 3rd 2nd party.

How can the Democrats survive this debacle?

Squaking "every vote most count" for 8 years and then seating 1/2 the votes from two states ...

And on and on

It is to laugh.

re: #53 Adrenalyn

you forgot to channel Ricardo Montalban...

KHAN!

re: #170 madisonsfriend

Unfortunately, crazy old men can cause a lot of trouble. Jimmy and his "noble elders" are a bunch of crazy coots.

* * *
Nothing crazy here, but standard democrat talking points.

Carter's policies are STILL considered great by his party, though the American people fired Carter and his lousy policies for the pain they caused us. We did not know just how expensive in lives, blood, toil, sweat and tears and dollars and oil the Carter years would be.

Seeing all these comments about the cars we drove when Jimmah was running for POTUS, reminded me I had a VW beetle, vintage 1968 (this was 1974-5). So many lizards had inexpensive cars when we were kids. I don't remember seeing kids in College with fancy cars like I see now. I think that points to one of the symptoms of our current problems. I had an old bug, some had Mavericks or Pintos or Novas. I see many new and expensive cars in College parking lots these days. WE ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM if we contribute to our children thinking they deserve a new vehicle. Like us, they should earn the right to a new vehicle, and the payments to go with it. IMHO.

re: #182 reine.de.tout

I have gotten several calls recently from "877" numbers - actually, there are 2 that keep calling me. I am also on the do-not-call list, but I could find no listing for these numbers so I don't know who it is that is calling.

Contacted the phone company to see what they could do to help me get rid of these calls - nada.

Well, I reported the number to the Do-Not-Call Registry. If the Feds get enough complaints, they'll investigate. I Googled this particular number, and it's got a ton of complaints on-line.

re: #175 redstateredneck

See, I'm old enough to be your really cool auntie!
;-)

That's my role now.

Took the two littlest girls to Build-a-Bear this weekend. What a hoot!

re: #182 reine.de.tout

those companies are in Canada or the Carbbean
and outside "our" laws
yet pay very cheap phone rates

they won't go away
no need getting angry
there is nothing you can do but get irritated
and it's not worth the effort

I traded in my '68 SS Camero for a 1973 lime green Vega, cuz I was getting married and needed a "family" car. I should have known better. Turned in the Vega for a 280Z in 1975 just about the same time as the wife.

re: #174 zombie

i use tmpgenc a lot. a good source to learn about video editing and get pointed at software is both [Link: www.vcdhelp.com...] and [Link: www.doom9.org...] a lot has to do with what default codec you are using to encode with. choosing different ones can result in dramatic changes in file size and quality.

re: #187 Opinionated

With Obama I am reminded of another candidacy.

It was also supposed to usher in change. Bring a new day with the election of the first Black.

The Times was besides themselves with joy when he was elected.

Change came.

Including the first pogrom in America.

The hope, then, was David Dinkins.

re: #187 Opinionated

With Obama I am reminded of another candidacy.

It was also supposed to usher in change. Bring a new day with the election of the first Black.

The Times was besides themselves with joy when he was elected.

Change came.

Including the first pogrom in America.

The hope, then, was David Dinkins.

And that worked out so well! Tennis anyone?

I hope the Democrats will give Jimmy Carter a prime time speaking spot at the convention and he makes some Israel bashing comments - maybe American Jews will wake up. On second thought I doubt that most American Jews will be swayed as they are reflexive Liberals (alas) but the many philo-Semitic non Jews out there will get a reminder about the stakes in this coming election.

Yesterday at the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan I got to curse out the Neturei Karta low-lives which made me feel really good after a hellish week at work!

re: #197 loppyd

That's my role now.

Took the two littlest girls to Build-a-Bear this weekend. What a hoot!

Who had the most fun...you or them?

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Elvis died on my fifteenth birthday. The same day my future wife and her family moved to town.

One day after my brother's b-day...we were in Maine to celebrate.

I guess it was also a very lucky day for you!

re: #190 jorline

What does that have to do with the VW Thing? Did I miss something?

jorline said the left has been calling the republicans Nazis for years so it is okay if people here call Dems Nazis. My earlier posts/Wrath of God and Yochanan explain our objections to the use of the word nazi in this context

What does Rosalyn think of Whitey?

re: #199 Viking6

I traded in my '68 SS Camero for a 1973 lime green Vega, cuz I was getting married and needed a "family" car. I should have known better. Turned in the Vega for a 280Z in 1975 just about the same time as the wife.

My mom had a lime green Vega.
Uglay!

re: #165 Ward Cleaver

a automatic Datsun B-210.

HAH! Our '79 B210 was a five-speed. I loved that little skateboard.

Dad followed it up two years later with a 1980 rental fleet B210 with an automatic. What a joke! You could not make that car accelerate...literally unable to get on a freeway!

re: #204 redstateredneck

Who had the most fun...you or them?

Them, but not by much.

Then we went to Friendly's...what a madhouse on a Sat! I had no idea.

re: #53 Adrenalyn

you forgot to channel Ricardo Montalban...

Worked a puzzle once and the result was this quote...

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

Still remember that one. I forget most of them.

re: #174 zombie

VirtualDub or VirtualDubmod if you can run Windows apps. Freeware

#107
Ya wanna borrow my '71 Duster?

re: #104 jorline

A remake of the WWII Kubelwagon.

re: #212 Opinionated

excellent choice.

You guys are forgetting about that fine piece of machinery from GM the Chevy Corvair, I was almost killed in one of them when I was a teenager. LOL

re: #183 Adrenalyn

Ok so we disagree, and I hope for America's sake that you are wrong.

re: #161 madisonsfriend

Sorry, but did your mommy ever say " if your friend jumped off the roof, would you?" It is wrong no matter who does it.

I jump off roofs because I want to, not because someone else does. And it's not wrong if you're right. I've studied the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and I can clearly see parallels in other groups and religions. Or... maybe I should read WrathofG-d's Mario Andretti analogy over & over again until it makes sense.

re: #205 loppyd

Well, she seems to think so. Heh.

re: #203 Joel

I hope the Democrats will give Jimmy Carter a prime time speaking spot at the convention and he makes some Israel bashing comments - maybe American Jews will wake up. On second thought I doubt that most American Jews will be swayed as they are reflexive Liberals (alas) but the many philo-Semitic non Jews out there will get a reminder about the stakes in this coming election.

Yesterday at the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan I got to curse out the Neturei Karta low-lives which made me feel really good after a hellish week at work!

The NKs didn't show up at the Israel celebration in DC but i am not sure that any of them live near here.

Carter- Kiss of Death.

Senator Kennedy out of surgery

DURHAM, N.C. -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy's surgery today for a malignant brain tumor achieved its objectives, and he will experience no permanent neurological effects from the delicate procedure, his surgeon at Duke University Medical Center said this afternoon.

re: #185 tfc3rid

Probably. If you can't cram it down their throats in a 15 second sound bite, they aren't going to get it.

Well, that ad didn't lie. There were multiple changes when that POS became president. Unfortunately, none of the changes were for the good. I didn't vote for him and I won't vote for Bambi either. Their kind of change will kill us.

re: #106 alegrias

* * *
Lucky you! Everyone wanted to ride in those bugs with sunroofs--Schiebedachs in german.

re: #186 Ward Cleaver

I've had two Vegas, a '75 in high school, and a '76 in the '80s and '90s. Amazingly, the '76 (GT, 5-speed) went 218k without the head ever being off, and I got $750 for it in '96. The last I heard of it, it had been sold to a collector in Lubbock.

Keep in mind I'm in Texas, and cars don't rust here. My '76 still had the original exhaust system on it, with no rust out.

The very best thing about Vegas was that the I-4 came right out and a 327 would slip right in. If you hid the other tailpipe so it didn't show, wouldn't let the competition look under the hood, and didn't start the thing until the bet was made, you could do quite well at those impromptu drag races that seemed to break out.

That wasn't me, that was that evil Winkle boy.

re: #216 'Nam Grunt

You guys are forgetting about that fine piece of machinery from GM the Chevy Corvair, I was almost killed in one of them when I was a teenager. LOL

Had a boyfriend who had one.
:-X
That's all I'm sayin'.

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Elvis died on my fifteenth birthday. The same day my future wife and her family moved to town.

I was on my lunch break from work (first job in high school), driving my mom's Rambler, when I heard about Elvis's death, on the radio. When I got back to work, I told my co-workers, and of course they didn't believe it.

re: #92 loppyd

We had a VW Bug and a Chevy Nova...

The bug had pleather seats and a crank sunroof.

Ah, the 70s - crappy cars, tacky clothes, disco, disaster movies, Jimmy Carter. Ya gotta love it.

You know, you guys are so much smarter than I am.

I am LGF's version of Earth's definition in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".

After the concert tonight, I am going to focus on getting mad about something!

I got cut off. The worst car ever - a 1961 Rambler that my parents bought.

re: #129 ethanxxx

The progressive left has been throwing the accusation of "NAZI" at the republicans for years. There isn't a Damn thing wrong with throwing it back at them. The majority of these historically challenged fools no nothing about Nazism, most don't even know that the word means National Socialist... the exact goal of their own party. In my educated opinion, the only other organization that comes close to paralleling the Nazi Party besides Democrats would be Islam, which is probably why they are such close allies.

That both Repubs and Dems use it to insult each other is evidence that it's not being used in a meaningful way by either group. It's just hurling insults, as others in this thread have said.

re: #218 ethanxxx

Guess what- I've studied too- I did graduate work in history. You go and jump.

re: #195 maddogg

Seeing all these comments about the cars we drove when Jimmah was running for POTUS, reminded me I had a VW beetle, vintage 1968 (this was 1974-5). So many lizards had inexpensive cars when we were kids. I don't remember seeing kids in College with fancy cars like I see now. I think that points to one of the symptoms of our current problems. I had an old bug, some had Mavericks or Pintos or Novas. I see many new and expensive cars in College parking lots these days. WE ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM if we contribute to our children thinking they deserve a new vehicle. Like us, they should earn the right to a new vehicle, and the payments to go with it. IMHO.

* * *
True! My clever folks kept cars till they expired or were considered antiques. I was so embarassed as a teenager I refused to drive their 1957 bubble shaped Mercedes Benz with the standard transmission and gear on the steering wheel, which no one had heard of or seen in this area anyway, before the foreign car influx!

re: #140 reine.de.tout

I had a Vega, along with a couple of friends who had the same model-year. WORST CAR EVER MADE. All of our cars died beyond repair within 4 weeks of each other, approximately 3 years to the date after purchase.

hate to top you (so I politely apologize, in advance)
the wife and I had a Jeep Cherokee die the day we night it in 1984
on the way home from the dealer

pow !

thank you to Lee Iacocca and Chysler
and Dhimmi for bailing them out
and me for being stupid enough to buy the thing
and not reading Consumer Reports auto review issue

was 15 years before I drove another American car after that debacle

re: #195 maddogg

When I turned 16 I asked my dad if I could get a car. He said "Sure, get a job and buy one." My how times have changed.

re: #96 joncelli

Nonono, it's pronounced "Reech Coreeenthian layther." (Khaaan!)

And you have to roll the Rs - "Corrreeethian".

re: #182 reine.de.tout

I have gotten several calls recently from "877" numbers - actually, there are 2 that keep calling me. I am also on the do-not-call list, but I could find no listing for these numbers so I don't know who it is that is calling.

Contacted the phone company to see what they could do to help me get rid of these calls - nada.

I have found that I can often find out something by Googling 877-xxx-xxx. The links often are to sites that discuss these calls, so you can find out who they are, and how obnoxious they are.

re: #229 cygnus

Ah, the 70s - crappy cars, tacky clothes, disco, disaster movies, Jimmy Carter. Ya gotta love it.

The three worst fashion items from the 1970's
1. Bell bottom jeans
2. leisure suits
3. those big fat wide neck ties.

re: #208 redstateredneck

No kidding, boy did I drink the kool aid on that one. My Camero had a 427 with all the goodies, low 11 high 10 on the strip. The Z car got really good gas mileage which was really helpful after Carter got elected.

#50 Ward Cleaver 6/02/08 11:47:33 am
Fiestas were great rat-racers.

You may be thinking of the Fox based Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr. Those cars are Badass with 5.0L or stroked Windsor.

re: #229 cygnus

Ah, the 70s - crappy cars, tacky clothes, disco, disaster movies, Jimmy Carter. Ya gotta love it.

I loved the Bug, hated the Nova.

I was a young kid so it all was groovy to me.

What's so tacky about embroidered jeans, Indian print tops and Dr. Scholl's anyway? :)

1962 Falcon.

1st car. The rocker arms were noisy so we put an overhead oiler on it.

re: #229 cygnus

Are you calling my bright red and blue striped trousers with the enormous bell bottoms tacky?

re: #187 Opinionated

With Obama I am reminded of another candidacy.
It was also supposed to usher in change. Bring a new day with the election of the first Black.
The Times was besides themselves with joy when he was elected.
Change came.
Including the first pogrom in America.
The hope, then, was David Dinkins.

AAAHHH

NIGHTMARES!

re: #13 WrathofG-d

Or how about "we are the ones we've been waiting for". Comrade Obama is full of such inane oratory, sounds good to the kiddies. when spoken with a Harvard accent.

Collectivism, that Harvard speak for Communism.

During the first year of Jimmy Carter's presidency I had a 1973 Chevy Nova. A better drive then his rotten presidency!

My kids are making me dress appropriately tonight. Can't wear my Reagan shirt.

re: #209 OldLineTexan

HAH! Our '79 B210 was a five-speed. I loved that little skateboard.

Dad followed it up two years later with a 1980 rental fleet B210 with an automatic. What a joke! You could not make that car accelerate...literally unable to get on a freeway!

I floored that automatic B-210 getting on the freeway in Dallas (with the A/C on, too). What a hoot. 0-60? Eventually. Later, I had a girlfriend that had a B-210 hatchback with a 5-speed. When you put it into reverse, it beeped (inside the car). Great gas mileage, though, out of that 1.4l pushrod four.

re: #242 loppyd

What's so tacky about embroidered jeans, Indian print tops and Dr. Scholl's anyway? :)

And (what all you guys seem to have forgotten) NO BRAS! ! !

re: #239 Joel

The three worst fashion items from the 1970's
1. Bell bottom jeans
2. leisure suits
3. those big fat wide neck ties.

wait, they were offset by HOT PANTS
and sizzler mini skirts
oh, and Farah Fawcett

re: #248 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

what concert?

re: #229 cygnus

Ah, the 70s - crappy cars, tacky clothes, disco, disaster movies, Jimmy Carter. Ya gotta love it.

If Carter II wins, it won't matter how bad the cars are.
No one will be afford the gas to drive them, what with the carbon credits, and the jizzya.

as it turns out the 1st vehicle i had when i was 16 was a hand me down 1966 Jeep CJ5 that was 18 years old at the time. my parents thought that i would stay out of trouble with such a mundane vehicle. little did they realize that a topless jeep on a warm summer day was an absolute "chick magnet" when you are 16. that thing got me in so much trouble i was banned from driving to school.

Tackiest TV show from the Carter era - "The Love Boat" where all the has-beens and people we thought were dead would turn up.

re: #250 redstateredneck

And (what all you guys seem to have forgotten) NO BRAS! ! !

For me anyway! LOL

re: #243 Ojoe

1962 Falcon.

1st car. The rocker arms were noisy so we put an overhead oiler on it.

Dad had a dark blue one; the very earliest car I can remember. I remember when he had seat belts installed, and how he wouldn't start the car until we had all put them on in the driveway. They were actual metal buckles, and they were hot as hell in summer.

re: #229 cygnus

Ah, the 70s - crappy cars, tacky clothes, disco, disaster movies, Jimmy Carter. Ya gotta love it.

* * *
Down comforters! Heat turned off in bedrooms!
No airconditioning, because President Carter asked us to sacrifice.
My folks were such patriots, though Carter was leading us down the primrose path to laughable laughingstock weak-kneed country status. We pretended it was the great Depression, and IT WAS! The CARTER depression.

Jean Kirkpatrick was right, we were suffering no malaise, we were suffering from President Carter.

re: #246 bill-tb

"universal" the Leftist term for Socialized.

re: #255 Joel

But didn't the purser get elected?

re: #236 Creeping Eruption

When I turned 16 I asked my dad if I could get a car. He said "Sure, get a job and buy one." My how times have changed.

I got one from relatives who had been driving my parents around. They didn't have driver's licenses, so I got the car so I could drive them around. My mother eventually got her license, my father never did.
Great deal for me, even if it was a '67 Chevy Nova with a Powerglide 2-speed transmission.

re: #255 Joel

Tackiest TV show from the Carter era - "The Love Boat" where all the has-beens and people we thought were dead would turn up.

And if they survived Love Boat, they were sure to show up later on Fantasy Island.

re: #216 'Nam Grunt

You guys are forgetting about that fine piece of machinery from GM the Chevy Corvair, I was almost killed in one of them when I was a teenager. LOL

Didn't the Corvair have the automatic shift push-buttons on the dash, to the right of the sterring wheel? Whoever thought that design feature up was a real [deleted].

re: #251 Adrenalyn

wait, they were offset by HOT PANTS
and sizzler mini skirts
oh, and Farah Fawcett

Hot pants really were a 1960's item (I think).
Leisure suits though were the pits. My father bought a lot of them and tried to get me to buy them but in my precocious wisdom I said "Hell no, I will never be seen wearing them."

re: #249 Ward Cleaver

I floored that automatic B-210 getting on the freeway in Dallas (with the A/C on, too). What a hoot. 0-60? Eventually. Later, I had a girlfriend that had a B-210 hatchback with a 5-speed. When you put it into reverse, it beeped (inside the car). Great gas mileage, though, out of that 1.4l pushrod four.

I "inherited" the 79 with the 5-speed in 1982 as a college kid. I used to get 37 mpg mixed, 42+ on the road to see my girlfriend at school.